davidrusu

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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   Assuming the creation of AI went smoothly, virtually all jobs would be obsolete due to AI, society has transitioned to basic income, and I'd be trying to wrap my head around the latest discovery from our AI friends. It'll be like
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   Let's reverse the numbers and make both boxes transparent. If The Predictor suspects you will choose just box A, it'll put 1 million in box B and 1 thousand in box A, if it suspects you will take both A and B, it will put nothing
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   I can be more interesting reframed as such: The player is the AI, and the predictor is the AI programmer. The AI programmer can look into the innards of the AI ie. the source code and can thus predict with high accuracy what the AI will do.
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   Attention and time is a limited resource, especially with HN having no comment folding.
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   These kinds of comments tend to derail threads, kronos is a pretty cool project but now 1/4 of the comment section is discussing how 'practical' Haskell is. There are other threads that discuss the merits of Haskell
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   please don't encourage the trolls.
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   I think the parent post was inferring the opposite causation, ie, the families that tend to give their children circumcisions tend to be conservative and would probably have a lower hiv infection rate even if they would not have circumcised
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   Wow sucks to be in the Philippians right now :D I fear that having very localized problems will end up killing the site. Most people can't act on these problems but they are taking up valuable space on the front page.
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   by davidrusu 12y ago

   That wikipedia/peer-review replacement sounds fascinating, can't wait to see what he's come up with.
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    For people doubting if this will work, check out OnLive[1], you can try game demo's for free, the experience was very good for me [1] https://games.onlive.com/
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Why so pessimistic, Think about all the great use cases of this tech eg. When Elon Musk gets his Mars project going these will be invaluable to have on the spaceship. Or imagine a nyc with all buildings below ground, above ground, the entir
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    But they both link to the same comments section
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Anyone else seeing this post as the 1st and 2nd link on the front page of HN?
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    I like Ramda as well, currying was a feature I didn't expect to use as often as I did.
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    really.. how am I supposed to be a millionaire if I throw money away like that??
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    good luck: http://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox/
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Ironically, from the head of Microsoft Research: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/artific...
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    There are smart people working on it, see miri: https://intelligence.org/ But it's a very hard problem. To get a better feel for the problem I suggest you read Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, it's what convince
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    I wonder how the atmosphere at yc has changed over the years? I would imagine there to be more competition between groups nowadays as compared to the first few batches.
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    looks like it could be interesting but very obnoxious ads
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    It's not that humans will program AI's to kill us, but having more influence would probably be a very efficient way of maximizing it's utility function
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Looks like we've got something similar in Canada, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Information_Protection... I'm excited to try it out at my university!
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Maybe they are using Siri to launch apps
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Hah, imagine a system where processes were placed in an arena and they battle it out for cpu time. Programmers will not only have to build their applications but also write an AI to protect itself, an IDE could be a fortress where processes
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Glad you're liking it, as for the bug, you currently can't backspace over different blocks of text, that's probably what you are referring to. This will probably be fixed in upcoming releases.
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    Direct link to addon store: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/type-the-web/...
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    Show HN: Type the Web – Practice typing as you browse(github.com)

    2 points by davidrusu 12y ago|3 comments
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    There's actually 2 dices, so there are quite a few more ways to get a 7 than to get a 2 7 = 1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 4+3, 5+2, 6+1 2 = 1+1, 1+1
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    (< a (>= b c)) same number of operators but a few extra parens
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    by davidrusu 12y ago

    I've done this before, I think of it as a more powerful form of a switch statement. I'd love to hear why you think it's not ideal.