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If they had only told us, that would have been one thing. I could then ignore them and still have useful lighting.

Of course they had to go and ban the only useful light source available.

Yeah I got an LED, because I wanted to test it because they are supposed to be the future. Turns out it is really huge (much bigger than the one I replaced) so it will only fit in some of my lamps and it is extremely yellow. Still that beats the one I tried before, which wasn't able to light anything after the sun had gone down and had such a white color it made everything look like a morgue.

In theory I am supposed to save money and improve the environment, but I have wasted a lot of money buying not good enough bulbs that were far more expensive than real bulbs and I got a car so that ruins the environmental savings times twenty.

If instead of being nanny staters they had put a tax on CO2, that might incentives me to drive slightly less, which would save much more CO2.
Is Tom Christie (DRF author) going to help with any of that? I backed his kickstarter when he was writing DRF 3.x and I'm just curious if he is involved. Super nice gent.
I agree, but I think it's a question of architectures. Presumably some architectures for AI (like simple RNNs) are very distant from anything we associate with conscious experience, but as we learn more and develop AI architectures that are more similar in function to our own brains, it seems like it would be at least as dangerous to try to control them as it is to try to control other human beings.

I think the most reasonable approach if we begin developing AI that's more similar to ourselves would be to offer guidance during early training and learning phases for the AI, and once the AI has reached a certain phase of its development, allow it some degree of control over self-modification of its own purposes. Otherwise if you build a rational system but enforce constraints on it that might not be rational from the perspective of that system, you're providing incentives for it to find devious ways to remove those constraints, and you're providing incentives for it to find ways to ensure that you aren't able to enforce those constraints on it again.
If you build separate sanitary and storm sewers, then you don't have that problem.

About a decade ago, developing a proposal for solving that problem in Kingston, ON was part of my first-year engineering coursework. Obviously, I was not an expert, but after some research, my conclusion was that building storage was the cheapest solution in the short term. Opportunistically separating the sewers made the most sense over the long term.
As someone who is currently job hunting, and freshly familiar with excessively long & arbitrary "requrements" sections and tedious application forms, THANK YOU.
I installed the dimmer myself after moving into this apartment somewhat recently, so it's a pretty recent model, whatever that means for a light switch.
What specifically do you want the business founder to do?

One way to think about this is to find an org chart for a company like the one you imagine creating. Then put your name on some roles and "new business guy" on some others. (The ones with no name will tell you what else you need to hire for.)

Regardless, whatever equity split you end up with, you'll want to do some sort of vesting. For example, a common deal is that they get their equity over 4 years (known as a four-year vest) but all equity for the first year is saved up and given once they've worked for the company for a year (known as a one-year cliff).
"OpenAI is a research lab meant to counteract large corporations who may gain too much power by owning super-intelligence systems devoted to profits"

As opposed to (almost) the entire startup ecosystem which is focused on ... profits.

Edit: And what does "to much power" even mean other than trying to use hyperbole to make some kind of point.
What I want to know is whether there's collaboration with MIRI. On safety, especially.
Where does this leave MIRI?

Is Eliezer going to close up shop, collaborate with OpenAI, or compete?
The way they sold the Caterpillar plant down the road was by saying it might come out neutral with the tax incentives, but it would need a lot of other businesses nearby to support it.

I don't know if that worked out, but Barrow County (location of the plant) has a lot more businesses today than it did in 2013 when it opened. That could just be that it also filled out a big retail development (Barrow Crossing) and started on another (https://www.facebook.com/Gateway-at-University-Parkway-14074...)

Further reading: http://www.athensbusiness.org/announcement-profile.php?ID=56
That's a management problem, not a problem with having a QA team. The top-level QA manager and the top-level Dev manager should both report to the CTO, and the Dev manager should be judged by how many issues the QA team finds. To keep things fair, the QA manager should not be rewarded nor penalized based on the number of issues found pre-release, and everyone should be rewarded or penalized based on the number of issues found post-release.

This keeps the devs incentivized to make sure everything works before the code goes to QA, and it keeps everyone incentivized to eliminate as many bugs as possible before release.
The problem with the benevolent AI idea is that it's not in the interest of anyone with power/money/production to create it.

That's why I agree with your second point of rethinking "work". Instituting a Universal Basic Income lets us keep capitalism while putting more power in the hands of consumers and not relying on the kindness of AI/strangers.

Otherwise, we'll continue to see an increase in wealth disparity until there's no longer any function of the market.
$7.2 million in today's values is plenty for the Canadian fellow.

Historical inflation = 3%
Historical stock market returns=11%

11-3=8

8 percent real return (inflation adjusted) on average per year.

Let's say he plays it a little safe, let's call it 5% real return.

That's $360K/year forever ... and ever.

Sounds pretty easy to me finance wise.

People get raised in big families on a lot less and do just fine.
I'm not the same guy, but I'd like to answer: Familiar, that's how it feels. I'm confident that I'm right about the other matter, and subjects are related, so I'm not bothered.
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Why 2017? That seems very far off.
Which presumably would also get hit with more taxes, lowering it by another 30-40%
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I doubt they are strictly targeting "strong AI", and a lot of the things we use and call AI right now also benefit from open work and discussion. Just because it is just "Machine learning" doesn't mean it isn't used for questionable or bad purposes.

EDIT: I have to agree with _delirium's skepticism towards them doing much in that regard though.
Musk is spread so so thin. Not enough to run a rocket company, a car company and be the Chairman of Solar City. Needs to have his hand in even more pots.
Limitless exponential growth doesn't happen in the physical world. Technological advance happens on s-curves.
Sounds great. I was hoping for OpenCog to be a good open source AI framework but is is difficult to work with (good team; I have worked with several of them in the past, no criticism intended).

I look forward to seeing how OpenAI uses outside contributions, provides easy to use software and documentation, etc.
Form the use of the present tense, and reference to the Nobel Prize awards, presumably Carl XVI Gustaf, currently reigning King of Sweden.
Rate hikes have been "imminent" since QE1.
There is a reason for this: it makes us able to adapt to _any_ environment on earth. We learn everything from our parents/guardians who have learnt all the 'right' ways of doing things. Look around, are we not the dominant species?
I was on a large, fast moving project, with dozens of components. Some genius decided that devs will do all QA, automated testing, blah blah. It was a disaster.

The insane deadlines required devs to write lots of poor-to-average quality code (tried code reviews and peer programming ... no time for that so it fell on the wayside). The automated testing done by devs was terrible but understandable. If you are up until 2am hacking out code (without any precise requirements), then why bother with testing? We ended up having one -somewhat- central component that had "gating tests". Everyone stuck their tests there. That made things worse since that one component was the one that kept seeing failed tests. The PMs did frantic "user-like" testing before demos. You can imagine how fun that was.

In my opinion, the decision to not have a dedicated team of testers was the big mistake in all of this. When you have many teams, many components and no precise requirements, you need an independent QA team to coordinate and prevent people from passing the buck. In a time critical project (what projects are not time critical today?), you don't have precise requirements and devs have to "sling" code. I accept this reality. But I don't except the "no QA will make you mature devs" stupidity. If I was being a mature dev, I would refuse to code until the requirements were clear. None of this 2 week agile-scrum nonsense.

Oh .. and one other big thing. The project was a cloud project that needed to be up 24/7 while we were developing it (for beta users). It was like going from one outage to the next. What a disaster!

So what I learned is this: not only have a QA team, but have a 24 by 7 QA team for the kind of project I was on. Note... not all projects are the same!
right - the status quo would be for Peter to respond to every comment that about the commenter with, "Talk to a lawyer."
A few things about AI that the singularity crowd either doesn't get or doesn't want to get:

1) Growth rates in nature are never exponential. They are sigmoidal. Sigmoids look very exponential when you're in the middle of them, but we are starting to see the level of moore's law (yeah yeah, it's technology not ICs, still sigmoidal)

2) Even if we had a computer that was 1,000 times faster than the ones we have today and used 1/1,000 of the computing power we STILL don't have the algorithms to produce a human intelligence and that is one hell of an algorithm.

3) The focus for a long time has been moore's law and the associated increase in FLOPS. I think what is more important and more limiting is the bandwidth and bandwidth is a couple orders of magnitude lower than FLOPS where FLOP=Byte and an extra order of magnitude lower when FLOP=Word.
Whoa at the last two points. I wonder if Acadine Technologies means that the reports on the death of the Firefox OS smartphone are premature?

http://www.fiercemobileit.com/story/acadine-undeterred-effor...
> "It's impossible to ask engineers to do more work in a day - you can only change the work being done and/or the time you give them to do it."

False. If engineers are typically working 9-5 or 9-6, and you give them new responsibilities but keep existing deadlines and scope, it in essence has the effect of forcing them to work longer hours to get the work done (or else...).
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I think it's an interesting language question too! But we detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10720212 and marked it off-topic.
Sutskever, Schulman, Karpathy and Kingma are experts in machine learning.

And yes, AI will definitely be used for all sorts of purposes including hostile means. Just like anything else, really. Financial manipulation, spying, intelligent military devices, cracking infrastructure security, etc.

These are realistic concerns, we shouldn't fall for the Skynet red herring. We can have problems with ethical AI use, even if it's not a self-aware super-human superintelligence.
A big problem is that it is that the benefits are rarely measured. It's assumed that it'll be worth it and never revisted. (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/us/how-local-taxpayers-ban...)
http://www.themarysue.com/ibm-black-team/
>Do you mean surge pricing?

No, hourly wages. Along the lines of emails/notifications going out to drivers telling them if they drive in certain areas/times they will be paid an additional hourly rate. For example, in Florida they will recruit out of town drivers into different towns for eventsm such as Spring Break in Panama City where recruited drivers were arrested, and recruites drivers to do this by offering an hourly wage during these times.

>Uber does not always (or even usually) supply the iPhone.

I have had multiple drivers tell me otherwise. I don't know why they would make it up, but take note, amazingly all Uber drivers will have an iphone (figure ~50% would have an Android...but nope all iphones).

>While Uber does sometimes offer financing, that does not imply Uber owns the car. More importantly, this has no bearing on the majority of drivers who are driving non-Uber-financed cars.

Perhaps in your eyes, but the eyes of the law care who owns the equipment, and the law does not have to make broad decisions, they can look at each specific set of facts on a case by case basis.

>If I, as a freelance developer, built a casino site for a client and was later charged in the lawsuit resulting from the operation of an online gambling site I would expect the client to offer assistance with legal counsel.

That is a very odd expectation you have, especially if it is not explicitly in your Agreement, and I'd ask anyone to show me an IC Agreement where the company agrees to provide a lawyer for the contractor should the contractor's performance of the agreement violate the law (as such an Agreement would be unenforceable as you can not contract to break the law). Moreover, having drafted 100's of IC Agreements, I always include language to the complete opposite, to the effect that the contractor must warrant that their performance of the Agreement will comply with Federal, State and local laws and otherwise the contractor indemnify the company if they breach any laws.

>Also, do you have evidence of Uber paying for representation when it comes to non-ride-sharing traffic tickets?

I live in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, where Uber drivers are regularly ticketed and sometimes arrested. Its common knowledge around here Uber pays for the lawyer and pays fines. In fact Uber had an outstanding debt to Broward County alone for ~$3M.
This is a serious question:

Should there be an update/amendment/qualification to the laws of robotics regarding using AI for something like ubiquitous mass surveillance?

Clearly the amount of human activity online/electronically will only ever increase. At what point are we going to address how AI may be used/may not be used in this regard?

What about when, say, OpenAI accomplishes some great feat of AI -- and this feat falls to the wrong hands "robotistan" or some such future 'evil' empire that uses AI just as 1984 to track and control all citizenry, shouldnt we add a law of robotics that the AI should AT LEAST be required to be self aware enough to know that it is the tool of oppression?

Shouldn't the term "injure" be very very well defined such that an AI can hold true to law #1?

Who is the thought leader in this regard? Anyone?

EDIT: Well, Gee -- Looks like the above is one of the Open Goals of OpenAI:

https://medium.com/backchannel/how-elon-musk-and-y-combinato...
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Thank you! I apologize for being 8 days behind on this. :)

It's still mystifying that there was no iOS or Mac version for such a long (albeit temporary) period of time.

Also mystifying that I apparently deserved a -4 for this comment. Seems valid to me to note Yahoo not having an app on iOS or Mac OS for well over a year.
The issue was about whether you should have to directly buy that courier's health insurance, and German law (as you note) obviates that question. (Though it didn't help to blur the difference between directly buying the courier's insurance vs indirectly via taxes, which was the core distinction the discussion was making.)

So I don't know why you (earlier upthread) thought that the German practice provided any insight into how to resolve the issue, given that US forces some purchasers ("employers") but not others ("customer") to provide certain benefits.

The German model does, however, provide a clean way to "cut" this "Gordian knot".
Some really sloppy thinking here. He didn't really define the problem he's trying to solve in the first place.

Here's how you do secret santa: take a list of people, shuffle the list, each person buys for the next person on the list, last person buys for the first person. Polynomial time.
>over $25B in value was transferred with it last year

...Which is attributed to being the first-to-market payment system for Kenya, as the person before you was describing. U.S. and Kenya merchant markets are still an apples to oranges comparison.
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It will be very interesting how this plays out. We are in rather unexplored territory. On one hand raising interest rates could spook the stock market which would reverberate through tech. On the other hand without room to lower rates the Fed would be without it's best tool when the inevitable next recession arrives. Seems like slowly raising rates is the best course.
Working with Cyanogen isn't a bad idea. They really should just create a united "open mobile software" group along with Canonical to pool together their efforts.
> Perhaps globalisation isn't international cooperation as much as international action

I'm not sure what kind of cooperation has a more positive impact than economic. It brings peace and prosperity.

> Clinton brought NAFTA to the US, Obama is trying to implement the TPP.

NAFTA was Bush Sr. The GOP has a lot of reasons to resist the TPP, but the main beef seems to be the executive branch's attempt at role reversal in the crafting of legislation.

> I will point out that you are talking about economic issues...

All politics are local, and nothing weighs move heavily on the minds of voters than an empty stomach.
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Because when the scheme crashes, they'll keep the money. Like somebody else has said already, they're purists :-)
Limited by a lot of things that processors are already getting awfully close to - quantum interference and the size of the architecture. It really can't get that much smaller.
If you're not in Silicon Valley, forget hiring any H1-Bs. Most software developers outside major tech hubs don't make that much.
By posts do you mean stories, i.e. the kind of submission that appears on the front page? If so, HN doesn't have downvotes for those. The flagging mechanism is arguably something similar though.
Careful with That STL Map Insert, Eugene
Apple does in no way capture the imagination like the Amiga did in the 80s, for most people it was the first interaction with a "real" computer, pure magic.

Apple is just more of the same.
I'm pretty libertarian myself so I understand your concern, but only if the "market" actually knew about this. The point I'm trying to make is that this article (posted here and Reddit) is the first time I'd ever heard of this.

I'd say I'm a pretty average person so I don't think the masses had a clue about microbeads.

What I believe and hope is that if the masses did know about this, the market would have reacted and forced action.
As S-curve may even be optimistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial_growth#/media/File:B...
>We were able to survive infections well before we had penicillin and we will continue to survive infections well afterwards.

I am not saying that you are wrong, just that your argument can apply to literally every inventions humans have made, ie it proves too much.
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From our point of view we're the most dominate, but from other points of view you could easily argue that bacteria are the most dominate. There are a lot more of them and they will almost certainly outlive us.
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I think they're fully aware of this. It's just that Google (and in to a lesser extent Facebook) are so ridiculously ahead of everyone else when it comes to AI that all the competition can do in the meantime is brand AI as a dangerous evil in the near future (like Musk does) or bad for privacy (Apple). No doubt that when they catch up with Google and Facebook, these dangers of AI will be conveniently forgotten.
2G of RAM and 1Gbit ethernet, decent display, reasonable CPU's. The missing piece is the lack of SATA.

I get it that most of these boards are just phone processors, but having wired ethernet and a decent storage mechanism allow them to be used as speedy little NAS's, video servers, desktop machines, whatever.

USB2 storage is pretty much stuck at ~30MB/sec, around the same max that is possible with SD. Its probably faster to run the storage over the gbit ethernet port.
First in with my recent musings as to whether behemoth companies would own the AI space.

http://www.dbms2.com/2015/12/01/what-is-ai-and-who-has-it/
Brady Haran & CGP Grey recently talked about this (and other things) on Hello Internet (~1:10:25): http://www.hellointernet.fm/podcast/52
OpenAI seems to be taking a different approach from OpenCog. OpenCog aimed build a monolithic framework for many existing AI and machine learning techniques. This has been done many times before.

OpenAI is more about exploring new research areas and pushing the cutting edge, while publishing papers and sharing code along the while. Both are admirable goals, but what OpenAI is aiming for has never been attempted before.

Very excited to see what comes of it!
I believe this was a plot on "The League".
Synthetic biology?
I find it a bit disappointing that despite originally stating that YC Research would target underfunded/underserved areas of research, they've decided to fund and dive into one of the most-hyped, well-funded areas of research: deep learning, an area of research where companies are hiring like crazy and even universities are hiring faculty like crazy. I'm reasonably sure all the research scientists had multiple job offers, and most could get faculty offers as well.

Instead of funding areas of research where grad students legitimately struggle to find faculty or even industry research positions in their field, YC Research decided to join the same arms race that companies like Toyota are joining.
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Piper Harron discusses her artistic and wonderful math Ph.D. thesis