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by someguyorother 7y ago
Here's a text-only version, so to speak. lynx --dump's output: https://pastebin.com/3wP3mL75
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Some wavelet formats (SPIHT and EZW e.g) have the property that truncating the lossless version at 10% of the size gives you the 10:1 lossy rendering of that picture. That property holds not just for 10% but for any fraction of the file. It
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So why do people use screen keyboards at all? It's such a frustrating experience! You'd think they'd carry laptops around everywhere instead, and yet they don't.
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That's why you can't be sure that someone else is conscious. If you program the computer to say it's conscious, that doesn't tell you whether it's conscious or not, only whether it claims to be conscious. However, y
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Public broadcasters don't live off advertising, do they?
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What economists call path dependence. The alternative algorithm would be better than DNN if the same amount of effort was put into creating special-purpose hardware, libraries, and so on; but in the dystopia, it's not fully refined DNN
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I wonder, with formal verification being a thing, could you formally verify that a chip would be resistant to all types of power attacks according to the current laws of physics? Such a proof can never be final, because the laws of physics
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> Yes, it opens up a lot of possibilities for us today, but there is a hunch we're still trying to wave with hand-made wings instead of inventing a plane. One that will leave behind all these shutters, apertures, and Bayer filters.
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The two rules of game AI: 1. Cheat. 2. Never let the player catch you cheating.
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There does seem to be a kind of turnpike theory-like effect to technological development. I'm reminded of Schmidhuber's PowerPlay ( https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5309 ), too. It just trains on increasingly difficu
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Authoritarianism has its share of opposing forces too, I would wager. The vassals-clients are trying to switch places with the lords-patrons, and the patrons have to neutralize those attempts. A lot of work is wasted on policing: watching t
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I like Gargoyle: http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/ It supports a slew of formats and focuses on good typography.
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"Governing the Firm" by Gregory Dow is all about that exact question. Why aren't labor coops more common? What's holding them back, in game theory economics terms? One reason is that it's much easier to capture entr
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In Scandinavia, 30%+ tax rates are pretty much where people start, and it doesn't take too high an income to be right up at 35%. Yet those countries don't seem to be collapsing from tax evasion, and surely there must be some Scand
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MIRI's concerns are vastly overrated IMHO. Any AGI that's intelligent enough to misinterpret its goals to mean "destroy humanity" is also intelligent enough to wirehead itself. Since wireheading is easier than destroying
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> the "worlds of abundance" are made of relationships. And not in a good way. That doesn't sound entirely true. Imagine TNG, the typical abundance utopia (or Culture, insert your favorite post-scarcity society here). While
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A better analogy might be: Suppose you wander into the desert and get lost. Suppose you're on the verge of dying from thirst when another person shows up. He says "I'll take you back to civilization, but only if you agree to