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by SanderNL 4y ago
Good point. I am being handwavey, sorry about that. First, I see "AGI" as a real problem we'll have to face at some point. I believe we will be too late by the time we recognize it as a problem, so let's ignore that &q
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by SanderNL 4y ago
(Warning: I'm having a very hard time determining if you are trolling or are for real..) That's not the most alarming use case of this tech. By far. (IMHO) Also, I find this reasoning very off-putting. Putting child porn into a di
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by SanderNL 4y ago
I am no psychologist and as such have no idea what I am saying, but we're on a discussion forum so yeah. Something tells me sex is taboo because of some very fundamental psychological dissonance. Sex by its nature completely shatters a
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by SanderNL 4y ago
Do you have a source for the 50% drop? It seems excessive.
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by SanderNL 4y ago
I get your and the article's drift, but saying it won't come to pass because of grumpy programmers is IMO a bit unfair. I believe it'll come to pass, but it'll take a while because there's not a huge need for it rig
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by SanderNL 4y ago
We want to compete in elaborate made-up games both physical and intellectual, hold fancy parties and dress up and play pretend together and basically have a blast all the time. I don't think we're that hard to decipher. The stuff
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by SanderNL 4y ago
Proprietary software is software that keeps the lights on for the people that work on it. Sun Tzu has figured out a while ago that it's a bad idea to back your enemies into a corner. Like it or not, fighting with your back against a wa
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by SanderNL 4y ago
What makes you so sure an "artifical" system has no qualia? Do you find that hard to believe? Why? Why could having qualia not be some kind of inherent, perhaps emergent property of all systems complex enough to be called intellig
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by SanderNL 4y ago
In my view human intelligence is being cracked open like a nut as we speak. It's a matter of decades - honestly, I think years - before all kinds of shit will hit all kinds of fans. However, irrespective of the societal impact, intelli
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by SanderNL 4y ago
My guess would be free will. Most of us are heavily dependent on this concept being valid. Edit: I guess I was wrong.
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by SanderNL 4y ago
How much is this in micro-Firkins?
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by SanderNL 4y ago
It's productivity porn denouncing productivity porn. It is both excellent and not accomplishing anything. I'm sorry I don't see a problem.
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by SanderNL 4y ago
Interestingly, this post itself is exactly what the author denounces. A lot of words that don't accomplish anything. Not dissing the post, it's excellent. Just pointing out.
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by SanderNL 4y ago
You ask if this stack is "sound". I'd say it is not. Most of the techs you mention are immense, humongous beasts. I'd say drop them all. If you really, really need an "app" instead of wrapping a simple website
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by SanderNL 5y ago
I can definitely tell the author put a lot of time and energy into this article and is generally more intelligent than I am so I'm absolutely not trying to be difficult here, but I.. how to put it.. well, disagree. Kind of. It's c
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by SanderNL 6y ago
As a father of two I can relate with some of the answers here, but I'd like to add an alternative viewpoint here just to give young dads some glimmer of hope. For the first and a half or so we've had a difficult life with the firs
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by SanderNL 6y ago
Why are you guys here on HN still using Chrome? There is literally not a single reason I can think of to be supporting this behemoth that is killing the open web. Firefox is excellent actually and Firebug IMO is far superior to Chrome'
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by SanderNL 6y ago
That is changing though. I've not seen the inside of a train for years and I'm happy with that TBH.
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by SanderNL 6y ago
Lowering our standard to sub-Saharan Africa is a shortcut to extinction. We need science and accompanying "standards" to remain as they are. I'd personally rather look elsewhere before resorting to authoritarianism. What we I
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by SanderNL 6y ago
I get it. The author is in a hurry. But it shows. The article contains perhaps two meaningful units of useful knowledge which the author somehow stretches into multiple pages. No disrespect intended, but to save your own time, you managed t
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by SanderNL 6y ago
The programs do the useful work, the rest is just the kernel.
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by SanderNL 6y ago
While off-putting, these same capitalist forces are what made companies like Pfizer possible in the first place. Where are the socialist factories? I do not see any communist, religious and/or otherwise motivated groups of people produ
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by SanderNL 6y ago
Or even better, make them support open standards that cover the basics but let them play with their own "advanced" custom features.
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by SanderNL 6y ago
> The stated goal of Buddhism is lack of desire. No, actually not as that is totally and utterly physically and mentally impossible. Your body and your mind are _made_ to desire and act, there is no sense in denying this and Buddha sure
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by SanderNL 6y ago
If you ask a layperson, yes sure. Ask a geologist/biologist/whatever. There is order in the chaos. Some things can be said with certain levels of confidence without (direct) evidence. There are patterns you know.