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by gambler 11y ago
There's no doubt that with further refinement, we'll soon see AI play Go at a level well beyond human No doubt? Seriously? What kind of knowledge do you have to make such statements? There are plenty of examples where technology
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by gambler 11y ago
> Further, smartphones are increasingly becoming production devices, too. They're becoming bigger, more powerful, and some can now be plugged in to monitors and bluetooth keyboards and create a reasonable windows production environ
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by gambler 11y ago
Hype is hype, whether it turns out to be justified or not. Not all people can beat even a trivial Go program. You may be missing my larger point. It is not about whether humans can beat the best chess or Go computers. It is about a very str
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by gambler 11y ago
When reading such news I always get the feeling that the game is stacked in favor of the computer. Not in the sense of rules, but in the sense of media coverage and interpreting the results. It seems like a lot of people in AI and IT are pr
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by gambler 11y ago
I fail to see any major difference between that Medium article and quotes in the Friedersdorf's piece. It would be reasonable to speak about missed context if students protested something that was an example of a larger issue. But th
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by gambler 11y ago
> They seem to be okay with freedom of speech for themselves, but not for the freedom of speech that goes with a reaction. The concept of freedom of speech exists to preserve people's ability to communicate and express ideas. The
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by gambler 11y ago
I don't think people are OK with it. It's more of a case that they realize this is a problem that might not have a good solution. Currently, Linux kernel works. The process for changing it, overall, works too. Currently, some peop
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by gambler 11y ago
Its not just women that are being put off. I find it peculiar that you start with this sentence, even though the OP says nothing about women in general. It seems that identity politics in such discussions has become so common that it is a
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by gambler 11y ago
You could store your state in DOM and serialize the entire page. Not very elegant, but it works and is relatively straightforward. Although, the mental leap required to represent your state via attributes is probably higher for most devs th
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by gambler 11y ago
The entire thing sounds like a more "efficient" version of what some people try to implement "manually" in the West. It's not just "high-status and influential positions". Speakers get disinvited from conf
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by gambler 11y ago
"Moving the goalposts" implies that I established some criteria and than changed it. I did no such thing. >Gattaca was specifically about genetic testing. If that's how you read/watch science fiction, you're wa
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by gambler 11y ago
Bad examples. Both of those things were pretty much spot-on. Just don't get hung up on details. We don't yet have genetic testing as an entry barrier for things, but we have other similarly arbitrary tests. Companies checking your
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by gambler 11y ago
The thing about futurology is that there are tons of people engaged in "predicting". Most of them are notoriously bad at it. Most tech journalists, for example, are so bad that they can't even "predict" the present
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by gambler 11y ago
This reads like a typical cultural critique article. Long text, contrived definitions, lack of overall insights into the subject. At least I didn't see anything that would make go "ah, I never thought of that". It's most
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by gambler 11y ago
> privately-owned websites If GitHub used their privately-owned website to deliberately offend people, would you be defending them? To me it seems like this argument based on ownership is chosen purely because it is convenient in this
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by gambler 11y ago
There are cases of people who have completed suicide because of bullying based on their LD. You cannot solve bullying by banning words. Especially in cases when those words are used in an entirely different context, having an entirely dif
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by gambler 11y ago
Are you saying that it's fine having unrealistic fictional characters because it has no bearing on the real world? No, I think we should put anyone who creates unrealistic fictional characters in prison. Maximum security. Single conf
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by gambler 11y ago
> Objectification is a complex subject with lots of potential targets: you can treat a person as a sexual object, you can portray/view a character as a sexual object, etc. To me this sounds less like a product of a complex underly
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by gambler 11y ago
You describe objectification as patterns of behaviors and speech. However, the most common use of that term I see these days refers to female characters in fiction and advertising. There is a gigantic difference between these two notions. I
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by gambler 11y ago
They developed and tuned a fairly elaborate process designed specifically for generating those images out of classification NNs. The difference between the two demos is that the impressiveness of those images is mostly subjective, while han
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by gambler 11y ago
I missed one: citing cherry-picked "experts".
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by gambler 11y ago
http://www.evolvingai.org/fooling
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by gambler 11y ago
This is infinitely more impressive than Google's image generation. There are zillion ways to generate weird-looking images. However, this paper claims to: 1. Have trained a networks to generate handwriting. Handwriting can be objective
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by gambler 11y ago
BGP and DNS - I can't believe we're still using them. Other pieces of software and protocols definitely have their share of problems, but it's amazing that the two protocols that are so central to the Internet infrastructure
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by gambler 11y ago
This is self-evidently true. The statement is true, but what it speaks about is a what-if scenario. You might not like that Pao's trial keeps appearing in the Times story about Pao's resignation, but the giant petition for her
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by gambler 11y ago
I'm going to ignore your implication that other problems I mentioned are unimportant. Supposition: "If she eventually succeeds in convincing a three-judge panel that the trial was unfair" Aren't news supposed to be abo
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by gambler 11y ago
Yeah, it's a pretty good example of what has become of news reporting. It has an instance of almost every common issue, except misinterpreting statistics. Emotionally loaded language. Blatant fact framing. Suppositions. Presenting one
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by gambler 11y ago
The fact that they deleted the original version, rather than added or appended the new one is very telling. People worked on writing and editing it and that work got thrown away. "Hey, Mike, sorry." Why do you think that is? You k
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by gambler 11y ago
If you seek to be neutral in this way, even if you are successful, then you are allowing advantages from other sources to carry over. If you're hiring, other sources are none of your business. You have limited information and limited
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by gambler 11y ago
This is the best way I'v heard anyone phrase this idea. Makes me want to watch more interviews with Snowden. Clearly, he is more than just some guy who leaked secret information. His personal take on surveilance is very interesting as

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