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Automated Transplantation of Features from One Codebase to Another(crest.cs.ucl.ac.uk)
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3D Cellular Automata in Minecraft (2011) [video](youtube.com)
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AT&T Closes $49B DirecTV Buy, Creates Largest U.S. Pay-TV Company(wsj.com)
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Amazon overtakes Walmart as world's most valuable retailer(bbc.com)
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Scientists Find Evidence of Small-Scale Farming 23,000 Years Ago in Israel(sci-news.com)
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Drug Testing Is Coming to E-Gaming(nytimes.com)
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New Green Technology Extracts CO2 from Air, Turns It into Liquid Fuel(hacked.com)
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Tweaking One Enzyme Doubles a Worm's Lifespan(popsci.com)
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by jsnathan 11y ago
> For example, The Wall Street Journal recently bought 22 items from Jet. Twelve were shipped to the Journal by retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., J.C. Penney Co. and Nordstrom Inc., according to sales receipts. > Jet’s prices fo
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You might be right about this. I found no mention of this at all in the Norwegian constitution, and I found various clauses explicitly giving immunity for votes cast during their tenure in several other constitutions I looked at. This presu
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Contrarily I would expect a clause prohibiting unconstitutional laws in pretty much every single constitution ever written. As you say however, constitutions rarely define crimes, and so making the passing of unconstitutional laws a crime w
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> It's not putting them above a constitution. There is a process in place to resolve constitutional issues. In this case it worked perfectly. If transient violations that might take many years to resolve, and often present a slipper
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Are you suggesting that elections should give people a status that puts them beyond the countries constitution? Remember that these principles are so general, they must apply equally to Western politicians pushing security policies, as to e
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Intentionally violating the constitution is a violation of the privileges of office. If it can be proven, they should be forced out of office. As for the "punishment", it should clearly correspond to the actual law having been pas
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There's a breakdown of their spending in their S-1 filing [1], under Consolidated Statements of Operations. According to this, they could be profitable if they wanted to be, but they are using their profits and re-investing in growth.
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I think it's not a bad idea to remind people to add a license to their public github projects. It's probably an oversight when they publish code for others to reuse, but don't add a license. I've had to email people befo
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by jsnathan 12y ago
Not to say that this is not a useful standard, but I do think we are beyond "inconvenience" here. Following the current trajectory, surveillance is only going to grow as technology makes it easier and easier to gather more and mor
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If the treatment is a product of the current pharmaceutical industry, I think one might have to worry about that - especially in the beginning. It might be seen as even less important than distributing food to the starving, and medicine to
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Until the possibility is established, many people are going to make fun of, and sideline those working on a solution. However, I think this thought experiment can bring them to understand that their own beliefs are temporary. If there was a
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Suppose we cure aging. If there is such a "culture" of pro-aging, then supposedly you expect them to refuse the treatment? I do not see that happening in the long-term. Maybe a few fringe sects, but never the majority. Instead, as
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by jsnathan 12y ago
Precedent is a powerful thing. I wouldn't give up hope yet, for the anti-surveillance movement.
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Rhesus monkeys can be trained to pass the mirror-test(cell.com)
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There were some rumors [1] recently that Google was considering to buy Twitter. Now I don't know if there's anything to that, but in light of Facebook snatching up Instagram, (not to mention WhatsApp), Google moving in on Twitter
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Was Abolitionism a Failure?(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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> Well, since the paperclip story is only trying to show that even very simple goals can lead to large impacts in the hands of an AGI, That may well be the original intention. But that's not how it's used in practice, is it? It
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Now we're talking! The testing thing is indeed impossible to formulate using the code, it has to be formulated in language. But that is not an issue, because (in most bootstrap scenarios I'm considering) language acquisition happe
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I understand the paperclip objection, but I do not consider it valid. I tried to point out the problem, which is that it focuses on single-objective optimisation when the only interesting question is multi-objective optimisation. I haven&#x
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Having spent years researching AGI myself (and as I intend to start a venture based on my research in the near future) I can say that I really do not care for taking thought-experiments about specific toy architectures and trying to extrapo
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> if and only if it wanted be friendly and respect those constraints in the first place No, not if it "wanted" to - if it was written that way. > otherwise you should expect for it to figure out how to work around them to ac
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Don't take this the wrong way, but this book is precisely the kind of thing I was talking about. That paperclip idea I talked about is also something that Bostrom thought up [1]. I didn't make it up. If you have any argument in mi

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