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by aje403 9y ago
Most people are idiots. Consider that half of the population (hypothetically) has less than a 100 IQ score. Idiots did different things together 100 years ago and, 1000 years before that, groups of idiots would get together to raid and rape
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by aje403 9y ago
If it took much longer than that for bugs like this, all of the HN doomsday posts about the Facebook mass exodus might actually come true
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by aje403 9y ago
If only. Analogy is more like the bastardization of an Ideal Form
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by aje403 9y ago
They are a decent proxy for intelligence. It is fairly hard getting a 2400 SAT or a 340 GRE or a 180 LSAT. College and grad schools involve taking cramming for and studying for a lot of tests. Your first point is a bit of a non sequitur.
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by aje403 9y ago
There won't be because it still actually is useful governments and businesses. They can tangibly use it to increase their functioning/profits - that was not the case during the AI winter. Computers sucked, data sucked, and there w
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by aje403 9y ago
Yes, he's probably aware, but hopefully we're not coming to one. Machine learning was a lot less useful in the 1980s. There's still a lot of amazing (and unfortunate) uses for machine learning for government and business left
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by aje403 9y ago
Which is what he's saying, the use of the term is because of the extremely-vague-homeomorphism implied by the structure Unfortunately, the word choice can lead to "they've gots em a neural networks and an AI singularities and
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by aje403 9y ago
Things are bought and sold on the market. At this point, saying anything much past that is just biting into trollbait.
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by aje403 9y ago
So wait, okay, in the 1800s state-and-gold-backed banks issued legal tender in lieu of anything else, this is a fair analogy to cryptocurrency and anybody against cryptocurrency just wants to see people in jail
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by aje403 9y ago
Exactly - Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Perhaps we can tap the Winklevii's expertise to audit the SEC for malfeasance
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by aje403 9y ago
Cryptocurrency markets have absolutely nothing to do with forex markets and the suggestion that they share commonalities or should be compared together is both deceptive, ignorant, and perpetuates a volume of misinformation
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by aje403 9y ago
Good point. HODL to the moon, grandma! For the record, the SEC won't ban cryptocurrency. They want technology (in general) to stay here and potentially evolve into something that can be useful and provide jobs and value someday, so you
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by aje403 9y ago
Of course they would have laughed in their face. Do you see Nasdaq trying to list Dogecoin? There is no ambiguity or uncertainty here - there is a big problem and they're trying to reign it in with gloved hands before it becomes one an
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by aje403 9y ago
Reasonable conclusions that don't stretch evidence get less attention
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by aje403 9y ago
I think the article is just stupid "do you know who you are nonsense". I've been a morning person and a night person at and I've had different ambitions and widely personality traits at different intervals of my life. On
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by aje403 9y ago
I don't think the US belongs next to Mexico on a chart titled Child Poverty. Considering the 3rd highest upvoted comment on this thread is describing how cryptocurrency is going to save the American middle class, I don't have much
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by aje403 9y ago
Oh now I get it, what an excellent metric devoid of bias, not meant to deceptively grab attention, can we put Kenya on the graph too to show how much less income inequality and poverty their children are subjected to relative to the US?
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by aje403 9y ago
Why are they placing the US next to Mexico on a chart of "children living in poverty" and using the world "relative" to disguise that
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by aje403 9y ago
Your point is not relevant to what I am arguing. High income and high estate taxes exist in the same world as wealth and I think they should be higher than they are now - the wealthy use considerably higher resources than the rest of societ
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by aje403 9y ago
This isn't how human society works. If you don't want to live in a world where individuals with considerably more ambition and intelligence than you who have built industries and consolidated empires and have been rewarded for doi
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by aje403 9y ago
I'm really not sure what that is...that some are forced to be that way but secretly want to act ethically? The people who get promoted to this spot tend to fall into the culture of the industry and company, and they've been extens
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by aje403 9y ago
You most likely earned the luck you received.
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by aje403 9y ago
What you're describing is a selflessness, almost the exact opposite, which doesn't get you promoted to that position in the first place
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by aje403 9y ago
Sounds like the Monty Hall problem :) keep your door or switch. I'd say the ones who left were wiser ex-ante
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by aje403 9y ago
You were an AI researcher in 2000 and decided to take a risk and join a startup, this is a very poor definition of luck. Luck does always belong in the conversation - "All great events hang by a hair, I believe in luck, and the wise ma
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by aje403 9y ago
They really don't. There is a link to the Wikipedia page for matrix multiplication. If these are the people you want to hire, you might as well start outsourcing or generating random numbers
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by aje403 9y ago
I don't intend to shitpost but I think it's a good idea to question the usage of the word "significant" almost immediately unless it's coming from a physics or statistics PhD.
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by aje403 9y ago
No, the classic, a government is justified in trying to prevent money laundering and I don't care about my neighbor's right to circumvent capital gains taxes under a false facade of a libertarian shield
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by aje403 9y ago
Cash has been relatively phasing out of developed countries for the past half century - it might not be here in a 200 years from organic technological advancement and usage. Most people, when paying with their smartphones, do not stop thems
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by aje403 9y ago
I'm trying to figure out just a single comment on this thread to point out the idiocy of but so far I'm unable to pick any one in particular. Hopefully there will be some rational comments here at some point. I can't see any

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