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by Dove 14y ago
And at the end of the battle, Slattery shook Ender’s hand and said, “I’m glad you won. If I ever beat you, Ender, I want to do it fair.” “Use what they give you,” Ender said. “If you’ve ever got an advantage over the enemy, use it.” “Oh, I
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by Dove 14y ago
if anyone could see utility from it it would be terrorists. How do you figure that?
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by Dove 14y ago
You're probably right, though I'm always hesitant to bet against ingenuity. I'm sorry if I came off as aggressive in my criticism. It just struck me as silly that terrorists -- you know, the guys that buy military hardware from shady inter
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by Dove 14y ago
therefore really only useful for terrorists What? I'm finding it hard to believe that an odd-looking 3d-printed single-use gun would be useful to terrorists (or criminals in general, actually). What you need as a mugger, for example,
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, I know cities tend to vote liberal, but DC has always seemed extreme to me, even accounting for that. I mean, I don't have data for how big cities vote in general, but I thought it was something like 70% liberal. A solid majority an
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by Dove 14y ago
I am always astonished by what an outlier DC is.
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by Dove 14y ago
Yes, the emptying of the mind is the style of oriental meditation. In contrast, there is an old tradition of Christian meditation which attempts to fill the mind completely with one concept. For example, in the medieval Lectio Divina ( htt
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by Dove 14y ago
I don't know, I thought he explained it pretty well: during meditation, you practice resisting urges. I'll admit that falls rather short of a doubleblindrandomlyassignedcontrolgrouplargesamplesizepeerreviewed study, but it does seem to be c
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by Dove 14y ago
The criticism does not seem to be against asteroid mining in general, but against the idea that diamonds in space would make it more viable. Diamonds, especially for industrial use, are not something Earth has a shortage of.
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by Dove 14y ago
They do. The rules for classification of documents come from Executive Order 13526: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_13526#Part_1 The upshot is that when a classified document is created, it comes with a declassification dat
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by Dove 14y ago
And of course, that doesn't account for the risk of the investment -- which, as a lot of people discovered in 2008, is a real, actual thing.
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by Dove 14y ago
Starting early is only half the battle. The other half is the rate of return. If you start up a retirement account at age 17 with $2000 in it, but you just put it in a generic savings account, by age 37 you'll have . . . $2209. People enc
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by Dove 14y ago
Really? Because I've said no to folks five layers of management over my head, when I knew their comments to be technically inappropriate. I said it diplomatically, to be sure, but firmly and without hesitation. I think the question is set
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by Dove 14y ago
A lot of this article seems to be making the point, "My iPhone handles non-responsive websites well." Which is cool for your iPhone . My Kindle 2 is not as good at it. There's progress to be made on both sides of the problem: websites ad
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by Dove 14y ago
The question is, which will happen first -- viable 3d printing of useful items, or the generation that grew up on Napster getting old enough to write the laws?
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by Dove 14y ago
I share your pessimism. I think attempts to make a mind in code are a modern attempt at alchemy, and just as doomed. My sticking point is consciousness. I don't think it's an illusion; I think it's both real and essential to intelligence.
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by Dove 14y ago
Humbling. I though I was doing really well making Android apps, but these examples remind me how far there is to go.
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by Dove 14y ago
(And yes, I'm perfectly aware of how silly it is to claim to overturn an entire field of research for fun on a Saturday morning, like some reincarnation of Bertrand Russell...)
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by Dove 14y ago
Yeah, that's the third response to cite the halting problem. I think that's a pretty good response. The guarantee that it is not an output from possible programs part is an assumption. Actually, it isn't an assumption. I've constructed
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by Dove 14y ago
I disagree. Here is the resolution. The paper suggests that a finite table could be compiled which exhaustively enumerates all the possible conversations I could have with an AI (to be more generous than he is, I'll say) in my lifetime. S
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by Dove 14y ago
I see two ways out of the dilemma. Option 1: Sal: Sorry Dave, I can't do that. (So we just can't code strong, obedient AIs.) ---------- Option 2: Sal: You realize if I run that, the machine will hang on a fork bomb, right? Me: Well, I jus
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by Dove 14y ago
Would you be satisfied if, instead, I claimed to be proving that it is impossible to construct a program -- in the sense of a real, honest-to-god compiled executable -- that can respond to statements in English text at least as well as a hu
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by Dove 14y ago
I'm not assuming an enumeration strategy is a prerequisite for strong AI. An enumeration strategy already exists. Heck, I don't even have to construct a mapping--a compiled program, when you get right down to it, is a number. You are as
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by Dove 14y ago
No. I'm not asking it to do the logically impossible. I'm asking it to run a program and then do something different. That's well within the range of human abilities. You don't even have to be a very smart human. It's reductio ad abs
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by Dove 14y ago
A chat program that hold up a conversation as intelligently as a human would be able to. And I suppose it needs access to the command line.
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by Dove 14y ago
That's not exactly what I said though. I didn't say "run yourself." What I said was, "Run this code with this input, and then do something different." A human could certainly do that. A strong AI should certainly be able to. Hence it c
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by Dove 14y ago
In fact, that argument can be stated a lot more simply. Take any programmable AI. Show it its own source code. Instruct it to run the code with all the inputs it has received so far, and then return something different. Hence, a strong AI
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by Dove 14y ago
I'd never thought about that before. I think you could use that argument to prove that strong AI is impossible. --------------- Consider an AI to be a chat program which maps strings to strings -- all the strings of its input over time to
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by Dove 14y ago
The ability to pick a truly random integer from a uniform distribution is just a practical one. Consider: How many digits does a "typical" integer have? The answer is that it is unbounded. For any value you choose, it is easy to show tha

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