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I've just published my first novel for adults, The Dark Sorcerer's Intern , my bid to bring back fun and comedy to a fantasy genre that has spent years in a grimdark rut. The relev…

This is a compelling theory, especially the implication that humans are early. I do wonder whether we should see the evidence of spheres of growing alien influence out in the stars…

Is this in comparison to some other evaluation function which is perfect? I agree that all positions should have a certainty of win, draw, or lose with perfect play, but no engine …

I got downvotes for not showing the calculation, fair enough, my mistake. I understand the frustration there. And yeah, you've got to check ChatGPT's work and ask for clarification…

If you're going to yell at someone, at least do your own calculation so you can prove they're wrong first, please? Total Sky Area=4π×(2π360)^2×60^2 = 148,510,660 square arcminutes …

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I'd suspect it will actually accelerate moving everything into the cloud. If your entire business is in the cloud, you can give an AI access to everything with a single sign or som…

Alternatively, figure out how to use GPT-3 in a market that involves some schleps. I'm working on one in Education Tech, building something for a need that teachers have been pract…

Having this be a universal policy has a big clear benefit--when someone at the company dies, their family's immediate needs and expenses are taken care of. It avoids the awkward "p…

I agree in principle. On the other hand, global crises have always called for extraordinary measures. Even in this pandemic, we've (correctly, I would say) basically thrown out imp…

There was discussion of it early on, but there's no evidence that it was done on any significant scale outside of the efforts of individual pharma companies working on their own su…

Yes, all of them. Or possibly expanding capacity for each of the major vaccine types, to be ready when we know which one is the winner. And then, yes, a lot of those factories woul…

So no, we did not “have the vaccine” in February. We did have it, we just didn't know which one it was. And we refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hund…

It kind of is. Hypothesis rejection is the primary means of advancing knowledge. "We tried to prove this hypothesis wrong and could not" is the main thing you want a study to do. H…

Given that a vaccine may not provide total protection, they should consider how to sell a potential early, safe but only moderately effective vaccination. For instance, calling it …

Yes, flat-earthers would probably count as non-conformist. I think the point is that in order to have Galileo, you have to tolerate flat-earthers as well. I do agree that calling m…

Just needs some rendering presets, star field backgrounds, lens flare, GPT-2 title generation, and you've got random SF novel book covers!

That's true in theory, but rules of war do have a long history of limited but very real success. The key is to keep a multipolar civilization so that the cost of defecting from the…

It gives users easier access and a better experience, so they're more likely to return and to spend longer. The ultimate goal is to become a "default time waster" for as many peopl…

The thing about warehouses is that they have high ceilings and big windows. So people started to associate the outsides of those buildings with the bright and spacious interiors.