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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
They can’t run this program on a societal level because it would cost too much (>100B a year in the US alone, which is surely more than the value they derive from it). So we really only need to be concerned about whether this hurts the i
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
See, I felt like it was not a great comparison because a body part is a very different thing from web traffic. Since Facebook does not stand to gain anything from inflicting material harm on you, the expected value of giving them your dat
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
Military is an exception to all sorts of constitutional rights.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
And they would have won none at all if deepmind had worked on the problem for one more year before showcasing it, even with this limitation. I don’t think it really matters.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
It’s not that they literally must work. It’s that they can be fired for not showing up despite going without pay. Any private employer could also try this, although it’s questionable whether or how long people would put up with it. When the
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
> but now we know that RoundUp in large quantities clearly causes cancer. I don’t think we do know that. Unless Wikipedia editors and European regulatory agencies are Monsanto shills. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
While I appreciate the note of contradiction, it would be super helpful to those of us less familiar with the research if you would specify what parts are wrong or pseudoscience. I must admit the article seemed somewhat convincing to me, al
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
> The actual meaning is in my opinion that at some point, when you can pay your bills easily and do not need to worry about money every day, increasing your income doesn't make you happier. That’s not actually true though. There’s p
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
They have the resources to test that configuration. They just don’t have the resources to fix the driver bugs the tests found.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
Obviously it’s not that Google doesn’t have the resources. They have enough resources to fund whole new OSes. Of course they could fund testing. Chrome team, on the other hand, does not have the resources. Which is to say that this is not t
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
I hope I am still able to joke. The older folks in my life seem to manage some equinanimity about their situation, even though to me it seems less than ideal.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
That’s a pretty charitable interpretation. I would suggest that we’d be in more or less exactly the same spot whether or not kurzweil published these predictions. He didn’t do it to advance the state of the art. Or if he did he’s totally de
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
In theory, but NYCs rarely go that fast. This is changing though. I saw a news article recently about how they are lifting the speed limits on some sections of track as repaired signals come online.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
The main thing to stop it is that we don’t know what genes to target to make super humans. If we did, someone would probably try. As perhaps they should, under some ethical systems.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
So? Should we not have cars, planes, antibiotics, computers, etc. because some cannot afford them?
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
Looking forward to seeing this posted in 2021 and 2023 with the hypothesized massive drop in google’s valuation having failed to materialize.
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
If he meant that word, he should have used that word. Even if he meant “sucks,” I don’t think he’s right. I use VS Code professionally. It’s far better than Sublime Text or notepad++, despite making different trade offs on the native vs ele
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
The article is interesting food for thought, but there’s a fundamental error. In the toy algorithmic problems, having the wrong big O solution is wrong because it doesn’t finish in a satisfactory amount of time. From this he seems to infer
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by shhehebehdh 8y ago
Doubt it. For whatever reason, it seems like the way of thinking required for even simple programming doesn’t come naturally to most people. I saw this with a bunch of kids I went through nearly CS classes with. People who could not wrap th