This comments and many of the others on this thread strike me as written by people who have either never worked at a real restaurant and/or tend to order bland and fatty food (eat like a toddler) by default when they…
Yeah I cant imagine a use case for this
Perhaps they mean the finger thumb box thing bartenders do when asking for your ID?
Because they cost time and money to implement and there is no incentive to avoid data breaches. This should be up to legislation, if we as a society actually care about privacy we need to give data privacy laws some…
Ahh yes two decades ago there was some issues. This clearly makes any disaster preparedness advice from this organization totally useless. You know what while we are at it we should all reject libraries, freeways, the…
Maybe you should trust information from FEMA for instance? Or just the Department of Homeland Security in general? While there is certainly an aspect of consumerism in some prepper communities the actually serious…
Runoff from mining? Activist groups I'm sympathetic to have been screaming for years about certain types of mining specifically open pit mining obliterating watersheds. At a guess I would say either new mining interests…
Why? How is that relevant? Isnt it well established that open source security research is the number one way to have a secure app/ecosystem? Why should tooling be kept secret when another team can potentially find more…
Your primary source of face time should not be coming from your work.
> Are you saying that these two claims have some sort of scientific ~proofs No. I think this statement is a conclusion only indirectly supported by scientific fact. This is a logical leap from more and more behaviors…
Still not entirely sure what exactly youre getting at here. Yes what I am describing is my opinion which I have formed from looking at evidence. My opinion isnt really a measurement in the sense that one can measure…
Well most of the explanations I personally am interested in have a public and therefore high epistemic value. Since they are published and repeatable. Certain behavioral tests or self-report surveys on the other hand…
Im not really sure what you mean here, could you elaborate?
> How would thinking be determined by exterior stimulus, when we all vary to some extent to the same stimulus? Because, and this may shock you: we are not all the same person You make an excellent point that people…
Yes it is indeed possible that in that small and shrinking gap of behavior that isnt explained by some complex set of circumstances and stimuli there lies some magic immaterial soul that grants the ineffable quality of…
"Clearly" refers to the obviousness or self-evidence of the statement. In this context, "just" means "similarly" or "in the same way," or ig "exactly" if you like. "Clearly" because exterior stimuli clearly influence…
Thinking isnt even a path to "free will". Thinking is pretty clearly determined by exterior stimulus just like feeling is.
Does it? The sophons are capped at light speed though they communicate FTL. The whole curvature propulsion I thought had the ships moving at light speed, not exceeding it. Three Body has plenty of clarketech but most of…
Its really not hard! I am with GP in that most scifi with FTL comes off as silly, perhaps fun and well written but not to be taken seriously in the sense of its worldbuilding being immersive or intriguing. Almost all my…
This is baseless fearmongering. This has been talked to death here and elsewhere. First this overestimates the capabilities of AI second it misses the historical precedent set by the creation of other GPTs throughout…
I would be happy to kiss crypto goodbye and though AI might be stifled it would still be developed further just with a mind to efficiency. This is because it has actual real world uses unlike crypto.
Polyethylene is similarly a good shield because its got high hydrogen content so is pretty good at moderating neutrons. I image a polyethylene structure containing a layer of water is probably something like what we'll…
Indeed. This means upholding international law wherever possible as thats the biggest single mechanism thats kept us in something approaching peacetime for all these years. This means holding our allies to a higher…
The problem is that paradoxically, thicker shields can cause higher doses of radiation due to secondary radiation production. Theres a balance there to minimizing primary and secondary dosage but you cant really get it…
I was being silly and pedantic but thats an interesting distinction! I imagine Laozi probably knew how to have sharp knives so I defer to his wisdom as far as 4th century chinese knives go anyways. Perhaps they used a…
This comments and many of the others on this thread strike me as written by people who have either never worked at a real restaurant and/or tend to order bland and fatty food (eat like a toddler) by default when they…
Yeah I cant imagine a use case for this
Perhaps they mean the finger thumb box thing bartenders do when asking for your ID?
Because they cost time and money to implement and there is no incentive to avoid data breaches. This should be up to legislation, if we as a society actually care about privacy we need to give data privacy laws some…
Ahh yes two decades ago there was some issues. This clearly makes any disaster preparedness advice from this organization totally useless. You know what while we are at it we should all reject libraries, freeways, the…
Maybe you should trust information from FEMA for instance? Or just the Department of Homeland Security in general? While there is certainly an aspect of consumerism in some prepper communities the actually serious…
Runoff from mining? Activist groups I'm sympathetic to have been screaming for years about certain types of mining specifically open pit mining obliterating watersheds. At a guess I would say either new mining interests…
Why? How is that relevant? Isnt it well established that open source security research is the number one way to have a secure app/ecosystem? Why should tooling be kept secret when another team can potentially find more…
Your primary source of face time should not be coming from your work.
> Are you saying that these two claims have some sort of scientific ~proofs No. I think this statement is a conclusion only indirectly supported by scientific fact. This is a logical leap from more and more behaviors…
Still not entirely sure what exactly youre getting at here. Yes what I am describing is my opinion which I have formed from looking at evidence. My opinion isnt really a measurement in the sense that one can measure…
Well most of the explanations I personally am interested in have a public and therefore high epistemic value. Since they are published and repeatable. Certain behavioral tests or self-report surveys on the other hand…
Im not really sure what you mean here, could you elaborate?
> How would thinking be determined by exterior stimulus, when we all vary to some extent to the same stimulus? Because, and this may shock you: we are not all the same person You make an excellent point that people…
Yes it is indeed possible that in that small and shrinking gap of behavior that isnt explained by some complex set of circumstances and stimuli there lies some magic immaterial soul that grants the ineffable quality of…
"Clearly" refers to the obviousness or self-evidence of the statement. In this context, "just" means "similarly" or "in the same way," or ig "exactly" if you like. "Clearly" because exterior stimuli clearly influence…
Thinking isnt even a path to "free will". Thinking is pretty clearly determined by exterior stimulus just like feeling is.
Does it? The sophons are capped at light speed though they communicate FTL. The whole curvature propulsion I thought had the ships moving at light speed, not exceeding it. Three Body has plenty of clarketech but most of…
Its really not hard! I am with GP in that most scifi with FTL comes off as silly, perhaps fun and well written but not to be taken seriously in the sense of its worldbuilding being immersive or intriguing. Almost all my…
This is baseless fearmongering. This has been talked to death here and elsewhere. First this overestimates the capabilities of AI second it misses the historical precedent set by the creation of other GPTs throughout…
I would be happy to kiss crypto goodbye and though AI might be stifled it would still be developed further just with a mind to efficiency. This is because it has actual real world uses unlike crypto.
Polyethylene is similarly a good shield because its got high hydrogen content so is pretty good at moderating neutrons. I image a polyethylene structure containing a layer of water is probably something like what we'll…
Indeed. This means upholding international law wherever possible as thats the biggest single mechanism thats kept us in something approaching peacetime for all these years. This means holding our allies to a higher…
The problem is that paradoxically, thicker shields can cause higher doses of radiation due to secondary radiation production. Theres a balance there to minimizing primary and secondary dosage but you cant really get it…
I was being silly and pedantic but thats an interesting distinction! I imagine Laozi probably knew how to have sharp knives so I defer to his wisdom as far as 4th century chinese knives go anyways. Perhaps they used a…