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by placebo 8y ago
I find the concept of not being able to feel fear quite interesting. I've always seen fear/anxiety as an emotion that is automatically bundled with the ability to imagine a possibly bad outcome for a given situation someone is in.
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by placebo 8y ago
This is the correct way to answer a question. Not sure why the parent question is being downvoted rather than simply being answered. All that does is promote ignorance.
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by placebo 8y ago
Have you experienced this issue with the other databases mentioned in the article?
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by placebo 8y ago
I've heard good things about Lev Tarasov's "The World is Built on Probability", but haven't dived into it so can't offer my own opinion
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by placebo 8y ago
I think command line utilities will usually be the last to receive active counter measures as they are generally considered to be used only by geeks which constitute a negligible percent of consumers.
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Interactive confusion matrix(nocurve.com)
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by placebo 8y ago
Nicely put.
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by placebo 8y ago
I'm in agreement about the uselessness of words to define time, but I doubt that even using math will help understand time. I'd argue that both math and time arise with thoughts, i.e with the faculty of defining concepts and reaso
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by placebo 8y ago
But that's what our brains do too. We might think we're seeing the world as it is, but much of our smooth and consistent view of the world has a lot to do with our brains patching things up to make it look that way. The thing is,
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by placebo 8y ago
not necessarily - he could just be invoking the "do not attribute to malice what can easily be explained by stupidity" rule It's not always so easy to tell apart the things you have control over vs. the things you don't,
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by placebo 8y ago
Why stop at elementary particles? All objects are mental constructs of consistencies our brains detect in data that our senses pick up. Humans have a great advantage in picking up on what I'd call meta-consistencies (which is basically
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by placebo 8y ago
My thoughts on AGI (at least in the sense of being indistinguishable from interaction with a human) are the same as my thoughts on extraterrestrial life: I'll believe it only when I see it (or at least when provided with proof that the
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by placebo 8y ago
2235.2 km/s
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by placebo 8y ago
I like it. The thing that I'm asking myself now is why do I like it (and other "humanized" drawings) ? I've always preferred accuracy over ambiguity, clean minimization over unnecessary clutter, shouldn't I prefer c
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by placebo 8y ago
Reminded me of this entertaining clip: http://vooza.com/videos/the-5-whys/ I doubt that most people who use the five whys really take it to be as simplistic as the author of this article suggested, but to those th
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by placebo 8y ago
Just run a search on: prime numbers fractal, and many interesting articles (both academic and other) will surface. Search for: zeta function fractal, and you'll find more. I'm no mathematician but it wouldn't surprise me if
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by placebo 8y ago
I really hope you're right, but your view assumes rational players which, judging by human history, is far from guaranteed.
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by placebo 8y ago
source/citation (not so much for the nukes, but for wanting to wipe out Iran)?
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by placebo 8y ago
No, surface simplicity should not mean sweeping the complexity under the rug. It should mean exposing the bare minimum in the level of abstraction being used, and doing same for the level beneath it, etc. This is how you get a scalable and
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by placebo 8y ago
True. Nothing about violence is specifically western. Also true that the reality is that humans have evolved from more primitive animals that are totally driven by survival instincts and thus will usually act that way too (though mostly dis
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by placebo 8y ago
Experience comes in different levels. There's professional experience, for example knowing it is stupid to use a certain algorithm to solve a certain problem and then there's life experience, for example recognizing how pitiful la
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by placebo 8y ago
I assume that last sentence is misunderstood humor.
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by placebo 8y ago
While there are good reasons to use gradient descent on neural networks, finding the global minima of the surface of the earth would not be my first choice. Various metaheuristics would do much better.
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by placebo 8y ago
Well, reinforcement learning should also be given a mention and revolutions there (e.g AlphaGo to AlphaZero) were much more recent
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by placebo 8y ago
I'm curious, how do you interpret the above as the "right to go after whoever wherever?"
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by placebo 9y ago
I agree with selfish vs. holostic, less so with short-term vs. long-term. You could have someone doing the long con and in my book they are just as greedy as the short con. Better at deferred gratification perhaps, but just as greedy.
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by placebo 9y ago
For all practical purposes, I agree with the analogy, but would like to point out that the box might not be infinite so there could be limits to invention. Take a chess game as an example. No one would say there weren't creative invent
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by placebo 9y ago
I'd like to believe you are right and, without any ability to estimate where we are on what seems like an exponential curve, hope that things are evolving towards the positive at an ever increasing pace. Interesting you should mention
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by placebo 9y ago
I doubt there is only one correct way to find meaning in our life and actions (though my take on it is that while paths may differ, an honest pursuit would lead to similar insights regarding the ultimate meaning). I also don't think y
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by placebo 9y ago
I'm also very interested in this question. My current understanding is that mathematics only works well because the mind is only capable of conceiving a mathematical reality, i.e math is basically the end result of an evolved mind, a

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