DaedPsyker

I think that's a useful analogy but I would say that it also implies limited DFT.

Von Neumann's plan was based on an incredibly short time scale. It wasn't long before the Soviet Union would develop its own weapons. The power asymmetry was only briefly held.

The thing is at a universal scale that would imply that the only threats we would honestly face are ones in close power level, and we can barely leave the earth at the minute. Another species with more advancement than us would be n-years more advanced than us even after we reach the level of what they were at on first encountering them (unless they decide to share technology which would be the opposite of DFT). Technological stagnation could cause a catch-up but then the theory has to assume technological stagnation is incredibly common for enough length of time to allow upstarts to catch up.

Now history has shown that more powerful nation's have conquered others. The 19th century is choked full with examples. That primarily was driven by competition by world powers seeking ever more resources for that competition. The universe is abundant in resources however, we have a lot to pick from once we are space faring species.

That would incentivise behaviour similar to police in the US using fines and civil forfeit to augment their budget. It's a perverse incentive that encourages lying to increase fines, and good luck challenging it.

In short, outside of the time period, CK3 is focused on characters, rulers of kingdoms, counts etc. Whereas EU4 has that aspect very much abstracted away (you embody the state not a person) It makes CK3 a mix of RPG and strategy.

In the same vein, the crossness pumping station also has a beautiful interior. https://secretldn.com/crossness-pumping-station/

That's a handy feature. I have in the past favourite a thread more so for a the comments (book recommendations are a common one) than the actual article.

There is one I remember, world in conflict, that was fun.

Another that I've heard of but not played is the wargame series, which I think is set a bit further back in the cold war than world in conflict. Both alt-history obviously.

There was a just terrible pilot for a US version of peep show. It amounted to taking the point of view camera and the fact it's two guys.

That said I don't honestly think that peep show style of comedy would translate to US without pulling another office and ignoring the source material.

I wonder how this differs though from refinement. Particularly for real people such as musicians, an element of it is also surely removing cruft that just wasn't interesting.

If we were more powerful than nature we'd be able to prevent climate change. We aren't hence the reason we're stuck with the mess.

But do you also say as much for smog? It's just weather? It's a very visible instance of us affecting, at least at a local level, the environment.

At least in the case of England, it wasn't initially voluntary. The enclosure acts removed their ability to farm and feed themselves, removing the last benefit they received from feudalism. It was from lack of means to farm anymore they moved to the city.

Is this in terms of contributors?

For me what was eye-opening was the amount of digging in and denial of it.

I thought with it literally right there in your face that the denialists would come to some sense. No instead we got, "you can tell you weren't around in 1976, it was worse then", which it wasn't and a basic check would clearly show that's a lie. "Oh the climate is always changing", not at this rate. The usual 'snowflake' ad hominem attack thrown in too. I don't even understand what even is the point of this head in sand strategy.

I feel for balance then that I strongly disagree that the guardian is VERY left leaning. It leans left for sure but primarily centre-left.

I'm not American but I've been making a conscience effort to reduce the amount of news I read (at least general news). I found the constant negativity, not from any one place, just utterly anxiety inducing and depressing. At the same time it also feels semi addictive, perhaps FOMO, I don't know.

The constant 24hr mantra just has to be a recipe for psychological disaster. That isn't too say a victim of crime shouldn't have a voice. There is just too much for any one person to process, makes us feel more helpless. I can't help but think at times of the film nightcrawler. I'm sure media is staffed by well meaning people but underneath it feels like in part like this baying for blood, for more chaos.

I still keep up to date with the basics, outside of very major stories I try to avoid the whole "follow this story" side.

This is a world of suicide bombers and at one point kamikaze pilots. If it is possible to so enthrall a person to override their natural sense of survivability, it's possible to convince them of anything.

I'm not outright saying that some brainwashing is going on but we do live in a system that truly believes there is no alternative to this type of work culture.

Does it really require Russian involvement though? Starve the beast tactics didn't require Russians, and was the goal not to reduce funding and make services useless?

I wonder if this is an evolution of the failed scheme to attract award winning scientists through a fast track visa system. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2298455-uk-visa-scheme-...

While I'm sure graduates are easier to get than noble prize winners, I don't think visas are really the big thing for top level graduates. There is definitely some prestigious positions in UK like deep mind but you're still competing against US salaries. London fintech is the closest but are they all to go there?

I don't know if they have videos beyond 8 (the highest available to me in unity) but I founds Mads Torgersen own walkthroughs very good and succinct. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VdC0aoa7ung

Edit - sorry c#9 seems to be available in unity now

I mean python has issues (indentation errors isn't one I would list) but that's besides the point isn't it. The Lingua Franca for ML is currently python. Teaching octave, when most things they search for will be python just seems unnecessarily stubborn. Some day it might be Julia but we aren't there yet.

Roman artefacts are dug up all over western Europe and even further. Is your premise that only one country is the allowed descendants of the Empire and that other constituted parts of the Empire aren't allowed their shared legacy?

Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of what steelmanning is but this isn't exactly how I know it. I'm not aware of any requirement to take or believe your opponents argument as your own.

This seems more an argument for the adage "don't be so open minded your brains fall out".

To be fair, I think they are referring to the fascist form of corporatism[1]. Which although that isn't quite its meaning (corporations + governance), it's a lot closer to using a correct aspect of fascism than most people who use the term do. I suppose Plutocracy or the less common, Corporatocracy, would suit better.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatism

I was actually thinking this morning that I'd like a similar feature for YouTube. It's recommdation system seems to basically regurgitate the very last thing I watched.

I'd like a button or option to tone down how much a video influences the recommendation. Not ignore since I obviously wanted to watch it but I don't need 500 videos of various scenes in a film just because one popped in my head and I just wanted to see that.

Remote seems very dangerous, too easy to have a hacker take down your factory.

I don't know the fab equipment, but my limited understanding is the sheer equipment costs and experience are what limit it to a few places. Would a basic tear down with destruction of sensitive parts be enough to render it obsolete or at least delay greatly any production?

You can't open a help to buy ISA any longer, the government honours existing accounts though.

I don't disagree, there is a level of difficulty that comes from Linux being so configurable.

I would say though that it doesn't discount sensible defaults that work for the majority of people. I only briefly used it but it seemed like elementary was on its way to towards that goal (before what seems like an implosion on the side of the company).

That's never going to eliminate the problem, the user can always screw something up or bugs rear their ugly head. The one thing is though there has to be a reason to most non-tech people outside of conceptual ideas like Freedom. Like if my dad doesn't want to spend the money for a new rig but not have the OS slow to a crawl, then I might suggest Linux. If everything is working fine, then I probably wouldn't bother.

Sure but does opening that level of manipulation up to everyone really benefit anyone either? You can't really fight disinformation with more disinformation, that just seems like the seeds of societal breakdown at that point.

Besides that these models are massive. For quite a while the only people even capable of making them will be those with significant means. That will be mostly Governments and Corporations anyway.

I will not say that I have perfected this, not by a long shot, but at least for myself I've found some basic ways of helping.

The main thing is getting into the groove of whatever it is. That does mean grinding it out at the start. Tackle a portion every single day, rain or shine. Doesn't even have to be a lot everyday, could even be some notes. I find after a little bit it turns into a natural schedule, requiring less push to get started. My wife is also kind enough to understand that I do need to get into a rhythm, and will sometimes nudge me to do a little bit each day. Don't push beyond what you feel like everyday though, you don't want to resent your work. You want to find a happy medium where you enjoy it but still progress.

Sometimes that streak either gets broke, or the natural inclination waning, and then I need to push myself again. There will probably be a waxing and waning to it, and that's perfectly fine. Some days you won't feel like it, but consistency is important (exceptions apply of course just try to make those minimal and not an excuse).

Getting that singular focus with so much competition between ideas is harder for me. I'm currently learning a new programming language, and I had several that I considered. I tried to break them into the main things I wanted, what would help my career, what would expand my programming knowledge in general, and what would I actually enjoy (harder to know before hand but I hand some idea). If it's really that much of a tossup though, then just do that, toss a coin. Sometimes leaving it to chance is just easier to break the stalemate and get you started.

Would that be in the data loading that you are getting the most benefit?

I'm curious, since most of the big libraries are already just cuda calls anyway but I'm always interested in anything to speed up the full process.

Those I can understand. It doesn't really take magical thinking, some viruses perform better at colder temperatures.

Things like magnetic bangles, crystals and other stuff does appear in the west. I can't say how prevalent. Anecdotally it wasn't common amongst western researchers I've known, at least not outwardly.