esahione

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by esahione 8y ago
Ha! Grad school at CMU took a chainsaw to my GPA after 1st year. Studying 16h/day and still didn't have enough time to complete all assignments and understand the material. Awesome school though, would do it again.
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by esahione 9y ago
I've literally watched every lecture he has out there lol :)
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by esahione 9y ago
I think the author completely glosses over the fact that Loop Quantum Gravity actually does make predictions, and could provide the explanation for fast radio bursts. Also, the theory is so intuitive and follows such a straightforward logic
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by esahione 10y ago
Erm. This is a terrible argument. The universe is logical. Each cell in the human body is at its core just a very complex state machine. What we call cancer is just a particular state for a cell, and its descendents. Find a way to change th
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by esahione 10y ago
Honestly, it's like the Trump administration is trying to undo any social and economic progress since the 80s. When did the US become so complacent to shit policy? We've tried war on drugs before, IT DOES NOT WORK. We created &#x2
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by esahione 10y ago
It's not necessarily about the jobs, it has more to do with the economic engine. The economic engine has been in a virtuous feedback loop for hundreds of years. People are born, get educated, find work, and become consumers and savers,
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by esahione 10y ago
They aren't equivalent. While both may give identical cash-flows, one has a financial outlay in the beginning while the other has a political outlay. I just don't think it is likely that the current political class in America will
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by esahione 10y ago
There's zero chance our political spectrum will ever increase taxes to allow for UBI to be widespread and sufficient. This way we compensate innovators and entrepreneurs for their work. That is, we give them the leeway to innovate, imp
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by esahione 10y ago
Revolution without bloodshed is next to impossible, sadly. Rejuvenation? AI? Those are the biggest revolution-causing triggers humans will ever come to see.
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by esahione 10y ago
Here's the thing that you haven't taken into account with your post: rejuvenation research. Let's say we discover/invent AI. What do we set it to do? We solve the world's biggest problem and create the biggest compa
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by esahione 10y ago
When has thought ever been automated before? When have we had a tool that can build tools? How can capitalism survive with 80+% unemployment? It's as inevitable as gravity.
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by esahione 10y ago
I don't think that they quite grasp or explain the enormity of it. The two biggest strongholds humans have against automation are thought and manual, but complex, labor. Soon they will all be automated.
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by esahione 10y ago
The logic is irrefutable. At some time in the future the drive to increase profits by automation will increase unemployment in ways that will lead to the biggest recession we'll ever see if we don't have basic income. Can you see
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by esahione 10y ago
The gigantic wall of AI/Automation is unavoidable and if the NYT can't see it, I doubt a lot of people outside of tech do. It's my biggest worry right now. I worry because I am certain that the only way out of civil war is un
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by esahione 10y ago
No it isn't violating thermodynamics - it's not a closed system. Eventually they will die of hunger or, what is more likely, being eaten by a predator.
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by esahione 10y ago
It is true. The Von Neumann Universal Constructor is one.
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by esahione 10y ago
No. I simply gave a counter-example to a claim--thus the claim is refuted. His claim is: all beings that are alive also age. The counter-example makes so that his argument is false (hydras are alive, but do not age). I didn't claim tha
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by esahione 10y ago
We knew they were right way before that: chemical reactions happen more slowly when colder. If you freeze your body nothing moves within your body and thus you don't age. Biggest problem is that water expands when frozen and bursts the
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by esahione 10y ago
;) We could just use statistics. Example: the DNA has 3.2*10^9 base pairs. We have trillions of cells. Even if each cell division introduced 1000 mutations, the cells would hit the Hayflick Limit at around 60 divisions. The last generation
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by esahione 10y ago
Inevitability to me is the Sun becoming a Red Giant. Aging is definitely not inevitable - hydras are a counterexample (and thus refute his claim). He uses the same argument as Aubrey de Grey but reaches the opposite conclusion. If aging is
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by esahione 13y ago
Except that Hofstadter, other than writing about his ideas and theories, has accomplished jack shit. Pragmatically speaking, Kurzweil is miles ahead of Hofstadter in terms of putting his theories and ideas to practice. It's very easy to cri