internaut

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by internaut 10y ago
It's ok Mr Rhino. I come here primarily for the rants :-) You learn interesting things and it sparks ideas. Rant on Mr Rhino!
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My (with no evidence mind) intuition always suggested to me that there is some Group Selection going on in evolutionary terms. It could be on the memetic level. I am aware the Selfish Gene debunked this. Yet the way different classes of hum
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Yes, families of the past were a lot more like corporations today. House this or Clan that. It was basically GOT. The modern family must look weird from a historical perspective. Also in Japan men are often adopted into families to continue
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by internaut 10y ago
Being a zealot from one side of the horse shoe or the other is not a reason to think their ideas are incorrect. Evidently commonly held ideas today like democracy or social welfare or multinational corporations not explicitly backed by the
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by internaut 10y ago
Mr Bug is a philosopher for our times. I see his ideas spreading everywhere, directly and in derivative form. I can seriously see him being studied in academia in XXIIth Century. Him and Satoshi and a handful of other radicals in our midst
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by internaut 10y ago
I did hear of that idea Mr Sn9 (let's bring back Dickensian mannerisms!) Sully of Slashdot claims to have met Mr Stephenson at a book signing. Quote forthwith: According to Neal, Diamond Age and Snow Crash are not in the same universe
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by internaut 10y ago
I share your concern about jenga! Evolution makes blithely shortsighted errors. We're about as intelligent as we are required to be in order to survive. We're stuck at local maxima at every level from the personal to the political
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Counterpoint. If the tech stagnation hypothesis is true then index funds aren't going to save you.
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The problems with class warfare are similar to those of racial discrimination. The problem is not that there is no basis for using a filter but that assuming everybody is identical within a class (or subset, which has a 1:1 mapping to the n
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Gwern, I declare you to be a natural aristocrat. I hope you won't get mad if we freeze you until the world cycles back around to the idea of making rulers effective at their jobs. I don't think we'll have long to wait. The Ne
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by internaut 10y ago
Interesting article. What I have to say will sound old fashioned but I think it is relevant. My opinion is that power does not corrupt as much under one circumstance. It corresponds to old ideas about aligning interests of the group with th
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by internaut 10y ago
This is a huge problem in our society in so many ways. Three examples I've personally noticed. 1. While working at typical working class jobs, if you happen to talk about geek/intellectual stuff e.g. with coworkers - middle class
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Electrification was called "the greatest engineering achievement of the 20th Century" by the National Academy of Engineering. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrification With today's technology we ca
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Oh I'm not knocking it for NR errors.
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I wish Stanley Kubrick was alive to direct an update to Dr Strangelove, where AI replaces nukes. No fighting in the war room! People more worried about losing their jobs to automation than being killed by same automatons. The material just
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That's one way to solve edge cases I suppose. If your assassins tell you to watch Firefly they can finish their work before Season 2. It shows there are good people everywhere.
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This guy! CC Eliezer. Assassins to be dispatched shortly.
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> The American middle class has been quite the overall force for positive change - in the dimensions where it can change things. Oh no! They got to you too! :-) If you have an opportunity take a gander at "Ben's Mill" It&#
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Consider that you may be underestimating the tacit knowledge that a HNer typically has. The majority of large SV corporations beyond Google/Facebook do not make much sense to me. Dropbox? Why not operate your own server? Apple iphone?
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Yes that's right. I think rich people are well aware of the problem (appeals to superiority) in a way that most people aren't. They are constantly in contact with people trying to butter them up. Gradually they develop a sense of
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by internaut 10y ago
I'm increasingly becoming of the view that The Diamond Age was a documentary from the future. There are worse options!
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by internaut 10y ago
Looking at how the American working class got increasing marginalized to the point where it is a popular trope on television to laugh at 'white trash' or 'hillbilly hicks' has always seemed ugly to me. That contempt has
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by internaut 10y ago
> what is a human able to do that a sufficiently good AI cannot? That may not be the right question. There are all kinds of things that theoretically we could replace with bots over humans but we do not because of convention. For example
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I read Yuval Harari's book. It's a good book but he chickens out of saying difficult to hear things about us humans. It was extremely obvious to me that he skates figure eights around controversial topics because he made contradic
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I'm dying here. Sign me up for your startup. Let's call it: "American Dystopia"