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by lopmotr 7y ago
> real meatspace! I'm doing something like this as a hobby but only single agent. The input is camera images and reward is based on a stopped/moving flag determined by changes between successive images as well as favoring going
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by lopmotr 7y ago
To stop questioning something is to turn it into a religious belief. Then there's no way to know how valid it is.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why not leave that to the justice system instead of an angry mob? Why should people be held accountable by a mob? That's a horrible state that I had thought civilization had finally climbed out of, but it's back again with interne
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by lopmotr 7y ago
While I don't know about this case, a common problem with people arguing right/wrong and legal/illegal is that one side picks right/wrong and the other picks legal/illegal and they talk past each other. If the law h
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I'd say that title goes to intelligence, which can't be trained so people are going to consistently have either a lot or a little their whole working life. Technology is progressively taking away the ability of low IQ people to do
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by lopmotr 7y ago
For some reason, Americans keep complaining about the same problems with their government over and over again - particularly lobbying, and yet every election they nearly universally reject all their concerns in favor of tribalism and vote f
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I see, it's more amazing than my simple examples. But why is it more amazing as this presumably uninteresting series I just made up sum(n=1...infinity, 1/2^n - 1/(2^n+1)) That also has alternating terms that grow differently
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Yea, it's one thing to cancel out perfectly in theory but sums of numbers with big differences in magnitude aren't great for numerical stability.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That doesn't really show that it's amazing. You could say the same about x-x=0, even for large x. Or about any converging series. Unless all of that is amazing too - I wouldn't know, not being a mathematician.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
None of those things are really private anyway. Private investigators, police, or stalkers can follow people from their house to wherever they go, and can identify you by your car's appearance even without the license plate. The differ
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Put your secret places inside private property with privacy protection. Prostitutes in hotels, and gambling in the back of a shop, for instance.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The problem there is the police using bad processes. That's not insolvable. Courts already have processes to protect against some of that cherry picking and prosecutor's fallacy type stuff. Avoiding technology doesn't seem li
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Huh? The whole reason license plates exist is to be read. What makes a machine reading it always immoral compared to a human? Particularly the police identifying vehicles they're searching for. Why shouldn't they use technology to
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by lopmotr 7y ago
This sounds kind of like the simplified English used on aeroplanes [1] except more formal and less for humans to write. That leads to signs like "no step" instead of "don't stand on this". [1] https://en.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
A lot of people seem to be reading something else into my comment so this is sort of a reply to all of them. The images in Every Frame a Painting are almost entirely other people's work. I'm not saying it's not legal fair use
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Only if you're using other people's work. Make your own original content and there isn't nearly as much of a problem. Who says everyone should have the right to profit off somebody else's work? especially one that's
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Nuclear bomb rockets would probably do https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Not all immigrants are equal. Obviously when they're selected for employability as professionals, the results will be good. New Zealand once took a lot of pacific island immigrants which were needed as labor for the protected auto indu
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's already pretty true for many types of resources. Electronics, software, music, plastic parts. All sorts of things cost practically zero today compared to, say, 100 years ago when they required much more labor to produce or didn&#x
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I used to believe free labor markets between countries was a good idea until I realized that it also comes with a free social welfare "market". Nobody wants to let people in their country starve to death in the streets, so they&#x
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Do you have a reference for that 50C summer within the century or is it just made up? It's way higher than I've heard of unless they'll live in a place that's already getting almost that hot anyway - in which case they c
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Even without legal protection for industrial action, the whole point of striking is that the employer can't handle it in the normal way because there are too many of them. Do they all get a written warning and then fired next day they
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The article points out that most extinctions happen on islands which are tiny compared to the world, and that it's mostly over because we've finished importing rats/etc to those islands and started protecting them. It might b
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I agree that it's uncertainty of what the climate will do that's why it's serious. But alarmists don't say that. They're somehow certain there will be a disaster. There might not, and we're not sure, but they&#
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What's wrong with a charity accepting donations from someone naughty? It doesn't make them complicit in their offences. Criminals often donate money to charities and victims in an effort to get reduced sentences, at least in my co
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Yet almost everyone keeps on voting for the same people to run the country. They mostly believe keeping the enemy other party out of power is more important than all of the other problems combined. Either that or they don't vote which
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What's strange is that stuff gets imported and sold in the west. It used to be illegal and you couldn't get pirate products in shops but now Amazon somehow just does it flagrantly. Doesn't customs ever seize a container of ca
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Artificial memories in humans have already been done. In the 1980's there was an epidemic of psychologists implanting memories of sexual abuse in children who grew up believing they had actually been abused.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Most other countries don't have such a monopoly on being the best place to go to. For an engineer or scientist at least, America is often where your career can go the furthest. It seems a bit non-straightforward that the right of a pri
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The entire library is only 100 lines of code, so you could copy and paste its own source.

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