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by csbrooks 10y ago
There is some repercussion: if you have any sense at all, when someone on your feed consistently keeps sharing this garbage, you stop paying any attention to what they share.
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by csbrooks 10y ago
"Here is a list of the 10 thoughts I kept in my head, after throwing all the others out."
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by csbrooks 10y ago
When they rolled out ECoin in Mr Robot, I thought it was a stretch...
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by csbrooks 10y ago
To me, it seems to refute the argument in the article: that AI has to have some kind of "will" in order to be dangerous. Because AI doesn't "desire" to take over the world, it can't harm us. I believe The paper
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by csbrooks 10y ago
https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer "...a paperclip maximizer is an artificial general intelligence (AGI) whose goal is to maximize the number of paperclips in its collection... It would innovate b
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by csbrooks 10y ago
Anecdote: My brother-in-law has worked at the same factory for 20 years now. Their efficiency has probably increased 10x in that time. They are producing more than they used to, with a lot less workers.
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Six Ways Uber and Lyft Lost Austin(medium.com)
2 points by csbrooks 10y ago|0 comments
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What’s Next for TNC’s in Austin? What Can YOU Do?(austinstartups.com)
2 points by csbrooks 10y ago|0 comments
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by csbrooks 10y ago
When you say you "work on the Prop 1 campaign", do you mean you were paid, or volunteered? Maybe "every petition is backed by money", but never this much, or so blatantly from a single source. That's what bothered m
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by csbrooks 10y ago
They basically turned it into "here's the legislation we wrote, if you don't pass it, we're leaving immediately", and then spammed everyone with text messages, INCREDIBLE amounts of junk mail, and door-to-door canva
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by csbrooks 11y ago
I think hearing from a reasonable person is better than just getting a Cease & Desist letter.
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Consciousness Is Not Mysterious(theatlantic.com)
5 points by csbrooks 11y ago|1 comments
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by csbrooks 11y ago
Reminds me of the start of the movie I am Legend...
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by csbrooks 11y ago
This is a joke, right? :) Commercials, same as radio.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
"Right now, you’re one of three people at a startup when you should be one of 200 people at a mid-sized company" I think this assumes that people are basically static, with a bunch of fixed personality traits that define them for
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by csbrooks 11y ago
It feels like since we evolved under conditions of sleeping for a third of our lives, there are probably lots of other biological mechanisms that depend on sleep happening to work.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
All the snarky and negative comments on anything that gets created here is really turning me off. Been using HN for a long time, but it might be time to move on.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
I think they just mean, if you have 10,000 customers, it's not surprising if someone hits the 1 in 10,000 odds. You could say that person was "lucky", though they have no greater chance than anyone else of hitting those odds
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by csbrooks 11y ago
This is sickening. Google's private security has no right to tell anyone what to do on a public sidewalk.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
Do you have any evidence that this is the case, besides your gut feeling? I'm a gen-X'er, and people used to say this about us. But I don't think it was ever really true; every generation just wants to believe the next genera
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by csbrooks 11y ago
I have three sons. Don't expect to keep them out of the emergency room forever, if you haven't been there already. :)
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Oculus Touch gives you natural, hand-based VR control(engadget.com)
1 points by csbrooks 11y ago|0 comments
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Designing Zachtronics' TIS-100(gamasutra.com)
97 points by csbrooks 11y ago|22 comments
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by csbrooks 11y ago
"Binney doesn’t see much distinction between the Bush and Obama administrations when it comes to intelligence policy." This has been such a disappointment for me. I had such high hopes for Obama. :(
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by csbrooks 11y ago
Interesting point. I wonder if one reason for the difference in language is that chemotherapy is so brutal that it ends up feeling like a "battle". Plus maybe that there's a chance of "winning", which isn't the
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by csbrooks 11y ago
Good for them! I like it.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
I love Algolia. Used it as a core part of a project I worked on. Very slick.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
Are you holding Snowden responsible for the New York Times' failure to properly redact documents?
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by csbrooks 11y ago
I've been in Austin for 8 years or so. Like it a lot. Plenty of tech companies and jobs.
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by csbrooks 11y ago
This part struck home to me: 'Many developers who try to achieve the retro aesthetic overlook how much magnification is going on, resulting in not one, but several different resolutions at once. Not only can this be unsightly, but it’s

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