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That assumes that AI needs to be like life, though. Consider computers: there's no selection pressure for an ordinary computer to be self-reproducing, or to shock you when you reac…

Linux - Debian 12 to be precise.

For some reason, the embedded videos seem to break in Firefox Private Browsing (128esr). This had me stumped for a while until I tried it in a normal not-private window and it work…

I would put it like this: consistent small gains programming is about gluing components together. There are plenty of non-incremental (big impact or flop) programs that couldn't ha…

Wouldn't the stock market chart for Russia have a rather sudden stop around 1917?

> Outside transparency is not a benefit. Most people I've talked to about crypto don't see the opacity as a detriment. They do not trust the government or tax policy. I think his p…

Relative privation is still a fallacy, though, isn't it?

The other side of that coin is, obviously, coiners who deduce that anyone opposing Bitcoin must be angry about being poor. It's possible to dislike Bitcoin for its waste of its ene…

I don't think Bob's standards are preferable. Or, in the likeness of Yegge's Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns, I present: void get_coffee() { /* ... */ } void move_away_from_obsta…

The grain of the web is so that it's much easier to write something broken than something that works. That's true of all development, granted, but doubly so the web, so yep... the …

> But it's not the governments job to legalize theft and pick the winners and losers, it's the governments job to fix the underlying issues. So in other words, don't try to paper o…