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by bbctol 10y ago
It's not "the solution." It's a stopgap measure. I don't want to turn my HN account into a broken record, but I can't believe so many people who would never need a basic income think it's such a great idea
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by bbctol 10y ago
Sifr is definitely a cognate for "cipher"!
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This post, also not free.
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If he's "not sure what else one would do," he needs to think bigger. I'm amazed that America seems so locked in to maximum laissez-faire that the idea that UBI is the actual solution has become remotely popular. When tru
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The fact that he was screwing Glass's marketing manager probably helped.
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They said customer support.
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What is the project?
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by bbctol 10y ago
Feng Zhang is a cool dude. Cool enough that his name should be in the title.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think investors realize that they are putting their money into advertising cash cows, and Google investors are pretty satisfied; that money isn't "gone." If anything, it's the talented workers who go to Google for the
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by bbctol 10y ago
The 1938 Adventures of Robin Hood is still one of my favorite films, and holds up remarkably well against adventure movies of today, in large part thanks to Errol Flynn's ridiculous charisma.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Who needs people buying your products, if you own a means of production that will never rebel?
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by bbctol 10y ago
Still, technologically minded liberals/libertarians, for all their differences, are not the only viewpoints, and even if there's disagreement along that axis it can still lead to a bubble. I doubt you'd see many people on HN
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by bbctol 10y ago
To be fair, his background is in social work and public policy; Hassabis is the technical lead, Suleyman is very much focused on strategy and societal impact.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Keep in mind that it literally takes human beings years before they can perform basic intelligence tasks. I do agree that AI right now is too focused on pattern matching from large data sets, but Deepmind has definitely been exploring other
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by bbctol 10y ago
But is this because of the academic jobs crisis? As pretentious and/or divisive as public intellectuals can be, I do ultimately agree that high-level public discourse is good to have, and a liberal arts education is not a bad thing. Bu
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by bbctol 10y ago
To be fair... the relativity of wrong supports the Lit major's point: if wrongness is relative, you probably shouldn't make binary statements along the lines of "previously we did not understand the basis of the universe, and
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He started getting real weird after his divorce.
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Dark matter is the oxygen of contemporary cosmology.
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If we actually thought they were Hitler, we'd be at war.
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by bbctol 10y ago
So Palantir is going to analyze all Americans' data. Sounds great. Just great.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Especially given that their final conclusion is "just trust that our game is great, because it really is Fun to Play for All Ages." I thought this was a good and interesting post, but it's so transparent I thought they would
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by bbctol 10y ago
I use this a lot, but I think it's a reasonable addition to the language. There's a suffix in Korean, "~는데," that's usually used between clauses to mean something like "although": I did Y even though X hap
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by bbctol 10y ago
On the other hand, 70 years is a blink in the span of human history so far. I think people have been much too quick to assume, ever since the Soviet Union fell, that we avoided World War III and proved we'd never use nuclear weapons ag
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by bbctol 10y ago
Sam Kriss has an extremely polarizing style. I find myself really liking about 30% of the things he publishes, and thinking the rest are absolute garbage.
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If these benefits are demanded, either by government action or organized labor. If it's up to those who control corporations, they have no reason to cut hours and increase benefits out of the goodness of their own hearts; they'll
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by bbctol 10y ago
The Chinese room is a silly example, in which a highly simplified physical system that doesn't appear to have conscious thought is extended to the idea that no merely physical system has conscious thought. If the structure of the Chi
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But the weakness that causes people to take control of the Wild West isn't counterfeiting, it's just the inevitable end result of the chaos. The issue isn't fraud, it's that even people accumulating money honestly turns
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by bbctol 10y ago
Oh hey, I wrote this. I mean to update the last section at some point, as it gets a lot less coherent; I wanted to publish it right at the 6 month mark or I'd put it off forever.
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Yeah, I don't think it's invalid to say that fake news is a serious problem (or even that it probably helped elect Trump), but I think there's a much deeper crisis of news, bias, and the nature of truth in the Internet age th
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Just saying "it's their property" might not address the underlying question. Should it be? How important does a platform get before it needs public regulation to prevent harms to its users?

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