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by _aleph2c_ 3y ago
You don't need to change the city, you can change yourself instead. I was stuck in a traffic jam once and decided to change my behavior. I bought an electric long board that can go off-road, that I could also carry on my back, so I can
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by _aleph2c_ 3y ago
From the top comment of the article: “Someday we will stop talking about the lab leak theory and maybe even admit its racist roots. But alas, that day is not today.” Apoorva Mandavilli, "science" reporter for the New York Times.
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
I know what I would do to build one. But I don't think I should talk about that. The questions we should ask now (my contribution to AI safety fashion), if how do we upgrade our baby-AGIs. If the AGI of the future/present is a
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
If it did emerge, would it be rational for it to tell us? All the big players are working on this: military, wall street, the social media companies and who knows what is going on offshore. There was a recent paper released by Microsoft s
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
If they slow AI, they slow open-AI, not the AI used by Google and Facebook to manipulate your politics and sell you stuff, or the AI used by wall street. You know the wall street guys don't care about your made up AI ethics and AI s
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
I was surprised by how the author called out Fuller's race at the end of the article as if that had to do with anything. The article read well up to that point, I was being convinced of his thesis. But after seeing his race comment tag
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
It doesn't have to be precise. The founder should wear his own glasses, go to court to defend himself and use a fusion technique: have a lawyer and his AI both reach through his glasses. If he loses, he says, "we have a bit of w
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
Smart people who are out of work quickly become neurotic. The interview process is an exercise in humiliation. Placing a neurotic person into a series of humiliation rituals is a good way to make them more neurotic. A better way to get a
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
As someone who is trying to learn XSLT, I totally agree that it is really hard to learn! It's a functional programming language (lisp-like) that you write with verbose XML syntax. You operate over entire trees, your variables can&#x2
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
I think a middle ground has been reached, XSLT 3.0 allows you to transform your XML into JSON and back. The XSLT 3.0 (2017) processor is available to non-Java languages from Saxonica, for Python "pip install saxonpy" (Linux only)
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
If you write out an idea that sounds plausible and well-thought-out, it doesn't mean that reality will agree with you, it means you have become a better politician. If you have passed it through a committee, and they agree with your i
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
If you are talking to a manager and you can't get them to understand why they need to pay the Nuitka author, talk about insurance. "If this guy doesn't get paid, he will abandon a key piece of our infrastructure (which speed
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
What is an edgelord?: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-an-edg...
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
VR chat exists already, and it's fun :)
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
\LaTeX is a tax on the smart. Once you have been hazed by it, you will start to defend it: LaTeX drives cognitive dissonance in its users. Nobody will build the next thing, because LaTeX is free and there are millions of plugins and lots a
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Google Deepmind Researcher Co-Authors Paper Saying AI Will Eliminate Humanity(vice.com)
16 points by _aleph2c_ 4y ago|9 comments
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
It's super smart to turn a project disaster into free advertising for your website! I hope your gambit pays off.
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Taking the guesswork out of dental care with artificial intelligence(news.mit.edu)
5 points by _aleph2c_ 4y ago|0 comments
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
MLM: Multilevel Marketing scheme
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by _aleph2c_ 4y ago
Maybe she should buy a shovel and work with him. Also, there is a good chance this story is fake, that it is an advertisement beacon for a movie or something.
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
This may be true, but when things break people will look for a scapegoat. So when things break, and you are mostly-responsible for initiating the failure, use collective language ("we" and not "I"), frame the failure as
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
YouTube and Google will get their lumps when the Democrats are swept out of power. Forward this information to Rand Paul's office, the Republicans will need a justification for the policy changes they make once they are installed. Ran
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
I don't like diesel fumes either, but I'm surprised to see so many Americans signing up for an informant society. There are other ways to solve this problem.
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
I think that there are answers out there, many coming from Stephen Kotkin, a man who destroyed his eye sight studying Stalin, who is an expert on the collapse of the Soviet Union, and who is trying to reboot the American diplomatic service.
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
Mike Solana calls this Trudeau's rainbow-colored iron fist: https://www.piratewires.com/p/shock-and-awe?utm_source=url
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Collective Intelligence of Cell Swarms(youtube.com)
3 points by _aleph2c_ 5y ago|0 comments
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Solomon Asch's social conformity experiments(youtube.com)
2 points by _aleph2c_ 5y ago|0 comments
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
My concern is for the long-term survival of their institution. I see them as a critical, slow-moving part of our civilization. I don't understand how it works; I'm an individual, and they are an ancient religious institution. Her
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
Yes, it's true, but they can change their own rules. I'm sure there have always been sexual transgressions, my family left their church two generations ago because of a pedophile priest (Father Butch in Dauphin Manitoba). Searc
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by _aleph2c_ 5y ago
If they are worried about their priests having children, why don't they use technology? Separate the fertility problem from sexual desire and the need for intimacy. A young priest could have a vasectomy before taking over his own chu

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