jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> If there is later a disagreement about what was agreed to, a judge sorts it out.

Only because human language leaves a lot of room for interpretation. Computer output doesn't, or at the very least not nearly to the same extent. If your smart contract is itself legal (you are legally allowed to formalize those terms), and produced an output as a function of it's actual internal operation (and not a random, accidental bit flip) then it should stand even in front of a judge.
It is equally challenging as both of those examples, but it's very very important so it's worth working on despite the intractability.

In terms of alignment among humans, most (but not all) human governments agree on certain principles, which are encoded in international law and negotiated within the United Nations.

E.g., most (not all) people agree that torture and slavery are unacceptable.

Thus, it is possible and important to get AGI to abide by these high-level human values. E.g. if an AGI system is put in charge of maximizing the GDP of a nation, it should do so in accordance with generally recognized principles of human rights and human dignity.

There's certainly a lack of agreement among nations but at least we mostly agree on some things and getting AI to agree with us on the things we agree on is important.

If you like podcasts, here's a great podcast episode which explores a philosopher's perspective on how to make moral decisions (e.g. should abortion be legal) in a situation of moral uncertainty:

https://futureoflife.org/2018/09/17/moral-uncertainty-and-th...
> They wasted billions buying their stock to keep the share price high.

Can large tech companies reasonably run their business competitively without keeping their share price high? Not that it’s sustainable in the long term…

As a non westerner, my (perhaps ignorant) understanding is that Western economies are in a rat race where large companies continuously have to meet or exceed investor “expectations”. This incentivizes the short term outcomes while leaving these companies less competitive or successful in the long term.

And a recent example is Amazon. Amazon capped salaries and gave their corporate heads compensation that weighs heavily on stock. If the stock continues massive growth YoY, the party continues. Once the music started to slow down, suddenly Amazon bumped compensation ranges because their compensation simply wasn’t competitive with the market.
I think the technology part in this case comes from the fact that it had a real world application, albeit an aesthetic one.
Another 'headline' that needs editorialising. It should read "1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Chemistry."
How much searching did you need to do before you found a good codebase to work on? Was memcached the only one you used or did you have a larger set of questions that you picked from?
Let me agree with the comments so far: Cool tool, not cool enough to take a 1-char name by default.
I don't own an iPhone or an Android (yet), so I was wondering: is there any way for the user to control permissions the app will have to access the hardware?

Say, for example, that I like an app because it does several cool things and only one not-so-cool thing that involves using the mic to "snoop" on me. Would I be able to download the app and then set up the permissions so it doesn't have access to the mic?
Firebug is the primary reason for me to use firefox. And, firefox 4 is pretty fast.
Can I ask you you need permission to update my twitter stream?

That put me off trying it.
If interaction were a function, feed it subtle edge cases ;)
First we pull as much of your Twitter timeline as we can, and find the ones that have links in them. We used an open source project called Goose to grab the article text from those links and store it in our database and then push it to the user. It's all PHP/MySQL/Javascript/Java running on a VPS. It took us about 3 days of work to go from idea to completion (in between class as we're college students.) Feel free to email us or comment if you have any more questions :)
The point is that these are the kinds of claims you should be making in the marketing. Users are smart enough to understand "We are vigilant about making sure that user data is never compromised". You shouldn't be trying to bamboozle them with official-sounding acronyms like AES - that when it comes down to it, mean little.
Yes. In theory there might not be a conflict of values. In practice, the conflict of interest is very real.