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  • There are also far fewer of them per passenger, so fewer chances for one to come by. They are also operated by professionals who can call in sick if their ability to operate the vehicle is impaired.

    A bus could be ten times deadlier in a crash than a car and it would still be safer if it carries fifteen passengers. It could be a thousand times deadlier if operated by a drunk person and still be safer than cars because drunk people don’t operate the vehicle when getting home by bus.



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    8 days ago

    Car crumple zones are tuned to prevent damage to the car, not to pedestrians. If they were they would have airbags on the front of the car. A car can kill a pedestrian by hitting them with a crumple zone, without that zone crumpling.

    This means most of the non-elasticity is in the pedestrian’s body; how they flop onto the hood of a normal car, and how their bones crumple and flesh splatters before their brain and vital organs do.

    Of course if a car hits a pedestrian hard enough, the crumple zone will crumple to reduce damage to the car, but that’s overkill as far as the pedestrian’s life is concerned.

    That said, if you (unrealistically) assume the speed at impact and the geometry of the hood are the same, the difference between a car that weighs 20 times what a person does and one that weighs 40 times that is (40/41 - 20/21), or only about 2.5%.

    Realistically, the weight increases the braking distance and the hood geometry makes the pedestrian’s body perish more elastically.



  • tl;dr: The “zero knowledge” proof could have a finite number of uses per block of time for each verifier, each of which represented by a unique single-use key. This way anyone sharing keys would be limited by that finite number of uses, and if people sharing this aren’t coordinated they could end up re-using a single-use key.

    If the encryption was stolen without their consent, this could tip a user off prompting them to invalidate the current set and get a new one. And if the verification is used to support a pseudonym like an account for an online service then instances of re-use could get flagged for moderators.





  • Do farmers still do crop rotation? Here in the Netherlands they pump the ground full of the appropriate chemicals so they can grow the same crop in the same place every year.

    As for your plan, the fact that bees are getting essential nutrients from those flowers proves a fallow field with wildflowers isn’t being fallow; it’s extracting resources from the soil which may have needed replenishment for crop rotation to work. You can sacrifice productivity for wildflowers, but at that point you’re just designating a space to be a meadow.

    The solution is complicated and requires society to step away from the industrial model of agriculture entirely. Food forests are diverse and resilient permaculture, where a farmer does the labor of monitoring nutrient flows through the ecosystem so that a large population of humans can be part of that balanced ecosystem (possibly at a distance, with food being exported and feces imported). Bees are a natural part of such an ecosystem.


  • Cults and toxic self-help literature have existed before LLMs copied them. I don’t know if LLMs are getting people who couldn’t have been gotten by human scammers.

    Scams have many different vectors and people can be vulnerable to them depending on their mood or position in life. Testing people on LLM intolerance would be more like testing them on their susceptibility to viruses.

    People can be immunocompromised for various reasons, temporarily or permanently, so as a society public hygiene standards (and the material conditions to produce them) are a lot more valuable. Wash your hands after interacting, keep public spaces clean, that sort of stuff.





  • The truth has the advantage of objective evidence and the disadvantage of needing to be more complicated to incorporate objective evidence.

    When it comes to news from out of town, there is no objective evidence, only appeal to authority. The few people willing to personally travel somewhere to testify that it is real can be written off as paid actors (or as AI-generated if you aren’t seeing their testimony live).

    So in almost all scenarios with this technology, the truth would have the disadvantage but not the advantage. An arms race between pro-truth and anti-truth AI would be the anti-truth AI winning because it can tell the more convenient lie.

    My hopeful take is that it will make proper citation an essential life skill, with everyone who believes stories without citation getting scammed until they know better and everyone who doesn’t cite sources being disbelieved. And that, as such, people will organically build up transparent citation networks that they rely on for information, meaning they can more effectively filter out advertisement, propaganda, memes, and lies.


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    Oh, so your system guarantees that at all times at least one of those thoughts is “collaborate with fascists”?

    If one person collaborates with fascists and the rest do nothing to stop it, then the fascist still gets what they want as surely as if the entire group had collaborated. You can list as many people who didn’t personally collaborate with fascists as you want, as long as they didn’t stop collaboration they are complicit.

    So thank you for demonstrating “pride in a state that collaborates with fascism” for the class.