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I think it's a question of internalization. When you have internalized the correct way to think about it, it feels obvious. And wrong ways to think about it seem absurd. We stand on the shoulders of giants, Plato being one of them. We have internalized their philosophy. And that's why it feels idiotic.

The closer to lightspeed you get the more shit you would collide with. I think you would reach an equilibrium speed where drag balances thrust?

We don't give mathematicians research positions to solve crosswords for fun. We want something back. We want theories and results that will advance our civilization.

> How would a fitness reducing mutation become a feature of a genetic line in the first place in asexual reproduction?

A random mutation. Especially when combined with the founder effect or some other genetic bottlenecking.

Let me rephrase to be more neutral. Imagine two genetic lines. Both lines have one bad mutation. Survivable, but makes the individual less fit. With asexual reproduction evolution has to pick one or the other. With sexual it can get rid of both.

Sexual reproduction can remove bad mutations. Imagine two parents. One has bad mutations m1. Other has bad mutation m2. They have three children. The first gets only m2. The second gets both and dies. The third inherits neither.

Even though neither parent was fully healthy, one of the children was. Asexual reproduction cannot do this.

The current paradigm of change something and wait half a century to see if it caused or prevented cancer is ridiculous. We can do better. Look at proxies and early warning signs. Do intervention and look at something like cellular aging, DNA damage, cell death rate ( renewal requires cell division which is error prone). Bring the feedback loop down to a year and maybe we can make some progress.

Even if the money is used completely legitimately it will be exchanged for goods and services thus ending up in someone's pocket. Someone who may want to buy Bitcoin.

There is a saying: you can't step into the same river twice. And I wonder if these pools aren't the same. Like there is constant mixing, but some other force maintains the conditions of the pool. Those particular water molecules and sodium ions haven't been there for a thousand years but were gradually replaced. That's my guess, anyway.

My comment did not concern that particular incident, which I do not defend, but rather future incidents.

Punishing people who are diligent and follow best practices for getting unlucky doesn't sit right with me.

> What use does an AI and robots have for all those resources?

Converting the universe to computronium or something maybe?

It's easier to evaluate certainly. Did it solve the problem? Yes/No

When you design a new thing it will have a dozen drawbacks and a dozen and one benefits. If people then have a bias that everything ai is bad, the signal won't be strong enough to convince.

If your job required you to sleep 8h a night would that make it less restorative?

Coffee is sold in cans yes. Very popular in Japan. Elsewhere... I think I saw Starbucks cans? Or was it bottles?

Opposition to energy drinks seems like a moral panic to me. Like I don't see anyone calling for bans on coffee and Irish coffee.

One possibility for fish eggs getting to lakes I want to propose is extreme weather. Winds can move sand from side of earth to the other. Flooding. Tornadoes.

What I imagine is drunk youngsters tattooing a dick on the forehead of their passed out friend as a prank.

His point is that sellers can do whatever suits their interests best, they don't have a duty to pick a fair price. And that it's on the buyer to decide whether to accept it or reject the price.

A word I heard a lot some decade ago but never anymore: social construction.

But I think it fits incredibly well here. A factory is just a social constructions. A room where everyone agrees something is produced.

You gotta take entropy into account too. Sunshine is high grade energy, infrared is low grade. Reflecting high grade energy is a huge waste. You could even (in theory) run a solar powered space-ir-dumper and end up with net cooling of earth.

Wouldn't it make more sense to use igpu for host than two discrete ones?

If I tell a lie to support a good cause and you tell a lie to support the same cause and a third and a fourth person do the same thing then, then, being so propped up by lies how can we be sure it even is a good cause worth lying for?

In this way, the harms of lying compound while the benefits do not. For this reason I believe it highly unwise to allow it to be normalized.

The right to be suspicious of the motives of powerful people is infinitely more important than protecting their feelings from being hurt by suspicion.

That's similar to, but not exactly what we were discussing. In particular 6in4 has a full ipv6 header after the ipv4 header, but here the suggestion was instead that supplementary infomation would follow. For example, the most significant address bits could be stored in the ipv4 header and the least significant ones in the new part.

The protocol field in the ipv4 header seems like a reasonable choice. A value would be associated for ipv6 and if that value is chosen then additional header data follows the ipv4 header.

It is half true in that they can modify their epigenetics.

The purpose of a car's crumple zone is to crumple.