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by someguyorother 5y ago
As an optimization mechanism, failures of the market can be either one of two things: - It optimizes the wrong thing, or - It fails to optimize what it intends to optimize. Externalities fit into the former category. Business cycles and som
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Now I wonder if he detects indirect statements and exhaustive lies, e.g. "The creature is in $CONTINENT" for all continents but one.
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by someguyorother 5y ago
>Edit: did you know you can do without “be” at all? It purely synthetic. Wouldn't it become rather difficult to do identity statements without "is"? E.g. "The Tor network is an anonymous relay network overlaid on the
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> Add them all together for the ultimate, proof of destruction: cryptocurrency backed by atmospheric pollution, fauna and flora extinction and natural resource exhaustion. Make a DoomCoin! It would keep 12 difficulty counters, one for ea
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by someguyorother 5y ago
That seems vulnerable to a version of the Scientology bestseller exploit. Let's say the seller is selling widgets. They get their phantom accounts to buy the widgets and thus run up the lifetime spend counter. Then they give the "
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by someguyorother 5y ago
>If you can compromise the device and extract the signal sent from the sensor, you should have a near universal replay payload. Right now that is still an espionage realm threat, but as these methods become more universal, mass attacks a
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by someguyorother 5y ago
You can also get some of the same near-the-machine fun by going into security. Shellcode has to be short and close to the OS, and breaking the stack (stringing together gadgets, and so on) by its nature subverts the higher abstraction layer
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by someguyorother 5y ago
> I would like to politely contest the authenticity of this specific detail. In my fairly strong collection of evidence, people just do not bubble sort without being told how to do that. FWIW, my first sort was selection sort. "Find
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by someguyorother 5y ago
If the white noise is based on a random number generator, the pattern would restart after a full cycle. If the random number generator's period is 2^32 and you use one integer per sample, then at 44 kHz, you would have about a million
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by someguyorother 5y ago
Which the refutation makes clear: it's not about intelligence, because a sufficiently powerful intelligence will just outwit its objective function in the most efficient way possible (which is closer to "porn" than "dest
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by someguyorother 5y ago
I like this refutation of the paperclip maximizer scenario, which ties in to your observation: Let's say there's a runaway superintelligence equipped with an optimization function that says it should produce a maximal amount of pa
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by someguyorother 5y ago
In an ideal world, the governments of the world (or other trusted parties) would provide identity providers based on zero-knowledge proofs. These would have the property that when a person joins a platform, the platform can check what other
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by someguyorother 6y ago
It seems to be a joke of sorts: It's the original "They Write the Right Stuff"[1] with a find-and-replace job where "software" has been replaced with "AI" - almost everywhere. [1] https://web.ar
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Here's a lynx --dump paste: https://pastebin.com/4n2DQ7Pc tldr: First, it destroys intrinsic motivation. The requirement that the grading be done on a curve then produces losers where there are none. The employees game
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by someguyorother 6y ago
You'd be surprised how often the people who are supposed to be good at ads aren't. Organizational inefficiency explains a lot of it: https://thecorrespondent.com/100/the-new-dot-com-bubble-is-h...
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by someguyorother 6y ago
There exist cellular and wireless cards for PCs too, and still a Linux PC is on our side. But if that's somehow not enough: You could use proof-carrying code or reproducible artifacts to keep the radio stack out of the users' cont
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Couldn't the central bank just sign the fingerprint and print the signature on the note? If the fingerprint can't be counterfeited and the private key can't be stolen, then the note would be unforgeable. As long as the finger
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by someguyorother 6y ago
The power law rules (almost) all things human. How often words are used in a language, wealth distribution, social network followers, you name it.
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by someguyorother 6y ago
And once you've finished that, go to Real Reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1f6UE27KTo Second Reality without a computer :)
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by someguyorother 6y ago
It'd have to be like the libertarian incompatibilists envision it: that free will gives everybody a capacity to, to some degree, be a first cause. From https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/incompatibilism-arguments..
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by someguyorother 6y ago
There's probably a hard limit to how much you can know about consciousness in general. Say, for instance, that what IIT measures isn't consciousness but memory. It tells you that when you take general anesthetic, the IIT measure i
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by someguyorother 6y ago
How do they know the CPF you give is really yours (or exists at all)? Do they also insist that you use a credit card?
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>What are humans except "text generation" machines? Text generation doesn't chop wood, optimize speedruns, build machinery or win 100-metre dashes. Text may be involved in training for these things, but to say that doing t
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by someguyorother 6y ago
I think it comes down to convenience. Paying in bitcoin is significantly more of a hassle than paying with a card, and it has much less recourse for a buyer that isn't careful (e.g. no chargebacks). Thus few people use bitcoin just as
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by someguyorother 6y ago
To me, "exists" is stronger than "predicts observation", although I can't entirely describe how, except by example. Let's say you're in a game. You can create a physics of the game world based on how that
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by someguyorother 6y ago
> ... to say that the Twitter format (and emergent culture) is a global or even local optima for strong intellectual discussion. To be fair, there's quite a bit of space between "absolute crap" and "optimal intellectu
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>What astonishes me is how giddily those who profess to love Liberty readily shed it at work. It's not coincidental that certain forms of right-libertarianism allow for voluntary slavery, which is this taken to its ultimate conclusi
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>I was also in a "consensus-based" meeting with a couple dozen people. It was dominated by one person who just kept insisting on getting their way, until everybody else got tired and "agreed." I heard somewhere about
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>Find the abstract elsewhere and then use the DOI to find it on Sci-Hub? That's pretty much it. Suppose you want to read a paper on memes, so you search scholar.google.com for "memes". Then let's say you find https:&
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by someguyorother 6y ago
As I understand it, TDD works by that you say what your problem is, find the smallest thing that will get you there, and then implement a test for it. The test will naturally fail, so you then write code to make it pass, and finally refacto

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