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There is the intelligence required to play the game and the intelligence required to learn it. As long as the activity of playing Tetris can be labeled as relying on intelligence then the machine can be labeled as an excised expression of s
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> C++ templates and just allow whatever by textual substitution The Julia approach is indeed elegant. An in-between position taken by F# is statistically resolved type parameters, where type safety is maintained and semantics largely pre
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I can't think of a specific example but I do know that there have been times where I have chosen to write a loop as tail recursion and times where I have used mutable variables and a while loop. Why one or the other might be recursion
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It's like, why use one synonym and not the other? Sometimes it's because writing things in an immutable manner makes things clearer. Other code that can benefit are certain coroutines and generators.
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Functional programming is a lot more than just recursion and there's nothing about GPUs that precludes an immutable first array based language with functional programming as core. Google Research's Dex is an example.
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> and arguably sci-hub Inarguably, not arguably. In my mind there is a clear separation between pre and post sci-hub. The stark increase in experienced friction when accessing scientific knowledge since sci-hub's pausing has highlig
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> government bribes Governments mired in corruption, embezzlement of public funds, dumping toxic waste and ignoring infrastructure and human development are not banning crypto out of the goodness of their heart. They're banning it b
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> it's hard to see what's actually the practical benefit of that Its utility is much easier to see if you're stuck in a system rife with corruption and have a general lack of trust in central institutions. A key aspect of
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Unsure about what you mean but the current instability of this type of economy is already very high. What with double digit inflation being hard to tackle due to the feedback loop of corruption fueling too few employment opportunities, bein
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Where I live none of those services are available but cryptocurrency tech is. Connecting to services like patreon or getting small amounts for games on itch.io are headache inducing high friction activities involving several extra third par
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I came here to write something similar: the article does not pay enough attention to changing environments. The dotcom bubble ideas that are now successful do not share the same background environment of internet availability, bandwidth, ne
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You're completely correct that over-exuberance, gambles and scams are playing a large role in the amount of money flowing. It is unclear whether the current level of openness compared to the usually highly elitist gate kept artworld wi
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While I agree such transactions and dynamics make more sense in established widely accessed virtual worlds, status can in fact be manufactured. I can give two examples. In the art world, wealthy collectors will overbid on works by artists w
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NFTs are a form of Status or Veblen good. This means being useless or grossly overvalued, exploiting craftspersons, being exclusive, prices defying reason are all good properties to have. A physical world example is the combination of socia
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NFTs are probably best thought of as a recapitulation of status goods into the digital world, outside video games. The physical good versions has never made sense to me either. Thorstein Veblen already in the late 1800s had pointed out that
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> Opportunity cost of having lots of smart people focusing on cryptocurrency who could have been researching medicine, clean energy, or space tech It's doubtful many of those smart and obsessed enough to contribute to medicine, clea
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> in an absurdly inefficient distributed database Suppose you wanted a distributed system where arbitrary nodes can enter without vetting. You'd need to be robust to adversarial nodes that lie and collude. Distributed consensus unde
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> but realizing what the reasoning could be in retrospect (sort of reverse engineering) Not in this situation. While the chess engine performed a network guided non-deterministic search and returned a result, its neural network did not.
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There is no evidence to suggest cheat codes in reality. The industrial revolution, your example, was a hard lesson against that. Attempts to cheat thermodynamic laws with perpetual motion machines were summarily shot down.
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It isn't necessary either. In chess, as there's no need to worry about interactions between players' information sets, a player can safely apply pure strategies. Winnings approach being maximized over player career by trying
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Yes, I'd say that's a big aspect of what the tools developed in this paper enable.
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A distinction should be made between coming up with a move and understanding the motivation for the move. Incomprehensible moves are going to overwhelmingly be from deep searches while fast polynomial time heuristics such as that would come
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Those considerations are not going to be typical. Every perfect information game will have a pure strategy equilibrium.