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I don’t think you can really accuse the lesswrong crowd of being in it to hype up OpenAI. They don’t profit from it (well at least the current doom crowd), they have been saying th…

I am not saying that you shouldn’t build trust with your kids (it’s important and only fair to them … they rely on and usually adore you, you should in turn be kind and reliable to…

Also interesting: Kreisky totally didn’t resign after the vote ended against Zwentendorf…so the whole thing was for nothing in the end. The operator of the plant assumed that the p…

Can‘t you do it the old-fashioned way and call the phone? If it’s on silent, it might make it harder, but it still makes a buzzing sound since it vibrates.

Basic health insurance in Switzerland is “private” but very regulated: All companies offer completely exchangeable plans and are only allowed to take age, municipality and desired …

If a lack of capital investment (or skilled companies) is the problem, that’s a great solution. But that’s not the reason for expensive rents in big cities. It’s because many (rich…

I don’t totally get this point. The main problem in big cities is the quantity of housing as well as the distribution of it. For a train system, a non-state actor will have a hard …

But SF is a damn rich city (due to all the tech companies and their employees). Why didn’t they solve or at least tackle these problems? It’s not like Cruise / Waymo could change c…

It is true that heating should be electrified … but it’s important to note that this makes the Dunkelflaute problem more serious, not less. Because now your inflexible base-load ha…

Also „Fiasco“, which is depressing and great. For a more recent take on a similar theme, see also „Blindsight“ by Peter Watts.

I assume dysgenics (which you’d assume is happening if family size is inversely correlated with education and or income). AFAIK there are some studies that show that dysgenics are …

And if they are wrong (and this sells well) … they might just go bancrupt, leaving you with only a small part of the upside.

What do you hedge your 100 year financial vehicle with? AFAIK there just isn’t anything that allows you to hedge against interest rates 50 years in the future. So while this probab…

But that’s not the default behaviour of these models at all. Instead you have to work pretty hard to extract these original images. When using the models normally, they do generate…

The “3d object that changes with a variable (like time)” metaphor helps a little bit, but doesn’t really help to e.g. understand how a rotation of a 4d object plays out.

Couldn't this also be solved with a freezer on the island (+ shipping larger quantities of these drugs regularly via whatever process usually brings parcels onto the islands). I am…

I think that it’s weird to aggregate salaries like this without taking into account that there is a huge amount of variance between companies. For concrete companies, it’s easy to …

But that is just an implementation detail of who is allowed to initiate outgoing transfers from your account. For me, I needed to send a signed letter to my bank to allow recurring…

China needs five to six years from starting to build a nuclear reactor to making it operational. I don’t see why western countries should be inherently unable to do this. They curr…

AFAIK the running out of fuel would be a non-issue with breeder reactors, which are disliked for the proliferation risk they are. Well, trade-offs. Also: currently, nuclear fuel co…

I assume because their data source is not great (aggregation of some kind of Glassdoor data). * Looking at data for Google in San Francisco, Glassdoor says that average total compe…

The underlying problem these elaborate prompts seem to solve is that the internet contains many pictures, few of which look very beautiful. If you look at all internet pictures of …

I am especially impressed by how much more realistic the lighting ends up looking despite the network probably having less information to work with than the engine! Though it ends …

I would imagine that the amount of available calories is overall the larger influence on which society grows and which doesn't. Remember that in most hunter-gatherer and farming so…

AFAIK there isn't much genetic engineering involved in that project at the moment. They just rear male mosquitos that are infected with a Wolbachia bacterium (making them sterile).…