dhruval

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by dhruval 8y ago
With infinite time and infinite space, you could do all the computations required for the nematode worm neural network with a pencil and paper rather than an electronic computer. Would you say that this pencil and paper is now conscious? Do
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by dhruval 8y ago
Rockets are very hard and failure is very costly. Requires a different mindset from software. All the best to the team.
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by dhruval 10y ago
More so than postmodernism, the author seems highly influenced by Mahayana Buddhist 'middle-way'* and 'emptiness' philosophy and epistemology. But presents it in a very fresh and relatively easy to understand way. * htt
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by dhruval 10y ago
He changed a 'F U CEO' (upvoted by 1.6k users) comment to 'F U unpaid reddit moderator', without any indication that the comment was edited. Very juvenile and unprofessional way of dealing with the situation, really erod
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by dhruval 12y ago
Given her background, I think it will be Pao as a very operations focused CEO and Alexis as a fairly involved Executive Chairman focused on guiding culture and general direction. It could work out very well for Reddit.
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by dhruval 12y ago
Getting off topic. But conceptual reasoning is arbitrarily defined based on other experiences and self-refential so not inherently epistimologically valid. To privilege it over other forms of knowledge and human experience in all situations
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by dhruval 12y ago
Developing various cartoon superpowers is mostly used in the context of being denounced as being of inferior value compared to that tradition's idea of spiritual salvation. So I am not sure if that can be taken as promoting asceticism.
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by dhruval 12y ago
You have misunderstood. Once some individual humans get sick or die. Even very primitive human cultures in the vicinity of nuclear sites would very quickly notice a pattern. Any symbol that was used consistently near nuclear sites would be
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by dhruval 12y ago
We are not giving humanity enough credit here. The standard nuclear hazard symbol would suffice. Even assuming there is some sort of civilization ending event, and specific knowledge of nuclear technology disappears. People are certainly sm
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by dhruval 12y ago
As a thought experiment, imagine that the mechanical computer in the following comic is used to create a perfect model of your brain... http://xkcd.com/505/ At what point does it become conscious ? It doesn't seem
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by dhruval 12y ago
It isn't that simple. See... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness The hard problem has to do with the mere fact of subjective experience. The fact that we experience something rather than not
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by dhruval 13y ago
Computational power is necessary but not sufficient. The difficult part of the building a human-level AI would be the software and learning set rather than a hardware one. Consider that the basic structure of our brains is the product of co
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by dhruval 13y ago
Congrats to Sam! I think Looking forward to reading more thoughtful writing from PG. It has really changed my perspective on things over the years.
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by dhruval 13y ago
"Maybe the same way that you can have a psychopath, you can have the opposite? Someone whose brain is hard-wired to be more empathetic than normal?" Something like this maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High
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by dhruval 13y ago
Why would a perfect happiness drug make one lazy and less engaged ? I guess it depends on how we define happiness. In my view the perfect happiness drug would have the exact opposite effect, i.e. make people more functional, less prone to s
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by dhruval 13y ago
Well you can use it to get over fears and anxieties. Also to reduce stress. By seeing that is that the things causing these fears don't actually exist. It would be better if we used philosophies as a tools rather than cling to them as
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by dhruval 14y ago
To make this more relevant to entrepreneurship and startups... It is possible to get a pretty good idea of how someone will behave under times of stress by just talking to them for a few minutes. Then gauging if most of their worldview is d
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by dhruval 15y ago
Our brains are working quite hard while playing video games or browsing random things on the internet. Yet these are things we do to 'relax' after a hard day's work. The problem isn't long hours per se. The problem is that the long hours
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by dhruval 15y ago
Need to take it a few steps further. Happiness isn't about passion. Or interest. Or possessing something. Or accomplishing stuff. Happiness is by definition a subjective state of mind. It can be easily manipulated. Consider for instance som
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by dhruval 15y ago
Before we start getting to smug about our sense of free will, let me just point out that there are widespread human brain parasites. One example is Toxoplama Gondii, which infects roughly 1/3 of the world's population. Studies have shown re
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by dhruval 15y ago
Fair point. Didn't see that line earlier and made the assumption it was adsense as the author talked about how Google serves up ads.
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by dhruval 15y ago
This actually is not a gray area at all. It is specifically against Adsense TOS. See here under 'encouraging clicks': https://www.google.com/adsense/support/as/bin/answer.py?answ... Nor is this a new idea. Google addressed this issue back
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by dhruval 15y ago
What this is getting at is that start-up world is run on 'winner takes all economics' (look it up). Companies that win rarely have products and marketing that are 1000x better than those that fail. But the difference in the payouts can eas
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by dhruval 15y ago
Google search trend data seems to agree with you... http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+buzz%2C+google+plus&#3... But might just be the initial excitement dying down.
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by dhruval 15y ago
So not really all that different from Hacker News. This type of indirect value capture will tend to happen given the economics of online publishing. Hopefully TC can put in to place a some policies that limit the impact on the publication's
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by dhruval 15y ago
"As an employee, being a developer is largely a crap job in which you get little respect and virtually no power" Incidentally this is also why having a developer-centric culture is important in a technology company. I use the term 'technolo
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by dhruval 15y ago
Actually the studies used groups from 2-5. Here is a more scientific summary of the research... http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~cfc/Woolley2010a.pdf The interviewer just picked 10 as an arbitrary number. The researcher just went along with it
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by dhruval 15y ago
The emails from the Ceglia complaint make Mark sound like a bad parody of the character played by Jesse Eisenberg on the Social Network. http://i.zdnet.com/blogs/cegliavszuck.pdf?tag=mantle_skin;co...
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by dhruval 15y ago
Visiting http://www.timeoffhq.com/accounts - shows a xml dump of all your accounts and users!! I can tell from your blog that you are a good coder, but need to be careful with little things like the routes file as this can lead to big pr
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by dhruval 15y ago
I wouldn't label it stupidity or ignorance, but it is a weel documented quirk of human behavior the default state of opt in / opt out systems makes a huge difference. This ted talk is an excellent and talks about the very significant differ

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