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The halting problem on steroids?

This starts to feel like chess engines. It’s obvious their play is superior but it’s impossible for humans to understand the moves.

Reliability is one property of a product. And it’s quantitative, not qualitative, so it all comes down to trade-offs

The Dutch auction vs lottery are two ways to solve scalping. They differ in what one considers fair.

When no work is safe from mechanization, surely the value of labor wrt capital must fall, and the societal pressure on redistribution will rise. The ultimate outcome of technologic…

This can’t be sustainable, there must be a limit in human biology as to how complex jobs we can handle. More and more people will fall under that threshold.

Is this a different route to the universal basic income scenario?

Nothing, it’s that same story again. Industrialization turned peasants to blue collar workers by mechanizing agriculture. Then blue collar workers were turned to white collar worke…

So most training data would be grey and a little bit coloured? Ok, that sounds plausible. But then maybe they tried and the current models get it already right 99.99% of the time, …

Because then the training data would have to be coloured

Interesting. The debate about whether the artist matters in perceiving a piece of art is very old. You don’t seem to consider the possibility that the artist’s intent matters when …

Forget the government, what about your fellow humans? Is defending your country an obligation towards your government or towards your neighbor?

It’s interesting to read the discussion here through the lens of obligations vs rights. It would seem the rights are definitely winning.

The cooperative and competitive sides of our soul fighting it out in a single situation

I find it sad that while technological progress is seen almost as a given by virtually everyone, moral progress is often not even an aspiration

Think of a woodworking project. Compare doing everything old-school by hand vs using modern tools to go faster. Think about the end product being just an item with a function vs it…

But individual behavior is not about preventing climate change, it’s about doing what’s right. It’s wrong to pollute the environment, one way or another. A single person not steali…

This depends very much on what "practical purposes" are. For almost all conceivable technology, relativistic quantum mechanics for electrons and light, ie QED, is sufficient fundam…

Europe was a bit customer for Russia energy, and Russia invaded an EU neighbor nonetheless. After which it stopped being the customer. So it seems like that incentive didn't really…

Now, let's aim at total energy consumption, not just electricity generation.

Is it perhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis ?

It certainly engages the brain in a similar way. I agree that the forums of old were proto-social media.

Same here. And while I may be on HN for a long time, I would fall asleep within minutes of a (good) book. Which tells me something about these two modes of entertainment

Can you name some examples?

I’m guessing what was meant is that the price of things that are to be invested in is growing wrt the price of things that are to be consumed. Which naively makes sense to me in an…