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by duaneb 10y ago
This only makes me happier Apple made a stand against backdooring. These laws are precisely the fears they expressed—that foreign countries would demand similar things that the FBI did and that Apple would have very little room to avoid bow
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by duaneb 10y ago
We already do quantum simulations at tiny levels and at a fraction the pace of real time—so, yes, assuming we can quantify the rules of the simulated system.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Lets not talk about ethics in the context of copyright. 95 years after the authors death. laws done by lobbyists against any common sense. No cost-benefit analyses. No safe guards against abuse. The content in question is new. Ethics d
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by duaneb 10y ago
These are thought experiments, not coherent arguments.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> We don't think in terms of language. What does a thought consist of if not language? > Language is simply a translation layer for the underlying neurological phenomenon. It's that... plus a long time formalizing useful ter
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by duaneb 10y ago
Unfortunately only he can appreciate his own experience.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Click fraud is not a crime.
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by duaneb 10y ago
How does this compare to mesa3d?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Quantifying the subtleties of knowledge as experience increases is difficult. For instance, one might understand the details but not compositional complexities. Or vice versa. But comparing the two situations is difficult and inextricably c
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by duaneb 10y ago
is that a preventative measure for a corporation so large (or ones in the future)?
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by duaneb 10y ago
Sure. I think that's preferred to the one community going stagnant--math is one of the only areas where that is arguably preferable.
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by duaneb 10y ago
There are other options like the subreddit model, where the users define and moderate the divisions themselves.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Somehow it's ok to do this, but you're overreacting if you point out politicians blatantly use terror for policy ends.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Very apropos that the very embodiment of corruption, Hillary Clinton Oh come on now. Yes, her entire life is politics and it's hard to trust her. But the embodiment of corruption? Try Somalia. Or North Korea. Or Afghanistan. Or Er
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by duaneb 10y ago
It's actually less clever and useful than this makes it out to be. CG is already prevalent in car ads, so introducing a new physical rig isn't the game changer it is made out to be.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Major disasters are a certainty over long enough time. It's been 71 years—Europe can certainly revert in that time.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Population density doesn't indicate anything about migration or wealth distribution.
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by duaneb 10y ago
Of course there are bugs, but they are hugely expensive to find.
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As of now, virtually non-existent.
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by duaneb 10y ago
they actively deny favoritism, lying to their voters.
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by duaneb 10y ago
> then your local dictator can also take them away from you because of something you said. Thankfully, I don't (yet) live in a dystopian society where I can trust machines more than my neighbor (or leader).
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by duaneb 10y ago
Ok, I wouldn't attach anything of value to such a rigid contract system—money is far from the only pitfall here. There is simply no benefit to me over existing arbitration. At least with DNS I can contact my provider if someone steals
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by duaneb 10y ago
> I initially thought it meant "how to have a good career", when it means "how to make a difference to the world". This only makes sense if you read "good" as an adverb rather than a noun.
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by duaneb 10y ago
I'm struggling to think of an application I'd prefer to be on Ethereum over Bitcoin. There is simply too much trust involved in distributed turing complete programs for the idea to be practical in the short term—what kind of fool
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by duaneb 10y ago
Actually, Foster's rule indicates that predation being the main threat leads to smaller animals, while the restriction of resources being the main threat leads to larger animals. > The same reason why the average man was 5 inches sh
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Re-forestation is part of the solution, but it's no panacea. Ahh, I misunderstood, my bad. I thought you were arguing that reforestation was not even worth the effort.
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by duaneb 10y ago
What does AI safety mean to you, specifically? What kind of scenario would this solve, specifically? What kind of mechanisms would help, specifically? It seems that redognizing danger to humans (particularly in a general case) would itself
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by duaneb 10y ago
urban pressure is negligible on a global scale--this is actually freeing up vast areas of land for use as people migrate to denser living. Agriculture is a harder angle to attack; however, trees are excellent use of space: they store carbon
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by duaneb 10y ago
> Trees can sequester a bounded amount of carbon from the air. So plant more trees? It's a continual process. It's not like you can plant a tree and say "Ok, I'm carbon neutral now!"
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by duaneb 10y ago
> If we can incentivize people to make useful products out of all that CO2 just floating in the atmosphere, then maybe, just _maybe_, we can start fixing the mess we made. Is this really a shorter path than just planting more trees, whic

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