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by gajomi 12y ago
I think you make a lot of good points. >We have to start with a discussion about how this progress towards doomsday AI should be measured, and then formulate policy directly those scenarios Here is my proposal. Since the whole of AI is a
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by gajomi 12y ago
Oops. My mistake. I think I must have accidentally calculated this assuming one hour per day. Thanks for pointing this out.
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by gajomi 12y ago
One oftentimes hears arguments along these lines about Murakami. That his writing is just pop commercial stuff. I am not sure I ever really grokked what these complaints were all about. Can you say more about what makes his writing like a &
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by gajomi 12y ago
>Bill Haast figured he had handled more than three million poisonous snakes over the years, and he had the hands to prove it. If we assume that it takes no more than 10 seconds to "handle" a snake. This would mean he spent no l
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by gajomi 12y ago
Hamming did not win a Nobel Prize. Perhaps you meant the Turing Award?
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by gajomi 12y ago
Sorry, I tried to write what I imagined was a clarifying comment, at least along the lines of what I thought you were trying to say. But while I was typing it you (who I imagine is the real authority on your own opinion) did exactly the sam
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by gajomi 12y ago
The parent comment is not suggesting that they are the gatekeepers of the data, but rather that they act as a third party to authenticate data transmission. For example, company X says it wants to get you data, pass it through service Y and
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Introduction to Julia Internals [video](youtube.com)
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by gajomi 12y ago
I want to second this point. The percentage of young adults (this is the demographic that represents most fo the current community college population) living below the poverty level is about 40% [1]. So even in the absolute worst case scena
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by gajomi 12y ago
This calculation is underdetermined, and there isn't any algorithm that would specify "it", since there are many functions that would satisfy the requirements. In general this is a hard problem of induction. In a more limited
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by gajomi 12y ago
>I'm not sure that I think all of the issues you've linked to are related to that problem, though It's probably true that many of these issues could be resolved without the need for this generic sets fantasy of mine. The r
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by gajomi 12y ago
I am a big fan of much of the work going on with statistics in Julia. I'd like to point out another (related) thing though that is wrong with the state of statistics in Julia, in my opinion. Actually my problem has less to do with stat
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by gajomi 12y ago
I agree. This seems like a no brainer. Barring any legal barriers that might arise in the implementation of such a scheme, it seems like the main bottlenecks would be (1) verifying that the current occupant was indeed the original title hol
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by gajomi 12y ago
An interesting read (along with the sister article pointed out by tom_b, linked in the original). It is relevant for me as within about a year I will leave my current position as a postdoctoral scientist. I consider myself more heavily weig
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by gajomi 12y ago
The service being offered at this company looks pretty interesting. The quick start example looks very reasonable (I didn't sign up to run, but I guess it must all work out). I was kind of confused though about finding and/or regi
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by gajomi 12y ago
>This is certainly a good way to find out how to manipulate human bodies with drugs, but it does seem to be at the (cynical) expense of the guinea pigs From the athletes perspective the "drugs" aspect is totally incidental. The
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by gajomi 12y ago
It doesn't make the word meaningless at all. There are many orders of granularity in "close association" and the diversity of the usage of the word reflects this. For example a google search for "proud to be human"
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by gajomi 12y ago
I see. I hope you would forgive me for assuming something so extreme. I would be curious to see some statistics on quantifying of police aggression (however quantified) versus civilian armament as covariates wrt total gun violence. One of t
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by gajomi 12y ago
Since I oppose this campaign and am in favor of various civilian gun control measures I thought I should ask you to clarify. Do you mean to suggest that Americans should carry guns so that they can fight back against the police when they ge
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by gajomi 12y ago
This article adds to substance to Elon's cryptic tweet in favor of a cryptic reference to the Tron mythology. It seems to me though that the premise of strong AI warrants a degree of caution by its very definition. It would apparently
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by gajomi 12y ago
>the food was great and inexpensive I have never been to Paris proper, but I do enjoy French cuisine, and so was hoping that you might be able to add a quantitative dimension to this comment (as in €X for Y)
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by gajomi 12y ago
>There are better civil leaders to look up to -- some don't even require you to skim past their evil past. >He's was never an angel, he just improved with age. This is actually precisely what I find interesting and relevant
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by gajomi 12y ago
What an excellent collection of articles (well, I only ready a few, but I would like to think my experience extrapolates to the rest)! But I don't think "cheatsheet" is really the right word. Really this is a collection of sh
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by gajomi 12y ago
>I don't know anyone who doesn't read the textbooks >Not in STEM not anywhere else I would almost never "read" (though I would occasionally reference, page by page) the textbooks in core STEM classes when I was in
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by gajomi 12y ago
Thanks for the excellent link. I only took a quick look, so maybe the information is somewhere on the site, but do you know if this person (or others) are doing similar work for robots in 3d?
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by gajomi 12y ago
Thanks for the response. I think this is a good answer to the question of "why would a physicist be working on the Monster group" that addresses the core idea of required invariants, and one along the lines that I have heard befor
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by gajomi 12y ago
So there are lots of facts here. And the facts are connected together at various points. And I like to hear about interesting connections. But it seems to me that unless you have looked at these things in depth (and I have not for the most
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by gajomi 12y ago
So I have seen many of these kinds of graphs and associated complaints that come with them. Much of the criticism revolves around the usefulness of ``popularity'' as a proxy for other things that we actually care about in programm
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by gajomi 12y ago
This is a fixed point combinator joke waiting to happen.
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by gajomi 12y ago
The author insists on this, and I guess it is true that this notion is promoted by popular culture. But to me it just seems insane. Have these people ever seen a swan? I mean, whenever I get close to one it is readily apparent that I am dea

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