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by afthonos 9y ago
I would challenge you to power off Amazon's or Google's infrastructure. Because a dangerous AI won't live in a desktop; it will live in a geographically replicated system, across multiple power grids and legal jurisdictions—a
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by afthonos 9y ago
I know people who used to play varsity sports in high school and college, and, even at that level, moving past those years was difficult. They had come to really enjoy being in stadiums full of people cheering. I can only imagine how much m
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by afthonos 9y ago
When presented with a statement, what matters is the probability that the statement is true. The credibility of a source is strong evidence in this regard and can be used to sway the probability mightily. You're right, of course, tha
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by afthonos 9y ago
Depending on context, it can be important. Too often, corporate behavior is explained by saying that the “only responsibility” of a corporation is to “maximize shareholder value”. The words “only responsibility” are not descriptive, but pre
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by afthonos 9y ago
…I think he was joking that Pinboard is still around.
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by afthonos 9y ago
> No one is saying that curing diseases is bad. But the fact is our lives will always be blighted with something, if not Disease A then it's Disease B and if not Accident C. But our entire history has seen us making it safer to be a
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by afthonos 9y ago
> Let's not pretend ... if babies can be artificially created, why not tweak its genes a little bit? Why not indeed? We have taken, or are trying really hard to take, natural selection out of the equation for ourselves. Doing so wit
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by afthonos 9y ago
Are you sure that's not the availability heuristic talking? People who accumulate wealth gradually over a lifetime of not getting lattes don't make for flashy stories, and by definition aren't flashy themselves. In addition t
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by afthonos 9y ago
Yes, please, do something about this. Talk to your friend. Call the cops. Leave an anonymous tip and try to follow up. Something . Custom, law, and your own sense of right say so. Billy isn't the villain—but is he the role model you a
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by afthonos 10y ago
The idea was that they would borrow enough money to buy a majority of Apple's stock, and then repay the loan with the cash reserves. For that to work, the cash reserves must be close to half the value of the company. Since Apple's
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by afthonos 10y ago
In the US, the law is a combination of the written letter of the law and the interpretation courts have given to that letter via precedent. This extends to the Constitution. If there aren't rulings about an issue close enough to the on
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by afthonos 10y ago
They did not affirm that the First Amendment was not violated; they explicitly ruled it had. What they affirmed was that it was not so obviously violated that every officer should have known it, and therefore the officers were entitled
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by afthonos 10y ago
Note that each level you've selected makes it more likely that they're sympathetic to you. Nation: shared culture. State: shared local culture. Town: shared understanding of what's considered acceptable here . There's o
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by afthonos 10y ago
That's the whole (original) point though. Historically, people would be taken away from people who had known them all their lives, be accused of something fantastical, and be condemned on the strength of he-said, she-said. In the speci
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by afthonos 10y ago
True and fair, yet see pc86's comment and my reply to it for exactly the kind of confusion that can arise. :-)
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by afthonos 10y ago
With the caveat below (i.e. maybe it's a term of art that I don't understand), I think that's precisely the misunderstanding I'm talking about. Say I want to buy stock in a company. To decide which, I look at what analys
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by afthonos 10y ago
I'm not so sure. "Analysts Miss X Results" immediately makes you wonder "why", which is a fair question. "X Misses Expectations" instead makes you think X had a bad quarter. I think forcing people to make
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by afthonos 10y ago
Orthogonal to my peeve. :-) After earnings, there are two questions: 1. How did X do? 2. How did analysts think X would do? Perfect analysts would predict Xs earnings every time, and the stock would be unaffected by announcements.
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by afthonos 10y ago
Personal pet peeve: the map is not the territory. Alphabet didn't miss anything; the analysts mispredicted performance.
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by afthonos 10y ago
I find the asymmetrical warfare argument…weird. Afghanistan as a nation has been in a state of massive system failure for decades. Is that really the hope guns offer? “If the government goes ballistic, our guns will ensure we end up like Af
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An Introduction to ReactiveCocoa(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
1 points by afthonos 11y ago|0 comments
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by afthonos 12y ago
BoomTown | Atlanta, GA | Lead iOS engineer We’re BoomTown: a successful web real estate CRM platform that is building its mobile experience from scratch. We are looking for a lead for a team working in Swift, using ReactiveCocoa and all the
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Types as Units(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
3 points by afthonos 12y ago|0 comments
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Study finds possible alternative explanation for dark energy(phys.org)
20 points by afthonos 12y ago|8 comments
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Understanding Optional Chaining(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
1 points by afthonos 12y ago|0 comments
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Optionals? If We Must(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
5 points by afthonos 12y ago|0 comments
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by afthonos 12y ago
Yes, it could be, but that doesn't change the variance of the container itself. For instance, if instead of counting, which was admittedly a bad example, I had wanted to feed the animals, that would not have worked. (Sorry for the dela
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Type Variance in Swift(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
4 points by afthonos 12y ago|2 comments
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Error Handling in Swift: Might and Magic–Part II(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
3 points by afthonos 12y ago|0 comments
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Error Handling in Swift: Might and Magic(nomothetis.svbtle.com)
4 points by afthonos 12y ago|0 comments

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