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It's cheaper than many other additives. Graphene flakes are all that is needed for concrete reinforcement, and it's trivial to produce, even at scale. Carbon chunks are thrown into…

This is where you might use a variation of that "healing cracks" bacteria in conjunction with the "eats plastic" bacteria. If you could get the plastic digesting bacteria to excret…

https://youtu.be/uFhBd5mMkU8 This is one of note thousands of videos of cats and dogs using buttons to talk. Cats, and all mammals, have a neocortex. Theirs is not as deeply layere…

Was. They've sold out to the ad churn, laying off journalists, and some genius middle management is steering the company toward profits over quality journalism. They're a dead outl…

Yeah. It might as well be in flash.

Advertising incentivizes lying. The best presentation wins, in this current ad market. Metrics that track good faith interactions are needed, like eBay reputation - if someone isn'…

They shouldn't be doing stupid things like hosting anything important on Facebook. I have zero sympathy for Australia's inability to elect competent government. They signed up for …

Steelmanning is your own good faith attempt to understand the opposing argument so well that you can articulate it as coherently as your own position. If you're simply repeating wh…

A cluster of many $8000+ gpus. You're looking at around 350GB of vram, so 30 12gb gpus - a 3090 will cost around $1800, so $54k on the gpus, probably another $15k in power, cooling…

The smaller models, yes. I'd bet dollars to donuts that gpt-neo and EleutherAI models outperform most, if not all, of Facebook's. Check out huggingface, you'll be able to run a 2.7…

Web scraping is legal. Reddit users, like all other members of public forums, put their comments on the internet for the whole world to see. And collect, parse, process and manipul…

Well done! This is a beautiful tribute.

Every argument for death strikes me as silly. If anything, functional immortality would incentivize people to be better. Your want relationships to be stable and mutually respectfu…

Your assertion depends on his evening meal being deleterious. https://naturallystrong.me/david-sinclair/ He's got an excellent diet. He's also got very solid reasoning behind metfo…

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1_2_3_2_1... Here's some good context for what the limitations look like in practice.

Well, god wants you to wear a hat. https://youtu.be/vudEvu1yUiM

Man, i think they'd want stuff like: How to create a budget. What does a 401k do for you. How to plan for retirement. How to do your taxes. Balancing a checkbook. Psychology of deb…

These are entirely artistic/ceremonial objects. Someone found a dried out pufferfish and then realized they could make a badass looking hat out of it, they did, and the meme stuck.…

If we're doing something stupid, the correct course of action is to stop doing the stupid thing, not to refine the stupidity. Software patents are stupid.

This leads to the notion of being taxed for having a brain. Software patents shouldn't exist. The concept is patently absurd.

I bet they'd send marines to recover him and his family if he asked. They'd get disappeared to a US black site and lost to history, but barring that, he's pretty much fenced in. Th…

And it's possible to acquire the equivalent of a PhD through the vast wealth of information and literal college courses online. Degrees don't mean what they used to. The dilution o…

Nina Jankowicz is well known for being among the first and most vocal people involved in the Hunter Biden laptop story, reinforcing the DNC narrative that it was Russian disinforma…

Yeah, Edward Snowden was foiled by the Russian state firewall. I think it's likely he had the epiphany that he'd be a pointed lesson in not mouthing off about Putin while you're ex…

Run out of the village, into the forest, to fend against actual wolves, preferably.