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by bawana 6y ago
Granted a solar array ON the moon is not going to work half the time. But how about a solar array on a satellite around the moon? It would be cheaper to deploy. Already exists. 10 kw can be generated by an array the size of a small rooftop.
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How could we implement a law that requires disclosure of an AI?
2 points by bawana 6y ago|2 comments
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by bawana 6y ago
The American way - get other people to do your work! I still remember my CS profs saying they best quality of a programmer is laziness!
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by bawana 6y ago
Perhaps we should allow a private arm of the postal service to enter another area important for communication: internet service. As it is now, internet service is restricted to one or two providers in most regions. Prices are ridiculously h
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by bawana 6y ago
We are all essentially evil because 1) tomorrow will find some behavior that is accepted today as bad and we are all doing it 2) creating an AI that can manipulate people is too tempting for the predator in us to avoid (this is a REAL turi
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by bawana 6y ago
What was that blue sand made of? The rover left orange tracks so i guess it was use a dusting of something. Ice?
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by bawana 6y ago
exactly. That's when I realized the Turing test was too polite. That it was designed to keep the ugly truth away from the masses lest the field of AI be killed while still in infancy. But I think our evil nature would always win out. T
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by bawana 6y ago
I guess having 'kit' cars is also a no go. Here in the US, you can buy a chassis and body and all the parts to make a car as part of a kit. Putting it together is below the ability of most Americans but not all. I imagine uzbekis
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by bawana 6y ago
The idea of a Turing test as being a conversation is too restrictive. A real turing test would be if a machine could manipulate someone. Getting a person to do something. That is what defines a human, the ability to make tools out of other
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by bawana 6y ago
what we need psychologically to survive is not the same as what is really there. Qualia is a bullshit word like trying to say there is a difference between the numeral '1' and the word 'one'. I do not dispute the fact th
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by bawana 6y ago
Are tractors heavily tariffed? Motorcycles?
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by bawana 6y ago
We could make more doctors if medical school tuition was lower and new doctors were paid more than a garbage man. But The cabal that is the hospital and pharma lobby won’t allow it
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by bawana 6y ago
Great book. Only thing missing was the use of deep fakes.
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by bawana 6y ago
Guaranteed viability at specific time points would give a significant advantage over other vendors.
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by bawana 6y ago
What is the viability over time of your samples? Even the highest quality cryostorage results in 10% loss per year.
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by bawana 6y ago
The ugliness is only visible from 10000 feet. Up close, the uniqueness of each building, the uniqueness of each intersection, street width, flora, etc gives each neighborhood the character that allows a human to grow their identity, their f
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by bawana 6y ago
We have shit on this planet so much, we do not deserve children. None of us choose to be born. Yet we have to deal with mistakes and evils of generations past. Even the joy of discovery, of exploring a world anew, of making our own rules ha
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by bawana 6y ago
@ YeGoblynQueenne Although I am in the US, my Greek heritage dragged me back to Athens every summer. For me it was a magical place where I spoke another language, drank funny tasting Tamtam instead of coke, traveled in blue colored busses c
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by bawana 6y ago
Difference is : robots take up a lot more space. Having multiple simple robots leads to traffic in the real world and taking away space that humans could use. If robots could be like bosons that would be better
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by bawana 6y ago
It seems this is how big tech is responding to the VISA lockdown by Trump and co. They will simply leave. They already moved a lot of capital abroad to avoid US taxes. Instead of bringing Indians here, they will go there. The fundamental pr
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by bawana 6y ago
What do you call a problem that's even more abstract than a 'first world problem'? A zeroth-world problem?
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by bawana 6y ago
I suppose MIT and HArvard could allow students on campus but locked into their dorm rooms. They could have the bathroom police unlock doors individually so the kids could take showers, etc. Then they could have the cafeteria deliver meals t
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by bawana 6y ago
I guess I could put blog entries into a google sheet and publish them with this.
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by bawana 6y ago
Actually, you are wrong. PCPs start at 90-100k salary. If you are quoting gross income before expenses then its about 200k. The overhead of running a physicians office is high. In terms of specialists, it's come down quite a bit. Just
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by bawana 6y ago
This is reminiscent of the branching pattern seen in a plasma disc. (you know those things that are flat versions of plasma globes) As I understand it , emission from a plasma requires a high energy electron dropping to a lower energy with
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by bawana 6y ago
I would suppport the building of a supercollider if its main mission was education. Imagine having dormitories on site where kids could live for 6 months while they learn by watching, doing, asking, helping. It could be a model for how we r
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by bawana 6y ago
STRONGLY AGREE. We need to change education where kids get into building, doing, solving and making.Why cant we have a system that brings high school kids into hospitals, factories, research labs, as well as water treatment plants, electric
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by bawana 6y ago
If aliens did exist, they would probably compress their communications. And they might use a fault tolerant infrastructure like TCP/IP. In either scenario, real communications would not be periodic but closer to random noise. Has anyon
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by bawana 6y ago
So how is crispr fundamentally better than restriction enzymes?
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by bawana 6y ago
So does this mean that fewer if any people will suffer in rural underdeveloped areas like Africa and Asia?

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