natosaichek

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by natosaichek 7y ago
No it will not. If you attach a fan to a derby car and point it backwards, the car will move forwards. If you redirect the fan so it's pointing forward, the car will move backwards. If you put a sail in the way, the car will move back
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by natosaichek 7y ago
That's like saying a lions chance against humans is the big teeth. It's dangerous in a particular context, sure, but misses the fundamental assymmetry that took humans from scared or lions to existential threat to lions.
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by natosaichek 7y ago
As long as that activity is part of the training corpus for the neural interpreter it shouldn't be a problem. Just make sure you put in controls during training links any other machine learning system.
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by natosaichek 7y ago
A human contains code that can recreate a complete model of that human.... Maybe you're saying that a human can't fit into a human? I agree it's not a paradox, but not for the reasons you seem to be implying.
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by natosaichek 7y ago
Video of employees walking out of the building: https://twitter.com/sallyshin/status/1121854424727425024
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by natosaichek 8y ago
Spit on the candle. Grab the rope in your teeth and just hang on until rescue comes. Lure another animal over with mating calls to distract / feed the lion. Swing back and forth by wiggling your feet and neck at the appropriate rate t
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by natosaichek 8y ago
I think you mean Adrian Tchaikovsky, right? Peter was a great composer of music, but not SF. Where would you recommend someone start with Adrian Tchaikovsky?
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by natosaichek 8y ago
However, voltages, ion channels and chemical messengers have the same problem as math. They are abstract and relational, unlike the concrete qualities of experiencing color, pain, a dream, etc. So I doubt that any amount of neurons will d
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by natosaichek 8y ago
what about suicidal people? Are you saying they are not consious? Artifical agents _might_ have goals preprogrammed by humans, but I don't see that as a prerequesite for intelligence or self awareness.
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by natosaichek 8y ago
I disagree with basically everything you just said. An AI might not have a goal. If it did, its happiness may or may not be related to the distance from the goal. It might not evaluate every situation and action with regard to it's (p
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by natosaichek 8y ago
a lawyer. (facepalm)
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by natosaichek 8y ago
I had a friend who worked at Theranos who has trouble finding work because he was there for 3 years.
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by natosaichek 8y ago
Anything you can do in space would be cheaper on earth. So rather than shading the pole by spreading ~100,000 sq. km of material in orbit, instead ask why we wouldn't spread the same shade cloth / reflective mylar etc. on the sur
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by natosaichek 8y ago
>The cost to move a cubic yard of soil is rather well known for a given area Given traditional technologies and techniques > Labor costs are well established Primarily for union labor using traditional tools and techniques. When space
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by natosaichek 8y ago
what would be stupid about them sending someone a copy of their article for free?
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by natosaichek 8y ago
If you need to downlink data every minute, stations must be spaced around the earth such that every satellite passes over a groundstation every minute. LEO orbital period is about 100 minutes, so with a circumference of 25000 miles, ground
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by natosaichek 8y ago
The largest earth-imaging constellation in the world can image the planet every day. Getting the data to the ground is a challenge, so my understanding is that they don't bother transmitting images obscured by clouds, or images of emp
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by natosaichek 8y ago
What do you mean? You don't think such a system is practical, or you don't think such a system is technologically feasible? Or you just don't understand the system I'm describing?
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by natosaichek 8y ago
I could imagine a secure location service that allows your phone to compare its current expected position with other nearby phones' expectations of their positions. If it's over bluetooth or wifi, the positions should be within m
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by natosaichek 8y ago
When I ordered a set of magnets, it did come with a bright warning ( https://images1.westword.com/imager/one-of-the-warning-label... )
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by natosaichek 8y ago
I saw an argument not long ago that the revolving door ensures more rigorous review of the regulated company. Basically, domain experts are hired out of a regulatory agency if they demonstrate their domain expertise by being a competent reg
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by natosaichek 8y ago
The challenge is removing heat. Putting things in a vacuum chamber doesn't make them colder - vacuum is actually a pretty good insulator, so you'd need some mechanism to get the heat out of there with9out using air. If you go the
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by natosaichek 9y ago
> winners will receive some pretty cool trophies.
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by natosaichek 9y ago
I don't want anyone to suffer. I'm pointing out that if people kill their company, they'll be out of a job. If you think the analogy is inaccurate, I invite you to explain how what the union is doing is _not_ parasitic, rath
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by natosaichek 9y ago
I mentally struggled while making the choice to use that phrase. I don't think any of the individuals want to be a parasite. I think they want to be valuable and rewarded for the value they add. There's nothing wrong with wanting
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by natosaichek 9y ago
Buggy whip makers tell buggy mfgs "No motors, no batteries, no gasoline" Seriously, do the teamsters not realize that if they cripple UPS's ability to compete that they'll just all be out of a job suddenly when UPS gets
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by natosaichek 9y ago
Here's an article on the same topic but with no login required. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/24/labor-teamsters-want-to-ban-...
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by natosaichek 9y ago
Well, It assumes that the amount of delta you can create in the transmitted image is sufficiently large that you can discern it from other sources of random variation in the image. So if the drone is moving around dramatically and there are
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by natosaichek 9y ago
I've played thousands of games of go. I understand go strategy. I don't understand the interface.
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by natosaichek 9y ago
Is there a way to do anything other than just run through this single opening set of moves? Not a lot of exploration here, or ability to 'find new and creative ways of playing go' Or am I missing something?

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