CanadaPlus

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[–] CanadaPlus 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why would you even try this? If you want to resist, put up graffiti when nobody's looking or something.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I second this one. CBT is the current scientific golden standard for when you're your own enemy in general.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 2 years ago

Oh no, does this include all hypothetical alternate interpretations of the same code? So, you just look at the screen and go "yep, it definitely could mean something"?

[–] CanadaPlus 56 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Bro needs to go big. Why not all electronics and electronic systems in general? As it is he could still be "caught with his pants down" by another speculative execution bug.

[–] CanadaPlus 5 points 2 years ago

Yet another broken immigration thing.

[–] CanadaPlus 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm annoyed that most of the answers are just "no".

It's actually a great question, but practical experience has shown that closed-source software is just as buggy when written, and only slightly harder for an attacker to figure out, but much much harder to fix. And that's not even talking about deliberate anti-features, like every app that hoovers up your data and sells it so you can order a pizza.

[–] CanadaPlus 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'd recommend one, but I'd probably just get it wrong.

There, the obvious joke has been made.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For all the headline readers, "emergent" here means sudden. The models are still plenty intelligent, as you'd expect for something that can write a book on quantum field theory, just in a way that scales linearly with size.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

Long term, yeah. I watch videos of self-driving car rides though. Not so much today.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think anybody's mentioned that we actually have road infrastructure built, too. The US Eisenhower highway system is still a candidate for most expensive project in human history as of last I checked. Tearing it all up for rails would take a long time to earn itself back.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago

That's kind of frightening, given how stupid driverless cars are known to currently be.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

4% per annum bites really fast, I don't know if people realise that it has the same math as compound interest, it just seems slow if you're looking at units smaller than decades. If we double our use every 30 years like you said, we're also going to start having a sunlight shortage in 300 years. We could start using fusion then, but we shouldn't, because the waste heat would start to cook us, and would be enough to boil off the ocean in roughly another hundred years of growth.

What actually has to happen, is that we pick all the low hanging fruit as far as infrastructure goes, and growth just slows. From a market perspective that probably means returns will get smaller and smaller, making things that were once too expensive to be practical the new best option for investors.

but still, it seems like another “climate-change-like” moment to literally suck up all heat the heat being conducted to the surface of the planet from the interior.

No joke! And, if we wanted, we could go even deeper once the upper layers are cool, since drilling would become easier. I'd guess we'd see less earthquakes, because enough heat removed would shut down plate tectonics entirely, turning Earth geologically into Mars. Deep sea vents might turn off. Probably other bad stuff would happen, but I don't know what exactly.

So we should probably use geothermal energy very wisely.

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