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by ridewinter 7y ago
The article's main example of an AI fail is YouTube's recommendation engine optimizing for extremist content. But it didn't seem to explain how "inverse reinforcement learning" would solve it - don't people&#x2
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I'm reminded about 30 times a day when dismissing a cookie popup of the stupidness of EU regulations. When considering the lifetimes wasted recreating that popup on countless websites, I'm ready to go full Libertarian.
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The common trope is that European price controls hinder innovation in pharmaceuticals [1]. I've read that American pharmaceutical firms spend 4x in R&D per capita than European counterparts. Counterpoints? [1] https://ww
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How is Starship related to Brilliant Pebbles? It's Starlink that seems to prove that you can put a constellation of satellites in the tens of thousands affordably. That's the type of coverage that Brilliant Pebbles needs to succ
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by ridewinter 7y ago
This article is what Karl Popper would call historicism — the idea that history has fixed laws or trends that inevitably lead to certain outcomes. Here's an article on why he considered it false and even dangerous: https://
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As wild as it sounds, parallel universes are IMO the best way to explain a quantum computer. I posted an article about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337739
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One way of viewing Google's achievement is as a result that cannot be explained without invoking parallel universes. That's pretty amazing. I posted an article explaining more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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The Quantum Computer Explained Using the Multiverse(medium.com)
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As the current American President has shown, treaties and obligations only go so far. That destruction of trust may be the most lasting damage that he causes.
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Nice, concise & persuasive article. Do you think the political environment in the Bay Area is ripe for it?
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No one discussing UBI as a nation-wide comprehensive solution here?
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There's a decent chance we're now at peak noise. EVs and self driving cars that don't honk their horns becoming more and more ubiquitous. Someday electric trucks. Better appliances. Silent discos becoming more and more popula
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The church in the small Swiss town I lived in rang its bell every 15 minutes , even in the middle of night. Maybe the locals find it comforting. It kept me up.
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I encourage everyone pessimistic about our future to learn about David Deutsch's infinite optimism: https://youtu.be/lX-K63pVPTM
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Owning a car is necessary for daily life. And your backyard pool will not impact the rest of society.
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Owning a gun makes it 2-3x more likely someone in your family will die by a gun. So it makes you less safe, not more. https://slate.com/technology/2015/01/good-guy-with-a-gun-myt... And it definitely makes it
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Yes, Churchill said plenty of stuff that was racist/misogamist even back in those days. Bojo models himself after him. Btw I'm a big Churchill fan in spite of all that. The flawed hero.
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It was a leaked document, nothing official yet. But this is massive news. Saying it doesn’t matter because there’s no practical uses is like the people discounting the Wright Brothers because the airplane could only fly for a minute.
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Can you explain how qbits work then? How exactly do they take on multiple values at the same time?
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FWIW, after 15 years of consistent practice, mediation to me is simply isolating yourself so that you have no escape from the dramas in your mind. You eventually simply become bored of them and that liberates all kinds of creative energy
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We tend to find solutions for resource scarcity. eg. Tesla dramatically reducing its cobalt usage. https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-model-3-batteries-cobalt-vol...
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by ridewinter 7y ago
MWI provides a clear, comprehensive explanation for all of the “weird” quantum phenomenon. Beyond that, this quote from FoR [1] convinced me: “To those who still cling to a single-universe world-view, I issue this challenge: explain how Sho
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I remember the information chaos, the car radio said that the towers came down and passenger planes were being shot down by the military. I was in tears. What a day.
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Pretty sure what I’m saying is to use the dang fire hydrant in addition to removing unnecessary wood from the cathedral.
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Not “technology will save us” - human creativity can save us. It has in the past and survival will require our creativity infinitely into the future. You may laugh but let’s tslk again in 30 years. When avg temps rise more than the 1 degree
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Yes, we’ve always used technology to alter our environments and we’ll need to continue to do so. The explanations in the doomsday articles here assume no technological progress. We’ve only put minimal effort into geo-engineering solutions,
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The soviet naval officer who prevented WWIII: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/you-and-almo... The British government on the brink of capitulating to Hitler: https://www.historyextra
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There’s the multiple population bottlenecks in our DNA history [1]. The close calls in world wars and cold wars. Etc. 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2842629/
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Earth has always been uninhabitable for the most part. It’s only technology that allows us to live where we are (unless you live in the great Rift Valley). And it will be technology that saves us in the future. Edit: downvoted for technolog
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No, we’ve been on the brink of annihilation many times and have found a way through. We cannot predict what new knowledge will be discovered to solve these problems. But we must keep trying.

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