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by thunk 16y ago
Well, that and toxoplasmosis.
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by thunk 16y ago
> It's easy enough to buy into a reduction of the basic singularity tenants ... I don't even get that far. It may be the case that it's impossible to model the brain to a sufficient level of detail to manufacture conciousness. It may
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by thunk 16y ago
Secrets about secrets?
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by thunk 16y ago
There's nothing I'd put past a true believer of any stripe.
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by thunk 16y ago
The thing that scares me about the Singularity is that it's such potent kool-aid for tech geeks. I talk to Singularitarians and there's this fire in their eyes like they've been reborn. They become so certain. They remind me of fundamentali
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by thunk 16y ago
> The Incal may be a little hard to find these days It may take a Bit, but its Torrent of insight is worth it.
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Designing products for single and multiplayer modes(cdixon.org)
2 points by thunk 16y ago|0 comments
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by thunk 16y ago
I agree. The future that seems likely to me is one in which most things exist both locally and in the cloud. Syncing and redundancy. Web apps that are also native. It's not "cloud xor desktop". We can have both.
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by thunk 16y ago
As awesome as this movie might have been, I'm content with _Dune_ remaining a book -- a beautiful, mind-blowing book. Thank god there weren't any other attempts to adapt it for screen.
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by thunk 16y ago
I posted this problem on "Intrinsic Motivation Doesn't Exist": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1424520
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by thunk 16y ago
> “There is no reason that money can't be an effective motivator, or that grades can't motivate students in school,” he said. Ok, well then what about this [1] video from this [2] submission? This makes me think about something else e
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by thunk 16y ago
It might be the other way around.
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by thunk 16y ago
Fuck that, I plan to! In fact, having modest ambitions seems like a Really Bad Idea -- you'd give up too easily.
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by thunk 16y ago
Well, I ordered a 15" MBP about a month before this year's line came out. It was my first one, so I was unaware of their typical upgrade cycle, macrumors, etc. I was well past the return date and feeling like shit. I called them up and they
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A Fresh Start - Compojure on GAE(compojureongae.posterous.com)
1 points by thunk 16y ago|0 comments
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Writing Code On Handhelds(partiallyappliedlife.blogspot.com)
3 points by thunk 16y ago|0 comments
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by thunk 16y ago
Pshh, splitting hairs. You know what I mean. Next time I'll be sure to fully enumerate the infinite list.
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by thunk 16y ago
Stallman's worldview is so paranoid and cynical. And maybe it's for good reason. Facebook and Apple have been doing evil things. But Facebook and Apple have paid dearly for their behavior, whether they've felt the repercussions yet or not.
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by thunk 16y ago
I guess I don't see why MS would do this at all if they didn't see it as an eventual Office replacement. Acclimating users to web-based Office apps tangentially benefits Google by validating its approach. So restricting web Office to lightw
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by thunk 16y ago
They're cannibalizing their biggest cash cow just to compete. They must be terrified.
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by thunk 16y ago
nom nom nom Edit: Oooh, yeah. Make it hurt.
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by thunk 16y ago
Bwahahahaha. "Lip my stocking!" [1] with NYT playing the part of the escort. [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2dtAi5Za-s
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by thunk 16y ago
I'm going to design a language called Original. The Original programming language.
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by thunk 16y ago
An unintrusive page-load timestamp would help us self-limit obsessive reloading to decrease load on the server. Edit: Also, it would give "n minutes ago" a reference point.
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by thunk 16y ago
And all that somehow implies they won't forage until they forget where they've found food before? Even if they've since struck out at those same locations?
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by thunk 16y ago
So a forager makes a fruitless (har!) trip to the apple tree, explores elsewhere, and finds food. That slightly deconditions the "revisit" behavior, and slightly conditions the "explore" behavior. Such a planner doesn't seem too difficult f
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by thunk 16y ago
Couldn't foragers remember food sources perfectly well, but still not exclusively visit them? I don't see how these results necessarily implicate memory. Habit, sure, but not memory.
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by thunk 16y ago
It seems to me that creative catharsis is a different beast than the rage catharsis of punching a pillow or screaming. Giving one's moods free reign seems a recipe for bad socialisation. But giving creativity free reign seems a requirement
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by thunk 16y ago
What you're looking at actually is potential. It's like we have to flush all this nonsensical, vile shit out of our unconscious to detox it for big creativity. Or like you can't have the crest of a wave without a trough. I see the stuff y
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by thunk 16y ago
I don't think that's a safe conclusion to draw. One of the benefits of a corporation is that it can multitask, in some proportion to the number of people involved.

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