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781.
by solveit 7y ago
Yes. Also, an attack would be fairly obvious and miners invested in the future of the blockchain (i.e. everyone using ASICS, which is everyone that matters) would increase their hashrate to mount a defense, increasing the cost by some hard-
782.
by solveit 7y ago
It doesn't matter if the US government is doing the attacking, they're not winning with general purpose hardware. ASICs are literally thousands of times faster with lower power consumption than GPUs. Also, any state attacker wor
783.
by solveit 7y ago
Uh... neither of those things is exactly raping a child? There would be plenty to coerce.
784.
by solveit 7y ago
> However, in my experience, people with low PCL-R scores who make bad decisions when in emotional states are likely to change their position when they realize they have inadvertently harmed the innocent. Genuine psychopaths, on the othe
785.
by solveit 7y ago
The argument is that his 2008 conviction should have been enough to make the Media Lab reject his contributions.
786.
by solveit 7y ago
I'm pretty sure he's bullshitting. Even the Mossad couldn't track down every high-profile Nazi after the war, and often took years to find even the ones they did find.
787.
by solveit 7y ago
How?
788.
by solveit 7y ago
So will humans. With AI, the model and training data are auditable and, if necessary, modifiable. You can't audit a person's life history and you can only really modify a grader by replacing them, and it's much less socially
789.
by solveit 7y ago
Yes but words don't mean things any more and haven't in a while.
790.
by solveit 7y ago
There is, and it might even win eventually, but students could use the material now.
791.
by solveit 7y ago
It's a bad idea to put both your money and your career into the same basket. Either the employees will immediately sell the equity, which will essentially make this just a tax cut, or (if they can't) they'll be in a dangerous
792.
by solveit 7y ago
Sure it does, we (should) decide policy based on what is possible, not what adheres to some God-given set of moral consistency conditions. A ban on e-cigarettes is probably politically feasible, a ban on cigarettes is not. Anyway, I still d
793.
by solveit 7y ago
I'm seeing this sort of thing often these days. People absolutely insist on taking a moral stand on the flimsiest of situations. Not everything is a value judgement for Christ's sake, sometimes words just mean what they mean!
794.
by solveit 7y ago
Sounds like a great way to make everyone poor.
795.
by solveit 7y ago
I think people's risk tolerances would dramatically change with unbounded lifespans, and we would take any threat to life much more seriously than we do now.
796.
by solveit 7y ago
I find it amazing that people unironically advocate the deaths of literally everyone because they can't be arsed to deal with overpopulation. If immortality were the default, it would rightly be seen as batshit insane to force everyo
797.
by solveit 7y ago
You're probably right. I just get frustrated when people insist on reading value judgments in literally everything. Sometimes the curtains are just blue, you know?
798.
by solveit 7y ago
Slightly misleading headline. They're remarkably late to turn to Bitcoin, but they're learning very fast. The body of the article makes this clear.
799.
by solveit 7y ago
I don't understand the point of replying like this. Clearly we agree that the Singaporean government is very good at getting things done, and we agree that the things it wants to get done are horrible. Why are you speaking as if our op
800.
by solveit 7y ago
A quasi-Orwellian dystopia Singapore may be, but their government is effective.
801.
by solveit 7y ago
Another Satoshi impersonator? Even the writing style is terrible and obviously not Satoshi.
802.
by solveit 7y ago
We conclude it's looking possible because fundamental physics says it should be possible.
803.
by solveit 7y ago
I don't know much about chess, so this is a sincere question. What sort of accuracy would be a baseline? So, on average, how many not-obviously-stupid possible moves are there per turn (for some reasonable value of "obviously&quot
804.
by solveit 7y ago
Yes, but effect sizes are relatively harder to hack/screw up (knowingly or otherwise) than p-values. My totally anecdotal impression is that findings showing large effect sizes seem to replicate better than findings showing highly sign
805.
by solveit 7y ago
You're absolutely right, but the effect size is pretty damn impressive and I expect this to at least partially replicate.
806.
by solveit 7y ago
> Given the vast wealth Google etc have accumulated its clear that actually, they could afford to do it, and still make good, but not astounding, profits. Citation very much needed.
807.
by solveit 7y ago
> Younger people's understanding of how world works and what a person is like comes entirely from the internet. They (we?) do/did go to school you know... Replace internet with tv and your argument goes through just as well, wh
808.
by solveit 7y ago
> Nevermind that nuclear takes decades to approve and to build out - time that we just don't have. But hey, as long as we can feel good about it, right? A big part of this is bitterness over the way nuclear energy has been treated.
809.
by solveit 7y ago
Basically none. We will continue to dose cattle with antibiotics as long as there is additional gain from doing so, regardless of how profitable cattle without antibiotics are.
810.
by solveit 7y ago
For the vast majority of people, that information isn't really actionable. I maintain that politics is way overemphasized in media relative to its importance to the consumers of said media.

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