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by haxel 11y ago
Yeah, I would think that such a herd or swarm would be fully backward and forward compatible. Traditional cars could keep doing what they do - swarms would react intelligently to them as swarms tend to do - and there wouldn't be any ne
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by haxel 11y ago
What about variably-autonomous cars? Take a car with self-driving capability and then have it be manually operated while solitary but increasingly self-driving as the group of similarly automated cars it belongs to grows. There's a lot
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Graph of time-lines: A data structure worth caring about(medium.com)
2 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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Solving the Meta Problem(medium.com)
1 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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They Didn’t Know What They Were Doing(medium.com)
1 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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by haxel 11y ago
If the point of this money was to develop a unified approach to self-driving cars, then it could be a very good thing. Assuming the choice of unified approach makes sense. Variably-autonomous cars operating in swarms (and thus requiring sta
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by haxel 11y ago
Not that we know of. If it does ever exist, how long will it take for us to learn of it? Powerful tools are often kept secret. And then, how long until the average person can leverage it themselves? The most powerful tools tend not to trick
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by haxel 11y ago
What about the political implications of AGI? This concerns me most. We need to carefully consider who exactly controls such a powerful tool and what they use it for. Right now AGI is capital-intensive and risky: you need large-scale comput
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Let's Do Semi-Autonomous Cars Instead(medium.com)
3 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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Be the hero, Save the world(medium.com)
2 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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by haxel 11y ago
Ah, I meant advertising in the sense that we're seeing tons of advertising for cheap meat, air travel, factory food, new gas cars, and whatnot. A good question to ask might be that if corporations _didn't_ advertise so much, how m
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by haxel 11y ago
Does a carbon tax stop the slash-and-burn in Indonesia (for palm oil) and Brazil (for cattle)? I agree that the full cost of what we buy needs to be included in its price or else we'll keep seeing the same problem, having only kicked i
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by haxel 11y ago
You say global economy and then you say far beyond the reach of individual consumers. Yet the global economy is by definition composed of the demands of individual consumers. You also say that top-down hasn't been working very well and
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by haxel 11y ago
I look at the human-caused part of climate change as a billion or so smaller and easier-to-solve (but still hard) problems. Each one of these billions of problems is a person like you and me who acts without truly knowing what they are doin
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We're drowning in low quality information(medium.com)
1 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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We're Overvaluing the Internet(medium.com)
5 points by haxel 11y ago|0 comments
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by haxel 11y ago
If that information is useless to us, it's due to inadequate tools: software, hardware, algorithms, and philosophy. Facebook and Google are both able to extract value from an individual's information (even isolated) because they h
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by haxel 11y ago
Yeah, it does seem like more a problem of philosophy or perspective than a lack of advanced technology. We have all of the ingredients for a variety of dishes, but it seems we're settling into one basic recipe: centralized lockdown.
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by haxel 11y ago
@s73v3r, Self-knowledge can be tremendously rewarding too. Smartphones aren't going anywhere, but their value proposition is not the only one available. If we were to jump-start our creativity through tight constraints like the X-prize
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by haxel 11y ago
It's more like complaining about license plate readers, cabin voice/video recorders, hackable cars, GPS tracking, and being increasingly dependent on a centralized service for repairs and maintenance. The "good old days"
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by haxel 11y ago
Have you considered that less control for the user is more control for someone else? The more we do on computers that are opaque to us, and yet interconnected on the Wild West of the Internet with OS's with known vulnerabilities (and p
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by haxel 11y ago
I'd set it up as a behavioral mirror. Naturally I have a horse in this race :) Inputs would be the actions you take in life (choices you've made) and how they relate to your goals (which depend on actions). Output would be an inte
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by haxel 11y ago
Smartphones and security don't really go hand-in-hand anyway. However, I am encouraged by the fact that people paid many thousands of dollars in the '80's and 90's to purchase PC's. They were much harder to use, muc
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by haxel 11y ago
The next X-prize should be for the best implementation of a smartphone OS/GUI where the "smartphone" has no I/O whatsoever except for the touchscreen and a charging/debug port. If that couldn't crank up our cre
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by haxel 11y ago
Do you think that redecentralization will also depend on the public Internet or perhaps instead focus more on alternative networks?
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by haxel 11y ago
I'm speaking of value, which I view as the balance of risk vs reward. Your view may differ. On one side, it seems to me that the reward or benefit we're receiving isn't anywhere near proportional to the power increases we&#x2
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by haxel 11y ago
Those examples benefit their owners, providing competitive advantage on a national or corporate scale. What sort of example might benefit you as an individual?
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by haxel 11y ago
What if our information stayed private and we used our "supercomputers" to do all sorts of data-mining, or AI, or data-science on it? Same stuff the big guys are doing, but for ourselves. Smaller, higher quality datasets. If our s
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by haxel 11y ago
So information has no value? Why do we say that information is power? I suppose that idea could be just as wrong as saying we have a supercomputer in our pocket, but the idea that information is power is much, much older. Information isn&#x
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by haxel 11y ago
"Everyone gets a pocket supercomputer" - Slide 8 I see this idea repeated so often, but it's unfortunate that we don't also have the _value_ of a supercomputer in our pocket. The sole purpose of a supercomputer is to adv

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