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by jal278 10y ago
Sure, everyone can do their own research; but most won't. There may be some bias to fact-checking, but at least it's better than relying on the candidates to do their own fact checking (i.e. usually a hugely self-serving and disto
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by jal278 10y ago
The difference between sports and debates are that the post-processing in sports isn't going to change the most important "outcome," i.e. who won. But post-processing when it comes to debates can mean overlaying information o
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by jal278 10y ago
Aren't there some set of claims that a candidate makes that nearly everyone can agree are objectively false? What's wrong with annotating a debate with that sort of information?
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Only fools rush in (and watch presidential debates live)(worldbetter.svbtle.com)
21 points by jal278 10y ago|11 comments
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Could rephrasing a polling question undo Donald Trump?(worldbetter.svbtle.com)
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This Sculpture Was Designed and 3D Printed by an AI Artist(popsci.com)
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by jal278 10y ago
But by that line of reasoning, shouldn't we never hit dead ends in AI research at all -- why has AI progress been so difficult, then? Wouldn't any field of research with many dimensions of variation never get stuck on its path tow
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Communicating Climate Change Controversy to Space Aliens(worldbetter.svbtle.com)
1 points by jal278 10y ago|0 comments
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The Electoral College Must Die(joellehman.com)
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Google DeepMind AI finds its way through a 3D maze by 'sight'(engadget.com)
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by jal278 11y ago
The reduction of 'humility'/'humbleness' was across a broad sample of books, not only the self-help section, and was part of a broader study [1] describing the down-trend in many words associated with virtue. You ca
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by jal278 11y ago
Many of the perceived problems with utilitarianism result from confusing "utility" with wealth, or in otherwise simplifying what optimizing human flourishing would actually look like in practice. Although reasonable people disagre
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by jal278 11y ago
The parent comment reflects a common misconception about Buddhism. In reality, it's not at all a religion in the traditional sense -- there is no "god" of Buddhism to believe in, and there is no concept of "faith" a
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The Machine Stops(archive.ncsa.illinois.edu)
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by jal278 11y ago
The "rat is to human" (from a pharmaceutical perspective) as "rational actor is to human" (from an economic perspective) I think is a very fragile analogy. Rats and humans are very similar in their response to pharmaceut
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by jal278 11y ago
The issue is that assumptions such as perfectly rational actors can diverge so far from reality that it renders the resulting idealized conclusions meaningless from the perspective of actual human economies. The abstract study of incentives
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by jal278 11y ago
You're making an assumption that the purpose of humanity is to work to create wealth. That's a very narrow view of our potential. Many would view human flourishing more through the lens of creativity, relationships, and meaningfu
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Computer scientists find mass extinctions can accelerate evolution(phys.org)
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by jal278 11y ago
> From time to time people suggest to me that scientists ought to give more consideration to social problems – especially that they should be more responsible in considering the impact of science on society. [...] > we do think about
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Stop Trying to Be Creative(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by jal278 11y ago
If you enjoy this logo-evolution idea, you'd probably also enjoy Picbreeder ( http://picbreeder.org/ ) which allows you to breed pictures (generally, not only restricted to a particular logo) represented by neural networ
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by jal278 12y ago
And maybe you could describe why regulating AI research must be an unmitigated disaster? If over time it proves that certain areas of research provide a clear existential threat to our species, why is it irrational to then attempt to slow d
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by jal278 12y ago
Perhaps you missed this: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/full/nature1... A neural network that learns to play 40 different atari games at human-competitive level given only raw pixel
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by jal278 12y ago
> I know that if I'm struck with sudden inspiration for a new approach to the problem I'm not going to ask the government for permission. I'm going to spin up 100 cloud computing instances and see if I'm right or not.
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by jal278 12y ago
> Claims like the one that "we" want what we cannot possibly have at the price "we" are willing to pay are tiresome. Who is this "we"? This "we" encompasses nearly everyone living in modern society
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by jal278 12y ago
> The developers of hypermedia must reassert the possibility of rational and conscious control over the shape of the digital future. The article was a bit long-winded and opaque, but the thesis is strong: Those developing technology ofte
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by jal278 12y ago
I don't think there's necessarily any great irony here. It's certainly possible that the same metric could be both (1) foolish to optimize and (2) a reliable indicator of success. Think of yourself trying to solve a maze -- b
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by jal278 12y ago
That kind of data structure is just an abstraction of hereditary material, so a good way to think about it is that it is "like" artificial DNA in some gross ways. I don't think the author is trying to claim he's recreate
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by jal278 12y ago
A counter-point to the 'halting human progress is good enough' argument: If technological advance enables a person or society to be more destructive by orders of magnitude, then humanity's outcome (even if we are progressing,
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by jal278 12y ago
> If you want to evaluate how good a teacher is, one of the things you need to measure is how well their students performed vs. how well those same students would have performed under the hypothetical average teacher. But underlying this

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