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You wouldn't be worried about constant noise from the chillers?

Someone conjectured that every organization that doesn't have opposing Leftism as its mission will eventually be run by Leftists.

Good point, but China's generals were trained by generals with experience in a proper war, which is not nothing. Specifically, Beijing sent 3 million Chinese soldiers to assist Pyo…

The atmosphere of coastal California (i.e., where most Californians live) has about one tenth the capacity to dilute pollutants as the atmosphere of most of the rest of the US (bec…

I understand why war with Iran would raise gas prices, but why would war with China?

>China can at least so far be relied upon to not shoot itself in the foot It can? Have you heard of the Great Leap Forward? The Cultural Revolution? Either of those damaged the met…

Here's a list of 20 researchers and managers that would need to be fired according to you. My guess is that there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of researchers and managers empl…

The "paperclips" were never actually paperclips (at least not to the originator of the word-picture, Yudkowsky) but rather tiny molecular squiggles which are a physical manifestati…

>you can easily improve acoustic performance of drywall in many ways. Double layering, acoustic sealing caulk, rockwall in walls, etc. There's a principle-agent problem here. It is…

If drywall is better than lath and plaster, then why is lath and plaster still used today -- in high-end construction?

Maybe this is part of some complicated plan to increase his net worth or maybe he's worried that the AI juggernaut will get him killed (along with everyone else) if it keeps going …

The person you're quoting is a lawyer.

For admirers of the Enlightenment, it's more than just a convenient technicality to want to avoid including in the Enlightenment a period a political chaos during which about a mil…

Today I learned that some historians include the French Revolution in the Enlightenment. Here is the intro to the Wikipedia article: >European historians traditionally dated its be…

AI hasn't "toppled" (or found any mistakes in) any theorems, at least not any enjoying any consensus among mathematicians.

I'm not so worried about this part as I am the part where a lab loses control of an AI, and it goes on to pursue whatever meaningless objectives (meaningless to us , that is) its d…

I don't see any mention of shareholder value or financial performance upstream (unless we count your latest comment). I do see, "their managers are not capable of leading innovatio…

Apple tried to create a new OS and failed (during Jobs's absence from Apple), bought NeXT, then used NeXT's work as the basis for the very successful OS X. And despite this, in you…

Most working-class and many middle-class American women made their own clothes until the 1960s. It was too expensive to buy ready-made clothes. A company named Simplicity prospered…

There was certainly a vast gold rush around the internet with massive attention from almost everybody in journalism or in business and almost every retail investor -- at least in t…

Sounds like the government (which owned the entire system during Beeching) should have kept at least a right-of-way (if they have that concept in the UK) instead of selling everyth…

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>appears to actually make people more susceptible to nonsense I think it is more that teenagers and very young adults and people high in the trait of "openness to new experiences" …