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by charles-salvia 10y ago
The problem with all these claims is that the term "singularity" implies, to most people, a sudden change after which civilization will be radically altered. I guess we'll wake up one morning and just start bowing down to ou
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
But we don't really know of any better models right now.
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I don't understand why this guy is particularly more interesting or amazing than the countless other homeless people who have survived in our inner-cities for decades. The only thing that makes this guy different is the superficial as
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
This isn't that different from what many other homeless people on the fringes of cities/towns accomplish. They setup some kind of make-shift shelter, and subsist via varying degrees of cleverness, begging or charity. The only di
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
This story... doesn't really strike me as that worthy of contemplating for too long. Really, how is this guy really particularly different from someone who is basically just homeless? I mean, instead of living on the outskirts of sum
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
How is this different from the default state of Western culture for the past century? Despite many positive social changes towards more equal opportunities for women, socially speaking, Western culture is still very traditional in terms of
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
http://www.naver.com/
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Google essentially has an entire monopoly on how information enters our brains. They exert complete control over Internet search for almost everyone on Earth outside of China, Russia and South Korea. Granted, Google is not exclusively con
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
So, I have to wonder: if this trend actually continues (and I hope it does), could this be a factor that helps curtail climate change to some degree? I realize that we will most likely inevitably suffer major damages at this point no matte
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
I agree - the suburbs are really depressing.
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
> Person sees the dimensions of the rooms via the live stream. Runs over Google maps and finds all buildings with those dimensions. I don't follow. Google maps would only help if the entire building was like one room. The live str
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
> There doesn't appear to be a consistent theory as to why we aren't all dead from nukes. Probably because launching a nuclear attack doesn't benefit nation states, if other nation states also have nuclear weapons. Also,
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Because the set of criminals used in the research are confirmed psychopaths, so it's the only way to conduct such a study. You cannot round up Hedge Fund managers for such a study. But this also makes what you're saying somewhat
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
People sometimes think that OOP means "OOP or Nothing!" probably because of the popularity of languages that enforce such a mentality (i.e. basically because Java).
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
As much as some of us might feel some misguided excitement over the idea of being some kind of tech savvy Hannibal Lecter, the reality is that there is no real correlation between psychopathy and intelligence (perhaps even a negative co
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
No, what you're saying is that the simulation would mess with our observations - but our basic logical axioms are not dependent on observations to be valid - that's why they're axioms! They are used as valid starting poi
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
I think you're asking, if we took all the matter in the Universe and converted it into a giant computer, would we be able to fully simulate our own Universe? I think the answer is that if our Universe is currently, say, nested N levels
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
No you could use more coarse grained representations of distant objects or less frequently observed objects. If our Universe is a simulation, for example, given that the speed of information is limited, there's no reason to completely
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Because the word "religion" has different semantic connotations. Just because I propose a question that has no falsifiable answer does not mean I have suddenly invented a religion. If I start actually marketing my non-falsifia
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
More or less yes - unless the simulation itself is auto-generated by some other mindless program. (In which case we can eventually find God recursively.)
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
A Turing-machine based simulated reality certainly would have been incomprehensible, but pre-20th century philosophers have thought about the idea of the world not being "real" in some sense. I would even conjecture that the univ
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
> But if that’s the case, we run into a paradox. The argument for living in a simulation is based on the laws of physics and logic. But if we are living a simulation, we can’t trust those laws, so we have no basis to conclude we are livi
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
The problem with Chrome/Chromium is it's basically just a huge ton of scaffolding designed to layer an IPC framework on top of more layers of scaffolding on top of more layers that wrap blink (i.e. WebKit) which still has lots of
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
> The Electoral College doesn't 'reduce the weight of votes coming from inner-cities and urban areas'; it allocates votes to states in roughly proportion to population. It does reduce the weight of votes coming from inne
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
You're right - the 80% is exaggerated. I got it from https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ua/urban-rural-2010.htm... . Their definition of "urban" is actually outlandish, in that it includes &
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
If you trained a neural network to recognize "high powered tech executives", it will likely start picking up on features associated with 30 to 40 year old (mostly white) males wearing sweaters or "business casual" attire
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
It's a bit more complicated. Inner-city populations heavily vote Democrat, along with most densely populated areas. In fact, something like ~80% of Americans live in urban areas (which also includes dense suburbs), and therefore we s
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
Well, Donald Trump matters. And he thought about them. And this is where we are.
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
I would say it's counter-productive - but at least a direct causal line can be drawn between slavery and the current lower average socio-economic status of black people in the US. Whereas, there is absolutely no causal line between
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by charles-salvia 10y ago
I think a lot of the resentment felt by the rural American poor has to do with their perception that they are constantly ignored or overlooked, while similarly impoverished inner-city minorities are at least given some kind of institutional

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