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by 21 9y ago
> With other asset classes, there's some real-world value backing the minimum price 90% of gold's price is investment/speculation, only 10% has real-world usage backing. I'm not sure why you discount intangibles. A lo
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by 21 9y ago
I think that would be amazing if true. Nothing will focus the mind of Facebook more than a declining stock price (and personal fortunes). Until today you could leak users data and nothing would happen to the stock price.
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by 21 9y ago
> Average CS professor at a top school is significantly more well-read in history, ethics, and many other subjects than the "AI Ethics major" This sounds like the jokes of when a plumber comes in to fix the pipes of a physicist
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by 21 9y ago
> Not all AI researchers are stakeholders in Uber, Waymo, or Tesla, hence you would select those people to investigate Think if this would work in finance: asking JP Morgan people to investigate the Barclays Libor scandal. Smart people u
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by 21 9y ago
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/19/andrew_ng_baidu_ai/
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by 21 9y ago
I didn't say forbid AI PhDs to work on ethics. I just say that an AI PhD shouldn't be a requirement. We already have an ethics discipline. This is an ethics problem. Do you also propose that for example self-driving cars accidents
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by 21 9y ago
And what do you do when your customer wants to use on the same machine two professional apps from different vendors? How do you reconcile Adobe Linux for After Effects/Photoshop/Premier with Autodesk Linux for Maya/...?
818.
by 21 9y ago
You start at Electron. Having used most of the GUI frameworks listed above, making a GUI app in HTML/JavaScript is faaaar easier.
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by 21 9y ago
Your proposal has the exact opposite problem - the AI experts are incentivized to not make two much waves regarding the dangers, because that would endanger the field (and money invested in it). Thus we get quotes from them like "overp
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by 21 9y ago
So, are you supposed to click on the sign support sticks? What about squares which have just a sliver of the sign?
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by 21 9y ago
Anti-semitism is on a bullish trend in Europe. Since this is very controversial, I will let reputable sources state the main reason: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/david-ranan-wrot... https:/&#x
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by 21 9y ago
In the original whistle-blowing interview the whistle-blower (Wylie) says that he was the one which initiated this whole project: > At 24, he came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a company called Cambridge Analytica > It
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by 21 9y ago
Even worse, while you can change your password, or even your email or telephone number, you won't significantly change your personality. I find it funny the kind of standards we have around passwords (PKDF, ...) and how it's anath
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China is using AI and facial recognition to fine jaywalkers via text(fastcompany.com)
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by 21 9y ago
To pick on a different company, every once in a while when I start Revolut (fintech mobile bank acount like thingy), I get asked if I want to upload my contact list so that I can easily send/receive money from my contacts. There is no
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by 21 9y ago
How about "where there is smoke there is fire"? When a scandal erupts the media starts digging around to search for more skeletons.
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by 21 9y ago
Wonderful example of Machine Learning being used to harm, the banality of evil: > Affiliates once had to guess what kind of person might fall for their unsophisticated cons, targeting ads by age, geography, or interests. Now Facebook doe
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by 21 9y ago
Also UK and US - where biggest investors are located.
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by 21 9y ago
> And if you check the address, you can often see thousands of dollars scammed. Just like the fake "Thanks!" replies, I'm sure there are fake actual transactions, meaning the scammer sends bitcoin to itself to make it look
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by 21 9y ago
If you think about the Foundations series, it was basically about this: studying the psychology of masses of people and predicting (and influencing) their behavior.
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by 21 9y ago
A few other taboo "bombs": water wars and climate change. Same basic mistake, assuming nothing will change. For example, for water wars: desalination using solar power (see Israel) For climate change: carbon sequestring strategies
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by 21 9y ago
Facebook? Yeah So I, like, need to collect some data, lol Sorry, can't do that But I'm like, uh, an academic, this is for great science, see my Cambridge page here, lol Ah, ok, just don't share it, k? Yeah, yeah, no prb kthxb
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by 21 9y ago
> The finance dudes get a clean bill of health, and the tech guy gets thrown to the feds. Maybe the finance dudes are not so retarded to sell their stock immediately after one of the biggest data leaks in history with no ahead of time se
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by 21 9y ago
But another very strong law of economics is that scale reduces costs.
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by 21 9y ago
Maybe Slack was so sure of it's moat that it could afford to demand payment. Discord might forgo some profits right now for a better future. But now I'm pretty sure Slack is in panic mode internally. Discord had unbelievable growt
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by 21 9y ago
I programmed many GUIs on Windows using pretty much all frameworks: MFC, WinForms, WPF, wxWindows, QT, from C++, C# and Python (some of them). The one I liked the most was WPF, which I would say is web inspired (XAML is like HTML in many wa
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by 21 9y ago
The court is not retarded. Everyone knows what's the purpose of return service. I'm sure no court will have a problem siding with the company if you are a serial returner.
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by 21 9y ago
What tax do you pay Amazon? The only thing I can think is that they are building a monopoly which might be a problem in the future.
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by 21 9y ago
I would say it's still better than 0.
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by 21 9y ago
> You'd need to know where pretty much every ion was and it's momentum, and I'm pretty sure that's impossible. As parent said, people do stuff like trans-cranial electric stimulation which surely changes where some io

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