CoryG89

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by CoryG89 10y ago
I agree that an AI could be tricked into believing it's environment is the real world when it's only a simulation, just as we could be AIs in a simulation. But this doesn't preclude the possibility of an AI being able to comp
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Is this really true? What about a self-aware AI? I can imagine an AI that resides on a chip and developed consciousness could conceivably control a camera/robot in the real world and literally inspect and even reverse engineer or repai
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Yeah I agree. I think one issue is also the test. For a lot of these things, as with most things, there is a short answer and a long answer. I think by the second or third question I would have picked up on the fact that the recruiter didn&
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I agree that protestors have no right to destroy property that doesn't belong to them. I don't agree that the police should be expected to confront protestors just because they shut down an interstate. You have no basic human righ
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Thanks. I read the Ars article yesterday, but hadn't seen the response from Geofeedia. I don't really buy that they have adequate safeguards against the police using this data inappropriately. Seems like a bold claim to me and req
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Maybe you just use it for prioritization. For example, if they are logged into Reddit and Twitter: show buttons for Reddit and Twitter, then just have a more button that opens a dialog with other supported services.
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I would be willing to bet that at least someone at Facebook and Twitter knew that this data was being sold to them and knew they were likely to use it for this purpose. Although this data is all "public", it is still not convenien
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I've not seen very many cheap RC planes or helicopters large enough to carry a significant brick of C4.
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I agree with most of what you said, but I don't think that banning the sale of user information is a problem for Google or similar business models. I may not have a problem with Google collecting information about me and using it to ta
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by CoryG89 10y ago
> How did Signal get the reputation it enjoys in the tech community anyway? You can thank Edward Snowden for that. In fact, they have his picture and testimonial on their front page: https://whispersystems.org
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by CoryG89 10y ago
The data may be public, but they get greater access to the entire data set than the general public. This greater access is what was cut off. Also most people aren't aware that this level of access is even possible, much less that it&#x
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Just because the data is public doesn't mean it can be easily accessed or aggregated en-masse for real time survellience. If Geofeedia was only using public data, easily available to anyone else, then Twitter and Facebook wouldn't
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Companies feel the need to sell our data because they are offered tons of money for it by other companies such as Geofeedia. I agree that the blame does not rest on Geofeedia alone, but they aren't innocent either. I don't know a
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Much of our DNA may not mean very much at all, just like our astrological patterns. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/08/magazine/is-most-of-our-dn...
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Being linked to your birthday has absolutely nothing to do with being prescriptive. Perhaps horoscopes are only prescriptive, but astrology as a whole is much broader than that. I don't put faith in or know much about astrology, but I
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by CoryG89 10y ago
The whole point of the article is that the test does not accurately record personality traits of people or the correlations between them. I've never bought into the test. IMO, it's much too simplistic to describe human behavior.
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I would agree with the religious right on that point. I think brainwashing a child into blind acceptance of atheism is just as bad.
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I don't view it as regulating what kids must be exposed to. What we should be doing and what I think the GP is suggesting is that we regulate was kids must not be exposed to. There is no ethically sound justification for forcing
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I would curse too if no one ever told me I could use Ctrl-Z to fix something like that.
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I think you need to take into consideration that this is designed to be used on voice where the speaker is not aware that they are speaking to a computer (or that they are being recorded at all). When people talk to Siri, Cortana, or Dragon
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by CoryG89 10y ago
Not true. I can mail anyone a letter, anonymously to their house. I can even drop it in a public mailbox w/ no return address and it will be delivered to you. Unless I mess this up some how there will be no jail time. This doesn't
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I would think this just suggests the community is made up of more people who lean toward those politics.
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by CoryG89 10y ago
If by "assaulted" you mean assaulted by words alone, then I am not sure that the right to not be assaulted should trump free speech. I believe dealing with newly generated accounts can be dealt with as a separate problem, distin
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I don't necessarily hold this view, but I can see the merit in it. I tend to lean toward purist as far as free speech goes. Slippery slope arguments and what not. Personally, I like the concept of outsourcing the policing/moderati
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by CoryG89 10y ago
This seems like a good idea. Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names. I had previously mulled over trying to make a fantasy sports site using bitcoin, but since I am based in the U
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability I cannot know that, and neither can anyone else. The reasons being that meditation does not have a good scientific definition and is not falsifiable. We shouldn't c
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I would say that taking lots of tests may indeed make you better at taking tests. You may find that working under pressure or under a time limit is something that you get better at with practice.
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Practicing math will only make you better at math. Taking the time to truly understand the math in the most general terms will make you good at truly understanding anything in the most general terms.
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I would disagree. I am not much into Chess, but I used to play a fair amount and consider myself fairly good. At the very least, playing a sufficient amount of Chess against sufficiently skilled opponents will teach you things that are easi
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by CoryG89 10y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of meditation, since it's not an actual physical or mental state someone can be definitively in or not in. I might say that I meditate every night when I sleep for 5-8 hours.

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