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by Udo 12y ago
It looks like this specific author has looked at happiness primarily as defined by "how good are you feeling at this moment?". The observation is people who are not particularly enjoying their current activity tend to be less focu
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by Udo 12y ago
I see your point, though I would still reserve the word for stuff that is at least an order of magnitude more troubling. Including this comment, I said so three times in different variations, and the fact that we're arguing over this w
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by Udo 12y ago
Evil was the point, I don't think I missed that. It seems to me your point is I failed to recognize how much indignation this caused, but that wasn't really within the scope of the comment I was replying to. And I'm not t
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by Udo 12y ago
I don't think you can characterize it as being evil. There's also no clear ulterior motive for pushing through with the name, and "capitalizing on the name recognition of the Gnome project" is not a valid hypothesis sinc
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by Udo 12y ago
Hats off to the team who made this work with the available power budget, considering the spacecraft was not really designed to go out that far away from the sun. Both Rosetta and Philae would have been an excellent use case for nuclear batt
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by Udo 12y ago
I think disagreeing with a comment is not enough to merit a downvote. I'd rather see downvoting as a signal to the author about the quality of their post - while flagging is a signal to the system itself in cases where the post is unac
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by Udo 12y ago
You are unkind but not entirely wrong. If you read my previous comment closely: that's something which gave us an edge early on but later became an albatross around our necks.
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by Udo 12y ago
> "web agencies" who build shitty typo3 pages en masse This is what our initial success was built on. We had a two-pronged approach. First, in the homeland of typo3, we got massive mileage out of our own CMS product which cou
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by Udo 12y ago
In the early 2000s with a few friends together I founded and ran a web development startup in Germany. Because I had been consulting for advertising agencies since high school, building a service company for agencies seemed like the natural
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by Udo 12y ago
This is so exciting, I wish you all the best. And kudos for live streaming your development progress!
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by Udo 12y ago
They definitely send a signal that success is possible, and even though the advice is (has to be, probably!) quite generic, it's still good to get a distilled overview of what the people who made this journey before us found important
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by Udo 12y ago
In this series there have been a lot of lectures that really resonated with me, while others didn't for various reasons. I don't think you can find out without at least partially watching them.
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by Udo 12y ago
One of my favorite parts from that wall: (THERE IS ONLY LISP) and GROW VAT MEAT! /\_/\ ____/ o o \ /~____ =ø= / (______)__m_m) I DEMAND VEGA
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by Udo 12y ago
No problem, thanks for the quick response!
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by Udo 12y ago
Damn, I was thinking about trying for a "late" application, but apply.ycombinator.com seems to be down. Does anyone know if they still allow this, in principle? Or are batches now so saturated (with good ideas) that they dropped t
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by Udo 12y ago
I agree. With installations specifically built for the maglev board, this could be a lot of fun. But that's not the way it's being advertised apparently.
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by Udo 12y ago
One commenter on the Wired article already said what I was going to write here, so I'll just quote this: " The biggest problem is that everyone INCLUDING this article intentionally ignore one aspect and will not speak it. The hove
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by Udo 12y ago
Inevitably we are working with a lot of assumptions. But the Drake equation is one of the simplest expressions of our reasoning in this area imaginable. There is nothing contrived about the equation itself. You might choose to put in differ
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by Udo 12y ago
By definition there are a lot of UFOs around, the trouble is just that none of them are commandeered by alien intelligences from beyond the Earth. There is no credible evidence for it (although I recognize that credibility standards vary a
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by Udo 12y ago
Hey, I'm part of the conspiracy: I've been to Bielefeld many times! :D (There's a biannual pen&paper roleplaying convention there.)
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by Udo 12y ago
The Human Brain Project is a basic science endeavor, it's not directly related to AGI research. In principle, there are two directions AGI work is going: one is the brain emulation approach, the other is aiming at creating a synthetic
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by Udo 12y ago
Only a minuscule fraction of people who work with/in AI are doing general artificial intelligence. The rest is really more about making sense of the vast and growing amounts of data our world produces. The non-human intelligences that
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by Udo 12y ago
When used to describe a cognitive bias that causes highly skilled people to underestimate/under report their competence level, it is absolutely valid to refer to that as the Dunning-Kruger effect - which is exactly what DonHopkins did.
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by Udo 12y ago
> My views don't have to conform to whatever constraints you expect them to. That's why I asked about your views "over and over", because I wanted to find out how your value system works. There is no need to get tes
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by Udo 12y ago
I was asking because I was fascinated and curious.
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by Udo 12y ago
> Yes, because now you (or I) have choice to procreate. This is bizarre, because we're talking about the same mind, doing the same things for society (or not) - it's just that in one case testicles have a function and in the
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by Udo 12y ago
> But people who can no longer spawn their genes are only conditionally valuable. And that value is assigned conditionally by... you? It's your belief that the value of human life is restricted to its immediate usefulness? > T
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by Udo 12y ago
> If we had uterine replicators, the problem we're discussing would be a non-issue. But, we don't. So it's a huge issue. We have to stay alive, and we're all dead in less than 100 years How can you look at this worl
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by Udo 12y ago
> I'm assuming that the only satisfying way to influense the world is one that includes spreading your genes. We get that, but it's an assumption that depends on your personal value system and on what you personally consider
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by Udo 12y ago
> If procreation and family is not a big goal in your life, then it ain't life. [...] After "the ship has sailed", no choices matter anymore. For your sake, I hope you'll change your view on this eventually. But I a

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