Corvos
11hr ago
Relevantly, literally no Argentinians have ever set foot on the Falklands. They were uninhabited before the British arrived.
Corvos
2d ago
Understand that there are broadly two types of programmer: the people who like making computer do things, and the people who like writing code because they enjoy logic puzzles and symbol manipulation. For the former (myself included), AI is a godsend. For the latter, it's an apocalypse.
Corvos
2d ago
I'm not sure I agree with the point it makes, but that's a really cool analogy.
When even the Chinese Communist Party says, “whoah, there, you’re creepin’ a bit”, I’m not sure that this is an unsparing look at how life really is as opposed to the fantasy of a rather nasty person who likes the aesthetic of power.
Corvos
4d ago
Oh, no, I think they have more message discipline because they are old movements with an org chart. But I think the factional dynamics behind the scenes are pretty similar.
Corvos
4d ago
Imagine if Greenpeace was infiltrated by human-extinction advocates holding "KILL ALL HUMANS" signs at rallies. Imagine if the NAACP had a vocal contingent calling for race war, and the organization's response was to shrug and say "big tent, you know?"
I’m genuinely not trying to be sarcastic when I say this doesn’t seem like something I have to imagine? The existence of hardline misanthropic sentiments in environmentalism and hardline race war in black advocacy have just been an understood part of the landscape for decades. Look at the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam!
Corvos
5d ago
rich parents secretly / quietly using CRISPR to try to give advantages to their future children? Definitely happening.
Is this an intuition or something you’ve seen? Would be very interesting if it were the latter but my impression is that the wealthy tend to be risk-averse.
Corvos
5d ago
None, sorry. Just an impression. I thought that until 25 or so, and I assumed that if I (knowing quite a lot about that sort of thing) took that long to get corrected, most people must still believe it.
Corvos
5d ago
I don't know, but what they wanted to do was split between the trite (interpret signals in the motor nerves for making prosthetics) and the ridiculous (interpret brain activity not related to the early sensory cortex or the motor cortex). So their achievements would either be fairly unobtrusive or impossible. The most likely outcome is a SpaceX-like commoditisation of prosthetics through making the technology cheaper to manufacture and easy to use, but that doesn't seem to have happened yet.
And not short enough it was :P
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