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by dodo53 15y ago
Or even without maliciousness - someone could screw up a simulation such that the simulated mind is in pain for a subjective eternity
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by dodo53 15y ago
One thing I always think about brain emulation/mind uploading/strong AI research is we need an legal/ethical framework in place before we get there. I still think it's far off, but not everyone does. If you believe consciousness is a proper
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by dodo53 15y ago
Cool. I guess I should sign up before suggesting stuff :o)
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by dodo53 15y ago
What I'm waiting from (purely from an uninformed coolness factor) is automated cooperating agent style construction - a la ant colony or termite mound.
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Apple Store moving to use iPads for POS(thenextweb.com)
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by dodo53 15y ago
The completionist in me would have gone back and tried the "No" route also :P
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by dodo53 15y ago
yeah, the company won an innovation award for it in 2006: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/concrete-tent-gets-mixed-... I guess it takes a while to productionize.
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by dodo53 15y ago
From my experience of facebook - I'd say aggregating or having the choice of aggregating all the email would be really nice. So instead of a So-and-so is doing X, would you like to join them? You could have - Your friends are planning the f
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by dodo53 15y ago
Would predictable statistical distribution of complexity not be enough? As in, you get a randomly assigned job, that takes on average a given amount of processing power, and is proven to not need more than some upper limit - or even, you ti
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by dodo53 15y ago
Could do with more of a portfolio of previous work - there's not much to go on at the moment.
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think social scheduling is not properly solved yet - mostly for me, this is either via facebook events (which is, I'm doing this, please show up) or email conversations (which get messy with lots of people). Like, I'd like to go out to th
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by dodo53 15y ago
>One of these experiments, the Tardkiss experiment, will expose colonies of tardigrade to different levels of ionising radiation Sounds like the start of a sci-fi horror, would not want to meet a giant mutant version :o)
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by dodo53 15y ago
Special relativity is actually quite accessible and really interesting - find a good book or set of lectures on iTunes U or something. (General relativity, the generalised version including acceleration and gravity, is what makes people thi
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by dodo53 15y ago
What would be the implications for space junk in orbit? Is lots of dust-size stuff more dangerous (would spread over a wider volume, or is it just like having a normal satellite but only most of it is empty space)?
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by dodo53 15y ago
And one of the tests in trademark law is if a reasonable person would be confused between the original and the imposter. So you only have to have 'reasonable' knowledge of other brands in your industry.
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Ask HN: Would this be a useful automatic scraper-finding algorithm?
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by dodo53 15y ago
There needs to be a cash penalty for people bringing frivolous patent claims - and that money should be awarded to the defendant. Then you could get no-win-no-fee laywers defending collections of small devs against claims they think are unl
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by dodo53 15y ago
Maybe having enough money to pay lawyers to attack people. But yes, I think this would be awesome, and if it was successful enough, whenever large companies say 'oh, we only hold patents for defensive reasons' they could be pressured to don
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by dodo53 15y ago
Yes, and due to accelerating change, the rate at which laws are generated/enforced by people ignorant of the subject matter will only go up.
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by dodo53 15y ago
also would be nice to have overlapping tags instead of discrete lists. You could have your startup people / people interested in ${tech} / people you'd invite to your birthday / people you'd share photos with. Also, one thing I find annoyin
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by dodo53 15y ago
Well it's fine if it's a symmetrical both of you think each other as same tier; less so if you'd disagree (e.g. some bosses think all their subordinates are their friends and would want them at their parties).
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by dodo53 15y ago
What I was thinking is if you have a list of scrapers supplied and a publish notification, Google could then index the alleged scraper sites directly (instead of waiting for a general index to find them), and then at some interval later. Fo
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by dodo53 15y ago
IANAT (I am not a teacher): Hmm.. I certainly don't think classroom style would lead to people not engaging in face-to-face conversations - I think many/most people seek that out by themselves socially (and entertainment technology like say
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by dodo53 15y ago
So how about - content creator pushes content to Google, and list of people they think will scrape it. If sufficiently large sufficiently close copy of content shows up on scraper page they're penalized (adwords, search, banned from Blogger
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by dodo53 15y ago
Sounds like something to build as part of your tricorder and get paid twice :oP http://www.reghardware.com/2011/05/12/x_prize_foundation_tri... Also, that doesn't sound like a lot of money to transfer intellectual property rights for that
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by dodo53 15y ago
Some people think that your usual language affects how you can thnik ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir%E2%80%93Whorf_hypothesis ; not sure if I'd agree that strongly) - so possibly you wouldn't be able to miss expressiveness you're not f
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by dodo53 15y ago
It's also a good recruitment tool having a couple of world-class people working on stuff that interests a lot of computer science types.
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by dodo53 15y ago
I think it could help solve congestion as a problem too. Maybe cars could book their routes, and the road brokers will maximise for #cars/destination instead of allowing people to keep piling in even after the useful capacity is exceeded.
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by dodo53 15y ago
And yet individual regret / manslaughter charges don't seem to actually change road death statistics. I'd so love for this to happen; I kinda also doubt it will though anytime soon.
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by dodo53 15y ago
I bet the first time robots are legally recognised as sentient (not saying they are now!) will be in court for a liability claim :oP

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