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This comment strikes me as being in bad faith: "Oh so you don't like A? You must be on the side of ¬A!" I ask, humbly, that people please not do this. Nothing good has ever come of…

Suit yourself, I often wish I could form spores, desiccate, and rehydrate at a more appealing time.

However, to bring it full circle, Deinococcus radiodurans does not form spores!

Reminds me a quote from Gibson's Spook Country : "That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: the most interesting applications turn up on the battlefiel…

I find AI replies to generally be less annoying and more constructive than comments like this, TBH.

I think we might make new jobs, but maybe not enough. I'll be pleasantly surprised if we get good at sharing wealth over the next few years. Maybe something like UBI will become so…

Sharpen sticks, hoard water maybe? We were always going to die someday, I don't see how this changes things.

You say this like it's some kind of ominous revelation, but that's just how capitalism works? Yeah, prepare for the future. All things are impermanent.

More indirection in the sense that there's a layer between you and the code, sure. Less in that the code doesn't really matter as such and you're not having to think hard about the…

I think we're entering a world where programmers as such won't really exist (except perhaps in certain niches). Being able to program (and read code, in particular) will probably r…

Cheaper than hiring another developer, probably. My experience: for a few dollars I was able to extensively refactor a Python codebase in half a day. This otherwise would have take…

So, if we were to implement what this author is proposing, governments would be allowed to jail people indefinitely simply because they used effectively unbreakable encryption- reg…

> his perspective radically to lack merit What perspective would that be?

I mean, as a rationalist, I can assure you it's not nearly as sinister a group as you seem to make it out to be, believe it or not. Besides, the explanation is simpler than this ar…

You're right, I misread you.

I think it's a meaningful distinction- most rationalists aren't running murder cults.

No, the downvotes are because rationalism isn't a cult and people take offense to being blatantly insulted. This article is about cults that are rationalism-adjacent, it's not clai…

To be clear, this article isn't calling rationalism a cult, it's about cults that have some sort of association with rationalism (social connection and/or ideology derived from rat…

I mean, > Because these dodecahedrons have been found in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland — but not in Italy —…