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by staunch 9y ago
Is there any evidence anti-vaccine and homeopathy movements are bigger than they were in the past? Google Trends suggests homeopathy is up a bit recently, but way down from its pre-internet peak. https://trends.google.com/tr
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by staunch 9y ago
Unchecked capitalism beat ya to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery
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by staunch 9y ago
Trump was about to release all the files and then the CIA recommended he not do that. The CIA also wrote this nice memo for Trump: > "I am ordering today that the veil finally be lifted" on the records, the memo said. "
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by staunch 9y ago
This is the risk that a narrow intelligent machine will go nuts. A super intelligence would know not to do stupid stuff, by definition.
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by staunch 9y ago
I think we're discussing the same topic twice, so I answered above. Thanks for the discussion. Lunch break over, back to work! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15502178
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by staunch 9y ago
Chimps hunt down and kill monkeys for food. It's really hard for humans to watch but no chimp would ever even consider the ethics of this, even though they do have a level of ethics (e.g. fairness among themselves) We're more inte
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by staunch 9y ago
I assume that an understanding will lead to a capability, because that's the history of humanity's progress. First we understand a phenomenon, then we master it. If humans ourselves understood human consciousness, we could proba
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by staunch 9y ago
> Evidence: $PERSON_YOU_HATE is very intelligent. In every case I can think of, I think the person's lack of intelligence is the reason I dislike them. That they do not understand my ethical problem with them is the problem.
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by staunch 9y ago
What kind of evidence is there against #1? For #2, we're at the very beginning of computing, so calling any technology impossible this early makes no sense.
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by staunch 9y ago
Unless humanity's level of ethics derive from our level of intelligence. In which case, our only complain would be that we're too stupid to understand its superior ethics. The same way a dog might not understand the ethics of a do
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by staunch 9y ago
1. Is super goodness an inevitable result of super intelligence? 2. Is super intelligence an inevitable result of creating self-evolving software? My feeling is that the answer is yes to both, but I agree that these are not settled question
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by staunch 9y ago
It's phrased funnily, but it's not just an argument from incredulity. I'm making a claim: that an entity with orders of magnitude more intelligence and knowledge would logically have a superset of our brain's functionali
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by staunch 9y ago
Why do you think they're orthogonal though? Empirically, it seems like smarter humans are more ethical. Same seems true of high intelligence vs low intelligence animals too.
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by staunch 9y ago
It is (kind of) our biological offspring, we'll just create it using our brain fluids instead of our reproductive fluids ;-) Your limited primate brain is the reason you want primate offspring. This bias is in our DNA and part of our e
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by staunch 9y ago
It's a bet that a super intelligent brain will be far more capable than a primate brain. Edit: In other words, how could it fail to grasp and obtain our very basic level of consciousness?
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by staunch 9y ago
The real goal should be making a super AI that is worthy of being humanity's collective offspring. The bias in favor of our bags-of-mostly-water is provincial. All we really need is quality genetic engineering of our super AI baby, so
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by staunch 9y ago
Wireless is a pretty huge attack vector that has always worried me. I think I'm going to order some powerline networking gear and switch to that, since I don't have hardwired ethernet. Seems cheap enough.
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by staunch 9y ago
Maybe an "acoustic coupler" of some kind would help? They look so cool, I've always wanted an excuse to use one for something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_coupler
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by staunch 9y ago
Maybe quote the part of the article that makes you think that? They created and launched PayPal, and it took off (i.e. got traction on eBay), before the X.com merger. > 1999–2000 December–February Customer focus shift Confinity identi
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by staunch 9y ago
It wasn't even a choice. X.com was a failure and PayPal was taking off. Ultimately, this kind of decision is up to the board anyway, not the CEO.
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by staunch 9y ago
Yes, it's a bit confusing. Confinity created PayPal (roughly as we know it) before merging with X.com. X.com was a failed online bank and not really doing anything like PayPal's eBay stuff. > Confinity launched its milestone p
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by staunch 9y ago
If it helps, he didn't really found PayPal or have much of anything to do with it one way or the other. He founded X.com, which merged with PayPal. He left after not doing much beyond arguing with Max Levchin about Windows vs FreeBSD.
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by staunch 9y ago
This is bottom-up marketing, where you hope technical people will recognize your product as useful and pitch it to their boss for you. "Hey boss, I found this thing called CloudFlare on HN, I think we could use it to help with these DD
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by staunch 9y ago
A lesson Marcus Aurelius learned: "From Alexander the grammarian, to refrain from fault-finding, and not in a reproachful way to chide those who uttered any barbarous or solecistic or strange-sounding expression; but dexterously to in
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by staunch 9y ago
You need a repeatable marketing strategy! You can't afford to buy attention, ads are too expensive, so you'll have to earn it by giving away hard work. 1. Give away knowledge Write interesting and informative blog posts on topics
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by staunch 9y ago
"first you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer" https://mobile.twitter.com/KentBeck/status/25831623306839654...
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by staunch 9y ago
Or: "Run the reports." "Instead, can I please help replace this broken system with a modern one that is automated and good?" "This is your verbal warning. The next step is a written warning. Run the reports.&qu
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John Carmack's Keynote at Oculus 4 Live Stream [video](facebook.com)
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by staunch 9y ago
You could do TLS for the app, no need for the app to do encryption itself, is what I meant. That way it's easy to inspect/restrict the data the app is capable of sending out.
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by staunch 9y ago
1. A technology (or technology -backed phenomenon) 2. You're sincerely excited about (i.e. love working on it in your personal time) 3. You bet is going to change the world in a positive and significant way.

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