@caerwy@Rainmaker1973 As I understand it, one could find oil, silver, copper, gold and other valuables just sitting on the surface, easy to reach, until we started commercialising them. Now it's much costlier to gather these and recycling is much costlier than gathering. This is the problem.
@sama Everything we have come to understand about the universe is only a tiny fraction of the whole truth, since we are restricted by our senses and the wiring in our brain.
@Rainmaker1973 As others mentioned, it is impossible to measure something with that much precision in the real world. However, that sounds like a great way to clandestinely share potentially a lot of information information in a virtual space!
@lzrscg@swyx The worth of an engineer is based on the quality of the outcome completed in an acceptable timeframe and cost. The focus on anything but outcome is the reason so many engineers waste a lot of time and effort on BS, like being "10x".
@tookreality @itsjonnyboy_ @heykahn Automation results in more gains to owners of capital, results in stagnant or declining real wages, and increase wealth inequality. There is no utopian future where most people don't work to survive. https://t.co/llg9RJcKxh
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@TomPennock1 @ConcernedCraig@mhdksafa One is designed to kill people and the other is designed to transport them, so when a gun is used to kill someone it's doing exactly what it was designed to do. Do you support makers of nuclear or chemical weapons? They have no control over how their products are used, either.
@erichhartmann The question itself is a pretty good litmus test for politics: Random video without context, asking people to make a binary choice that seems to have zero relevance to the video, ostensibly to fan division.
@rsg@elonmusk While some will call this "efficient", I don't think it is efficient from any perspective: Fiduciary (long term, not for the current quarter), reliability, innovation, etc.
@rsg@elonmusk Even if we accept that Twitter was bloated, such a lay-off immediately after acquiring the company indicates a lack of design in who got laid off, which means he's OK with lots of chaos while deadlines get missed, staff morale drops, etc and that it will eventually recover.
@svy_fish @Jeanine64506656 @MAbounnahr@OTerrifying Bio/conservation perspective is very interesting. There are many angles from which to pose questions: Legal, philosophical, practical (effect on ecosystem and value to future research, both which indirectly impact humans), etc. How to we measure the value of a species?
@svy_fish @Jeanine64506656 @MAbounnahr@OTerrifying It is correct to say that claiming they feel pain as humans do is anthropomorphising. However, we should not dismiss other modes of perception and feeling simply because we cannot fathom them by today's standards and limitations.
@svy_fish @Jeanine64506656 @MAbounnahr@OTerrifying Just using Google scholar to find papers on "jellyfish brain"
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@Kinzokumissu@eversbane @Jeanine64506656 @OTerrifying "They do not feel pain in the same way as humans". Doesn't say they don't feel pain in some way. Heck, even two humans don't respond to pain in the same way.
@svy_fish @Jeanine64506656 @MAbounnahr@OTerrifying What do you base your comment on? Jellyfish have nervous systems, just not a central one (see https://t.co/em06dJquGp). They sleep (https://t.co/Eh75VrvcX5). They avoid harmful things.