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by mundo 9y ago
This hypothesis is somewhat contradicted by the experience of Jack Whittaker[0], whose life quickly descended into a series of legal, financial and personal tragedies after winning $114M, despite being a successful businessman with a net wo
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by mundo 9y ago
Thank you! I actually think HN is fairly immune to clickbait, and a big outlier in terms of quality of discourse, which is why I'm here. Unfortunately, I think the reasons for this tend to be unique to HN's weird status (guerilla
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by mundo 9y ago
Many AI doomsday scenarios, e.g. the "paperclip maximizer", all revolve around a common theme: we build a system to do something innocuous and helpful to humanity, but due to its complexity we unwittingly include a reinforcement m
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by mundo 9y ago
(possibly incomplete, can't get to original) mirror: http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/alice-and-bob
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by mundo 9y ago
I think it's pretty likely that by strong, he meant strong enough to be acted upon, not strong enough to resist persuasion. "All the programming Q&A sites suck, there should be a good one" is a belief many people had, bu
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by mundo 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
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by mundo 9y ago
> Uber's willingness to incur losses in the name of growth What a delightful euphemism for predatory pricing! Supposing the $10 value in the article were changed to $6 or $8 or $12 or whatever the correct value is, do you dispute th
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by mundo 9y ago
This is a vast oversimplification, which only sounds plausible if you pretend that energy production scales linearly with demand. In the real world, if there's a plant producing more than its consumers demand, the reason for the exces
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by mundo 9y ago
And "I'd like to share three lessons I learned while building my startup, which is called ___ and includes innovative features such as ___ and here's where you can sign up for the email list..."
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by mundo 9y ago
Well, of course it's not actually an ad blocker, it's a middle-ground between "ad blocker" and "no ad blocker". And to be fair, that does seem like something that some people are asking for. That said, the sel
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by mundo 9y ago
Not according to the article we're discussing. > In his videos, he analyzes classic and biblical texts, he eviscerates identity politics and political correctness and, most important, he delivers stern fatherly lectures to young me
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by mundo 9y ago
Ugh I didn't scroll down.
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by mundo 9y ago
Is there a transcript or summary? Freemasonry is a fascinating topic with a storied and disputed history, but also a magnet for conspiracy theory lunacy.
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by mundo 9y ago
Neat stuff! The gypsy jazz Zelda theme is really pretty on point. And the "Take 5 drum solo" really does sound like it could be just a chiptuned version of the Take 5 drum solo. I don't see a source link, but it'd be i
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by mundo 9y ago
It is fair to say that the irony was the reason I commented, rather than downvoting and moving on, but the point stands that summarizing a brief, non-technical article distorts the author's views (as Spolsky said, you lose nuance when
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by mundo 9y ago
Perhaps an essay arguing that Twitter flamewars, "...emerged from the fact that we’ve taken a medium, text, which is already bad at conveying emotion and sentiment and high-bandwidth nuance, and [by limiting message length] made it eve
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by mundo 9y ago
I would pay to host a server (in my basement or in the cloud) on which to run a node in a decentralized social network. I might pay a one-time fee to join such a network. I would not pay a monthly fee for it, or for any social netwo
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by mundo 9y ago
> You really wouldn't have a problem with your CEO saying repub voters are subhuman? If Brendan Eich has ever described gay people as subhuman, post a link. If he hasn't, this is a terrible and misleading analogy, and a violat
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by mundo 9y ago
I always do. For mid-to-senior it's more out of curiosity, but for entry-level it can impact my decision, especially for bootcamp grads. I know the prevailing sentiment on HN is sometimes that hiring managers like making candidates
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by mundo 9y ago
This is a reasonable point in the abstract, but it doesn't account for the current reality in which "Look, I found a heretic" affords such outsized rewards in karma (or social cachet, or the personal satisfaction of having ta
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by mundo 9y ago
See, that sounds innocuous enough. Yet, this essay strikes a chord with me as delineating a real and serious problem. Best way I can explain why is an anecdote. The other day, someone asked if anyone could recommend a book on JS, and some
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by mundo 9y ago
The essay was not so much against "life extension is bad" as against "people who think life extension is good are bad."
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by mundo 9y ago
> "cryptocurrencies need to be banned by the loving, paternal, incorruptible government to save the world from ourselves" If you're going to summarize the other side's position, do so in a way that they would agree wi
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by mundo 9y ago
Suppose your town decides the mall is the most important destination in town, and dedicates this year's road budget to a really nice new highway between the mall and the suburb where most the mall shoppers live. What happens to the ro
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by mundo 9y ago
That's because NN is a proxy for what most people really want, which is competition among ISPs. If we had a choice of several good broadband providers, we wouldn't need regulation, we would expect competition among them to prot
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by mundo 9y ago
Analogies only work until they don't. For this one to be applicable, the power company would have to be using the dual-lines to pitch their own (or their partners') ancillary services, or degrading standard service in order to pu
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by mundo 9y ago
I don't think it's being hated on because HN is closed-minded, I think it's being hated on because it's half-baked. After Bob and Alice get done exchanging coins to prove the concept, where would they actually spend the
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by mundo 9y ago
Can you revoke trust? If the answer is no, what happens when a scam account is discovered? They get to just keep mining new coins forever and passing them to the people unwise enough to trust the account before it was discovered to be fake
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by mundo 9y ago
I find "killer robots destroy the world" a lot easier to imagine than "all humans collectively agree to adopt common-sense safeguards on AI research even though they limit potential corporate profits".
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by mundo 9y ago
a) If it can't surprise you, it's not really intelligent b) If it can surprise you, it can do so negatively That's all you need to demonstrate that the danger exists , that an AI can mis-use the tools you give to it. The si

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