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by karmacondon 11y ago
You're saying, "We should not trust the government because they did things that I didn't agree with in the past". This seems like an unfair standard to hold any person or group of people to. I would be unhappy if people
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The underlying assumption to your hypothetical is that thought crimes exist. I would say that someone in that situation doesn't have a privacy problem, they have a governance problem. Either a dictator has seized power or their fellow
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Still not convincing, at least not to me and many of the people that I know. I'm pretty sure my insurance company has already calculated my premiums based on my demographics and claim history. I made not have told them "I have mor
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Not everyone agrees with you that the tech sector is contributing to the building of a surveillance society or police state. There are a lot of people who have carefully considered the issue and come to the conclusion that facebook knowing
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Wish there was a way to see what this is without downloading it. Screen shots at least?
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I don't want to derail this thread due to a passing mention of Edison's name, but. Edison's major inventions represented a difference in kind, not in degree, that drastically changed things for humanity. Think of how differen
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I love how this post perfectly encapsulates the concept of facebook: Someone with a very comfortable life humble bragging about how he's going to use technology to solve first world problems. It is a cool idea and an interesting projec
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The hell are you talking about? The argument could easily be made that AirBnB exists because of the efforts of the YCombinator team. It's not like Paul Graham is personally just sitting back and collecting money. He works hard to adv
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Care to give any examples of those upcoming booms?
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Crowdsourced research: Many hands make tight work(nature.com)
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Geez, appeal to authority much? Play the ball, not the man.
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Arg, the Paperclip Argument doesn't make sense. If an AI is intelligent enough to plan, set short term and long term goals and come up with creative solutions to problems, then it would have to be capable of understanding instructions
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Many animals would happily eat us. So if animals can think, does that mean that they've made a conscious decision to eat other animals? And if so, why are we wrong for making that some decision?
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It seems like you and many other people are of the world view that everyone would behave ideally if only corporate forces weren't influencing them. This may be true, there's no way to know for sure. It's also possible that mo
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Because it still isn't cost effective. A drone that can be guided, either autonomously or by a human, will cost at least, what, $80 wholesale? That will almost equal the price of the ordinance. Causing a lot of casualties at a low cost
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Both democracy and capitalism say that the "general masses" get to decide who wins and who loses, for better or worse. I understand the nature of your lament, but the only solution is various forms of autocracy. Communist governme
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Public radio is government supported , not government run. Meaning, most public radio stations get less than 5% of their annual funding from the government. The rest comes from listener donations and pledge drives, not advertisers, which i
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by karmacondon 11y ago
is it ethical to create involuntary behaviours in your users? Yes. Coke, McDonalds, The Gap and every other consumer company try like hell to create involuntary behaviors in people all the time. is it ethical to judge users for behaviour
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by karmacondon 11y ago
This is a great idea, but it seems like it would be more effective if there were fewer items listed. It took me quite a bit of effort to go through the list from top to bottom. An unsolicited suggestion: Maybe it would be best to have to &q
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Love this idea, but I do not recommend the book. It's clearly a science article that has been stretched into 250 pages. Same idea, repeated repeated repeated. I highly recommend a summary, unless you think you'll benefit from read
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by karmacondon 11y ago
The media's Mayer pile on is getting old. Every article is focused on her personally, as opposed to the company as a whole. I understand how echo chamber effects and memes work, but this seems a bit extreme even for the internet. It&#x
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by karmacondon 11y ago
There are simple rules, like "Don't show the same bookmark again within X months", where X becomes progressively longer the more times the bookmark has been shown. I can also flag the best stuff so it shows up more often. I d
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I've been working with own "PK" for about a year now. It's been an interesting experiment so far. My concept is based around random re-exposure to information. For whatever reason, the thought of "Let me look throug
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by karmacondon 11y ago
I understand your argument, but I see two other possibilities: 1) Drivers remain liable for actions taken by their car's AI. This would encourage people to only use truly driverless AI in the safest possible conditions, ie not on crowd
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As I've said many times on HN over the years, there is currently no clear path to science fiction like "AI". To return your question, hopefully without being rude, is there any proof that AI capable of having a moral disposit
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I've yet to see any evidence that human-like intelligence and computation speed are related in any way. There's a lot more to general intelligence than how fast numbers can be multiplied together.
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This is a key takeaway: "...we are going to ask YC companies to make whatever data they are comfortable making available to OpenAI. And Elon is also going to figure out what data Tesla and Space X can share." Money is great, openn
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With this attitude, no one will want to be a police officer. Or at least, no one who has any other reasonable options. That means when someone has to call 911, either no one will show up or the person who shows up won't be the highest
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I feel like you missed the point of the article. While the world agrees that killing, or generally being a jerk is bad, we are hopelessly divided on the issues like the death penalty, honor killing of rape victims, applying the death penalt
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by karmacondon 11y ago
Mark Zuckerberg didn't invent social networking. If it wasn't facebook, it would be some other website. Social media doesn't cause people to envy others or engage in behaviors that you don't approve of. Human nature does

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