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As the election approaches, many more ordinary people start paying attention to politics. In the year before an election, political forums are filled with die-hard supporters of candidates that inspire the most passion; now, the vast contin
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Wetware is unbelievably, ridiculously efficient compared to anything we can make out of silicon and metal. Our most complex artificial neural networks, endless arrays of theoretical neuron-like structures, are much smaller, less complicated
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Oh, each human being is definitely exposed to more diversity, but that doesn't mean the world is getting more diverse. Now, I can be English and interact with people who are French, German, American, Chinese and so on; previously, I co
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Wait, how does more humans = more diversity? I would think any abstract measure of diversity would be based on average differences, or standard deviations away from the mean. Obviously, the absolute extremes are greater with more people, bu
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Hardly. Increasing connection is shifting us closer to a single world-culture every day, which has advantages and disadvantages. All the world's most powerful people wear Western-style suits and speak English.
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Unfortunately, Paradox games use that term slightly differently than is standard. It doesn't mean any justification for war, but any act that then starts a justified war. (e.g., "reclaim our land" is not a casus belli, but th
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If ETs are expected to be found, where are the [extremely specific hypothetical construct that depends on certain technologies that may or may not be possible and a unique cultural context that isn't even universal to humanity, let alo
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No, they find it more probable that these particular signals are not aliens. It's not about whether or not you believe aliens exist, at all, it's about whether or not their the best explanation for any phenomenon. One day, we may
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I think the issue here is that we're not discovering new architectures as one discovers particles, we're creating them. The creative space is infinite, and people are making subtle tweaks to neural network systems all the time. It
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This is a theme I've often noticed with "socially liberal" etc. people having different political beliefs--their perception of the "other side" is based in the far-left society they inhabit, and their positions are
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It seems more that the film industry has been disrupted, it's just that small studios have been hurt and large conglomerates were the ones to seize power. Technology changed the economics of the film industry in a disruptive way, and
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Interesting argument presented in the paper, though I wouldn't frame it as "we've evolved to be inaccurate": it's really that the world can be so suddenly unpredictable that setting up strong, working paradigms of d
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Could you describe how major the jump is? I'm looking to get a new phone, but I'm thinking of seeing if the Nexus 6P price drops rather than going for the Pixel, as they didn't seem that different to me.
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You can vote for anyone you like. You can't get anyone you'd like, but that's expected when you're one part of a nation of hundreds of millions.
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Can you not see the difference between judging people for their public positions and making it illegal for their positions to be private?
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What? People get fired over personal choices all the time. If I leered at women at the office, then told them it was fine because they secretly liked it, I'd be out in no time. It's a personal choice to do that, and to support a c
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What's negative about saying this would "chill applications from startups working on problems not relating to white western males'? If Thiel was supporting a candidate who was chauvinistically in favor of black women, it woul
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They've been excited for a while: the growth of basic research in China has been skyrocketing for years. ( http://www.nature.com/news/science-in-china-1.20120 ) The upcoming five-year plan includes a huge focus on r
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What do you think Hillary's involvement is? What power does she have here?
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I'm distantly related to the original founder, and have been told this confusing version of the story: Symbolics was bought out buy a different company that then renamed themselves Symbolics, though none of the people remained and the
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Why do the Moonians have an advanced missile defense system prior to declaring independence?
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Even if it doesn't move people out, the pre-existing biases of physical space causes an echo chamber regardless. Before social media, people had no problem demonizing the people of different races and religions who were not geographica
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There I believe he was referring specifically to the breaking story that Trump's descriptions of leaked Hillary emails were fed to him by Russian propagandists, a story with little basis in fact.
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I'm not sure if he doesn't know his role, and I'm curious how tracking polls like this try to account for the large media attention paid to the poll and its methodology. This guy is known to stats nerds, and they've been
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This hopefully could replace current char-rnn with something very different. Char-rnn is a long short term memory system, where recurrence in the structure of the neural network allows short-term information to persist and inform future act
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I legitimately can't tell if this is a serious proposal, a work of dystopian/cyberpunk art, or somehow both.
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Thinking that an extra $500 a year in America couldn't significantly impact someone's life says more about you than the study.
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Except that the only way it "helps" them is by providing an "extra incentive" to get off the streets, which is hardly the issue.
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Artists barely make money off of Spotify anyway. It's just marginally more than they'd get out of piracy, and a more legitimate platform to advertise their content. Making money in music has been all about concerts and merch for a
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Do you think that women are taking men's jobs?

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