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811.
by js8 3y ago
Sounds like DRM - pirates do not care, legitimate users are bothered.
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by js8 3y ago
I kinda like the hill chart but TBH it shouldn't look like normal distribution, but more like a half-circle. In my experience, most (SW) projects (at all levels of granularity) are S-curves (and not straight lines like in burndown char
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by js8 3y ago
No, it actually means "everything else" happened, except disappearing. The usage in the title is wrong, IMHO, but I aḿ not a native speaker. (Though I would bet there is David Mitchell video out there ranting about this topic.)
814.
by js8 3y ago
IIRC this (returning a full database with a schema as a result of a query) has been proposed before in categorical databases, see https://www.categoricaldata.net/
815.
by js8 3y ago
The physics definition of closed system allows exchange of energy. If neither matter nor energy can be exchanged, that's called an isolated system.
816.
by js8 3y ago
Despite all the billionaire meta-craze, people still use Google, Facebook and Twitter.
817.
by js8 3y ago
Once upon a time in the universe, there was an alien civilization, and they were very interested in figuring out the question, why, despite universe seeming so vast, there are no signs of other alien civilizations. What could it be? Near-ze
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by js8 3y ago
You don't actually need oil, you can invest into your people regardless. That the oil is somehow a prereq is just an excuse for not doing it.
819.
by js8 3y ago
Somehow, the language of Jordan Peterson came to my mind, see: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AsPKkd-KQ
820.
by js8 3y ago
That's a premise of sci-fi "novel" Golem XIV from Stanislaw Lem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV
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by js8 3y ago
Right. But if AI girlfriend doesn't make demands to you, then it's just a boring novelty, isn't it? Why engage with something like that, it's like cheating in a computer game. How it can make you happy? I feel the proble
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by js8 3y ago
Do you also see getting a pet as pathetic?
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by js8 3y ago
> just manipulate the media (conventional, social, all of it) on both sides to engineer a situation in which we would enter a nuclear war Good luck with that. Remember how it ended the last time this was tried, with.. peace talks. If you
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by js8 3y ago
> Well then now it's existence is an instrumental goal. No, that's a fallacy. A theorem prover in Prolog has a goal, which is contingent on it's continued existence. Yet, this doesn't make its existence into an instru
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by js8 3y ago
That's exactly my point. Nobody is gonna design/use AI that threatens other people with violence over its existence. And cows show that such arrangement is actually quite possible.
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by js8 3y ago
> Basically, any sufficiently advanced agent will have “prevent anyone from switching me off” as an instrumental goal. Are there no intelligent people who committed suicide? But maybe intelligent people are simply not sufficiently advanc
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by js8 3y ago
I think I understand what you're saying, but this has always been simply called "capitalism". The "fake" regulators are simply a response of people with power in the system to societal attempts to fix the most egreg
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by js8 3y ago
I watched Angela Collier, an astrophysicist, on YT the other day. I'll paraphrase an off-hand remark she made: This is a really cool technology, but then you think how big companies are going to ruin it for profit, as they do with ever
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by js8 3y ago
Sounds like you are, in "broad strokes", longing after 1870s or something. I think you forgot how crony (or crappy?) it was. What I am saying, if you really want this "traditional capitalism", which never really existed,
830.
by js8 3y ago
The absence of "traditional capitalism" from history makes it really hard not to confuse it with "crony capitalism". Perhaps you mean liberalism, as an ideology of capitalism.
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by js8 3y ago
I am strawmanning effective altruism in the same way that effective altruism strawmans just plain old altruism.
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by js8 3y ago
It's a distraction only if you are not an effective altruist. To build AGI (so that all humans can benefit) you need money, so this was a way to make money so they could FINALLY be spent on the goal of AGI. /s I think the next AGI
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by js8 3y ago
I think it shows the dangers of natural intelligence (NI), which occurs in some humans. And raises an ethical question, could NI be an existential threat to humanity? I am afraid so, and I think we need our governments to step in and regula
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by js8 3y ago
With selling it as OSS, they only wrote off 4.4M euros. So given the situation it was still a better option for investors.
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by js8 3y ago
> But I still think you unnecessarily brought in a red herring by bringing up economic systems and I could have responded more appropriately. But I didn't brought economic systems into it, others did. I was drawing on my own father&
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by js8 3y ago
The time when academia was working "pretty well" in the West was less capitalist than is today. It was quite social-democratic, with a relatively strong state (and academic independence).
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by js8 3y ago
My father was a university researcher/teacher (assistant professor) in Czechoslovakia, during communist regime. It's not as black and white as these links might lead you to. He was never higher ranking (didn't get professorsh
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by js8 3y ago
I was talking about science, not planned economy in general. Planned economy is problematic for many of the same reasons for which capitalist production in large corporations is problematic. (And capitalist system which wouldn't have m
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by js8 3y ago
No, this is untrue. Metric hacking doesn't really exist in alternative systems of doing science. For example, it didn't exist in the Eastern Europe during communism. There, being an authority in research was more based on nepotism
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by js8 3y ago
No, it has nothing to do with price of labor (although in socialism there is no labor market), and everything to do with removing subjugation of others due to ownership of private property. In socialism, if you want other people to help you

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