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by pbw 14y ago
From a body-centric point of view the original dies either way, whether neuron-by-neuron or all at once. From a consciousness point of view it's less clear. Firstly because we don't understand consciousness. But if we believe consciousnes
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by pbw 14y ago
Sleep and anesthesia break continuity, as has be reported elsewhere in this thread, so self is not about moment to moment continuity. The reason your copy is equally you vs. Warren Buffet is that your copy shared every molecule in your body
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by pbw 14y ago
You're discounting the experience of the copy and identifying solely with the original biological human. Instead you have to really internalize that both experiences are equally yours. That said, I wouldn't get excited about it. Uploading i
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by pbw 14y ago
> I still do not think that the patient will experience being uploaded into a computer Creating a copy is like having a Siamese twin you didn't know about, because it was sharing 100% of your body and mind. But with the copy you are spl
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by pbw 14y ago
> Great. Now there is a digital copy of your mind. So what? You still get to die. You get to do both. The concept of "you" changes once there is a copy, see the Ship of Theseus [1]. Each post-you entity has a legitimate claim to being p
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by pbw 14y ago
I'm not advocating switching over the visual only, unless the other sensors are broken or unavailable as you describe. I'm just advocating we do the research, create some visual-only cars as proof of concept, solve those thorny AI problems.
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by pbw 14y ago
They are taking the right track today by using a kitchen sink of radar, lidar, gps, visual. This is the way to deliver a self-driving vehicle soonest and safest. But a self-driving car that uses only visual sensors is clearly possible in th
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by pbw 14y ago
Absolutely all manor of injury could be lessened or avoided by self-driving cars. And improvements made in property damage, absence from work, enforcing traffic laws, parking infrastructure, driver training, accident forensics, and on and o
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by pbw 14y ago
So in the US we have about 8 fatalities per 1B kilometers driven. Yes that's 8 too many, but that is a damn lot of km driven without incident. So yeah we do okay. Machines will do better, but we do okay.
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by pbw 14y ago
> I sincerely hope that we are not going for true parity Commercial driverless cars will blow humans out of the water in safety and reliability. That is the goal and should be goal. To achieve the goal multiple sensors can and should b
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by pbw 14y ago
Commercial self-driving cars should use every sensor modality which is cost effective and which improves safety. I would never argue we should hamstring our driverless cars, let's give them the best shot to be uber-safe and reliable, no qu
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by pbw 14y ago
The technology is impressive, but humans drive okay without LIDAR, radar, or GPS. Maybe some day self-driving cars can drive using only two small visible-light sensors located above and behind the steering wheel. It might just be an AI cha
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by pbw 14y ago
The google car is great, but I wonder when will they be able to drive with the visible spectrum only, like humans do. No radar, laser range finder, GPS, or pre-mapping the roads. Just the view through the windshield on an unknown road, we c
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Physical Bits(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 15y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 15y ago
Google also benefits directly because telling people how much traffic they have is a powerful enticement for AdWords.
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by pbw 15y ago
It's not ridiculous to compare something to something/time. I could say a restaurant has more food in the kitchen than a family could eat in a month. That is what we are saying here, a company has more money in the bank than many countries
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Firework: dopamine reward for pop songs(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 15y ago|0 comments
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Games As Re-Targetable Experiences(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 16y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 16y ago
> This chart is not that accurate for 401k style investing where taxes are irrelevant He has various other versions including "Tax-Exempt Real" on his website: http://www.crestmontresearch.com/content/Matrix%20Options.ht... But the lo
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The Simulation Hypothesis(kmeme.com)
2 points by pbw 16y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 16y ago
Of 16,000 congressional elections over the last 100 years only one was decided by a single vote. So in some sense your vote doesn't matter, in that if you didn't vote the result would likely be the same. But one way every vote contributes
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Why you should vote(kmeme.com)
3 points by pbw 16y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1744305
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by pbw 16y ago
This wasn't a great article, but the topic fascinates me. I'm surprised the shift from faster-clocks to multi-core went so smoothly. No one seems to really mind. I really like my quad core, 4 processors is a lot nicer than one. But I won
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by pbw 16y ago
It doesn't say "significantly reduce car usage" it says "reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use". In the PR post two savings mentioned are "highway trains" and car sharing. Car sharing gets interesting if the car can driv
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by pbw 16y ago
Maybe some day they will be able to get updates from any old photographs or video taken by anyone. Automatically figure out what part of the world is in view with overlaps, like Photosynth does today, then incrementally apply updates if so
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The Future of Google's Street View(kmeme.com)
17 points by pbw 16y ago|3 comments
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by pbw 16y ago
The article implies we could hit 48-cores in 5-8 years before problems (memory contention) set in. After that I guess something new needs to come along. Also that might get us close to when Moore's Law itself ends, when something beyond in
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by pbw 16y ago
There is an easy analogy with food or exercise. The experience of eating a single meal or exercising a single day is forgotten, even while permanent changes to the body slowly accumulate. Some people in this thread cite books they vividly r
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by pbw 16y ago
Approximate matching of images/video/audio is not new to Google's system. Google's system is certainly an impressive application of this stuff, though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_video_fingerprinting http://en.wikipedia.org/wi

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