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by emblem21 10y ago
http://www.emblem21.com
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by emblem21 10y ago
This is fantastically timed and very well explained. Our company is working deeply with Category Theory right now as we believe programming in the future will find itself focused primarily on the task of orchestrating AI to code.
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by emblem21 10y ago
I once wrote a book in 2005 about the inevitable fusion of central banking theory, economic psychology, and "good-enough" artificial intelligence. Whole brain emulations weren't required. Instead, mass expansion of mobile d
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Wikileaks precommitments were most likely meant for the NSA(cultstate.com)
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by emblem21 10y ago
Gawker is not a press. Gawker is a Caymen Island corporation founded by a foreign national. Are you agreeing that corporations are people?
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NSA backdoors might violate 3rd Amendment because horses were used for war(wakeforestlawreview.com)
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You can't improve closed systems. You just change who carries what cost and shout loudly that you've made things better.
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by emblem21 10y ago
From the US communist parties of the 1930s to the overleveraged anti-American sentiments of US citizens in the 1960s to the massively expanded and nebulous academic rush to redefine oppression in the 1990s to the "European socialism is
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by emblem21 10y ago
I never said the problem wasn't addressable. I said the types of people “safe spaces” are supposedly "protecting" are of zero consequence. As long as they are engulfed by their trauma, they are literally, of zero consequenc
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by emblem21 10y ago
1. If I started posting the N-word over and over again this very moment, you would instinctively consider that unreasonable , so let's stop pretending to not know the definitions of things. 2. You can't rigorously define the boun
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by emblem21 10y ago
I always read the comments. In fact, I don't even read the articles on HN. I just click on the comments. I read comments on reddit and the *chans and tumblr. The comments is where the magic happens. It's where all of your best
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by emblem21 10y ago
Emotions exist for a reason. Deny them at your own peril.
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The problem with rational choice is a paradox: Not only can the individual respond to incentives, the individual can also prioritize incentives based entirely on subjective rationality. You can know the decision an actor makes, but not the
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Suicide queens.
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Should all cameras be forced to create Dadaist interpretations of what they capture instead of a best-attempt at the actual image?
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Doesn't this reasoning hold up for outsourced jobs as well?
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VCs are just doing the same investment strategy that record labels used to do... before file sharing decimated their mechanical royalty agreements. For every Britney Spears, you had 10+ other acts that could barely produce a break-even sin
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by emblem21 10y ago
Do you live in an area where you get to like all of your neighbors? Did you go to a school and you ended up liking every single student there? When you take public transportation, do you like every passenger? You might say " Well,
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“Culture fit” craze is turning tech from innovators to ideological fiefdoms(imgur.com)
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by emblem21 10y ago
Securely share small files/folders via AES from CLI 6 lines of Bash https://github.com/codeotter/sharenow
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Ask HN: Using sentiment analysis on new hires to discover political affiliation?
6 points by emblem21 10y ago|9 comments
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Sharenow: Securely share small files/directories with the CLI(github.com)
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by emblem21 10y ago
Can you not understand why people will do whatever it takes to get a shot at controlling the largest amount of nuclear weapons, the reserve currency that powers the world economy, the most technologically advanced military in world history,
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Create a new emotion(gist.github.com)
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by emblem21 10y ago
Obligatory Laine: Serial Experiments reference * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj6ADC8ezxk * https://youtu.be/l1yI7un5NyQ?t=1023
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by emblem21 10y ago
Greetings. Our corporate structure is undergoing a fundamental transition (from a software contractor to a holding company) and we're still deciding on presentation and community outreach. ...which is to say we have plenty of research
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Dear writer, the future is fewer people writing sponsored content.
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At Emblem 21, we analyze not just the time, material, and energy costs for economic activity, but also the complexity components as well. Every economic activity consumes and yields complexity. This complexity is difficult to measure give
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by emblem21 10y ago
The entrenched elite can always legislate protectionist policy and scale human effort horizontally through socialist interventions to make humans cheaper than state-of-the-art AI. This is especially true in the long interim between now and
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by emblem21 10y ago
Land is, technically, unlimited in the real world as well. Not all of it is accessible (other planets) or fertile (desert) Not all virtual land is the same, either. Some virtual land is a vendor doing streaming-as-a-service. Some is payme

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