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by yters 6y ago
The more lockdown the more lucrative big hacks become.
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Plato seems to have shared this view. He said one shouldn't engage in philosophy, life's most important pursuit, until one turns 40.
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I see a number of transactions that pay out to a large number, or aggregate a large number. Not sure the meaning of the big graph components.
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I might have read it if your replied once and got downvote. Then it looks like you are saying an unpopular truth, which I am inclined to investigate. Otoh, copy pasting a bunch of times makes you seem like an internet crazy person.
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I agree in general. I have a PhD in comp eng and know a lot of academia type subjects, but only a small portion is especially useful in a practical setting. Also a lot of academic knowledge seems needlessly obtuse. It becomes a lot clear
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In these days of self identifying as whatever anything goes.
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You should look up Dominion Election Systems old name: Diebold Election Systems. They did not have exactly iron clad security...
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To a non computer, non regulation person, this is a hilarious headline. A dog in France is apparently fining a number and a rainforest for presumably stealing some cookies.
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Comp Eng PhD here. I even see bias in comp sci publications. No field is bias free.
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I have looked into a couple datasets purporting evidence of fraud, but they are fallacious. This is much more effective at disabusing me of election fraud conspiracies than censorship. YouTube's latest move has raised my skepticism a
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I'd say the progression from machine code to Python is a fundamental improvement. For simple cases, I think a visual/textual code interface is possible, but for any complicated case the visual interface will become inscrutable. M
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Most bitstrings are not compressible, so if we look at all the observers across the splitting universes watching a continuous quantum coin flip, most will observe a coin flip sequence that is not compressible, so will observe a constant inc
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by yters 6y ago
Is this immune to things like adversarial examples? E.g. will we get a situation where we flip one nucleotide or amino acid, and suddenly AlphaFold is making completely incorrect predictions?
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Most observers will find themselves in universes with infinite kolmogorov complexity.
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A number of years ago, an HN article said the most successful entrepreneurs are the most pessimistic. I would say it is more about disbelieving in yourself, and still trying to pursue a goal greater than oneself. "The men who really be
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If quantum is really random, then our universe has infinite Kolmogorov complexity.
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Are Americans no longer humans?
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How is this not machine learning? I guess because there is no gradient descent to pick the parameters, just random space exploration?
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Yes, that's a fair point. The same concern would apply.
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How does RTSP solve the privacy problem of potentially sending user information to another country?
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I guess maybe we USians don't want to send intel to a country that doesn't necessarily have our best interest at heart.
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by yters 6y ago
I also saw a very popular security camera product called Wyze that surreptitiously sends customer information to computers outside the US. https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1GN9BTTWQZK3P/re... http
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by yters 6y ago
It's preferable to drop a incorrect explanation in favor of acknowledging we don't have an explanation. Like AA, the first step is to acknowledge the problem.
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Helpful to know philosophy to understand what philosophical positions we take for granted, and what the alternatives are.
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No need to simulate people. Just collect their preferences through an online UI, like grocery shopping.
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Use our super computers to allocate resources appropriately? I'm not sure what you are getting at. Marx's critique of capitalism is since a few rich people owned all the means of production, they can oppress the poor, and neglect
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by yters 6y ago
Sure, people can make up explanations for consciousness all day, but saying it is 'emergent' is not a meaningful materialistic description. If you tell me the Linux source code 'emerges' that gives me no understanding o
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I mean historically communism is intrinsically genocidal. This is a much more serious charge than saying communism results in a bunch of products that people don't like very much. As to why it is genocidal, and whether this is intrinsi
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Sure, but that would take the messy, volatile human element out of the equation, and also throw the much faster computational horsepower at the problem. If it could be done, a centralized computational system would seem to be superior to t
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There are plenty of reasons to think the mind is much more. Namely, consciousness, the portal for everything else we know about the material world, is itself completely impervious to a materialistic account.

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