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Isn't that exactly what Plato's saying? The books cannot understand themselves, and we rely upon them, and in doing so that changes us.

Plato on how reading and writing make us more forgetful as we rely on this new technology: > And so it is that you by reason of your tender regard for the writing that is your offs…

I think this works unironically. My mother is an avid gardener and can spend 8 hours a day gardening. When her life circumstances allowed for it, she hired a once a week gardener t…

Executing people guilty of serious crimes is good and just. They should have a proper trial, and the crimes should be sufficiently serious, but execution is no more or less "barbar…

What about longer rest periods? For example if I wait 1hr between sets I can do full weight again without dropping down weights with a 2-5min break. In fact I can get multiple more…

> And LLMs slurped some of those together with the output of thousands of people who’d do the task worse, and you have no way of forcing it to be the good one every time. That's so…

There is none, it's the most respected/widely read conservative publication. Calling Rebel News the Breitbart equivalent is more fair. CBC is definitely left wing[1], with a bias t…

It's completely unreasonable. Calling someone a dickhead in any professional environment is unprofessional and should be grounds for dismissal. Should bosses also get one free insu…

Yes, the type system basically replaces a degree of unit tests. You no longer need unit tests that are basically just type checking. And it's more comprehensive too. It's much easi…

> We only have access to local models because they're subsidized too. Yes, and the flow of future models may dry up, but the current local models we'll have forever.

I'm sympathetic to the issue of services getting worse, it sucks, but > If an API delivers very solid results one day and crap the next and I spent a lot of money, how does that wo…

> Because memory bandwidth is the #1 bottleneck for inference, even more than capacity. But there are a ton of models I can't run at all locally due to VRAM limitations. I'd take b…

But it seems like Airbus is the exception to the rule, by and large. For example, the Typhoon Eurofighter has had disappointing exports.

> My next question is are there downsides to proof-of-stake, and why has bitcoin not moved towards it? There are minor downsides in theory. Proof-of-stake is a bit less "democratic…

> Unsaid is of course that the USA accused, found guilty, and executed someone without trial, where evidence is shown of their guilt. Sure on balance I think Bin Laden is responsib…

To be fair, reality can often conflate those two concepts too. What I mean is that in some cases a lack of sovereignty can lead to economic catastrophe if people are willing to pil…

> Why? A bit of a head scratcher. It is because not everyone sees Israel as committing war crimes. I'm not looking in getting into a debate about it, I don't think this is the appr…

True, but this ignores the fact that Boeing employees were actively "designing new planes" in that time, and thus had the skill set. From your wiki link, some choice excerpts (not …

This principle is already in use in "Ski-jump" aircraft carriers[0] like the British and Chinese use, compared to the catapult operated American carriers. The problem is it isn't r…

NATO does not have air superiority in Ukraine. The skies are contested in many areas. Recently Ukraine lost a number of Bradley’s and when a Ka-52 ambushed them in Zaporizhzhia. If…

Ukraine is holding territory. They are not fighting like an insurgency. Stringers are absolutely useful in LSCO. Soviet doctrine made heavy use of MANPADS (man portable air defense…

> Probably an unpopular opinion, but it's sucky to see these tools constantly getting nerfed. Why would it be popular to nerf tools? I thought people all preferred the more powerfu…

Copying already copyrighted assets is clearly regulated. Valve knows what to do in this situation, and simply pulling down the offending game complies with the copyright regime. It…

It’s about legal copyright exposure. The copyright status of AI art is unclear, it has not been legislated or tried before the courts. In a worst case scenario, Steam could allow “…

Conway's Law: > Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. [0] But I th…