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by outlace 11y ago
How is living on Antarctica advancing humanity? That would just be living in barren cold for kicks. Building and sustaining a colony on Mars would pave the way for future space colonization and possibly prevent the human species from going
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Thanks for engaging. I'm not trying to argue for the sake of argument, I'm honestly still stuck on this point. It seems like you have a different understanding of what a super intelligent AI is. To me, that is when there is an AI
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But any new job that is created can be done by the superintelligent AI, and better than humans. Even if somehow a million new service jobs are created, those jobs can be done better by an AI. So where does that leave humans? There would be
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There's a difference between shifting labor around between sectors (e.g. moving agriculture jobs into manufacturing or new industries) and a situation in which, almost instantaneously, every job that a human can do can be outdone by an
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Is it reasonable to compare a situation in which a general AI can do virtually any job a human can and way better to the invention of a tractor?
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"black" as commonly used in America refers to people of sub-Saharan descent. It does not have much to do with actual skin color.
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The best solution is to teach people how to think and not what to think. We need to promote reason, promote awareness of cognitive biases (as a result of our evolutionary past), and rid ourselves of this notion that "standing up for wh
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This is just manipulation of decent people. You can always get some percentage of people to agree with something you've propositioned with a camera and mic in their face and when they don't really understand what you mean (and the
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That's why we go by consensus. Of course any one paper could be BS, but if 98% of scientists agree on something, then I feel fairly confident in that consensus.
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I see this anti-intellectualism in the world as a major threat to human advancement (and perhaps existence). I am concerned that scientific and technological advancements are happening faster than intellectual and moral progress. If you giv
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"At the start, at the education phase of learning, stuff needs to be engaging" Perhaps this is true in primary school, but I think in secondary school and definitely in university, education can be engaging while remaining complet
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"...let any idea however offensive be freely expressed, so that it can be challenged and where necessary rationally rebutted." Amen to that. If only that were the case, we'd be so much better off.
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Addendum: I also pay for roaming with my T-mobile plan, and I got Edge (E) network through (I think) China Mobile while I was in China, and interestingly enough, the internet through my mobile data plan was not censored at all in China.
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I went to China over the winter break. I'm a medical student and I used my school's VPN in China and it worked beautifully. Was able to access everything and the internet actually felt smoother/faster.
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"...including...investing in technologically connected roads" The private sector can't install a network of communication technology to wirelessly link roads and self-driving cars on public property (plus you probably need to
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That would disproportionately penalize poor people. Imagine gas prices suddenly spike due to a new gas tax, poor people who can barely afford a used 2001 Toyota Camry are now even worse off, while your typical doctor or software engineer ju
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by outlace 11y ago
Did we read different articles? It doesn't read at all like the US Govt is investing in developing self-driving car technology, of course plenty of private automakers are already doing that, it looks like US Govt is investing in self-d
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I think going by his positions on issues and his supporters in scientific polls he would qualify as pretty far right, maybe not the farthest right, but definitely over there (definitely not center-right). I wouldn't use anonymous comme
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He used to be some of those. He used to be a democrat. His current form as a presidential candidate is way hard-right.
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Not really, I took half pills which were 1.5mg each
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This. Meditation has improved my life in so many ways.
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Melatonin is great but it shouldn't be used long term (more than a couple months). I tried it longer than that and it wasn't good, weird constitutional symptoms.. Also says so on the packaging.
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This study sort of makes an assumption that increased free radicals causes (at least in part) aging (free radical theory of aging). The relationship between radical oxygen species (free radicals) and aging is not at all clear to my understa
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This is great, wish someone would do this for more advanced math like topology, or other more abstract/pure math
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Well once self-driving cars take over none of this will matter
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Anki is what's getting me through med school
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We're products of evolution and thus we have physiologic reasons to have our sleep/wake cycles tuned to the sun. There's a decent amount of scientific evidence in favor of "sun-conscious" sleep patterns. e.g. this r
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The difference is we know we will eventually achieve AGI while we have absolutely zero reason to expect an alien invasion.
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TensorFlow, because Google
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I want lights with adjustable spectrums. I.e. more blue wavelengths during the day and more yellow/red at nights.

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