twobits

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by twobits 12y ago
I'd say if each of those two people had the "bad experience" of having their only child killed in a car accident, that's worse than someone else having his uncle and grandmother killed in a car accident. "Bad experi
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by twobits 12y ago
Because at the end of the day, no one gives a fuck about a spec of sand in their eyes. Having your balls ripped off, might be different. YMMV. Human feeling is a bit more complicated than just adding.
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by twobits 12y ago
"one turn takes a day. Games usually last half a year. We've been playing it this way for ten years now, since around 2004." So you are still a noob? :-) :-P
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by twobits 12y ago
I really really need to see your private data. ..Fascist state par excellence. ..Unfortunately, it exports its "democracy" all around.
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by twobits 12y ago
Has already been.
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by twobits 12y ago
In a more abstract pov, govs are not bad, and companies are not bad. It's a false dilemma. BIG govs are bad, and BIG companies are bad. Notice the common attribute? It's about relative power. That's why companies "lose t
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by twobits 12y ago
Maybe just get over caring about the "main" internet, and leave it to be the ad ridden, surveillance clusterf*, old and rusty one?
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by twobits 12y ago
So, living in a "democracy", can we petition / make the gov allow us that? "We, the people, want this spectrum for our own uses." Can we?... Lol. Sad lol.
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by twobits 13y ago
"As another poster mentioned, addiction is about getting away from some kind of unbearable inner pain" Could you please give ideas how to id that pain? To be personally specific, my mother never told me positive things, always com
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by twobits 13y ago
"But you can't create an Orwellian police state over night, and those sorts of oppressive regimes tend to be unstable (Libya, East Germany, Romania, etc. all gone now)." Only if there is an "outside", to force reali
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by twobits 13y ago
It's because of this leak: Turkish top political and military leaders, organizing a false flag attack, to have an excuse to attack Syria: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-27/here-youtube-false-...
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by twobits 13y ago
'discern the "how" and the "why" as opposed to the "what". Math is all about "how" and the "why".' Could you pls expand on the diff between the "how" and the "what&q
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by twobits 13y ago
"There is a feedback loop going on. Each universe affects the next one subtly differently. But somewhere down the line the whole thing simply has to approach a point of stability" Why would each universe affect the next one (subtl
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by twobits 13y ago
Why is max speed (and min temp) an indication that (our) "universe [is] being optimized for good computation"?
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by twobits 13y ago
Is it just me, or is this just eu/us vs russia?
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by twobits 13y ago
"The moment they move from surveilling to censoring, from watching to interfering, the average citizen will come down on them with righteous fury" And nothing of consequence will happen. ..You don't build tools so as to never
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by twobits 13y ago
Their problem is that they want to tap the cables too.
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by twobits 13y ago
And I can't see how working on nlp could possibly have "only negative impact", to say the least. Thus it seems strange your need to keep on thinking about that, and to solicit people to answer a "why am I bad?" q.
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by twobits 13y ago
You are neither a good nor a bad person, due to working on nlp. You describe how bad entities could use your work (big corp in a given socioeconomic context), and then you assign blame to yourself. I find it strange you feel the need to hav
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by twobits 13y ago
"but I don't expect this to happen in my lifetime (I'm in my 40s)." Why not? What fundamental things you think are lacking? I think we'll have ai in 10-20 years.
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by twobits 13y ago
> I wouldn't place much money on a true artificial mind still not existing in 40 years. I would say 20.
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by twobits 13y ago
No, I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. ..imo, hard euro with no common budget/redistribution/stronger integration, is the death of eu. ..Btw, given what you said, and your local knowledge, do you think it's possibl
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by twobits 13y ago
"Germans build roads to have road. The French build roads as an expression of some confusingly abstract political idea." The common theme is always who is to be f*ed and pay the bill, the taxpayers, and who is to get the profit an
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by twobits 13y ago
"I'm almost convinced that the EU, as it is today, cannot survive if it is not further integrated." Small south eu country here. I totally agree with you. And you make good points showing that. The only thing I disagree, is t
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by twobits 13y ago
"3. Unsexy. Yeah. While I don't actually care much about the public image of Germany, I am saddened that the European idea has lost its appeal and continues losing it. I mean, what could _possibly_ go wrong?" Coming from a sm
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by twobits 13y ago
"I also find that Europeans for the most part don't want to do billion dollar startups" There is indeed a diff in europe. But having said that, I would like to argue a few things. a) Anyone would want to get a billion dollars
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by twobits 13y ago
May not be a problem for them any more..
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by twobits 13y ago
I would love a site like this for all laws in (almost) all countries.
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by twobits 13y ago
"USD is already de-facto backed by oil [Petrodollar]" Kind of, but not really, and not in a free market way. The $ is backed by the us military. You can't have competing currencies becoming Petro-X. If you try, you "get
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by twobits 13y ago
I think any entity that has to somehow be attracted to any kind of "food", and be repelled from any kind of "pain", ie, I think, any kind of life, has due to the above, ingrained the concept of "happy".

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