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by ken47 5y ago
It depends on where on the spectrum you arbitrarily decide is the cutoff point for depression. The causality in the title may be reversed though. I think rational people tend to be less happy because they are less able to participate in the
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In 100 years, educated, intelligent people like us could easily be a "liability," as even budget AI far exceeds human intellect on every conceivable dimension. Through their robotic bodies, which they can produce themselves, they
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Assertions like that made in the title of this article are completely ridiculous. Imagine a person driving a car towards a concrete wall at 100 kph. If they keep driving 100 kph, they hit the wall in 2040. So do we predict that they hit the
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I think many already realize how bad humanity's usage of oil has been for t0+100 humanity. And let's not even talk about t0+200 humanity. The ascendance of oil has been a relatively recent phenomenon in human history, and it'
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by ken47 6y ago
If you follow Apple's financial reporting, they need to make up for lost revenue from declining iPhone sales growth, and they've stated they will achieve this via service revenue. So if you're in the Apple C-suite right now,
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They're being singled out because they're from China, no?
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I don't think we're going to go to war -- at least not in any conventional sense. But if I'm wrong, it would prove that we're little more than baboons who happen to be able to understand some advanced math.
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Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but the poster is not defending those things.
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I'm definitely not a China apologist. This story would be a comedy if it were not a tragedy.
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Interesting. China was just doing its own thing in the mid-1900's. Sure it was no paradise to live in, but they were pretty much irrelevant on the world stage. Then all these multinational corporations come along, pump steroids into th
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by ken47 6y ago
Invoking dystopian fantasies to rally cry for war? Seriously?
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No one forced American corporations to do business with China. America's current lack of "greatness" is America's own fault. There is a nonzero chance that America is going to face serious economic distress in the coming
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Without concrete examples, I'm going to continue to disagree.
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There is no anti-science crowd on hacker news. Among other (presumable) intellectuals, we can discuss such ideas without worrying about "giving the [nonexistent] anti-science crowd" here anything.
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"STEM training itself has sadly become a hierarchical, cult-like, anti-intellectual system that deprives students of critical thinking skills" Engineering definitely doesn't deprive students and practitioners of critical thin
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The vast majority are inflated by "traditional" (aka sane) valuation metrics. It is literally ponzi economics dressed up in luxury clothing. That being said, Coursera is doing a great service for humanity, and I hope they succeed.
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Technical interviews do not resemble any kind of professional software engineering environment that exists in the real world. That is their biggest problem. Everything else is secondary.
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If you believe you're the sort of person who can potentially "save" the world, wouldn't you want to clone your inherited software to counterbalance the cloning of those who cannot or will not?
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People may believe that they fear for the "future of our species," but at a meta level, is it not merely an expression of the same innate human desire that caused us to build up civilization and medicine to the point that we'
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It's unsurprising that Germany isn't as tolerant of "growth hack" advertising as the US. Many Tesla owners are smart enough to realize that their cars can't actually drive themselves. But those few who buy into the
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I'll wait for the 3rd party benchmarks.
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Pure free market capitalism is a dream that can never exist in reality. It's not politically feasible.
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Perhaps progress requires a move away from human-like brains. There are infinitely many kinds of potential intelligence. It's very unlikely ours is the pinnacle.
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I want to see the text of Dorsey's email itself. It would have been nice if the text was included in the article at some point.
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This is the trigger for the beginning of my studies of Rust. Can't wait to try it out.
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This is a bad-faith reading of the GP, and an awful lot of straw-manning. No one here has said white women have been given a free pass.
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You should read the GP a bit closer. He already got rejected by his first choice. This is one of the reasons why he said that being Asian-American is a disadvantage. And he's right -- it is a disadvantage in terms of getting into Ameri
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Over a decade ago, I was in the same boat. I was an Asian-American competing against high school classmates for spots at brand name university X. I had much better test scores, much harder courses, more extracurricular activities, and a hig
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Who gets to decide what is nonsense. What happens when society thinks YOU are the one with nonsensical beliefs? "Galileo agreed not to teach the heresy anymore and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It took more than 300 ye
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I take no issue with his anecdote. He said that getting into IIT was more difficult than getting into Harvard, which is a pretty clear claim about the intelligence of an IIT student, and by extension, his intelligence. The IIT graduates I&#

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