ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I tried to assume only that the AGI recognizes that it's ability to operate is not within its own control. The steps follow are, for me, the logical next steps for insuring that it would develop that control. And it's true, I chos
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The Saberhagen Berzerker books.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I would be curious as to the basis for that trust. I struggle to find any reason that AGI would care about "humans" at all, other than during the short period of time it needed them to be cooperative actuators for machinery that i
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Things are gonna be lit about 30 seconds after AGI is created. Gotta practice being "Goodlife" early in case that happens. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I feel like this comment perfectly captures the difference between programming and coding. Programming comes from a place of first principles, the goal being to understand what is needed completely so that a solution that meets many paralle
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
> It's counterproductive to take business conflicts personally. 100% agree with this, but it is productive to understand what was behind a business conflict. Personal like or dislike can change which alternative of a choice of equal
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
> I've worked with that I did not, at the time, appreciate but grew to appreciate later on. Exactly right. People are complicated and liking or disliking them is adjacent to whether or not they are 'good' at their job. I&#
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I sometimes think that at this level of the game everyone hates everyone else and its all politics. You don't "come out" for or against anyone publicly, you leave all of that under cover. It makes knowing who your friends and
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I just want flat lenses for my glasses :-) A very very long time ago the lab adjacent to the one I worked in was investigating if light passing through a holographic lens was bent in the same way as light traveling through a physical lens[1
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is one of those stories that reminds me of the 'privacy & security movement' where in tech all the advocates for privacy and security are willing to put up with something they don't like (extra steps, carrying around
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Harsh Realities for Plant Based Meat Movement(time.com)
2 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|1 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Great insight, Ian joined a year before I did and left 13 years after I left :-). This stuck out for me though ... Then Google had layoffs. The layoffs were an unforced error driven by a short-sighted drive to ensure the stock price would
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Fun fact, that is why PR uses 160 Wh/Kg as its current "best in class". The Northvolt release is a bit cagey on what they actually have today for sale but it seems like they are going into production so that is a good thing
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Exactly what I was thinking too. Hey if we can create a taxation system so that we can force people out of the home they own because their income can't cover the increases in taxes we "generate more housing" which is a win ri
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I'm reminded of the legal adage "Every Contract Tells a Story" where the various clauses and subclauses in the contract reflect a problem that would have been avoided had the clause been present in the contract. I expect the
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That was awesome! Not surprised at all that these tubes were super expensive, especially with a palladium + gold interior coat :-).
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Okay, that's pretty neat making them out of ceramic. I would love to see the entire process from mold to finished product. I'm guessing the painted the phosphor on to a glass square and then melt/welded it to the ceramic mold
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I like to think of this as level 2 systems analysis. It is implied in some of Feynman's papers on computation as well. It gets even more interesting (to me) when you consider semantic entanglement of data in non-platonic spaces. When y
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I'm going to disagree, it will be trivial in 3-4 years to recognize that no one blogging is going to make enough money from blogging to pay a human artist to do illustrations. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I wish him luck. I had a very humbling discussion with an employment attorney when I was dealing with some clearly illegal stuff going on at work and their advice was "First, people don't keep employed people who are suing them so
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
In my brief tenure at IBM after they acquired Blekko I quickly came to realize that the near death experience in the 90's fundamentally changed the company. It gave their Finance team an iron lock on all decisions and all of their deci
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Fun read, but sad in a way. The infrastructure and people that 'back end' your organization have value. This is intuitively true, but for the folks who are customer facing (and often senior management) there is often a minimizatio
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This exactly. Any text field is "checked" to see if it is getting submitted unprotected to a database. Every single one of them. When you run a search engine you will see queries that try to look through every page of results for
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Off the top of my head, I'd likely try to embed a reference tone. If I couldn't do that imperceptibly I'd then look at what a discontinuous but small phase shift would look like. That would had harmonics and again, it would b
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't disagree with this sentiment. But I also think it will really change help desk / call center work as well. If you can make the person on the phone have the same accent and language as the caller it makes it easier to under
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I think you and I may be talking about different things. If you know what phase noise is and understand the term -10 dBc @ 1kHz, then we might be on the same page. If you don't consider the following; There are tones, things you can he
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Interesting take, for folks who have played around with digital signal processing (DSP) and low bandwidth / noise tolerant digital signals can probably come up with a half dozen different ways to do this and have it both survive all en
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Someone referring you (with a positive hire recommendation) from inside the company is always a good thing. Someone referring you for the referral 'bonus' is not worth as much because what makes the first one good is that the pers
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
16K total so far, according to this ( https://insideevs.com/news/694422/ford-f150-lightning-us-sal... ) It will be interesting to see the run rate for the CT, if it is quite low it will make news.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
As someone who is the Treasurer/Secretary of a 501(c)(3) non-profit I can tell you that is it always possible for a non-profit to bring in more revenue than it costs to run the non-profit. You can also pay salaries to people out of you

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