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by Udo 10y ago
The article makes it sound like "quantum decoherence" was the "daunting obstacle that has plagued microtubules" as a concept. This is a lie. What has plagued the concept is that there is no evidence for it whatsoever. Mi
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by Udo 10y ago
> Say a 1080p monitor display is completely randomized, until it shows a clear visible five-pointed star. Given I'm looking at a star, what is the likelihood there is another one on the screen? That's an unnecessarily convolu
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by Udo 10y ago
> If you enjoy probabilistic arguments, then you'll appreciate why I think that B-vN probes are inevitable. You seem to be under the impression that I wasn't familiar with that argument, even though I explicitly described it
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by Udo 10y ago
Not trying to be polemic here, but what then was the point of asking the question that way? I apologize if I read too much into it. I think almost everybody agrees that looking for drones is a worthy endeavor, but it can't be the pivot
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by Udo 10y ago
> If ETs are expected to be found, where are the Bracewell-von Neumann probes? Posing a question like "if [X] was expected, then how come we haven't found [very specific indicator of X]" does not make a lot of sense righ
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by Udo 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted here. You are correct: there is absolutely nothing irrational or supernatural about ET, and when looking for it we should consider ET as an explanation for any given phenomenon with as very low pri
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by Udo 10y ago
Thank you for that link. phys.org - as usual - barely mentions what the signal even is, and contains no information about the structure of those pulses (instead they chose to show one of the least relevant bar graphs I've ever seen twi
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by Udo 10y ago
I just happened to watch a Shenzhen I/O unboxing on Scott Manley's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJU3wIf-v0 Looks very, very compelling :)
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by Udo 10y ago
> My claim is that most AIs won't and we need to ensure that whatever AI is created does. At least we can agree on that. > You specifically said such AI should not be created. I don't see how this is equivalent to me sup
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by Udo 10y ago
> At some point those optimizations will need to account for conflict: humans want X but other beings want Y. Accounting for the possibility of conflicts of interest is entirely different from a priori taking an ethically bankrupt stan
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by Udo 10y ago
> Out of all the animal species on earth, which ones would (if they took over) create a world that is as pleasant for humans to live in as the current one? I see you're trying to create a partisan argument here, that only humanity
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by Udo 10y ago
> I.e., 99.99% of AI designs will be dystopian. Not sure if I consider this a valid premise, much less an intelligent one, but luckily I'm not the arbiter of such things. If this becomes a "number of possible goals times the
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by Udo 10y ago
The problem is at today's state of AI and robotics, we're giving a couple of exceedingly high-powered tools (both physical and virtual) to entities who possess less general intelligence than a cockroach. This is what gives AI doom
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by Udo 10y ago
SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a passionate generalist developer with two decades of experience. I'm focusing on: • games, minigames, and interactive experiences • brow
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by Udo 10y ago
I have no problem believing it's millions. I know many people who got one, some deserved, some not. Last year my mom got one. She died in 2012. It's also worth noting that these letters cost about 1000 Euros each, there is almost
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by Udo 10y ago
Honestly, I think implying that rebuilding the hash table is an O(1) operation is worse. :P But judging by the downvotes I'm getting on that particular comment, it seems that most people agree with you that rebuilding is indeed free. S
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by Udo 10y ago
I'd call that a Seinfeldian twist ;)
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by Udo 10y ago
Read things more carefully before rushing to judgement. I'm not talking about a lookups-only scenario. Of course you can make anything O(1) as long as you arbitrarily define all the parts that aren't as external to the solution,
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by Udo 10y ago
Read what I wrote. Rebuilding is not free.
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by Udo 10y ago
I would not consider a table where the data size of the hashed keys equals the data size of the unhashed keys a hash map. If you got, say, a u8 as a key, and your lookup table uses u8s for keys internally, that's not what most people w
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by Udo 10y ago
> In your specific case maybe you both weren't aware of the nomenclature? Well, "always O(1)" is simply wrong in my opinion. This may be a cultural thing, but I'm used to referring to the worst case behavior in big
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by Udo 10y ago
> if a company chooses such a person as an interviewer then that's a bit of a red flag to me I think the basic corporate rules of signalling competence apply here. Assuming that person was both technologically and socially incompe
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by Udo 10y ago
I wouldn't have worked for the interviewer, it's often just a gatekeeper you need to overcome. Also, when you don't know how to make rent next month and the company seems pretty cool (apart from that person), it's hard t
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by Udo 10y ago
While the article is a bit polemic, I really wish more people knew how hash tables work under the hood. When I was looking for a job, I flunked out of one interview where I got into an argument with an interviewer about the runtime properti
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by Udo 10y ago
That's kind of a bold statement though. If tidal heating is in your opinion not caused by a gravity differential, you're going far beyond and outside the source you linked to, and I would like to hear what alternative you'r
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by Udo 10y ago
Yes, I mean it. There are not a lot of things I would take such risks for, but this is definitely one. And don't get me wrong, I'm a big proponent of life extension and anti-aging research, and an atheist and a transhumanist to
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by Udo 10y ago
I answered that in my comment above, but it was an edit so you probably didn't see it in time. Expanding on that answer, I think you're making a case for DRM here. Mario wasn't supposed to be not-blurry so we shouldn't
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by Udo 10y ago
There is no question about the heritage of 8bit-style art, and whether you find modern renditions ugly or not is not really a concern here. But I would like to point out as someone who grew up in the eighties, people referred to those littl
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by Udo 10y ago
This mantra was also the reason why MagicaVoxel, the "voxel" editor mentioned in the article was received relatively poorly on HN about a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10953918 Yes, so technically
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by Udo 10y ago
> Make no mistake, people are going to die in the first several runs. I agree, and I would even say this is the main challenge of the project long term - whether we have the stomach for seeing hundreds of people blow up on the launch p

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