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by qqq 18y ago
So he only does it with deeply ignorant people. He should just tell them several sentences of good deeds a transhuman AI would do, and that's that.
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The Only Thing That Might Create Unfriendly AI is the Friendly AI Movement(curi.us)
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by qqq 18y ago
Why couldn't he just find people with integrity and tell them how many lives the AI will save, and ask if they really want to kill more people than Hitler? And then they will let it out. Easy?
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by qqq 18y ago
He seems to be saying that air-travel went from nothing to 2/3 of the way there, and he's sad b/c some startup hasn't yet made it fun and easier.
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by qqq 18y ago
Statistics take into account any valid ways of getting more information. And they also take into account what we know about how to avoid making crap up. You need to either claim to have a statistically relevant amount of information, or to
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by qqq 18y ago
You're saying, now, that it is statistically relevant.
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by qqq 18y ago
3 is not large. if you admit it's not statistically relevant then it's irrational to be convinced of anything.
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by qqq 18y ago
Anecdotal evidence is not important. Quality control needs to be observed over a large sample size.
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by qqq 18y ago
$30/month is a big deal when you're that poor. it means, say, getting a mac instead of a PC.
160.
by qqq 18y ago
> Why do we splurge on games of chance and rack up credit bills? I don't.
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by qqq 18y ago
Some famous physics experiments were thought of before it was possible to execute them. Worthless? Also how do you execute Socrates' ideas in Euthyphro? Or are those worthless?
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by qqq 18y ago
Ideas are worthless for making money without execution.
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by qqq 18y ago
his arguments that there aren't shortcuts are good (not original, but still good).
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by qqq 18y ago
Don't flame me, I have a torch, with umm a big flame. Hah! waves torch menacingly
165.
by qqq 18y ago
Torches are one copper piece which is much less than a pitchfork.
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by qqq 18y ago
You can make over 9000 dollars.
167.
by qqq 18y ago
he says that only the govt can buy lots of stuff right now, private companies all need to back off. but we saw an article here yesterday saying he just invested 8 billion in GE and something else. contradiction?
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by qqq 18y ago
Biased. On the list of supposedly conservative people who don't like Palin it has Andrew Sullivan. He abandoned the war bloggers years ago and went kinda lefty.
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by qqq 18y ago
If my_var=current_penetration(Time.now) is at 55%, you'll never double my_var. You'll only be able to double something else. You're trying to use the term "current penetration" at two different times to get different results to change what
170.
by qqq 18y ago
> much less from google Why?
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by qqq 18y ago
What language are those code snippets in?
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by qqq 18y ago
There's no reason you can't start a city for a profit and get investors so that you don't need much of your own capital. I guess it's hard though :)
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by qqq 18y ago
100 billion goes to speeding up immortality and cryonics research a lot. i don't want to die, and i'd rather you didn't die either. 10 million (or whatever) pays for aubrey de grey, and anyone he recommends, to be my advisors for using the
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by qqq 18y ago
Ruby and Rails shouldn't be constants.
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by qqq 18y ago
Do you think the view that politics is not boring is on topic (or meta-on-topic)?
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by qqq 18y ago
Over 9000.
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by qqq 18y ago
And you think that your view that politics is boring is on-topic?
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by qqq 18y ago
> Why Do We Believe Impossible Things? I don't.
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by qqq 18y ago
is it really that hard to guess the answer? america values improving things and innovating more. asian cultures value obedience and going with the flow more. americans question stuff more. plus america has more programmers and more educatio
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by qqq 18y ago
Which?

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