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by ta8645 3y ago
We'd have a problem on our hands if we all followed the admonishment to show more respect to people in public? To not besmirch someone, with no reason other than our own personal bias and prejudice? You're worried about the world
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by ta8645 3y ago
There's a difference between having a negative personal reaction, and sharing it publically. It's causing a public harm based on nothing other than some vague internal feeling. It's unproductive and irresponsible.
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by ta8645 3y ago
This doesn't just affect 23andMe's customers. It affects every person who shares DNA with their customers. For instance, police have been able to match DNA samples of an unknown perpetrator against these DNA services. Matches ag
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by ta8645 3y ago
"The history of the first microprocessor is murky and ill-defined. For years, the Intel 4004 was generally accepted to hold the title. However, in 1998, the historical record was rewritten as the existence of an earlier system was reve
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World's First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer [video](youtube.com)
4 points by ta8645 3y ago|1 comments
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by ta8645 3y ago
> (for now at least) Yeah, a lot of people get hung up on the term AI as it exists today, and protesting that it doesn't deserve such consideration. I should have been more explicit that I was speaking in the much more general sen
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by ta8645 3y ago
Well it's true, or not, regardless of how any of us feel about it. It's just fun to wonder.
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by ta8645 3y ago
Can't help but wonder, is AI an expected phase transition in the evolution of life in the universe? Is life really just the larval stage of a higher order intelligence?
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by ta8645 3y ago
> What article describes are abstractions. Abstractions are not bad. Abstractions are still possible, the only difference is the syntax with which they're presented. For instance, you need an "add" function for your add
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by ta8645 3y ago
There doesn't seem to be any justification offered on why it's not yet open source. Not that one is required, but it is suspicious that such a commitment isn't a priority, and that maybe there is a desire to keep closed-sourc
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by ta8645 3y ago
> No, you’re assuming a counterfactual. I'm not assuming anything. I'm following the science as reported in the article above. That in FACT a virus lead to an important part of human development. And was in FACT beneficial.
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by ta8645 3y ago
You're doing a lot of work to continue to miss the point. The point is not that we should embrace viruses in order to reap the benefits. Just that it is _POSSIBLE_ that a virus would turn out to be very beneficial to humanity, in the
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by ta8645 3y ago
That's your personal calculus, and fair enough. World leaders might make a different decision though. For instance, the British military planners allowed soldiers to die on the battlefield, who they could have saved, in order to prote
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by ta8645 3y ago
You're really missing the point -- there's no way to know the future. Maybe your optimism is warranted, but maybe we stamped out a virus that would have given us a superpower. The argument is _not_ that we should change our strat
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by ta8645 3y ago
It's really an impossible calculation. There's no way to appraise the consequences to assign a value. If it were possible to say, that a future mutation was necessary to save humanity (ie. we are doomed without entering that fu
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by ta8645 3y ago
It's a little odd to consider the idea that fighting off modern viruses today, might actually be impeding human evolution in some way we can't foresee.
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by ta8645 3y ago
No you should not. You should be able to use any tool you want. If you produce a work that is too much of a copy from the original, you might be liable to a copyright claim.. but the act of copy and paste should not be prohibited in the ge
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by ta8645 3y ago
That has no bearing at all on the issue at hand. The same can be said of the original argument that started this thread.
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by ta8645 3y ago
Hardly the point. The same can be said for road rules between vehicles and pedestrians, for example in major Indian cities, it's pretty much a free-for-all.
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by ta8645 3y ago
Both cars and pedestrians can be videotaped in public, without asking for their explicit permission. That video can be manipulated by a computer to produce an artwork that is then put on public display. No compensation need be offered to
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by ta8645 3y ago
If that's true, then it should be fine for that human to paint with the brush of his AI tool. Why should that human artist be restricted in the types of tools he uses to create his artwork?
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by ta8645 3y ago
> If you seriously think it's the people pointing that out who are the ones lacking empathy and behaving "hurtfully", I do seriously believe that, and my moral compass is intact. Empathy is easy to give, for those you unde
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by ta8645 3y ago
You're right, it is hard to do. But a little compassion and empathy goes a long way. Publically calling someone polarizing and creepy might feel good, but it is hurtful and unhelpful.
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by ta8645 3y ago
Personally, I think we should stop looking for sinless saviors, and embrace good ideas regardless of their origin.
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by ta8645 3y ago
Because science is so well trusted right now? The people who reject CNN, don't trust the universities to be politically neutral either.
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by ta8645 3y ago
It is interesting to see all the people who replied to you with every-day printing needs. But just to let you know you're not completely alone, I haven't needed a printer for ten years or so.
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A Runaway Greenhouse Effect on Earth Is Unlikely(youtube.com)
22 points by ta8645 3y ago|2 comments
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by ta8645 3y ago
> There's such thing as consent. When you release something into the world, you have to accept that things beyond your control will engage with it. When you walk outside, down the street, you consent to being in public, and being re
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by ta8645 3y ago
There is a rather vibrant culture of _human_ remix artists who sample existing music and generate something completely new. It is still an open question of how long a sample they can use before it requires licensing: https://www
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by ta8645 3y ago
This is literally impossible for the general case. There isn't a way to compress everything that an AI consumes down to the finite number of weights. That would represent a perfect compression algorithm, that is mathematically imposs

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