dogcomplex

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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   Location: Victoria, BC (Canada) Remote: Yes, 6 years experience Willing to relocate: Maybe, but Remote preferred Technologies: ReactJS + Native, PHP, SQL, JS/HTML/CSS etc Email: warrenkoch at gmail Résumé/CV: https:/&#x
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   I'm just reiterating now: Sure, the underlying structure of math and computer science may be entirely logical. But to delve at that, we develop a language of terms and a culture of understanding that is inherently human and inherently
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   Even if math and logic were fundamentally without fuzziness, their applicability to the rest of the world is inherently fuzzy. Their invention has inescapable, inevitable repercussions which have ethical consequences - so yeah, those need
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   If you want to make an arbitrary categorization of what is mathematics (or computer science) to divorce it of perspectives of ethics, beauty, etc, then go for it. But those perspectives are there (and valid), and good luck coming up with a
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   I mean... it absolutely does. You put the money taxed from the rich into social programs to ease the stress and risk of the lower classes - or just give it directly to them as lower taxes. That could make a huge difference. If you argue t
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   Yes, philosophers argue "hard logic" is a subset of philosophy and the human experience, and its claim to truth is as unstable and fuzzy as the rest of said human experience - to the extent it can be applied to the real world at a
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   Computer Science absolutely has ethics. In the process of constructing systems which humans interact with, we simultaneously cause cultural and societal repercussions. Even if the choices we made could be perfectly justified by "maxi
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   SEEKING WORK | Remote Only (Located Victoria BC, PST UTC-7. Can adapt availability to match client timezone) Full-service Designer and Developer, with 6+ years professional remote Full Stack experience, who can take a project through all th
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   by dogcomplex 7y ago

   Can you give an example of how active management is done by Facebook (etc) in a way that a distributed protocol (with a team of developers and incentivized crowds) could not? It seems to me the major differences between centralized and dece
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    by dogcomplex 7y ago

    An excellent counterargument. Yes, one might concede that protocols have not and probably will not win out over platforms in a free market. But if we're advocating that the big tech utilities be required by law to open source their p
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    by dogcomplex 7y ago

    Do you care about the future of humanity as a whole? There's your religion
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    by dogcomplex 7y ago

    Same thing. Money = flexibility and control. People may feel the environmental anxiety, but feel powerless to do anything about it because they have to spend all their time working (if they can) to make ends meet. Social media stats&#x2F
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    by dogcomplex 7y ago

    As a person reading this who was ready and waiting to celebrate a better standard way to override custom components... These two examples are night and day. Vanilla is way less convoluted. There better be a very convincing argument (and
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    by dogcomplex 7y ago

    Not if you can re-establish credentials after selling them and cast a second vote that silently spoils whatever the buyer sends. Though that might count as electronic-in-person, as you'd need some unsellable credential (e.g. live vide
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    by dogcomplex 7y ago

    But taking "morally bankrupt" risks that backfire in PR down the road is (sometimes) a bad long-term finanical strategy.
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    I mean... every one of those examples involves construction/renovation or directly impacts neighbors. Having guests over in your unchanged house, parking in your designated parking spaces, and just happening to charge money for the ex
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Location: Victoria, BC Remote: Yes, (preferred, 4 years experience) Willing to relocate: Maybe? Probably not Technologies: React (JS+Native), PHP, MySQL, Python, NodeJS, Phalcon, Lint, Git, Jest, Enzyme, Docker, Confluence, Jira, REST APIs,
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    This person has a point. We should put a thin layer of collective consumer organization (regional, statewide, national, global, or some other user-defined organization) that's programmatically (smart-contract-based) guaranteed to hunt
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Very interesting point, and comparison to social media. It seems to me that if most of the users of Facebook, Reddit, etc, were to band together and leave to somewhere they get a better deal - then the value of those sites would effectivel
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Plot twist: all the comments on this thread were auto-generated.
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Related question: Does anyone have a good, accessible summary article of where AI is at, what can/can't be automated, etc?
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    We got you covered. Or rather - other media has you covered. Just gotta link requests like these to some book/series/etc they might (but probably won't) read/watch ;)
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    James Burke's "The Day the Universe Changed" series. A history of inventions, how one led to another, often in stupid tiny ways brought about by pure luck - or the right person working on the smallest thing at the right time
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Hat's off to you and your career path! Very cool.
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Fair enough, but consider that a "dumb" AI running the world on incentives that don't match human and planet welfare is already our current condition - it's called The Economy. While the overall system isn't a perf
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    I don't suppose you could give us a detailed example of some particular company's/country's debt situation? (Just, since it's rare to find people who can explain that depth)
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    I'm not someone who studies this stuff, but I'd wager that the 99.9% thing isn't quite the same context as the 75% thing, and two ants in the same colony are more similar than two humans. Not to detract from your comment abou
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    So in your opinion the problem is (theoretically) solved? As in, we can have anonymous, verifiable, online, direct democracy such that 3rd parties cannot verify your vote without your private key?
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Well, when the best way to obfuscate your own voter influencing and voting machine hacking is to keep blaming it on the Russians (based mostly on the language packs installed in the attackers' text editors...), we have to wonder how mu
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    by dogcomplex 8y ago

    Or alternatively, encourage people to delegate their votes to whoever they trust in their local network to understand the problem best, who in-turn can delegate to their favored expert. Basically recursive representative democracy. It can