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I haven’t found I need to plan way too far ahead of time as long as I’ve defined the interface between the tasks

Straight out of Echopraxia. Will be interesting to see how strong the controlling forces can be - enough to make you miss things in direct perception like in the book, or only soft…

Feels like the run up to the "current world" in a Peter Watts novel

Like for the ACLU it seems driven by the personalities that entered the organization. The type of people who in the most recent generation become professional activists are also th…

Per Turchin model, the declining population in China has created conditions for more elite-adjacent positions for all those STEM PhDs, preventing overproduction

I think I have comments going back about 10 years no?

So interesting I've mostly noticed the fishy seeming anti-Israel accounts, I think mostly because what they say gets up so upvoted

Posted by a 48 day account that mostly talks about Israel. This has felt like a super postmodern interaction

What are the chances that HN is getting astroturfed these days? Are mods strict about it? I lots of relatively new accounts coming with what seems to me extreme, but altogether pop…

Preach brother. Collective trauma traps us all

Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026134 on the front page it feels, yet again, like we’re speed running to living in a Peter Watts novel

“It's creating a strange feedback loop: students use an LLM to write the essay, and teachers use an LLM to grade it. It ends up being just one LLM talking to another, with no human…

Israel’s always been strong at “terraforming”. I wonder what unexpected consequences will be encountered though. Eighty years they drained the coastal lowland swamps making central…

May we all have this man’s network

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If/when this gets tossed - does the have grounds to sue (and who would he be suing) on wrongful arrest, or something else?

Agreed. Don’t know how we balance decentralization with the planetary civilization/economy’s complexity, which requires some kinds of centralization. That’s doubly difficult becaus…

And great write up on your part. It corresponds with the qualitative observation that violent revolutions are usually led by the “middle class”. This itself corresponds with versio…

It seems to me the assumption of consensus with disagreement coming from small fringe factions mirrored much of the American experience during the TNG era.

I agree. But it has a similar aspirational quality, to me, as well thought out proposals for eg Moon colonization. I suppose the question left is overcoming the blocking path depen…

Great example. In the theory-land of Solarpunk, pretty much all the more fleshed out example I’ve seen imagined also have a similar issue with reality. In particular I’m thinking o…

If anyone here is a fan of strategy games and found this as totally awesome as I did, check out the game Terra Invicta on Steam. I’m embarrassed to admit how many hours I dumped in…

It was an interesting point to make 30 years ago when the orthodoxy did not include much of that perspective and general society didn’t think much about it. At this point is it the…

It’s a minor effort compared to the hundreds of millions Iran, China, and Russia have spent for a decade on influence operations. Those get little air time in hard progressive or f…

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