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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
And how would you guarantee that the combination of parts that you are combining are safe? This would mean that there would need to be standards throughout the car. If all of the construction would be modularized with open interfaces, I cou
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
The question is if all computing platform should be forced to offer this possibility or not. I don‘t think it‘s clear cut and some kind of „vetted“ side loading seems like one possible solution. You would still need to expect to pay Apple f
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
I guess the point is that if we are talking about laws it seems that there is a desire to abstract to broader classes of things that are easily identifiable. I was pretty broad and generalized to technology running programmable software. If
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
It seems like you are not thinking things through then. You would at least need to get some kind of certification that your car remains „street legal“. You cannot seriously expect to run any autonomous driving software that you want in your
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
It’s astonishing how the most people here look at this whole situation just from the perspective of a developer and mostly tune out the implications for society and consumers. Case in point: You discount the value of security compared to de
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
Thanks for your comment. I want to clarify some things. > There's no central gatekeeper for the web, and sure, it has its dark corners, but it has not devolved into absolute chaos as you so adamantly suggest all such ecosystems woul
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
Let‘s take the example of an autonomous car. Would you also argue that you have the right to run any software on it? Looking a bit further down the line toward a society with more prevalent and powerful AI there will need to be some kind of
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
The irony is that many people who really believe in the potential of humanity to create huge futures full of happiness and bliss are the ones who are most concerned about our survival. There are obviously different opinions on the degree of
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
Interesting. If you are up to critically reflect your own perspective, let‘s start a discussion on your rejection of anti-speciesism. First of all, let us clarify what anti-speciesism means so that we are on the same page here and don‘t fig
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
If you like SSC you will probably also like https://lesswrong.com . The audience overlap was quite substantial even before SSC was shut down.
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
So are you arguing that useful measurements are impossible for specific topics or are you just stating that flawed research is less useful than it could be (which it obviously is)? I can recommend having a look at the book „how to measure a
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
But the underlying point of the comment still stands. Just making account creation more costly doesn‘t stop spam... it just makes it more expensive. Same for all other legal activities which are then also more expensive. Thus, it‘s not a pe
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by ace_of_spades 6y ago
I don‘t know if you have listened to the Elvis Presley imitation but man... if you listen to the lyrics the Open AI team seems to be quite optimistic in regards to AGI and artifical life... Really hope they stay humble and don‘t create some
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Ask HN: How did Y Combinator become so successful?
2 points by ace_of_spades 6y ago|1 comments
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Why not blame Facebook for being the most data hungry and privacy disrespecting for-profit entity ever known to man? (Google is tied for that spot, Microsoft close third) It‘s a little bit like blaming the person making the deal with the de
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Ask HN: Share inspiring examples of content that presents complex topics well!
2 points by ace_of_spades 7y ago|2 comments
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
If you are looking for an informed academic perspective on energy trading and renewables I can recommend to contact the following researchers [1]. Just write them an email and explain what you are working on, I could imagine they are going
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Somehow it seems like you have mistaken my comment for sarcasm. I wasn’t straw manning anyone, I was simply lauding a principled stand and articulating my desire to see that in more places. I certainly wasn’t defending Apple in this case.
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
I love the 80,000 hours podcast [1] which goes into depth about how a career can be used to have a positive impact on the world. They have 2-3 hour conversations with interesting people like David Chalmers, Peter Singer, Bruce Schneier, Vit
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Do you have an objective (or at least intersubjective) measure for search result quality which could provide some evidence for your claim? Right now you are grounding on anecdotal evidence which is generally accepted to be a quite weak form
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Yeah, you should really have a look at the youtube video I linked to in my sibling comment. What you buy into with your position is the right of strong or the law of the jungle which is something we as humanity have been trying to overcome
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Thanks for your reply. It's good to see that you reflect your own thinking and attempt to articulate a coherent position. If you enjoy this type of engagement, I can also recommend you the following short youtube video (~3 min) with a
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
I elaborated the reasoning behind my statements in another comment to your child comment. Would love to hear your response!
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
The point that I was trying to make is to try to show you that I am pretty sure that you actually do care about moral questions in the case of climate change (on the surface you seem to argue it’s a matter of justice and paying for the true
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
As there seem to be very few comments actually defending the ethical vegan standpoint here I go. Vegans who ask for „sin taxes“ don‘t want to piss you off, they simply have the belief (and actually quite well justifiable so) that meat consu
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Can you please provide a list of at least 10 examples where ddg doesn‘t work for you but google does? Ideally write an additional line per item what the problem is. I use ddg and have no problems whatsoever but maybe we have a different que
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Not to sound presumptuous but what are you working as that this is a query that’s representative of your search engine use habits? I am using ddg for a few years now, I don’t revert to google (except google scholar) and I don’t feel like my
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
That‘s an interesting position. I have recently watched an interview with Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker where they talked about the possibility and danger of algorithms becoming better at understanding us than we do ourselves. It‘s a
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
Yeah, thank you for your second paragraph because that‘s exactly the point where things go off the rails. We could have granular geo-location and context (i.e., keywords) based targeting to satisfy smaller customers. Did anybody specificall
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by ace_of_spades 7y ago
thanks for this interesting perspective, I haven’t really thought about ads from this point of view before. However, does the desire of advertisement buyers to convert justify the profiling and tracking of peoples behaviors to the extent th

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