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"Solution" seems rather euphemistic for making people literal slaves of AI.

A change can introduce regressions in any large project even if 100% of unit tests pass. Unit tests test individual units, regressions can happen at many levels. Especially if we t…

It is a well known fact that projects with unit tests never have regressions.

Well, even that doesn't really work, because optimized allocators typicallly don't allocate exactly the amount that you ask for, they allocate some larger chunk to help with both a…

> The US can win the opening military phase pretty decisively. Can they? Iran seems to have destroyed them pretty decisively, after the literal first day of casualties (which were …

But the point of the conjecture is not that "some equilibrium price exists and can be reached". The whole point is that even monopolists will actually sell this type of good direct…

People generally hate to see scams stealing money from naive marks. Both SpaceX and Tesla are obvious scams at anything close to their current valuations (despite having real, func…

Why 50,000 years of technological development and not 50 billion?

> (False that life dies in minutes in space; plus the engineers can invest in even greater error correction than radiodurans.) What form of life can actually survive (that is, cont…

Not in rocky bodies, except maybe for Oxygen (which is commonly found in the form of oxides, very rarely as a gas). Carbon and Nitrogen and Hydrogen and similar elements are mostly…

> A lot of computational power can be thrown at the problem in this time. We know plenty of actually very simple problems that we would not be able to solve from now till the Sun e…

I hate this assumption that many sci-fi enthusiasts seem to make, that as long as something is not ruled out by currently known physics rules, it doesn't matter that we have no ide…

The thing is, while the universe is full of metals, it's not that full of the materials needed to sustain life (as we know it, at least). You can find metals and other inorganic co…

Per the article, the NTHE "movement" are doom sayers , not doom pushers . That is, the NTHE people are people who predict that humanity and most complex life on Earth will be kille…

If I need to take notes by hand, I definitely prefer cursive writing (though I have my own variations & preferences, for example I write almost all capital letters in the print ver…

Of course there are, even among the canonical gospels. The length of Jesus' ministry is uncertain (1 year in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but 3 years in the later John). What Mary and …

> For our thought experiment, let us suppose that science observes God doing something at step 1 (systematic observation). Now, what is science going to do with it? It's going to t…

Not really. Sure, sometimes long established archaeological conclusions get overturned by new digs, new sources, or just new methods or new evidence of similar events in other plac…

> How could it be otherwise? If there were reproducible evidence, then the phenomenon in question would be classified as natural. Imagine that we found, today, the burning bush, st…

Both "immigrated to" and "emigrated to" are correct, and mean the same thing; they just emphasize, slightly, different things.

You wrote: > One can easily see the events leading to the Exodus being enabled by (or causing, depending on who you ask!) the weakening of Egypt I think that if I'm right that the …

Elijah (who, unlike Moses, is probably a real historical figure) lived long after the events depicted in Exodus. And Exodus ends with the all of the Israelites faithfully following…

Thanks! I found it quite interesting the first time I read about the current scholarly consensus around this, as I had before only ever heard of the mainstream religious (Christian…

This was not idolatry, as depicted in Exodus - this was full blown state religion, held in the same esteem as Yahweh, and co-existing with worship of him. So much so that El later …

It describes it as a sectary offshoot relatively quickly corrected - while the historical evidence suggests that it was part of the main religion of these people for a long time. N…