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by xamuel 7y ago
Although I haven't quite cured cancer yet, I'm optimistic that if you give me a billion dollars I'll find a cure for cancer. So can I please have a billion dollars?
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by xamuel 7y ago
There's a subreddit for this ability: https://old.reddit.com/r/earrumblersassemble/
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by xamuel 7y ago
A lot of what we call AI these days (especially neural network stuff) should really be called "artificial knee-jerk reactions". A neural network trained to detect traffic lights is 'intelligent' only insofar as your leg
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by xamuel 7y ago
Technically the sentence could be falsified if we ever managed to formally prove that AI can never become more intelligent than humans.
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by xamuel 7y ago
Well then we're guilty by omission for all the trillions of species that could have evolved if we had done something different in the past. For example, maybe if we had used higher amounts of chlorine in our swimming pools all along,
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by xamuel 7y ago
So in that hypothetical example, what are the dire consequences of letting the asbestos-gnat go extinct? Bear in mind that if we ever suddenly need to do studies on asbestos-gnats for some reason, we can just re-create the environment they
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by xamuel 7y ago
Hypothetical question: Suppose in the past hundred years a new species of gnat evolved to live in asbestos insulation. As asbestos is phased out, this species faces an extinction crises. Should humans intervene to preserve the species? Dail
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by xamuel 7y ago
I'll take this opportunity to plug a short paper of mine, "A type of simulation which some empirical evidence suggests we don't live in": https://philpapers.org/archive/ALEATO-6.pdf
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by xamuel 7y ago
Also, please think twice before using OO classes as a license to give all your methods useless names like "get", "add", "open", etc.!
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by xamuel 7y ago
I'll always remember this really sad story I read somewhere. An old couple had rented early video-recording equipment for a trip to the grand canyon. They took videos of the canyon, and some of the videos included brief accidental glim
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by xamuel 7y ago
>EIC ... doing pretty much nothing. I'm friends with one EIC and a few associate editors and I can assure you they do a LOT of work. The EIC in particular, it's like a full-time job, and that's for a fairly obscure journal
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by xamuel 7y ago
Your (1) is not even the jurisdiction of the publisher. It's done by the editors, who are generally volunteers or, at best, receive a paltry stipend.
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by xamuel 7y ago
Not all open-access journals have publication fees.
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by xamuel 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twelve_Spies#Consequences
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by xamuel 7y ago
That's very interesting if true. Can you give any reference? All I can find through search engines is some references to "about 100 years" and a single thread where someone mentions a 120 year prediction but then the rest of
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by xamuel 7y ago
Titles are usually chosen by the author, not the publisher.
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by xamuel 7y ago
It's also worth pointing out that all the Abrahamic religions predict a 120-year limit, which prediction dates back thousands of years (Genesis 6:3). So regardless of your opinion of Abrahamic religions, there are a lot of people who w
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by xamuel 7y ago
Agree, everyone thought the "grab her by the..." soundbite was going to sink Trump, but it didn't really do anything. I'd be far more terrified if there were an AI capable of generating genuinely catchy/hilarious&#x
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by xamuel 7y ago
If you think there's a lot to get from re-visiting textbooks, try re-visiting the actual sources. For example, Blaise Pascal's vivid accounts of his experiments in fluid dynamics (and his battles with the status quo who believed n
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by xamuel 7y ago
You don't even need the solar panels themselves in order to see the effects of perverse incentives. The Kyoto Protocol defines "bioenergy" (energy produced by burning wood) as carbon neutral. As a result, in the EU, they&#x27
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by xamuel 7y ago
Not so incredible if you consider how the sausage is made. People who hate math pursue social science PhDs and are taught "p-values = truth". These same people are pressured to produce lots of research, and not just boring researc
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by xamuel 7y ago
I wish the "human time" ethical cost was factored in elsewhere besides just software. Things like: redundant forms at the doctor's office; useless fences that prevent you walking the shortest distance; time-consuming preamble
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by xamuel 7y ago
Seriously, hostels are the most fun way to visit any first-world country (if you're young, at least). Meet new people every day, with an obvious instant common topic to talk about. Super easy to schedule ad hoc adventures with your fel
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by xamuel 7y ago
Worldly morals change from decade to decade. That is why Jesus said: "Everyone who hears these words of Mine and does not act on them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." (Matthew 7:26) In the future, things you and
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by xamuel 7y ago
You are mistaken because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God. When asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, "The kingdom of God will not come with observable signs. Nor will people say, &
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by xamuel 7y ago
>Go live in an HOA if you want to tell your neighbors how they can and can't behave on their own property. Err, right, that's pretty much what I said in my post. Please don't run to legislators and banning HOAs.
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by xamuel 7y ago
Pretty sure that's a vanishingly small minority of churches. BTW, did you know Jesus provided us a protocol for correcting such misguided churchmembers? You can read about it in Matthew 18:15-17. You should accept Christ as Lord and Sa
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by xamuel 7y ago
War against people's sexual choices? Like, with bombs and guns, or a figurative war? It's interesting to look at Jesus's actions in the area. A mob brought him a woman caught cheating on her husband. Asking, should she be put
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by xamuel 7y ago
Background: I grew up and spent my young adulthood in poverty. I used a hypothetical character from The Simpsons, but I have in mind some very much non-hypothetical characters, including some who threatened my family after I complained abou
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by xamuel 7y ago
Well, of course people aren't going to tell you they'd vote for Politician B, because that makes them look like jerks. But subconsciously, a lot of people do agree with Politician B. If you have a job in Palo Alto, do you genuinel

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