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by dejb 18y ago
Attitudes like yours are a large part of what is wrong with the world - 'People might makes mistakes so don't allow them to make decisions. In fact don't even allow them to have information because it might make them want to make decisions'
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by dejb 18y ago
The Turing Test was made a lot earlier yes. The prediction that it would be passed before 2030 is strongly related to the singularity. If (when?) the cost of owning and operating one million real time turing-test-passing entities was less t
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by dejb 18y ago
The work 'unscientific' is a very loaded word. It can be a powerful weapon, able to paint any assertion not presented like a scientific paper into the equivalent of astrology. It has been used in many instances to discredit quite reasonable
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by dejb 18y ago
Of course. Guilt by association. Case proven.
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by dejb 18y ago
Yep I see them there. But does that really have any bearing on the likely hood of it being true? Religion encompasses our greatest desires so if technology becomes sufficiently powerful wouldn't the fulfillment of those desires be a likely
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by dejb 18y ago
The claims are falsifiable. Just like any other prediction of the future. You just have to wait and see if the prediction becomes true. To falsify the proposition that 'the singularity' will occur within the next 40 years will take up to...
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by dejb 18y ago
"XXXXX is a religious rather than a scientific vision" where XXXXX = Evolution, Gravity..... Just because something deals with issues that religion addresses does not mean it is not scientific.
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by dejb 18y ago
>Without IP protection, the industries that have made our media our chief cultural export would be economically unfeasible. I guess the 'our' is supposed to be Americans. No chance that someone outside the US might read the article or h
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by dejb 18y ago
I'm not sure which to be more scared of - perl 6 or the death of our sun.
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by dejb 18y ago
I agree that solving 'new' problems is a lot of fun. This can cause problem if you try to turn more mundane problems into interesting ones by making your code cover substantiatlly more general cases than is necessary. This is what has happe
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by dejb 18y ago
So I guess this argument would extend to other industries as well. You could buy a cheaper computer that was locked in to a particular ISP or a car that was locked into a particular fuel supply. Or perhaps a TV that only connected to a part
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by dejb 18y ago
The article doesn't even seem to acknowledge the existence of economies other than US. If you are trying to propose an economic 'law' then you really need to look at more than one country. In fact there are many other succesful economies th
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by dejb 18y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it the same for all users or if it depends on the number of votes a comment has received.
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by dejb 18y ago
Fair enough. I've seen a lot of quite innocent but flippant comments absolutely hammered before so it stands out that this was the top one. I thought your statement tended to agree with the original one but maybe that isn't the case. What e
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by dejb 18y ago
I'm liking this community less and less each day. When this sort of comment on this sort of article is the top comment something is wrong. For some reason I don't seem to be able to vote that comment down either.
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by dejb 19y ago
Yes and 1% of 1 trillion is 10 billion which is the equivalent of 100 Wikipedias - NOT the 10,000 Wikipedias he was proposing.
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by dejb 19y ago
"We are unable to find iTunes on your computer." Is there any other source?
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by dejb 19y ago
Yes I agree it is useful to consider the rest of the world. However that was not the cause for the discrepancy and the numbers are still out by a factor of 100. If you think that 1% of global surplus attention could annually create 10000 wi
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by dejb 19y ago
>The Internet-connected population watches roughly a trillion hours of TV a year... One per cent of that is 10,000 Wikipedia projects per year worth of participation. I think he messed the maths up 1 wikipedia = 100 Million hours (fro
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by dejb 19y ago
1/11,429th of a burrito per visitor.I bet the TechCrunch makes a lot more than that.
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by dejb 19y ago
Makes some intuitive sense but I'd like to see a reference.
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by dejb 19y ago
> Are you sure you want to listen to someone who has never lived in San Francisco? Perhaps. But on the other hand - what value is the opinion of someone who has only ever worked/started-up in SF? To have a basis for comparison you'd nee
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by dejb 19y ago
I think that many people who over-eat because of 'nervous energy' and the calming effect of moderate exercise can help these people eat less. Also as far as I understand it, exercise raises your metabolism for a considerable period (maybe e
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by dejb 19y ago
I certainly hope this poll isn't decided by a simple majority. Imagine how many things would get banned if it only required a simple majority vote. Things should not be banned without an overwhelming majority of people thinking it is necess
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by dejb 19y ago
True. Is embedding ads deeply into the content stealing from the viewer? Like a product placement in a movie? The more people block ads the more content producers will move in this direction.
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by dejb 19y ago
I think he was mainly talking about people who upload pictures to flickr, not so much those who just browse the content. An equivelent comparison would be comeone who uploads to flickr and someone who is interviewed on NBC for free. In fact
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by dejb 19y ago
I think the test is a good idea but the 'relevance raters' are only looking at the listing results - not the actual page. The relevance of the actual page is far more important to the user experience than the listing text. A clever 'made fo
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by dejb 19y ago
Oops! I obviously broke the rule.
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by dejb 19y ago
First rule of effective SEO : Nobody talks about effective SEO.
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by dejb 19y ago
The article delivered exactly what it promised and in my opinion that was something that needed saying.

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