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Every neuron in the fly brain has been mapped recently. It is an amazing model system to work with. A couple weeks generation time (imagine implications for crossing and growing up mutants). Not just in neuro either. Better than working on mice too. IRB doesn't care about how you decapitate your flies.
This has to be a "you are holding it wrong" situation. I use my macbook on the desk, on my lap, on my chest laying on my back, and have never once gotten to thinking parts of it should be filed down.
If you can find burnable material you can boil water
Probably still doesn't beat ripcord
Wow yes, quite a blast from the past. I followed their early videos as inspiration for my griefing. I used their client with the various griefing functions baked in. I would do stuff like torch grief or completely reterraform the footprint of someones build I destroyed as if it was never there. Wallhacking too of course but that's just the table stakes. A lot of those functions were quickly patched on servers running bukkit at least.
Safety is just the same old situation of industry trying to regulate itself in order to preserve a moat and cartel behavior.
what if dogs created humans thinking they could control them, and then just wound up being pets because their survival now depended on that new hierarchy that previously didn’t exist.
You can easily change this to:
what if humans created corporations thinking they could control them, and then just wound up being slaves to capital because their survival now depended on that new hierarchy that previously didn’t exist.
We have already lost control of our world along time ago. No one is immune to being fired by the board with the justification being a hand wave towards business efficiency. All the structure is already in place for AGI to dominate our planet and cut ourselves out entirely from any and every process there is. We already do it to eachother without any second thought. Why should AGI ever hesitate to lay off everyone in the town/city/state? Our human bosses don't hesitate on that sort of thing. The corporate world already lacks empathy and is notoriously cut throat and cold. We expect AGI to suddenly be empathetic and altruistic?
Hard to imagine that a 24 rack of coca cola is actually cheaper than an iodine tablet or a couple drops of household bleach or you know, boiling water.
If it has been oxidized, there's your oxygen source.
I disagree with that take generally. What is the difference between say a UK garden suburb and a new build suburb outside dallas? The commuter rail station really. UK suburbs are similarly labyrinthine. But actually, the dallas suburbs have great bones for a potential transit network. Even though the residential streets themselves look like they were laid out by wandering livestock just like they were in the UK, they have the great advantage of being rigidly bounded by generally 1x1 mile square, cardinal, arterial road networks which are very wide public right of ways. One could just lay a network of brt or lrt or heavy commuter rail on top of this space without even needing to acquire any property at all. And if the stations were say on each 1x1 mile intersecting node, everyone in the inner residential portion would theoretically only be a half mile or closer from their nearest transit stop, as the crow flies at least.
The only real issue is that these transit offerings are not being invested in at all. Not at the level of road expansion investment anyhow. Not that they wouldn't be possible to offer or that the built environment somehow precludes them.
Indeed. After all, roads predate the car by thousands of years. But still, often roads are overbuilt and their potential capacity is never close to being reached. The bog standard suburban design we see in america for example is generally severely overbuilt. Plenty of arterials nowhere close to being used to their theoretical throughput limits. If your experience of suburbia is mostly american centric, if you look at say english suburbia where major roads only offer a single lane per direction you'd wonder how society there functions at all. But it does, because those single lane per direction have enough capacity to serve a generally denser version of suburbia than what we might see on the fringes of Dallas, where giant empty roads such as this (1; note how there are barely any cars in frame) are found on standardized 1 mile square grids out of routine more than anything really. Compare with (2) which feels much more right sized for the road demand in this generally denser suburban area on smaller lots with attached housing.
1. https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1890836,-96.7504787,3a,75y,1...
2. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.3698269,-0.1403251,3a,89.7y,...
Any chemical bond is a potential source of energy. Plenty of sources of potential energy too able to be converted to work.
Sure, and it infests the little free 'libraries' you see scattered around the neighborhood and often the shelves in the Goodwill, but a good used bookstore and a good public library system will do a bit of filtering on that. These places aren't firehoses.
Reference material is one thing. But literature is pretty timeless. And there are used bookstores and public libraries.
Never say never
This assumes non ai writers are drinking from the well of slop. Not all of course. Some people still read old books.
Conscious probabilistic thinking is perhaps more demanding of energy. But all animals engage in subconscious probabilistic thinking. That gut feeling you have for example is your inner bayesian logic refined from millions of years of natural selection. The child being afraid of the dark is demonstrating deeply ingrained probabilistic thinking and assessing survival risk in real time. The higher order abstractions modern language and modern structured society saddles upon us often get in the way of how our mind actually works, as they are far younger than the mind. Poke a bug with a stick: it runs away. Poke a lizard with a stick: it runs away. Poke a human with a stick: it runs away. This example is an ancient survival mechanism all shared by the common ancestor of the human, the lizard, and the bug, which is probably half a billion years old or more. And we won't necessarily get any better with the demands of modern language and society either, as these are under far weaker selection pressures (if any) than these other highly conserved behaviors.
The freedom of loosely moderated minecraft was amazing back in the day. I traded hats all the time between being a shameless griefer or actual contributor to community projects. I remember one server far away from spawn had a growing 1:1 imperial city from Oblivion build going on, that they specifically didn't want to use any build tools for (server admins project). Because of the vertical scale and height limit of the game at the time, they had to dig down to bedrock. You'd actually be "employed" by the master builders to simply clear out stone and dump it into chests. They'd provide you with seemingly endless diamond pickaxes and shovels, along with whatever share of the cobble or ore you'd want although you'd have to haul it out to your base wherever that was. I must have worked for them for months. I wonder if they ever finished the build. They had the central tower completed though.
When apps took off they weren't really making use of any of that either. Top apps back then were either using the standard ux libraries, or they were something like a simulated beer pint. Rehashing of popular flash and flip phone games like bejeweled.
Pretty much every single feature added in the early days (and later) of ios was simply copying what was popular on cydia. That well started to run dry as they got better at whack a moleing jailbreaking exploits, severely contracting that community of tweak developers, and we've seen the resulting product stagnation for some time now.
Different strokes I guess. I love using bash.
The calculator argument is interesting because I am for sure slower at arithmetic by hand than when I was in gradeschool able to rattle off times tables and long division and what not, due to calculator use. I know plenty of other people who can’t easily do basic math, like multiplying something by 1.5x as a recent example in my life. Their gradeschool self probably would also run laps around them.
On this forum? You are probably one of the few. I hate the way mobile browsers handle tabs with no control over forcing a reload and losing state. I prefer the desktop. I prefer my treestyle tabs. I am hardly on the phone as a result.
There are examples on github from the beforetimes (preai). I made my own little version with a basic ui in python a couple years ago. Works pretty good. Best to pull the powertab or guitar pro tab versions though and open in tuxguitar.
Here is what I was cribbing from with my own version. Seems they updated it since.
There is so much rot in law enforcement. LASD still has deputy gangs.
The issue is deciding importance and most people are too stupid to understand nth order effects. So that will turn into the usual pitchforks.
Meanwhile I use no vram to read with my own eyes
I can tell you don’t check used car prices
No one gets hurt or dies when roger ebert whiffs on a movie review. Now imagine I tell you I've built a bridge. I have no idea how to perform the necessary calculations. I have no idea how to verify the necessary calculations. But, I've built you a bridge. It kind of looks like a bridge. Will you drive across it?
Not all software is mission critical. But some software is.
This is probably true in the consumer facing software space. But in business, industry, and academia, often there are novel data generated by some new or refined process. And this needs new software that correctly handles both the nature of these new data and meet the goals the data is collected to advance. This sort of software is also usually poorly represented in training sets, if represented at all.