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by rw 17y ago
Golly, a transhumanist interested in social justice issues! If you're a humanist, you ought to be a transhumanist. Eliezer argues convincingly on this point. What is so hard about noting that if you are a transhumanist, you ought to be a hu
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by rw 17y ago
> Really, if you're going for the "I hate college, OMG its so lame" route, you really need to rethink your stance. Don't troll. The problem I identified in school is this: my internal motivation (passion, largely unexplained) would be r
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by rw 17y ago
I love computer science so much that I refused to take classes in it as an undergrad.
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by rw 17y ago
The comments below the post are more insightful than the OP.
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by rw 17y ago
Great piece. As far as social networking goes, this stood out: > Anyway, we're in a world where the mainstream social networks want any and all people to boost user numbers for the big selloff and are not concerned with the quality of e
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by rw 17y ago
I'm implementing this right now in processing.org. You can get terrific speedups if you keep your drawing/fitness-scoring canvas very small, and only render the larger image when you want to save a copy of it.
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by rw 17y ago
No it does not. Editors can pick the best answers, replacing the voting mechanism.
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by rw 17y ago
An ICBM attack. Warheads filled with poverty.
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by rw 17y ago
Imperfect markets. Don't trot out that tired horse that goes "you have every choice possible, how could you complain about the one you picked?"
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by rw 17y ago
It's all integers, man!
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by rw 17y ago
> He maintains that he would have done what authorities now want him to do, if they’d just worked with him to devise a plan, instead of treating him like a criminal. Given the depiction of this guy's persona, this statement seems accura
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by rw 17y ago
TC is drawing conclusions based on one data point. I dispute how they are using the data, not whether that data is accurate. I wonder if their CPM will go down as a result of all this hype-cycling.
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by rw 17y ago
Better data is over a longer span of time.
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by rw 17y ago
The TC hype machine's two-step pass is operating at full efficiency: 1) Make a dramatic generalization from obviously-inadequate data. 2) Write a followup when better data proves it wrong.
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by rw 17y ago
uh? www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=mail&passive=true&rm=false&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.google.com%2Fmail%2F%3Fui%3Dhtml%26zy%3Dl&bsv=zpwhtygjntrz&scc=1&ltmpl=default&ltmplcache=2&hl=es
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by rw 17y ago
We can use our emotions as a shortcut to save on processing time. Whether or not that shortcut leads us to the correct answer is a different question. Emotions are not bad , they are just often dangerous when dealing with situations outsid
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by rw 17y ago
That does not follow. Although it may take many failures to climb the mountain of excellence, once you're there, and are still regularly failing, you have a problem.
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by rw 17y ago
Competition leads to much waste, in the aggregate.
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by rw 17y ago
"Are we supposed to think Arc is a pragmatic language for shipping production applications" No.
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List of WHO Essential Medicines (for developing economies)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rw 17y ago
Linkbait title, but the (I'm being generous here) thesis is this: the human species has lost prowess (strength, endurance, intelligence) by shifting from our "native" hunter-gatherer diet and activity level, to a sedated lifestyle based upo
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Books as Software (2007)(cs.brown.edu)
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by rw 17y ago
Your pitch is good enough that I was really annoyed when I realized that it is closed-source. I do not expect the crypto/privacy aficionados to help you out with this product.
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by rw 17y ago
Not all teachers' unions are created equal. Nor do they evolve equally. Your claims reminded me of Wikipedia's fantastic list of logical fallacies. Please refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgmental_language http://en.wikipedia.org
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Dtrx: Intelligent archive extraction (2006)(brettcsmith.org)
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The nondeterministic characterization is easier to work with.
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by rw 17y ago
Then there's the problem of the person who only says 1 thing, but it is brilliant. How about quality*quantity?
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by rw 17y ago
Build a superhuman intelligence (duh).
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by rw 17y ago
gregking, I recommend reading the essays at http://yudkowsky.net/singularity before having this discussion.
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Godel Prize Awarded(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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