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by woodchuck64 11y ago
That you have little desire to manipulate people isn't really here or there; the fact is that a social brain has extensive hardwiring that is designed to manipulate other social beings in blatant and subtle ways, and that hardwiring ha
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> Cognitive engineering, via direct edits to embryonic human DNA, will eventually produce individuals who are well beyond all historical figures in cognitive ability. Now that would be truly foolhardy. Blindly augmenting intelligence b
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> I means recently more and more evidence shows that GFW has finally find a way to recognize shadowsocks's packets. Hmm... okay, so they defeat shadowsocks by recognizing the packets. > Then they stopped the development of shadow
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Petition to change name of South China Sea to Southeast Asia Sea: https://www.change.org/p/change-the-name-south-china-sea-to-... 420,000+ signatures so far...
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
"That ones work might be re-purposed for nefarious purposes is not an argument against attempting to avoid industries where nefarious use is the purpose of the work." I think there's a centrally misguided notion in this threa
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Right, just stay away from industries developing or standing to gain from AI. That leaves .... umm....
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
No need to apologize, my Bayesian inferences are going wild too.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
"The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can har
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
The best kind of work is flow: immersed in an activity with energized focus and involvement, seeing progress, learning and achieving goals. That just isn't a concept that machines or automation can take away. But, yes, it does seem l
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Here's a 2013 Australian study: "The effectiveness of helmets in bicycle collisions with motor vehicles: A case–control study": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001457513... &
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Think of FPGAs as having the potential to be primitive GPGPUs. They outperform CPUs in all the same areas GPUs outperform CPUs. FPGAs are like GPUs with no floating-point, no caches, and limited local memory. But if you can implement a ke
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
> ‘the biological brain cannot support multiple separate conscious attentional processes in the same brain medium’. And that is probably because consciousness just is awareness of attention, as Graziano suggests: http://www.nc
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
Upvoted since reinstalling is a valuable skill to learn and cultivate.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
"Evolution need only take a random walk along a web of neutral (or at least almost neutral) mutations, that, without impairing the fitness of an organism, surrounds it with very different neighbors: innovative solutions to selective pr
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
I would have thought proximity could also ease tension if there is a degree of integration. This theory can be confirmed or rejected by extending the original research to cover more races.
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by woodchuck64 11y ago
For California, that above average outlier appears to be counties Orange, Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernadino and Inyo. Wonder what that's all about?
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
It is unlikely AI will itself accelerate Moore's law for decades, so that means we have decades to plan, use, and benefit from steadily improving AI at Moore's law rates. AI is not a threshold, it's a continuum.
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
It isn't the physical ability of the robot that matters much to jobs, it's the intelligence. How about a future where each person is given a computing wattage allowance for an artificially intelligent workforce at AmaGoogleBaiduS
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Sign the Petition: https://www.change.org/p/john-w-suthers-release-rene-lima-ma...
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
"“We realized that the neural nets did not encode knowledge necessary to produce an image of a fire truck, only the knowledge necessary to tell fire trucks apart from other classes,” [Yosinski] explained." This seems markedly diff
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Wait, aren't they inviting competitors to... oh, right, patents.
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Julian Simon: Bumping against any limit will increase the price of any resource in short supply, leading ingenious humans to find new supply sources or substitutes.
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Hmm... "In 2013, French lens manufacturer Essilor purchased a majority stake in EyeBuyDirect": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeBuyDirect "France’s Essilor International and Italy’s Luxottica Group, the t
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Wow. My cards seem to have no more than a 6 month max-time-until-fraud despite extreme care, so I'm sold on this.
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Hmm... there's a real need for a credit or debit card app that tracks real time charges. I know authorization holds go through immediately (while actual transfers may take a day) and aren't always the same as spending (i.e. car r
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Agreed. Whatever one spends one's time on, the effort seems somehow less than optimally spent if it truly doesn't matter to one's self-identity.
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
> I assert it's very likely that nature didn't evolve conscious brains by accident, it's probably a byproduct of making an intelligence that can reason about itself and its environment. I think you're exactly right; M
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
> the whole notion of 3D space has to be learned from 2D projections. That might be extremely difficult, but nature does it with binocular vision so I would think dual vision inputs are the best way to do 3D space learning.
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
> “They can find their way across a room,” Mason said. “They can see stuff, and as the light and shadows change they can recognize that it’s still the same stuff. They can understand and manipulate objects in space.” Isn't this just
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by woodchuck64 12y ago
Speaking of ads, what can block that obnoxious "THE BEST OF VB, DELIVERED" that pops up like a visual air horn just as you're starting to grasp the content of the first paragraph?

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