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Google’s Page, Schmidt Face Senate Subpoena Threats(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Thanks for your time. See, i am an eliminativist myself, so i would doubt things like afterlife and spirit are accessible to us humans. I might accept forms of non-intervening deities if it were confined to setting the initial conditions o
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The Illusions of Psychiatry by Marcia Angell(nybooks.com)
2 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
Making a random decision in the absence of empirical evidence is rational thinking. It's irrational to make it in the presence of overwhelming evidence or counter evidence.
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by ignifero 15y ago
They can, but they don't have to, so it's not inevitable.
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by ignifero 15y ago
Good points here, although i must note that your appeal to authority ("many intelligent people") does not lend credence to any of these arguments. For many people, they are no more true than any random syntactically correct sentence. And in
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by ignifero 15y ago
a) The arguments i 've heard about religious faith attempt to explain metaphysics by resorting to metaphysics, which, to me, is weak circular logic; but, fair, i don't have the means to disprove them either. My critical attitude was towards
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by ignifero 15y ago
a) Faulty genalization. Walking, sensing, thinking. Evolution gave them to us, and the machine would benefit from having these capacities, unless it would live in an alternate universe. b) Stephen Hawking c) False, soul is not a corporal th
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by ignifero 15y ago
I have another question: Is there something that we can only do with Node.js?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Religion is a fine art of emotional manipulation, but it has a weak spot: it requires an intact emotional (limbic) system. What if our artificial counterparts forgo that?
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by ignifero 15y ago
The article presents the view that, due to social inertia, artificial intelligence research will stop before it realizes its goal for ethical reasons. To my knowledge this has never happened before.
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by ignifero 15y ago
So did that political support come from some Divine Providence or some conspiratory group? Didn't it arise from the curiosity of humans who elected the politicians? Also, what about Art? What a useless waste of brainpower, yet we keep doing
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by ignifero 15y ago
There are lots of fallacies Enhancements to primate evolutionary fitness are not much use to a machine, - Said who? I strongly suspect that the hardest part of mind uploading won't be the mind part, but the body and its interactions with
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by ignifero 15y ago
I think he already sold it and moved to Seattle.
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by ignifero 15y ago
The odd thing is that much of its coverage is persistently about relatively unsuccessful startups like quora, path, foursquare, asana [watch out for the flood here], colo(u)r etc, many of which owe a large part of their audience to their c
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by ignifero 15y ago
You can blog anonymously at http://instablogg.com/
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by ignifero 15y ago
Maybe they didn't officially endorse it, but by un-accepting it they are unendorsing it, although they would not admit it. Doesn't this decision have something to do with the MtGox hack incident?
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by ignifero 15y ago
I 've seen people spending even more on useless novelty items, so no big deal.
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Anonymity has real value, both in comments and elsewhere(gigaom.com)
73 points by ignifero 15y ago|15 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
That's true about everything else too, not just technology. We just happen to be agitated because that's what we know best. Opinions are a dime a dozen.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I would say exchange them for some farmville coins. Or a farmville goat, and hope it makes enough milk.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I wonder what's the next coin when people get bored of playing with bitcoins?
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by ignifero 15y ago
Agree with you, but he has a point about the "talent acquisition" hires. They do tend to underperform when acquired (perhaps they feel 'accomplished' + there 's no pressure since they no longer work on a startup). Can someone name a few de
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by ignifero 15y ago
2 red herrings don't render the journalist 'clueless' and unqualified. Everyone's entitled to an opinion.
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by ignifero 15y ago
You know what i think, the filters put a smile on these photos rather than anything else.
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by ignifero 15y ago
I would think the opposite, as the 'familiar face' idea would lead to more inbreeding in groups, thus less healthy offspring. Plus, one should keep in mind that for millions of years, beauty was not as important a constraint as proximity an
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Poll: Is your startup's primary domain something other than .com?
1 points by ignifero 15y ago|0 comments
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's a .com domain
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's a .org/.net domain
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by ignifero 15y ago
It's a country TLD (e.g. .de, .fr, .es etc.)

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