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I would imagine that to propagate any confidence value through the system you'd need to have priors for the confidence of correctness for all data in your training set. (and those …

But the social nature of art also means that humans give the originator and their influences credit - of course not the entire chain but at least the nearest neighbours of influenc…

No accounting for particles yet, which you'll also keep hitting, making your ship's materials radioactive and causing lots of secondary particle showers, bremsstrahlung and the lik…

Adding to those arguments, you can include exports/imports into the CO2 emission estimation and suddenly one sees that a good part of China's CO2 emissions are for products that ar…

I wonder why Musk is always thrown into the ring with SpaceX, when its entire operation is mostly done by Gwynne Shotwell.

appropriation also includes a resonance and admiration of the original - you cannot admire if you don't know where you're appropriating from

I feel it's also a scaling issue: If you wanted to do all of the digital bookkeeping of today on paper, that would be perhaps impossible. I don't think personal note-taking is in a…

Regarding your other comment: why wouldn't a high-altitude detonation, even outside the atmosphere cause an EMP? I feel like the gamma photons emitted in space will eventually hit …

There are people who argue that there are ways to keep limited nuclear warfare limited. [0] I think the RAND institute also published some study on it not outright rejecting the id…

It entirely depends on where you see the role of a "fighter" but I think we both already agree that it won't be anything like naval battle on Earth. Maybe you're familiar with Atom…

The models can produce a very very biased memory (as any other form of history) - just by virtue of being a product of technology does not make these algorithms any more objective.…

There are some in-universe laws or facts that fictional genres cannot give up (Edit:typo) easily - one in scifi is the small crewed spaceship or even space fighter. Even if guns ex…

Isn't this the same issue as with the neuro-visual reconstruction techniques matching on a small collection of samples?

Starting small doesn't work if you have a nonlinear system. In nonlinear systems, the magnitude of a perturbance isn't linearly related to the absorbed effect. So in the worst case…

I feel any method that is powerful enough to dependably act as an attourney is powerful enough to found its own company, write software, acquire clients, subcontract etc. With the …

The irony may be that removing the barrier to legal advice in that way will at the same time make the implementation of your startup a triviality.

In physics in college we were grilled in verbal discussions with professors and an assistant for ~30 minutes or until the professor had found the limits of our knowledge, one I had…

Then the alias itself has to be protected though, else someone could harm you by impersonating your alias.

I didn't know the background but I'd agree though not necessarily as strongly as hating it. To me, the poem paints an unreachable ideal of being that just doesn't resonate with me …

I think the entire longtermism thing is at the heart something that Camus discusses in the Myth of Sisyphos: We will ultimately all die and be forgotten, what good is struggling, w…

I don't think that future will come to pass, because there is no application of "AI" on the horizon that gets climate change halted by 2030. And the consequences, which are already…

Chillwave like this [0] or the original Ghost in the Shell soundtrack. Edit: Also great to block out the environment is this [1], I donated 50€ years ago and still get to listen to…

Even in a perfectly deterministic universe, the accessibility of that determinism to models hinges on knowledge of the state of the universe. We're surrounded by highly nonlinear i…

To be very cynical: We are trapped in a hellscape with no chance of ever breaking free, it does not matter one bit if it's simulated or not. Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity th…

That hit me years ago when working conditions at Tesla came to light, I realized Elon can never have his Mars colony be self-sufficient or he'd be thrown out of an airlock.