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by stillsut 8y ago
The problem is coordination of a Public solution where the will to act lacks a political majority or super majority. The opportunity is the most progressive eighth of the first world really wants to address it. Then the solution is a Privat
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by stillsut 8y ago
The problem boils down to the poem being taught in high school when the average American teenager has yet to have made any independent choices, nor have they ever really had to live with the consequences of some decision made when they were
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by stillsut 8y ago
How well would sound work? As in listening for the person to yell out to an autonomous vehicle flying above the canopy. Obviously drones are noisy, so maybe fixed wing. Or maybe you could have a microphone suspended on a cable fifty feet be
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by stillsut 8y ago
It is an impressive accomplishment ; but like GPA, not an indicator-of-success in venture.
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Former actuary here. Let me try to explain some of the frustrations that occur in the profession: Technical ownership is distributed from the top down and can not be overridden from bottom-up process improvements. Even if it made sense to i
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by stillsut 8y ago
What I find unusual is - according to the infographic - both southern cables broke in the initial stage. And then that was followed by the northern cables breaking in response to the load shifting. I presume the two southern cables are in
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by stillsut 8y ago
Yeah today it's PRISM and Stuxnet. But less sarcastically, there was that stealth helicopter destroyed during the Bin Laden raid, but I haven't seen much talk about it since.
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by stillsut 8y ago
It seems likely that autonomy will not be first adopted by the US but instead in the 'wild west' of BRICs - Brazil, Russia, India or China. Also maybe in a country small, rich, authoritarian, and organized enough to build infrastr
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by stillsut 8y ago
There's something of "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges" in your victimhood concept. Or updating the concept to current times, forbidding those who can couch surf indefinitel
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by stillsut 8y ago
There are currently two competing narratives about what is racist: On one side, it's considered racist to make decisions based on race. On the other side, it's considered racist to make decisions without considering race, and th
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by stillsut 8y ago
The F-35 is a weapons system designed to continue the US's ability to easily win a conventional war against a high 2nd tier state power in their own territory. What this might look like is the total rout in 1991 of Iraq, which had the
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by stillsut 8y ago
A good start towards defining consciousness is to box it in with edge cases: a person in coma? a severely mentally retarded person? a person on hallucinogenic drugs? a dog? The answers to these edge cases can help us separate possibly entan
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by stillsut 8y ago
I don't see how the desire simply for defense can avoid developing autonomy in micro-drone interceptors: Oh no, a bad guy drone is flying right towards the pope! Deploy the autonomous interception drone to stop it. No way a human p
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by stillsut 8y ago
No, it's a "second opinion", and the human doctors are graded with how well their own take differs with the computer's advice, when the computer's advice is different from the ground truth. And there's probably
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by stillsut 8y ago
> the rich and poor are far more visually distinct today. That is one narrative - the stepford wife vs the welfare mom, the soylent drinking tech worker vs the beer drinking factory worker. True to some extent. But it was Taleb in Antif
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by stillsut 8y ago
Become an archivist of the present. Something like Humans of New York where you use photographs and interviews of the heart, to portray the myriad ways life was experienced back when people were mortal, ate meat, and had children.
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by stillsut 8y ago
> I'd expect collision-prevention to have absolute priority ..to [not] make the car run into a large object in its field of vision. This is a good point. But I think we've all placed our "toes over the curb" with a ca
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by stillsut 8y ago
As much as "rogue pedestrian" seems like blaming the victim, if you go actually did go "rogue" at any truck stop in this country, I suspect you would not survive one night. Trucks Stops and Times Square are two ends to a
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by stillsut 8y ago
The exact circumstances of the struck pedestrian likely violated many [possibly curde] bayesian priors for what to consider a positive collision threat: A rogue pedestrian at an unflagged portion of road, at an odd time of night, on a road
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by stillsut 8y ago
Reminds me of the parable of the two shoe salesmen in Africa [0]. The point being, if there's all these isolated, lonely cliques, there's actually a huge opportunity for someone who can consistently connect with others starting ou
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by stillsut 8y ago
Common misconception: having your finger in a lot of different pies is not being a Maven. If you joined an improv group, a church group, a softball team, and an MMA gym, you're at best a conglomerate, but more likely an overextended e
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by stillsut 8y ago
This will seem counter-intuitive but work on opening up strangers in public places, and your friends will end up gravitating towards you. Gladwell observed in Tipping Point that most peoples' social circle is usually created by one
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by stillsut 8y ago
Give me a 'noob' view of answers: Disregard (or even reverse) super-user downvotes on answers, and never delete anything other than spam. Motivating example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5664741/wa
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Amazon is reportedly working on a home robot(techcrunch.com)
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by stillsut 9y ago
If you work in a latino painting or landscaping crew, tough guy stuff like this is expected and socially enforced. Or say Alaskan fishermen. It's one of tradeoffs you make for an uber-bule-collar job. But these jobs also have benefits
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by stillsut 9y ago
Love this idea. On the subject, does anyone know the potential fuel (delta % mpg's) savings of an optimally coordinated self-driving fleet that utilizes drafting?
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by stillsut 9y ago
When people look back at this time, I think they are going to contrast the OpenAI camp with the Satoshi camp. OpenAI is extremely public about what organizations and individuals are involved. Satoshians are pathologically secret, from the f
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by stillsut 9y ago
How can an electric car company be in a bear market the week after a fusion device was patented? If Lockheed really believes in their device, they ought to buy Tesla.
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by stillsut 9y ago
Uber is losing $1B of shareholder capital every quarter to subsidize driver wages above rider revenue. A tax on capital, distributed to labor, no?
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by stillsut 9y ago
In the short term, the autonomous vehicles are 5% of a large market fleets (like NYC). Uber plays around with how to deploy their literal robots (not unreliable contractors) in surge situations. Also they try new flavors of ride hailing: th

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