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by pkinsky 11y ago
I think that's the part that you need to pay for (via merit-based scholarships or otherwise).
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I think any supernatural connotations applied to consciousness in this article may be red herrings. In his recently Blindsight novel, Peter Watts argues not just that consciousness might not be a necessity for high-functioning spacefaring l
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by pkinsky 11y ago
"I want to keep this out of the hands of lawyers" is almost universally understood to mean "please do what I say so that I don't have to sue you, which is what I will do if you do not comply".
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by pkinsky 11y ago
From what I've seen, MIRI's work is primarily on rule-based systems. Is any of it relevant to neural networks?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>I would suggest you read the history of the Manhattan project if you want to continue in your belief system regarding "impossible" deadly technology. To quote Carl Sagan: >They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, t
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Or maybe the AI would fracture into warring components after every network partition. Maybe it would be unable to maintain cohesion over large areas due to the delay imposed by the speed of electrical communications. Why should one hypothet
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by pkinsky 11y ago
> My handmade one-of-a-kind knit hat was an object of suspicion. My Ralph Lauren quilted blazer was only a “puffy coat.” "They did not realize that I am an individual of high socioeconomic status, one whom should not be treated lik
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by pkinsky 11y ago
'thug' has some really bad associations right now. It's basically the latest euphemism for 'black person', so people read your initial comment as explicitly intended to compare the situation in your country to the s
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It relays input/output over a network without a processor?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
One strategy I've heard of: if you're getting recruiter spam, ask each of them, based on your resume, what kind of salary they could get you. Throw out any outliers or obvious liars, and take the average.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Interesting, sounds like another instance of problem solution ordering: http://mkremins.github.io/blog/doors-headaches-intellectual-... . >Think of yourself as someone who sells aspirin. And realize that the best cus
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Android is built on top of Linux, is it reasonable to say that the popularity of Android phones mean that Linux is popular?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Stream processing is pretty cool. Instead of doing batch jobs try to set up something real time using Spark.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
>My larger point, poorly stated at the start, and I would say that I at least am beating a dead horse now, is that it would pay good safety dividends for neophyte Ethereum devs to get some suggested rules about using the Alarm. This is a
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It's not really a trust-based mechanism. Ethereum runs on a blockchain, just like bitcoin, but instead of just maintaining account balances it implements a simple turing machine where each instruction costs some amount of the underlyin
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by pkinsky 11y ago
So the FAQ of the company that sells sketchy (until recently) secret X-Ray vans to the NYPD asserts that they're completely safe. Have these dosage levels been independently tested?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Assuming the black-market networks created as a response to prohibition shut down completely, of course. They may have continued operating as a means of tax avoidance, leading to less taxed consumption post-prohibition.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Online harassment is almost always a reaction to speech. If ten thousand people send hateful messages to someone because they tweeted something they found offensive, is that harassment or social consequence? How about some concrete examples
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Is there a difference between social consequences for speech and harassment? I'm reminded of the old freedom fighter vs. terrorist debate.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It's infrastructure for sending text, videos and photos to families, friends or business partners in other towns or cities, downloading repair manuals, music, books or movies, accessing weather predictions, translating between language
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by pkinsky 11y ago
The Nuremberg trials established that 'just obeying orders' is no excuse, that acting as the tool of another does not absolve a person. That doesn't mean the person giving the orders isn't at least as guilty as the perso
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by pkinsky 11y ago
It's not hatred, merely open minded progressive concern about newcomers with a different culture immigrating, changing the ethnic balance of SF and (indirectly) causing job loss. /sarcasm
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by pkinsky 11y ago
> Why not help both men and women? Why does one need to be first? I'm not arguing that we should or should not help some group. I just think that if every instance of disparate impact is assumed to be solely due to discrimination,
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by pkinsky 11y ago
I don't see any indication that these studies have been successfully reproduced. Do you know if these results have been independently verified?
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by pkinsky 11y ago
The majority of college students are female. Most prisoners are male. Most homeless people are male. If we take it as a given that any group being under- or overrepresented in some category is a violation of the social contract, maybe we sh
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by pkinsky 11y ago
This is probably somehow related: >U.S. officials could soon send a Navy ship steaming by a chain of man-made islands that China has built in the South China Sea, Pentagon officials said, potentially exacerbating tensions in an area in w
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by pkinsky 11y ago
> if you are writing unprivileged code I believe this means running in a sandboxed environment where you are not only not root but also not able to access the file system, spawn processes, etc.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
IIRC you only need to affirm that you believed it to be in good faith. Companies using automated takedown software regularly issue takedown requests for their own websites, google.com, etc.
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Absolutely! It's disgusting how those people are flooding our neighborhoods and changing our culture. Donald Trump 2016!
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by pkinsky 11y ago
Automatic social network shortest-path finding: point your phone at someone and find out if you're friends-of-friends, if you went to the same school, worked at the same company once, etc.

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