JamesArgo

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Meditations on Moloch(slatestarcodex.com)
9 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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An Account of Objectification(lesswrong.com)
1 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
This is an example of useless guilt. Strive to blind yourself when there are consequences of your bias, otherwise acknowledge it. Beauty leaks into our perceptions of all other personal qualitative - both men and women are affected by it. S
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Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps(lesswrong.com)
1 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>Or even caring about people's emotions and sense of self, seems to have never occurred to any of them that I have met. But that's not relevant to a community focusing on rational discussion. And it's the exact opposite of
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
I do not understand why there are so many haters of LessWrong. It's not a cult. No one on that site has ever bought into the Roko idea. Also, Roko's post is poorly explained there. However, everyone thought it was nonsense at the
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Use lead-free solder folks; I strongly believe we should keep lead solder the hell away from children.
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The sheer stupidity of artificial intelligence(spectator.co.uk)
4 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|3 comments
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Yes. I just noticed that - an idiotic oversight. I added that in. I think in general I'm more wrong than I thought I was. But at some point it breaks. If all the clones have an IQ of, say, 50 there's no way they would be able to s
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
You're starting to sway me. But suppose we cloned the least-productive 0.001 percent of the population such that they outnumbered us all one hundred to one. Suppose, too, that all resources on earth were multiplied by the same amount.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
You're assuming there's not a more economically efficient use for farmland than feeding really, really, really poor people. The floor for the price will be the opportunity cost of using the land to grow food rather than, say, cove
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
One of my first comments on this site pertained to this issue: >As computers begin to become capable of more and more jobs, the demand for human labor will decline. Automation is qualitatively different from mechanization. Education is a
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
And come to think of it, storing dead bodies in the well was very pro-biotic.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
You're right. It still feels like an unproductive comparison.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>Singularity prediction isn't even taken seriously by most formerly-intrigued SF writers these days. Becoming a science fiction cliche does not reduce the probability of an event occurring. Edit: retracting the following: >The re
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
>Human-level AI is possible. Well we exist, so we know human-level intelligence can be implemented in physics. So we certainly know AI is possible.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
As far as I can tell, the claims of the Singularity are as follows: Human-level AI is possible. Human-level AI will likely be practical this century. Once AI is sufficiently advanced, it will be capable of AI research. Most terminal goals w
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
I find it helpful (in a Zen-like way) to remind myself that civilization is a massive patchwork of hacks.
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
I don't think he's stupid, but he was subconsciously pretending to be. I think maybe wealth can interfere with identity formation. When you can purchase an identity as a kid, you become something of a cypher for awhile. Maybe he w
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Travis Knight is interesting. He's been spoiled all his life, yet he became a highly-competent animator relatively quickly – and this can be verified from other articles. He’s likely highly-intelligent but not extraordinarily so. So
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
Coding has become, relativity recently, high status - so people now care about gender ratios, more so than they do in the fields like carpentry or car mechanics. People are so quick to create vast, economically counterproductive misogynisti
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by JamesArgo 12y ago
The metabolites of MDMA are thought to be neurotoxic. Though it's known the chemical itself is not. In a sane world, we would use drug discovery to find drugs with similar effects but without the toxic metabolites. But we love to punis
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Who By Very Slow Decay(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by JamesArgo 12y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Any simple means of raising IQ would be so powerful economicly that many countries would have a huge incentives to disregard IP agreements. The market for illicit synthisis in contries that enforce monopolies would likely be bigger than mod
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Canada will take anyone with an engineering degree.
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Erik DeBenedictis on supercomputing(intelligence.org)
1 points by JamesArgo 13y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
VR is bigger than gaming, bigger than sports or interactive drama or pornography. It's an alternative world that can be built from the ground up, that will allow us to experiment with new forms of embodiment and society. The whole proc
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Mixers maintain fungibility. If fungibility is lost, I don't see much future for Bitcoin.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Yes, that's the joke. It's not my favourite. A good hacker Koan should end with a non-trivial insight - this one is just trying to be funny, unless I'm missing something deeper.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
The Koan implies Knight was able to fix the machine by power-cycling because he, unlike he novice, understood what was going wrong.

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