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by khafra 13y ago
In many cases, it's more efficient to have the computers tell the humans what to move.
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by khafra 13y ago
> It will be fascinating to see how this plays out. The obvious way would be ambiguity about the final fate of his bitcoins, and centuries' worth of hacker legends about the lost treasure of the Dread Pirate Roberts.
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by khafra 13y ago
> you would have to be crazy to select a uniform distribution unless it was shaped like a sphere. The distribution for a coin is uniform over the event space [heads,tails]; not over the angle of rotation it lands on. You can have continu
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by khafra 13y ago
Seems like a great time for cperciva to remain in Canada.
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by khafra 13y ago
It's a lot more fun to imagine it won't be a massive, Segway-level disappointment; plus he has a history of making big promises and delivering. Also, I think humanity is just ready for teleportation technology, now.
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by khafra 13y ago
Also, federal law won't necessarily save you in court, unless you have the money and time to escalate. I took a traffic fine to court once, showed the judge copies of the federal regulation and photos of the area proving that the signa
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by khafra 13y ago
I doubt the causation runs the way you think it does; and an offer you can only get by constantly imposing long hours on yourself may not be an offer you want.
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by khafra 13y ago
> Prison has to be scary. It has to strike one as the number one place that you do not want to go. It's the other ultimate consequence, along side of death. I can't imagine this world if it wasn't. If your theory were accurate, countrie
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by khafra 13y ago
On the other hand, I feel significantly more secure on facebook than on paypal.
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by khafra 13y ago
A man said to Google, "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied Google, "That fact has not created in me "A sense of obligation."
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by khafra 13y ago
Ceteris paribus, it would build its Dyson sphere out of us.
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by khafra 13y ago
Incentivizing the Wikipedia community by offering some extra cash to the organization that runs their servers is not necessarily the same thing as having that organization impose their views on the Wikipedia community.
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by khafra 13y ago
> Here's a little known but closely related fact about Congress: its membership has long contained a disproportionate number of car dealers, which leads to "wins" for America like this: "Last summer...Congress approved a financial refor
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by khafra 13y ago
Thanks for the overview. It'd be nice if they could make a password strength checker that got the exact strength instead of an estimate, that would be cool (because actually building a hypercomputer is impressive).
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by khafra 13y ago
It certainly helps when we use password-based key derivation functions instead of cryptographic hashes in our applications. The difference between md5 and bcrypt with a high work factor is like the difference between Pa$$word01 and t8LIO.&#
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by khafra 14y ago
Not quite. Following people is always opt-in.
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by khafra 14y ago
Space is boring. Flyunder territory.
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by khafra 14y ago
Yes. Whether or not the most substantial damage occurs with apoptosis when oxygen is re-introduced, there will uncontroversially be a lot of damage even in the best case cryonic vitrification. Also uncontroversially, there will be substant
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by khafra 14y ago
Is that supposed to be a modus tollens or a modus ponens?
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by khafra 14y ago
If I'd been around 12,000 years ago to invest a few bucks, and it grew at a 2% APY since then, I would currently have enough money to end poverty and global warming, while mining the asteroid belt to build an Orion-class starship in orbit.
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by khafra 14y ago
Angstrom-scale fidelity may not be necessary for preserving memories/personality/identity. The antifreeze they use is neurotoxic, which is a known problem.
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by khafra 14y ago
> Just do a full brain scan and store the digital data until the nano-bots arrive? Because we don't currently have the technology to either scan or store a 3-d scan of your brain in the same resolution you can get by physically perfusin
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by khafra 14y ago
I would; death sucks. At the very least, people should always be able to choose to live for another day.
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by khafra 14y ago
If Noopept causes rebound anxiety, isn't that a sign that it could build up resistance/dependence over time?
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by khafra 14y ago
If I don't have the know-how, is it worth my time to learn? Does the true difference in selling direct vs. trading in closely resemble the Kelley Blue Book difference between trade-in and private seller amounts of money?
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by khafra 14y ago
The probabilistic evidence is a bit more indirect, and depends on anthropics: Since we don't see galaxy-spanning, highly advanced civilizations, there seems to be some combination of factors that prevents planet-bound dirt from turning into
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by khafra 14y ago
What if you're an Italian seismologist, and you want to produce a prediction which is in some way useful, but still expresses an appropriate level of doubt to a lay audience?
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by khafra 14y ago
> I was wondered when I saw that I can't login in to my gmail account. If you couldn't log in, he did it by guessing the answers to your security questions based on other stuff he could find out about you online, and resetting your pass
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by khafra 14y ago
I think you have to be pretty silly to think that people, in general, stop being motivated by money once they get a lot of money. The only two high net worth individuals I can think of who obviously stopped being motivated by money are Warr
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by khafra 14y ago
Actually, the last point can be overstated, because the optimizations he applied created a functionally equivalent state machine to the non-optimized version. If it overfitted, the original GA-generated algorithm overfitted as well.

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