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by meric 11y ago
I second his anecdote. Have received large raises twice, but had to negotiate hard for it, with offers from outside in hand.
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by meric 11y ago
On the off-chance they're doing that because your performance is abysmal and you haven't improved enough from their informal intervention, if in PIP you managed to finally recover your performance, maybe they will let you stay a b
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by meric 11y ago
Yeah, definitely insist on a full salary. Structure the extra portion as a loan from the company that you only need to pay back if and when the options vest. That way if you're let go before the options vest, you worked a year with ful
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by meric 11y ago
You could always play hard ball in negotiations and insist you receive market salary plus a little extra for working in a risky company. Could work if you're that good. Then invest that money as an angel in other companies or buy stock
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by meric 11y ago
Hey, at least you got cash for them. :)
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by meric 11y ago
A computer's components doesn't need constant monitoring. They're monitored by humans - if the CD rom drive breaks down, a human will fix it. If an animal gets hurt, it's nervous system will pick it up and do the managem
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by meric 11y ago
I think you two are mixing up founders and employees. It would be immoral for a founder to leave the company to start another one after taking in investors money promising them he will work hard. It would be immoral for an employee to agree
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by meric 11y ago
Well, I guess I'm glad the investors found Will Wright. SimCity 2k & SimAnt & The Sims & SimIsle & SimFarm & SimTower were and still are great games.
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by meric 11y ago
The machine could manipulate humans to help it become self-repairing. Otherwise I agree with you, it's very slim in the next few decades, notably less slim over the next thousand years.
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by meric 11y ago
It's fair to expect too - these days AI can't exist without human beings, so I guess if someone is extrapolating AI in the future, it's instinct to use the present as baseline.
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by meric 11y ago
The goal of many religions also happens to help it's followers lead a peaceful life, and you're right certain questions are ultimately disruptive, and that's exactly why many religions are vague on certain questions - they di
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by meric 11y ago
Don't worry about the kid, by the time he's 18 the bubble would have popped. Don't worry about not having anything for the kid to invest in. There's always assets undervalued out there. Right now it's precious metal
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by meric 11y ago
Whether the critics are aware of how central banking works, central banks are losing credibility. They've tried everything in Japan & Europe, getting governments trillions into debt, and now they want to go negative interest rates.
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by meric 11y ago
If they could delay your job starting date like that, what are they going to do with your promotions, raises, etc? Find another job.
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by meric 11y ago
>> It would be an incredible coincidence that, at the end of six months of training, the computer happened to be of comparable skill to humans. I don't think it's that incredible - By 18 years old a significant proportion o
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by meric 11y ago
Correction: for a more risky outcome should be for a less risky outcome
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by meric 11y ago
The media has hyped up Mayer and Elizabeth Holmes too much, so much so now that their companies are embroiled in difficulties they're still the first female CEO's I can think of, when there are better examples where the female CEO
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by meric 11y ago
AlphaGo kept making bad moves in such a way the rest of the game becomes more and more predictable - each of the moves Lee Sedol makes could be described as the only obvious one. On the surface, as an analogy, it sounds like investors in fi
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by meric 11y ago
The bigger the game board, the more possible states, the better chance a human player has against the AI. Is this the same heuristic in play here - Play a game with more unknowns, gain an edge?
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by meric 11y ago
If that's the future, then I'd say AI companies should have to be at least 49% owned by a trust fund in which every citizen automatically has a share.
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by meric 11y ago
I was rooting for her. So much so I bought gobs of Yahoo stock when Marissa got the job. The stock didn't do too bad but when it was apparent she wasn't able to save the company I sold it for a profit. Still hoping she can turn Ya
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by meric 11y ago
I should have rephrased it to include only people who enjoy raising children. For those people, it's OK not to be maximally productive. It's ok to not want to outsource raising a child by strangers.
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by meric 11y ago
Are you OK? You seemed like a cool guy in the who's hiring comment but in this thread you sound nuts. Look for help if you need it.
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by meric 11y ago
I play against the computer in a variety of games for fun, I'm sure Ke would play Go with one for pretty much the same reason.
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by meric 11y ago
How long have they had them for?
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by meric 11y ago
Good article. I'd like to nitpick, rich != power, just because you're rich does not mean you can hire people to steal gold violently for you. For that, you need followers. Without followers and having lots of gold just makes you a
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by meric 11y ago
I'm not sure I'd like a coin that has high chemical reactivity. They got that part right.
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by meric 11y ago
Let's say you got a date with a girl. Instead of a date you could have been programming making $100 per hour instead. The date costs you money. Would you outsource the date to your friend who will go in your stead with the girl, so you
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by meric 11y ago
Is anyone surprised? Don't use electronic messaging to tell people you're holding cash, bring a cheque at least. The cops are going to find out and your cash is going to be confiscated.
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by meric 11y ago
??? "According to the pace of AI's progress, it won't be long for AlphaGo to beat all human players, it may happen a few years later, even a few months later," added Ke.

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