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www.politico.com 6y ago

Marshall Islanders’ ongoing displacement and health impacts from nuclear tests

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www.washingtonpost.com 7y ago

Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants

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www.newyorker.com 7y ago

Air Pollution in Our Homes

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 8y ago

UK Coal Gas Story and How to Reduce Suicide Rates

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snapnote.io 11y ago

Choose Your Own Adventure: Libera

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www.the-scientist.com 11y ago

Microbes line up to form electron transport cables (2012)

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atljmi.tumblr.com 12y ago

A Girl Who Can't & Did

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Live translation via Siri + Google Translate?

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mobile.nytimes.com 12y ago

Model S highway battery fire

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Fruit Flies have 2.3 Inch Sperm

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www.nytimes.com 14y ago

The Myth of Sustainable Meat

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www.ted.com 14y ago

The $8 billion iPod

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codeascraft.etsy.com 14y ago

The Product Hacking Ecosystem

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www.nytimes.com 14y ago

Classic Violins Judged No Better in Blinded Test

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abcnews.go.com 14y ago

Can You Crack It?

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www.nytimes.com 14y ago

Work Exchange from Second Life Creator

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www.substancenews.net 14y ago

Clippy must die... and Gates should get out of our classrooms' lives

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www.nytimes.com 14y ago

Astronauts may have to abandon International Space Station

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

The Century of the Self (Documentary)

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bits.blogs.nytimes.com 14y ago

Pentagon Seeks Social Networking Experts

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Hi-Tec-C Pen Metal Case Kickstar campaign goes big

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

To Slow Piracy, Internet Providers Ready Penalties (nytimes.com)

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off

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dealbook.nytimes.com 15y ago

Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups (NYT)

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geeks.thedailywh.at 15y ago

Robots playing mid-air catch

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audioprom.cwandt.com 15y ago

Audio Prom - iPad Music Sequencer

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projects.nytimes.com 15y ago

Interactive NYT Census Map

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www.nytimes.com 15y ago

Incoming Governors Shifting State focus to Small Business and Startups

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sartre.in 15y ago

Group Sketch

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www.ignisfatuus.com 15y ago

One Quadrillion, To Scale

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AI dungeon, a gpt2 product on iOS. Had almost no context, no memory, but could generate endless slop story. It was the first time I’d seen something like that, and the wild implications felt clear. I wasn’t aware at the time how immense the computational needs were to run the tech as it grew and the social implications, but just couldn’t believe that something like the MUDs I’d played in the late 80s early 90s could be autogenerated in a way now. It had no guardrails like now to prevent it from adopting a personality and so on, so it was in some ways more interesting than what the general public has now.

This is because a broad spectrum antibiotic with low resistance is an essential public good that will likely rapidly be made generic by either legal action or international disregard for copyright law. So no major pharma companies will want to invest resources into the development of something like this, and governments are not under the gun enough to produce new abx to invest the billions needed to get it through the approval process. The compromise is to leave it sitting at this phase until some disaster creates enough public incentive to socialize the completion of its development.

The very clear and succinct description on the landing page makes me miss the bizarre antisocial charming quirk that people who made things like this used to be stuck with for their copy rather than AI generated language. Our cacophony of experience is quieting.

If a catastrophic failure occurs we will have to return to first principles and re-derive the solutions. Not so bad, probably enlivening even to get to spin up the mind again after a break.

It’s not meaningless; it’s a way for them to immediately prove that the person speaking has been intimidated enough by them to acquiesce to this absurdity. If they don’t, they can be punished just for refusing. If they do, they’re already back on their heels proving their willingness to cave on anything else.