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by khafra 13y ago
> what that would do to your perception of time and your discount rate if you could have perfect recall of your whole life? Now that is an interesting question. Lowering the time discounting of an entire society is pretty much awesome
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by khafra 13y ago
Only if they can get the code for that efficient enough to run on the actual Pebble on their arm.
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by khafra 13y ago
It won't really take off until a self-driving car can swing by and automatically transfer them to their new owner.
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by khafra 13y ago
The most bizarre part, to me, is that the law actually cared about the real probability distribution over winning conditions, instead of the surface appearance. That seems way too sensible for lawyers to have come up with.
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by khafra 13y ago
The causal arrow may go B=>A on this one: A childhood environment which causes low IQ--malnutrition, toxins, other things that correlate with poor socioeconomic conditions--probably also teach children to mistrust others.
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by khafra 13y ago
> There may be other times where whole life is appropriate but I don't know what they are. $80,000 for cryonic suspension, which is most likely to be successful if you die of a terminal illness; which is most likely to happen when
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by khafra 13y ago
Min-max optimizes your chance of winning under the assumption of a rational adversary. That chance will be lower than "certain victory," especially in un-solved, symmetric games, because a rational adversary will also be playing
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by khafra 13y ago
It sounds like you're thinking he suggested just greedily taking the best possible move. But that's not what he suggested; he suggested evaluating the actual distribution of the opponent's moves and making the move with the
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by khafra 13y ago
The problem is less with a minimum viable product, and more with a far-from-viable product, in ways that aren't immediately obvious. The security FFVP is especially dangerous.
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by khafra 13y ago
> The taxpayers will still be paying the premiums. If the police pay their own premiums directly, we'll have to raise their salaries; so the taxpayers will still be paying them. But , there will be an independent entity with a fina
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by khafra 13y ago
> artificial consciousness, or creativity, or desire, or whatever you want to call it. I am quite confident that we’ll be able to make computer programs that perform specific complex tasks very well. But how do we make a computer program
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by khafra 13y ago
I recently heard the suggestion that police should carry an equivalent of doctors' malpractice insurance; so the same taxpayers that they abuse aren't the ones who ultimately pay to compensate for their abuses. Sounded like a good
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by khafra 13y ago
> if I "upload" my "consciousness" -- how is it, well, me? If you were going to be sedated in a blue-painted room, and then an exact copy of you would be made in a red-painted room, what color of wall would you expec
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by khafra 13y ago
The threshhold where instead of the nuclear power the uranium would have been mined for, they use coal power instead; and pollute aboveground reservoirs for future generations?
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by khafra 13y ago
He's not talking about climate change; he's talking about heat sinks so your nanobots don't literally vibrate themselves apart before doing anything useful.
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by khafra 13y ago
It could be tendons that need stretching; but it could also be inherent anatomical differences. I have curved shins, which pushes everything from the knee up a few inches backward when I try to squat. It's physically impossible for me
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by khafra 13y ago
Something like the leapmotion? https://www.leapmotion.com/
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by khafra 13y ago
Definitely a fascinating piece of data entry history. A friend of mine got one in the late 90s; to avert an onset of repetitive stress injury. He was blazing fast with it; I never saw him do a wpm test, but he could put a line of text on t
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by khafra 13y ago
> "Stop lookin, be happy" It's true that happiness comes when you're settled with your lot in life. But you will instinctively rebel if you settle too early, on too little; this site is sort of dedicated to the art o
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by khafra 13y ago
Is this why Skunk Works announced they're 5 years away from practical fusion? Is Lockheed Martin looking to make up their revenue shortages by switching from the DoD to the DOE?
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by khafra 13y ago
Citation? I've seen a lot of studies saying intermittent fasting might not help bodyfat loss as much as you'd hope; but no studies saying it increases cancer risk.
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by khafra 13y ago
Yes, we nerds should know this trick: It's exactly like when we were kids, and they told us "don't try to be cool." What we really needed to do was not get caught trying to be cool; needed to try so hard that we made i
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by khafra 13y ago
> people not suspected of a crime walking on a public street. But they are suspected of a crime, because of their demographic category. I should have explained the thought experiment more: Suppose future sociologists identify some iden
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by khafra 13y ago
> We deem one group of people to be a threat A minority male between 14 and 40 is more likely to mug someone than a 70 year old caucasian woman; that's not something made up by racist conservatives. But if there's such a thing
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by khafra 13y ago
Why not judge by objective metrics, like whether the expert's name is included in one of the oldest and most important protocols in the area of study?
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by khafra 13y ago
If you find the link, I'm interested. In the meantime, here's the very related Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5389450/
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by khafra 13y ago
> "Wars are becoming less frequent." > He wrote, as we approach the centenary of The War To End All Wars. The diminishing in size and frequency of armed conflict is either evidence that we'll have less destruction due t
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by khafra 13y ago
LM just announced a Skunkworks practical fusion power project --would that be for the same reason? I hope that one isn't dead in the water. http://www.dvice.com/2013-2-22/lockheeds-skunk-works-promise...
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by khafra 13y ago
> Perhaps enough for a C&C channel be not really enough to exfiltrate data. I really really really hate to say "APT," but if you had a gapped, infected PC sitting next to an internet PC; and both were powered up 24x7 for mo
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by khafra 13y ago
And let's not forget Marcus Hutter and Jurgen Schmidhuber, who use compression to explain general reasoning and human curiosity http://prize.hutter1.net/ http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/interest.html

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