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by chr1 7y ago
>>> What's the difference between the human thinking, feeling, making a choice and a trained neural network making a 'choice'? I would not say a neural network has free will. >> The difference is most likely th
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Exactly, and even if they do not want to spend billions to manage all the content, they should spend at least a few millions and implement per site blocking + warnings, so that a small error in youtube spam filter results in a small issue o
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I do understand how difficult it is to deal with spam, and how important it is. I also see that the issue have arised from error/negligence and not from malice. But blocking the whole google account including the email, that can contai
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The difference is most likely the organization and the complexity of a network. Neural network doesn't have free will because it is too simple and can't even pass turing test. > I think that if the universe is deterministic and
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There can be some special cases when suspending account is justified, e.g. criminal not in prison using the account for criminal activity, someone creating new account and sending spam from it or collecting phishing data. So we do not want
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Government tyranny is a far greater danger because government can use force in the form of army and police, and when established it effectively owns everything else in the country. The privately owned tyranny has much less power, and when i
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Which is ok if they are small, have many concurrents, and their field of activity is old enough to have reasonable laws. Unfortunately for google none of this is true for them. And if they don't want more people demanding to break them
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I wish lawmakers instead of spending time on misguided cookie banner laws, spent more time on things like this. Behavior like this is completely unacceptable, it is equivalent to store owner throwing you out because he thought your hair are
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Using random numbers affects the condition about determinism not computability. If universe is not deterministic then the choice made does not depend only on the human making choice but also on the state of generator that creates random num
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If universe is deterministic and computable, then it is possible to create a simulation of a part of the universe that would be complex enough to contain humans and would be simple enough to pause computation, make changes to the state, cop
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There is also the case of several simulations of a smaller universe running in our universe, with the external observer trying to look ahead. But even if you could simulate the universe to look ahead, most likely there is only one possible
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This is not obvious at all, even with deterministic and computable universe there is a good analog of free will. The first thing that is needed or this to work, is for the part of universe representing the human to be separable from the res
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There is also an argument that nuclear weapons were actually a greatest good for humanity, as they prevented wars between countries that have them.
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Reading the Bakhshali Manuscript(ams.org)
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Or build a several kilometers high tower, using either Space fountain or floating spheres. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_fountain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Nine_(tensegrity_sph
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The real advantage of electric airplanes is simplicity of electric motors, better aerodynamical properties of a plane using many small propellers, and possibility of vertical takeoff. Ideally when we have kerosene based fuel cells we could
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> we could define what kind of growth we want and in what direction The best proposal so far is growth with speed of light in all directions. > Do we really need growth or do we need happiness? What about the people who are not happy
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Oligarchs don't go around cutting forests for fun, they profit from "environmental destruction" because other people need it to live and are ready to give their money in exchange for its results and receive money for performi
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Why do you think the centralized body would say that to fox and not to cnn? After all if there are about 50% people thinking that fox spreads lies and 50% people thinking cnn spreads lies the decision of centralized body could go any way. I
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> We see diminishing returns everywhere, and if this is not stopped and we don't manage to drastically increase the efficacy of scientific research we'll effectively flatline at some point. Most likely there is no way to increa
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Sure outright lying in a way that can put someone in danger (e.g. printing false instruction on medical drug) should not be allowed. The question is what should be the mechanism to do that. One way is to use courts, where everyone will get
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It doesn't until the robots become cheap enough, but even before that baby strollers are much less sensitive to some amount of stairs than wheelchairs are.
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At this point it would be cheaper to make a large investment into Boston Dynamics to develop walking chairs, instead of continuing with ramps and other things meant to accommodate wheelchairs.
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The crispr treatment in the article is not simply a way to remove the gene causing some forms of autism, it is also a method to add that same gene. The fact that we are talking only about using it to remove autism shows that everyone knows
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It would be better if advertisers had their own pages where all of their advertisements would be shown as posts with the parameters they used for targeting. Basically Facebook needs to make the whole process maximally transparent, and claim
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The important part in the argument above is allowing people to decide for themselves. The boarding schools were about government "saving" children by not allowing children and their parents to choose. The people who are unhappy ab
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Autism does not only describe people "who don't fit", but also people who would die without someone else caring for them. A society that doesn't regard such people as defective, and doesn't try to help them (when th
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The Deaf community's feelings on things like cochlear implants is the perfect example showing that the whole "ethical side" is pointless philosophical babble. How can anyone even think to justify not allowing other people to
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I do know that my dislike of professional sports is in minority even on hn, that's why i wish there was a way to channel part of the money that goes into sports, to the technology instead. Some rules are of course always needed, as you
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I wish more sports would embrace technology the way F1 does. Waiting for people with random mutations, or ready to put huge amount of time for training, or crazy enough to take illegal and harmful drugs, in pursuit of hundredth of a second

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