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by phreeza 6y ago
Not an expert but I'd be surprised if some modern computer viruses don't have some dynamic adaptability of their obfuscation to evade antivirus programs.
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by phreeza 6y ago
There was also the cambrian explosion and the dawn of eucariotic life before that, and the invention of agriculture after the arrival of humans, just to name a few. The existence of one singularity in the past doesn't preclude future t
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by phreeza 6y ago
People tend to think of genetic code as a sort of assembly language which is very verbose, but I wonder if the correct way to view it is in fact a very terse domain-specific language, because it actually depends on the entire complex machin
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by phreeza 6y ago
Also the PR and street cred from this move is likely worth more to him?
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by phreeza 6y ago
I'm really curious what the power dynamic is that makes it possible for this to happen, and more importantly to go on for so long. How do the military leaders keep common soldiers ideologically isolated from the population for so long?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Yea I phrased this wrong, you're right of course. What I meant to say was that the highly urbanized areas in which these 200 year old apartment blocks stand were already urbanized back then, while newer apartment blocks are probably in
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by phreeza 6y ago
European capitals are probably also the very rare exception of cities that have roughly the same population numbers as they had 200 years ago. You can't do this kind of thing as easily in a city that is growing quickly.
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by phreeza 6y ago
The argument is that AI and compression are isomorphic, so in that view there is no such thing as non-AI compression techniques. And in fact if you look at how common compressors work, they build a good model of the next token, given the pr
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by phreeza 6y ago
In your example at least the recipient is alive, but in fact I wonder if one could argue that with machine learning models training on web data, a meme can now perform an entire reproductive cycle without a human in the loop.
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by phreeza 6y ago
What is this ptpx process? Some kind of postcard exchange? Looks fun, is there more info somewhere?
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by phreeza 6y ago
I only got this the first time after moving here, after that they switched to just sending me the access code.
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by phreeza 6y ago
The incentive for websites is to build a moat against competition, and many succeed.
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by phreeza 6y ago
The question is why wouldn't you want fusion. More options are always better I think.
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by phreeza 6y ago
How is peak design a competitor though here, and in which way is amazon a monopolist? Peak design sells their merchandise through several other channels, so amazon is probably not a monopolist for "selling camera bags online", and
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by phreeza 6y ago
There is a fine line though, comoditization can be a hugely benefitial thing for consumers, too. If nobody had ever ripped off the iphone, would the mobile web and app world still be a niche thing for premium users only?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Right, I didn't mean to imply that everyone was lying, I just think that wanting to fit in with a group is a strong subconscious drive in such situations. Edit: I was curious and did a quick search what the scientific literature says a
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by phreeza 6y ago
The alternative view is that the right tools are more like a bicycle and less like crutches. The art is knowing which is which I suppose.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Or INTJ is what you get when you answer questions in a way that you expect to be conforming to what your fellow grad students will respect, before going to a meeting and revealing your result to them.
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by phreeza 6y ago
The counterargument to that I have heard is that if any civilization ever managed to unleash self-replicating probes in the past couple of million years, we should be able to see those, or their effects on our galaxy. And such probes seem t
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by phreeza 6y ago
I wonder how the distances to the solar system objects were chosen? If it was the average distance from earth, shouldn't sun be closest? I guess it is maybe the shortest possible distance?
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by phreeza 6y ago
People unfamiliar with the HN convention of tagging an article with the publication year might be somewhat confused by the title.
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by phreeza 6y ago
I think Diplomacy is a super interesting domain for AI research, too. It has a lot of natural language (over a limited set of topics) as an important component, and multiple agents taking turns simultaneously, with fluctuating alliances.
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by phreeza 6y ago
Isn't ULA a consortium of Boeing and Lockheed Martin? I believe buying those would be beyond even Bezos means...
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by phreeza 6y ago
I used to be under the impression that the Gmail proxy protects you from this, but then I learned (on a different HN thread) that this is only partially true. It protects you from the sender harvesting the user agent etc, but it still only
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Valentine’s Day Giving the Texas Electric Grid the Cold Shoulder(forbes.com)
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by phreeza 6y ago
Do you want to put a timeframe on the prediction to make it falsifiable?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Isn't that 'thousand mile stare' often attributed to scientologists? Did this happen after his conversion?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Is it common to describe ones own work as seminal?
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by phreeza 6y ago
Complete tangent, but I am currently listening to the excellent "Age of Napoleon" podcast, and the host suggests that the abolition of the calendar by Napoleon was (a) basically ratifying what was already widely done in society an
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by phreeza 6y ago
Is it not possible to achieve AGI with a good statistical estimation method?

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