HONEST_ANNIE

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by HONEST_ANNIE 5y ago
Liberal cosmopolitan cities can thrive as a subculture society. Not going against each other is the real meaning of tolerance–liking, approving, or supporting is not necessary. Geographic sorting between fractured and non-fractured is dang
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Timeline of Science Fiction Ideas, Technology and Inventions(technovelgy.com)
3 points by HONEST_ANNIE 5y ago|0 comments
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by HONEST_ANNIE 5y ago
The Brazilian Amazon rainforest released more carbon than it stored over the last decade.
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Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that deforestation in the Amazon(nature.com)
2 points by HONEST_ANNIE 5y ago|1 comments
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by HONEST_ANNIE 6y ago
Hanson’s model is an ecological model. It assumes that modeled entities don’t reflect the model and respond to it. With intelligent agents simple ecological modelling may not work. You need to use game theory and strategic thinking. Assumin
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by HONEST_ANNIE 6y ago
Why I Am Not A Technocrat by E. Glen Weyl https://blog.radicalxchange.org/blog/posts/2019-08-19-bv61r6...
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by HONEST_ANNIE 6y ago
Every Kurzweil's prediction that came true is riding on the advances with semiconductors and networking. Even many of the true predictions are 'on the way' in the sense that they exist but the impact for the society is not
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by HONEST_ANNIE 6y ago
Good selection. 'Return from the Stars' is more relevant today than it was when it was written. Its a story about sociocultural evolution and Lem clearly has a deep insight. (the book has tablet computers and e-paper too).
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by HONEST_ANNIE 6y ago
> I realized that the world in which Hillary won wouldn't be a happy world either. Because all of the drivers of the stress we feel today — minus one — would still be very much be present." TV show The Good Fight Season 4, Epis
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
It's bad in the same sense as "No true Scotsman" singles out the Scotsmen. Selecting easy to remember overly specific representatives is just way human mind works.
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
What is more immediate problem to solve: AI-to-Zuck or AI+Zuck alignment? 1) AI-to-Zuck alignment problem: Align AI to it's master(s). 2) AI+Zuck alignment problem: Align AI and it's master(s) to the rest of the humanity. Zuck is
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
The book 'The Space Merchants' (1952) from Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth describes this type world. World is run by ad companies (FB, Google,...) who select political leaders. People have to be careful on the street not to
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
As I said in other comment illegality increases harmful effects. Culture among users is also important factor. Adderall is the new reintroduction of meth into the society.
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Illegality increases harmful effects. Methamphetamines were used legally long time before they became illegal. Paul Erdős was probably the most famous (amphetamine and methylphenidate) user. Using meth when studying was also common. Metham
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Imagine a sci-fi story where you encounter human settlement that consumes solvent that is known to causes violence and accidents and is addictive carcinogen. The inhabitants use various methods to add little taste into it, bottle it into f
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Movies for the large audience must always entertain, but you can entertain different ways. It's hard to describe what the 'Cinema' way is but it's easy to recognize when it's absent. Here is a short list of things t
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
TalkToTransformer for the 1st: CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS. IT'S BEEN FINE FOR 100 YEARS. BUT HONESTLY, IF THE REASON YOU CAN'T KEEP A CONFESSION TO A FRIEND IS THAT THEY'VE TAKEN YOUR MONEY, HOW CAN YOU
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Who still remembers MegaHAL? The source of wisdom like: CHESS IS A FUN SPORT, WHEN PLAYED WITH SHOT GUNS. and COWS FLY LIKE CLOUDS BUT THEY ARE NEVER COMPLETELY SUCCESSFUL.
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Bob belongs to a race that turns masculine when called with a name as it sounds when you read it left to right and feminine when you read it from right to left.
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Adams was extreme procrastinator. He could not self-manage his work once he had wealth and had no need to write for living. Once his editor rented cheap hotel room, removed all distractions and hovered over him until the book was done. A
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
I find this theory compelling. Bob the Hacker was running artificial life simulation where the physics was classical Newtonian, space Euclidean and only the surface of the Earth was accurately simulated. When humanity developed better instr
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
Howto prove you are a God: Create a json file {"msg":"I am a God. My name is Bob.", "sha256":"78A873E..."} where the hash is the checksum of the file including the checksum. It would be
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
What you describe is the core issue in existentialist philosophy. Being free means having the freedom to choose the meaning for yourself. That kind of freedom of purpose and ultimate responsibility can be horrifying. " Meaning is eve
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
" Nothing in the world is the way it oughta be. It’s harsh…and cruel…but that’s why there’s us…champions. It doesn’t matter where we come from, what we’ve done, or suffered. Or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world
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by HONEST_ANNIE 7y ago
I'm constantly surprised how three Sci-fi classics together describe the dimensions in the world where we live in. These books combine together to form the parameter space for our world. 1. 1984 by George Orwell: totalitarianism, teles
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
Modern day scifi version: OpenAI stops publishing their models. There are rumors that Geoffrey Hinton wrote a letter to the president. Deep Mind,Google Brain, FAIR go all silent. AI researchers stop updating their twitter and don't re
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
The Lebowski theorem: "No superintelligent AI is going to bother with a task that is harder than hacking its reward function" is surprisingly deep. You can see the theory in action in human history. We have drives programmed by ev
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The World According to Stanisław Lem (2016)(lareviewofbooks.org)
56 points by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago|2 comments
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
Is he underrated? I have always understood that everyone agrees that he is one of the greatest sci-fi writers ever. His writing and philosophy has depth and he understood the future would be interaction between the society and technology. M
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by HONEST_ANNIE 8y ago
I predict that the porn industry will be the first industry to suffer mass unemployment due to AI. Phase I: Deep learning combined with realistic physics simulation will eventually replace human actors. At some point amateurs can recor

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