maaku

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by maaku 12y ago
Loved the distributed systems book. It is just sad that field has not left academia yet. We should be in a world where every programmer should know the contents of that book, instead of reinventing the wheel as we are doing now.
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by maaku 12y ago
Maybe. If the machine shared your values.
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by maaku 12y ago
Step 4 is not at all obvious and would require some significant justification. General intelligence is, well, general . My primate brain may not be able at all to intuit what it is like to move on a 7-dimensional hyper-surface in an 11-dim
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by maaku 12y ago
Awesome :)
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by maaku 12y ago
It's a terrible metaphor, or at least it argues against your own position. If flying cars were in fact something on the horizon, we would need discussions about air spaces, commute lanes, and traffic rules. Otherwise lethal mid-air col
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by maaku 12y ago
Well, color me disappointed. I think there are many arguments against the viewpoints of MIRI and Bostrom, both discrediting the perceived risk of super-intelligences and the the idea that we could build a "provably friendly" alter
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by maaku 12y ago
> That said, you put it exactly right. The arguments about the potential long-term risk are persuasive regardless of where we are today. It bothers me to see this argument ignored time and time again. Actually I am almost completely unpe
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by maaku 12y ago
I'm more in your camp than MIRI's but... Could you argue against the position directly? You kinda took a swerve in the middle there. Bostrom, Yudkowsky, and Barrat's positions are basically "superintelligence is possible
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by maaku 12y ago
Do you know there is a field studying general artificial intelligence? They have a conference[1], journal[2], and a slew of competing architectures. What you've basically described is that mainstream "AI" is actually quite di
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by maaku 12y ago
You would get more out of it having had the back story of at least watching the first movie (it's only 3rs). But the Yudkowsky version of it stands on its own.
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by maaku 12y ago
What original plot? It's basically one story from start to finish. Are you talking about the Rowling books?
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by maaku 12y ago
The fuel process used by nearly every reactor in existence is used specifically because it can provide weapons-grade material. It is not the reaction chain you would choose if you were merely interested in generating electricity. Besides th
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by maaku 12y ago
To visit the area surrounding Fukushima you need a rad-protected hazmat suit, because apparently the contamination is so bad as to be deemed unsafe for unprotected humans. Yet if you pulled out a Geiger counter outside of the plant itself,
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by maaku 12y ago
I would lambast anyone who leaves a top-tier university for the Thiel fellowship, regardless of whether they are financially successful or not.
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by maaku 12y ago
Most google code projects don't use git.
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by maaku 12y ago
> It could have been embedded into applications such as office suites, giving you collaboration and communication right inside the app. You mean like google docs?
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by maaku 12y ago
What do Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood have to do with Github?
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by maaku 12y ago
It's Bayesian evidence that the subject might be more complex, yes.
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by maaku 12y ago
No, it hasn't. The two diverge greatly over long windows.
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by maaku 12y ago
Licensing engines was insanely lucrative, until Unity. Then everything changed -- you could go out and get a good engine with decent framework tools for a few hundred bucks. Why pay six figures up front and X% of revenue when a few hundred
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by maaku 12y ago
I remember the Costco on in Santa Clara near the Alameda had pneumatic tubes back in the 80's and 90's when I was growing up. Looking back I think they were used for exchanging cash between registers, and submitting requests for e
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by maaku 12y ago
No I do not understand the comparison. Java's syntax, virtual machine, libraries, everything is orders of magnitude more complex than the erlang stack. And indeed, proper introduction and reference of Java can fill a whole bookshelf,
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by maaku 12y ago
GSoC != intern.
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by maaku 12y ago
It's meant to be for CS students.
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by maaku 12y ago
Yes, Java is orders of magnitude more complex than erlang. What kind of comparison were you trying to make?
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by maaku 12y ago
This isn't an ETF.
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by maaku 12y ago
For some problems. Not for others.
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by maaku 12y ago
No, that would be an incorrect reference: it wasn’t about money issues at all. Not directly. You see, when you are bootstrapping your revenue is contingent on making deliverables, getting customers (or in my case, donors), and otherwise doi
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by maaku 12y ago
I did the quit and focus thing. It ended up working out, but just barely. I was underwater for a while and my marriage about to fall apart.. I'm not sure I'd recommend the same path even though it did have a happy ending (co-found
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by maaku 12y ago
At the expense of lower validation speed and requiring every higher level protocol using the signatures to be aware of whatever signing scheme you are using.

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