sullyj3

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by sullyj3 8y ago
What? Zero sum doesn't mean that a stalemate is guaranteed. It means that one player's win is the other player's loss.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
This mistake of reifying of non-fundamental concepts and then thinking about them without reference to their component parts is an epidemic in philosophy, and it always has been.
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by sullyj3 8y ago
What determines whether your predictions are correct?
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by sullyj3 8y ago
The universe doesn't try random states sequentially, it's governed by things like gravity that tend to lead to states where the forming of optimization processes is possible
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by sullyj3 9y ago
The next sentence afterwards is a monstrosity: "But, I explained to my work colleagues as the Princeton local pulled out from platform eight and late-arriving passengers swished up through the carriages in search of empty seats, both t
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I think the parent wasn't concerned about scrolling through large numbers of files, so much as the performance issues associated with querying them.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I always alias "ls" to "l"
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> Any culture that isn't similar your culture is by definition inferior when held to your cultural standards, so there is no reason to do so. Ok, so, suppose we met a culture that thought it was a good thing to burn children alive a
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by sullyj3 9y ago
What you're gesturing at is that it's illogical to make value judgements, period, without a standard that your object of interest is being judged against. This fact, which is blatantly obvious once pointed out, is obscured by the
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Sounds like the movie Primer
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by sullyj3 9y ago
So, circular causality, basically?
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> Unfortunately, we don't have any idea how to go about creating exotic matter A priori, I don't see any reason to believe that creating it should be possible. It's never been observed, and I'm assuming there aren&#x2
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Python throws an exception for incomparable types. I guess that's not really practical on the web.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
They already could've done that if they wanted to. . The analogue hole is still digitally controlled, that's why it takes a second for audio to come through your headphones when you plug them in, your alarm plays through the speak
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Sorry, I misspoke haha. They're not applicable to things without brains.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Because when I'm worried about a machine recycling the atoms that make up my body, I'm not particularly interested in whether it has conscious experience. There's no particular reason to suppose that something needs to be con
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Yes, an AI will do exactly what we tell it to do. The the incredible difficulty programmers have with writing bug-free code demonstrates that doing exactly what it's told isn't sufficient to guarantee it'll do what we want. C
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I don't think the point of the article is to make a complete argument for acting now, but rather to counter a particular objection to acting now. MIRI has a fair amount of writing, which I would say in totality constitutes an argumen
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Your first guess? You don't get to dismiss peoples' arguments as superstition just because you don't understand them.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> without any specifics of what works for an implementation As I understand it, if you assume that your agent is rational in certain basic ways, for instance that it has ordered, rather than circular preferences, or it can't be Dutc
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> Today Apple announced its new FaceID technology. It’s a new way to unlock your phone through facial recognition. This line makes it sound like android hasn't had this feature for years.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
That's true if your edit is a single vim command, but if you're executing a few different ones at each location, . will only repeat the last. Hm, it strikes me that it might be a cool feature to interactively select as many of the
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by sullyj3 9y ago
The main argument for multiple cursors over macros is that they give a tighter feedback loop. If the macro you record works for the section where you recorded it, but doesn't generalise, without thinking hard about it (undesirable) you
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by sullyj3 9y ago
The author has spoken against Trump vehemently on multiple occasions. I'm pretty sure the unspeakable opinions referred to in this post aren't Trump related.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
I'm not really sure what viewpoint you're attributing to the article, but according to my reading, the article dismisses the "multiple learning styles" thing as dogma without evidence.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
Only if you care about other people.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
It'd be cool to be able to re-order songs after adding them. The order I think of tunes isn't necessarily the order of listening that works best.
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by sullyj3 9y ago
A search tree in something like chess is quite small, and very discrete. You can enumerate every possible action, and exploring the tree to a useful depth is computationally tractable. By contrast, for an agent operating in a complex enviro
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by sullyj3 9y ago
> Have you ever met a human mind that was completely consistent? I Haven't. You're confusing different notions of consistency. I could write a trading bot in python which preferred CompanyCorp shares to IndustrialInc shares, an
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by sullyj3 9y ago
In regards to self improvement, my argument wasn't really about that. I was trying to demonstrate the viability of at least human level intelligence. I don't know how likely intelligence explosion scenarios are. The possibility

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