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by maxander 9y ago
Ah, you're right- I shouldn't post at 3 AM. That really only brings things down to my second point, though- the developer just needs to finagle a sizeable amount of cash at one time, with the guarantee of getting it back afterward
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by maxander 9y ago
Buterin is in danger of becoming a parody of himself. I literally thought this was satire for several paragraphs, before glancing up at the byline. A DAICO is a merger of two dubious ideas, and inherits the flaws of each. It has DAO probl
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by maxander 9y ago
If you’re buying from yourself, things are very cheap- spend the money you just paid yourself for the first batch of coin to buy the second, repeat as required to own 51%. Perhaps thus could be partially circumvented by requiring the sale o
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by maxander 9y ago
> Wray said the bureau was unable to gain access to the content of 7,775 devices in fiscal 2017 — more than half of all the smartphones it tried to crack in that time period — despite having a warrant from a judge. So if 7,775 is "m
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by maxander 9y ago
> If we can't notice the malicious code at all until due to really really smart activation mechanisms... well then we're in NSA conspiracy land again. What about really dumb activation methods? I.e., a condition that only trig
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by maxander 9y ago
And all this is happening just as after the public release of a serious exploit which allows malicious code to do all sorts of nefarious things when it is somehow installed on the target machine . Hmm. Given that there's hints, at le
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by maxander 9y ago
> Going with your analogy, this would be like training a net using a database of lock structures and their corresponding keys, and then having it predict a key for a given lock. If we have that, then the problem is entirely trivial- just
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by maxander 9y ago
> In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a blood clot in his brain. While the movie may be still be fiction, researchers at Caltech are making s
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by maxander 9y ago
If someone invents a machine that does some necessary consumer-level work (say, a washing machine) and the result is not increased leisure, something is Very Wrong. Sure, we could spend the time we save doing dishes on productive labor,
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by maxander 9y ago
The fundamental problem with AI (here meaning, neural-network based applications) applied to biology is that pattern recognition doesn't get you very far. When designing a small molecule drug, for example, the goal is to find a mole
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by maxander 9y ago
I'm surprised by this, since I was coming in here to say "AI in bio research is mostly a dead-end, except perhaps for NLP paper-mining stuff." I can see how medical applications would be tricky (since the field is covered
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by maxander 9y ago
Will you be buying Intel-based machines? Or will you be running a hybrid-architecture cluster now? I don’t know very much about computing on that scale, but I wonder if all the people selling off Intel stock are thinking this story through
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by maxander 9y ago
If someone has a reasonably high-level position in a major medical services organization, and wants to help us advance as a species, here's something to push for; get your company to throw out all its fax machines. Every office in the
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by maxander 9y ago
> whoever the members of our profession are who are building those systems are doing a crap job. They're doing an excellent job, probably producing a level of functionality comparable to Amazon web developers or Oracle database wr
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by maxander 9y ago
> So somehow, sometime, we have to stop relying on income-tax, and start relying on some kind of productivity tax instead, and forge a new social contract based on that. I don't think that's actually true, absent tax evasion.
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by maxander 9y ago
"We're having issues with users forgetting their login password. We could implement password-recovery protocols to solve this on a case-by-case basis, but it's much more efficient to solve these issues once and for all by el
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by maxander 9y ago
That the FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine is technically true- doctors can and do use (approved) medicines for non-approved uses. But as you also mention, this informal, "non-evidence based" approach has downsides s
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by maxander 9y ago
Ack, forgot to add the link- [1] was meant to link to https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/sepsis-cure-ne... . I couldn’t find a comprehensive treatment of the broader issue on a quick check- I suspe
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by maxander 9y ago
If a philanthropist wants to aim a lot of money at biomedical research, there's many good ways to do it, but I think the most high-impact, lowest-risk would be to fund clinical trials for non-patentable interventions. There are plenty
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by maxander 9y ago
One reason and one only- to make it easier to sell user information. OKC has detailed, directly-stayed information on all its users’ likes and dislikes, of a sort second second only to that generated by Facebook ( maybe .). If they (or som
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by maxander 9y ago
Your taxes also help pay for the education of millions of children, among other things, so there’s that. More to the point, your objection has some merit- but if you (or anyone else reading this) feels that way, are you protesting or otherw
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by maxander 9y ago
The brilliant thing is, if the author controls the host server of this article and it gets near the top of Google results for its title, watching the article hit-rate [1] should be a neat way of predicting the inevitable bitcoin crash! Pro
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by maxander 9y ago
The relative narrative coherence and the use of the term “predictive keyboards” instead of Markov-somethings has me fairly convinced this was actually just written by a human. Still funny, though.
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by maxander 9y ago
Makes sense- for a prehistoric adult, with very little cultural guidance to go on, to be able to empathize at all with a tiny version of him/her-self, it would probably be crucial to be able to remember a time when they themselves were
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by maxander 9y ago
I think your two points explain each other- there’s just so much general reckless malarkey going on in finance already, that banks don’t see the point in even thinking about a risk that involves less than half a trillion dollars. Bitcoin is
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by maxander 9y ago
You could argue that behind the brain of a chess master is also a “series of rules and heuristics”, but as this series may be infinitely long and isn’t feasibly determinable it’s difficult to say in what sense that’s actually true. Further
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by maxander 9y ago
And a bank run can’t occur in a 120B market? Or commodities worth 120B can’t be shorted? What?
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by maxander 9y ago
Meanwhile a human player considers <1 position per second, so there’s a few orders of magnitude left to go in that direction. But unsettlingly few, nonetheless.
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by maxander 9y ago
Clarify? I can’t say the market capitalization of Bitcoin off the top of my head, but neither can I tell whether you think I’m making it out to be higher or lower than it is.
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by maxander 9y ago
Not as long as they own a lot of the coin itself, no. If any of these miners sells their stake, freak out immediately since their next step would be to short bitcoin through some means before causing a value crash. And you’ve also got to

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