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by A12-B 6y ago
When I said public i meant with my face and name.
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by A12-B 6y ago
I am really glad i don't have public social media
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by A12-B 6y ago
On the contrary, this is the one example of a company doing something for the public good even when no one asked them to.
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by A12-B 6y ago
To play one game for one day with your GPU - and I'm just guessing here - probably uses a small fraction of the power that mining 0.0001% of a bitcoin does, because blockchain is not the same thing as graphics. Besides, it's also
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by A12-B 6y ago
They do this in public prisons too.
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by A12-B 6y ago
I don't think AI is unintelligent, but human brains aren't just programs. We don't even have a definitive answer to how neuron signals are 'stored' in the brain. There is no equivalent to a memory address in there.
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by A12-B 6y ago
There's a difference between being romantic about solving puzzles and creating new and useful tools, and being romantic about the drudgery and bugs. I wouldn't call the people who pretend there aren't boring parts of programm
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by A12-B 6y ago
His public profiles say he's working on a degree right now. Not good enough for you though, probably.
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by A12-B 6y ago
I knew a website that used MD5 to generate unique colors for usernames. There's a finite amount of colors in rgb colorspace and it doesn't really matter if you get a collision because it's just username colors. So there'
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by A12-B 6y ago
Not really. That's like saying everything is about food because even when it's not about food, it's still about food in relation to something else. You still have to prove everything is about sex, or we can do this with any o
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by A12-B 6y ago
Not really, because asexuality is not an inheritable trait, as far as i understand. It wouldn't have lasted this long in humanity if it was (maybe there were asexuals who have been forced to have sex? I don't know). It can also ju
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by A12-B 6y ago
It's ok. If you even slightly hint at being self righteous or virtuous you will get downvoted. I saw it coming the second I said 'asexual people exist', which is just a declarative statement of fact and nothing more.
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by A12-B 6y ago
I disagree with that. Not everything is implicitly about sex, maybe everything is about power (strong maybe) but sex is not a precursor to that. That said, you are probably right that the things that are about sex and power end up disadvant
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by A12-B 6y ago
The 'axiom' (idiom) is not that the lack of sex is power, but that everything is sex, and sex itself is power, therefore everything is ultimately about power. But you cannot take sex our of that equation. So it implies that anythi
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by A12-B 6y ago
I've always thought this phrase is a bit silly. It completely erases the existence of asexual people and their goals and ambitions.
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by A12-B 6y ago
How would cctv know what someone 'at risk' looks like? Facial recognition isn't magic you know. And why would we need some dystopian style technology to monitor your every move to know you're sick, when you can just tell
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by A12-B 6y ago
That's a different can of worms. They might claim their search results are good because they moderate a lot to remove noise, and maybe that's true, but it's this weird moderation that discourages good answers, and I think the
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by A12-B 6y ago
I have left a complaint before on a non-tech stack exchange about how my question was not in fact off-topic. It was a question about how to do something impractical. They interpreted it as me wanting to do it rather than wanting to know the
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by A12-B 6y ago
You underestimate how those ideas are born. More often than not, there is an underlying material pretext. Christianity actually has a lot to say about resources for that very reason. Also, wars are fought over resources and then justified w
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by A12-B 6y ago
I don't think this is as much of a problem as the majority of hackernews seems to think. Of course, that is controversial to say here, but I was told I shouldn't be conventional minded. At the end of the day the world is shaped mo
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by A12-B 6y ago
It's probably already done that. My bet on what the next AI disaster will be is a doctored video and audio, erasing people's trust in evidence and ruining the court system, more or less. You could even argue witnesses are no longe
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by A12-B 6y ago
It is fiction. You can tell it is fiction because no one cares enough about an advertising company to argue for hours over how code should be implemented. That's why the author never specifies the controversial statement. There's
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by A12-B 6y ago
At the end of the day, self-awareness is the highest sign of cognition and intelligence. OK, thats not quite true, but they do use it to test self-consciousness in animals. I think it's important because, even if you have some really g
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by A12-B 6y ago
A shame what this has caused.
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by A12-B 6y ago
Because America has such a strong hold over media, especially internet media, and has put a lot of investment into the idea of American exceptionalism, the bias Americans have towards their own country is unbelievably strong. I would argue
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by A12-B 6y ago
I can't really blame you, a bad system rewards this kind of individualism, and individualism then feeds into a bad system. In a better world we would consider human beings not as decentralised entities but as one big connected mass, an
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by A12-B 6y ago
Media should not be centralised
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by A12-B 6y ago
> “Because they decided they were more rational than other people, they trusted their own internal judgment.” This is my core criticism of those who call themselves rationalists. You don't have to call yourself that, you can just b
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by A12-B 6y ago
I guess hackernews users really like slatestar codex
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by A12-B 6y ago
Even better guide: just buy a small amount of bitcoin so if it 10x in value you 10x your money, and if it doesn't then you don't lose much

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