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by mckirk 6y ago
Any plans to add a Paranoid Mode that lets you search for a hash of a phone number (or email address)? I'd imagine that could be more successful on here, heh.
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by mckirk 6y ago
To be honest, the layout of that site does not exactly inspire confidence. But the team is interesting indeed. Incidentally, there's an online SSC meetup with Jaan Tallinn as guest, _today_: https://www.lesswrong.com/ev
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by mckirk 6y ago
That actually nicely illustrates the parallel between AI and compression. An 'almighty' AI would be able to reverse engineer the source code from what it sees and compress it back down to that size. But then it might determine tha
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by mckirk 6y ago
He's a psychiatrist and generally researches everything he writes about quite thoroughly, so I'd be surprised if he had no clue what he's talking about in this case.
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by mckirk 6y ago
How else would you prove it's turing complete and can run Doom?
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by mckirk 6y ago
Damn, that's a good point. I suppose we'd need a small sovereign piece of land for that kind of thing... a kind of micronation, if you will.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I had seen one comment on here suggesting we fly over there and start a Burning Man Middle East[1]. > Days of partying in the desert, opening random containers, driving little excavators. Oh what could have been... [1]: https:/&#x2
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by mckirk 6y ago
I was fully expecting this to be about a micronation founded by the crews of the stranded freighters last week. Wouldn't have been the strangest thing to happen recently.
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by mckirk 6y ago
We should start a new board for grumpy isolationists. You only get to join if you'd really rather not be bothered.
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by mckirk 6y ago
It's strange, when developing C# and the like I'd go crazy without a debugger... and yet, in Python I've hardly ever used one. That might be because it's hard to develop C# without already being in an environment that pu
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by mckirk 6y ago
Best I can do is about tree fiddy.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I suppose the Suez Canal is going to find out what rush-hour traffic is like.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Damnit, I wasn't ready yet! Is it too late to register the 'stuck Evergiven' as my emotional support ship and have them put it back?
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by mckirk 6y ago
Damn, that's really cool! Also, thanks for showing me that YT channel. That soothing voice and the clean style alone makes it worth a subscribe, heh.
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by mckirk 6y ago
> video: the H.264 codec (or MPEG-4 Part 10), once upon a time know in the scene as DIVX. That is incorrect and bothered me enough that I scoured the web trying to find old scene release standards. Fascinatingly, there's a whole Wik
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by mckirk 6y ago
What is the source of that quote?
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by mckirk 6y ago
True, it is not exactly the same, because the wealthier people would probably still benefit disproportionately from most government spending. But by taking wealth out of the system at the top, you at least limit the growth of the divergence
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by mckirk 6y ago
It might be worth pointing out that I'm not the author of that refutation. But I agree that that refutation was itself pretty vague. I was still more irked by the guy being going full Zen-master in the level of clarity of his posts, ca
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by mckirk 6y ago
Ha, that's kinda awesome given the general tone of that site. Hooray for well-executed tech-cynicism.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I'm not sure you'd want to live in that kind of America. We aren't talking about "free riches" here, we are talking about keeping a country and society stable. And I'm convinced you can't do that without k
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by mckirk 6y ago
That was my initial impression of the OP actually, but after looking at [1], it seems they wouldn't have to pay an estate tax at all if the inheritance wasn't worth at least $5.3 million. [1]: https://americansfortaxfai
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by mckirk 6y ago
For some reason I get stuck at the "security check" when clicking that n-gate link -- none of the buttons do anything, which might or might not be the point. Granted, the site was interesting enough that I clicked around until I m
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by mckirk 6y ago
I think the agreed-upon way of handling this is revealing personal opinions on difficult subjects very carefully to gauge the reactions, and only proceeding if doing so wouldn't disturb the peace more than what the discussion would be
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by mckirk 6y ago
On the one hand, it's really frustrating to be in that situation, because the property is clearly already yours. On the other hand, an inheritance tax is one of the few mechanisms I can think of to keep a wealth distribution at least s
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by mckirk 6y ago
He is, though, because his opinion on Santa Claus should be completely irrelevant to his interactions with his co-workers. But if he prioritizes being hostile by correcting and insulting people over being humble and accepting that others mi
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by mckirk 6y ago
Along the same lines, observing how different people react to different psychoactive substances (and talking to them about what they experience) also gives quite valuable insight into the diverse inner lives of people, imo. I also believe t
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by mckirk 6y ago
It might be easier to understand what you're actually saying if it didn't seem like you were being deliberately vague and hand-wavish just to sound sophisticated.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Interesting, what was the reason you experimented with that? And what are the perceived benefits you got from it?
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by mckirk 6y ago
Unless somebody builds a kind of 'pseudo-random-generator' chain where the internal state is huge, changes substantially each tick and is very expensive to compute, so that it becomes infeasible to store or recompute (a large numb
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by mckirk 6y ago
That is always the problem with this fight, yes. In a sense it's a meta-GAN, with other teams building better discriminators that can then be used to further train the generator. This works 'out of the box' if the discriminat

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