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effed3

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About effed3

.The sea is made of drops. .evolution is the supreme hacking. .complexity is the soul of reality. .the first competence is to know the limits of the competence itself.

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    Comment #49223367

    what is -coding-? only typing down some code? the hard part is always the design part, reading doc, reading other code, understanding the sum of the parts, making choices, until th…

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    Comment #49197299

    if is good/bad for you is only to you, nobody else decide for you, but reasoning about general consequences adopting this thech is to everyone

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    Comment #49188857

    to someone hobby programming using LLM seems like running a marathon using a bicycle, you cross the finish, but at the end is not the same as running only by your only forces. Othe…

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    Comment #49029181

    Agree. Is the (very) old trick: private gains, and public losses. Like investing in the last 20+ years thousand of billions in speculative finance and not in real concrete economy,…

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    Comment #49029092

    Some faiths can survive only putting apart real facts, so treating capitalism or socialism like 'faiths' can bring to disasters, history docet, these things are only ideas, tools, …

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    Comment #48958132

    just (bad) opinions, without even minimal evidences of of -real- facts. The crisis of Europe is way more in the massive investment in speculative finance than in real in-house inve…

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    Comment #48873738

    putting mirrors in orbit to have (little) more light is like buiding city underwater to have more cool. ops this last will be way less stupid in the future... To downvote a differe…

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    Comment #48873465

    Earth orbits, low orbits above all, are a finite resource, and suffer pollution as every environment, with all this kind of satellites growing in number to millions, things can go …

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    Comment #48794563

    This is not -progress-, is speculaton, at astronomical level, as 1M sat in orbit, only a very small part of humans will benefit (shareholders, but i doubt all), all the rest not ev…

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    Comment #48753439

    probably only peoples who has the gift of doubt can argue in the common search of knowledge. Everything else, right or wrong, are, as stated, more about ego, quite useless about re…

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    Comment #48602563

    I don't have read jaines. To me the language was different yes, but the mind is another thing, but the two are cleary related. I think humans need (and create) more concepts, more …

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    Comment #48597143

    > Stocks are deep linked to the economy, but the ownership of stocks is primarily shared by the public. Ok, this is the situation, but seems to me that few biggest holders in prati…

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    Comment #48593175

    probably this is an effect of a much more simple environment and tasks in the past: Sleep, hunt and not been hunted, eat, reproduce. the minds seems simpler, but is apparent. We li…

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    Comment #48593087

    is not too difficult to find "very bad ideas" today, just look around. The point is about knowledge and culture, not individuals

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    Comment #48592964

    Really funny to read. but refleting uppon: maybe "aliens" are another name for a kind of ignorance spreading around. basic science and history simply gone. Not so funny to think ab…

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    Comment #48519348

    talking of "quality" tasks, quite all, giving people some time.

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    Comment #48518849

    stocks values are deep linked to real economy, moving such amount of value can do big effects on real world, inflations, investments, development decisions.. In the hands of such s…

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    Comment #48405613

    Maybe gen-z "socialist" aspiration are too "passionate" but (to me) look in the right direction, the actual form of planetary capitalism is way out of control and totally unable to…

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    Comment #48242626

    "argosel makes your thudra all tizzy. contains thirty arps of ramstat pulz, for shell lubrication"

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    Comment #48107449

    Interesting book,thanks for signaling. Car with motors burning fossil fuels are (probably, hopefully) doomed. But a combustion engine using synthetic-fuels made with CO2 + solar en…

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    Comment #47969893

    One thing is try to do a new(?) math in a finite way, good luck, we will see the results, and check agains is still proved. (I think others contraddiction will arise, will be funny…

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    Comment #47614883

    AGI will earn a salary, pay taxes, buy goods? So this is: maximizing for efficiency and production, but who will buy all this? Maybe pushing all possible to AI / AGI will end in a …

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    Comment #47599249

    Proposals like this has more to do with Finance (spaceX quotation / funding / shares values) than real applications. But is anyway a risky very bad idea.

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    Comment #47416739

    After ROTFL, and checking is not 1st april, seems in the same line of: "life is a disease, sexually transmitted, with 100% lethal exitus". More seriously (very little indeed) maybe…

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    Comment #47329828

    Power tools? seems something more -high level- like: "Make me a table", not "saw this board", and evolving to: "make me a 2-level house". Will the house be solid? You have to cheek…