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by bbctol 10y ago
There's a large difference between being well-educated and exposed to many political views; it's perfectly possible to be an engineer and ignorant of politics.
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's misleading wording in the article; that's actually the percentages of 18-34 year-olds not married or in a relationship.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, damn those Bangladeshis always insisting on being victims just because they don't have initiative. Wait, did I say initiative? I meant money. The people who don't have money will die by the millions.
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by bbctol 10y ago
I guess the mods here aren't driving, but they did give the directions?
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by bbctol 10y ago
Well, growth has some advantages: more people means more minds, more ideas, and improved technologies. There's 20 times as many people on Earth now as a thousand years ago, but our lives are more comfortable. Sustainability is the ke
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by bbctol 10y ago
I might just not be sure what you mean by DNN here. A deep neural network is a specific architecture, consisting of input and output layers of discrete nodes, connected through many hidden layers of nodes, with each node able to perform sim
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by bbctol 10y ago
Like I said, I like him! I just don't understand why we should think he has special knowledge of what the future holds.
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by bbctol 10y ago
You could replace "DNN" in this essay with... anything. Seriously, it just says that DNNs "can act as both machine and storage," which is true of any system if you want to define it that way. And pointing out that everyt
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by bbctol 10y ago
I like Elon Musk, but the hero-worship disturbs me. Yeah, he founded one pretty successful company, got in early at a very successful company, and has been using the money to fund cool projects ever since. I think Tesla and SpaceX are b
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by bbctol 10y ago
This is why Theranos was such an effective scam: the current culture of "innovation" is so heavily based in software, an unconstrained space where a creative wunderkind can make great advances, it thinks all problems can be solved
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by bbctol 10y ago
Well, we developed an easy way to make insulin, and have been failing at getting it to the rest of the world due to lack of political will or economic pressure. I seriously see no reason why wealthy people who develop immortality will want
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by bbctol 10y ago
A lot of legendary science fiction writers were also semi-professional scientists; Clarke was a real astronomer and physicist, and Asimov was a professor of biochemistry (odd, as there's so little biology or chemistry in most of his fa
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by bbctol 10y ago
But how do we decide what "the rules of logic" are? And here we go...
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by bbctol 10y ago
Philosophy's got a lot of different schools, and there are plenty of people who major in it and still stick to the dry and analytic (confusing because it uses way too many numbers and greek letters) and avoid the continental style (con
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by bbctol 10y ago
Fans of Undertale should absolutely get into Homestuck if they haven't already; if you like very weird, highly intertextual, genre-defying and mood-smashing works of new media with interesting writing, fantastic music, and terrible art
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by bbctol 10y ago
It honestly depends on who you ask. A lot of people think consciousness is inherently unsolvable by normal science (Chalmers' "hard problem of consciousness"), but there are plenty (Dennett etc.) who will deny that such a har
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by bbctol 10y ago
Which is hopefully motivation to move away from old models of academia, although I really don't think that's feasible in the near future. Elite schools are just as much about pre-selecting smart people for others' benefit as
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by bbctol 10y ago
Depending on your definition of "outside the physical world," it's at best untestable. You can explain consciousness by saying it comes from a massless, noninteracting, odorless, tasteless... etc. but that explanation doesn&#
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by bbctol 10y ago
Well, then he should take those jobs and move there. Of course, he might also consider living in the Bay itself to be a benefit, which has also been priced into the model: the cost of receiving that benefit is just... the cost of living in
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by bbctol 10y ago
Part of the reason he's making that much is because he's in the Bay Area; Facebook would pay their employees less if they were based elsewhere. He can't say he deserves a certain lifestyle based on salary, and is being puni
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by bbctol 10y ago
But part of the reason he was paid so much was because he lived in the Bay Area; Facebook wouldn't pay nearly as high salaries if they were based in the Midwest. In "any other location," he still might not have been able to a
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by bbctol 10y ago
I've started collecting my weirdest links, though I'm not sure what to do with them yet. Hundreds of watercolors featuring Nazi war criminal Reynard Heidrich transforming into a female bird, a studio producing sexy anthropomorphiz
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's a joke: if it really was clear that a railgun was "the way to go," companies would be doing it.
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's even more of an issue the more ambitious you get; I once heard a pretty prominent blockchain futurist talk about how smart contracts can replace lawyers and laws themselves, and thought God... as much as I don't like lawyers,
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by bbctol 10y ago
This is MIRI; they do really interesting theoretical philosophy and worryingly small amounts of practical research.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Jeff Hawkins has some pretty heterodox theories of intelligence, many of which are not backed up by modern neuroscience. Furthermore, as neuroscience advances, the similarities between so-called artificial neural networks and actual neurons
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by bbctol 10y ago
As much as I like SF restaurants, high end cuisine in the bay is at least as much about VCs impressing each other as NY restaurants are for hedge fund managers.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Why do you say that single mothers, the white rural poor, and veterans are not definitely connectors, usually mavens, and plausibly salesmen? Out-of-work Americans over 50 are the only group I can see as out of these classes.
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Truly beautiful semitic calligraphy can't be captured by a typeface; this is a different sort of aesthetic appeal.
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As indicated in the article, journals at the time often didn't require scientists to disclose their sources of funding, whereas they're now extremely strict about full financial disclosure. You can still get published in a promine

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