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by dqpb 4y ago
This video by Juergen Schmidhuber discusses the acceleration of AI progress: https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg
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If the palatable position includes the extreme position, then it too is the extreme position.
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> Why is it traitorous to understand the people you disagree with? It’s not. > Somehow, it feels like a huge social blunder to even demonstrate that I understand their positions. The author then constructs six models to explain his em
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by dqpb 4y ago
> accusations in general, if they're vague enough, are impossible to defend against General accusations are easy to defend against, you just ask for specifics.
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by dqpb 4y ago
The main reason I don’t like AMP is that it’s apparently broken. This is a daily experience of mine: 1. Open Google Chrome (iPhone) 2. Open Google News 3. Open a Google AMP page 4. Fails to load 5. Follow link to publishers site
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Evolution
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> It doesn't matter what assets you have backing a peg because there's always a trust element. Presumably if you have enough assets backing it, then if people start mass selling you can just buy back the currency for the price
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You could try the FBI: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber
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> it would be more honest to let corporations have voting power proportional to their market cap That would just be a market. Instead of voting, people would bid, and whoever (collectively) wins the bid pays the money. Then at least you
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by dqpb 4y ago
Oh the irony of tech companies rebelling against digitization of the workplace.
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by dqpb 4y ago
There are many axes right? Niceness, Competency, Action, etc. Surely each one matters.
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I would say there is a deep down, with an infinite range of subtleties, but it’s ultimately discretized into the things we do. Moreover, the whole point of anything happening deep down, is that it results in us doing something.
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> Engineers are fortunate to be an industry with high demand. We’re in high demand because we produce high value. Companies are fortunate that engineers exist.
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> Find Your Passion: Spotting food or animals in photos… > Get Recognized: earn cool badges, level up on the leaderboards…
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Other timeline
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Some mothers want to breastfeed but don’t produce enough milk.
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It’s more like saying “Whose more productive, the Engineer or the Farmer?”.
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Reproduction. It’s THE game. It always has been.
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Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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It also begs the question, who’s really more intelligent? The person who spent their prime years pontificating, or the person who won the evolution game?
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> I just can never trust anything he says because he has a significant history of being indecisive and disorderly. All agents have two modes: exploiting and exploring Indecisive and disorderly are the qualities of exploring.
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Is this a Jack Ma quote?
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Next YC batch - Uber for youth fluids
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So put screens on the fences.
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Until he adds some actual facts, I’m going to assume the story is not true.
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If this was better, it would exist.
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Sounds like a failure to embrace meritocracy.
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If Vanguard went bankrupt, would customers lose all their stocks?
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If that were true, companies would be going out of business, but instead they're thriving. Why are Europeans so underpaid? Are their tech companies not thriving?
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Why are European software engineers so underpaid?

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