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by neonbat 11y ago
Superintelligence by definition does a better job. Think of it this way: You're a human; how good are you at walking from point A to point B? You're actually quite good at it. You open up google maps (a human invention) and walk t
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by neonbat 11y ago
Ok, fine. PLATO was a super cool more generalist machine that happens to not be a personal computer. My use of personal computers was just an example that I thought would get a point across about the evolution of technology. The fact that
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by neonbat 11y ago
Yeah I thought about that when I was writing the reply. I don't really consider that a generalized use case. Is it more generalized? Yes. Computing itself, however, can be argued to be a specialized task. My computer today doesn't
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by neonbat 11y ago
I agree; that is part of his argument. Obviously though it is a completely flawed argument. Up until the creation of the personal computer most machines were specialists. They were large computers designed for specific computation tasks or
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by neonbat 11y ago
Oates' argument generally seems to be "It won't be scary because it won't be." He rejects the premise of Musk, Gates, etc. He basically says we won't be able to build a superhuman AI. All his arguments are then
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by neonbat 11y ago
This is clearly a superior format for explaining papers. Research should be accessible and it isn't. It really doesn't make much sense to have the academic profession riddled with "abstractese." That is, language that ev
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by neonbat 11y ago
Yeah I just thought it was kind of funny that he included a scenario where someone would desire to shoot him down.
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Darknet robot has a taste for MDMA and Hungarian passports(belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
1 points by neonbat 11y ago|0 comments
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by neonbat 11y ago
This was on his website. "Let them know you demand an honest government that works for the people - and you oppose shooting me down. (If you are in favor shooting me down, call that number, but wait until tomorrow.)"
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by neonbat 11y ago
Is there a list somewhere of problems/bugs that have been discovered with dropbox?
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by neonbat 11y ago
Could we also just land a bunch of drones there with our complaints? Clearly it's not that hard. Kudos to the first person to build a drone delivery service for sending complaints to congress.
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by neonbat 11y ago
"Delivering concerns to congress? There's no app for that. Better fly by gyrocopter."
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Gyrocopter lands in front of U.S. Capitol: political engagement hacker?(bbc.com)
3 points by neonbat 11y ago|6 comments
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by neonbat 12y ago
The discussion on reddit has devolved to people shouting insults at each other in binary.
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by neonbat 12y ago
I saw this technocracy discussion on reddit. I was wondering if HN would throw in their two bits? Or you know, maybe more than two bits. What do you guys think of a technology driven government?
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Technocracy discussion on Reddit(reddit.com)
4 points by neonbat 12y ago|2 comments
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by neonbat 12y ago
A lot of the rejected companies are confused as to why they didn't get into YC or are behaving as if it's some great mystery. Looking at some of their websites though it kind of seems like they just didn't read Paul's es