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by mckirk 6y ago
If you don't know it yet, listen to '39 by Queen and pay attention to the lyrics -- the meaning of that song certainly caught me off guard the first time I realized it.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I have to admit, I much prefer this approach of "honest abuse" to most sites' business models.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Indeed, but isn't that actually an argument for what constitutes a 'good deed' being highly subjective, since moral frameworks seem to be?
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by mckirk 6y ago
Isn't acting out of a sense of morality the definition of a 'good deed'? Granted, bombing stuff hardly classifies but if you decide it's necessary to bomb something, preventing unnecessary harm for moral reasons could st
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by mckirk 6y ago
Could you give some examples of actually 'worthwhile' right-wing/conservative perspectives? I'm genuinely curious, because it's quite hard to tell whether these views get suppressed in my filter bubble, or if there
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by mckirk 6y ago
The problem is that these simulations are far from perfect, and AIs are great at exploiting paths-of-least-resistance. So you'd end up with an AI that could drive through your virtual city flawlessly by overfitting on some cues that yo
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by mckirk 6y ago
Maybe film some display on the keyboard that changes visually with a button press? That could work for synchronizing.
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by mckirk 6y ago
For a genetic variant like the one described here, there might be a chance -- although getting artificial mRNA to target specific cells in your brain seems like it would be an achievement on the tail end of the development.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Just remember that you're standing on a planet, that's evolving, and revolving at 900 miles an hour...
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by mckirk 6y ago
Huh, TIL. I find "wall-eyed viewing" much more comfortable and defaulted to that, then also wondered why the image didn't seem impressive at all... Never realized there was this difference, though it seems obvious in hindsigh
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by mckirk 6y ago
(The quote is from Office Space, in case anyone else is as lost as I was.)
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by mckirk 6y ago
Are 'boredom', 'lockdown' and 'curiosity whether decisions actually change anything in the world' not good reasons?
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by mckirk 6y ago
Maybe you're thinking of everynoise.com -- probably one of my favorite sites on the net.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Alright, my previous comment was too fuzzy, let me try to be more clear. Directly contrasting a specific "non-white marginalized group" with "all white people" does, for me, evoke the impression as if the assumption was
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by mckirk 6y ago
> ... because he attacks marginalized groups like black runaways rather than white people. That strongly implies that a white person couldn't be marginalized.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I suppose we can be glad that at least the front didn't fall off.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Woah, I hadn't known that! And given that I'm currently staring at Isabelle code most of the day for my Master's thesis at the chair of Prof. Nipkow, it's sightly surreal to learn about this here, heh.
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by mckirk 6y ago
It's possible they just didn't want to get sued by the group for trademark infringement.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I mean, it really shouldn't make sense, because Bitcoin is a completely separate currency from ETH... but it's still way too deeply connected to 'anything crypto' in people's minds, it seems.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I have this audiobook sitting on my virtual shelf waiting to be listened to: 'Breath' by James Nestor. Sounded pretty interesting, might be interesting to you too.
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by mckirk 6y ago
Decades and decades? I wouldn't be so sure in such a bold prediction. One breakthrough in meta-learning and we could be well on our way. (Which is not to say that it will happen next year -- just pointing out that a development like th
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by mckirk 6y ago
Have we all been unwittingly signed up for a spaced repetition study?
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by mckirk 6y ago
I think that's because a) a lot of people nowadays think their feelings hold more importance than somebody else's facts (outrage is a terrible advisor) and b) the facts themselves have become less tangible because there seems to b
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by mckirk 6y ago
I don't think it's that easy. The dopamine-traps of today can hardly be compared to the ones from twenty years ago. Compared to the effort of creating, there's some seriously low hanging fruit these days.
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by mckirk 6y ago
I think it's more the sentiment shown through such actions that is the worrying part. "This is wrong, we need to remove it" is a terrible way of dealing with things/ideas/people you don't agree with.
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by mckirk 6y ago
As a fall-back (in case the universe-destroying resources are busy), you could also sort the list classically if the quantum randomization didn't do it. There'd still be that one lucky-bastard-universe that gets all the sorting do
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by mckirk 6y ago
How, exactly, would a contact tracing app implemented using the currently used protocols pose any threat to your privacy?
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by mckirk 6y ago
On the other hand, every crash we could simulate would be one that the AI should be able to learn to avoid, so it's not very clear if there are scenarios where it makes sense to 'train the driver' instead of the AI directly.
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by mckirk 6y ago
At the danger of going even more off-topic, 'nazism' is a fairly clearly defined far-right ideology. If you are a scam artist preferring to hang out with nazis because they are easy to manipulate, you are pretty scummy, but not au
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by mckirk 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/?title=Reality_has_a_well_known_l... https://medium.com/s/story/why-does-reality-have-a-well-know...

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