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by indrax 17y ago
It could be the case that a scientific exploration of human values would show that (for example) truth-telling is more important than its consequences in what we consider good. Only one way to find out!
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by indrax 17y ago
Science can help us resolve the question of what it is that we do in fact value. As in the example of valuing rocks little, and primates greatly. What we value is a matter of fact, it is complex and not directly clear to us, so it's exactly
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by indrax 17y ago
I realize this is going to seem a lot like a 'no true scotsman' argument, but I think there's a problem with saying consequentialism has bad consequences. If it has had bad consequences, they weren't doing it right. (or _possibly_ they just
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by indrax 17y ago
It is not morally inconsistent for someone to seek compensation for creative works while ignoring unjust copyrights. Doubly so if their compensation isn't based on selling copies.
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by indrax 17y ago
Sprinting is a decent tactic to overcome procrastination. Combine that with "Release early, release often." And it makes a fair bit of sense to spend a minimal amount of time creating a minimal product to show people.
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by indrax 17y ago
No time to find a link, But I recently read an article about google tweaking their index from a once a month task to something they can do in 10 seconds. (though obviously they are also throwing hardware at that problem.)
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by indrax 17y ago
Assuming this is legit, yes you can do animation with it. Probably with a minimal performance hit. Keep all your sprite models separate from the main. For each sprite rotate the camera so you're viewing it from the same relative position yo
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by indrax 17y ago
If you think he's not making any sense, You're halfway to understanding. He's not making any sense. The author doesn't seem to understand the causal link between intelligence, brain size, and body size. Smaller bodies don't make things smar
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by indrax 17y ago
Yeah, it's not like philosophy should update itself based on science, pfft!
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by indrax 17y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/r0/thou_art_physics/
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by indrax 17y ago
I love how 'conscious thought' goes into a little circle like it's a solved problem. Same with 'unconscious thought'.
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by indrax 17y ago
I am partially motivated to have children in order to make the future better.
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by indrax 17y ago
Look for the plants that other animals are eating, use them as bait, eat the other animals.
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by indrax 17y ago
I'd like to see a real low-cost open hardware item that isn't vapor. Even if it's just at the level of a graphing calculator. Start with cheap and extensible and work up from there.
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by indrax 17y ago
I also appreciate your honesty, and I'll try to address your points. Many people would save the life of a pigeon. They're just not very consistent about it. One issue is how we measure progress. We would generally think that a school progra
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by indrax 17y ago
http://www.problogger.net/ Even if you fail at this, you'll have more experience, learned more, networked more, and have something to show for it. And it's legitimate.
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by indrax 17y ago
I've thought about your comment for a while. If you want to test for potentially interesting search space, you should do so systematically, not randomly. A random scattering could leave vast areas unsearched, and you might not even know. (I
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by indrax 17y ago
"seeing the constraints are artificial" does not mean "cheating" or using things outside of the constraints. I don't think the winning teams used more than $5 and 2 hours. It doesn't take much to see that 2 team-hours is a much bigger asset
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by indrax 17y ago
Don't confuse the movement with the control of the movement. We can build machines that move much better than any animal, especially at certain scales and by certain measures. A clockwork automaton really does move, it makes no sense to say
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by indrax 17y ago
Genetic algorithms are in a certain sense doing things in the stupidest possible way. Whenever it creates a random mutation, A better algorithm programed with at least a little knowledge of the problem could make a change that is more likel
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by indrax 17y ago
Intelligence is important to save human lives, and to make human lives better. That is the answer to the question of "why". We need machines that can do thinking better than we can, so that more thinking gets done, so that we can get more o
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by indrax 17y ago
These are not new points, and I suspect they have been considered by nearly every AI researcher.
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by indrax 17y ago
Why does intelligence have to be a function of living being? If intelligence is a matter of the kinds of mental activities someone/something is able to perform, what activities require DNA?
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by indrax 17y ago
So what did you learn?
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by indrax 17y ago
For that matter, I think touching a car is widely seen as legitimately annoying to anyone who wants to keep it shiny. Doubly so for the windshield.
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by indrax 17y ago
Take out a piece of clear tape, put it where they touched the screen, take it off and put it on a blank piece of paper, then write their name and the finger they used on the paper. If they ask say it's "for my records."
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by indrax 17y ago
1. If you can make a compelling case that there is more revenue with a little more work, then you should be able to get a higher valuation. Even a shack is worth a million bucks if it's in down town Manhattan. It doesn't matter what YOU are
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by indrax 17y ago
I've never really liked the notion that true scots... hackers aren't the ones breaking into systems, or whatever you attribute to 'crackers'. Hackers can be black hat. Hackers can be nasty people. They can also be completely benign. Also, s
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Can a hackerspace help revialize a city?(blog.changegrow.com)
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by indrax 17y ago
Can we get a english<->russian version? (or any<->any)

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