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by gambling8nt 18y ago
The Turing Test is not an element of the singularity--it pre-exists the idea of the singularity by a sizable margin, and was an effort to define the idea of artificial intelligence. I would certainly encourage people who wish to believe in
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Clinton's concession was not simply damaging because it wasn't hacker news--stories of that nature threaten hacker news as a whole. (1) A story about Clinton's concession contains no information content. Everyone at all tracking politics
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Specific claims with specific dates are falsifiable, but saying that there will be a singularity in the next 40 years is insufficiently specific (without carefully defining the term singularity, which very few singularitarians do), and prop
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Perhaps not, but the absence of falsifiable claims means that this case isn't scientific.
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
Like IQ, EF is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy with regard to success and failure. IQ was used to justify the failure of some students relative to others--so the students with a reason why they were allowed to fail did so, and the teac
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by gambling8nt 18y ago
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by gambling8nt 19y ago
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by gambling8nt 19y ago
12 questions, not 10, and this one seems relatively easy; I immediately saw the construction for andrewf's answer, which is actually the same as cperciva's answer because gur cynar cnffvat guebhtu gjb cbvagf naq gur pragre bs gur fcurer zrr