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by rspeer 10y ago
My suggested alternative is prioritizing problems appropriately. This "Open Philantropy Project" is a guy taking money that used to be for curing malaria (and I respect what he used to do on that front!) and giving it to his roomm
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's hard to decipher what you mean, too. Ubuntu already switched from Python 2 to Python 3 and not many people feel "messed up" by this. Python 3 is the only Python pre-installed on current versions of Ubuntu. All Ubuntu sys
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by rspeer 10y ago
I don't think AI researchers are "out of their depth" (I am one myself). And yes, there is room for different opinions. However, I believe that the ones who say sensational things about AI doomsday are the ones who are dispro
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm sure what they do falls within the rather broad field of AI. It's just not AGI, which is the thing they talk about to get people to give money to their AI projects.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Well, I would use it as a criticism. This is a tangled web of like-minded people giving money to each other and calling it charity. Some people conflate this with Effective Altruism, which I think sucks. Compared to the rigorous work done b
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by rspeer 10y ago
You can justify lots of things with Pascal's wager, but most of them are religions.
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by rspeer 10y ago
That's Pascal's Wager. What makes you think that OpenAI is doing anything that has any meaningful impact on AGI? We have no idea what AGI looks like.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I got excited about 8-bit floating point being standardized, which would be actually very useful in machine learning if processors supported it. I really would want to be able to use SIMD operations that affect eight 8-bit floats at the sam
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by rspeer 10y ago
It already happened, so probably not.
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm guessing what you're talking about is using Bayesian techniques to compute something useful, which nobody will stop you from doing. The part that has opposition is using a Bayesian justification for the experimental results in
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by rspeer 10y ago
And that's why he's talking about nuclear disarmament, right? No? Seems that Musk wants to be a superhero that saves humanity, but villains that actually exist aren't cool enough for him.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Data extraction from Wikipedia seems to be a task for which there exist a plethora of partial solutions, all different. Partial solutions are perhaps all we can hope for, given how hopelessly intermingled semantics and presentation are in t
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by rspeer 10y ago
"Supported distributions include Fedora Core 11, Ubuntu 9.04 and OpenSuSe 11.1." And you have to install a ton of 32-bit dependencies. This is abandoned and insecure. A Linux user would only do this if they were desperate to run a
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by rspeer 10y ago
AIR doesn't run on Linux, which I believe was a requirement for the author.
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by rspeer 10y ago
And is that the same as or different from "Google Messenger" (an SMS app)? For bonus confusion, the Google Messenger icon just says "Messenger" and is nearly indistinguishable from Facebook Messenger, a completely differ
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by rspeer 10y ago
Koko did not talk. She imitated hand signs. Her handlers were gorilla handlers, not linguists. They were willing to accept any combination of hand signs as communication, and they got to decide what was being "communicated". The p
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by rspeer 10y ago
It's not just government websites, it's requirements that the government placed on all e-commerce sites in South Korea.
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Collectly – Stripe for medical debt collection It's quite unsettling that this is an industry where people see a lot of growth potential.
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by rspeer 10y ago
> Upcall is definitely not a spamming service (no robotcalls or autodialing service) Nobody said it was a robot-calling or auto-dialing service. "Qualifying leads" is the thing where people with whom I have no prior business ar
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by rspeer 10y ago
Why would he work at a hardware company?
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by rspeer 10y ago
They say that the chance of a false positive is less than 2^-90.
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by rspeer 10y ago
That would preclude most research data. If you use Wikipedia as an input, for example, your data is CC-By-SA, not CC-By.
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by rspeer 10y ago
When I was an undergrad freshman, I took a job with a research group as a data annotator. My job was to go through the Switchboard corpus (recordings of hour-long phone calls that people agreed to have recorded, in exchange for having the l
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by rspeer 10y ago
This may not fit your preconceptions, but the article is saying that Edge is considered a difficult target for hacking.
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by rspeer 10y ago
How would you tell when you are mitigating these far-future risks, instead of taking irrelevant actions or making them worse? What makes you think that AI risk is a tractable problem, or even a well-defined one?
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by rspeer 10y ago
> many EAs think that we should first focus on problems which receive less media attention but are plausibly just as serious. How is that effective? How could you even measure the effectiveness of focusing on problems that don't c
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by rspeer 10y ago
I'm assuming from the filename that that only works if you're on Ubuntu 14.04, right?
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by rspeer 10y ago
The unknown there is their automation arm being sued by Google.
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by rspeer 10y ago
Yeah, it was 0.3. So that would address the importing problem, if the modules I'm importing use the precompilation system. How is string performance doing?
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by rspeer 10y ago
When I last used it, the time to import even two modules was many seconds. I know that's JIT time, but that breaks the flow of developing with Julia like it's a dynamic language. And the JVM is popular, yes, but nobody would call

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