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by bbctol 10y ago
Would you? You'd expect a bell curve; a small number of complete failures of entrepreneurs, lots of moderate but eventually failed attempts, lots of moderate but somewhat successful businessmen, and a couple of repeatedly successful on
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by bbctol 10y ago
Thought it was a joke, then quickly googled Aphyr's blog...
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by bbctol 10y ago
Given OpenAI's specific mission, diversity is an important part of the job... if their goal was simply to create the best AI possible, your argument would carry more weight (though I'd still disagree with the conclusion), but when
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by bbctol 10y ago
When I draw 4s the second way, I keep getting 9... which is odd, because I assume this was trained on the usual MNIST?
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by bbctol 10y ago
What is it about "modern" life that makes us less inclined to Stoicism, though? This smells of noble savagery--I'm doubtful anyone who refers to ritual body mutilation as preferable to playing Everquest has been mutilated.
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by bbctol 10y ago
The use of credit history and score to determine worthiness in all sorts of purchases is a horrible construction that must be destroyed. I got a credit card for no reason other than to build score; I've never spent money I didn't
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by bbctol 10y ago
Fan of Spy vs Spy who's never heard of the game here.
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by bbctol 10y ago
For some reason, comparisons between books and other forms of media always focus on how much less work the book does, how much more it requires imagination. Which I always think is silly: sure, a book requires that you make up the pictures
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by bbctol 10y ago
This is truly fantastic, both the project and the interaction. If you want to continue with it, it seems there's so much more you could do, too: roads, forests, altering namelists for different regions...
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by bbctol 10y ago
But what is language if not a tool for manipulating hypotheticals? If your language can only describe what you know to be possible, it can only describe things you've already seen, and the required dataset in your memory to have a conv
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by bbctol 10y ago
Taken on its own, unconsciousness is a massive evolutionary setback--an explanation like "conserves energy" doesn't cut it, when there are plenty of nocturnal predators around. Why didn't humans evolve to lie down at nig
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by bbctol 10y ago
I can't imagine that this issue doesn't manifest even more seriously when it comes to race and gender bias.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Honestly, I think another reason for so many ancient polymaths is that the fields themselves were less developed, and took less time to fully learn. I in no way want to put down Renaissance polymaths, who were tremendously impressive, but i
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by bbctol 10y ago
Goals are important. Actions are important. Plans are debatable. If every day, you're taking actions that will help you achieve your goals, you'll probably turn out okay.
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by bbctol 10y ago
You're right, that does sound cruel. Moreover, the effects of addiction, the way choices made in childhood or under duress can affect the brain well into adulthood, and the fact that unregulated drugs sold can be far more dangerous tha
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think as related sensation is the feeling of control, or at least understanding, over our technology. You can see exactly how a typewriter works; each letter you type is a direct result of your action, through a clear causal chain. When y
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by bbctol 10y ago
For sure: as much as Go really was widely-talked about as an AI goal, real language processing has been the goal since, well, Turing. Even more importantly, it remains to be seen how far the current neural network approach extends, and it c
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by bbctol 10y ago
I doubt Bruce Schneier is suggesting we not use technology. I think the article should be taken as written--nowhere does it suggest that the Internet of Things should be avoided.
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by bbctol 10y ago
So glad this is being addressed, I'd been hoping for real research on these issues for a while. To wildly extrapolate with no evidence, which is what I do best: Is anyone else worried that data analysis/"AI" is going to
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by bbctol 10y ago
Reminds me of that article going around HN a few days ago about the ease of AI programming ( http://bjenik.com/AIBasedProgramming/ ) It had a lot of problems, but maybe we really are moving to an era where data analysis
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by bbctol 10y ago
I wonder if, as neuroscience research improves, intelligence itself will seem less "magic." As you say, good AI researchers shouldn't claim to have magical powers--as far as we can tell, only these lumps of meat in our head a
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by bbctol 10y ago
I agree that that would be impressive, but beating a human being at Go is also very, very impressive, and had been considered a high benchmark for many years. I can't help but think that after a machine can do basic story analysis, the
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, I think this article is talking about something that isn't programming at all. There will always be programmers (unless we're talking about a real robot uprising situation) and if we enter a world where people can tell AIs t
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by bbctol 10y ago
Removing scientists whose results aren't replicated is firing by lottery. Results fail to repeat all the time.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, it seems more like a "person with a valuable degree realized industry pays better than academia" story than anything else.
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by bbctol 10y ago
So I work for a scientific journal (insert comments about how evil I am here) and we have much bigger problems with authors not providing full data than with us refusing it. It is almost always possible to upload a full data set and code to
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by bbctol 10y ago
The main goal of the paper was to explore a possible mechanism for the finding in a mouse model. The differences between Apollo and non-Apollo incidences of heart disease are ~technically~ significant, but look to be there more as motivatio
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think this might be a post hoc explanation of an old fallacy. People become teachers, and are promoted to a visible level, based on a combination of teaching skill and expertise in the field. If someone was a bad teacher and not an expe
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by bbctol 10y ago
So many scientists I talk to don't have a basic understanding of philosophy of science. I don't necessarily blame them--I understand why "philosophy" as an academic field is seen as a soft, speculative, and pretentious f
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by bbctol 10y ago
But there should also be replication of the concepts of the study under a different paradigm, otherwise you might just be finding out effects of the particular procedure. An original study is rarely "wrong" (fraud is a serious p

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