arthur_pryor

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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
it seems to me that while humans are built out of neural nets, we are capable of logic, and the sort of reasoning that seems to be fall under the category of "tree search" in this conversation. in that sense, it would seem that w
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
i tend to agree with that. it does seem like there's some general instinct in people that other things (animals, "artificially" intelligent machines) could possess human-like intelligence and subjective experience. i mean,
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
if anything, for people who are trying to be functional, you'd want to gain tolerance to the recreational effects, but not the anti-depressant effects. tolerance to both seems more likely, but hopefully tolerance to the former outpace
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
why is it a technology issue? not that there's never gray area, but this looks like more of a business issue than a technology issue. what's desired there (sending video to a server instance the user controls, instead of a third
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
well, that was mostly depressing, but i found the part about mudge and the UL-like initiative encouraging: "Peiter “Mudge” Zatko is a member of the high-profile L0pht hacker group who testified before Congress in 1998, and since he&#x2
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
indeed it is. i think i'm especially bad at it, but a lot of people probably feel that way.
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
so are you saying that, similar to the elevator programming challenge itself, writing the elevator programming challenge was more difficult than it looked? cool. that probably put a bigger smile on my face than it should've, but still
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
really good article in general. i thought it was worth pointing out this neil degrasse tyson clip in particular, linked at the end to tie the discussion back to the present day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EkuXfsWmMo
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
I like where you go with this in the second half, because I believe that racial profiling is pragmatically ineffective anyway. But I take issue with this statement: "If race, gender, and clothing have no predictive power, demonstrate
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
I haven't thought about "Voices From The Hellmouth" in a really long time. I remember reading Slashdot a ton in high school and college (maybe 97 or 98 through 02?). Then, not so much. FWIW, HN, esp when I first found it a
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
"Also, maybe we shouldn't be teaching people that it's okay to expect unreasonable things just because it's what the industry norm is. Maybe if enough people think it's ridiculous to work all night for arbitrary dea
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
much as i'd like to agree with the person you're replying to in this specific case, you're right in the general case (full disclosure: i'm black, and pretty devoutly agnostic).
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
"If you're not willing to sacrifice real lives and safety to avoid torture, I don't think you are meaningfully against it" I completely agree with this, and it's the crux of the argument that I've made against
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
the poster you're replying to is not saying that it definitely works, only that it might. and additionally (and this is the crux of that statement): even if it does work, it's still morally wrong.
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
"It's even more stupefying than those who insist that racism is a solved problem in America." disagree w/ that statement, in that i'd say it's equally stupefying. but yes, otherwise totally agreed.
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by arthur_pryor 11y ago
been lurking here for years. finally created an account just to upvote this.