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That might take a while for the necessary changes to cultural norms to set in, and I'd think it would get a bit spicy in the meantime.

It's not formal institutions, it's the hate mob.

And for things that might seriously attract the ire of people who consider political violence a positive good, there's always TOR.

>> To establish this, let’s write a simple simulation. We’ll flip a coin a million times, ask our friends what they saw, and observe the results.

Either they agree, or they disagree.

If they agree, they're either both telling the truth or both lying. All you can do is go with what they agreed on. In this case, picking what they agreed on is the same as picking what one of them said (say, Alice).

If they disagree, then one is telling the truth and one is lying and you have no way to tell which. So just pick one, and it makes no difference if you pick the same one every time (say, Alice).

So you end up just listening to Alice all the time anyway.

>> Manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough is FAR from a normal belief.

Hey, propaganda is a thing and it works. That's totally and example of manifesting things into reality through writing them often enough.

>> For much of history, laws in many countries were designed to uphold systems of privilege for white men. Segregation, discrimination, and unequal treatment were institutionalized, limiting legal protections for non-white individuals and women.

For much of history, most countries did not have an upper class made up of white men.

I intend to do this very bad thing. How much karma do I need to accrue in advance, so that I don't go into the red from doing it?

Meanwhile $employer is continuing to migrate individual tasks to in-house AI tooling, and has licensed an off-the-shelf coding agent for all of us developers to put in our IDEs.

>> How should we think about cloud seeding?

It's a way to take someone else's rain.

Who cares about local storage? You could have just made up whatever you're claiming to have saved.

>> (As if first time mothers didn’t have enough to worry about - stop stressing so much, it could lead to long-lasting irreversible changes to your fetus!)

This is plainly not plausible. "Irreversible" doesn't play well with the length of time humans have been a thing.

Even if this was going to hold up, it wouldn't make the policies that Lamarck's ideas were designed to promote work. We already empirically know they don't work.

This sort of thing is always a call for generational guilt and reparations.

Maybe someone could have just came up with in a vacuum, but it looks like a response to other attempts to restrict AI by saying that models trained with more than X amount of compute resources have to follow tons of extra rules.

And, per the article, the group pushing this is AI and blockchain companies.

The writing style would seem to suggest that the lack of sleep has been having more effects than reported.

The site got to be a pain to try to participate in long before modern AI came around.

That seems a rather different sort of declaration though? "I did not participate in this harm" vs "I will not speak against this group".

>> Gazans still hold Israeli hostages,

I believe that capturing POWs is fairly common when at war.

That seems like a somewhat unlikely degree of international coordination.

>> No idea why these posts are allowed to flourish here

No, they often get flagged off pretty quickly.

Israel's response was obvious as soon as the attack happened. "Oh, looks like they've got that excuse they've been wanting."

> I wonder if people would be more introverted/extroverted depending on the fit with the people they are around.

Personal experience says yes.

Must be nice when everyone you need to know happens to be someone you enjoy knowing.

> Functionally equivalent but no soul.

Something that predicts no observable differences is unfalsifiable aka bullshit.

If you want to know what life is like when society is run by beings smarter than you, ask someone who flunked out of high school.

If you want to know what life is like when society is run by alien intelligences, ask someone who lives under an economy dominated by megacorps.

Just because he has, um, interesting ideas about what's worth covering or what lens to view things through, does not change that he does in fact report things and is therefore a reporter.

I do wonder how much it's people in the media trying to protect the rest of the trans community from association with this story, and how much it's just people writing stories based on the other coverage and not realizing that the trans connection even exists.

There is also the possibility that writers or editors feared being unpersonned.

<< To do so, court records reveal, the insurers have turned to a coterie of psychiatrists and have continued relying on them even after one or more of their decisions have been criticized or overturned in court. >>

...ok? Is ProPublica seriously trying to assert that they should be barred after a single decision ("one or more" includes "one") has been criticized ("criticized or overturned" includes "criticized but upheld")?

I thought advertising and marketing materials were expected to exaggerate things to the point of blatant falsehood.

Is that changing, or is this company being singled out for some reason, or are they really that much worse than everyone else?

Sure sure, the "one neat trick" for getting around the bill of rights by deputizing the private sector to do things that only get recognized as rights violations if it's the government doing it.

The "study" this is based on is paywalled and not on sci-hub.

A comment from the article:

<< "Industrial civilisation is facing 'inevitable' decline as it is replaced by what could turn out to be a far more advanced ‘postmaterialist’ civilisation based on distributed superabundant clean energy. The main challenge is that industrial civilisation is facing such rapid decline that this could derail the emergence of a new and superior 'life-cycle' for the human species", >>

I believe I recall hearing that originally, electricity generated from nuclear fission was predicted to be "too cheap to meter". The first part of this comment reminds me of that.

The "Findings" section of the linked abstract:

<< The paper develops planetary phase shift theory as a new collective forward intelligence framework for foresight study and practice, formalising the notion that humanity has arrived at an unprecedented historic and geological turning point. It finds that multiple global crises across both earth and human systems are symptoms of the last stages of the life-cycle of global industrialisation civilisation, which is the potential precursor either for collapse, or for a new civilisational life-cycle that may represent a new stage in the biological and cultural evolution of the human species.>>

This sounds like it's nonsense built on top of other nonsense.