Retra

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by Retra 11y ago
Well they're definitely not going to be incorruptible if you don't pay anyone to do the research necessary to make them that way. There is a huge market for corruptible AI. The way we are doing it now is no worse than completely
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by Retra 11y ago
I'm not ignoring anything, you're just wildly jumping to conclusions.
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by Retra 11y ago
Touché...
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by Retra 11y ago
Congress would not be the first place I'd implement such a thing. I'd start with automated forum moderators and then maybe move on from there once they prove themselves better than humans. Maybe a small civil court handling parkin
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by Retra 11y ago
You're assuming all these things like they are necessary or something? I want computers that don't have those exact problems. That's why it needs more research. So we don't have literal legal readings. We could have ma
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by Retra 11y ago
I still think a lot more research needs to go into it. Specifically in the field of computer ethics, and general AI. (I don't want judges interpreting the law, I want safe machines doing it.)
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by Retra 11y ago
My money is in my checking account. That's where it is. I can't use money from somewhere else. I could put it on a card, but then I still have to pay the card at the end of the month, don't I? In fact, I just recently over-dr
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by Retra 11y ago
I really wish people would take corruption seriously enough to study it as a professional discipline. It is one of the most important and difficult problems in human history, and there's a lot of room for innovation in dealing with it.
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by Retra 11y ago
Except, in your analogy, you are being force-fed alcohol by your landlord, car insurance laws, gas stations, any children you have, public dress laws, ISP, electric company, phone company, and the biological need for food. This puts your de
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by Retra 11y ago
Specifically, this: >"Indexing between elements, instead of indexing elements, helps avoid a large class of off-by-one errors." It only replaces them with indexing-method errors. Instead of remembering if my ranges are open or
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by Retra 11y ago
You're making a distinction that I wasn't; what I've said applies to courting just as well.
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by Retra 11y ago
I love being the center of attention, and I like telling jokes and making people laugh. I'm also very introverted.
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by Retra 11y ago
You're painting an incredibly immature picture of how real relationships work.
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by Retra 11y ago
Maybe don't marry someone who will divorce you simply because your name is on a list?
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by Retra 11y ago
It's important to be able to construct specific meanings. You don't need terms to do that, and you run a major communication risk by relying on terms that you aren't willing to define. And if you define them first, then you c
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by Retra 11y ago
This is what I see when I look at lisp code: (doof-boof "1 3" f1 3 "f1 3" 'f "f3 " f") I love lisp, but I love commas too.
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by Retra 11y ago
Capability matters, and so long as you aren't exploring avenues that could expand your capabilities, you have something more to do.
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by Retra 11y ago
You're not asking what the world is really like, you're asking about whether or not a model of reality is a fiction or not. Physicists model reality. Every model is a fiction. Some are just more useful fictions than others.
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by Retra 11y ago
They can band together and start their own transportation companies. It will be significantly cheaper, now that the trucks don't require wages and health coverage.
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by Retra 11y ago
It's because those people die all at once in a way they can't control or escape. With car accidents, people are perfectly content to believe they are skilled enough drivers to be able to avoid death.
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by Retra 11y ago
There is no need for abstractions to have a strict hierarchy. they're all abstractions -- They employ some measure of indirection -- and thus neither are fundamental or 'real' if you think about it. The words "physical&q
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by Retra 11y ago
That's a non-issue. Everything you've ever experienced is mapped through your perceptions, and thus it's all illusory. Physics is about coming up with language that describes our experiences accurately, not distinguishing bet
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by Retra 11y ago
Algol 60 had conditional expressions. Pretty much every functional language and LISP has them. They've also been in use in mathematics for longer than computers have been around.
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by Retra 11y ago
Maybe people don't find your personal taste relevant.
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by Retra 11y ago
If you don't "feel entitled to get paid," then what do you really have to complain about when someone wants it for free? And don't you think it's a little unfair that you'd attribute to others a "sense of
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by Retra 11y ago
Because content requires attention, and the right to distribute your attention as desired coupled with the right to carefully investigate publicly available information imply it. We are entitled to our culture. And we are entitled to our at
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by Retra 11y ago
Statistics are just plain confusing all around.
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by Retra 11y ago
I think it's a far more offensive grievance to write something like an e-mail address spec that isn't able to be parsed by regular expressions. A problem that I'm sure is compounded by some people's lack of experience us
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by Retra 11y ago
Why would anybody offer a pay-to-avoid-advertising scheme unless they were paying significantly more than the advertisers? Furthermore, if people thought their content were valuable intellectual property, they wouldn't be posting it fo
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by Retra 11y ago
And here's an actual definition of the word (not a list of other useful, related words for use in a broader context:) in·def·i·nite adjective lasting for an unknown or unstated length of time.

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