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16111.
by api 14y ago
I've come to the deep conviction that both the "right" and the "left" -- in their present forms -- are impediments to virtually all progress and must be destroyed.
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by api 14y ago
I don't think it can yet. My point was just that such things should be studied, and are being studied. The link I provided is of particular interest in the area of moral theory. There is a good book called Evolutionary Dynamics that summari
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by api 14y ago
A big part of why the U.S. is an outlier in all these religiosity vs X graphs is because in the vast majority of the U.S. there is no forum for community or social cohesion apart from religion. Outside of the church, most of American cult
16114.
by api 14y ago
I flatly disagree that science should "rightly" not give a shit about purpose, meaning, structure, or social cohesion. Here's one of many starting points: http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu
16115.
by api 14y ago
"If this is all the case, the deeper question is why increasing wealth reduces religiosity." Because a big part of religion is coping with a painful, short, and often violent life.
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Short documentary on the DIY body-hacking / transhumanist underground(technoccult.net)
6 points by api 14y ago|0 comments
16117.
by api 14y ago
The biggest problem with math is the language. If it were a programming language, we would call it crufty and obscurantist. The language and notation really needs to be rebooted and cleaned up. Math with a sane notation would be significant
16118.
by api 14y ago
Sell your best product. Great job Microsoft flunkies...
16119.
by api 14y ago
I love how everyone responsible for ranking colleges lives along the North-Eastern seaboard. That area is such a bubble of regional self-importance.
16120.
by api 14y ago
In other words: like most dogmatic religionists, they're in search of a way to live without thinking. "How can a graduated MBA lead a software development team without knowing the business or the domain?" The MBA is the American capitalist
16121.
by api 14y ago
I'm gonna hazard a guess that SpaceX will have a reusable Falcon 9 test by the time Orion is ready for a real mission.
16122.
by api 14y ago
I don't think Planetary Resources has any chance without major breakthroughs in launch and propulsion.
16123.
by api 14y ago
So it's okay for people to risk their lives deep sea diving, climbing Everest, etc., but not here? It's not like the people doing this wouldn't know exactly what they were doing and how dangerous it was.
16124.
by api 14y ago
One of the more important meta things he's doing is calling BS on the dull Soviet apparatchik MBA mentality.
16125.
by api 14y ago
I cannot believe how right this guy is about absolutely every single thing.
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Elon Musk of SpaceX: The Goal is Mars(latimes.com)
266 points by api 14y ago|100 comments
16127.
by api 14y ago
I'm probably somewhere close to Dr. Kinsey on such issues: very libertarian and open-minded. I have no problem with pornography. I also don't necessarily judge people for having feelings. I appreciate the logical and honest post. What I hav
16128.
by api 14y ago
Now you've really got me thinking... Could Bayesian classification be implemented through a homomorphic cypher? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
16129.
by api 14y ago
I certainly see links to it fairly prominently displayed on the Tor onion network, which I know would drive off at least 75% of users. What I'm saying here is that there's an interesting unsolved problem and that this problem might be the t
16130.
by api 14y ago
Your network is trivially vulnerable to a social DOS attack that will instantly drive off 90% of its user-base.
16131.
by api 14y ago
Want something to be used? You have to think about user experience. You have to think like a marketer or a designer. What I see here is a lot of people evading the issue because it involves human beings. Technologies do not become popular u
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by api 14y ago
What if you walked into the bank and there was a line of people with sticky pictures of dead kids in their hands waiting to enter the safe deposit box area. Would you come back? Here's a thought... Put on your foil hat for a second. Let's s
16133.
by api 14y ago
I'm not blaming the tool. I'm pointing out its inadequacy. I am saying there is an interesting and very hard problem here that severely limits the adoption of these technologies, and that solving it would be both interesting and important.
16134.
by api 14y ago
I can browse the Internet for a long time before I see an archive full of hard-core pre-teen porn unless I go looking for it. It is difficult to browse the Tor .onion network without seeing at least links to this. Sometimes users land on it
16135.
by api 14y ago
This is naive because it ignores the social dimension of technology. As I said in another reply: when most people see horrific hard-core CP or rape porn, they will close the program and delete it. End of story. They will also tell all their
16136.
by api 14y ago
There is at least one free Ph.D thesis topic in this thread. I think solving this problem and creating a darknet that most people would want to use would be at least as impactful as the development of Bitcoin. People said that was impossibl
16137.
by api 14y ago
Yup, that's true. Maybe binary content propagates differently. Text that meets certain criteria is replicated indiscriminately, but binary content is only replicated when a user votes on it. Edit: you could apply game theory to this problem
16138.
by api 14y ago
Worse. Ask in Reddit /r/onions.
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by api 14y ago
Yeah. You'd have to be more clever than that. There's a lot of interesting work on meaning extraction and text analysis. I wonder if you could have some kind of information density threshold. It would be possible to encrypt text in such a w
16140.
by api 14y ago
Okay, I'll re-state it technically: How do we design a system that is anonymous and un-censorable where users can opt out of being relays for certain types of data? Hard problem. Trying to solve it would be interesting. Not trying to solve

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