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People are worried about AI risk because ensuring that the strong AI you build to do X will do X without doing something catastrophic to humanity instead is a very hard problem, and people who have not thought much about this problem tend to vastly underestimate how hard it is.

Whatever goals the AI has, it will certainly be better at achieving them if it can stay alive. And it will be more likely to stay alive if there are no humans around to interfere. Now you might say, why don't we just hardcode in a goal to the AI like "solve aging, and also don't hurt anyone"? And ensure that the AI's method of achieving its goals won't have terrible unintended consequences? Oh, and the AI's goals can't change? This is called the AI control problem, and nobody's been able to solve it yet. It's hard to come up with good goals for the AI. It's hard to translate those goals into math. It's hard to prevent the AI from misinterpreting or modifying its own goals. It's hard to work on AI safety when you don't know what the first strong AI will look like. It's hard to prove with 99.999% certainty that your safety measures will work when you can't test them.

Things will not turn out okay if the first organization to develop strong AI is not extremely concerned about AI risk, because the default is to get AI control wrong, the same way the default is for planets to not support life.

My counterpoint to the risks of more limited AI is that limited AI doesn't sound as scary when you rename it statistical software, and probably won't have effects much larger in magnitude than the effects of all other kinds of technology combined. Limited AI already does make militaries more effective, but most of the problem comes from the fact that these militaries exist, not from the AI. It's hard for me to imagine an AI carrying out a military operation without much human intervention that wouldn't pose a control problem.

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Thank you. I'm still puzzled why would PG want to do business with someone like that, other than pure greed.
Goto Definition and the improved syntax definitions (speed and accuracy) are some of the most visible.
Even if conversations with strangers isn't a normal thing, it does happen - I have multiple friends who've dated people they met in subway cars.

The point is that crossing paths is naturally going to lead to more spontaneous interactions. All else equal, driving alone and living in silo'd suburban houses means less interactions with strangers compared to living in an apartment in NYC.

I grew up in the suburbs and now live in Manhattan. I meet a lot more people in Manhattan than I ever did in the suburbs, and this is the main reason why I have no intention of moving back to the suburbs.

I'll also add that I spent my youth living in both suburban America and rural Japan. I made a lot more friends and had a lot more fun in Japan largely because I could get anywhere via walking or biking. In America I was dependent on adults driving me everywhere, so I spent way more time alone playing videogames in my house.
> A move towards analysis like this would concern me a lot

I'm an American who has never left the country and probably never will apart from a planned cruise next year, and this scares the shit out of me. It's definitely a chilling effect, which I believe is the point. The US is about to become the very thing it ridicules North Korea for: isolationist, nationalist, and possibly fascist (the last based on Trump's picks for a racist filled far-right cabinet to go along with the Republican-controlled congress and his stated desire to have an all-Republican Supreme Court).

These are dark days ahead.
Having your own studio in Manhattan puts you so far into stratospheric income (or a family heirloom rent controlled lease) that we may as well be talking about the problems of private jet owners.

I'm talking about the kind of people who have to choose between part of a shared apartment in a conveniently transit-connected part of SF/Manhattan, or their own studio/1-bedroom somewhere with low density and poor transit. Y'know, software engineers making $100k.
This was my thought as well. That the benefit of sharing the idea is to get feedback so the idea can be refined.
Stanford is a great school but how do you figure those criteria are something Stanford is famous for?
I find driving my car is much more efficient than taking trains allowing me to make multiple stops thus talking with numerous people through out the day.
https://github.com/babel/babel-preset-env/ should help with this to remove the polyfills that are already supported, and with some future work to remove polyfills are unused.
Depends on the subreddit. The smaller ones still have strong community. I know lots of people from /r/mechanicalkeyboards for instance, many of whom are local. I think it helps a lot that users organize a TON of meetups all over the world so people have faces to put to usernames.
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Milton Friedman proposed something like a UBI back in the 1950s (a "negative income tax"), and he has cachet with some Republicans.
It's a shame to waste an elite education on people who do not serve society.
I already do this in part because of the nature of my job, and it has helped push me to lose interest in the major social media platforms. At the same time, my interaction in more obscure forums like this one and other tech sites has grown significantly.
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( link came from here https://en.lichess.org/patron )
"Few high schools (in California, at least) would even let you graduate without 50-100 hours of community service."

I have never heard of community service as a requirement to graduate high school. (No school in my district had this requirement.)

Granted, I understand your overall point. It is becoming increasingly difficult to be accepted by "elite" colleges. In fact, I had applied to nearly 12 colleges that were highly respected in Computer Science and was rejected from all of them.
lichess is legitimately one of the most impressive web applications I've seen and used. I've never been a big fan of playing chess, but I discovered the site several months ago, and it allowed me to get into the game in a way that I thought I never would.

It started with the tactical puzzles. They're derived algorithmically (using Stockfish analysis) from games actually played on the website. This alone is fascinating:

https://en.lichess.org/blog/U4sjakQAAEAAhH9d/how-training-pu...

My favorite thing about the puzzles though is that I can easily explore suboptimal solutions using lichess's analysis tools. If I ever got a puzzle wrong, my first question wouldn't be what the right move was, but rather why my move was bad. This is trivial to answer with the analysis tools. You can even see the game that the puzzle was derived from and see what moves the players actually made.

The site is just a goldmine.
The real irony is that Android might as well run on a microkernel, considering no OEM has any intention of ever making their firmware work on anyone else's hardware. Everyone's ROMs would be more or less just as incompatible as they are now, but at least they'd be faster and much more secure at the kernel level.
No, it really isn't. It's more like a sovereign state loosely bundled under the umbrella of the other states, except it is privileged by virtue of its population to dictate to the other 49 states. By all rights it ought to be segmented up into four or five states. I'm no fan of the Democratic party, and realize that any segmentation of California would result in more democrats in the senate, but even so, California is too big.
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Is it? The caste system is mostly defunct. In my experience (admittedly, as an outsider who lives in mostly elite circles) there is actually a more significant caste-like system, but much like in the states there are no real words to describe it.

The best explanation I've seen of it is Chetan Bhaget's novel Half Girlfriend: http://amzn.to/2im0Cxq It's a masala romance novel, blah, but it's the only real discussion of the issue that I've seen.

He's also written a few newspaper columns on it: http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The-underage-optimi... http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The-underage-optimi...

Very few people can even discuss these subtle, un-named caste systems, let alone argue against them. I can't stand Chetan Bhaget, yet I link to him anyway simply because he's really one of the very few who actually discuss it. Consider how difficult it is to even discuss Trump's victory in these terms as well.

I think that the best protection the caste system has is that we refuse to even give it a word.
It is not so easy to build a credible fake social media account, since normal accounts are years old.
I experienced dyslexia once. I'd assumed an odd posture and tried to read - it was almost like my neural pathways got short circuited. I don't try to read like that anymore.
What I wrote is what I wrote, and what argued is what I argued. Boston did not have a Jim Crow system whereby all blacks kids went to black schools and all white kids went to white schools. Schools were assigned by neighborhood, (with some ability for transfers). So if a neighborhood was all white, then you get a very white school. Mixed neighborhoods had more mixed schools. Here is a racial breakdown of the schools, two years before forced busing: https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m0...

So what was the experience like of the non-white kids in a majority white school (or vice versa)? That would vary a lot based on the particular school. I certainly do not argue that all schools would "welcome with open arms" outsiders of a different ethnicity. And especially not Charlestown High and South Boston High -- those neighborhood were quite parochial. When Italians started going to Charlestown High for instance, they were called "Wops" and such and there were fights. I don't have any good information on the experience of any black students attending those schools before forced busing. Most black students taking advantage of open enrollment would have gone elsewhere because Charlestown High and South Boston HIgh were crappy and overcrowded.

There was a voluntary busing program in Boston called Project Exodus in the mid 1960s whereby up to 600 black students were bused to mostly white schools. There was a survey of parents, that found ( https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/downloads/neu:m0... ) : "Other findings indicate that the mothers think that grades have improved, the amount of homework the children have to do has increased, their children have more white friends, that there is not a lot of prejudice or discrimination encountered at the new schools. With respect to this last distribution, only seven (or 10%) of the respondents felt that their children encountered a lot of prejudice, fifteen percent thought their children encountered some, while 70 percent thought their children encountered litttle or no prejudice or discrimination"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopkeeper's_privilege

In some states you can legally be stopped by a "shopkeeper" and required to provide a receipt to prove purchase.
> in the wake of the election. I see someone else felt similarly.

I think that's exactly why everyone is on about "liberal hubris."

It's because people like you who are so self-absorbed that you write articles about how you're too educated to talk to plumbers and how you sympathize with others who feel the same way.

When you discount everyone who disagrees with you for being "uneducated" and gullible, it doesn't seem at all unreasonable to me that many would accuse you overwhelming hubris.
Well it seems clear to me that they can only provide that level of performance for blocks already in their onsite cache. Presumably they're using a novel compression/de-duplication scheme and maybe prioritizing blocks using historical and/or predictive analysis to cache the right data at the right time but you can only transfer data as fast as you can transfer it. I'm guessing a full export of all of your data (that isn't cached) is going to go as fast as the line/compression allows.
> I would also like to see an instance where Mercurial hiding information from you and giving misleading answers to your queries.

A branch with two heads. Two branches that have the same name. Which commit came from where? What happens if that branch was merged into the other? Or what happens if only one got merged into a "mainline" branch, while the other one was reverted else where. It's useless information at best, and misleading at worse.

>But it is supposed to be used by people. So it should be first human friendly.

You're going to claim a DSL that you have to research is somehow easier to use than simple command line arguments that have decades of convention behind them? Odd.

Git allows you to format output as well. Not sure why you felt the need to bring that up. Again, unless you've extensively used both systems I'm not sure why you feel the need to argue because it's making you look foolish.

>There are some examples at the bottom of the revset page I linked.

And absolutely none of them help your argument.
Soldiers in developed countries no longer have to die en masse. Compare US and Iraqi casualties.
Oh come on man, credit where credit due. Glass is half full.
The upside here is that these are the sorts of measures that will allow visa-free travel to continue.

Ultimately, many countries that were once zero-risk considerations for entry are becoming riskier. The world is changing, people are migrating away from war in the middle east and other places and the US governments policy is to deny people deemed risky entry. Other countries require visas to deal with this sort of thing. US citizens of Pakistani origin need to jump through hoops to get an Indian visa, for example. That's far more intrusive and harmful.

It's intrusive, but why should your virtual identity be different than your physical identity?
I would add an exhaust fan, to prevent smell in the bowl area.
There's a lot of human trafficking in Oakland, a short BART ride away from SF. With so much problem-solving ability in nearby SF, why is this still a problem?

So are homelessness, childhood hunger, etc

And why do we crowd around in the Bay Area, pushing out artists and other people? Why don't we spread out across the U.S., spreading ideas and doing good?
What are some of them?
Typography to me injects bias that I largely see as artifacts of the past; your comment that people read lettering best that they know speaks to this.

Closet I've seen to research I more interested in was a grid of pixels randomly configured, displayed to the user for them to recall, hidden, them compared to what the user was able to recall. Study found that patterns on the borders of the grid were more likely to be recalled.

Thanks for sharing all the info and links, I look forward to digging into them.
Advocates of a UBI sometimes balk at this, saying that it's not universal. I think it boils down to a difference in how you label the income (as a tax credit versus being a separate payment).
A cheap $50 phone from 2010 can stay constantly connected to 6 base stations (at 6 different frequencies) and swap over between them in milliseconds.

You'll need to emit 100 times the power of a phone over a wide range of frequencies to jam them.

It's not even counter-productive, it is destructive. Don't suggest that as an idea in a plane.
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH

While this works, it's generally a bad idea to depend on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This type of environment override should generally be left as a tool for sysadmins and other integration/workaround needs.

Instead, you can bake the library search path into the executable with ld's "-rpath" option.

gcc -o foo -Wall -Wl,-rpath,/lib/search/dir

> -shared

Building a shared library may also require building position independent object files. (CFLAGS += -fPIC). If the library is being distributed, it is also a good idea to set the soname[1].

This can get complicated very quickly, so it's probably better to let something like libtool[2] handle building and managing the library. (Autotools is a lot easier[2] to use that its reputation suggests. Way too many configure.ac scripts are a cargo cult mess)

[1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries...

[2] https://autotools.io/libtool/index.html

[3] https://autotools.io/whosafraid.html
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It seems HN is not interpreting your proposition as sarcasm.
I've read Eliezer's stuff, which is what gives my request its special poignancy.
> Shopkeeper's privilege is a common law recognized in some parts of the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property

Emphasis added is mine. Nice try, but unless they suspect me, this doesn't apply. I'm more than sure they can't get away with "suspecting" every single customer who leaves to even a crazy judge.
Actually, California's population reduces, rather than increases, it's political power within the union proportional to its population.

> any segmentation of California would result in more democrats in the senate

That's actually not true; it's quite easy to divide California into a hyper-Democratic coastal state and a solidly Republican inland state, which would only increase the number of Republicans in the Senate.
That's not how risk works.

If we want to grow to adulthood as a species and manage to colonize the cosmos, we need to pass _every_ skill challenge. If in 50 years there'll be a risk of unfriendly superintelligence and it'll have needed 40 years of run-up prep work to make safe, then it will do us absolutely zero good to claim that we instead concentrated on risk of military AI and hey, we got this far, right?

Considering the amount of human utility on the line, "one foot short of the goal" is little better than "stumbled at the first hurdle".
Thanks for the feedback. I shall do that once new year has passed. :)
It's got nothing to do with avionics. It's to stop interference with base stations on the ground.
Who among us isn't already self-censoring?

In contrast to yourself, I'm most self-censored here. In a game or in person is where I feel like I can speak freely. Here, not so much.
Mostly people like you that thought it was a good product but never paid.
If you can solve that elegantly and safely I suggest you build a startup around it.
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I am puzzled by how the headline switched from holding a random smartphone in one's pocket to wilfully carrying a dangerous explosive device.
I'll give it a whack:

Management of local newspapers.
Management of record stores.
Management of video rental stores.
Certain facets of network administration.
Certain facets of software development.
Preparing legal documents.
Scientific lab work.
Accounting.
Investment brokers.
Tax preparation.
Marketing.
Payroll.

Basically any business app is only worth something because it makes workers more efficient through automation. There are a lot of business apps that 4 year folks use.

Also, you are missing the point when you require "automated away completely." It's not binary. If getting something done used to require 100 people and now it requires 10, multiply that against 20,000 companies and you have a huge hole.

The risk of automation isn't completely removing people, it's requiring less people across many career paths.
You can if you have cheap electricity. The biggest downside is that you'll need ASICs, and only one company publicly sells them. Naturally, they are priced such that your margins will be hair thin.
We have been using the official Docker image without any problems so far.
The idea here is that the person has to kill all the baby tigers, right? Because otherwise the end state is the same as the island full of adult tigers.
California has 2.1 million illegal aliens. Once they're deported, the poverty rate will drop.
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Ah, I tried to clarify, but I wasn't unable to edit. I meant custom and static. If anyone curious to a solution, for now I have been using http://yourls.org/ (A self hosted URL shortener) with Trello. I'd use Pastebin itself, but unfortunately Pastebin doesn't support markdown publishing AFAIK.
thanks for the update, it started working yesterday for about 10 hours, then acting up randomly again.
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Maybe, but in many cases social media accounts are of very little indication of the person behind it. Employers, journalists and private investigators have been snooping around Facebook and Twitter long before State actors did and a lot of people maintain minimum activity on social media (and let it be family friendly too) just to blend in. If they habour any nefarious tendencies you are not going to find it on their public persona anyway.
Global income inequality has been decreasing.

http://voxeu.org/article/parametric-estimations-world-distri...
You can't easily make a company out of selling free stuff?
Back in the '90s some government agency released a redacted report where someone had gone in and drawn black boxes in the PDF file, but the full text was of course still in the underlying data and people were able to get at it relatively easily.

EDIT: apparently this has happened repeatedly, according to a quick google search.

No doubt some sort of knee jerk process was put in place to ensure that any digital release of redacted documents must be scans of a physically redacted source.

Sort of like an analog memory hole.
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It was working for us for the most of the day, but now acting up not working again...
IIRC because last time I checked it had no comments/community around it and was until recently out of date.
I mean, Texas is pretty great, and Colorado isn't bad either...?
At the time when I was in the NMS pipeline, if you listed a school that you wanted to attend when you took the PSAT/NMSQT, that school would give you the scholarship if you became a finalist. The best idea was to say "undecided" and to maintain the ability to designate any school once committed.

My older brother learned this the hard way—he listed a school (October of junior year) that he decided (April of senior year) not to attend. He lost the $8k in scholarship money that he could have gotten from the school he attended—which he could have gotten had he responded "undecided".
Note that this article is from 2008.
'just'?
And what's the point of that, other than making the case for Calexit? I mean, sure, you can construct scenarios by excluding any grouping of 1/8 of the population.

But what gives that any validity?
It's a reasonable heuristic for when you just don't have the time or energy, but if you are giving a 45min keynote speech on the topic I think you are expected to make the effort to judge an idea on its merits.