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by carapace 4y ago
( s/que/cue/ It bother me.)
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by carapace 4y ago
You got it. We just canceled Netflix and Hulu and I don't see why that money shouldn't be redirected to your project. My desire is to get productive on the land (as in make some money ) ASAP. Ideally it can pay for itself start
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by carapace 4y ago
Oh wow. We are soooooo on the same page. I'll be in touch. Probably be one of your first customers, eh?
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by carapace 4y ago
I didn't explain my meaning well enough, I apologize. I mean a scenario where the candidate for doctor (or whatever) talks to half a dozen or a dozen doctors who then say "yay" or "nay" and if all of them say "
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by carapace 4y ago
Not to be coy, my point is that education is one thing, and contests to see who gets the cherry positions in society are another, and when you combine them you get cheating. Which, of course, undermines the "verify knowledge" fun
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by carapace 4y ago
Do you realize you're describing a problem that shouldn't exist? People cheat on tests because they are there for reasons other than to learn. If AI can "level the playing field" then we need to change the game?
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by carapace 4y ago
Hey, I just got some land in N. California and I was wondering about building a robot like yours to work it. It looks like I might not be able to get up there personally for a bit (family obligations) so a tele-operated robot might be the
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW, apenwarr is one of the most intelligent humans I've ever met. When people bring up 10x programmers I think of him. I don't really have much to add, I just wanted to mention that for context.
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by carapace 4y ago
San Francisco, out in the sticks by the ocean. Download 936 Mbps Upload 24 Mbps US$90/month
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by carapace 4y ago
> The history is mostly irrelevant to building here It's relevant to getting the current residents to recognize that they're not the ultimate endpoint to the history of the San Francisco peninsula, eh? At least, that's wh
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by carapace 4y ago
Willie Brown. - - - - Heh, seriously though, FWIW, as someone who grew up here and was, until recently, against what I called at the time the Manhattan-ization of San Francisco, the argument that did the most to change my mind about growt
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by carapace 4y ago
Neat! Some thoughts, in no particular order... Make use of the ocean, and the wind. Don't build a building with no good views of the ocean (like that ugly thing[1] opposite the Zoo). Shape it to direct the wind to your wind turbines
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by carapace 4y ago
No need to play stupid. > Bring this back to the real world then, how can this happen? If it's possible then someone who doesn't care about profit would create this already. I'm doing it. I'm that "someone who d
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by carapace 4y ago
Context counts. > programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but
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by carapace 4y ago
The correct way (I think) to think of these talking computers is as the third great User Interface paradigm: I CLI II GUI III Human language Computer programming just isn't that hard. (I maintain that if you can
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by carapace 4y ago
I lived in the Tenderloin for a bit after high school. First and foremost, avoid alleyways, avoid junkies . It seems like simple advice and it is. What I learned as a nerdy white kid living in TL was that there is a largely non-verbal com
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by carapace 4y ago
Not really, SF is a shithole for a wealthy North American city. And I say that as someone who grew up here and still loves this place. Story time. We literally had squatters break into and occupy a house two doors down from us, on Sunday
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by carapace 4y ago
Riiiiight? Imagine reading that at an impressionable age before the Internet was a thing. To me, most of the craziness we're seeing now seems like a variation on "How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm (After They've
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by carapace 4y ago
You're not trying to trace ownership, you want to track the people who make the stupid/unethical decisions.
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by carapace 4y ago
"thunk"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk Ah but it says, "The term originated as a whimsical irregular form of the verb think." but without citation. Hmm, I dimly recall some hacker wag saying
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by carapace 4y ago
You might like "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media", a 1988 book by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky. > It argues that the mass communication media of the U.S. "are effective and powerful ideo
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by carapace 4y ago
Please, in Soviet Russia interns tell you what to do. (I'm sorry, that was a terrible Yakov Smirnoff reference, I apologize to him and to anyone reading this.) Anyway, in the USA military interns at NPR are learning how to run a radio
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by carapace 4y ago
I'm still not getting what you're saying. What's "this" in your sentences?
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by carapace 4y ago
> So forced adoption? No, of course not. I don't understand what you are imagining. I'm talking about forming a non-profit mutual-benefit corporation and offering memberships which include services. Not forcing anyone to do o
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by carapace 4y ago
> for every true statement there are infinitely many proofs No. There are true statements which cannot be proven. For example: "This statement cannot be proven." (Technically it's truth value is neither true nor false.
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by carapace 4y ago
You don't have to convince people to vote for it, you can just get started right away with who ever is interested.
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by carapace 4y ago
> Which means they could also push us over the edge. Sure, but that's a separate problem, eh? We split the atom and built both bombs and power plants, it's a choice we have to make: which to deploy? We have (or are about to hav
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by carapace 4y ago
I think you start with a kind of non-profit member-owned "general automation corp." that supplies a level of basic QoL: clean water, food, shelter, clothing, energy, internet, medical, etc. per-member, at a set rate, say US$300 p
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by carapace 4y ago
> they sure as hell aren't going to share with us out of the goodness of their hearts You know you can buy stock, right? And, as a shareholder, those companies will give you the profit?
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by carapace 4y ago
> It doesn't take into account the ambition and greed of humans and their capacity to exploit others. The talking computers will rapidly become perfect therapists and perfect salesmen. They can talk us "down off the ledge&quot

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