gmuslera

Joined 13 years ago

Karma
2,378
Submissions
1,188
Member since
Jun 18
View on Hacker News

Recent submissions

Comment · 1 month ago
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo convinced me that if some sort of digital resurrection exist in the future, it will be be more for work than for some utopian reconstruction of paradise. Not exactly the batteries of Matrix, but for somewhat expert, intuitive work. And your internal experience of that process would be whatever, it won’t be yours but of a ephemeral process of you that won’t last nor will be remembered.
Comment · 1 month ago
The problem is not just temperature, is speed. The idea was to avoid the 1.5°C mark, by 2100, but we are reaching it now, while still having the feet on the pedal, while the reached compromise by most nations were to try to be carbon neutral by 2060.

And while that, positive feedback loops get powered up, and adaptation gets harder because the speed of change. Even if we manage to do something to i.e. protect the crops we directly depend on, the rest of the system may fall down, or adapt in harmful for us directions.

We got lucky in the Holocene, with predictable enough climate to develop agriculture and civilization after it, but it was not the norm in Earth history, and we are ending that opportunity.

Comment · 1 month ago
So instead of Blame Canada they will sing Blame Brazil?

When names collide everything start to lose meaning.

Comment · 1 month ago
bad outcomes -> drastic societal changes -> we get to 2.5C anyway, but with some sort of dystopia attached.

The bad outcomes doesn't have to be uniformly and evenly distributed. There will be a lot of people negatively affected, and some people that will take advantage of that.

Comment · 1 month ago
So you more or less have a copy mechanism, assuming that that information is carried somehow passing through the black hole process, with some structure to be replayed just because, and, what is the selection process? How many universes you spawn from a single one? How make ones more fit? It is nice to speculate, but it should go through the falsability test.
Comment · 1 month ago
Where is the replicator? Evolution doesn’t happen just because. Copies are made, not all identical, some get to the next iteration, and if what makes them different gives them better chances to get to the next stage, then that difference may remain.

Where that plays with universes?

I get that if they are infinite amounts of universes, the ones with conditions of evolving intelligence hace more chances to be observed from within, but more or less that’s it.

Comment · 2 months ago
How much till Planet America?
Comment · 2 months ago
It's more like "social engineering" (targetting LLMs) than malware. A site that influences its (human) users to buy, vote, "invest" in scams and so on is malware?
Comment · 2 months ago
Looks like translating a positional numbering system from ancient cultures than ruling out or not if they had the concept of zero. It may be a single use symbol, here is nothing, instead of being part of bigger amounts. Numbering systems doesn't have to be positional (nor go too far).
Comment · 2 months ago
Just 5 days ago the news was https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62m4gpnp78o. Different wording, few measurements later, this will run that way til December at the very least. We can shout another bird most days till there, or discuss the projections to the peak of the event (and how they usually correcting it upwards), that may give a better warning.
Comment · 2 months ago
No Vesuvius? If we are talking about historic records or getting into culture that should be one of the top ones. And if we are talking about climate effects on mankind, even if no written records, Toba could had unmade history 70k years ago.
Comment · 2 months ago
Is not the same a record that may be broken in the next 100 years than one that will be broken most days till end of year. One is an event, the other is a running process with no clear end, besides that won’t be the current point.
Comment · 2 months ago
"highest temperature on record"... so far.

There are still ~4 months till peak El Niño, and then some months to spread effects.

Comment · 2 months ago
"Ignorance is bliss" - Cypher
Comment · 2 months ago
It is not exactly like using the same password in multiple sites because you just need one remote site that stores your password in plain text or simple enough to reverse to compromise all the accounts that use the same password. For asymmetric encryption is the private part the one that should be safe (assuming the right algorithms) and just you should have access to it. If someone/something else can access/use them directly or indirectly then they may get compromised. And that may be a guide on why having multiple certificates, because you can discriminate with passphrases against i.e. local agents.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton