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by khafra 15y ago
Adianoeta is my latest favorite vocabulary word. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/adianoeta
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by khafra 15y ago
> If I write something, I control what is done with it. You're a good writer, both in the technical and moral sense; and I respect your experience, ability, and goals. However, there is no creation ex nihilo. I can't remember who said t
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by khafra 15y ago
> The only thing e-book readers have going for them is e-ink E-book readers also have a sub-$100 price point. And e-ink includes readability in direct sunlight, high resolution, and eternal life for batteries.
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by khafra 15y ago
Put yourself in the shoes of a politician. You're an elderly alpha male; you don't understand the internet but you feel vaguely threatened by it. Now, the internet attacks you. You personally. It shuts down some "profile" thing your staffe
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by khafra 15y ago
Not legally. But with SOPA, Gucci could certainly get a website selling such handbags shut down for a long time, with a minimum of fuss or risk.
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by khafra 15y ago
Joe sixpack, presumably. It might feel more logical to think things out verbally and explicitly, but in non-engineering problems Joe's "burkean conservative" approach of not messing with things he doesn't understand and blindly relying on
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by khafra 15y ago
> the Rare Earth hypothesis That's certainly the end of the Great Filter I'd prefer to be the significant one. Let's hope for no microorganisms on Mars, Titan, or Europa!
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by khafra 15y ago
How 'bout with 3 rotating rings below it, orthogonally oriented, with a PID controller or something to change their speeds as appropriate?
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by khafra 15y ago
This explains a lot. If my thumbs were 1/3 their present size, moving the blocks around on my iPhone probably would have been a lot easier. I recommend increasing the area you can touch to "grab" a block by at least 50%, and adding some so
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by khafra 15y ago
Thankfully, it skips IX.
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by khafra 15y ago
When he says "compress," he means "losslessly." A compression which doesn't actually allow you to compute any of the original data is pretty lossy.
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by khafra 15y ago
I had just remarked, the other day, that people obsessed with Chaitin's Omega are much more interesting than people obsessed with Pi.
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by khafra 15y ago
Isaac is up in heaven now.
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by khafra 15y ago
...or that the chat logs being kept secret indefinitely was an important part of the strategy. After all, if the AI exploits some embarassing secret of yours to be let out, that wouldn't work if you knew the logs could be publicized some d
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by khafra 15y ago
The purpose of a credit score is to serve as a discriminatory practice.
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by khafra 15y ago
...and be the guy without a credit history. Pretty high risk; what are you trying to hide?
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by khafra 15y ago
How much are you offering? I know an experienced ruby dev in New Orleans who'd be reluctant to relocate, but everybody has a price.
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by khafra 15y ago
If you're saying logical thinking causes depression, you have the causation backward: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions... For the record, logical, analytic, probabilistically correct thinking is only a way of r
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by khafra 15y ago
Shapley Value to the rescue! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley_value
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by khafra 15y ago
Heh. It wouldn't be perfect. But if the system of N people has C < N people who will make or approve corrupt decisions, and each person had to have 1 randomly chosen person sign off on each possibly corrupt decision, you go from C/N ch
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by khafra 15y ago
If the system were constructed such that it took two persons to make the decision to commit an abuse of power, perhaps it wouldn't be such an abusive system.
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by khafra 15y ago
I usually side with the scientists when they go up against philosophy; but in this case Daniel Dennett's compatibilist position has already taken the scientific evidence into account and come up with a coherent definition and prescriptive a
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by khafra 15y ago
It's plausible, but Yudkowsky has argued against this kind of lying in other contexts. I can't find the reference, but he said something along the lines of: > If you'd lie when the fate of the world is on the line, that's precisely the
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by khafra 15y ago
> the quote above that its actually a good thing to replace StartNow with Babylon He meant it was good for Microsoft to stop paying them to screw people; not good for CNET to keep screwing people in the service of a different client.
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by khafra 15y ago
So, once your niche has sufficiently good software tailored for it, there's no profit in being a developer. That makes sense. Although industry standard tools with scripting environments often have active communities of people developing s
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by khafra 15y ago
It's pretty easy to decouple transportation from what you need transported, without losing value. The author's thesis is that it is impossible to decouple development from what you need developed without losing value. It's not exactly prov
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by khafra 15y ago
Interesting! The response of the press is predictable; but I'm actually very curious what the results will be for the generation raised on probability.
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by khafra 15y ago
> Fasting is really bad for you. Do you have any data on that? Many nutritionists and healthy people are big fans of intermittent fasts.
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by khafra 15y ago
I agree. There's only so far you can go in probability theory without knowing calculus--but learning up to that point in probability is far more useful to 19 out of 20 non-engineers than calculus is.
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by khafra 15y ago
The stronger variant of that argument is, I think, that you don't know how much better you could do your job with math until you know a substantial amount of the math that would improve it. For instance, a large number of doctors tested (in

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