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... or circumstances now select for "high agency" humans, and those humans propagate. Not sure why we think normal evolution wouldn't just route around such problems.

Everyone, every last one of us, does this every single day, all day, and only occasionally do we deviate to check ourselves, and often then it's to save face. A Nobel prize was giv…

> If that happens, the spacecraft will turn off all non-essential systems to conserve power and remain in flight. Uhhhhhh... I guess they mean "in operation"? Not sure how it could…

I'm surprised you've not heard of the author (Sean Baxter). He's pretty well known among people who are interested in c++ standards proposals. He single handedly wrote his own C++ …

> The weather was unusually mild for the season, and Kelly thought he might even have time to “bag” a second Munro, I really hate when people use very uncommon terms without defini…

I wonder if cheapish EVTOL travel might make a difference here. I.e. if CEOs effective travel time is reduced, does that affect headquarter location selection.

Do you ever talk to yourself silently? How fast do you read?

Jinx.

Have you considered explicitly using weed or shrooms as an on-ramp to exercising this ability? You could devote some time and slowly build up your ability. Just as you can learn to…

But how would we know though right? I mean without having an A/B comparison. Sure it didn't stop the destruction, but I don't think that was ever in the cards. But it might have he…

* Try talking to ChatGPT via the voice interface. * Spend time listening to yourself either directly or via recording. Repeat words and sentences which don't quite sound right. Tra…

Can you really not imagine how a nation state could get valuable intelligence by having an intimate knowledge of how a large portion of another nation states population is thinking…

non-political is political. Do you imagine that there aren't people making political TikToks? Or that non-political themes don't affect politics? Or that bubble control doesn't aff…

Which city, and how long has that been the case? There's likely quite a bit of backed up demand. Typically when supply doesn't meet demand, the price goes up, the supply responds, …

Think you can find any of those discussions? I'd be curious to read/browse.

I've always thought describing "whataboutism" as a logical fallacy as misunderstanding the broader picture. I don't think that most people who use "whataboutism" are actually argui…

Perhaps you should.

A few things things: - causation is difficult to establish - symptoms can sometimes themselves be a proximal cause - treatment of symptoms is one way to determine causation

IMO "Read the docs" is not a reasonable response to "what is it?" Typically someone wants to know the most basic question before devoting time to diving into the docs.

They need to cut down the length of that 18 minute video. It takes them way too long to get to the point. Should be like 5 min max.

Yes. Even in Canada they already have something similar with their carbon taxes. IIRC, tax is collected all year and returned at the end based on income rather than consumption. No…

Step 1: Calculate the effect on local utility rates. Step 2: Create a new tax which brings in 150% revenue of the calculated effect which applies progressively on power users one s…

... they named the software... "vim" Really?! Come-on. https://github.com/hustvl/Vim

> If it doesn’t answer a specific question you’re currently asking, cover philosophical knowledge, or entertain you, then don’t read it. I think that's covered under "entertain you…

When might we see this in consumer VR? I'm surprised we don't already but I was suspecting it was a computation constraint. Does this relieve the computation constraint enough to r…