I'm a native speaker and I agree. English spelling carries a lot of history and context along with it, which would be lost in any spelling standardization. That richness is a good thing. A little complexity or…
The physical bottleneck of wet lab experiments is real life synthesis, which takes real time and real physical infrastructure. As you note, it's already mostly automated through deterministic computer controlled…
AI, computers, electricity, steam power, basic tools, and even fire all enabled in a dramatically faster rates of change compared to the immediately preceding era. You could also argue all also mimic certain human (or…
Physical labs and experiments will always have physical bottlenecks, so I really don't see how AI is a transformative element here. What is it about AI that will be so transformative to the fundemental economics of this…
People say this, and then the scenarios they come up with are boring and uninteresting. 80% of the scenarios in this thread are "AI hacks something", as if hacking didn't exist before agents, and the remaining 20% are…
Patronage programs for people with advanced degrees is a woefully inadequate solution to the current economic pressures. Large segments of the first-world working and middle classes hollowed out by globalization had…
the denouncing of heresy may be even more important.
You don't want the people to be uneducated, because you have no control over their thought processes, which could be dangerous an unpredictable. And it leaves space for someone else to educate them in way that conflicts…
The effort significantly predates the recent changes in US media ownership. I would actually argue that the ownership change is mostly orthogonal to the ongoing trend of centralization and top-down manipulation of…
I'm not gonna argue whether it is true or false, but the scale of the conspiracy you are proposing is pretty massive. Multiple orders of magnitude bigger than anything that is currently within the mainstream public…
It is not jist Bibi, but also the IAEA and other international organizations. And at least the last 5 US administrations. I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though. Iran's 60% enriched uranium stockpile…
I am not convinced that a population that just recently had 30k people die in a revolt is gonna immediately rally around their oppressors after a foreign power kills 2k. I have yet to see compelling evidence that…
Destroying the gulf states would dramatically reduce the importance of the Strait, which would make mining it or otherwise shutting it down somewhat pointless anyway. It is a bit of mutually assured destruction, but the…
What action can Iran take today that they couldn't take a year ago? No one who has been paying attention should be surprised that Iran can shut down the straight. It has been a known factor for decades. They have less…
All policy aimed at preventing nuclear Iran has one goal: buy time. I think it is hard to argue that time has not been bought (though how much and whether the price was right is another question). The only semi-stable…
The Pax Americana was already over when Russia siezed Crimea.
I inspect and modify my own weights literally all the time. I just do it on a more abstract level than individual neurons. I call this process "learning"
I did some cursory research and that seems to be a common estimate for modern osmosis-based desalination energy costs. If you have a better estimate, feel free to supply it.
Fukuoka's desalination plant treats about 16400 m^3 of water per day. Assuming 3kWh per m^3 of water, this works out to a time-averaged power consuption of ~2000kW. The osmotic power plant generates about 100kW, so it's…
Applied physics. I'd prefer not to get too specific. Most of my peers are working for the US DoD or DoE now.
I wish this comment was more representative of my personal experience in science. Instead I got PIs happy to say that weak evidence "proved" their theory and to try suppress evidence that negatively impacted…
The technology enables the policy. If the cost and risk were higher, there would be fewer strikes.
The issue is not really with the difference in impact between drone attacks and other types of aerial attacks, but with the dramatic increase in scale, resulting from reduced cost and risk. It probably would have been…
"Shocking" carries a meaning of a being sudden, surprising, or startling. It's this aspect that is being challenged, not the emotional reaction.
Obama also created ICE as we know it today. And normalized drone strikes.
I'm a native speaker and I agree. English spelling carries a lot of history and context along with it, which would be lost in any spelling standardization. That richness is a good thing. A little complexity or…
The physical bottleneck of wet lab experiments is real life synthesis, which takes real time and real physical infrastructure. As you note, it's already mostly automated through deterministic computer controlled…
AI, computers, electricity, steam power, basic tools, and even fire all enabled in a dramatically faster rates of change compared to the immediately preceding era. You could also argue all also mimic certain human (or…
Physical labs and experiments will always have physical bottlenecks, so I really don't see how AI is a transformative element here. What is it about AI that will be so transformative to the fundemental economics of this…
People say this, and then the scenarios they come up with are boring and uninteresting. 80% of the scenarios in this thread are "AI hacks something", as if hacking didn't exist before agents, and the remaining 20% are…
Patronage programs for people with advanced degrees is a woefully inadequate solution to the current economic pressures. Large segments of the first-world working and middle classes hollowed out by globalization had…
the denouncing of heresy may be even more important.
You don't want the people to be uneducated, because you have no control over their thought processes, which could be dangerous an unpredictable. And it leaves space for someone else to educate them in way that conflicts…
The effort significantly predates the recent changes in US media ownership. I would actually argue that the ownership change is mostly orthogonal to the ongoing trend of centralization and top-down manipulation of…
I'm not gonna argue whether it is true or false, but the scale of the conspiracy you are proposing is pretty massive. Multiple orders of magnitude bigger than anything that is currently within the mainstream public…
It is not jist Bibi, but also the IAEA and other international organizations. And at least the last 5 US administrations. I suppose they could also all be in Israel's pocket though. Iran's 60% enriched uranium stockpile…
I am not convinced that a population that just recently had 30k people die in a revolt is gonna immediately rally around their oppressors after a foreign power kills 2k. I have yet to see compelling evidence that…
Destroying the gulf states would dramatically reduce the importance of the Strait, which would make mining it or otherwise shutting it down somewhat pointless anyway. It is a bit of mutually assured destruction, but the…
What action can Iran take today that they couldn't take a year ago? No one who has been paying attention should be surprised that Iran can shut down the straight. It has been a known factor for decades. They have less…
All policy aimed at preventing nuclear Iran has one goal: buy time. I think it is hard to argue that time has not been bought (though how much and whether the price was right is another question). The only semi-stable…
The Pax Americana was already over when Russia siezed Crimea.
I inspect and modify my own weights literally all the time. I just do it on a more abstract level than individual neurons. I call this process "learning"
I did some cursory research and that seems to be a common estimate for modern osmosis-based desalination energy costs. If you have a better estimate, feel free to supply it.
Fukuoka's desalination plant treats about 16400 m^3 of water per day. Assuming 3kWh per m^3 of water, this works out to a time-averaged power consuption of ~2000kW. The osmotic power plant generates about 100kW, so it's…
Applied physics. I'd prefer not to get too specific. Most of my peers are working for the US DoD or DoE now.
I wish this comment was more representative of my personal experience in science. Instead I got PIs happy to say that weak evidence "proved" their theory and to try suppress evidence that negatively impacted…
The technology enables the policy. If the cost and risk were higher, there would be fewer strikes.
The issue is not really with the difference in impact between drone attacks and other types of aerial attacks, but with the dramatic increase in scale, resulting from reduced cost and risk. It probably would have been…
"Shocking" carries a meaning of a being sudden, surprising, or startling. It's this aspect that is being challenged, not the emotional reaction.
Obama also created ICE as we know it today. And normalized drone strikes.