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by beefield 6y ago
> But you're now presupposing the AI finds humanity curious. Yes. I am assuming that a vastly more intelligent thing than human would be almost by definition more , not less, interested in pretty much everything. Obviously that thi
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by beefield 6y ago
Caution is absolutely necessary. But not primarily because there is a chance of superhuman AI being evil or destroying humanity by accident, but because on our way to superhuman AI we are going to have many powerful AI:s controlled by human
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by beefield 6y ago
I would assume superhuman intelligence can convert mass and energy to other forms of mass and energy relatively easily, and the mass/energy available on earth is a tiny fraction of mass/energy available even in the solar system -
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by beefield 6y ago
> They treat humans almost as pets. I think that's something people do not get when they think about superhuman AI. A superhuman AI is very much likely to just ignore humanity. It is actually quite pompous to assume that humans coul
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by beefield 6y ago
Well, to be blunt, in my humble opinion more than 90% of "content creators" trying to monetize their content with ads currently produce content of so low quality, that world would be a better place without their content. So if my
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by beefield 6y ago
I have thought something similar regarding developing countries. Instead of giving money/help to a developing country, you should foster local industry by committing yourself to buy ten thousand gadgets produced locally. The local clep
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by beefield 6y ago
I can do even funnier scenarios. What if the institutions would actually store the crypto and promise to give it back to you when you need it? and what if the document stating that you have crypto in the institution itself could be used as
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by beefield 6y ago
> the "paradox of tolerance" has been more or less already hashed out today Could you elaborate on this? This is a second time in very short period where I see arguments dismissing the paradox without explaining too well why,
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by beefield 6y ago
To me it looks like the issue is lack of "perceived respect" (more complex than that, but I use a simple word to describe whole thing) from the "other side". Now, one side would need to somehow get the other side convinc
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by beefield 6y ago
> In order to protect user safety on Google Play, our longstanding policies require that apps displaying user-generated content have moderation policies and enforcement that removes egregious content like posts that incite violence. Okay
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by beefield 6y ago
A is demonstrably and blatantly dangerous approach for society. Thus we must consider option B, and due to all risks associated with that, we must be damn sure that the institutions responsible for managing the discussion are and will stay
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by beefield 6y ago
Those have very little to do with monetary policy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_policy ) Plus, in the modern credit-money world, an IOU from a bank worth 1 BTC, IOU worth one ounce of gold and IOU worth $1[1]
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by beefield 6y ago
Bitcoin does absolutely not get rid of monetary policy. It just has it's own kind of monetary policy. Which, to be clear, has been tried and tested in the form of gold standard and deemed not satisfactory. Further, bitcoin has absolute
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by beefield 6y ago
"I propose being more selective how and which operations actually deserve limited liability"
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by beefield 6y ago
> it's unrealistic to expect the CEO to even know that that local walmart exists Maybe, just maybe we then should not have so large entities that nobody can be responsible for? Limited liability is a massive handout from society
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by beefield 6y ago
Well, I think there are two options. Either Google should take a note from the old days when they were not rent-seeking jerks but did no evil and actually distinguished search results and ads by placing the ads to the side bar. Or their pra
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by beefield 6y ago
In countries with relatively high progressivity in taxes the equation becomes even more attractive. You lose 20% of your pre-tax salary, but you lose much less on your post-tax salary. In europe the marginal tax can easily be close to (
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by beefield 6y ago
> Just a question, isn't all criticism against bitcoin applicable to gold? Pretty much. It is insane that gold mines pollute the environment while central banks hoard double-digit percentage of ever mined gold in their vaults. And
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by beefield 6y ago
I am not sure if that move is especially smart. More like not being a complete idiot by not taking the almost free money people are trying to shove on your bank account.
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by beefield 6y ago
I just can't get my head around that the publishers have been looking at music industry going from napster to torrent to spotify. Now they are looking at libgen and seem to be completely unable to connect the dots and come up with a co
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by beefield 6y ago
One hint from my experience trying to explain technical things to other people. If they reply something in the lines of "Yes, I understand" that more often than not[1] translates into either "I have no clue what you are talki
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by beefield 6y ago
Generally, I have tip my hat to The Economist Here. Even on the things I think I know something about, they seem to get their facts straight.
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by beefield 6y ago
Of course there are going to be some highly debated search terms. But I think that applieas also to weikipedia and they have managed to pull it off so that it works reasonably well. I mean, you could always put a big red badge on top of the
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by beefield 6y ago
How about a crowdsourced search engine like wikipedia or stackoverflow? Like: When you search for "kittens" you get the links that are most upvoted by the community. If nobody has ever submitted links for search term "kittens
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by beefield 6y ago
I hope you are not holding your breath as it looks like you are in for a long wait.
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by beefield 6y ago
I see no reason to antromorphize limited liability companies. (But just to note, currently I am forced to pay tens of percentage points of my total salary as taxes.)
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by beefield 6y ago
Fundamentally it is not any different. In the current model, either the company can afford to pay taxes by cash without issuing new stock, or then it does not and needs to issue new stock, thus diluting current ownership. In my model, eithe
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by beefield 6y ago
If we transform the taxation so that the income/profit of people and corporations is no more taxed, but the tax revenue is still somehow fairly collected, I am all in. It is just that typically when people propose stopping taxing corpo
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by beefield 6y ago
Forever is a long time. In practice there are wealthy people willing to pass vast majority of their wealth through generations. Personally I don't think it is fair or likely healthy in the long term for the society to let vast majority
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by beefield 6y ago
Nobody has ever been able to give me a function query cost -> wall time with any accuracy.

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