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wins32767 commented on CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]   csoonline.com/article/396... · Posted by u/healsdata
DrillShopper · 5 months ago
> Having civil discussions with people who disagree isn't about politeness or acquiescence. Having political discussions per the same rules we use for technical debates, like steel manning, allows information to actually flow both ways.

What additional information do they need to get out there other than they want me and people like me dead? What additional information do I need to get out there other than I don't want them to do that?

wins32767 · 5 months ago
The logical end state of this belief is a civil war. I assume that in lieu of trying to change minds you're buying guns and ammo and trying to organize like minded people into a militia to protect your safety? Cause if not, I don't really think you really believe that a significant fraction of the country wants people like you dead.
wins32767 commented on No Salt   jakeseliger.com/2024/08/0... · Posted by u/jdkee
JackFr · a year ago
Insurance companies would decide.

Raise your hand if you think that would be better.

wins32767 · a year ago
The largest single payer in the US is the Federal government. Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, the VA... The problem won't be fixed for the vast majority of expenditures because the government will need to perform the same function the FDA is now for it's drug costs.
wins32767 commented on California is about to side with PG&E – again – to kill community solar projects   sfchronicle.com/opinion/e... · Posted by u/billybob69
Wowfunhappy · a year ago
I can't figure out from the article whether the rate changes being proposed are reasonable. Depending on the details, some adjustments might be okay.

However, I'd like to point out that it's also not "sustainable" to get energy from dirty power plants and leave future generations to deal with the consequences. If the long-term effects of releasing carbon into the atmosphere were priced into the cost of energy, I suspect PG&E would have no problem paying today's "retail" rates.

Put another way, we should have a carbon tax, but we don't, so I am in favor of subsidizing clean energy via whatever scheme is politically achievable.

wins32767 · a year ago
They'd probably still have a big problem paying retail rates. They'd much rather buy from solar farms that have a much lower price of generation in that world.
wins32767 commented on Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gumby
tootie · a year ago
Humans have been humans for at least 200K years. And those primitive humans had the same capabilities we do today. But the kind concerted effort and organization required for monumental construction still took hundreds of generations to develop. Megaliths older than the Sphinx certainly exist, but the Sphinx is orders of magnitude more complex. Not just in terms of engineering and tools (the Sphinx was carved with metal tools) but the size of the well-governed population required to do the labor. It is inconceivable that a society could spring out of the marshlands to build the Sphinx and leave no other trace for thousands of years. And then for a new civilization to show up with all the technology and culture they had, falsify a load of records to say they built it along with the Pyramids.

Hancock isn't just wrong, he's a fraud. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/z8p83b/is_th...

wins32767 · a year ago
> And those primitive humans had the same capabilities we do today.

Evolution has been ongoing on humans the whole time we've been a species. Drinking milk in adults has only been a capability we've had for ~6000 years. I'd be hard pressed to claim that there haven't been other capabilities that have evolved over that time that led to our ability to have more social organization.

wins32767 commented on Jan Leike Resigns from OpenAI   twitter.com/janleike/stat... · Posted by u/Jimmc414
Liquix · a year ago
or C) the first AGI was/is being/will be carried away by men with earpieces to a heavily fortified underground compound. any government - let alone the US government - isn't going to twiddle their thumbs while tech that will change human history is released to the unwitting public. at best they'll want to prepare for and control the narrative surrounding the event, at worst AGI will be weaponized against humans before the majority are aware it exists.

if OAI is motivated by money, uncle sam can name any figure to buy them out. if OAI is motivated by power, it becomes "a matter of national security" and they do what the gov tells them. more likely the two parties' interests are aligned and the public will hear about it when It's Time™. not saying C) is what's happening - A) seems likely too - but it's a real possibility

wins32767 · a year ago
Why do you think that the US government has the state capacity to do anything like that these days?
wins32767 commented on Doorway effect   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo... · Posted by u/aavshr
kansface · 2 years ago
I only skimmed, but the two linked articles have ~50 participants or _fewer_ (college students) for each.
wins32767 · 2 years ago
And all but one of the studies are by the same lead author.
wins32767 commented on TSMC to build second Japan chip factory   finance.yahoo.com/news/ts... · Posted by u/ytch
2OEH8eoCRo0 · 2 years ago
> layers

Thinking in terms of layers is still essentially 2D.

wins32767 · 2 years ago
The manufacturing process uses layers, so I'm not sure how that follows.
wins32767 commented on Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)   slatestarcodex.com/2019/0... · Posted by u/gHeadphone
NhanH · 2 years ago
The nuance here lies within the “hours” quantifier.

A junior member being blocked for 3-8 hours semi-regularly is expected. Once every other month you probably should be blocked for several work days as well.

In your example, the challenge would have been realizing you wouldn’t have been the first one trying to send an email in the team. Recognizing that and it is very easy to know that you should just ask the question right away. It’s not a technical skill, but something a bit more meta.

wins32767 · 2 years ago
This is really bad advice. Don't let yourself be blocked for several days. Try for 2-3 hours and ask for help.
wins32767 commented on You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money   bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/jackallis
robocat · 2 years ago
> If in the midst of this unparalleled prosperity and wonder we're just as stressed as a peasant farmer who just lost half their family to disease, war and famine then something is badly wrong with how we handle stress.

I wonder why your phrasing feels like blame-the-victim?

The people I know under stress in modern society often lack clear options for alternatives or need a completely radical change in their situation.

Or alternatively perhaps we don't actually have prosperity?

wins32767 · 2 years ago
Framing things in terms of a victim blaming mindset is a frame that leads to preventable stress because it takes the locus of control away from someone which is a major cause of stress. Focusing on things you can control, like your attitude and perspective, and learning ways to maximize the impact of those things is much, much better for people. I've had a set of life circumstances that are pretty bad objectively over the last couple years and I've been less stressed than nearly any other point in my life because I've been really focusing on gratitude and resilience. I really hope that others can see the same sort of improvements with a similar sort of mindset shift.
wins32767 commented on You Don't Need More Resilience. You Need Friends. and Money   bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/jackallis
spaniard89277 · 2 years ago
Stress is neccessary to grow and even to keep going, I'm with you in that. But I think the article is right in pointing out that there's too much focus into some inner force that makes you accomplish everything.

This has been going for a while, and coupled with other factors, I don't think it's paying good dividends. I think that everyone paying attention can see the steep increase in depression and medication. It's not only the US, it's happening in Europe too.

My impression is that we're removing people from their support networks, manufacturing lonely individuals, and eroding their financial float line through housing.

I don't think mental thoughness or resilience can overcome this for too long, and many people is exposed to this stressors for many, many years, if not their entire life.

Even Taleb, who is really tiresome talking about stress, recognizes that stress is only useful if it is more or less bounded.

wins32767 · 2 years ago
I can't imagine that many people in the rich countries in the modern era are among the most stressed humans in history, even despite the erosion of social support networks. Nearly everyone has adequate shelter, food, security, and access to virtually magical health care from the perspective of everyone before 70 years ago. Children consistently make it into adulthood and famine has been kept at bay for a century or more, interpersonal violence is at an all time low. If in the midst of this unparalleled prosperity and wonder we're just as stressed as a peasant farmer who just lost half their family to disease, war and famine then something is badly wrong with how we handle stress.

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