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by heurist 12y ago
She doesn't seem to discuss the cause I see, which is that life emerges from the random set of deterministic rules that define the universe. There's no crucial reason life as we know it looks one way over any other - if some porti
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by heurist 12y ago
They're too long. Once in a while I enjoy spending 5 to 8 hours on a Saturday learning about something new, but MOOCs often ask for an entire semesters worth of my time. I don't have that much time, I have an occasional Saturday.
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by heurist 12y ago
Most people have to work to survive. That's the "slavery" part of it, and it is currently inherent to employment. Let me choose whether to work or not while retaining the same quality of life as anyone else and I won't t
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by heurist 12y ago
Happiness can be induced chemically. I imagine future societies will have clean drugs to enable safe perpetual happiness in an existence where humans are to machines as dogs are to humans, humans don't have to labor for resources, and
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by heurist 12y ago
I doubt that. A lot of "low-hanging fruit" probably wasn't low-hanging when initially harvested.
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by heurist 12y ago
I think content aggregators like reddit or HN have this problem too. "That looks interesting! I wonder when the comments say... First one: good point! Second: hadn't thought about it that way! Third: that was dumb. Fourth: boring.
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by heurist 12y ago
We don't know enough about cognition to make ethical arguments for or against the use of AI yet. Maybe the systems behind AI will prove that it's as unethical for humans to be forced to work by society as it would be for an AI. Th
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by heurist 12y ago
I think AI will be the solution to the problem. Each human is given an AI which competes on their behalf in an open market, and the human consumes the AI's profit as needed. If all the AI's are the same then everyone should be aro
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by heurist 12y ago
I'm with you. The only options I've thought of are independent employment or escaping society, both come with significant tradeoffs and neither are simple to accomplish, especially without personal guidance... I guess you could fi
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by heurist 12y ago
I like figuring out what other people are thinking. They'll give me a bunch of requirements and I can look at them and their situation and crunch the requirements down into a tight, beautiful solution that addresses the needs they didn
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by heurist 12y ago
Have you considered that civilization might be better off if people don't live a long time? Even ignoring resource constraints, old people hold onto outdated ideas and morals while generally also holding the most power and wealth. I do
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by heurist 12y ago
Startups also don't have to be consumer-oriented, there are plenty of businesses in the midwest that need better tools and solutions than they have.
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by heurist 12y ago
It's great for gaining weight (which is something a lot of people want to do).
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by heurist 12y ago
Thank you for your advice. Those are the roles I feel drawn to so it's nice to hear some validation of those tendencies :) I'll keep an eye out for them.
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by heurist 12y ago
Thanks, I agree it would be best to get a few more years under my belt. How did you get into startup surfing?
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by heurist 12y ago
So how do you do this in software? Consulting? Startup? I'm a couple years into my first software development job out of school and barely get through the moderate amount of work that's assigned to me right now. I'm afraid of
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by heurist 12y ago
Could you elaborate on the "awakening phase"? I might be going through that...
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by heurist 12y ago
Same here. There have been seemingly credible sources saying it will go nowhere and other seemingly credible sources saying we're too late to stop it from spreading. It's hard to figure out where to fall on this as an uneducated,
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by heurist 12y ago
Man, I have the answers to the "now what" but not the money to pursue them. I can't imagine having that much money and not having big plans for improving the world.
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by heurist 12y ago
That's a strange response, Google suggested using topcoder to prepare for interviews last time I talked with them. Competition experience might not mean anything but the ability to complete puzzles like that obviously does hold some si
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by heurist 12y ago
>You have to realize that our theoretical tools are very weak. Sometimes, we have good mathematical intuitions for why a particular technique should work. Sometimes our intuition ends up being wrong [...] The questions become: how well d
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by heurist 12y ago
I learned the other day that before the printing press all characters were 'upper case' but were squashed down to be able to write quickly and use less space. Printing press creators copied what they saw in written text by creatin
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by heurist 12y ago
Alongside secrecy, I wonder how you prevent people from selling their votes in this system. It could be a much bigger problem than it currently is because of the ease with which someone could do it.
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by heurist 12y ago
They need to add markov generated comments to tie this all together.
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by heurist 12y ago
I agree with the author to the extent that you should keep the target audience in mind when writing code. I disagree that it means not using best practices. If you spend 30 minutes to an hour explaining objects or other conventions to your
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by heurist 13y ago
I get the point. I'm saying that if you're willing to potentially lose $50 over 5 minutes worth of self-discipline you might as well spend it on a cleaning service and get a few hours worth of self-discipline instead.
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by heurist 13y ago
You could hire someone to clean an entire apartment for $50.
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by heurist 13y ago
What source are you using for the data? Yahoo finance?
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by heurist 13y ago
Those aren't really incentives against stealing. In the end she's still getting something for nothing, the only potential downside is getting caught taking it.
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by heurist 13y ago
They could make VR services for person-to-person communication. Be in the room with someone a thousand miles away, rake in cash for in-world ads and purchases... it could essentially become a future iteration of facebook (for when VR catche

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