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3seashells··on Before-and-after images show how Greenland's glaciers have rapidly retreated
You can build trees of likely scenarios, branching from the now and calculate what capability traversal does to the likelihood of all scenarios if you have a full human behavior model and thus a society model. And it gives you quite surprising answers:

Root hardening is op. If a capability increases the risk of societal decline (nukes e.g.) you can increase societies abilities to recover from that by creating a video archive of your civilization techniques aka YouTube. And by increasing the ability to approach scenarios again and again, the likelihood of stable traversal to a scenario with more capabilities increases enormously. The root aka now is hardened against a negative outcome that is likely.

Longtermism with good models and no biases is a plus.

3seashells··on Starship’s second flight test
Can't wait to have Isis in space.. We kicked the problem of growing up as a species down the road for so long, now it's time for a nuke for everyone (who is not in a gravity well). Let's get this over with by bribing us out of today's problems into even bigger tomorrow's problems with the tools of yesterday to handle internal crisis.

Sure downvote reality, that will make it go away. The sort of points I want to see, the bankruptcy of "I have no plan".

3seashells··on Americans need a six-figure salary to afford a new home in most cities
The middle class was a historic accident brought about by the lessons learned from ww2 and the fear of socialism by the ruling class. They want another gilded age..
3seashells··on Is Ukraine Counter Offensive Over?
No, but Russia is running out of steam, thus all the agents in the west simultaneously pushing for defeatism.
3seashells··on Most Video Game Artwork Will Never Be Seen
Question: if the employer doesn't pay, aka violates the contract, does the IP for the art return to the artist?
3seashells··on At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars
Escaping to Mars and taking the source of why earth failed with you sounds like a stupid plan
3seashells··on Canonical shows how to use Snaps without the Snap Store
The fact that containers appear again and again hints at problems with the regular installs.
3seashells··on You have a right to know why a health insurer denied your claim
Is there a way to filter out these misery parades via keyword?

I know heartless Europeans, but besides bureaucratic tips, there seems little to hack and it's all in all a daily downer to see sentient being beeing mutilated and thrown away cause it's cheaper. And then the whole population treats it like some selfflaggelating religious thing.

Yes I brought it on my self for clicking.

3seashells··on A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open
>but many people are opportunistic thieves.

My father used to think that. Turns out it's mostly untreated paranoid shizophrenia creating self fulfilling prophecies.

3seashells··on The Sokal Hoax
The hoax proofed a lack of scientific on the side of the social sciences.

As a result, projects who's funding was based upon publishing with the magazine should have to hand that funding to the creator of the hoax. Make science grant hunts real hunts, make hunting down fakes profitable for the scientific minded project.

3seashells··on Workers in Sweden Will Expand Strike Against Tesla
Yeah and look how rundown it got them..
3seashells··on Spain lives in flats: why we have built our cities vertically
Worked for Beirut, herzigovinah etc.
3seashells··on Adobe is selling fake AI images of the war in Israel-Gaza
I guess this is a good strategy to take the bite out of propaganda by saturating the image space with known fakes.
3seashells··on U.S. military members' personal data being sold by online brokers
The drone drop on individuals is not the biggest worry.

Long range autonomous drones clearly are able to take out large scale infrastructure like pipelines, ships etc, the soft underbelly of the western world. And against the poor and proxy war forces of the world, the law is useless. We will miss the covid delivery crisis very soon.

And yes the US has the biggest navy, but against current drifting Kajak sized anti-ship submarine drones it and civil shipping is actually quite vulnerable.

And to make such a device smart enough to sleep until it identifies sounds and ship pictures, it needs no military industrial complex magic. A smartphone will do..

3seashells··on Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
Maybe the review institution of a paper should always add one known flaw that peer review must find to ensure a quality control of the process?
3seashells··on Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future
Some of the dead can be interesting as long as the discussion does not touch topics that send them off. Makes you wonder if you could create a discussion direction tag based partial shadowban.
3seashells··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
They defacto threw out a working pipeline for a beloved product for no other reason then cost savings and project expenses justification. It was a disaster that basically destroyed bioware.

The procedural stuff was just a " while we leap of the cliff with no plan" let's make the cost cutters happy who wail because there "abandon working system" for completely different system that's working for a completely different usecase did not work out. Honestly for decisions this clueless and value endangering a whole executive floor should have been let go.

3seashells··on Ask HN: Can you take more than 2 consecutive weeks of vacation?
Yes.
3seashells··on Create a shortcut for even lower phone brightness
Wish the auto adjust brightness would track pupils and detect readability that way.
3seashells··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
At least we wouldn't do that on a planetary scale, right?
3seashells··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
EA were the culprit for those delays by forcing bioware to use frostbite. Blame rests solidly with some synergies savings suitsuperman.
3seashells··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
But gamedev usually means, all new faces teams, as the old one quits in lockstep. So it's very likely a bunch of youngsters running around yelling "premature optimization" is the death of all good things. Mistaking that with needing no optimization plan at all until game is almost done.
3seashells··on Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future
It goes were cheap space exists. So SF not, rust belt yes, eastern Europe yes..the gentrified poker chip stack cities of the investors can not host vibrant nightlife..
3seashells··on Berlin's famed nightclubs, losing customers, face an uncertain future
It's never over as long as there is a industrial ruin, a speaker and a glowstick. The rest is just the clubs that ate the raves. Nothing of value was lost.
3seashells··on Leaf blowers are a scourge. Why is it hard to get rid of them?
Sheep, cows and goats were the original reason
3seashells··on Benzodiazepine
Didn't Jordan Peterson try a experimental cure to get of them fast?
3seashells··on Earth's blobs are remnants of an ancient planetary collision
Wouldn't we see a small echo on the orbit of earth?
3seashells··on I trapped scammers in an impossible maze [video]
Why use people? All it takes Is chatgpt?
3seashells··on Young people would sacrifice other perks for a 4-day workweek
Eh, the default is usually society unrest with the hopeless defaulting to war and civil war, so that improvement window is tiny and closing.
3seashells··on Louis Armstrong's Last Word
Thank you.
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