Eerie

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by Eerie 9y ago
>Twitter isn't really suitable for intelligent conversations; 140 characters is too short. A lot of people break that rule by posting images with walls of text.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>Not all nostalgia is misplaced. The internet is unquestionably changing, and the trend seems to be that as a system becomes more popular, it becomes more hostile to viewpoints too far from its median That's not a current trend, tha
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by Eerie 9y ago
There isn't. There's a tendency to paint the past in gold. “I'm 65 years old. Everyday the future looks a little bit darker. But the past, even the grimy parts of it, well, it just keeps on getting brighter all the time.” ―
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by Eerie 9y ago
1. There is a 4chan meme that goes approximately like this: Newbie: "Remember the time when 4chan was good?" Veteran: "4chan was never good." "4chan" can be easily replaced with "Twitter" or "The
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by Eerie 9y ago
> People have been doing it for millenia. We just build a bigger / better / faster / cooler thing than what we have right now! See? It's easy! You've just described the entire technological progress of humanity.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Funny how there are people with much more money than Musk, who do absolutely nothing useful with it, but Musk draws criticism for details. Oh, why Mars, why not Moon, or Ceres, or O'Neill cylinders, or lets colonize the Sahara desert f
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by Eerie 9y ago
Israeli Turkish Delight is great. I always wash off the starch, though.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Relevant song by Flight of the Conchords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
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by Eerie 9y ago
Once AI is sufficiently advanced, your job will be to turned off by your robot.
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by Eerie 9y ago
At the point where AI will be functionally equivalent to human, suddenly trillions of jobs will be created....
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by Eerie 9y ago
>is he wrong He is unconvincing.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Buy their stocks, then they'll enrich your life.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Waiting for Eliezer Yudkowski to deliver the daily portion of "we are all gonna die"...
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by Eerie 9y ago
To all the people who think they can bypass the legal system through smart technological solutions: The judge won't care how smart you think it was.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Or just turn off the GPS.
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by Eerie 9y ago
> If I remembered it right Serious question. No intention to insult. You are on the Internet, not sitting in a pub with no wi-fi. Instead of writing "if I remembered it right", why not spend 2 minutes googling, to find out how
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by Eerie 9y ago
Ad-blocking won in a sense that it seems to be unbeatable. It is not widespread enough yet to damage Google/Facebook revenue. However, the usage of ad-blocking continues to rise exponentially, so the next few years are going to be inte
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by Eerie 9y ago
Not yet, because there is no need, so far. Here's an article about a proof of concept, though: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/princetons-ad-blo...
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by Eerie 9y ago
A growth from 1 to 100 people is 100,000% growth, and still marginal when considering the absolute scale.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>If the % of ad blockers is high enough, the content providers just switch over to paid subscriptions. E.g. Youtube Red. This would be an amazing development. 99.9% of the providers who switch to paid subscription will go out of business
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by Eerie 9y ago
As long as it's recognizable as an ad, it can be blocked. If it's not, then can you even call it an ad, really? It will be, I suppose, a very sophisticated product-placement. Certainly not something you can do automatically across
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by Eerie 9y ago
https://reek.github.io/anti-adblock-killer/ Or use uBlock Origin, which supposedly has it integrated (I'm not sure, as I'm using AdBlock Plus)
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by Eerie 9y ago
These are not global trends, but marginal developments.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>I wonder who will win... Ad-blocking had already won. I haven't (involuntary) seen ads for several years now. There were a few regressions here and there, but they were all fixed extremely fast. The new fancy ad-block detectors wer
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by Eerie 9y ago
"Tales of Avarice and Cupidity"
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by Eerie 9y ago
You can undo a part of a 10 year sentence by releasing an innocent person earlier. And you can offer monetary compensation. None of this is possible with a death sentence.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Less crap on the Internet.
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by Eerie 9y ago
Disrupt terrorism, or disrupt the media? I'd like BuzzFeed to lead the fight with a good example - by shutting itself down.
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by Eerie 9y ago
>I dont think he wants to play alphago again. Go is a game that relies a lot on confidence: professional players almost never play amateur players casually, for example. Thats because if they lose to an amateur player, it will affect the
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by Eerie 9y ago
Wait, is it self-driving car or self-driving executive?

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