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I agree that some of his main elements were relatively set by then but others continue to evolve. Personally I feel that his work is entirely fair game after his death, by which I mean to say after the end of his journey that he has poured his entirety into, in terms of value to humanity and respect to him for that value I think it’s reasonable to respect his wishes during his lifespan.

Being someone who has paid a lot of attention to Ghibli, I wouldn’t say their style was well established 35-40 years ago… There is considerable evolution and refinement to their style from Naushika, to later works, both in the artistic style and the philosophical content it presents.

I think allowing it to be fair game would have destroyed something quite beautiful that I’ve watched evolve across 40 years and which I was hoping to see the natural conclusion of without him being bothered by the AI-fication of his work.

It often surprises me that people think Tesla's sensor suite is sufficient for safe self driving, with quotes like "well humans rely on vision."

Human vision is nothing like the cameras on a Tesla. Our eyes have far more advanced systems including the ability to microscan, pivot, capture polarisation, and a much more sophisticated field of depth. Frankly, current generation cameras are in many ways far more primitive than human eyes. And that's not even considering the over 20% of our brain mass dedicated to post processing.

All because Musk wants to pad his profits and keep the hype without paying for a lidar.

Usually when someone brings up the laws of robotics I like to point out that they were mostly designed as an interesting example as to how direct instructions that seem clear to people would mostly result in perverse instantiation of AI especially if the AI lacked an emotional/contextual subsystem. They were also written to make for interesting scifi books.

I adore the lights by your company, though they seem to be incredibly hard to source in general except for high end architectural projects. I wish there was an easier way to order them directly for DYI inclined engineers willing to pay the price.

So much of the conversation is about profit and economic viability of landing raw materials on Earth under current market conditions... While I don't begrudge that, I think the true game changer for orbital mining is how greater material availability can open brand new frontiers, in other words, make the pie larger, not just compete and change the balance of the existing pie. I long for arcologies, orbital elevators, orbital habitats. Things that only become truly possible with automated manufacturing and a plunging of energy and material costs by orders of magnitude.

Very bad things, or maybe very good things, depends on your perspective, a reset in any case and a restructuring of debt, usually just after a crash.

It might teach you that reality is harsh and to face it.

So stop regulating the poisons and allow access via a non doctor path, create a framework around it, trying to give the state control over others bodies has just as many negative externalities. Also please try to keep in mind that the original oath was created during a certain eras morality and philosophical leanings, most doctors these days take severely modified oaths mostly to uphold current profesional practices and ethics.

Dehydration, exposure, and animals will take you a lot faster than begging on the streets and trying to cling on to life or becoming a burden to your village. As far as historical examples just study Inuit, Greek, Japanese, Norwegian, or Scythian practices on the matter.

The reality of our society is that many will meet their end alone and in poverty. Is it so different from parts of our history, where the old chose to take a long walk into the wilderness before the indignity of what follows? I’m not sure. We like to pretend our society is much richer and more capable than it is—that we can take care of everyone. Maybe we can, but I have my doubts. In cases where we fail, I think we should at least allow people the dignity of choosing their own exit. I don’t think it makes much difference whether their suffering comes from a disease of their body or a disease of society. In the short term, both can be inevitable and excruciating.

I think you will find that cocaine actually compares very favourably and exceeds most current ones, except for the addiction potential, and the damage it did to the US foreign currency balance way back when they made it illegal.

The ban on cocaine is kind of annoying even in its pure form, it’s a very useful local anaesthetic with good tolerance, low side effects that few people are allergic to. I have often wished it was included in some of the more advanced first aid kits, or used more widely for minor operations.

Scifi here but the most embarrassing one I have to admit to loving is the stainless steel rat series by Harry Harrison.

Casting, machining or welding plutonium into the right shapes and purities without killing your self, or some of the other exotic metals, without killing your self or making your neighbours sick in a sub 1-3 week horizon is incredibly challenging. The exact geometries you need to achieve aren’t easily available either neither is measuring is you achieved them without again killing your self. Getting a dirty fizzle is a lot easier which is why people are afraid of dirty weapons by terrorists.

Nearly all industrial ones yes, that’s why some countries that care a lot about recycling use easy to recycle alloys for cans, like Japan. They also religiously keep contaminants and other bits of aluminium out.

Some countries do recycling of aluminium well, Japan for example, most don’t. Issues with contamination, sorting, pipeline, storage, just to name a few make it hard to implement well.

There are glass fractured blades that form the same edges and diamond scalpels too, all of them show brittleness issues to lateral moves especially. The physics of steel cutting edges get very complicated in general as can be shown by an example of how human hair can damage steel here: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/s/6xHn8TQEtK

I tend to geek out over the topic of cutting as it’s endlessly complex from biological matter all the way to cnc.

The honest truth is that the Britain of today isn’t a colonial power anymore, and is rather poor by its relative standards of the past. I feel it’s more concerned with selling its past to tourists for money more than preserving it of late.

While I can largely accept this criticism, I’d also like to point out that it might be missing the spirit of a lot of ancient philosophers historical context. For starters a lot of their books and texts have been lost so we aren’t sure for several what nuance has been lost. Secondarily a lot of that nuance you describe was meant to be explored via shared dialogue (the Socratic method) between pupil and teacher, until a common and nuanced understanding of the topic was achieved, not just studied out of a book, which was enormously expensive and not at all available to most people in the first place. I’d largely view their teachings as a starting point upon which to build a dialogue and nuanced understanding with a long since dead teacher.

Ok I’m sorry but I adore brutalist buildings. I think they can also be quite practical and re-fittable in many ways. I certain like them more than the giant tampon (The gherkin in London) or Mordor by bank (the shard). Give me another few Barbican centres and it’s gorgeous gardens and lakes any day.

You might be able to claim that for some countries, but all European data should be reliable, all countries have reasonably good cause of death recording.

So generally speaking I don’t think extending life will take much resources once we figure out the biochemistry of it. If it does and that deprives others of their enjoyment of life, sure I get it, I will just work to make life extension cheaper. However frankly consumerism and an addiction to travel and tourism eats up a lot more resources than the research and production of high tech biotech etc. If we end up with too much population, well I ask for nothing more than that my life is valued as much as the life of a baby, so long as I remain useful to society, don’t value someone’s right to have a child, more than my right to continue to live.

A moral responsibility under which moral framework ? Why do I owe anything to my genes or the process that created me nearly by accident ? Why do I not have a moral responsibility to find a better path than random evolution ?

I don’t think you have any evidence to say that. Our understanding of memory and complex evolved neural networks like the mind is fairly poor. On top of that, we have more evidence of the mind still acquiring new memories and choosing to compact or drop irrelevant memories while it remains healthy.

I want to live forever. That doesn't mean I want to remain static and unchanging or to stagnate. I want death through change, not because my mind collapses due to biological causes. If I ever stagnate, that's a form of death, and I bet sooner or later I'll choose to check out, or become irrelevant enough for society and my peers to check me out, directly or indirectly, through social exclusion.

I strongly resent those who try to tell me what's best for me or predict what will happen if I live a long time. If you think death within 40-90 years is best for you, choose that path, stop trying to validate your life philosophy by imposing it on others and leave the rest of us alone to develop technology and strive for something more than what we are today.

I loathe the hubris of modern people that feel they should impose their way of life and morals on others.

For those complaining on this topic it’s stated on the site that there is an API available, which I presume means you don’t need the app. Personally I think this is a really nice design and I’ve been hoping for something like this for ages.

I find a lot of these casual drug use articles to be a bit naive on safety. “It does not cause metabolites or react” well it obviously modifies several biochemical processes in order to have an effect, who knows what long term effects it has on your brains computation. Our understanding of the biochemical interactions of various systems is still exceedingly immature. It’s best to say that from a safety perspective it probably won’t kill you straight away… and it might not screw up your personality straight away.

I never liked tribes 2 being a tribes 1 addict. The jet sliding in 1 was a happy accident and the developers lost the original physics code that resulted in the sliding being a controllable skill. Tribes 2 had an utterly different movement sensation and a “press button to glide” mechanic that just killed the game for me.