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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Because that's the pattern I noticed in the last few days (or maybe I missed the good discussions that were had previously of which this is a repeat?). For example, as I pointed out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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I vouched for the story (which I didn't flag) just so I could reply: "unfit" and "unsuited" mean exactly the same thing. Are you being this intellectually dishonest on purpose? > Since you got that wrong I stoppe
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
While this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15004138 gets flagged instantly, that rises to the top? Google, HN, New York Times, Gizmodo -- who else? Stand up and be counted.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Mr. Bell hired his own investigators. They contend that it all began with faulty equipment: Officer Erich Strausbaugh’s holster caught on a cable dangling from one of the cars’ side-view mirrors, so that when he tackled Michael, he fel
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
From the article: > The way it works now, civilians often feel like the ones responsible for keeping violence at bay. In May, an African-American journalist named Tonya Jameson was changing the license plates on the used S.U.V. she had r
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
I'm not talking about perfection, I'm talking about not being covered in blood and shit so much of the time is all, about not being scared and driven. > You state the decoupling of psychological problems with some other undefin
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
No, people metaphorically slumping over and giving out is what affects me. The way they walk is not the symptom that I care about, that's why I mentioned votes and wallets first thing. There is a difference between "I don't c
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> Do you care that Bob down the road got fired for swearing at his boss? I bet you don't. That's hardly a fitting analogy. And yes, I for one do care about people including strangers, at least in the sense that I don't lik
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
If she was worried about being raped, why did she wear a mini skirt in the bad part of town? What outcome did she expect? Blame the rapist? Seriously?
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> oh please... how he acts is their fault? are you serious? No, how they act is their fault.
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Lovely projection I have to say. Chomsky is the guy with the good ideas (though he'd be the first to point out they're not original, but he still understands and holds them so the sentence is correct as is), you're the one bi
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
That's great, but the expressionless faces also don't necessarily mean everyone is texting your girlfriend, or enjoying it if they do :P When I even just read a book, I often catch myself with a grin or a frown. So if being glued
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The "lack of pretty" comes from seeing someone absorbed in a way that diminishes them, makes them smaller, makes them weaker. Plenty of people would say "I don't care if you think I'm too weak", and I wouldn&#x
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:) I wish I had come up with something better than "genital area" heh, but "womb" also didn't strike me as quite right.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Well, do you have it spelled out somewhere? Want to spell it out? Otherwise, what's the point of bringing it up? Me too am completely unchallenged in my actual viewpoints, but I gotta run. That's pointless. > Basically your a
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> This one, though, I would say comes from biology. Yes, and no. I see big dogs never barking, because they don't need to. I see little dogs always fretting. I think the misunderstanding might be in the phrase "seeking power&qu
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Why not set off all nukes on the planet? All species have to "fight for survival", it'd just one more thing to adapt to, so no actual change. Why did you even respond to my comment? I mean, electrons are buzzing about all the
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
If I had only the two choices, I would absolutely choose unconstrained, actual AGI over something controllable. But that's because the way things are going, I see mostly doom and gloom anyway; controlled AI will increase that, uncontro
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
I'd rather first deal with the excessed of greed resulting from psychopathology, because any successor of not doing that, multiplying the failure to do that by "infinite". I don't consider us even born, we're still
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
I'm not worried about actual AGI; infinitely powerful, not bound to the whims of any person or conglomerate. I see human atrocities born out of weakness, so I'm not worried about something that would have gain nothing from tortu
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
> AGI has clearly taken everyone's job in 2100 What would be impressive about that? How's that something to get hyped for? The ways people try to shed their humanity are already well described, and all that's left is to ou
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
If anything had been slightly different whole other sets of sperm would have fertilized the egg, so that's not such an impressive argument. Especially since all of us will be dead at some point, regardless. And funny how that &qu
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Why not ask them directly, if you actually want to ask rather than make up? For me it makes as much sense as comparing someone sewing pieces of clothes together with someone pulling a zipper. Did people also have races against cars all th
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
And I'd be fine with people slumping over and giving out if only their votes and wallets didn't also affect my neck of the woods. I flat out cannot afford such peers, sorry.
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
Going by the mostly vapid, unhappy expressions on their faces, I'd say no. And why would the alternative be talking to passing strangers? Why not just take in yourself and your surroundings, or be in your head without distractions? It&
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by thinkfurther 9y ago
It was posted to an internal group dealing with diversity. I find it fascinating that people who think they are refuting critics here always start with distortions. And calling it a "manifesto" is just getting high on mob supply.
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How about we leave the vapid wannabe "thought experiments" for dessert? After dealing with what actually is on the plate?
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He wasn't suspicious, he called it out. And seeing how oeople block each other on Twitter and retreating into echo chambers all the time, people on HN and elsewhere react like babies to anything that is "too personal", he&#x2
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That's people attending school, not having reading comprehension -- which isn't just getting something from the text, but understanding precisely what it says and doesn't say -- or having much of an attention span. Just an cu
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You'd waste it only in comparison with some hypothetical others spending a billion dollars in a hypothetical zero sum game where either they or you spend that, but not compared to not spending it at all or on stuff that makes the probl

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