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by _yosefk 11y ago
Actually, unlike controlling humans, whatever that means, it's very easy to limit the impact of AI - all you have to do is treat advanced chip fabrication processes the way nuclear technology is treated, and put a legal limit on proces
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Free market capitalism is not going to give me a non-x86-based PC ecosystem even if I want it, because not enough other people want it to justify the required investment. Of course for say $30G/year one could get it, and you can get wh
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by _yosefk 11y ago
You got that "cheek" impression towards the end , and it was the USSR bit that did it? Meaning that the first paragraph, states always caring for their citizens, sounds sensible? Now that scares the shit out of me.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's a good thing that states and state-owned enterprises always optimize for the well-being of their citizens and customers - after all, that's what they're supposed to do! It never happens that, being largely unaccountable,
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, it certainly makes the argument less persuasive because it doesn't fit with all the other parts. I think my original version is better. In seriousness - actually comets are a lot like car accidents (if you believe that comets are
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, many individual people, not just "states", fear terrorists more than car accidents and while it's statistically irrational given the number of fatalities due to each cause at a normal year, there is something rational a
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by _yosefk 11y ago
It's appropriate as long as it is of interest to the audience is the policy, is it not? And this here member of the audience has just upvoted it, finding it more interesting then the rising inequality between Edward Snowden and Brendan
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by _yosefk 11y ago
100 basis point is 1% (why they don't just call it 1% I don't know, that'd be more readable for 9900 BP of readers...) Now, 100 BP is what, 10x larger than the long-awaited "first rate hike in a decade"? Why do they
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Well, these things are fun to hack on and then each might solve a part of the generally near-unsolvable problem, and for each such part there are people caring about that part the most so the solution has its uses. (Incidentally, my own p
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Not that I'm against progressive taxation, but I never understood how taxation not being theft tells us exactly how much Bill should pay. Theoretically if you have defined objectives you ought to wonder how much is the right amount get
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It said that the changes in mice due to changes in nutrition were reversible but changes in the offspring of mice with altered diets seemed permanent. That's "derailed evolution", isn't it?
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I wonder what humans could do with "us" (you? them?) if "we" selectively bread them for hundreds of generations!
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Couldn't it actually be easier for the owner to fire, overall? You could make it much more responsive to the trigger if you assumed that it knows you're actually trying to fire it, not? I heard there's a trade-off today betwe
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Why wouldn't someone who wants to buy a gun want one that only he can fire? It's cool and it might reduce one's chances to get hit from behind by someone wishing to take the gun. (An honest question from someone who never wan
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I think it's good enough for the target audience to have gotten the message if they ever saw it though.
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The difference is you can legally buy a TV with your legally earned money. The grandparent's "shit government", on the other hand, payed you an amount of money it figured you deserved regardless of the actual demand for your
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by _yosefk 11y ago
The page's actual title is "...become Upwork freelancer", which is fairly specific and not click-baity IMO. (It looks like the HN title is the same now, changed from just "become a freelancer.")
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Sovereignty means that you have a monopoly on using force within your borders. When you infringe on the interests of foreigners, the foreign sovereign might have objections, and I don't understand how this fact is inconsistent with you
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IMO very few people who could become good engineers would choose to do so with basic income available that essentially lets them live a so-called "life of the mind." Just an opinion, of course.
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Indeed, technology leading to unemployment is happening right now while a Skynet-style AGI is IMO tremendously unlikely. However, "everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared" depends on
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Why should sovereignty mean that you can disregard the rights of foreigners any more than owning a home should result in a right to take a guest's wallet at gunpoint? Whether or not either of these situations is morally desirable, I do
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Driving up housing prices is in itself indicative of income, not status. Of relevance is the following snippet from http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/ "Does the staggering wealth of particular engineers and prog
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Also because they have computers. When they didn't have them, somehow the tax code was shorter: http://www.berglas.org/Articles/ImportantThatSoftwareFails/I...
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I meant that they willingly took it themselves, not that it was administered forcefully. I called it "bombing" because the original comment called it a "love bomb", in all likelihood because of the assumed magnitude of t
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So... have you known people who've undergone this chemical love carpet-bombing who are tremendously peaceful, between themselves or with people who were not similarly treated? Because I've known a lot of people who used a variety
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I plan to write about it; the thing is, the Reduceron is not a more performant machine when all is said and done. Memory costs you a lot in area and power and throwing channels at the problem needlessly and saying youve solved the von neuma
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Isn't it obvious after all these years that gpus or fpgas give hlls nothing?? Nobody actually runs hlls there, even! And everyone had years and years to try! On these machines in reality hll performance blows much much harder than on c
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MIPSy = closer to MIPS, the actual ISA.
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Yeah, but * mips didnt have predication to begin with * arm didnt have delay slots to begin with * and then afaik 64b arm uses more registers and removes shifter operands So definitely more mipsy.
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In 2015 I find the claim that you could beat Intel by 1000x with a better arch much more idiotic than I did in 2008. Because apart from it being idiotic from a technical standpoint I'm now dumbfounded by the extent of its idiocy from t

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