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451.
by maaku 11y ago
Uh, no. MWI and Copenhagen make different predictions. It just requires a reversible quantum computer to test. It is possible to distinguish which is true but it may take a few generations of experiment.
452.
by maaku 11y ago
I don't know about Frege, by why wouldn't it? Being able to call out over FFI or the Java equivalent is a pretty standard feature.
453.
by maaku 11y ago
He's not including inflation. The S&P 500 achieves that. Vanguard total stock market does better.
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by maaku 11y ago
> In practice, we don't know if miners would actually include cheap transactions if it makes their blocks significantly bigger. Their incentives seem to be against it, since bigger blocks have higher orphan rates. This is incorrect
455.
by maaku 11y ago
> Bitcoin's only real-world use case is illicit goods. Please get up to date with things. Bitcoin is huge in the remittance world, and bitcoin-like technology is being tentatively explored in all realms of financial technology.
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by maaku 11y ago
> Bitcoin will die the moment someone figures out how to build a decentralized crypto-currency that doesn't need a stupid idea like "mining" to be functional and secure. Yup. But I wouldn't hold my breath. No one has
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by maaku 11y ago
Because lowering the interblock time has a more detrimental effects, and raising it has more beneficial effects. To achieve maximum scalability you actually want the longest possible interblock time you can stand. 10 minutes is actually alr
458.
by maaku 11y ago
Pretty sure you're still giving it to the NSA too.
459.
by maaku 11y ago
I assume he meant yuan.
460.
by maaku 11y ago
Is it opposite day? You seem to mean <20ms right?
461.
by maaku 11y ago
Now ask yourself how decisions are made regarding new infrastructure deployments. But what I actually had in mind was QoS.
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by maaku 11y ago
Intel may have to find a different niche. Their Xeon Phi approach to parallelism is very interesting, speaking as someone dabbling in AGI, but is not comparably well suited for deep learning.
463.
by maaku 11y ago
Basically everything you interact with on a daily basis involves (deep) machine learning. Everything from advertising to logistics to drug discovery to credit evaluations to packet routing on the internet either involves deep learning in it
464.
by maaku 11y ago
given that by random chance the first decoding was 32-bytes, the same size as a bitcoin private key, the actual decoding was a bit of a let down :(
465.
by maaku 11y ago
With the title I was expecting Paul Graham to have written an article on Cryonics and the need for donations to SENS :\
466.
by maaku 11y ago
where did you pull that from?
467.
by maaku 11y ago
You're not alone, I'd feel the same way. I value my independence as an individual too much to appreciate being part of something larger.
468.
by maaku 11y ago
Um, a multi megaton nuke of the city center would have the same effect or worse.
469.
by maaku 11y ago
What does that even mean? If I were to add up every single transaction involving USD, what percentage do you think would be HFT and other Wall St speculation?
470.
by maaku 11y ago
Because it saves lives.
471.
by maaku 11y ago
> There is a growing need for Human's to work Lesser Hours going forward rather than more Hours. Or fewer humans working more hours?
472.
by maaku 11y ago
If an astronomer picks up a radio signal it is extremely obvious whether it is an artificial source or not. Natural sources have very inefficient spectra of very specific types. Artificial sources have very clear frequency cutoffs, having c
473.
by maaku 11y ago
They can see stars. There wouldn't be stars in a type 2 civilization. There would be amorphous blackbody spectra which we do not see.
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by maaku 11y ago
I think you are completely misunderstanding the point. He have to vent heat somehow in the most efficient ways of doing so are not natural in their spectra. An encrypted radio transmission is still perfectly detectable -- you may not know w
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by maaku 11y ago
And also doesn't want to use any resources, or perform any heat-generating computation?
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by maaku 11y ago
We have sensitive telescopes. If there was life out there, we would have noticed. You would have astronomy conferences filled with people trying to figure out what all these weird spectra objects are, or trying to decipher all these structu
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by maaku 11y ago
If there was an intelligent life form, like humans, it would have expanded into the cosmos and colonized the entire galaxy within only a million years of developing technology. Since we don't see traces of them everywhere, we must pres
478.
by maaku 11y ago
Eh, I guess it's a matter of personal perspective. Anything in a hallucination is a hallucination. It's not constraint to conform to reality. For something to be REAL and weird automatically puts it on another level.
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by maaku 11y ago
And now you've gotten everyone who didn't know to google it :P
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by maaku 11y ago
It's pretty atypical to pay rent via credit card (without insane unjustifiable fees) in the US too.

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