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by carapace 3y ago
(> I doubt this hardline assertion... ) (I'll cop to having an iPhone, but only because my sister got it as part of a package deal last time she renewed her phone contract. I only use it to communicate with her, and only because we
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by carapace 3y ago
> you're are also having problems developing AI I have no interest in talking computers. cf. James Mickens' USENIX Security '18-Q keynote speech: "Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Pos
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by carapace 3y ago
Here's my $0.02 (again. Apologies to those who've heard it already.) First, let me proclaim by bias: I'm a Free software fanatic. I do not ever want to run software that I can't read and, if I want to, modify. I just
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It's the other way 'round: You should use FreeBSD unless and until you have a use case that requires Linux. (For production; for yourself do what you like.)
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> why someone would use it other than for the geek factor. FWIW I (eventually) moved to rsync.net from BB because of that time BB put some JS on their web interface that sent... was it filenames to Facebook? Something like that. I&#x27
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My theory is that MS pays deep cover moles to infiltrate GNOME and sabotage it from within. It's less sad than thinking that they do it to themselves.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_curvature
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Some of us have lots of extra money and like an excuse to give some of it to cperciva so he doesn't have to work a shit job and can apply his skills and talents to bigger, better things? (People here asking about the low Bus Factor: yo
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Essays about Programming in Joy(joypy.osdn.io)
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> When thinking about a new proposal, it's often safe to assume that Occam's razor is applicable and the reason it is being proposed is that the team proposing it is trying to tackle the use cases the proposal handles. Ockham&#
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That second bit is a really old AI joke. It's pointing out a very important, uh, point. Yeah, it's creepy to make people just to enslave them (Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are also the three laws of a perfect slave , s
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Intelligence is compression. Intelligence is achieving goals. Intelligence is the process of discovering which goals are worth achieving. - - - - Q: What's GAI? A: When the computer asks, "What's in it for me?"
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Polygraph is pseudo-science, it measures nothing.
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Every time I think it's insane to contemplate making one's own chips something like this comes up, and I realize it's insane to let so much of our lives depend on these insanely complicated devices. It feels like walking on
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> We must... ...agree that personal data systems should continue to be haphazard, error-prone, expensive, and unreliable. Agreed. And we should structure our laws and institutions to respect that, instead of attempting to make the compu
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Slice notation can be used on the left-hand side of assignment.
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"Cyclic Combinational Circuits", by Marc D. Riedel > we present theoretical justification for the claim that the optimal form of some [combinational] circuits requires cyclic topologies. We exhibit families of cyclic circuits t
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I'm in favor of letting the machines do the shit work to free us up to do things like parenting, gardening, local politics, etc. My point is that a corp or org that thinks of dealing with it's customers as a bullshit job is probab
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> that's really hard for anything that doesn't involve going to a local store or service. Is that such a bad thing? FWIW it used to be that you could pick up the phone, dial '0', and talk to an operator , a real huma
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by carapace 3y ago
Yeah, I'll cop to it: Having only gotten an hour into the above-linked video, Alan Savory sounds kind of like a BS artist. Even if he's on to something with the emphasis on oxidation and desertification he still comes off poorly
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> L Hunter Lovins: George Monbiot’s recent criticism of Allan Savory’s theory that grazing livestock can reverse climate change ignores evidence that it’s already experiencing success > Claims that Savory’s approach has been discredit
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Watch it. Either the bugs don't go in at all: you need better bait. Or there's a gap where they are getting back out: tape the gap. Or they are too clever, and find the hole in the tip of the cone. I've never seen that, b
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Just wanted to add that you don't need external chemicals to do this sort of thing. It's pretty easy to learn to enter trance at will and then do things like, e.g. "Parental Timeline Re-imprinting" where you go back in
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by carapace 3y ago
> It is not clear to me what you are trying to say. Two things, really. The first is an economic argument: We've got these machines that are [about to be] able to do anything a human can do (at least in terms of economic activity) a
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> So would you agree with Weizenbaum that it’s immoral to have a computer teach a child to read? I'm not a moralist, so technically, no. As I pointed out in sib comment, you have to have a theory of "good" before you can
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by carapace 3y ago
> maximize human capability Ah, you've touched to the quick. The challenge of AI (and technology is general) is to answer "What are people for?" or, in other words, "What is good?" (Not to get ahead of the discu
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> “unmotivated” is a bit reductive Well, sure, it's under-specified, I said "unmotivated (for whatever reasons)", eh? I agree with you. When it comes to programming computers it's one of the few areas where I am unab
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If you can solve a Sudoku puzzle you can program a computer. Secretaries were programming emacs in lisp in the 1970's. Normal people. To some extent the IT industry is predicated on people being too unmotivated (for whatever reasons)
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I got in a huge (for me) argument the other day with a fella who was hell-bent on using AI to teach kids to read. I don't think I got through to him at all. It was all the more frustrating because he turned out to be a teacher! To me
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Ha! Whenever I work on compiling Joy code I have to fight the urge to just write Joy-in-Factor and lean on all that crunchy goodness. (I wrote Joypy (mentioned in TFA), now Thun (someone took Joypy on PyPI so I renamed it) which includes in

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