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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> I consider Obama one of the best most rational presidents the US have ever had. > But that rationality also gave us execution by drone without trial. Well, no; technology gave us drones, not rationality. The US has always killed wh
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Agreed, the arrows engage the moral brain and encourage rationalizing emotional gut-feelings. Up is always a metaphor for righteous and pure, heaven-like; down is contemptible, hell, punishment. No sense in fighting these deeply ingrained
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> But seen from Earth, stars appear as dots of certain sizes or magnitudes. The only way stars could be so incredibly distant and have such sizes was if they were all incredibly huge, every last one dwarfing the Sun. What?? Oh, Wikipedi
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
I'm going to say never. The energy demands of data centers will be skyrocketing due to increased demand for machine-learning, those GPUs and ultra-multicores will be hungry for decades to come.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Just a matter of time. http://money.cnn.com/2016/09/09/technology/apple-tax-us-tipo...
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
We're just past the anniversary of the last mishap: http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/07/20/crs-7-investigation-up... I also get the feeling that extra sleep and recovery time encourages the kind of c
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> Don't get too ahead of yourself. That quote about aging is from Blaser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_J._Blaser
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Well, it's literally seen as a medical revolution. "There is increasing evidence that the microbiome and its output (our interactome) touch many, if not most, pathways that affect health, disease, and aging. It is reasonable to pr
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
How about: the reliability of software estimates are inversely proportional to creativity requirements, with a unified theory of physics establishing an upper bound on creativity with a corresponding 0 for the estimate reliability.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
Wealthy voters secretly like the situation but pay lip-service to economic inequality concerns because they know nothing major can come of it. Poor voters are voting for the red herring of rent control while being slowly gentrified out of
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> They are comparing the ratios of armed suspects to unarmed suspects being shot by police, so perhaps they thought that was sufficient in factoring in the prevalence of guns. I'm not seeing why ratio is important compared to magnit
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
If its ideology that supports gun ownership, the same ideology supports tough crime laws and a well-armed police force. Fear explains why we want weapons, but fear also explains why we want a heavily armed police force. Those who are most
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> Disarm most police. It's easier, politically, to disarm America than disarm police. Disarming everyone can be widely viewed as making everyone safer, but disarming only those who protect the public against violent crime will be
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
And why isn't prevalence of guns factored in as well?
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
> providing officers with guns seems to decrease both their own survival AND the survival of civilians, I don't find that surprising at all. The glaring omission in the posted article is accounting for prevalence of guns. It would
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
I take his point to be substantive: if Americans continue to tolerate the religious right's war on science, we will continue to fall behind the rest of the world.
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by woodchuck64 10y ago
>you can accidentally teach yourself performance-degrading "techniques" if you keep practicing beyond a certain point. But only if your practicing is no longer "deliberate practice" as defined by the author. Practice
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
The use of the word "ritual" seems to imply behavioral patterns done without fully understanding them. But a full explanation for human behavior requires a lot more than just understanding monkey behavior (why stop there rather t
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> I'm still not sure you could assume ultimate power and achieve everything you desired if you were the only hacker news reader on a planet of 8 billion monkeys. I would think it relatively easy for a human armed with today's k
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Well the article does say: "Our own experience has been that efforts to saturate PCIe flash devices often require optimizations to existing storage subsystems, and then consume large amounts of CPU cycles. "
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
This is still working backwards: a thought experiment that increases your chances of being tortured by a future AI? Surely outlandish! But why? Which premises are truly outlandish, arbitrary, etc? What I see given the premises is no mor
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
But these aren't examples so much as vague caricatures. The subject matter that LessWrong considers is certainly unusual, but that alone should not be enough to call it arbitrary, questionable or outlandish.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> I've been saying this for years, and this is a large reason why I find the LessWrong folks to be almost entirely full of it. Their inability to come up with accurate priors is completely lost on many of the folks who follow this k
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> How come losing money is an improvement? Purchasing a company is not necessarily "losing money" unless no synergy is possible between core competences. But in fact, Altera/Intel's respective core competences sugges
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Are you saying all "nonconformists" are "hipsters"? If not, "hipster" must be an identifiable category of non-random nonconformist appearance, hence the title of the article.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> Another possible improvement is to include a programmable logic device on the CPU chip. Given that, earlier this year, Intel plunked down 16 billion to buy #2 FPGA maker Altera, this might turn out to be the most interesting improvemen
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2014/air-pollut...
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Are you contrasting Materialism with Physicalism? If so, yes.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
What?? I said "IQ is in no way related to moral behavior"! I don't in any way believe intellect necessarily decrease moral traits; that is an impossible reading of my remarks.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Let me make sure I understand you since I didn't understand why you were "remarkably insulted". The system fine-tuned by evolution is the human mind. Sociopathy and psychopathy seem to be genetically based and may occur in

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