Aron

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by Aron 9y ago
Yeah, think about the children.
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by Aron 9y ago
I find it entirely plausible that when you hear words spoken, even if from your own mouth, it then becomes processed by the same hardware machinery that processes other external voices. In my case, I tend to disbelieve anything I hear so..
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by Aron 9y ago
I keep wondering these days who is left to stand up for good old fashion capitalism and liberty
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by Aron 9y ago
Yeah it became one of those cliches everyone repeats about it being 'the Qwikster debacle'. Complete nonsense. They discounted streaming to move their customer base into it, and that created a deficit when they had to charge for i
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by Aron 9y ago
This was 12 years ago already.. geezeus.. I'm getting so old.
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by Aron 9y ago
What was the immediate trigger for this post?
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by Aron 9y ago
I'd still prefer to know what I am in for, rather than be mislead to get there. And don't call me surly.
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by Aron 9y ago
'data efficiency' -- that's a good candidate for the next buzz imo. People talk a lot about how massive amounts of data regressed over giant networks of dumb functions happens to perform well on many tests, but they ignore th
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by Aron 9y ago
'Humans' are fucked one way or another. We were always fucked. Our parents and grandparents were always fucked. Did you expect to live forever? The future will contain our children, and they will be better in each and every way.
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by Aron 9y ago
It's rude but I can take a joke when it's about someone else.
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by Aron 9y ago
I didn't actually look into this or any of the references but I suspect the half-life model is not appropriate in the extreme case. That is, it's an approximation that works on a certain non pathological scale like newtonian physi
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by Aron 9y ago
Alternatively, we could figure out how to automate his job away.
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by Aron 9y ago
Needs logarithmic axis!
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by Aron 9y ago
I'm set for life!
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by Aron 10y ago
I find the adversarial network examples very illuminating in showing just how different these dnn's function differently than our own brains (and how they are thus likely rather far off from generalized intelligence). These systems are
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by Aron 10y ago
Tesla doesn't need to compete with either of them. They just want to sell more cars. Any of a number of ways to do that.
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by Aron 10y ago
To turn on a Reed Hastings quote, 'Tesla needs to become BMW faster than BMW can become Tesla'.
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by Aron 10y ago
Amazon quite frequently makes my life better. On the other hand, I can't remember ever experiencing a difficult situation because Bezos is rich.
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by Aron 10y ago
I think most sedentary people are in the 2000-2500 calorie daily range. When I formed my cached thoughts about this it was looking at a double whopper super-sized meal that would include large fry and large coke and I recall that coming out
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by Aron 10y ago
My intuition is that there is a small delta in impact between a 'reasonable' diet and a 'perfect' diet, and so playing in that margin is pointless. But I've always felt it notable that you can consume a whole day&#x
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by Aron 10y ago
Thanks for the links. Their optimization approach isn't particularly sophisticated. Not saying I know how to do better, but wouldn't be surprised if it existed.
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by Aron 10y ago
Alternatively I could step on the hay with a bare foot, because if the needle is in there, I'll step on it for sure.
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by Aron 10y ago
Amy Wagers, a researcher at Harvard, told me, “Part of the meaning of life is that we die.” I wouldn't want to live forever if I had to keep hearing this.
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by Aron 10y ago
Watch the longer clip that starts at 33:02 (and importantly carries on much longer): https://www.c-span.org/video/?425894-1/treasury-secretary-st... In context, it is clear that he is referring specifically to the
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by Aron 10y ago
Too bad it just didn't happen to be easy. I would hold out some hope for recycling simply given that each Tesla model 3 size battery has 3,000$+ of raw materials, and there will be literally billions of cells with identical design to r
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by Aron 10y ago
I believe that as batteries get on in in life their rate of decay accelerates. It's not a linear process. Maybe there's room for recovering the raw materials effectively, and I wonder if there are upfront tradeoffs that could be e
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by Aron 10y ago
So how are all the magical constants optimized?
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by Aron 11y ago
I think obscurity mostly serves as an in-group vs. out-group signal. I'm not a fan of the unexplained black bar.
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by Aron 11y ago
There have been a number of reports about accounts being stolen and pawned off at 1$ or less.. might have something to do with that.
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by Aron 11y ago
I think you've summarized [one of] Ben Goertzel's beliefs regarding unfriendly AI.

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