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by drabiega 10y ago
My take-away: Work like this is somewhat akin to attempting to determine the specification of Intercal through reverse engineering given a working program and a compiler.
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by drabiega 10y ago
As someone with only cursory knowledge of the area, it seems like the requirement to keep the drone within line of sight would be pretty crippling. Is this just me? I guess this makes drone based camerawork feasible for film/sporting e
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by drabiega 10y ago
Emotions are a heuristic. Any general AI powerful enough to be useful is going to have to be full of similar heuristics if it's going to get anything done. The presence of chemicals is irrelevant.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Well part of the problem is that social norms are different for the genders. The kinds of behaviors that often allow men to dominate corporate environments are not effective/seen more negatively when adopted by women.
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by drabiega 10y ago
We already produce enough food and housing for everyone, we just don't let the people who don't have jobs to use the surplus.
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by drabiega 10y ago
It appears to me that this time isn't any different. Each major advance in automation has pushed the workforce increasingly into job categories with lower marginal productivity. When an automation breakthrough occurs a small portion of
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by drabiega 10y ago
Basically all of Economics and Psychology would say that you don't have to do anything. So long as people have options for those things that they believe will actually improve their situation, they will take them once they are not spen
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by drabiega 10y ago
>As far as I know, open questions that remain are: >- Will we be able to afford it? Sort of back-of-the-napkin calculations can show, that if we introduced i.e UBI in Germany for everybody (80 mil) on a level of minimum wage (1473 E
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by drabiega 10y ago
Just google the title, the paywall usually disappears if you come from a search.
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by drabiega 10y ago
That's a really good reason for not making decisions outright based on the information. You'd want to use the results of these models as a means to direct attention to where it is most likely to be needed. It sounds like this is e
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by drabiega 10y ago
Well, a lot of the point of these constraints is to reduce complexity, as the writer mentions. When you add constraints with most of those tools, you're actually adding complexity to your tooling, build process, and cognitive load if n
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by drabiega 10y ago
Not just a machine. I agree with definition of consciousness, but it's implication is that we can only ever be sure of our own present consciousness. The consciousness of other people and even our past selves can't be verified.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Well we might find, for instance, that in order to create a general purpose AI which can develop intellectually quickly enough to be useful we have to make it sufficiently like us that it can understand and participate in our culture.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I've stated elsewhere, I don't think it is fair to say that moving into the wilderness is an option. As cheap as land is in some remote areas, it's still beyond the resources of the people for whom it would be an improvement
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by drabiega 10y ago
I agree in general, I just don't think it's a good enough proxy in this case.
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by drabiega 10y ago
> Just about anybody can get a job making minimum wage It can be hard to see because the problem is so unevenly distributed through the social fabric, but this is just objectively not true.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Because it's not the post-scarcity part that's the driver, it's the post-jobs part, which is a very real problem for a small but growing part of the population.
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by drabiega 10y ago
You left out the "making under $10k" part, which is the whole point.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Look, this straw man has been beaten to death. I don't think anyone who has seriously considered UBI is arguing that all working age people should have +${UBI_AMOUNT} extra dollars. Most people would have extra taxes roughly equal to t
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by drabiega 10y ago
How is that relevant?
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by drabiega 10y ago
Actually, under some models $8000 could be enough. A job paying that much locks you down, but if you got that much in basic income you could move somewhere for which that is enough to leave, albeit cheaply. I know there are places in rural
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by drabiega 10y ago
This is roughly the starting conditions for large parts of America. The problem is that is isn't very efficient. The people who have the resources to do this generally have better options and the people for whom this would be preferabl
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by drabiega 10y ago
Cheap is relative to what you have. If you have no money, no one is going to build the robot that will make things for you. When automation increases without basic income, the share of resources going to those who are automated away gets sq
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by drabiega 10y ago
Not sure that is a relevant measure. Those people will also be paying a relatively low percentage of their income to taxes overall thanks to taxes which are flat or capped, so I'm not sure why it's meaningful what percent of tax r
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by drabiega 10y ago
Nope, that effect is currently making Earth colder, but is being overwhelmed by greenhouse effects resulting in net higher temperatures.
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by drabiega 10y ago
> Seems like you may need a bit of healthy competition to make the breakthrough, but afterwards cooperation is crucial otherwise the gains of the breakthrough are never realized. I think it's just a product of the societies we'
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by drabiega 10y ago
> Is that how the legal system works in America? Money wins? It certainly appears so, yes.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't know about Dominoes, but when I worked for Papa Johns many years ago loose flour was involved in the process of shaping the refrigerated lumps of premade dough into a pizza crust.
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by drabiega 10y ago
Because that's not how markets work. The ones that try would loose all their business to those that didn't.
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by drabiega 10y ago
I don't think that it actually breaks down that way. In my experience both conservatives and liberals are composed 80% of people who can talk rationally with only their own side and 20% by who are prepared talk rationally with people f

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