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by redthrowaway 9y ago
One of the most interesting developments in AI will be watching how we respond to human rationality detached from human morality. Programs that optimize for practical outcomes are going to come up with a whole host of solutions that we con
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>This is because most of society is still struggling with day-to-day tasks like getting housing, clean water, reliable food, healthcare and dealing with physical conflicts. It's been nearly 100 years since anyone struggled with that
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
And telling how quickly this post got flagged off the front page.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
You're right, that's an important difference. However, it doesn't alter the core point about the chilling effect this particular ideology is having. Could you honestly say that someone expressing an equally divisive statement
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
It's neither difficult nor arguable, but it's a bit of a cop-out. Google is, of course, well within their legal rights to fire the employee. The 1A applies only to government restrictions on speech. But the larger question, of wh
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
So, stating true, scientifically verified facts that challenge Google's official political ideology is now a fireable offence. This is insane. The speed at which this ideology has taken over SV is breathtaking, and a massive disincent
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
He's pointing out the absurdity of various incentives that exist, not defending them.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
And pretty much everything useful is blocked. We rolled out an update that broke our app for all of China, because cloudfront was blocked. That was a new one for me. Having spent a painfully slow 10 hours in the airport in Beijing let me
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Considering there are a grand total of 2500 people in the BIOT, all of whom are British or American military personnel, it might not be a great idea to route a good chunk of the world's tech traffic through them. The disparity betwe
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>this process has about an 80% roundtrip efficiency How is that possible? Even if you assume frictionless pipes and lossless power transmission, that's assuming 90% efficiency for both the pump and the generator.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>Convenient of this article to ignore that the Berkley study only looked at food service workers while the UW study looked at a much wider range of jobs than previous studies. And the UW study was consistent with the Berkley study--for f
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
We got audited. They just reduced the payout. It's the appeals process that's a pain in the ass. Takes about 3 years.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
I suspect that means they no longer need to, and have better ways of targeting ads at you.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
That car is driving oddly. It stopped for pedestrians who were on the sidewalk, and several times it stopped after making a turn. I could see that being really frustrating for other drivers and even dangerous if it's doing unpredic
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
That's almost certainly by design. Just as with tweets, it would be massively abused.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Sounds like General Atomics has a good lobbyist.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
I've had profs like that. What really struck me about Irani is that even without the homework, even with only weekly quizzes, it still stuck. It wasn't an AP class, but he encouraged us to write the AP exam at the end of the yea
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
By far the best math teacher I ever had, Fred Irani, taught math in a way no teacher I'd had before or since did. We didn't use the textbook, and we didn't have homework. We just worked through the problems in class, the wa
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
That's a great writeup, and it highlights the fact that sometimes these things happen for purely pragmatic reasons.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Burn-flip-burn is nice. It'd be nice to see them performing realistic burns to alter orbits, but that might be too much to ask for. >minus the epstein drive which is basically magic It's canonically a fusion rocket, isn't
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Let's not go giving The Expanse too much credit, here. That no-thrust gravity slingshot around all of Jupiter's moons in 2 hours was...stretching it.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Did you listen to the podcast? My main beef with the Vox piece is how it mischaracterized what Murray and Harris were saying. I'm not competent to judge the science, but I can tell when somebody's lying to me and that's how
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Economy cars have gotten heavier, largely due to safety concerns. Bigger cars have gotten lighter. So perhaps it would be fair to say that vehicle weights are converging on the low-mid 3000lb range.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
The thinking I've seen is about batteries being replaced by explosives. Even so, the US isn't the first to do this. China won't let you take Li+ batteries beyond a certain mAH in your carryon.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
i18n from the get-go, ladies and gents. Don't be this guy, leaving millions on the table.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Could anyone explain why being submerged in water would lead to particularly good fossilization? I would have thought it would do the exact opposite.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>"Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives. It ain't conservatives rioting or assaulting professors. >Ann Coulter is ... somehow is having her right to free speech stopped by not being able to g
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
No, but they seriously considered it, and said they were basing their consideration on information that had been shared with them. Which would suggest it was not an attempt to impose a Muslim ban.
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
>We're talking about moving laptops from the passenger cabin to checked luggage, as a purported security measure. Yes, just like moving liquids to your checked luggage was a security measure. Remember that one? Tried to take a bot
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by redthrowaway 9y ago
Or 3: the administration had nothing to do with it, and it's an actual security measure based on actual terrorist threats. Which might explain why Canada and the UK (you know, Five Eyes countries with whom the US shares intelligence) a

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