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I think we've collectively DDoSed it. I'm getting a 504 timeout. The author [page]( https://github.com/sterlingcrispin ) is there on github, but I can't even find his full list of …

I ran into them at Burning \Man in the early aughts. They're awesome!

Regardless of how fast we use up non-renewable resources, they're all going to be gone at some point. Copper, lithium, and tin are going to be gone. Humanity will need to live off …

Yes: our politicization of science and theirs will take a somewhat different form. And yes: if our politicization of science is is less complete, or briefer, it may not set us back…

The comparison to the present-day US isn't hyperbole. It's not a perfect match but there are parallels. The article mentions Lysenko, a Soviet "biologist" who set back Soviet biolo…

https://www.wired.com/story/worldcoin-sam-altman-orb/

For a casino? In practice, yes, fair games are perfectly consistent with greedily skimming a game, and fair games draw gamblers. That said, when organized crime gets involved, some…

I think that's an invalid hypothesis here, not just an unlikely one, because that's not my understanding of how LLMs work. I believe you're suggesting (correctly) that a prediction…

Yes, the pricing is what I'm curious about. If they were saying "we can make this for half the price of steel," then the world steel market becomes their growth target. If they can…

Here's a thought: why don't YOU shut up? /s Sorry! That was mean, but I hope it came across as funny. In all seriousness, I like the question, and your implication is intuitive: if…

Sam Altman doesn't want you to say "please" to ChatGPT. https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt

You can't express mass in volts. A volt is energy per unit of charge. To get energy, you need to multiply by a charge. One Joule of energy is what you get when you move one Coulomb…

I think it's an upper limit of around 0.2 eV^2, so √(0.2 eV^2) = 0.45 eV. I'd like to see an experiment that's sensitive enough to eliminate the m=0 hypothesis. Their prediction of…

What is the stochastic part? It looks like the predator/prey behavior is deterministic. I'm guessing it's somewhat similar to the foxes/rabbits work you were doing a few months ago…

I think the demographic transition overshoot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Stage_f... ) we see is unexpected though.

Yeah the demographic transition is something nobody predicted (afaik). On the other hand, LTG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth ) is a neo-Malthusian prediction …

Feedback: The units on square feet per acre are inverted. Should be acres per square foot. I recommend having the solution check unit cancellation to confirm that it works. I'd als…

We're already engineering ecosystems in a thoughtless way. I find it hard to believe that messing with mosquito genetics is going to make the world significantly more risky than it…

This article is too strong on vibes and lacks data beyond "there's a lot more money in private equity than there used to be." Also, private equity includes a broad range of investo…

Location: New York/New Jersey Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, shell script, SQL, Relational and NoSQL Databases Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wil…

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That's always been my take too. Like, ok, we get testable answers and they match experiments but also this is _so_ hacky and I can't shake the feeling that one day someone will com…

Thank you, we didn't get that resolved beforehand. Should be fixed now.