FeepingCreature

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by FeepingCreature 13y ago
> When scientist thought they found particles travellig faster than light speed they checked the results, then the equipment, and then they assumed they had made a mistake and asked other people to check the numbers and the experiment. A
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by FeepingCreature 13y ago
Firefox has to work with the internet as it is, not the internet as we wish it were.
2823.
by FeepingCreature 13y ago
Well, I've read most the docs, let's say _skimmed_ the code examples, and I think you're a very smart, competent engineer with a sense of what makes for good language syntax that is utterly, incomprehensibly alien to me. So I
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by FeepingCreature 13y ago
The alternative, as I see it, is to let people add new keywords to the language from inside the language, so there's feature parity again.
2825.
by FeepingCreature 13y ago
Spread the word of .Xcompose?
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by FeepingCreature 14y ago
http://www.alcor.org/cryomyths.html > Alcor has no company owners to profit from cryonics, salaries are modest, and the Board of Directors serves without pay.
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by FeepingCreature 14y ago
As a bet, its possibility of payoff is consistent with the rest of what we know about the world, as opposed to religion, which is inconsistent. Furthermore, there are cases where things similar to this were done successfully, so extrapolati
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by FeepingCreature 14y ago
I'm assuming that as an author of fairly hard sci-fi Banks would not mind overmuch if he was resurrected as a "mere" upload. The point of cryo is once the initial damage is done, no additional information loss to entropy occurs, so you can
2829.
by FeepingCreature 14y ago
I'm pretty sure he's still for AI research, he just realized he'd been irresponsible about it. I'd much rather people change their mind as they gain greater understanding, as long as they document the reasoning.
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by FeepingCreature 14y ago
He himself doesn't even agree with his response. In the Reddit open thread on the topic he said he reacted rashly because the idea that somebody would be smart enough to come up with it and then stupid enough to post it publicly (his words,
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by FeepingCreature 14y ago
The singularity idea does not care how the self-improvement feedback occurs.
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by FeepingCreature 15y ago
I think the idea is to differentiate between mutable and immutable data, ie. "worked on" and "final". I don't know what that would give you with regards to GC though.
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by FeepingCreature 15y ago
> For that matter, I don't even know if Steam would let me access my US-bought materials from another country. Yes.
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by FeepingCreature 17y ago
I never read The Book, instead learning the language entirely by the spec. It's honestly not that hard.
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by FeepingCreature 19y ago
And it's 0. Bignum Overflow.