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If the AI is at human level then it can do all human jobs. Given that humans require a minimum income to survive, if the total per hour cost of AI is below this level then all jobs will be taken by AI (why employ an expensive human when you can get a cheaper AI). This is what happened to human computers (people, mostly women, who performed mathematical calculations) in the 1950s when electronic computers became cheaper and faster per calculation. All those jobs ceased to exist.

There are some caveats here. The cost of AI labor needs to be below that of the human minimum. Given there is no effective limit to how much AI labor you can create, the likely result is the cost of capital will fall to near zero making AI labor near free. No human will be able to compete against this except in providing personal services to the owners of capital in fluff jobs.

The more interesting thing is that with the cost of capital and labour at near zero we should get massive deflation to the point that it will be very cheap to provide all people with a very high basic income that will make the need for employment unnecessary. This would be a great world to live in, but it would have a profound effect on the society unlike anything since the rise of agriculture.
A flawed prototype does no one good. Could imply that the specs are high too.
Is it even possible for an expat to become a Shinto priest?
>No, xz (on a particular level setting) is both faster than bzip2 and provides better compression ratio, but zpaq is just slower.

Are you implying that xz out-compresses zpaq? Can you supply a benchmark?

Here's one from me - http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html - showing a very significant compression ratio advantage to zpaq.
I don't think that many people predicted AI by 2000 with high certainty. And in any case, predictions should get more accurate as time goes on and we learn more.

"Human level" as in actually as intelligent as a human. An artificial brain just like a biological one, or at least with the same abilities.
Every time the subject of obsolete or un-upgradeable devices comes up it is pointed out that the people that buy these devices "don't care". They don't care about android 6.0, they are happy with their $10 device running android 4.whatever that is vulnerable to who knows what.

So, probably not a popular opinion, but screw em. Maybe when they buy a replacement device they will ask "Will this thing be obsolete in a year like the last one or will it actually get software updates?" "Will I be able to install a different ROM on this or is the bootloader locked?
Every incorporeal thing we know of (photons, neutrinos) is affected by gravity. If you have chosen to believe in incorporeal ghosts, it's not at all strange to assume they would be affected by gravity. It's kind of weird to assume that they wouldn't, actually.
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Could Ruby have something thing like this too or is MRIs C api just too limited? Rice is the closest thing I know of and it was pretty gnarly to use.
Hmm, when I look at the culture of Internet commentary and social media, being overly positive and nice are not traits I find particularly common, and certianly not oppressively prevalent.

I've not read any of his books, but from interviews I've heard and from reading this article, Mr Ellis strikes me as one of those people who has so remarkably little self-awareness about their own poor behavior that they gripe endlessly about how oversensitive the world is to their offhand profoundly honest and truthful observations, never once realizing that, no, they aren't actually particularly insightful, they're really just a big jerk.
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We also don't have an incentive to write programs that grant access to people who know a special incantation like '() { :; };' and yet we do. Point being we can fuck this up very easily, like any other bit of software.

I myself am on fence, on the one hand it is a bit like worrying about over population on mars, and there really is nothing we can productively do right now to research AI safety, the best thing we have are convolutional long/short term memory nets, and there's not much you can say about it.

But at the same time worrying is a great move if the alternative is to just wait until we can do something.
As far as I know, the current consensus is that sleep reduces with age because the ability to maintain sleep is impaired, not because the need for sleep is actually reduced.
I heard it only works if you set a negative TTL.
I think it is time that we as a species faced a few hard truths:

1) Nothing short of a dark age will reduce human emissions to a non factor in climate shift

2) Climate shift was always inevitable. It has happened before; it will happen again. The only thing we have done is hasten it... maybe.

3) All global efforts in regards to climate shift should be pointed at adapting to the changes, safeguarding threatened species (or collecting the requisite genetic data to one day rebuild them), and ensuring our specie's evolutionary March into the future.

We shouldn't be designing green houses; we should be learning how to live underwater and underground. We should be planning for the Great Inland Migration. We should be hardening and burying all infrastructure. We should be decreasing energy and material waste for efficiency reasons, not feel-good reasons.

This nascent cataclysm is not a fire, it is a flood. The metaphorical waters will rise and recede over thousands of years. No one in the future will give a flying fuck about Priuses or carbon credits. They will either praise us for building the tools and protocols byvwhich they survive, or curse us for thinking we could fight the inevitable.

Our kind showed up at the end of an ice age. Let's not circle jerk ourselves to extinction in the face of another. Assessing past faults is pointless. We must adapt our collective civilizations to a dynamic future for which we are biologically and technologically I'll equipped.
I would second a therapist/counselor/etc. Did that during college (thanks to the couseling services my Uni provided), and it helped me just not feel too crazy.

I spent a long while, and still do, thinking about what am I heading towards. I know a lot of people don't know this and there is no way I will ever know all the details to make a decision, but I prefer the 'fail to plan, plan to fail' montra. Thus I plan, but am willing to scrap my planes in the wink of an eye, contingent on new infromation.

This is what I did and maybe you'll find something helpful in this method. Find what makes you tick. Make a list of things you enjoy doing. Try to be specific as you can. (You like novelty. Okay then maybe something like 'I like to learn a new trade skill (wood carving, stained glass, etc.) every 6 months.') Try to begin to boil it down to a long list. Keep adding things to the list, and take a break from the list every now and again (just to bring a fresh pair of eyes to it). If an idea seems broad, try to break it down (when I did/do this, I try to be able to tell someone the idea and they would be able to go out and do it exactly how it is in my head).

Then next to the list make columns like 'Financially sound ideas' (buying 32 Raspberry PIs to make a large cluster computer is not as financailly sound as Learning how apache2 works), 'Speed of doing' (you can learn how to write C at a basic level in an afternoon, but learning how to weld may take you longer), 'Practical for you to do' (if you weigh 400lbs and wanting to go backpacking through the Rockies is not as practical as learning how to write better on a whiteboard), 'It would bring me immediate gratitude', 'it would bring me long term gratitude', etc.

After you make a large list rank each column with 1-5 or some other ranking system (I liked the 1-5 because I could say I really hate, sort of hate, neutral, like, love an idea). Then you can hopefully start to see things that rank high in each category you made. (e.x. I really want to take a trip around South America (drive for two weeks or so through the Andes). It isn't practicle, it isn't quick to do, it isn't finacially sound, but it would be one hell of a memory. It is something I want to strive towards and go one day.)
I've heard a number of times that proper water fasting can heal diabetes.

P.S. Absolute fasting can be dangerous.
> It's shocking to me how inconsiderate the Japanese are of suicide and grieving.

Eh, I think it's a different perspective. Simplifying things greatly, Japanese society is a collective one, and one could argue that suicide is a selfish decision that damages the collective by removing any possible utility you may be giving it for the sake of yourself. As even small transgressions of this nature are frowned upon in Japanese culture, it's not surprising to me that the bigger transgressions have these reactions.
There is no scientific evidence that anyone can do it at all above 192 kbps.
>Replicating intelligences might be like black boxes which we don't understand but can generate, or grow, if you will, from simpler primitives. We might get lucky and discover the means to generate intelligences without understanding them.

On that premise, the risk of accidentally discovering the right bit-string that morphs into a all powerful evil AI seems to be minuscule. Since at least human intelligence consists of multiple dimensions/factors and only some combinations thereof can be described as "intelligent", given a certain environment.
Accidentally discovering something "thinkable": maybe, brute forcing the right combination for human-surpassing intelligence? Most likely not.
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Have you continued the things that have worked? I have never been to Switzerland and know little about its medical care, but I can't imagine there is not someone there that can help you with this given how advanced the society is.
Except now recruiters and hiring managers don not see it this way, they see it as Devlopers can do Operations tasks. Which is what I was saying, and what the parent was mentioning.

DevOps by itself is a noble cause, putting developers with operations in order to smooth a pipeline, but invariably it just means 1 person with both skills/disciplines.

And like they say, a jack of all trades is a master of none.

(but I suppose better than a master of one?)
You should note that "cargo clean" causes dependencies to be rebuilt next build as well; a regular "cargo build" would only re-compile your module and re-link with already-built dependencies, and so should be a fair bit faster.
Sorta related to this topic, I'd suggest giving audiobooks a chance! They're definitely not for everyone, but I've become a huge fan. Every time I need to drive somewhere or I have to clean around the house, I play an audiobook.

They're also great if you lead a sedentary lifestyle (e.g. in front of computer all day). Reading books will probably necessitate more sitting around, but with audiobooks you can be a little bit more active and go out for a jog or walk.
For me the trick seems to be quite the opposite: set the alarm clock so much earlier that it actually matters.

I have started waking up at 04 in the morning since May and it works really well.
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After seeing all of the cynical comments about, people are people, his Syrian dad didn't raise him, how he was raised, etc.. I had to put in my assumption of why Banksy did this.

He did it to give the Syrians hope of a positive road ahead, to not seek retribution, but to create something great.
Eh. It's also: what the heck do you do after the kids are older and don't need nor want full time care? Most people still have half their working lives left, but are permanently off the career track. There are lots of people who could easily afford to take off 5-6 years when their kids are little but don't because it's career suicide.
Recently some more films have cropped up that are around 60 minutes - an awkward length somewhere between what you'd typically classify "short film" vs. "feature film". Because it's not clearly classifiable as one or the other, films of this length suffer uphill financing and marketability challenges. Unfortunate, because no length is strictly better than another, it's up to how the film works with the time it has. So it's encouraging to see some filmmakers work with the ~60 minute range now that there're more alternatives for commercially releasing a film these days.
I mean yeah but on the other hand, who the hell else would bother funding calories-in-nuts studies?
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Because we haven't had the reason or ability to make self replicating machines yet. It's possible though. With AI and some robotics, you can replace all humans with machines. The economy doesn't need us.
If one did believe that the disembodied spirits of the dead could be trapped on earth near the place where they died, it's not really much of a additional stretch to postulate that they would be specifically bound to a physical structure, or their pre-death conception of "home."

It's weird to me how so many people's approach to mythbusting is "if ghosts were real, they would behave according to this set of rules I just made up, and they clearly don't, therefore ghosts aren't real." A much better argument would be "There is no evidence whatsoever of ghosts existing, therefore ghosts aren't real." There's no need to try to define ghosts as elementary particles or whatever.
I'm very curious as to what the reaction was of the first pilot that was shot at. My guess is he was probably be thinking more "Wow, what an asshole," than he would be thinking that the aggressor's action makes sense in the context of war.
Try setting it to an imaginary value.
Looks like somebody is using their own proxies for upvoting, 37 points in 7 minutes huh?
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I've noticed this in office situations. A bunch of people having a conversation are suddenly more stressed out than they have any reason to be. Why? It's just that time of year when everyone's on a deadline.
The full text is online:
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/early/2015/11/18/jn.115.2173...

Apparently studies have shown the same thing on pistachios and almonds too.
+1 audio books

For me, I can digest one much quicker than reading.

I got a few from Audible this year. The content is great, but their one size fits all credit system is archaic. I would love to see a Spotify-like audio book subscription service.
That depends on the cut the author would get from a publisher or leftover profit if they deal with the printing and distributing channels themselves. From the view of the buyer, it's really easy to rationalize the low cost of an ebook, and even if the first part is free, as long as it engages people enough most will come back for the latter parts. A regular physical book would need to engage people on the description to start with to convince people of the higher cost of it. Then there would be the people who sit down and read it through in the bookstore, they would need to be convinced enough of re-readability in order to buy it, or they become lost potential income, same as someone dropping a series after the first free ebook due to it not being interesting enough for them.
Looks neat, the tooling could use a little work though.

http://docs.cython.org/src/quickstart/build.html shows a few ways this could be integrated to be a little more... seamless.
>citing studies showing that only 60% of books bought electronically are ever begun, and completion rates that can fall as low as 20% for some titles.

Well, how about the completion rates of physical books? I am sure most people would rather read smaller, to the point books if they could. Moreover, there are also social brownie points associated with buying thick books. If everyone is talking about it, buying that popular book in physical form will increase the aesthetic look of my "home library" and then when people come over, I can show off how well read I am.

Also the top comment on the article page importantly notes:

"AAARRRGGGGHHH!!!

Count the words, not the pages!!!! Some simple typesetting changes can increase or decrease a books page count significantly.

A bigger book may look more intimidating, but it may also look like better value for money, and if production/material costs have gone down over the last 15 years, I wouldn't be at all surprised if a publisher bumps up the paragraph spacing and brings in the page margins to make a book appear longer than it is."
More orbital mechanics? There was a fair amount of that in Anathem as well. Sure the author is supposed to show-us-not-tell-us that characters are smart, but this handwaved now-they-work-a-physics-problem trope only gets about halfway there.
I tried doing tests like this and I could not find any recordings where I could tell the difference at 160 kbps VBR. I not saying that it is impossible, but the conditions must be pretty rare and the difference very minor - compared to the massive degradation that come from room effects it amounts to nothing.
> That’s the real crime being perpetrated by the reputation culture: stamping out passion; stamping out the individual.

I think he's right, the pressure is real on a social reputation site like Facebook (which he cites)... you have to present the best image of yourself, which as he says, comes down to making yourself in the image of others. That pressure does subside when you get older, but it's certainly there if you're a high schooler or 20 something.

I meet a lot of smart young people who really go way too far in the self-image game, I think without realizing how it tends to make them dull and conformist, as BEE says.
Yeah, I kinda feel like that too. I'd like to think they saw the results of other studies and just thought "Oh wow it would be great if we see the same results on our walnuts. On the other hand, the California Nut Industrial Complex could just be pretty evil.
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> Both are great, but both would be much better at the half of their size.

This brings to mind a comment Jason Fried made in Rework:

“Writers eliminate good pages to make a great book. We cut this book in half between the next-to-last and final drafts. From 57,000 words to about 27,000 words. Trust us, it’s better for it.”
Very interesting. With numpy I haven't felt the need to C-ify anything in a while, but making the process easier is always a plus (or plusplus). Does anyone know how this compares with CFFI or Cython? Is there a hello pybind11?
Yes, I'm very familiar with current AI. It's my hobby. I'm not really talking about current AI though. I'm talking about a machine with thousands of times more intelligence than humans.
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Color, texture, odor, amount, frequency, duration, experience, to start off. Chromotagraphy and good ol' regular image capture might be super useful, too. Pairing the app with a food intake tracker would be ideal. There could be different options of detail in terms of data collection. Known illnesses could be factored in. Worrisome trends could be identified. Uncomfortable conversations could be avoided, thereby helping medical professionals more easily asses the root causes of problems. Anonymous communities could be established based on chronic ailments and religiously health minded folks alike. There are a diarrhea of options for this idea (I couldn't fuckingbhelp myself... so many poop puns wanted to come out...)
It's definitely a training issue. I was reading 15-20 books a year, but two years ago a switch flipped and I'm reading 50-80 books a year.

The main thing that people have to give themselves is time. Reading takes time, and a lot of people think 15 minutes before bedtime is enough.
It's weird for me that the article headline is "Self-hosting Firefox Sync 1.5" but the author basically just says, read the README and that's it. I had a really hard time setting it up https://jeena.net/firefox-sync-15 full of misunderstandings and misconceptions.
Unable to validate my email. Earlier it wasn't working at all, now it tells me I need to be logged in (but I am, I think).

Edit: Fixed for me now.
There are still only the same number of hours in the day, though. You're making pretty fundamental alterations to your habits in order to 'reclaim' time that isn't really lost.
There's already a "thing" similar to this idea, look up Dawn Simulator.
I can write good code in Java, Scala, Python, Perl, MATLAB, Javascript, and now learning Go. I can configure Apache, nginx, Ansible, Docker... I worked with nearly every favor of Linux, OpenSolaris/OmniOS, CoreOS, etc. I learned how to do things in big data, business intelligence, algorithmic trading. Learning new things is not a problem, this is what I enjoy. Most of them are marketable.

What's killing me is inability to stop learning and start focusing on doing, intensely and persistently. When I have a job, I can't focus on the job. When I try to run my business, I can't focus on administrative side and routine (and successful routine is the essence of every business). I only want to learn, even if it is self-destructive, even if there are many more urgent and important things to do.
I'm in the same loop. Click link, verify email, tells me to login, already logged in, re log in, verify url, still says verify.

With that. Congrats to all three of you. It's an exciting day

edit: Woot. Fixed.
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I tried that but can't fight my need to make the day last longer. I'm also quite productive late night. It makes me eat more in the evening and skip breakfast the next day (at the opposite of most nutritionists recommendations).

The main issue with being a late night worker is that for most of us it means starring at a screen and this affects sleep in a bad way.
Give up coffee, work out regularly, go to bed at the same time every night, get tested for sleep apnea.

Changed my life.
Well, sort of. Erin and I are scrambling on last-minute emulator/compiler bugs, but Patrick is letting people play with his trading exchange levels.
Try again. This was happening to me as well. I eventually generated a new email and it worked.
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You make it sound like strong AI will be programmed with ALGOL 68 control structures and loops, hand-coded (i.e. the right bit-string). If that is your conception in I agree with you. However this sounds much too like the "expert systems" of the eighties.

Biology doesn't have any need for "the right bit-string" (modulo DNA, different purpose) to make intelligence work, and one shouldn't have such an expectation of an emergent strong AI, either. Instead of "the right bit-string", think more "the right model"
> And of course this has turned Brussels into an extremely non-mixed city. The ghettos are ethnicity based now.

I have a feeling that it is not entirely the immigrants' fault for this state of affairs that they self-segregate or exclude natives from their social circles.

I speculate that it's got to do to some degree with racist and nativist Belgian politicians or European politicians in general who benefit enormously from a failure of the multi-culturalism experience and integration/assimilation by immigrants to warrant a xenophobic and hateful reaction like deportations, internment or barring of entry.
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It also supports creating custom validation keywords.
I heard bags of bricks were one of the first weapons brought to the skies. This is the type of thing prone for many apocryphal stories.