VladKovac

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by VladKovac 10y ago
I was just using the extreme example of the comparison of low-skilled workers in the two countries. Even in the opposite extreme I have no particular sympathy, in my mind it's analogous to one American programmer losing her job to anot
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Sorry, I don't feel bad for any of these people. Even the poorest Americans have better material conditions than a lot of Indian workers. Why do you think the Indian workers are willing to work for less?
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Don't forget that the Copenhagen people also haven't really answered the Born problem, they just lump it into the black box of "collapse".
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Since when is that the Copenhagen school? I think there are people like that in every school, but the specific claims of the Copenhagen interpretation (like wavefunction collapse) are not the simplest.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
That's fine until you start talking about a magical collapse process that happens conveniently at sufficiently large scale. IMO postulating additional non-local, non-unitary, ftl, etc. collapse process is strictly more complicated.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Quantum mechanics given a single world would have to be nonlocal based on bell's theorem. Only Many Worlds can give a local account which might work.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Why is many worlds far fetched? We observe it in a smaller scale in experiments when you pass light through a half silvered mirror. It's just the logical extrapolation of that observation to the macro scale.
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by VladKovac 10y ago
If you actually read the article it says "there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work". In other words this title is click-bait bullshit, it was up to the curators discret
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by VladKovac 10y ago
Please do Cryonics. If you're skeptical read this: http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html
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by VladKovac 11y ago
The reason they don't have roadmaps to AGI is because they do not want AGI to be made before the Friendly AI problem has been solved. When you think about the vast space of mind design space, plus all the ways we've made mistake
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by VladKovac 11y ago
Isn't this a good thing? Why are high IQ people devoting their entire lives to a game? Maybe this will make them shift their priorities to solving problems that only really smart humans (like them) can solve.
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by VladKovac 11y ago
I mean if you intentionally increase the entropy of your model, sure. But knowing the average person has 1 testicle and 1 ovary is still better than if you really didn't know anything about that before.
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by VladKovac 11y ago
Hold on though, statistics actually work in real life. If you're taking into account base-rates based on measurements of "normality" or "regularities" you will win more on average. It doesn't matter how you cho
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by VladKovac 11y ago
Referencing 1984 is childish in this context, we're talking about obtaining a warrant for known suspects or already convicted persons. The enemy isn't ambiguous, you're purposely muddying their image.