plokiju

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by plokiju 8y ago
It sounds like your concerns are based on what some eventual form of this technology might become. Duplex is incredibly domain-specific, and will only make calls on behalf of Google, not random phishers. Being worried about Duplex in its cu
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by plokiju 8y ago
That argument has always felt like it came out of economics 101. Maybe in a world where everyone is a rational economic actor motivated only by maximizing profits, people wouldn't make anything new without a patent. In the real world,
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by plokiju 9y ago
Absolutely - in some cases the monetary value is what makes the applications viable in the first place. It's just like any other market; in theory the price of the token should reach equilibrium to reflect the value it provides, even i
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by plokiju 9y ago
> There is very, very little reason to use a cumbersome data structure when better ones exist Do you not see any value in decentralization? In theory with blockchains, you could replace giant companies with open-source programs that pay
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by plokiju 9y ago
the miners are running software that decides which transactions to include, and I'm sure the software has some logic where it will pick the highest-fee transactions when they can't include them all
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by plokiju 9y ago
Early on in bitcoin, a 1MB limit was added to the block size, which puts a cap on the number of transactions that can be included in each block. Now that bitcoin is more popular, there are more transactions then can fit in each block, which
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by plokiju 9y ago
Do you have any examples of them making bad UI to get people to use siri?
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by plokiju 9y ago
Buying a VR headset and a new gaing computer today is still significantly cheaper than buying a home computer in the 90's for the early internet https://pifflelab.com/2012/07/22/computers-the-1990s-you-pa
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by plokiju 10y ago
Would you mind sharing some links? And maybe explaining your thoughts further? Are you saying that you can't have a consciousness without a physical body?
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by plokiju 10y ago
But why is "your experience of the world" tied to your current physical body? I think that the brain is just a machine that creates the illusion of a consciousness. If you turn the machine off, copy the all the data into new hardw
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by plokiju 10y ago
That begs the question of what are "you". I personally believe that I am just the data contained in my brain, and it can be copied and transferred around, but where ever it ends up would still be me.