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by pgodzin 12y ago
Sure we should consider it, and the people working on it are considering it. But that doesn't mean we are at a point where we should do something drastic like regulation that would slow down research (Sam Altman's idea).
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Here's the rationale: http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hire-like-google/
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Reddit would do well on the island of Lost
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I think a lot of that will come in advances in things like medicine, where nanotechnology will be able to assess the health of our bodies from within and repair it using some kind of AI. Changing brain functionality seems like a step too fa
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> We won't be capable of arguing with it by its very nature. It will be superintelligent. It could forecast our arguments before they've even entered our heads and have thought of numerous paths to debunk them. The universe isn
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Why is there such an assumption of consciousness and self? We don't have the slightest idea where it comes from in humans, what makes you think we can program/develop these characteristics? There shouldn't be a concept like &
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Not everyone working at those companies is working on something specifically related to ad revenue, the vast majority are working on creating better consumer products that improve millions of peoples' lives. That's what draws peop
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The amount of users. All the shutdowns, like Reader, have been very niche markets with orders of magnitude fewer users that Drive
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by pgodzin 12y ago
None of the cancellations have been of core services, which Drive definitely is.
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I think anyone who has issues distinguishing between virtual reality and the real world will have issues regardless of whether or not they play these types of games. I don't think there is any study out there showing that violent video
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Add a Log in with Facebook button so that Facebook will be responsible for authentication please.
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by pgodzin 12y ago
How does that affect your delivery business? Do you think more people take Lyft to get a pizza instead of waiting for delivery?
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Well the goal of all the Google integration is that the majority of things are stored in the cloud.
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Are you suggesting that's what we should do in the face of this potential threat?
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But those are regulating current products or services. This is calling for regulation now of RESEARCH in a specific field.
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by pgodzin 12y ago
So basically, the monetization methods (skippable ads and subscriptions) are working well, Youtube just needs more people watching consistently?
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Sure, tech companies aren't going to start writing code on mobile devices. But there are plenty of enterprise companies where writing, viewing and editing can definitely be done on phones and larger form factors such as tablets.
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> I think the best strategy is to try to legislate sensible safeguards This seems like an extremely difficult path to take, as legislature will either be preemptive and slow down innovation or lag behind in understanding the technology a
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by pgodzin 12y ago
I believe the goal is some kind of universal basic income, where the developed countries affected by these changes provide similar benefits. Of course, no matter what the solution is, political and social structures will have to change dras
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Are there any statistics comparing job loss in the industrial and software revolutions up to this point. The industrial revolution likewise replaced manual labor with automation, and the software revolution Sam talks about seems like a more
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by pgodzin 12y ago
I'm sure Google has the resources to do both. Google Now was always touted as a personal assistant of sorts, which can only be helpful if it knows a lot about you. Don't have to use it. And there are dozens of entire teams working
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At the same time, the yearly review is meant to highlight the important moments of your year, not necessarily the positive ones. Obviously that post had a lot of engagement, and it was properly flagged as important. The user then has the op
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Microsoft seems to be making a habit of not taking these vulnerabilities seriously enough, as this is the second time in the past few weeks that this has happened. 3 months is more than enough time to fix an important vulnerability that is
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Not sure if you're referring to Google making money off Google News, but if so, the post mentions that it never puts ads on the News page, and only drives traffic to the sites with content
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by pgodzin 12y ago
Which sounds like a great service that Google provides that greatly differentiates it from its competition, not a monopolistic barrier.
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by pgodzin 12y ago
If anything happens to come of this, what does "breaking up Google," or the unbundling of search and ads businesses practically entail?
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Any idea how much the initial conversion of currency at below going rate cost?
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> they can invest back into new products in the same way Google do but at a larger scale since they don't have the pressure of returning profits to shareholders Can you elaborate on this? Google tries plenty of "moonshots"
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There's an incredible amount of regulation with health data/records that force companies to anonymize them and not allow them to sell it.
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More realistically, they will make your life easier as many machines before them have.

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