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by nzp 12y ago
But I wonder if it's a good idea. You know, JavaScript/in-browser crypto being considered harmful and all that...
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by nzp 12y ago
Open WhisperSystems isn't a company. WhisperSystems was a company, it was acquired by Twitter which open sourced TextSecure. OWS, is just a name for the community effort around these tools: https://whispersystems.org/
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by nzp 12y ago
They're planning to drop support for encrypted SMS fallback (a decision I have mixed feelings about), but plain SMS functionality will remain in the Android client for the forseeable future.
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by nzp 12y ago
The difference is mostly that in case of SMS, metadata leaks to carriers. In case of Signal/TextSecure/RedPhone, some limited metadata leaks to Google Cloud Messaging and Apple's equivalent platform (I can't remember th
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by nzp 12y ago
Right, but why do fear mongers take it for granted that the subset k is likely to be “exterminate, exterminate”? Look, every AGI researcher I have ever read was well aware of this, and it's their primary concern. It's the centra
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by nzp 12y ago
Of course, and I did say “in general” having in mind things like NASA. But it's also, in a way, great example of the point. Take the space race for example. The government's motives for the Moonshot were at best morally dubious
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by nzp 12y ago
> "require that self-improving software require human intervention to move forward on each iteration," In addition to what you said, there is a further problem with this line of reasoning: and then what? Doing meaningful inter
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by nzp 12y ago
What you quote here is in no way in disagreement with what fchollet quoted. I strictly agree with this. No one is denying the need to not create a raving super-intelligent psychopath. The problem with this fear mongering is that it'
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by nzp 12y ago
> A better approach might be for governments to utilize their vast resources [...] in a safe and moral fashion. Serious question—you’re joking, right? Based on history and sober common sense, do you really think what governments in gene
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by nzp 12y ago
It is somewhat arbitrary. 0.05 corresponds to roughly 2, and 0.01 to roughly 3 standard deviations under the normal distribution. In high energy physics, for example, in the past a result with 3 sigma significance was considered “a discov
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by nzp 12y ago
My bold suggestion would be to not do what other posters are suggesting about making pricing clear and itemized. As I've said in another comment, I think this service mainly fulfills an emotional need, not a rational one (and that&#
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by nzp 12y ago
My first thought was that if your time and effort really is so valuable that it economically makes sense to use a service like this one, then you probably can afford and should have a real concierge/personal assistant. It seems to me
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by nzp 12y ago
No, that's actually the bread and butter of intelligence work. At least it was in HUMINT, if not in SIGINT. You identify individual(s) with access to what you need and then work on/with them. This is not surprising or even cont
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by nzp 12y ago
Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. They're open about it, and no one is forcing anyone to enable voice recognition if one doesn't need/want it, or doesn't like what happens with the recording. I'm not say
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by nzp 12y ago
> Why can't we have a balanced discussion? What you're proposing is not a balanced discussion.
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by nzp 12y ago
Nope. You don't both accept the science, you do, he doesn't. He believes that natural immunity is better than "artificial" immunity. That's plain nonsense, absolutely no science there. Also, with measles, it&#x2
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by nzp 12y ago
In case of psychopathy, or better anti-social personality traits in general, there is some research into this, and it indicates that "genius level" intelligence is a protective factor. So a person with amoral/anti-social t
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by nzp 12y ago
Really amazing. Previous discussion on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6678947
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by nzp 12y ago
With the risk of sounding like an elitist prick (not the intention, and I'm really not) that photo of a Patek Phillipe and Apple Watch side by side on his wrist to me screams: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a digit
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by nzp 12y ago
I'm not sure it's always just about utility vs. signalling. I have no care for social signalling at all, but if I had money to throw away I would probably buy some things which you classify as signalling devices. For sure, thoug
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by nzp 12y ago
> I guess what you mean by Bliss is what the Buddhists mean by Elightenment? Although in Buddhism there is at some point the attainment of bliss (as a factor in the first jhana[0]) the goal is to let go of that bliss and go beyond. The
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by nzp 12y ago
The story in the article has nothing concrete to do with NSA. Nothing actually happened. OTOH, the mentioned "value" of pregnant women vs. non-pregnant persons to marketers is interesting.
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The Case Against Killer Robots(foreignaffairs.com)
1 points by nzp 12y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 12y ago
Aristotle had nothing to do with the atomic theory, other than being against it. As far as antique atomism goes, the ideas is essentially what it is in modern science---matter consists of indivisible elementary particles. It doesn'
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by nzp 12y ago
Development of a political (and economic) systems is dependent on technological development. Of course, the reverse is also true. Taken abstractly, we might say democracy doesn't require technology, but in the real world it doesn&#x2
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by nzp 12y ago
I don't think it's possible in this case. And, yes, I think it is a sufficient reason that such comments shouldn't be made. Not because it's exclusionary (although discrimination is an awful thing, I don't think h
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by nzp 12y ago
No, not really. What about same sex friendships in homosexual men and women? Why would we single out hetero sexuality? As I said in my comment to Colin's post, no one ever makes such a statement for homosexual relations.
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by nzp 12y ago
But the thing is, why is this considered a problem really? Should we only have sex with our enemies or persons we don't like? I understand the underlying reasoning, the questions are for the most part rhetorical, but I just don'
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Still Not Significant(mchankins.wordpress.com)
1 points by nzp 13y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 13y ago
> Say I have hot coffee and lukewarm coffee. The lukewarm coffee will equilibrate faster. It won't (all else being equal). :) Because of Newton's law of cooling, hot coffee will cool down faster (precisely, the rate of change

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