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Computers are used more and more but do not play a creative role

It's always difficult to get concepts straight when talking about any of these AI-ish questions. The thing that we describe before the fact as "intelligence" is generally stuff we can't imagine mechanizing. Once it is mechanized, and we see the mechanic we don't really like to call it AI. I think it's the same issue for "creative."

When humans do mathematics they look for theorems that are interesting intuitively. We don't really understand what this intuition is. If a computer does it, say along the way to solving some other problem, we will be able to look into the mechanic and it probably won't seem like intuition to us.
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Not off the top of my head. I'll see if I can get a hold of him and find out.
Easy, one argument response: The user should be in control of the code executed on his computer.
As LesZedCB points out, it does apply to everyone whose main income is the sale of their labor. Software engineers could be considered part of the [aristocracy of labor][0], but still part of the working class.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_aristocracy
> But that argument works both ways.

No, it doesn't, at least in any way relevant to the immediate discussion.

> It's also illogical to single out a movement for being small, given that every movement starts small, and most movements fail.

It might be, but no one is doing that. What is being argued is that examination of the success of particular movements distinct from other movements that also start out small shows the ways in which movements which start out small can manage to avoid the usual result of failure. What they are being singled out for is distinctions like (in the upthread post) clear goals, strident and unrelenting leadership, etc.

One can argue about whether or not there is sufficient evidence that these traits are the right ones on which to pin their eventual success, but nothing about the argument rests on singling out a movement for being small.
Most people want to be able to subdue and/or kill other human beings which disturb their daily lives, but they do not want to have to cope with the moral and religious issues which such an overt act on their part might raise. Therefore, they assign the dirty work to others (including their own children) so as to keep the blood off their hands. They rave about the humane treatment of animals and then sit down to a delicious hamburger from a whitewashed slaughterhouse down the street and out of sight. But even more hypocritical, they pay taxes to finance a professional association of hit men collectively called politicians, and then complain about corruption in government.

http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml#twentyfour
I don't use them. I have no reason to use them. Having said that, I still think that they are a great idea, there's just not a "killer" use case for them for the general public in everyday use.
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Take a look at these, esp math coprocessor:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/07/friday_squid_...

The trick is using analog circuits for just what it's good for. The digital does the rest. Need to have them integrated well. Good news is analog works well with inexpensive process nodes like 350nm and digital stuff on them is inexpensive. Tekmos even can integrate 90nm digital with 350nm analog plus MPW's to keep things cheaper.
> Funny word that "encourage", right? In modern English it can mean anything from "allows something" to "literally tells you to do something".

If only there was a context within which I was using these words that made it blatantly obvious which of these uses applied here, like a link to a paper/article discussing if welfare programs made people lazy.

Also, you don't quite grasp what "anecdotal evidence" means in a scientific context.
Most the benefit of IP law goes to media and consumer products as opposed to software anyway. Our industry is much less protected, and perhaps that's one reason there's been so much more innovation in tech. Imagine the concept of "open source" applied to other industries, it almost seems ridiculous.
I've used this as an outsider to do some work with Microsoft and it's really slick.

I wish the Visual Studio Online team would look a little harder at Github and steal more of its Issues experience, and have something more lightweight than the backlog monster they've got now. I think it's not uncommon for VSO users to keep a Github sync of their code so they can use GH for issues and day to day code and VSO for builds and deploys.
I make games and software to help others make games, ironically enough.
We'll have to agree to disagree, then. You've already concluded that libertarianism is not simply impractical, but also that it is, as a normative statement, morally repugnant and always leading to rich oligopoly. And that, the power of state regulation actually works for the people by definition. Yet you also mention anarchy as a possible alternative (which is considered by the overwhelming majority of people to be the very definition of impracticality), so I'm not even sure where you stand.

Either way, we're going nowhere. I'll cease from here on.
What about installing an intermediate linux system?

Like

1. start with window pre-installed
2. install any linux distro, fully overwriting the OEM
3. re-install windows, from microsoft

I'd say just stop at step 2 ;) but I can understand that not everybody can do this (eg: work computer) but want a clean OS.

will this method work to remove such bloatware?
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I think you should work on quantifying the power of "awesome" in terms of increased planetwide hopefulness and collaboration. Optimism itself is a very powerful and meaningful thing to achieve.

Pretending "aesthetics" don't matter and our hardware isn't very significantly designed to respond to emotion is a huge flaw in "purely logical" reasoning. For goodness sake didn't we already cover this in Star Trek TNG?
I would change that last part to say "means nothing when you have shady OS makers building this mechanism."

I mean, come on, Microsoft, what were you thinking? Vendors gonna vend, so you had to know how this "feature" was going to be used.
I'd happily invest in SpaceX if they let me. Even if it counts as 'wasted' money in the books of some the simple fact that humanity would aspire to walking on another planet is worth backing. Robot exploration just doesn't feel the same to me. Hearing a 'roger' beep still gives me the willies and I was only 4 when the moonlandings happened. Nothing we did after that was as impressive to me, even though I'm sure it was easier to impress my 4 year old self than it will be to impress me today, walking on Mars would certainly qualify.
Sending 1 human to mars requires on the order of 20+ tons of equipment at a minimum, plus consumables. That's a lot of robots, so even if a human was 100 times better than the opportunity rover, sending rovers would still be a better bet. Worse there is a large risk they die before doing anything.

If anything Mars is a great opportunity for automation. It has no environment to destroy and with the right design it could end up exporting a constant stream of goods to humanity with zero environmental cost. Nuclear waste for example is a non issue. We could even try things like a space elevator on mars without risk of harming people on earth.

PS: For comparison the lunar lander weighed ~36,200 pounds and needed a lot less thrust to get into lunar orbit.
It "sloganizes" the phrase before it to prop it up as somehow official/authoritative (as though it were trademarked), often with ironic intent. In this case, "People who make decisions know that Linux is Good™" indicates an idea with mindshare and hints at an underlying dogma or cliché.
Orwell seems more prescient every day. Blackwhite seems especially relevant here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Newspeak_words#Blackwh...
It won't work unless you manage to flash the UEFI firmware.
<The dexterity of the human body really should not be underestimated.

This is a great point. I haven't studied this topic much, but on the surface it seems to me investing these resources into robotics technology is more interesting. Why can't we have a robot that can do such things? I think we can.
Sorry, I'm not letting this argument flee to abstraction. Here's what I responded to:

Also note how vocal minorities with clear goals achieved in the past some serious shifts in mass consciousness. Black rights, women rights, gay rights — these things were not lead by establishment, or even by excessively huge groups. These were lead by vocal, unrelenting activists, initially seen as idealists and nuts. Exactly like RMS looked 20 years ago, and Snowden looks now.

First, the idea that civil rights is a movement originally led by "lead by vocal, unrelenting activists, initially seen as idealists and nuts" assumes facts not in evidence. In fact, a huge portion of the US population sympathized with civil rights and the vocal leaders of that movement even before the civil war: civil rights supporters weren't even seen as nuts when Africans were still chattel slaves in the south!

Second, I'm sure there are successful movements led "by vocal, unrelenting activists, initially seen as idealists and nuts." But that also describes the Michigan Militia, the antivax movement, and Branch Davidians.

My argument is simply that we cannot assume anything about the legitimacy of a movement by the outsider status of its early adherents. The onus is on you to show that we can.
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Taught myself and started programming in 6th grade (around 12) and made a bunch of small games / demos (QBasic, C, C++). I went to college looking for an English degree (wanted to be a writer) on a full scholarship but graduated with two degrees in Philosophy. Spent about a year temp working for $11/hr hiring contractors and telemarketing for a big home improvement chain. After a year of that, spent about another half a year temping and finally got a job at a university close by managing schedules (SQL, Access, VBA). A couple of months after, I got a call from my sister's old boss who had seen my code from high school and needed a Javascript programmer. Got the job having never written a line of JS, learned JS in two weeks, and worked there for about three years. Moved to SF when they opened up an office out there. Did 6 years of contracting / working various jobs, then moved back east. After coming back east, I got contacted on Stackoverflow careers by my current company, a small bay area company. They indicated they'd be ok with a remote worker and now after a year and a half, they want me to take over all tech operations and be the CTO. Planning to travel around Europe next year while still working here.
Is it possible that top doctors are just taking on the most challenging cases?

The implicit "explanation" [which seems testable and currently unverified] is that senior cardiologists attempt more interventions [eg angioplasties], and each intervention carries some risk.

It could be true, but why report something that wasn't in the paper?
1) Holding someone accountable isn't actually useful unless it changes behavior.

2) They can come up with an explanation, but not usually an accurate one. We are used to giving offhand answers to neurology questions because parents angrily ask them of their children all the time. But the answers we give aren't truth-seeking they are punishment-avoiding.
Website terms of service are not viewable until you have already accessed the web site. Unless the web sites give users an interstitial page wherein they explicitly click a button to agree to the terms of service before proceeding, then they would otherwise fall under Browse Wrap[1], for which most existing legal precedence favors the consumer rather than the web site.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browse_wrap
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to present theorems that look interesting and look true, but are not, and are not trivially simple to verify?
Uau, Freud meet Ayn Rand. Darwing is missing somewhere there.

I would argue that the reason we create "political structures" is because we are social hierarchical primates.

We evolved for living in small groups where "the boss" was easily removed if he abused too much of its power. Then the neolithic and the industrial revolution arrived and now we don't know how to deal we societies of millions of people. That doesn't mean we can't learn how to do it.

Maybe modern governs can be though as just another technology.
It was indeed, Modern Warfare. This was back in 2007 so it had just launched and when I mentioned maybe Skypeing we both found we already had headsets and played most nights anyway so we just set up a private chat and shot at each other.
Just a moment, is the argument stating that an implicit contract (that is, the Terms of Service) which I was not required to accept to browse the website, can make using an Ad Blocker illegal?

What about: malware distributed through ad networks, offensive advertisements (the original reason I installed an ad blocker!), and so many advertisements that a midrange spec'd machine staggers when scrolling or navigating?
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Couldn't the same argument be used for the blizzard bot? One is more intentionally telling users to break the TOS, but at the end of the day the user is running the code.
> Although I didn't support him, I think Obama had good intentions and wasn't lying to get elected. His failure to accomplish what he promised is an indicator of just how strong the "shadow government" (comprised of the military, our surveillance agencies, corporate interests) is in the US.

Actually, most of it is an indicator of just how strong the other, coequal branches of the overt, Constitutional government are (particularly Congress, but the Supreme Court has a role, too.) The President is not (even before considering the influence of any "shadow government") a dictator, and most significant policy changes require Congressional action, or at least acquiescence.
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I have seen driver installers that just install their own CA. A particularly clever one generated a CA at install time, signed the driver, deleted the private key, then installed the driver, however this relied on internet access during install to timestamp the driver signature.

I wonder if this works for kernel mode drivers?
It's a system of evolution: for the software to survive it must be useful, self-fulfilling, or a combination.

Artificial intelligence will go through its own evolutionary path, and it already is. Machines already build themselves: software is used to design their own architecture.

There are already research labs that use machine learning to design better processors.
There is one important difference with comparing MDY to adblock though. MDY made software specifically for WoW. Adblock does not make software specifically to target Business Insider or anyone else.
Further, if this precedent was set, you could possibly go after people using out of date browsers that can't display your ad content perfectly or viewing text only or a million other ways in which ads wouldn't be left in their pristine state.
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Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4788659

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9796275
If it's illegal for me to choose which network requests my computer makes and/or accepts, or illegal for someone to create software to help me do that, I think that law is ludicrous and I want it to be changed.
I'm surprised this has fallen off so quick, but it's well written and a really fun read.
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>"Rational" is not a property of ends, it is a property of means (and beliefs). All ends are arbitrary.

So let's just skip the trip to Mars and spend the money to build high-tech pyramids in the Nevada desert and sacrifice virgins.
One paragraph of this, in particular, was a revelation:

"The science of forestry grew up in temperate Europe — France and Germany particularly — and there, unlike most parts of the world, there's no natural basis for fire. Fire was seen as a human problem, caused by people, and that attitude was exported to foresters in the United States."
For bitcoin on occasion, but that's it.

It is odd though, I always imagine QR codes to be this magical static method to share information, but then I rarely ever use it. I believe that since it took so long to be developed as a native feature in phones, people never really adapted to scanning all the time.

I saw a well meaning nonprofit put a QR on their bumpersticker. Most dangerous QR in history.
"Instant Run lets developers build and deploy their apps once (both to the emulator or to a physical device) and then as they change their code and deploy it, it’ll only take a second or two before they can see those changes in the running app. This feature will work for all apps that target Ice Cream Sandwich and later. Cuthbertson politely refused to tell us how exactly Instant Run works, but promised that Google will detail the technology behind this feature in the future."

This could be awesome, if it works as advertised.
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Feynman thought tinkering had value :P

https://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~kilcup/262/feynman.html
But the WoW bot was interacting with Blizzards servers and sending changeable actions that could affect the state of their servers. It feels like there's much more to this then a simple TOS.
Open source, but no github/bitbucket links on the project or the plugins? This makes any type of contributing very limiting.
The problem will be solved when any other problems that depend on its solution become solvable.
No really. Bot was executed on user's machine, but effects of bot work were reaching well beyond user's machine, destroying economics of game, user experience and company profits.
It may not be all farmers, but farming as a whole is _the_ problem. Without agriculture there is no California drought. Rational solutions to this problem are going to threaten people's "livelihoods and ways of life", there is no getting around that. I don't see how beating around the bush helps anyone.

To put things in perspective, alfalfa and corn both of which are overwhelmingly fed to animals and the former of which is exported in large quantities to be fed to animals in Asia, together consume more water annually than all residential users. And those are just two, low value (per acre-foot of water consumed) crops.

As for what should be done:

1) The implementation date for sustainable groundwater pumping enforcement should be moved up from 2040(!) to 2018.

2) As an intermediate step in the elimination of prior appropriation, several secondary doctrines that reduce transferability and encourage overuse should be eliminated. Including but not limited to: no harm to juniors, anti-speculation, beneficial use, and appurtancy.

3a) Put together an all star team of taking clause and due process experts to figure out the least expensive way to seize and retire all water rights consistent with the fifth and fourteenth amendment, then do that.

3b) Replace prior appropriation with an annual water permit auction for surface and subsurface sources. Use the money to pay off whatever debt was incurred in 3a and thereafter use the money for the general welfare.
If a site's terms of service said that access with IE was not allowed, and someone used IE to access the site, could the site sue Microsoft? What about if IE was installed by someone else, are they interfering with the site's contract?
Can we make a "User TOS" standard wherein a link to a user's personal Terms of Service is embedded in, say, a "User-TOS" GET header, which could include terms implying that by continuing to serve content to the user the web site accepts the user's terms?

Preferably the TOS would include verbiage to continue blocking ads, to forbid the use of tracking cookies, and other such pro-consumer terms.
right but isn't it going to give the existing ones bigger teeth?
> This is incorrect. Security is definitely a first-class goal for them, not "just" clean and correct code.

I get the impression that the dominant attitude among OpenBSD developers is that if you have to choose between simplicity and security, your basic approach is flawed and should be reconsider. This line of thinking - that you don't make things more secure by making them more complicated - also results in a simple yet powerful system.

So unless I am mistaken, "clean and correct code" and "security" are not two different goals, in a way they are two faces of the same coin.
There's nothing wrong with protectionism, check your assumptions.
I don't think so. The code of the bot is interfering with the actions of a remote server. An ad blocker works locally.
The main reason fire became a destroyer in two of Arizona's biggest fires, was mostly due to freshly-degreed-environmentalists pushing policy decisions based more on theory than on practical on the ground facts, and dismissing local knowledge of the forest. In this case, they refused to allow thinning out of the forest by loggers in certain areas (not talking about clear cut) and did only the tiniest of controlled burns. The result: a forest full of material ready to go up in flames all at once.

I admit I didn't believe my grandpa when he said it would happen, but when it did I immediately recognized the truth in his words.
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> I think one of the greatest difficulties in completely automated mathematics would be the discovery of mostly those things which are interesting.

So, something like a recommendation algorithm? Netflix for Mathematicians?
The epitome of the fad of integrating two seemingly unrelated things that somebody else made in order to create a unique hack was the ProgrammableWeb: Mashup Matrix [1].

It had all known web services along each edge, so people without any original ideas or will to write their own code could check if "It's like X for Y" had been taken yet, in order to impress their investors that their unique snowflake of an gimmick to effortlessly combine two other company's hard work together was a viable unicorn seed.

Eventually there were so many web services that it became like checking the Million Dollar Home Page [2] to see if one particular pixel was already taken.


But we've moved far beyond that, fortunately.
 Why stop at two dimensional matrices? Are there actually any practical mashups left that limit themselves to using only two other web services, these days?

Web 2.0 is to "It's like X for Y!" as Web 3.0 is to "It's like X for Y with Z!"

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20100829232918/http://www.progra...

[2] http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
This won't work because the firmware will write a file to your hard drive with the bloatware. It's scary that firmware will modify my filesystem - lots of damage could happen here.

Also, instead of step 2, it would make more sense to boot linux on a usb stick and use dd to erase the hard drive -- this is more complete than installing another OS... but still useless if the firmware is working against you.
Would be great if Microsoft extended the python API they set up for the Raspberry pi to other platforms. It's tons of fun to play with.