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> Or compare AI water usage to that of what it would take a human to do a comparable task (what does it take to keep a human alive for a few hours compared to running a 15 minute l…

I'm curious what history Jack Clark is referring to here. If I think of the last thirty years of policy in most of Europe and the US I'm thinking of a strong trend of deregulation …

> is it not reasonable to assume that the number of security flaws just reflects how insecure most public code is? It sounds to me like that's not an inference that can easily be d…

There needn't even be a confounding variable, the direction of causation may simply be reversed: not personality traits -> superager, but superager -> personality traits. Sounds qu…

Right, but a well trained ear is exactly what those who don't focus on reading music tend to have ("instead" I might add since someone focusing on reading music doesn't necessarily…

They carry incomparable levels of responsibility

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I really don't see how it matters. It is this specific comment that is going to "manipulate" you into donating? The disaster happened. Stories as told in this comment happened. The…

I assume you mean hands off approach? Can you elaborate on the connection between this announcement and the platform's value as a platform that fosters discussion you perceive? Do …

While peer review has its problems, I have the feeling that the problems that we're talking about here are not primarily caused by peer review per se, but by a set of perverse ince…

But it also matters how those billions live, and considering that the vast majority live in extreme poverty the picture becomes less rosy. Not to speak of the ecological disasters …

> Slavery was enforced (and subsidized) by many governments; it wasn't exactly a creature of the free market. Chicken or egg. You can make this argument either way. The fact is tha…

> If someone saw it coming, and acted early, there would be no pandemic and the action would have been seen as an overreaction. I admire your optimism, but I don't share it. Many a…

> "It all boils down to this philosophical question: Are humans special? Do they have parts of their brain predestined to become these special things?" Livingstone says. "Or can we…

Mass consumption and CO2 emissions aren't independent problems. It already is an insurmountable challenge to meet current energy demands with green energy. Producing things costs e…

I think this is absolutely right. I've heard people on this website wondering why climate change and plastic soup are seen as the same problem. This is it. We live in an economy ba…

> We're getting to the point where there really has to be a financial incentive to do a peer review IMHO, a free book is an insulting and scientists shouldn't accept to do this wor…

You're criticizing this article for failing to meet standards it never purports to uphold. This is an essay / personal account of events, not journalism. For an essay, in my opinio…

I didn't study law, but as far as I understand, illegal is not the right word here. They (govt) do things for which there is no legal precedence all the time. The court could also …

Surprisingly, what makes tones sound consonant is a matter of controversy in music perception research. The ratio between fundamental frequencies theory is most easily debunked: if…

I see them both as symptoms of the same underlying problem: an economy based on generating enormous amounts of waste for short-term profit.

> It's like saying - there's a trained neural net with input It's not. There's a world of difference between a neural net and a chimpanzee. Chimpanzees are some our closest evoluti…

> Are we morally obligated to not cut the nip of societal development in the bud for these species? And if this species suffers in developing and advancing, are we obligated to eas…