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I like the formulation of 'the amount of information we don't know about a system that we could in theory learn'. I'm surprised there's no mention of the Copenhagen interpretation'…

There are amistics - the voluntary non-use of technology once it's available - which all cultures engage in to greater or lesser degrees. All technology has a price and sometimes i…

I'm sure benefitting energy companies is the real reason... but if everyone had a battery backup and they all started charging at the same time, I suppose it could make it harder t…

The one book I recall that 'bit and stung' as I think Kafka meant to say was 1984. How would you categorize that work? Torture porn?

I do believe that commodified attention is the most logical currency of a postascarce society, so best case... quite a lot. Note my 'best case' scenario for the near future is pret…

I appreciate the sentiment, but territorial boundaries are enforced by violence among almost every species on the planet and we're not that much better than any of them. Law is som…

It's relevant because you challenged me to put my money where my mouth is, as I'm challenging you. And I have. You say you haven't because of onerous regulations and it's true, I a…

If regulation is the problem, why is nuclear most successful in France? And I've had solar companies in my portfolio for the last decade. They're a great investment.

Then why are you here? If nuclear doesn't need subsidies, why aren't you just investing in the next great nuclear project and proving me wrong that way?

That discrepancy is not surprising, given iteration times and cost of failure. Nuclear has great potential in space exploration, but it's never going to be economical when there ar…

If Fission is so great, go build it. I'm not stopping you. But use your own money or get off the podium.

Batteries might work for storage, they have their own version of moore's law and will continue to get better and cheaper for a while. Now if only there were a way to bundle that en…

direct liquid democracy still has vote delegation, it's just possible to reassign your vote in real time. Representatives vote on issues based on how many people assign them their …

I think - with 5G warfare being what it is - that we need to go more granular. Democracy is a given when information is a weapon [1]. What kind of democracy serves our interests be…

I've found anything that puts the spine in tension (hanging by hands or hips) helps with spinal pain. 'leaf pose' from acro yoga's especially great for my partner and I (YMMV)

same overall probability of adverse events in both groups, but the nature of adverse events reported differed between the two.

They're certainly fallible - but they can err on the side of civilian life rather than the drone's. That's a big improvement even if the errors are more common.

If Q* can really combine mathematical logic with simple NLP, why not? Text Search has already automated a lot of what lawyers spent time doing, why wouldn't accountants be next?

I've thought about this a lot. Short version, any sufficiently complex profession will have problems and associated solutions analogous to problems and solutions outside its domain…

I love the comment on that video: "Imagine you wake up and you're just doomguy"

I don't think it's the number of bots as much as who they belonged to that's being reported on. Russian activity on facebook prior to the 2016 presidential election was similarly m…

then they're desktop class.

but it's not necessarily needed in dense urban centers. Plenty of laptop class people could secure housing in rural areas for a fraction of the cost of what they're paying now.

I mean, do you know the DNA came from your mom's side of the family?

I dunno, high-functioning depression worked for the Japanese pretty well. Fear of death makes for a much less effective warrior in most circumstances.