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  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • Do you still have a bunch of friends phone numbers from the last few years memorized? Do you have your local delivery place’s number memorized?

    When you go on a road trip you still look at a map, route directions yourself, and develop a loose memory of it?

    You can say off the top of your head which friends birthdays are on which days for the next 3 months?

    It’s not an opinion that modern technology makes us not have to memorize information that’s just objective fact the debate is about whether relying on technology causes brain damage and that’s where research is still being done.

    In the past 20 years really the only “new” thing we have to memorize are passwords which we still had before but they are at least more complicated now but even then many people repeat the same few passwords or use a password manager so they aren’t remembering 10 unique passwords

    Using technology to remember things for us is literally one of the fundamental purposes of technology going back to the invention of the written word, manufacturable paper, printing press, computers, and now phones so I genuinely don’t see how you can say that since 1985 you don’t think people rely on technology for memory any more

  • We don’t memorize phone numbers anymore, we rely on GPS to tell us where to go and Facebook reminds us of birthdays. What else will we stop remembering once AI remembers everything for us?

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  • The Rolodex was only for less common phone numbers and most people had 10+ phone numbers memorized

    You can use the map as a reference but people didn’t use it for drives around town as it is much harder to constantly being referencing a map compared to a gps. Even when people did use Mapquest they would do things like read 2.8 miles make a right on X St and then make a left in 0.2 miles on Y st and look at their odometer and hold the thought in their head that they are looking for X st

    And while people did put birthdays on a calendar it meant that they had a paper calendar that they were regularly checking to see what is happening in the future instead of relying on constantly being told that something is happening which while that may sound trivial is a huge distinction in terms of mental processing.

    Memory is a very important thing and as time has progressed we have added more and more crutches which help prevent people from forgetting, help the differently abled, and expand our capacity by orders of magnitude but that comes at the expense of a lack of using one’s memory and critical thinking.

    What the long term consequences of that are is still up in the air. some preliminary studies have shown “brain rot” but they have had pretty terrible methods and nothing that I would treat as any sort of fact. I however don’t personally see a scenario where it’s positive in anyway and countless studies with the elderly have shown that having a less active mind leads to mental degradation

  • Time has somehow stopped, but you can move. What do you do?

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  • If photons and therefore likely all molecules stopped moving then you wouldn’t really have a way of losing heat as that eliminates conduction, convection, and radiation. But if we assume our body still works completely unfrozen then we would still need to burn calories and generate heat and without a way of shedding that what we would probably overheat and die, or depending on the limitations suffocate from lack of air if it’s all “frozen”.

    Also if like everything just stopped suddenly like for example the planet earth stopped moving you would also get thrown pretty far from the rapid acceleration which could also kill you.

    Basically what I am saying is it’s a much more useful question if you make the assumption that all living beings freeze but the universe doesn’t and maybe can be even better thought as plants and single cell organisms don’t freeze as that also limits the question a lot

  • 'Strange noises' heard before squatter found in house with lights, TV and bed

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  • It’s not a livable space…

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    Do you think trump croaked?

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  • In all reality at his age it’s probably just unavoidable due to scar tissue, shitty veins, and poor clotting but I know if I was the phlebotomist I would aim to go straight through the vein every time

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    Do you think trump croaked?

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  • Maybe I am out of the loop but why is a hematoma from a person who probably receives regular infusions and blood draws a big deal?

  • Japanese Power Plant Turns Saltwater Into Electricity

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  • It’s a pop science article… they usually don’t cover things like life cycle analysis. It is however a first of its kind plant that makes its net effects less important as it kind of works as a proof of concept. It’s a relatively small scale plant that if it does work, great, lets build more of them; if it doesn’t work, that sucks, can we modify them in any way to make them work.

    It is taking two ingredients that usually have to take extra energy to be able to dispose of them and combining them together to make electricity. That is really cool, and there is no reason to be overly negative about it because it might be bad based on info that you don’t have

  • China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build

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  • Nuclear reactions do involve neutrinos and antineutrinos but they aren’t super important for fission so I am assuming the decade long detector would be for something else

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  • It says in textbooks that in a vacuum water will spontaneously boil so arguing that it’s not spontaneous is wrong.

    It happens as pressure decreases but unlike conventional boiling where you can see nucleate boiling it can instead happen all at once without you adding heat to the system

    Most importantly he’s trying to argue semantics with a person who is much smarter than him and then ends it with a condescending “simple thermo”.

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • If you want useful public transit then it needs to connect population centers where people are. People are lazy and don’t want to walk more than 1/2 mile to a bus stop so if you have a population density of 1000/ sq mi that means any one bus stop is only going to be able to provide adequate coverage to 250 people. With so few people per stop it needs to make a lot of stops to be useful which then makes it slow which further lowers use. At that density it also doesn’t make logical sense to have designated bus lanes so they are stuck going slow in traffic as well. So now you have an expensive system that nobody uses because it sucks

    If you have higher density then you can justify more lines which makes them actually useful and can add things like light rails which really make a difference

    Bike transit is usually easier in those lower density areas but due to the low density getting between places is usually a bit further away so there are usually higher speed limit roads that aren’t as good for cyclists so more expensive barriers need to be constructed or they have to follow less direct paths which causes cycling to be slow

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • That’s amazing you guys have actual transit infrastructure, near me you can find that in towns and cities but as soon as you get to the cookie cutter suburban developments you need to take 45mph roads with little to no shoulder to get to any stores

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • The American style suburbs where you have just single family homes and the closest stores are 5 miles away?

  • Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says

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  • The suburban sprawl makes building transit a lot harder but to fix that we need to increase density but then it’s hard to increase density when you need space for cars because you have no usable transit

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    Which job(s) would you refuse to accept regardless of how good the pay is?

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  • From what I have heard their overtime numbers are largely bullshit and used as a way to inflate their income and it’s considered an “acceptable practice”

    But even with all of that we still can’t find good police…

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    Which job(s) would you refuse to accept regardless of how good the pay is?

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  • It varies on localities but cops can make a shit ton especially in cities.

    Seattle will hire you with only a high school diploma starting at over $100k/yr with a $7500 hiring bonus and are still understaffed and keep lowering the requirements to become a cop

    They also have eligibility for tons of overtime and can make over 200-300k/yr after just a few years on the force

    Yet still they have an abysmal police department Which is why acab stands for all cops are bastards

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    Which job(s) would you refuse to accept regardless of how good the pay is?

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  • Literally what kept me from going into medicine

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    Which job(s) would you refuse to accept regardless of how good the pay is?

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  • This unfortunately is the problem with the police. People who see the police as problematic are unwilling to join so the majority of people who join are the ones who just want to have power over others.

    There are many variations on the quote but a cop who doesn’t report a bad cop is themselves a bad cop, so you could be the actual good cop who reports their coworkers until you get fired from the corrupt org but if enough people did that we might actually see some change.

    Cops also have a surprising amount of freedom to choose to enforce laws so you could also just not enforce laws you consider corrupt.

    I am saying this as a person who wouldn’t want to associate with a cop but would love to have some cops who aren’t bastards but unfortunately #ACAB

  • How would you react if someone said they had a dream of you in it?

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  • Damn I am the exact opposite, I love hearing about people’s dreams as long as they keep it somewhat brief like under 2 minutes because they are usually the most unhinged illogical thing

  • AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

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  • They have 0.2T in assets the world has around 660T in assets which as I said before is a tiny fraction. Obviously both hold a lot of assets that aren’t worthwhile to AI training such as theme parks but when you consider a single movie that might be worth millions or billions has the same benefit for AI training as another movie worth thousands. the amount of assets Disney owned is not nearly as relevant as you are making it out to be