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I'm finishing a project now, using exactly this design pattern. Sort of backed into it, motivated pretty much by the issues outlined. In addition, I wanted something that is clear …

Can you name some of those specific scientific doomsday predictions, that didn't come to pass? Not a prediction from some random internet dude, but an actual scientific IPCC predic…

It's not "cnn". This has been widely reported by diverse scientific groups. Countless sources. And it doesn't matter what the weather is like where you are. We're talking climate h…

Changing the ownership does not address the problem, which is market concentration. You're still left with a company with too much power. That aside, look at the historical data. N…

SF Techie here. Lived and worked here, for many years. Every day I literally step over bodies to get to work. Drugs are openly dealt and consumed. Mentally ill people roam the stre…

Wild guess: Sabine is not a fan.

Posts such as this are sociologically amusing, "meta-heuristic" and the like. Using prepackaged terms to disparage people and dismiss them, without actually having to think objecti…

Different. Super-intelligence is a plausibly reachable thing, a question of engineering. TIL is an uncertain thing, requires entirely new physics, and completely unknown tech.

And again, you are confused about timeframes. Geologic time vs human time. Sure, over a period of millions of years, everything evolves and adapts. But in shorter periods of time, …

You're not considering timescales. True, the earth has seen all sorts of climates .. over slow-moving gradual timeframes of 100k to millions of years. And in none of those situatio…

That was a fresh and insightful post. I think the comparison to the Cambrian explosion is a good one, as well as the larger framing of technological progress in the context of punc…

Also, even in the future, the power will go off once in awhile. Hand-writing would be like swimming. Not necessarily used much, but a skill worth keeping.

It seems the aliens are invading by balloon. No one saw that coming.

Ideologically-fixated writer. That aside, I wonder about any essay which uses the term "solutionise".

Interesting analogy. It is highly adapted to its host for sure. In fact, it's quite impressive how evolved it is, always morphing and camouflaging, keeping the immune system at bay…

I wonder about that $100k limit. Why would there be that special case?

In California we have the yellow-billed magpie. Identical to this one ... but with a yellow bill. And weirdly enough, the ranges of the two species don't overlap. It's black-billed…