I guess Greg Egan's short stories somewhat fit some of those bills. Try the "Axiomatic" collection, I remember some mathpunk and particle physics punk. Even some biology punk/art punk intersection.
Anyone else finding it weird that its his decision ? I feel that in any other country it would be the government's. Like alright; your firm built the infrastructure, but whether or not this or that country can use it for this or that military application is a foreign policy question so in this instance we say what happens and you just give them the price.
Not that it would be any better if the other sack of shit were involved, I presume. It just sounds weird that it's this one.
The generalization of the concept of "life" beyond earth-style carbon-based biochemistry is still in active debate. As far as I'm aware, the most consensual definition is the one called "lyfe" (to distinguish from the aforementioned carbon-based chemistry, a concept formulated by Stuart John Bartlett and John L Wong in 2020). It has four characteristics:
dissipation : the ability to use/convert energy sources (arguably a thing that stars do)
autocatalysis : the ability to grow exponentually (I guess you could argue it happens during the initial star formation before it reaches an equilibrium... Maybe)
homeostasis : the ability to compensate for small disturbances in environment (unclear to me what those disturbances and what this adaptation would be in the case of stars)
learning : the ability to record, process and adapt to information (no such thing in stars as far as I know)
Vincent Bolloré from France:
Owner of Groupe Canal+, various French media where he pushes his agenda, Vivendi, Universal Music, Lagardère...
Basically created the worst nazi in the last presidential election from scratch, owner of what is basically French Fox News.
Does it make it sound better that it means humanity in bantu languages, and also designates a philosophy of interconnectedness in a "I am because we are" sense, according to wikipedia?
The kind of AI you're talking about that could replace human labour to the point of making something like a post-scarcity society happen isn't even on the horizon, and I don't believe the llm hype has any chance of leading to it at any point. But even if it were the case, imo there's no scenario where capitalist societies transition to a post-scarcity utopia where human labor is replaced by machine labor through technological innovation.
The 19th and 20th centuries are a history of human labor being displaced rather than replaced by innovation. People are made obsolete in their own jobs, but the fundamental threat of "work or starve" remains structural. So people who are older, already specialized and who can't easily change occupations become atrociously poor or straight up die, and younger people find and invest their formative years in new ways to work, producing stuff that's not yet automated.
So before you can even think about a post-scarcity utopia you need something like ubi and a socialist organization where people who get innovated out of their jobs can still live, but if you have that kind of society I think it would naturally orient itself toward degrowth and production of what is needed through human labor, rather than the kind of overproduction frenzy necessary for everyone's labor to be continuously replaced with metal and silicium.
I think so, yeah. It was professionally and personally more acceptable to be early/early than late/late. Also if I get anything wrong in my personal life I'd rather be 1h early than 1h late.
Doctors say it's the wrong one, but my conspiracy theory is that when they do they don't really account for the fact that the 9-5 rhythm is what's actually bullshit rather than the correlation between then number on your phone and the sunlight, and they also say that a regular rhythm is what's really important so I did it this way because it was easier, and if society ever becomes sane I'll resynchronize with it then.
Edit: I did say "non-dst time zone," but I only meant a time zone without automatic DST shifts for my computer. In real life I never remember which one is DST and which one isn't ; in my country they call it summer/winter time.
This year for the first time I tried shifting all my elctronics to a non-dst time zone equivalent to summer time. I spent the whole winter with a 1h time difference relative to my environment and it was absolutely fine. Didn't miss appointments, coming to work early and leaving early was accepted... I kept waiting for the powers that be to drop DST, but it turns out you can just opt out
My country's congress just observed a minute of silence in honor of a neonazi who participated in a fight with some antifa outside a leftist politician meeting, neglected to go to a doctor even though he'd lost consciousness for a few minutes, and died of his concussion some hours later. We're not erecting any cool statues for a while I think, I hope Chicago does.
When you mix paint, you mix pigments that each absorb certain colors, so they won't reflect it. You're subtracting colors to the ambient white light that reflects a smaller and smaller portion of the spectrum on the painted surface, and if you mix enough colors you substract most of it and get a dark brown or even black. When you encode rgb values for a screen, you tell pixels to add colors to the light your screen is generating, and if you add enough you get a white light.
Close your eyes and focus on a single point at the tip of your nose
Fine 5 things to look at and note details about them, then 4 things you can touch and note their texture, 3 things you can hear and how they sound, 2 things to smell, 1 thing to taste (the inside of your mouth and/or the skin of your hand will do in a pinch for these last two)
Hope whatever it was is over by now, but also that some of these tricks can help in the future
I guess Greg Egan's short stories somewhat fit some of those bills. Try the "Axiomatic" collection, I remember some mathpunk and particle physics punk. Even some biology punk/art punk intersection.
Anyone else finding it weird that its his decision ? I feel that in any other country it would be the government's. Like alright; your firm built the infrastructure, but whether or not this or that country can use it for this or that military application is a foreign policy question so in this instance we say what happens and you just give them the price.
Not that it would be any better if the other sack of shit were involved, I presume. It just sounds weird that it's this one.
Eat the rich. In a bun. With mustard an onions.
You could start wið þ and ð: ðey look cool AND have clear use-cases
The generalization of the concept of "life" beyond earth-style carbon-based biochemistry is still in active debate. As far as I'm aware, the most consensual definition is the one called "lyfe" (to distinguish from the aforementioned carbon-based chemistry, a concept formulated by Stuart John Bartlett and John L Wong in 2020). It has four characteristics:
My guess would be Point Nemo
Vincent Bolloré from France:
Owner of Groupe Canal+, various French media where he pushes his agenda, Vivendi, Universal Music, Lagardère...
Basically created the worst nazi in the last presidential election from scratch, owner of what is basically French Fox News.
Does it make it sound better that it means humanity in bantu languages, and also designates a philosophy of interconnectedness in a "I am because we are" sense, according to wikipedia?
The kind of AI you're talking about that could replace human labour to the point of making something like a post-scarcity society happen isn't even on the horizon, and I don't believe the llm hype has any chance of leading to it at any point. But even if it were the case, imo there's no scenario where capitalist societies transition to a post-scarcity utopia where human labor is replaced by machine labor through technological innovation.
The 19th and 20th centuries are a history of human labor being displaced rather than replaced by innovation. People are made obsolete in their own jobs, but the fundamental threat of "work or starve" remains structural. So people who are older, already specialized and who can't easily change occupations become atrociously poor or straight up die, and younger people find and invest their formative years in new ways to work, producing stuff that's not yet automated.
So before you can even think about a post-scarcity utopia you need something like ubi and a socialist organization where people who get innovated out of their jobs can still live, but if you have that kind of society I think it would naturally orient itself toward degrowth and production of what is needed through human labor, rather than the kind of overproduction frenzy necessary for everyone's labor to be continuously replaced with metal and silicium.
I think so, yeah. It was professionally and personally more acceptable to be early/early than late/late. Also if I get anything wrong in my personal life I'd rather be 1h early than 1h late.
Doctors say it's the wrong one, but my conspiracy theory is that when they do they don't really account for the fact that the 9-5 rhythm is what's actually bullshit rather than the correlation between then number on your phone and the sunlight, and they also say that a regular rhythm is what's really important so I did it this way because it was easier, and if society ever becomes sane I'll resynchronize with it then.
Edit: I did say "non-dst time zone," but I only meant a time zone without automatic DST shifts for my computer. In real life I never remember which one is DST and which one isn't ; in my country they call it summer/winter time.
This year for the first time I tried shifting all my elctronics to a non-dst time zone equivalent to summer time. I spent the whole winter with a 1h time difference relative to my environment and it was absolutely fine. Didn't miss appointments, coming to work early and leaving early was accepted... I kept waiting for the powers that be to drop DST, but it turns out you can just opt out
For a ~25yo male in the US I believe the median is 50 more years
"Intimate AI" is a weird-ass oxymoron to find in a BBC news title
My country's congress just observed a minute of silence in honor of a neonazi who participated in a fight with some antifa outside a leftist politician meeting, neglected to go to a doctor even though he'd lost consciousness for a few minutes, and died of his concussion some hours later. We're not erecting any cool statues for a while I think, I hope Chicago does.
It feels a bit like the last three got less thought put in their names. Like the w-Sign should be named buttiform or something
When you mix paint, you mix pigments that each absorb certain colors, so they won't reflect it. You're subtracting colors to the ambient white light that reflects a smaller and smaller portion of the spectrum on the painted surface, and if you mix enough colors you substract most of it and get a dark brown or even black. When you encode rgb values for a screen, you tell pixels to add colors to the light your screen is generating, and if you add enough you get a white light.
Windows users when they're chased by lions in the African savannah and the only way to survive is attempting to ride a gnu:
Breathe
Close your eyes and focus on a single point at the tip of your nose
Fine 5 things to look at and note details about them, then 4 things you can touch and note their texture, 3 things you can hear and how they sound, 2 things to smell, 1 thing to taste (the inside of your mouth and/or the skin of your hand will do in a pinch for these last two)
Hope whatever it was is over by now, but also that some of these tricks can help in the future
Unrelated: you think there are crowdfunding services for assassinations on the dark web?
I mean the emperor sort of is giant fascistic pile of shit canonically...