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95 An accident may suffice to cause suspicion of their clone status, no intended messaging necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(2009_film)...
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29 Thanks 31 A question of definitions and technicalies. If the organic brain is destroyed during upload, is it 'copy' because it recreates an existing structure in digital format, or is it 'cut' because said structure is no longer there...
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David Brin has explored virts in affordable bodies in Kiln People, with added interesting effects of pull requests ("inloads") from virt to original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiln_People: The novel takes place in a future in which people can create clay duplicates (called "dittos"...
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Companies in the EU: Ireland has ridiculously low taxes, that lured the tech companies into putting headquarters or parts of their companies there. Then they could shift the revenues to Ireland, and the losses to countries with higher taxation. A...
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Jaws / 34 Russia's population is spread thin and declining. It is Raum ohne Volk here, and it is an aging population, too. The Russian capacity for defence is declining. Squinting hard from afar, the whole thing looks like a...
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Jaws / 34 Russia's population is spread thin and declining. It is Raum ohne Volk here, and it is an aging population, too. The Russian capacity for defence is declining. Squinting hard from afar, the whole thing looks like a...
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To better understand Putin's holy mission, read Solzhenizyn. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/miriamelder/vladimir-putin-isnt-going-to-stop#473b6es https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/how-a-famous-soviet-dissident-foreshadowed-putins-planin-1990-russia-ukraine/379467/ Also, he is running out of time. Decarbonization will ruin his rentier state, and there are no realistic prospects to make use of a warming Siberia....
Commented on Invisible Sun: Themes and Nightmares
EU customers DE customers, beware! The minimum value for import tax has been scratched. Now everything from €1,- up is taxed. Imports usually go through DHL, who took the opportunity to charge an extra €6,- per shipment for the...

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Greg Tingey commented on Make Up a Guy
SFR Not "Zum wechseln (in)" then? It was the psychological difference that I noticed first. Or maybe, simply using plain "werden" was easier?...
Robert Prior commented on Make Up a Guy
I was thinking about things like: what happens when the important decisions affecting many, many people's lives are made by an inflexible, broken algorithm? Getting back to the original blog post, this isn't science fiction but reality. Leaving aside the negative effects of algorithm-driven social media, things like the availability of credit, sentencing of criminals, hiring for jobs, and more are all driven by algorithms now. Even if a human is in the loop, the safe choice is always to go with what the algorithm recommends — because if they don't, they can be blamed for any negative outcomes (even...
David L commented on Make Up a Guy
Leaving aside the negative effects of algorithm-driven social media, things like the availability of credit, sentencing of criminals, hiring for jobs, and more are all driven by algorithms now. Even if a human is in the loop, the safe choice is always to go with what the algorithm recommends As someone who plays the credit card points / rewards game, algorithms are big in getting and keeping cards. I can apply for credit via a major bank web site at 2am and get approved or denied within 90 seconds. Less than 30 seconds most of the time. For a credit...
David L commented on Make Up a Guy
algorithm I think I tripped the SPAM filters with my last comment. It was about algorithms and how the CC industry works....
RM commented on Make Up a Guy
Chilling comment tossed off in this article John Carmack Interview in the context of this thread. "But if I just look at it and say, if 10 years from now, we have ‘universal remote employees’ that are artificial general intelligences, run on clouds, and people can just dial up and say, ‘I want five Franks today and 10 Amys, and we’re going to deploy them on these jobs,’ and you could just spin up like you can cloud-access computing resources, if you could cloud-access essentially artificial human resources for things like that—that’s the most prosaic, mundane, most banal use of...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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