jtolmar

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by jtolmar 11y ago
We live in a deterministic universe. You'll need a different definition of autonomy if you want anything to have it.
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Looking back through time for all the horrible UI sins cataloged in the opening paragraph, I'm pretty sure all of those were much more common in the past than they are now. Somehow, we actually have made those pieces of progress. Exce
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Good crazy ideas revolve around solving one or a handful of extremely hard engineering tasks, which make everything else easier "assuming the crazy thing works." Bad crazy ideas break any part of that description. The single hard
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by jtolmar 11y ago
Being second-best on ratio and ubiquity is still pretty handy for serving files. It's compress-once, decompress on somebody else's machine, so neither of those matter. Ratio saves you money and ubiquity means people can actually
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is there any proof that AI capable of having a moral disposition will ever exist? Why does an AI need to be capable of moral reasoning to perform actions we'd consider evil? The concern is that computers will continue to do what they
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I think the actual goal should be to have government programs that provide an acceptable standard of living without money. Basic income is both a necessary patch for problems too individual to solve this way, and the single most straightfor
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by jtolmar 11y ago
With gas burning cars we have two problems - pollution from cars and pollution from electrical plants. With electric cars we only have one problem - the power plants. It increases the magnitude of that problem, but the total complexity goes
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by jtolmar 11y ago
When I was researching them (several years ago now) the only key thing that everyone agreed on is that they have to be really honkin' bright, with 10000 lux at 2 feet being the standard. You'll need even brighter bulbs for your s