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by pjscott 12y ago
How do you keep it benevolent, over the longer term? If it depends on luck then sooner or later the luck will turn bad, so we need a real mechanism here.
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by pjscott 12y ago
What I was getting at is that any no-free-lunch objection you make to learning algorithms in general also applies to the specific learning algorithm in our heads -- and yet we manage to function well enough to have this conversation.
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by pjscott 12y ago
Where would you categorize human minds in your taxonomy of learning algorithms?
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by pjscott 12y ago
Imagine an AI that's exactly as smart as Einstein, but thinks a thousand times faster. Now imagine a thousand of it. This fits easily within your speculations about limits to intelligence, since we know that Einstein-level intelligen
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by pjscott 12y ago
How you'd answer depends very much on what you're doing -- which is the point of asking. You might be able to remove the memory copying by fiddling with alignment somewhere in calling code and adding an annotation saying you did t
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by pjscott 12y ago
I dispute the premise. Very of the things on that list are accurate descriptions of real startups! I haven't heard of anybody working on flesh skeumorphism, for instance, and as far as I know the only person working on monetizing the e
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by pjscott 12y ago
You can generate .ninja files using code in any language you like, including Javascript. Do you have a use case that this doesn't satisfy?
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by pjscott 12y ago
Ah, but then one of the unions could free-ride on the sacrifices of the others, and the whole system would collapse bit by bit! No, if you have multiple unions, then obviously they need to form a union-of-unions to allow the unions to colle
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by pjscott 12y ago
Maybe the workers should form some sort of group to collectively bargain with the union.
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by pjscott 12y ago
And it only took, what, four or five centuries? I would say something snarky here about the amazing moral leadership on display, except that this actually does seem to be slightly faster than average for a major religious sect as old as Lut
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by pjscott 12y ago
The usual solution is to indent your lisp code.
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by pjscott 12y ago
I was in that situation once, in a previous job. It sucked, so instead of fighting fires all the time, we fixed it . We sought out and exterminated bugs, we set up better monitoring, we wrote automated fixes for the things that could be au
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by pjscott 12y ago
Standard, boring light water reactor with unusually good passive cooling. The exciting part is the modular, assembly-line nature of how it's produced. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuScale_Power
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by pjscott 12y ago
The HTTP headers can put an upper bound on the date: Last-Modified: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:59:15 GMT And the changelog for CIL suggests that it may be significantly older: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~necula/cil&
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by pjscott 12y ago
This sentence was written by an algorithm that humans did not deliberately implement, and do not fully understand.
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by pjscott 12y ago
That sounds like an incentive for these companies to file deliberately nonsensical DMCA complaints, so that they'll always be able to disguise malice as incompetence.
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by pjscott 12y ago
I don't defend it. Why would I? I have taken on no obligation here.
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by pjscott 12y ago
For a whole lot of people, I think it's safe to say that the answer is yes: the deal is unbearable. I personally would not bother putting videos online if I had to go through some closed captioning hassle, and I doubt I'm particul
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by pjscott 12y ago
Hello! I'm a paperclip maximizer -- a hypothetical AI whose only goal is to maximize the number of paperclips in the universe. Speaking as a paperclip maximizer, I ridicule your completely idiotic ways of using your resources! You allo
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by pjscott 12y ago
... But there's dramatically less when you put the satellites much closer to earth, as they're planning to do here. These are LEO satellites, not the far-away geostationary stuff you see with older communication satellites.
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by pjscott 12y ago
It actually has a pretty low center of mass. Most of its bulk is empty fuel tank, and the engines are on the bottom.
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by pjscott 12y ago
Peter Thiel is spending big money on this. If anybody else would like to be able to say the same -- adjusted for the amount of money you have , of course -- then these guys are doing some very credible research, and they take donations: h
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by pjscott 12y ago
Well then good news! The people mentioned in this article are generally trying to slow or reverse the effects of aging, including the weakening of skeletal muscles.
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by pjscott 12y ago
The target market is very, very large. That bodes well for prices, since the costs of R&D and red tape can be amortized across a huge number of people and long spans of time.
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by pjscott 12y ago
The launch abort was automated, so heads didn't need to be cool. I'm not sure if that makes it more reassuring or less.
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by pjscott 12y ago
See also the BADA55 elliptic curves, which were generated by a variety of commonly-used "verifiably random" procedures, but which all contain the hexadecimal string "BADA55" (or, more impressively, "BADA55EC")
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by pjscott 12y ago
Earlier discussion, including a number of comments from the author, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188
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by pjscott 12y ago
Is it narcissistic to want to avoid early death? Presumably you look both ways before crossing the street.
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by pjscott 12y ago
Sqlite is a library that you can just link to. Use that for your state-handling, and you need not fear a thousand SIGKILLs. This is a very popular approach. Or, if you're on a server, you can use another database. Or use atomic file wr
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by pjscott 12y ago
Memcache is an in-memory cache. This is an on-disk key-value store.

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