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You can sometimes find a hidden camera today.

> Kurzweil isn't considered widely discredited in the AGI space

Thank you for helping discredit the AGI space

By that standard (and it is a good standard), none of these "AI" things are doing any thinking

Only if the context in which you're writing/speaking is such that you are likely to be referring to a historical restaurant genre or whatever this thing is

I doubt a man wearing a counterfeit version of a garment reserved only for kings would be given a nice tomb

> With X11, on the rare case I noticed, it was usually just a matter of "okay, which toolkit or driver do I need to look up the vsync environment variable for?"

This is not something you should ever have to do

This is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrahawks#Title_sequence_and_...

I never _quite_ got that thing built. I came close, but then never painted it maybe?

Did you read the blog post?

>The new roundabout needed to be built in the same space as the old intersection. To the east is a steep hill. To the southwest there are protected wetlands. There wasn’t space or budget to mitigate the potential impact in either direction.

You have to remember that in the "natural world" (whatever that means), trees are damaged all the time by browsing animals, falling limbs of older trees, intense weather, falling rocks, etc. They and their ancestors have evolved under variations on those conditions for millions of years, and as such a lack of those things in a controlled garden or suburban environment is an unnatural way of growth.

Our (imperfect) knowledge and judgement can allow us to, rather than provide an environment totally lacking those natural events, wisely prune trees in ways which help them grow stronger than they otherwise would. Although you may intuitively feel a certain way, feelings are sometimes wrong.

It's been pretty suspected for awhile due to the presence of sweet potatoes in Polynesia. This, however, gives a range of years for when that contact occurred, and that's big.

However, the ecocide theory of Rapa Nui has been so popular that, in some ways, finding evidence that that simply did not occur is bigger news.

> on an exploratory drive averaging 68.1 mph prior to the record attempt, Geddes managed 58.1 mpg. No bullshit, no tricks, no crazy descents, just ridiculously good fuel economy.

This is not surprising to those of us who drive Priuses

You say that like writing them off would be a bad thing

From the post:

"Since this post has gone public, many people have asked me if they could get one as well. I’m currently not making these on demand. However, I’ve decided to release the Carpentopod linkage itself as public domain. So if you have the skills, feel free to use the details below to build your own set of legs!"

The contrast between links and the background colors is too low, making this very hard to read.

Maybe you could better construct a 3d model of a demolished landmark from old paintings and photos?

What a weird comparison.

because they don't want anyone observing the testing

Hypocrisy sure is interesting

When considering that things in the past turned out "just fine", we should remember the concept of the Shifting Baseline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shifting_baseline

But not until very recently did a publication suddenly "discover" this

Give them time; they're young trees yet.

I feel like the author has missed the part where part of the point of Adams' absurd technology is that it kind of all sucks. He spends a lot of time making fun of the doors that have feelings, etc.

EDIT: After reading the comments and re-reading the blog, I agree. He gets it. Never mind.

> In the Tokyo one, the model is smart enough to figure out that on a train, the reflection would be of a passenger, and the passenger has Asian traits since this is Tokyo.

How is this any more accurate than saying that the model has mostly seen Asian people in footage of Tokyo, and thus it is most likely to generate Asian-features for a video labelled "Tokyo"? Similarly, how many videos looking out a train window do you think it's seen where there was not a reflection of a person in the window when it's dark?

Looks ready for _Wishbone_

In some places, usage of , and . within numbers is revered from what you use

Okay? That could just as easily mean this argument has been right all along.

On the one hand, I get that scholars want to maintain a neutral position so that moral judgements don't cloud their study. That makes a lot of sense to me. On the other hand, human sacrifice is bad.

All of the raising is done by the wind.

The description of de Gamond's diving work is particularly amazing. I had no idea such a thing was possible.