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by notarobot123 2y ago
> we need to step back and look at what a healthy technological ecosystem would look like: one that respects people’s privacy rights while also allowing companies to recoup costs for services they provide. User-community owned services&#
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...and rational people when combined with justification and evidence.
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AGI, in the sense you mention, is an imagined/hoped-for supreme-power that will save/destroy us all (or maybe just the "worthy"/"unworthy" ones). In an age of such hopelessness about the future, this looks
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Any sufficiently evolved biological process is indistinguishable from magic.
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It sounds like Elixir might be a competitive advantage for attracting talent for the companies that do actually use it (much like python in the mid-2000s[0]) [0] - https://paulgraham.com/pypar.html
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> "All punctuation will be considered but avoided where possible because street names and addresses, when stored in databases, must meet the standards set out in BS7666. > "This restricts the use of punctuation mar
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as do many left-wing political parties
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> ....an elite group perverts the goals and makes the entire system self serving That sounds about right. Any system that concentrates power seems to go the same way in a generation or two.
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Removing GUI elements as the user's skill level increases(robhaisfield.com)
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> ...all new startups probably do need to include AI A more logical conclusion would be that significant market disruption is more likely to occur outside of the world of AI. I know its heresy to suggest that AI isn't the be-all and
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by notarobot123 3y ago
You can use an intersectional type with a unique constraint to make something that behaves like a nominal type (see: https://www.typescriptlang.org/play#example/nominal-typing )
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Rights and Wrongs in Talk of Mind-Reading Technology(cambridge.org)
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Notes on "Enabling Constraints"(blogs.ed.ac.uk)
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I recently watched Micro Men[0] which I think does a great job of telling the story of the early computer industry from a British perspective. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Men
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Participants were given a disproportionate number of positive statements for projects A and C so each participant may be biased towards a more positive interpretation of the somewhat ambiguous statements (sufficiently ambiguous to cause 20%
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> Project statements were distributed unevenly This seems to be comparing the effects of the distribution of mostly positive information about two bad projects with the distribution of mostly negative information about one good project.
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It's fair to say that these are different kinds of "figuring out" though. Learning by trial and error is distinct from learning how to find and synthesize information and each lead to very different outcomes over the long-ter
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I think it's the brand. Google is deeply embedded in schools, workplaces and the public imagination as synonymous with web search and collaborative digital tools. It has a monopoly on the public mindset for what the internet is for and
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It's a rethink from the starting point of "everything should always be open source" I think what's mentioned here is a pragmatic approach for software-centric businesses who want to be open-source but have realized that
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We haven't talked enough about the second-order effects of open source on the economics of programming as a profession. I'm glad to see that starting to change[1]. Open source makes it harder to make a living as a programmer (at l
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by notarobot123 3y ago
Is it any more meaningful to speak about organisms as autonomous mechanical agents? Those are metaphors too. Human language is metaphors the whole way down and science isn't immune to the leaky abstractions of semantic ambiguity.
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The Shannon: A Unit of Information(en.wikipedia.org)
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As humans trying to understand the non-human world, analogy and metaphor are the only tools we have to comprehend phenomenon that we otherwise don't have access to. What's wrong with using language in this way?
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The great Tao is broad and plain But people like the side paths Does a long history of Taoism and all the traditions and beliefs that arise around it make it easier to discern the Tao?
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Chapter 42 starts out with some cosmic mumbo-jumbo about Tao making one, one making two, two making three, and three making everything else. I don't know what it means, and, frankly, I wouldn't worry about i
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Africa proposes global carbon taxes to fight climate change(reuters.com)
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Constrained Application Protocol(en.wikipedia.org)
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> Ellie learns from your writing style and crafts replies as if they were written by you > This web page was written in HTML by hand! Not by an AI ;) That is some delicious irony