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13831.
by api 12y ago
All that is true and more. Intelligence is bad enough, but start talking about consciousness and sentience and we don't even know what we don't know. Our understanding there is so spotty there are major camps of people who want to
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by api 12y ago
I wish I had the time to write a book on it. It's a deeply esoteric subject though, and I am too insanely busy right now. Better yet, I really wish someone far more up to date than I am who is actually working today in the field would
13833.
by api 12y ago
Strategic thinking, categorization, and the recognition of complex environmental patterns are among the abilities that would be very valuable even for mutes without opposable thumbs.
13834.
by api 12y ago
You can scale a rocket by mostly just making it bigger. I'm not at all convinced you can do this with intelligence. It sssumes many things: intelligence is one thing, no new problems of a fundamentally different order appear with scale
13835.
by api 12y ago
I agree with some of the skeptical comments here, and wanted to add one more use case they are not thinking about: http://localhost:NNN/ There are many cases where you might want a service on localhost to be reachable via H
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by api 12y ago
A little off topic but... "you just add intelligence until you do" So many assumptions. I'd challenge everyone to look deeply into learning theory and combinatorics. We have no reason to believe that intelligence is something
13837.
by api 12y ago
I also sometimes wonder if we might create a slower buy culturally deeper and more contemplative civilization without the crystal meth that is fossil fuel. But then again maybe not. Maybe we'd never overcome the activation energy for i
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by api 12y ago
It happens, but it's rare. The really huge success stories typically involve both a product that tends to sell itself and a good and clever marketing apparatus that helps to prime the pump and widen the funnel. Problem is that the worl
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by api 12y ago
Power is an end in itself. The war on drugs and the war on terror (and war in general) is a great way to expand it.
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by api 12y ago
It's hard to keep a mentality from infecting everything.
13841.
by api 12y ago
We didn't create mathematics from nothing. It's a language that we created to describe certain patterns that we saw in the universe, beginning with elementary patterns such as counting and working up to things like calculus. Mathe
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by api 12y ago
Yes. I think you missed my point. They are the kings of design and UX. It disturbs me that their culture is this totalitarian and dysfunctional, but it doesn't surprise me in the least.
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by api 12y ago
Apple has built one of the most successful businesses in the world on mostly one thing: design. (And user experience, which is design more broadly applied.) Undortunately, it seems to me that good design requires totalitarianism. Apple&#x27
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by api 12y ago
That's just a stupid implementation of a welfare state.
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by api 12y ago
A half century of propaganda convinced Americans that common interests do not exist and that any form of cooperative social contract equals Leninist communism. Because you know,if we help each other pretty soon all independent business acti
13846.
by api 12y ago
The problem with Sweden and Denmark is regulatory complexity. To maximize entrepreneurship you want a social safety net and a simplified regulatory regime. The ideal would probably be a simple basic income and few other interferences.
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by api 12y ago
You are right, but given present political realities the jobless are more likely to be marginalized in ghettos, imprisoned for slave labor, or left to starve.
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by api 12y ago
He says many interesting things. For me what blew me away was that he's one of the few people who seems to have realized that most forms of technological innovation outside IT have stagnated since roughly 1970. This is something I&#x27
13849.
by api 12y ago
He hadn't yet learned how to talk like a politician. That quote is out of context.
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by api 12y ago
Your final point is brilliant. If the traits that give rise to higher income are heritible and are also largely the inverse of poor health traits, health care is indeed a regressive tax. If that's the case, augmentation and genetics ar
13851.
by api 12y ago
Astronauts describe an "overview effect" that involves among other things a tangible sense of ones smallness.
13852.
by api 12y ago
I studied genetics, so yes I realize that this stuff is harder than we likely think and is not a panacea.
13853.
by api 12y ago
I didn't state that clearly. What I meant is the other way around-- that if people had more universal access to this technology it would be less likely to lead to greater inequality. This in turn would involve challenging our economic
13854.
by api 12y ago
Not always, but it's a distant second to improving your product, talking to customers, and improving your product.
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by api 12y ago
There was a call around here to ban AI research too. Maybe the reason we don't do new things is that we are too afraid. I blame lazy and unimaginative sci-fi plots among other things. Genetics could improve the inequality situation too
13856.
by api 12y ago
I have wondered why a few car companies continue to work on hydrogen despite the success of the Leaf and the Tesla and the obvious advantages of plugin vehicles. Perhaps this is why: they don't think Li-Ion can scale in production to m
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by api 12y ago
Doesn't matter how good you are. There are close to nine billion people, so you are nobody. There is always someone better, smarter, prettier, you name it. If you peg your self esteem on your relative status, you'll always feel li
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by api 12y ago
Maybe not, but I am afraid one consequence might be less really great music and less people pursuing it as a dedicated career. Not that it was ever easy, but it's only getting harder.
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by api 12y ago
Might be true, but I can't help but be nostalgic for it. I get the sense that for millennials and younger music is just another kind of light entertainment, take it or leave it. Music for many gen-Xers including myself was practically
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by api 12y ago
So now the race to the bottom continues down to streaming services that pay artists even less.

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