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Also: Eroding the checks and balances and state monopoly and legitimation on use of violence.

https://xkcd.com/2030/ Here in Germany, the Pirate Party has discussed the topic at length, since they (1) love voting innovations, and (2) have generally good knowledge on CS stuf…

Especially since all the above is designed as additive tech which uses a lot of brain hacks: Infinite scrolling, dopamine maximization, "check for new messages!" and so on. How do …

> The UK's proposal makes the "digital ID" a pointer to an entry in a centralized database. Very similar to the "EU settlement scheme" which would gave EU citizens which had work a…

There is another technical reason: A digital ID requires essentially a digital signature running on a secure device (for example, a smart card). Thus it implements public key crypt…

> I’m sure it’s not even deliberately dismantling privacy. They’re doing it blindly. That is often a variant of Hanlor's razor brought up on questions like this. How do certain act…

> would this scale? Consider how much space you do need ahead for safe travel as a pedestrian, on a bicycle, on an interstate highway in a car, or on a plane taking off at an airpo…

The argument is like it is unethical to lock my front door because this also stops people which genuinely only want to enter to have a look at my living room. That's not how bounda…

What I think he is wrong with is that LLMs are, despite being named as "Artificial Intelligence", not intelligent . I guess that some people confound the source of information with…

The foundation of quantum physics being developed with plenty of hikes and walks outside is almost a science meme. These researchers took a lot of very productive breaks.

So what needs to happen to ban smartphone use while driving? I mean not "formally forbidden" but "thoroughly enforced". Personally, I avoid phone use even as a pedestrian in busy c…

Too bad that the language we use is also a demonstration of social status. If I think about it, it could have a somewhat corrosive effect on that glue that keeps society in shape.

We already treat spam and unsolicited commercial email that way.

Trust is also essential for any form of symbolic information exchange. Humans communicate using symbols. That could be patterns of sound waves, gestures, or written characters. If …

What are the main differences between OcamML and a statically typed Lisp?

what do you think about pre-scheme?

I am aware that reports on the topic have been submitted before. This is a fantastic, well-written article by world-class climate scientist Stefan Rahmstorf.

Being fully in the know of the consequences makes a very big difference - both ethically, and legally.

In the realm of electricity production, things are now changing very quickly, though not yet as fast as needed. Where a huge amount of works needs to be done is carbon-economic tra…

> Politics is just a proxy for people’s desires and motivations and willingness to make trade offs. It is not people as in "a democratic majority" which want to destroy the habitab…

I would love to learn more what can be done! (And especially for projects in Southern Germany where I am based). Apparently, a huge part of the opportunities are in embedded comput…

In respect to Common Lisp, you could look into "Common Lisp Recipes" by Weitz[2], and "Practical Common Lisp" by Seibel[1]. These are industrial-strength systems which were used to…

>It has a great backwards-compatibility story -- a lot better than Python's, for example, which I use in my current dayjob. I think this is a really important point. I worked inten…

You might find Guile interesting, I think it is more immersed than Racket, especially when debugging, and more similar to Common Lisp (SBCL).