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by lz400 9y ago
Anybody knows if they are going to release a new surface book too?
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by lz400 9y ago
Fascinating, thanks for the answers. The bot improvements in the last few months have been so radical I can't begin to imagine how much it must be disrupting the strategic landscape and player status.
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes I didn't know that, wow 50-0! I mean, is there any doubt at this point that it will be dominant at longer times too? and the bots don't play each other?
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by lz400 9y ago
Still, seems playing humans is no longer very exciting. To me at least the interesting part is whether a company like Tencent can start after AlphaGo and still produce a better product than the arguably most recognized AI group in the wor
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by lz400 9y ago
In the other thread some people mentioned that Je Kie has already lost twice, 14-7 and 13-0, to another Go bot called FineArt (by Tencent)? odd that didn't get any exposure while everyone is watching this game so attentively. Assuming
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't disagree with that, but they are not incompatible measures. If it was up to me, military spending would be slashed, taxation loopholes closed and healthcare and other welfare programs revised to be more efficient. Profitable co
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by lz400 9y ago
First, elderly healthcare is 34% of healthcare spending in the US (and healthcare is 16% of GDP) so it isn't be 20% of all economic activity in the US. And US healthcare is very expensive compared to other countries. Second, seems to w
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by lz400 9y ago
I agree that corporations behave rationally avoiding tax. I agree it's the government's (global gov not just US) fault. I agree it's a complex problem because it probably needs a global, not local/nation level solution.
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes. I'm not sure what your point is. Do you mean "they already pay a lot of tax!". I think things like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement Point to the fact that global corporat
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by lz400 9y ago
US Corporate profits are about 1.6 trillion, total national budget is 3.8 trillion. Looks very comparable numbers, don't they? And this is profit, after everyone already got paid and all the tricks have been performed in the books.
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by lz400 9y ago
Perhaps it would be sustainable if most of the wealth wasn't going to a few people with little redistribution. I'm not even talking about communism, just fair taxation and contributing and no loop holes (double irish tricks and th
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by lz400 9y ago
Ok so we are talking about colleges that are so bad they don't let you get accreditation for important professions. Not sure if it's what I'm thinking about, but are those the "community colleges", liberal arts univ
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by lz400 9y ago
Depends on how you define poor but in Europe lower class families with no studies sending their children to become doctors or engineers is commonplace (without grants, students that are not super high achievers). In USA as far as I can see
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by lz400 9y ago
In theory the poor (should) pay less taxes. In practice, I'm telling you, in Europe taxes pay for free education and social equality is higher than in the US and access to education (and healthcare) much better.
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by lz400 9y ago
The most prestigious schools in the most difficult degrees might be difficult if you are a crappy student. That's probably for the best. If the US can you study in one of those "tuition mill" schools and become a doctor or an
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by lz400 9y ago
I don't think that's true. Can anyone become a doctor? Where I studied as long as you passed the entrance bar, you can. In big cities there are usually several public universities, some more prestigious perhaps, with a low score y
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by lz400 9y ago
The best starting point is for people to agree that student loans are way past stupid at this point and a solution is needed and other countries seem to be doing well with gov run education. If everyone thought like that, things would pro
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by lz400 9y ago
When I studied you had to pass an exam. Certain subjects had a very high bar. For example civil engineering. Can't get it without top grades and top results in the exam. Apart from that, some degrees had very low acceptance scores and
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by lz400 9y ago
Certainly not overnight but you can start somewhere . Look, it works in most of the first world. Many comments are trying so hard to convince us that "in America is different" from their armchairs. It's like people try to co
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by lz400 9y ago
Yes, the state via taxes, where incentives are (or at least have a possibility to be aligned with) quality, equality and cost efficiency, not profit.
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by lz400 9y ago
And I have seen robots that answer carefully worded questions by their creators, does it mean robots can talk? I think it will be easy to get to the 80-90% but the last bits are going to kill this. Bad weather conditions, night, extreme sit
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by lz400 9y ago
I truly don't understand the USA sometimes. Don't you guys know that in Europe higher education is free? Well where I'm from there was a very low nominal cost but my father was a public servant so cost was waived, I literally
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by lz400 9y ago
I can't prove it but I will say 10x your prediction, between 20 and 50 years to get a real self driving car, a car with no wheel, fully automated. Maybe 10 years to have automated highway-only trucks. I think expectations are completel
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by lz400 9y ago
So much negativity in the comments. I don't think he'd be ready for the presidency but if we starts a public service career based on decent opinions and policies, augmented by his wealth and reach so he doesn't need to sell o
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by lz400 10y ago
I think a few stock pickers are really good at their jobs while a lot of others are mediocre to plain bad. The problem is that the ones that are consistently good are usually boutique hedge funds not open for normal people, some of them lik
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by lz400 10y ago
Yes you can argue science is part of philosophy, all is. I don't disagree. But there's been a divergence of not in principle, in practice. Philosophy departments and science departments barely talk in my opinion. 50 years ago it w
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by lz400 10y ago
Science also doesn't rely only on the scientific method. It relies mainly on maths and logic. Here both philosophy and science meet. What I mean is that every time this debate happens it's the same a lot of "what do you mean
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by lz400 10y ago
Not all do, but I'd say there's a real disconnect between the disciplines when there should be more teamwork. If Philosophy is going to argue that the scientific method doesn't work, or that the world doesn't exist, we c
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by lz400 10y ago
For the existence and coexistence they amount to the same. There are galaxies now that will leave our co-existance in the future and still exist. Disproves that existence implies co-existence.
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by lz400 10y ago
Science regularly demolishes science too, of course. Scientists don't have a problem with thatm they just move on. But in my opinion philosophers do. I know philosophy is extremely rigorous. Science is fiddly, it works in approximation

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