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How do these IEMs with their passive seal compare to active noise cancelling headphones for the purposes of unwanted noise attenuation

Sure, if we're talking about sampling, which is analogous to co-pilot copy and pasting chunks of code verbatim (which we've seen happen). But the complaints about co-pilot go far d…

I don't understand the difference between Co-Pilot on the one hand and Moderna (on the shoulders of medical research) or SpaceX (on the shoulders of physics knowledge and cumulativ…

This is how it always works, though. Moderna is standing on the shoulders of centuries of cumulative human knowledge without compensating all the sources of that knowledge. Musicia…

Your comparison fails a test of facts. Yandex actively censors any perspective not approved by the Kremlin. Google does not do anything comparable to this.

It'll be as falsifiable as many other questions that historians grapple with (e.g. did famine X lead to conflict/instability Y?), but only once the warming has happened and we're l…

It's not just on the apps. Evolutionary psychologists have a bunch of empirical studies that tease this out. We also see this in our genetic lineage, more female ancestors than mal…

> I can also assure you perpetual futures would not be allowed to trade on any exchange inside the legitimate financial system. I don't disagree that the point of perpetual futures…

It's happening, though, so it's not impossible. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/israel-cyprus...

> For short term storage (hours/days) batteries are far more efficient. Is that expected/known to be true even as the tech gets cheaper in 5-10 years? What's the level of confidenc…

The alternative is the way things were 15 years ago, where people found mates via their physical networks, work, family, hobbies, religion, and day to day life. The criticism is si…

That is the only way out on a local, personal level, since that's all we have much control over. But how is it not the app's fault? When Twitter and Facebook create social dynamics…

You give good advice but I was commenting on the well documented asymmetry and inequality in outcomes that cut across gender lines which are likely magnified by these dating apps. …

Maybe not that extreme but it's a super well documented phenomenon across evolutionary psych and studies of dating app stats.

For the top few percent of men.

You make a good point about discarding the source of random noise that the one-time pad is being applied to, and just focusing on the thing that's generating that one-time pad. But…

If the observable universe is too small, what about the observable universe sampled at multiple points in time? Or just an iron bar that's repeatedly sampled along a time interval,…

What about the arguments outlined in the article? You first dismissed the arguments because an iron bar couldn't have enough physical states. But we both accept that there are phys…

"To achieve a persistent mapping for a significant time you'd probably need an iron bar something like size of the observable universe" But the observable universe exists. So why c…

Why do you think it's absurd? If we do eventually create an AGI that is significantly smarter than us in most domains, why is it that we should expect to be able to keep it under c…

Are they observer independent? From the article: "Of course it is simplest to build a computer where the high voltage states correspond to 1s and the low voltages states 0s or vice…

"AI is not going to ... destroy the world." Bare assertion fallacy? This question is hotly debated and I don't believe it can be so easily dismissed like that. It is not obvious th…