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Why do that when steel is lighter, easier to clean, easier to maintain?

It’s funny though you can learn to visualize in chess through solving puzzles. I couldn’t do it at all at first but after awhile it clicked and I could just move pieces in my head.…

Let me just spin up a nuclear powerplant on my laptop here

They should call it non-translating-to-protein-but-probably-has-some-function DNA

Okay yes so not really having an artists vocabulary I couldn't compress it as well as someone who has a better understanding of Starry Night. An artist that understands what makes …

When we say life on earth we mean human life and civilization. Prokaryotes, while alive, are not really what people mean. Yes they would survive asteroids, nukes, possibly nanobot …

They are in 0g environments presumably having 1-6th isn't as bad and there might be ways to prevent/mitigate those issues.

That wouldn't prevent one off extinction type events like asteroids. We can improve our understanding of ecology by trying to design such systems for lunar colony artificial biosph…

Distributing human populations to ensure survival. With current tech the lunar colony couldn't be self-sustaining but the ideal is that humans would be able to propagate and sustai…

The best compression is some form of understanding

They don’t actually share an alphabet if the letters don’t correspond to the same sounds.

I should say a lot of this is internal as a form of social signaling about worldliness. Also not against loan words its just that you should adjust loan words and concepts to fit t…

One of the most annoying things about speaking the dominant world language (obviously it is also great in many respects) is that there is some pressure to change your language rath…

What exactly are these first principles everyone keeps talking about? Kind of like how everyone keeps talking about updating Bayesian priors without ever actually using bayes rule.…

Preferably not all at the same time

sonsick?

As an amatuer I think Markov chains are explicitly a crude frequency association whereas what exactly a neural network is storing to predict the next token involves stored represen…

Furthermore the man on the scale is faced the other way and wouldn’t know someone is stepping on the scale. There’s an element of theory of mind there. You would have to understand…

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Lol what would they even use to measure a million of a currency in De Tocquevilles time?

Make models that work without freeloading.

I’m not sure I understand a definition of AI that doesn’t include the ability to generate things.

Basically the point is to be funny about it or use it as a generator for a new topic. Skill at conversation is almost topic agnostic. Entertaining people can be entertaining about …

Lol I think you are missing the point. It could even be better to not know and argue about it for the purpose of conversation.