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by Sol- 6y ago
And then we end up with a Gerontocracy where 100+ year olds are in charge of humanity's future, no thanks. What good is it to live forever if society stagnates intellectually? You may argue this wouldn't happen or that these treat
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by Sol- 6y ago
Interesting to read about your experience, thanks for sharing!
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by Sol- 7y ago
I sure hope governments will be wise enough to not cooperate with Palantir, which is the embodiment of the worst excesses of surveillance capitalism. Managing the spread of the virus is a critical issue and if some surveillance of the popul
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by Sol- 7y ago
They could import processed goods or simply go without them.
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by Sol- 7y ago
Very interesting. I always disliked that internet meme that Wasps are useless and made to annoy humans, as if anything that doesn't look pleasing to us or is a bit dangerous has no place in nature. It should be obvious that Wasps have
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by Sol- 7y ago
Seems a bit different from modern day algorithmic discrimination. In the 2016 pro publica example, for instance, the algorithm doesn't explicitly consider race but just picks up the fact that black inmates more often have other feature
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by Sol- 8y ago
Is there a reason such research often works bottom-up, from cells to meat? Would it not also be possible to go about it top-down, starting from an existing animal species (pig, chicken, etc.) and modify it via breeding or genetic engineerin
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by Sol- 8y ago
The article implies that both algorithms and the data are at fault, which I don't think is true. It's really just the data, the algorithm reflects the 'truth' it finds in the data. Interesting talk relating to the topic:
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by Sol- 8y ago
Seems like this was a thing before drones too, though. Call in a fake bomb threat, leave an empty bag suspiciously lying around, etc. All things that could asymmetrically disrupt the airport. Granted, the chance to get caught is smaller wit
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by Sol- 8y ago
The average mainland Chinese person may also have legitimately nothing to fear from a social credit system. I'm not defending it, but as long as the system does not escalate (which is probably not a given, despite all the slippery slop
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by Sol- 8y ago
My first thought was that this complements differentially private systems nicely, but seems like it was your intention to use it as a building block for things like that anyway. Very cool work! I think it's really important to have suc
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by Sol- 8y ago
As amazingly plausible the pictures look, I personally have some dislike towards such applications (nothing against the author of course, just about ML in general) because I always feel a bit as if I'm being duped by the neural net. Wh
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by Sol- 8y ago
I guess governments will just skip the prevention step when they realize their own inaction made that impossible and just try to find ways to adapt to the inevitable changes instead. There's pretty much no way, purely for political&#x2
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by Sol- 8y ago
Even if they remove the explicit gender category in their advertising interface, it seems relatively trivial to find proxies for gender (or race, or age, for that matter) to target a specific subgroup of people with your ads. It's poss
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by Sol- 8y ago
The theory really speaks to me, as someone without any strict passion that could be realized in some hypothetical job. But on the flip side, can you then be ever really sure that if you dislike working in a certain field that it's beca
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by Sol- 8y ago
I guess one problem with risks on the web when compared to your house analogy is that automation can make all the difference there. For the specific MITM example automation might be less likely, but on computer networks, even very unlikely
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by Sol- 8y ago
Is ray-tracing a very large improvement for rendering quality or do you have diminishing returns now that "conventional" rendering techniques already employ such good heuristics and approximations to make the scenes look good? Jus
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by Sol- 8y ago
>that Turkey will not climb out of its hole until the country enacts major structural reforms that would undo many of Mr. Erdogan’s constraints. >Those would include allowing a free press, an independent judiciary and returning powers
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by Sol- 8y ago
Their opinions are plainly wrong by any modern standard (i.e. killing "subhumans", etc.), so there's no merit in approaching them on that front. Though as you say, it might be necessary to understand them to prevent such extr
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by Sol- 8y ago
At this point the likely adverse effects are so obvious you would think that the elite of the leading polluters such as the US and China would act even if only for their own self-interest. They won't get away unharmed if the climate ch
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by Sol- 8y ago
I would have the same concern, I imagine the Pi-Hole is best for households only inhabited by tech-affine people. I installed the uBlock Origin addon for some family members and even there they can be easily confused when a website breaks d
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by Sol- 8y ago
Was there a serious attempt to begin with? Yes, there are some efficiency gains and in some developed nations CO2 emissions seemed to stagnate, but much of that seems incidental (for instance partly caused by the Great Recession 10 years ag
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by Sol- 8y ago
Or we could just spend those 400+ billion dollars a year on making life on Earth more sustainable so we buy us plenty of time for space exploration and other long-term pursuits without having to engage of the panicked "get off of earth
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by Sol- 8y ago
Surely a good thing since marking HTTPS as "secure" was always a bit misleading and normal users didn't understand that you were still subject to phishing attempts and such even with an encrypted transport and authenticated s
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by Sol- 8y ago
Even though I also like Zotero better because of its open nature, I prefer Mendeley in practice mostly because it has a decent Android client where you can just sync all your PDFs and read them on a tablet or something. Seemed a bit more in
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by Sol- 8y ago
I don't like him and his delusions of grandeur or his conspiracy theories about the world (some of which turned out to be plausible, though), but at least as far as this embassy business goes, his election meddling doesn't seem re
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by Sol- 8y ago
While I very much endorse the growth theory (within reasonable limits I guess) and have experienced myself that things I didn't immediately find interesting grew on me, the downside for me nowadays is that I never really know whether t
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by Sol- 8y ago
Point-of-sale is pretty trivial computation and costs very little energy. Its value was also obvious. >now many are finding value in blockchain over banks Debatable, people are using it for speculation, yes. But 90% of the people hyping
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by Sol- 8y ago
Before throwing around accusations of political correctness you should consider that questions like that are not new, they have just received more attention now that algorithms decide much more things in life than in the past. For instance,
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by Sol- 8y ago
When I was reading through some algorithmic fairness literature some time ago, I came back a bit frustrated because as the article mentions, the fairness definitions are mutually incompatible (though some seem more plausible than others) an

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