ythn

45 ms·

511.
by ythn 10y ago
The whole premise of impostors is bogus because it implies there is such a thing as non-impostors to begin with - a false assumption. At a certain point everyone has to "make up" what they are doing without knowledge of "the
512.
by ythn 10y ago
> It's going to be bad. A little panic is not a bad thing. It's always lose/lose for the skeptics: Scenario A: skeptics were wrong - "burn them at the stake, they screwed us all over!" Scenario B: skeptics were r
513.
by ythn 10y ago
More likely our models will turn out to be slightly wrong and it won't be as apocalyptic as we thought and we'll adjust according to our observed reality.
514.
by ythn 10y ago
> Do you have a source for this or are you speculating? Yeah I have a source - Maryland. The bluest state, posterboy of the Democratic platform. We have the strictest gun laws in the country, and the Democrats are never happy. 3 years ag
515.
by ythn 10y ago
> The irony here is no Democrats want to take away any guns. I don't believe this. I know too many democrats who believe that the 2nd amendment is obsolete and that guns should not be owned by civilians (or even normal police office
516.
by ythn 10y ago
> Oh, the commie card. I call bullshit. Had Sanders been elected, I am confident we would be talking about the marxist administration instead of the fascist administration. Hillary? Not so much.
517.
by ythn 10y ago
One side pushes toward marxism, the other side toward facism. Both outcomes end with a dystopian society for the normal citizens. We can only pray the party in power switches enough to keep us in the middle.
518.
by ythn 10y ago
Such arrogance. If the US isn't the front runner of all technologies at all times you can't help lamenting? "A group of non-American researchers funded by a non-American government program develops X" "Woe is us, w
519.
by ythn 10y ago
Could you explain why 95% is "the limit"? Are you saying 95.0% efficient solar panels are possible, but 95.1% efficient solar panels are impossible? What's the limiting mechanism here and why is it such a nice round integer
520.
by ythn 10y ago
"IEEE Spectrum: We read about Deep Learning in the news a lot these days. What’s your least favorite definition of the term that you see in these stories? Yann LeCun: My least favorite description is, “It works just like the brain.” I
521.
by ythn 10y ago
So we know for certain people like that are in a "tiny minority"? I would guess they are more than a minority. Being super productive in a potentially distracting or accountability-free environment requires a lot of discipline and
522.
by ythn 10y ago
Does the insane toddler censor the internet for you?
523.
by ythn 10y ago
What would you have done differently had you been in charge?
524.
by ythn 10y ago
> There are no homeless people anywhere else in the state so the ones you see in Salt Lake are it. I've seen panhandlers in Provo before on Center street (not sure if they were homeless or just panhandling)
525.
by ythn 10y ago
> Can someone explain to me why super-intelligent AI are an existential threat to humanity? The whole thing seems like a load of crock to me. Seems to me that artificial superintelligence (ASI) only gets media coverage because it comes f
526.
by ythn 10y ago
From a different article about the same dude: "He’d not been sick in the woods, and his worst accident was a tumble on some ice, but his teeth were rotten, and no wonder. I dug through his twenty-five years of trash, buried between bou
527.
by ythn 10y ago
I think Dick Proenneke is a way better example of this. He built his own cabin in Alaska and lived there alone for 30 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss
528.
by ythn 10y ago
Seems like there should be a market for a dynamic braille surface - something thin and light you could bring with your laptop that plugs into USB and has little dots that can mechanically (or magnetically) raise and lower whenever a pdf or
529.
by ythn 10y ago
Isn't it already a stalemate? As long as the king never leaves white squares, he will never be in danger, and thus the game will be a draw by the 50 move rule. I don't see how mate is possible. In order to mate, you need to advanc
530.
by ythn 10y ago
It's one thing if a moocher country left the EU (Greece, etc), but UK has a very strong economy. Pretty soon Germany will be bearing most of the economic weight of the EU...
531.
by ythn 10y ago
"How long is this photoshop task going to take you?" "A least a week" Manager that knows little about photoshop: "OK" Manager that is proficient in photoshop: "Really? Looked like a 2 day job to me"
532.
by ythn 10y ago
Kevin Mitnick Barry Minkow (except he couldn't seem to give up his old ways and is in prison again)
533.
by ythn 10y ago
Are the "analog" clocks actually analog? Seems like they just transition between discrete states based on the current (digital) time. Still, mesmerizing visualization.
534.
by ythn 10y ago
> And your quote isn't even so horrible. Pointing out problems with a particular point of view if new can be enormously insightful and helpful. From what I see it just becomes a back and forth though that reaches no consensus. &quot
535.
by ythn 10y ago
> I don't agree with her and I do not believe she is to blame. I didn't say she is fully to blame, but you can't deny she was an instigator by being belligerent and/or drunk. Or rather, her actions were a catalyst to
536.
by ythn 10y ago
> And I don't see why that's not feasible. Because law enforcement is made up of the same imperfect, mistake making humans as the bone-headed civilians that committed the offense.
537.
by ythn 10y ago
What the guards did was wrong, but don't you think your belligerent drunk friend needs to share even a tiny bit of the blame? People act like civilians should be able to do or say literally anything and fully expect law enforcement to
538.
by ythn 10y ago
Politics discussions are so unfruitful though. Everyone replies to everyone else with the exact same format: "The problem with that way of thinking is [problem]. It's dangerous to think that way. In reality, my way of thinking is
539.
by ythn 10y ago
> Different countries have different freedoms. I'm not sure what you are trying to argue. In parts of Africa you are "free" to loot villages and rape women. Convincing me that America is just as free as China or Iran (just
540.
by ythn 10y ago
Possibly, yes. I just assume it's the government because from the articles I've read, they have the most motive (they want to pass some sharia law corporal punishment bills, and this Christian pastor dude was influential and oppos

More ›