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jumping_frog

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    Comment #42386273

    We never will if we don't attempt. So the discussion ends before it starts.

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    Comment #42385915

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42369474

    Does access to arbitrary parallel universes imply that they divide up the computation and the correct answer is distributed to all of the universes or in such a collection, there w…

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    Comment #42363724

    Metaphor I would use is "using seed crystals to start crystallization process".

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    Comment #42356643

    To support you, I will provide an example. Canada's health care system was started by just one person. His activism and relentlessness is what forced Canada to adopt it. "Never dou…

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    Comment #42350289

    I highly recommend this channel. The human story behind the discovery. Copernicus: The Man Who Made A God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgVOhbk8H1c

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    Comment #42348845

    > I want to match substrings like "/r/chatgpt" (sub reddits) in url links, but couldn't get it to match. This likely means tokenization striping out special characters. Try ngram s…

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    Comment #42348813

    [flagged]

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    Comment #42347936

    The copycats would think of themselves as Dexter, doing good for the society while keeping the hobby alive (pun intended).

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    Comment #42347779

    I can point to videos which provide more receipts. This sequence of events was predicted by people 9 months before it happened. US was taking a keen interest in Bangladesh election…

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    Comment #42340568

    Courts can sometimes be used by Deep State actors to bring about political change. https://www.voanews.com/a/timeline-of-events-leading-to-the-... Here is a timeline of events lead…

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    Comment #42340426

    Here's a short fiction idea if anyone wants to take it up. Forward causation in time with predictive ability must imply Downward causation. This scenario is similar to the scenario…

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    Comment #42340219

    Isn't compression the best general purpose solution with theoretical guarantees? I mean a simple huffman coding could easily extract the key-values (where the repeated keys will be…

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    Comment #42340084

    How about we invent SAI and terraform superearths in Milky Way to atone for our sins here?

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    Comment #42340043

    The anology I would use is extended phenotype evolution in digital space as Richard Dawkins would say. Just as crabs in oceans use shells to protect themselves.

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    Comment #42338586

    I sometimes think Americans are "shrewd" in a sense that "Hey, I don't fully understand the system we are in but through some trickle down effects, we are at the top so why bother …

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    Comment #42338353

    A French bank was fined $9 billion by the United States because it routed Iran-France trade payments through US banks in dollars, violating American law (despite the trade being le…

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    Comment #42337010

    I was just highlighting a scenario of cantillon effect on the back of reserve currency status. But such a convergence of factors is possible, don't you think? Or atleast it could p…

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    Comment #42336965

    Why is Yellen crying loud about "overcapacity" in China then? According to market principles, overcapacity is good and people will get cheaper goods. Maybe US has overcapacity of W…

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    Comment #42330061

    US is happy if a country becomes its vassal state just like G7, EU and Japan. US likes if other countries don't have independent thought or freewill. There is nothing largesse abou…

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    Comment #42329555

    What do finance guys think about the other two? They are just moving numbers up and down. Have finance guys ever built anything brick by brick (digital bricks or physical bricks) h…

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    Comment #42329530

    Then there are Excel collar workers who decide what gets build in the first place or what needs to be downsized. People in private equity decide which resource is worthy of keeping…

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    Comment #42328562

    US is the very reason why there is instability around the world. US touts security for itself as reason while causing insecurity for other nations, (either through military adventu…

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    Comment #42328245

    The other important stuff is due to petrodollars and US controlled swift system, there is no real price discovery in the world economic system.

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    Comment #42328234

    Consider this scenario. Dollar holds value for the next 1 year. FED prints dollar. It gives them to BlackRocks of the world. And these vehicles go shopping around the world in emer…