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by yakult 10y ago
There are at least two failure cases here: - a military AI in the hands of bad actors that does bad stuff with it intentionally. - a badly coded runaway AI that destroys earth. These two failure modes are not mutually exclusive. When nukes
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by yakult 10y ago
It's all niche ptoducts with no reach, though. I'd like something mass-consumer-oriented and ubiquous, so I can actually get (roughly) the same experience everywhere from bus stops and coffee shops to my office. The current situ
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by yakult 10y ago
I would go a bit further: I want my state to be inside a seamless hardware agnostic VM, that I can access anywhere through public terminals that I only partially trust. I would have the option of either having my storage with me that I plu
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by yakult 10y ago
What I take away from this is that they've devoted so little resource to Mac internally that people in the know are asking inconvenient questions, hence the need for this article. You don't hear him assuring people about the ipho
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by yakult 10y ago
Would it be fair to say you are trying to optimize for future positions where you aren't sure you will win, but the positions resemble certain archetypal positions/ share certain features that are advantageous (i.e. has a high pro
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by yakult 10y ago
I'm not sure I follow your point about tactical vs positional surprise. Surely the ultimate goal of the positional surprise is the same as the tactical surprise - you get an advantage at the end of an expected series of moves. Otherw
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by yakult 10y ago
You can filter for this: Take a database of games from pro players; Take the set of all moves where Stockfish-5 agrees that the move actually played is the optimum. Filter for all the moves where Stockfish-11 has a different opinion that r
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by yakult 10y ago
It's all wasted ink and pointless flapping of gums until a tech magazine gets their hands on a production model with a set in stone RRP, and does third-party benchmarks. You can't eyeball the actual performance from the marketing
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by yakult 10y ago
Let me elaborate. The article argues that you are better off 'switching off' from the media because you won't be doing anything about any of it anyway, other than having uninformed water cooler conversations. The truth is, fo
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by yakult 10y ago
Imagine if your demographic disproportionately heeds the author's advice while nobody else does. The first downside you might notice is when the next president gets elected on a platform of taxing your demographic into space, with zer
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by yakult 10y ago
Thing is, even if the historical accounts were wrong about important details or even totally made up, we can probably still come up with something that fits the description. There's the rub with experimental archaeology: you are runnin
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by yakult 10y ago
The point of small bezel is that you can fit a bigger screen onto the same form factor, which is a definite win. I agree that battery life is underappreciated, but not about the replaceable battery - again, nonreplaceable means you can sque
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by yakult 10y ago
It's a bootstrapping problem. People would only fork over that kind of cash if all the cool kids are already on it. It might work if the founders are already movers and shakers at the center of that world, and they use their personal
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by yakult 10y ago
Even easier: just buy a cheap usb stick of correct size, preferably one with a recognizable brand, open it up and replace the innards.
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by yakult 10y ago
Would it be possible to replace MS's CA list with e.g. Firefox's entirely? Would that break things?
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by yakult 10y ago
The next logical evolution is to make your own Vocaloid using publically available speeches, and synthesize any soundbite you want. Coming to you 2020: president candidate X may or may not have said that he hates women, kicks babies, love h
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by yakult 10y ago
>How does one know what the correct target ratio is for their field? One can look at the distribution of m:f in the list of eligible applicants, or more generally in university graduate numbers. It will be subject to noise, but the &#x2
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by yakult 10y ago
Eligible candidates for most jobs are not 50:50 in gender. For some fields it may be 90:10. This means a perfectly fair selection process will select 90 men and 10 women for every 100 jobs, or at least in this ballpark. Affirmative action
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by yakult 10y ago
A certain biomed firm has in its annual report that xx% of its engineers are female. It has a goal of increasing this to yy% by %year%. Most of the eligible applicants are male. This is easily observed in university graduate numbers as we
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by yakult 10y ago
"Diversity for the sake of diversity" may be better phrased as "choosing to recruit member of ingroup Y due to government and media pressure when market forces would have instead chosen member of outgroup X". The problem
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by yakult 10y ago
If your institute also mandates they make the data/software publicly available, then that's definitely the exception rather than rule. Also must be hideously expensive. It almost never happens that a paper I read actually comes w
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by yakult 10y ago
It's not that simple. What if some of it is proprietary? What if I'm not allowed to submit code because I need to be anonymous so reviewers can maintain impartiality? What happens when one of the upstreams update and breaks my
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by yakult 10y ago
I have a concrete counterexample. Let's say I write a paper presenting a model, plus some numerical results of large simulations. The code is based on gluing together various pieces of open source code. All these codes are typical s
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by yakult 10y ago
While it is definitely to the benefit of all that the bot emails authors when it finds mistakes, emailing when it doesn't find anything is a dark pattern. Reminds me of those bots that spam me after scraping my linkedin.
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by yakult 10y ago
>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there were 64,000 steelworkers in America last year, and 820,000 home health aides — more than double the population of Pittsburgh. Next year, there will be fewer steelworkers and still more
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by yakult 10y ago
Anthropic principle. You are not observing the counterfactual universes where people weren't careful enough around certain dangerous technologies, because in those universes all the observers are dead.
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by yakult 10y ago
It's like plugging leaks on a sponge boat. You don't know that a. there isn't several lists, or b. they won't add it somewhere else with a future update or even c. they won't just steganographically insert it into
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by yakult 10y ago
Oh this is exactly what I wanted - I hope you make a firefox addon soon. How does your approach of looking for text frequency compared to, say, pattern-matching existing clickbait titles from a database? Can the two approaches be combined
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by yakult 10y ago
More and more big social is democratizing the black magic of boutique PR firms. Want reputation management? Rep-kill your competitors? Damage control your latest scandal? Just hire some mechturks for peanuts to flag the right videos and l
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by yakult 10y ago
One problem is usually you have to disable the built-in menu. The built-in menu does some pretty important things and as an end user I basically never want it disabled.

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