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Can we say for certain that doing so would not have an unintended side effect, given how complex the biodome is? If not, then likely no.

Why would they be when they see the hypocrisy of the chattering classes? How many celebrities or billionaires have curtailed their own lifestyles while pitching for climate change?…

Nothing wrong with stating the sources up front. They are clearly pro-labour and pro-union. It helps to know where the authors stand. Would you rather the authors were buried under…

Hemingway wrote the same way. Here's a famous example from the Old Man and the Sea: Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck co…

What you are referring to is called the pre-travel distance. There are mechanical key options with very short pre-travel, such as the Cherry MX and Kailh Silver switches. They're m…

There were already prior reported cases of the phenomenon. Einstein provided the mathematical foundation explaining it, in particular that the discharge is quantized, indicating th…

The writing's already pretty good, even Terrence Tao calls it flawless, if you read the slides. That's not where the LLM requires help.

My perception is different. I start from the axiom that AI is a massive compressed corpus of knowledge. That it can find solutions suggests to me that the solutions were already kn…

Thanks for sharing. Regrettably his conclusion on proof exposition increasing in importance reflects the broad trend in every field: When someone (or something) else is doing the a…

> If we continue with Einstein, the photoelectric effect does not aperar in real life. Of course it does. How do you think your phone camera works?

Moral critics save a lot of lives by not doing. Sometimes not doing is the best moral option ex. I will not kill or I will not exploit. And it does not come cheap. Someone who says…

Sam Bankman-Fried is an effective altruist (or was anyways, not sure what he is after they denounced him). The list of effective altruists reads like a who's who of scummy people. …

As per the article, he formed a trading company without any background in investing, and once his investments tanked, he sold the stocks for pennies on the dollar to a financial fi…

Read the bio. Found it (emphasis mine): > While at Columbia, he co-founded the university's effective altruism (EA) chapter.[5] Just another smart, yet ethically challenged, indivi…

I'm not sure I follow the thrust of the article. The author starts off with talking about clean code, but then compares OO with procedural code. It's not the same thing, and of cou…

"Hard" in hard science means rigorous methodology and experimentally verifiable predictions. Psychology achieves neither, ergo it is a soft science, or more precisely, opinion masq…

> The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that. Most people can't justify the time …

It's important to realize that the session is jointly owned between the model and the user. Part of the session, such as the reasoning tokens, are generated entirely by the model. …

I use my local GPU. Yes, I realize it's not exactly a superpower, but it's technology that's pretty darn close to one.

I understand that this is a principled stand by UEFA, no doubt about it. But the amount of money in the offering is too large for the clubs (and their superstars) to snub their nos…

Per-ticket prices were a big factor too. By turning it into an open bidding process, every ticket sold at close to its market value, and many above that.

FIFA made $~15 billion USD this World Cup, roughly double what they made in Qatar in 2022. There are many low-hanging fruit that can be optimized to increase that revenue by 10x.

Cue UEFA's leadership being replaced in the next year or two. FIFA has had a taste of the amount of money involved in professional sports. There's no going back.

Indeed without my permission is implied. Without it, you have no idea what traffic is being routed and could be on the hook for something nasty like CSAM.

Defrauding ad networks doesn't seem like a bad thing, although using my internet connection as a proxy is obviously terrible. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that my connection is…