WhiteMonkey

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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
Tim Harford's Undercover Economist has examples of how to get people to self select: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70420.The_Undercover_Eco...
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
You're right, Land Value Tax (LVT) would be much better, as other European cities use. It's hard to off-shore property in a tax haven too. It's one of those policies that is popular with virtually everyone right until the mom
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
Most parts of the world look at McMansions and feel unsettled, particularly when they are marketed as "aspirational": sell your soul in order to get the biggest place you can get a mortgage for on your salary, so you can never lea
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
The other benefit with having multiple projectors/lasers at different angles are that you can use different wavelengths: one that causes polymerisation, one that inhibits it.
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
> Suddenly, no one wants to invest in a company that requires significant capital But this is the point: the reason Uber is successful isn't particularly because of their technical excellence or innovation, it's because they&#x
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
> World's Largest Microgrid Got to be up there (down there?) with World's Smallest Mountain
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
Fundamentally, if a human can drive a car with nothing but two relatively poor eyes with a pretty small field of vision set in a single location inside the vehicle, an AI can be trained to drive using the same inputs - any more sensors are
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
Would these layers be thin enough to be translucent?
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by WhiteMonkey 8y ago
As someone with a BSc. in AI from a university that's been handing them out since the 50s, I, er, disagree.
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by WhiteMonkey 9y ago
Just remember that the extra sensors are a "bonus": if a human being can successfully drive by just using their two eyes in the driving seat, with perhaps 200° range and a couple of mirrors, then an AI can be trained to do the sam
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by WhiteMonkey 9y ago
Human consciousness for one, I'd wager.