blueadept111

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by blueadept111 8y ago
Animals aren't people, people are animals.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Which aftershave produces the most billionaires?
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by blueadept111 8y ago
>Software grows until it exceeds our capacity to understand it. This point is well taken, and I think that many organization would benefit from having a CGR role ("chief grim reaper"), who's job would be not to enhance the
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Yes, we can rule out near-term AGI, because we can also rule out far-term AGI, at least in the way AGI is defined in this talk. You can't isolate "economically beneficial" aspects of intelligence. Emulating human-like intell
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Maybe the future involves direct brain interfacing between humans via biological interconnects, and a new kind of engineering will evolve, defined not by behavior/functionality in the objective world, but in a realm of shared conscious
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by blueadept111 8y ago
You haven't actually said anything I disagree with, even though I'm in the castle. "Retreat" sounds a little harsh. I would say "Comfortably ensconced". Even if an AI nails down the behavioral/functional
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Pain and pleasure, which are qualitative experiences, are the basis of operant conditioning (unsupervised learning ala behavioral psychology). This covers the massive domain of behavior that's informed/dictated by reinforcement&#x
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Everything OP says is correct. And let's not forget that even in the absence of adversarial attacks, even with flawless associative mapping and incredible generalization, even hypothetically solving the problem of higher level ontologi
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by blueadept111 8y ago
I'm glad you're glad. :) Re. "the main thing", it would really help me out if you could provide some examples of issues that relate to being a man, that a women cannot advise a man on.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
How about a "no African Americans allowed" forum, for fostering "intimacy" for people who need a place to freely talk about issues limited to those who aren't African American? I'd say that kind of group is lat
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by blueadept111 8y ago
That's quite a leap from saying that certain topics are only relevant for women to saying that it's about freedom. Nobody is preventing women from talking about these topics in any other forum. You're saying that the advantag
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by blueadept111 8y ago
I don't get it, what problem is this app solving by excluding men from giving or asking for advice as well?
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by blueadept111 8y ago
They failed because they're mediocre to abysmal ideas that are implemented probably just well enough to scratch the itch of a hobbyist, before outing themselves as flops in the real world. And any that are actually good ideas with a po
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by blueadept111 8y ago
If by "almost always" you mean never, then you're right. Let me put it way: if you wanted to create a terrific blockbuster novel, would you start by scanning in some obscure, cheap title from the discount bin and then editing
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by blueadept111 8y ago
It's hard to imagine what the value proposition is for the savvy buyer, aside from browsing ideas that they might want to implement for themselves from scratch. Great site for sellers if they can actually unload here, though.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Lem is an underrated genius. He explores deep ideas in philosophy of mind, through entertaining and creative thought-experiment-type short stories that are set in the future. He wasn't a futurist per se, but crafted futuristic scenari
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by blueadept111 8y ago
My thoughts exactly, those are the images I typically search. Wikimedia commons does seem to have a bot (and/or some kind of manual process) that collects some of the creative commons photos from Flickr, but not all of them, even if th
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by blueadept111 8y ago
This is the death knell for Flickr. I've relied heavily on Flickr advanced search to find nature photos of particular plant and animal species. This new policy will undoubtedly results in many photos being deleted, and therefore limit
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by blueadept111 8y ago
For the same reason there's an arbitrary blockade against awarding a phD to someone with no formal training from a university.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
The concept of "fake" news is a slippery slope. Anyone that's in the business of gathering and presenting news has a number of vested interests. Sensationalism. Fabrication. Fear mongering. Persuasion. Ingratiation. Language
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by blueadept111 8y ago
I think "Trade your experience" would be more valuable than "trade your expertise". If I need expert knowledge of a well-defined domain, there's always Google. But if I need advice from someone who's had a par
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by blueadept111 8y ago
People waiting for UBI can get in the same line as the people waiting for the singularity.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
This trend is nothing more than a reflection of the fact that unemployment is at record lows. It does not represent a new, heightened morality in employees (that would persist even if the job market soured, for example).
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by blueadept111 8y ago
Well said, Amen.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
That's correct, and if the companies can't see the data, then the data is really just an extension of client side storage, and therefore it can't be trusted, because you can never trust the client.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
It's absurd to think that any entity within a simulation could draw conclusions about anything outside the simulation itself. "Better than 50%" my ass, Elon and Neil are hacks.
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by blueadept111 8y ago
I was using Gmail in 'classic' mode until today, when they force-upgraded to the new layout. In my opinion, even the "compact" mode is less compact. I don't like it. So as of today I'm forwarding all my email
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by blueadept111 9y ago
Here's an opposing view, from someone a little older and maybe a little wiser. In the big scheme of things, you're not that important. Your company is also not that important, and whether or not your company chooses to adopt this
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by blueadept111 9y ago
So how does this coin make or save me money, to compensate for the risk of buying it and trusting the "algorithmic" central bank (which apparently has a tweakable algorithm, and therefore requires trust in the central overseer?)

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