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by fela 10y ago
While that sounds easy what if swerving off course definitely saves one live, but might cause one death with 60% probability? What if it definitely will save 3 lives, and might cause one death with 10% probability? Do you see the problem wi
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by fela 10y ago
On a single participant yes, but their real goal, I presume, is to aggregate the data and then they will be able to reach more concrete conclusions.
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by fela 10y ago
We do make moral choices, and there are rules and heuristics we use, they might be quite complicated, and they might not be what we think they are, but I think nonetheless that it should be possible to come close to predicting a human moral
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by fela 10y ago
Your results might seem spurious because of the small sample size, but when aggregating the results of all the participants they will have enough data to be able to conclude how many people did act like you did with apparent preferences due
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by fela 10y ago
I don't think this is about creating realistic scenarios, but about finding out what people take into consideration when making moral judgements. The experiment seems to be designed to gather as many such preferences as possible. The h
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by fela 10y ago
The reporting on The Verge seems slightly better http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/22/12592938/roborace-self-dri...
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Meet DevBot, a self-driving electric racing car(arstechnica.com)
1 points by fela 10y ago|1 comments
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by fela 10y ago
You can change a password, and you can calculate how hard it is to for an attacker to obtain a randomly generated password. It is much harder to formalise how hard it is for an attacker to find out what algorithm you use, so it is risky rel
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23andMe Pulls Off Massive Crowdsourced Depression Study(technologyreview.com)
2 points by fela 10y ago|0 comments
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Spark 2.0(spark.apache.org)
3 points by fela 10y ago|0 comments
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Zig Zag(vladimirslepnev.itch.io)
2 points by fela 10y ago|0 comments
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Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat(twitter.com)
2 points by fela 10y ago|0 comments
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Thanks to Apple’s Influence, You’re Not Getting a Rifle Emoji(buzzfeed.com)
3 points by fela 10y ago|0 comments
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2016 Internet Trends(kpcb.com)
1 points by fela 10y ago|0 comments
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by fela 11y ago
-) Other users paying for the premium version Or rephrasing it a little, in a way that explain why it makes sense to let you use the free version -) The x% probability that a free user will create a paid user (either my becoming one or by r
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by fela 11y ago
The word pirate has a new and different meaning in the 21st century, I think it's too late to try to fight that. And the title presumably helps with conveying what the website is about, compare it with my submission where I used the or
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Sci-Hub: removing barriers in the way of science(sci-hub.io)
3 points by fela 11y ago|0 comments
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Spark Release 1.6.0(spark.apache.org)
2 points by fela 11y ago|0 comments
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What is wrong with data challenges(medium.com)
2 points by fela 11y ago|0 comments
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by fela 11y ago
That is true, but you could argue that the same is true with elections. What if everybody that wants to vote in a certain way is sick on election day? Not very likely, and of course in case of elections the number is larger and therefore th
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by fela 11y ago
Edit to say that your point is interesting and one I hadn't really thought about. This make elections a referendum on the most salient topics, which I guess makes sense. I still think that in elections there are a lot of other factors
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by fela 11y ago
Although I very much like the idea of sortition I found the paper by Pluchino et al. very flawed, the simulation they made captures none of the effects of sortition, and the effects they measure have no equivalent in the real world. Just to
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by fela 11y ago
I feel like sortition is much closer to direct democracy because the distortion is limited by the law of large numbers and can be exactly calculated. Of course this excludes things like people feeling like participating, which happens in di
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by fela 11y ago
Actually, one way to see sortition is as a way of scaling direct democracy to large populations.
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by fela 11y ago
I've long been interested in the use of sortition in political decision making, and it always surprises me how little it has been seriously studied and considered compared to the potential it seems to have. Much of the information ther
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How to make sure nothing gets done at work(fortune.com)
2 points by fela 11y ago|1 comments
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by fela 11y ago
It seems to be a case of leaky abstraction, where the way python caches small objects becomes visible, another example: >>> a = 'hn' >>> a is 'hn' True >>> a = ''.join([&#x2
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by fela 11y ago
the behavior of is seems pretty hard to predict >>> 3.1 is 3.1 True >>> a = 3.1 >>> a is 3.1 False
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The Fallen of World War II - Data-driven documentary about war & peace(fallen.io)
4 points by fela 11y ago|0 comments
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Tetrachromacy(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by fela 11y ago|0 comments

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