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by whitegrape 11y ago
https://intelligence.org/research/ basically exists to try and make sure AGI doesn't become Hitler (or much much worse).
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Not sure of a "vulnerability", would like to hear more about that. Unless the "repeat after me" feature is a vulnerability or it learns to copy too much from input? Here's a small sample: http://imgur.com
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Technically I agree with you, but at some point you get so used to being optimized that going back is just as bad as getting sick. The most successful nootropics like caffeine and modafinil easily become long-term medicine for the problem o
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by whitegrape 11y ago
In one of my previous houses (in Washington), we were on a hill with several other homes sharing the main private drive up the hill. We had a centralized apartment style mailbox with a slot for each house, and two big slots for larger packa
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The emergency response domain is what you use when you've got nothing better in mind for an application of your hardware. It's a dead-end. (Except I guess for Murphy.)
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Entertainment is a tough business to be in in general. There are plenty of good songs out there no one listens to. Mobile games suck for more reasons than the present most profitable business model and I don't think the industry is at
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The phrase "reduce reuse recycle" is actually a pyramid of effectiveness. The best thing is to reduce your consumption entirely, which in this case translates to not producing or buying new hardware you don't need.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I guess the point of the question is really a flippant "why is this on Hacker News?" You can call it defining away if you want, I don't think it's charitable to assume "party line" means "what the peer rev
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by whitegrape 11y ago
That might be what cautious scientists have been saying, but that's way too complex for a party line. To rephrase my original question, since when haven't (according to news organizations) scientists been warning about perilous
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by whitegrape 11y ago
The law (case law) says more than zero about this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design#Case_law
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by whitegrape 11y ago
IANAL also. But it's important to distinguish a copy (which is just more or less copying what you read in C) vs a derivative work (a work that could not have been done or would have been done noticeably differently in the absence of th
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by whitegrape 11y ago
We (the human species) have done better than (modern) prisons; prisons are a compromise that makes the system of building and maintaining orderly society less effective and more expensive than simply hanging the bastards but in theory that
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Emotional damage is interesting. In many senses it's entirely one's own fault, if one feels emotionally damaged / offended / distraught. But it's an uncommon mental discipline to get yourself to feel differently. Th
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I have. Of course I have my own personal code, as most every man does, but that does not always align with the law, and so where they conflict, rational calculations are made. I like to think that my code is good enough that in a society of
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Indeed, my comment wasn't about the quality of the science. I read the abstract, and concluded it's beyond my ability to analyze critically (at least without devoting a ton of time to it and learning new things) so I'll leave
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Hasn't this been the party line for..decades? (Since sometime in the 90s at least?)
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by whitegrape 11y ago
That was a sad paragraph. :( If you want to lose the 80 lbs without too much difficulty, there's always https://www.reddit.com/r/keto
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I had a similar setup (though not a fancy title) for around $40k/yr if I worked full time for the whole year (I only did part time during spring/fall semesters). There was a gentleman's understanding that if the company got a
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Why don't you just ask for their self-performance reviews / retrospectives for the last n years of their current/previous job after you've filtered by resume? I suspect that unless they were expecting it (which isn'
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by whitegrape 11y ago
If you're going to do this level of hazing, save yourself some time and just have the candidates compete in a big Jeopardy match. Those that don't know will stay silent, those that know will answer correctly, those that don't
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by whitegrape 11y ago
http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Yeah, comparing it to Google Wave probably is a bit too much. In my neck of the tech woods HipChat is still pretty hip. I suspect that by the time we discover Slack, something else will have taken Slack's place as the new wave. Meanwhi
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by whitegrape 11y ago
It's been built: http://matrix.org/
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Seems counter-intuitive that restaurants would treat them poorly. If you're savvy enough to use Groupon, you're probably savvy enough to leave a Yelp review. It's interesting how one's perspective on something differs, o
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by whitegrape 11y ago
What's your chess ELO rating? I gave up on going deeper into chess because the hardcore aspects of memorizing openings and always repeating so many against other skilled players bored me. Grandmasters are just autistic filing cabinets.
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by whitegrape 11y ago
I wonder if that gives false confidence, beating the very easy bots.. I get totally crushed by gnugo but I know there are lots of other DDK players I could have a good game with. It'd be neat if go servers (like OGS) had preference fla
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by whitegrape 11y ago
So, when they get everything they want ("no absolutism" implemented by US companies), will we finally be able to explain to them it was all for nothing (except making the public less secure) when the next big attack uses open sour
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by whitegrape 11y ago
Always looking for yet another reason to sustain my hope of avoiding C++ forevermore, I like the argument-reversal against using other languages instead. "Most devs don't know it, they have to retrain!" I learned C++98 pretty
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by whitegrape 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_the_Bastards_Out
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by whitegrape 11y ago
What do techies do in Utah for after-work social gatherings, Mormon Bridge? I should know since I come from Utah valley myself, but I got out to Seattle as soon as I could and there weren't many peers into programming for a living whil

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