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The thing is it doesn't need a huge leap in any specific thing, it needs a quantum leap in anything at all. Complexity only constrains you from solving all problems of a given type in reasonable time, not from solving any instance.

There are even many things that we already suspect are just engineering challenges. Like rocketry, hacking and robotics. Even if an AI can just act like a million engineers and scientists working for a decade per second, without any higher level of thinking, it could do some incredible things.
Yup, that's what I was thinking of.
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Nice work. I wish twitter implemented something like this that helped track convos better. One of the reasons I stopped using it was navigation issues.
> 1/ We'll spend in the order of 5-6 hours with a mid-to-senior hire before we recruit them.

That's great if they're unemployed, but not so good if they have a job. Most employers won't do after hours interviews either. Is a currently employed person meant to call in sick?

It's absolutely terrible if you are one of a million generic companies that candidates aren't excited to work for.
Undocumented workers still pay tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_illegal_imm...

> The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released a report in February 2016, stating that 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States are paying annually an estimated amount of $11.64 billion in state and local taxes, "on average an estimated 8 percent of their incomes."[25]
Maybe also stackoverflow.
I only added that it wasn't intended to be partisan either, since you either edited your comment (without demarcation) or I didn't see the "partisan battle/hell" comment you made. I disagree that this made it "considerably different" since the other wording and theme of my reply was exactly the same. If minor clarifications that barely alter the wording, let alone the theme of the comment, now require demarcation, HN comments sections will get very long and confusing.
> In this scenario, they only need enough factories to meet the needs of themselves and the other aristocrats.

That could still end up taking all of the planet's resources, if enough aristocrats try to maximize their military capacity to protect themselves or play some kind of planet-wide game of Risk, or if they create new goods that require absolutely insane amounts of resources.

I mean, ultimately, the issue is that the common people have nothing of value to trade except for resources that they already own, and no way to accumulate things of value. Because of this, the aristocrats will never have an incentive to sell anything to them: if they had any use for the common people's resources, they would just take them. So I think there are three possible outcomes:

* The aristocrats' needs become more and more sophisticated until they need literally the whole planet to meet them, destroying the common people in the process.

* The aristocrats provide to the common people, no strings attached, out of humanism (best case scenario).

* The aristocrats take what they need and let the common people fend off for themselves, creating a parallel economy. In that case the common people would have jobs, although they would live in constant worry that the aristocrats take more land away from them.
I think the issue is that once do manage to build an AI that matches human capabilities in every domain, it will be trivial to exceed human capabilities. Logic gates can switch millions of times faster than neurons can pulse. The speed of digital signal also means that artificial brains won't be size-limited by signal latency in the same way that human brains are. We will be able to scale them up, optimize the hardware, make them faster, give them more memory, perfect recall.

Nick Bolstrom keeps going on in his book about the singularity, and about how once AI can improve itself it will quickly be way beyond us. I think the truth is that the AI doesn't need to be self-improving at all to vastly exceed human capabilities. If we can build an AI as smart as we are, then we can probably build a thousand times as smart too.
Yeah, it's a bit of a leaky abstraction since many modules in the standard library are implemented in C. And the interpreter itself.
It's understandable as a reasonable process for redaction. If you flatten it to a pure black and white image you get something you can print (the government loves that), but not something you can easily search (good for whoever's doing the publishing), and the security step is the flattening of the mask over the data with complete overlap and uniformity.

Edit: Of course actually printing it at any point in that process IS insane/beyond paranoid.
James Clark [1] has written some amazing stuff [2] [3]!

The story behind the design [4] of Relax/NG [5] [6] is fascinating and triumphant (thanks to simplicity). That July 2001 interview is apparently from before he merged his work on TREX [7] with Makoto Murata's [8] work on RELAX [9], working together on the OASIS RELAX NG technical committee [10].

Wikipedia: Makoto Murata: RELAX and RELAX NG [9]

Some people, including Murata and James Clark, had critical attitudes toward XML Schema. XML Schema is a modern XML schema language designed by W3C XML Schema Working Group. W3C intended XML Schema to supersede traditional DTD (Document Type Definition). XML Schema supports so many features that its specification is large and complex. Murata, James Clark and those who criticised XML Schema, pointed out the following:

It is difficult to implement all features of XML Schema.

It is difficult for engineers to read and write XML Schema definitions.

It does not permit nondeterministic content models.

Murata and collaborators designed another modern schema language, RELAX (Regular Language description for XML), more simple and mathematically consistent. They published RELAX specification in 2000. RELAX was approved as JIS and ISO/IEC standards. At roughly the same time, James Clark also designed another schema language, TREX (Tree Regular Expressions for XML).

Murata and James Clark designed a new schema language RELAX NG based on TREX and RELAX Core. RELAX NG syntax is the expansion of TREX. RELAX NG was approved by OASIS in December 2001. RELAX NG was also approved as Part 2 of ISO/IEC 19757: Document Schema Definition Languages (DSDL).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_(programmer)

[2] http://www.jclark.com/

[3] http://www.jclark.com/xml/

[4] http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/design.html

[5] http://relaxng.org/

[6] http://www.thaiopensource.com/relaxng/

[7] http://www.thaiopensource.com/trex/

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Murata#RELAX_and_RELAX_...

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoto_Murata

[10] https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/
I think an analogy of a baby human on an island of tigers would be vastly more appropriate. Humans would be like the tigers - they might have a lower overall intelligence, but they are mature and self sufficient.

A hyper-intelligent AI would be more akin to a baby human - it must be taught and raised first. But like the baby human on the island, it wouldn't be able to be taught by its peers, or benefit from the generations that came before it. It would certainly be at the mercy of the tigers until it matured, and even after it matured we wouldn't expect it to be able to use language or bows, or be anything other than a wild man. It probably wouldn't even seem much more intelligent than the tigers on the island.
Mind to share the list of .plists that you have deleted and disabled?
Have you seen gwern's essay on computational complexity arguments about AI?
https://www.gwern.net/Complexity%20vs%20AI
reminds me of yahoo forums back in the late 90s
That's an April Fool's Day prank. The King's Gambit has not been solved.
This article is utter rubbish. Anyone who possesses an elite education will never suffer in their life. They're in the upper-echelon of society. I have no pity for them and they are not at a disadvantage.

Go ahead an ask anyone accepted into Yale if they'd trade it off for the same major at po-dunk State U.

What do you think their response will be?

Don't be daft. This is trash.
As someone who's been at such a startup. The best tip I can give you is HackerRank.

Make a 1h test, NO fancy problems, just the basics. Think: summing some numbers, displaying some stuff on the console.

That doesn't substitute to the on site but it goes before to ensure a minimum level and some screening.

It's win-win for everyone. It's efficient and straightforward. On the top side, it's easier for the candidate to take 1h whenever he wants than to schedule a full phone call that will ruin half a day for both of you.
That article is an April Fool's joke: https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-chebase-april-fool-s-prank
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It is to some extent if we have a constant time example in real life. If the AI can't solve protein folding fast enough it can just design absurdly fast protein sequencers and really good microscopes and get proteins to fold themselves in real life and use the results in the rest of the computation.
You can copy the functions into a .c file if it makes you feel better.
It looks great! Could you share more details, like how many paying customers you have etc?
Personally I'd rather give billionaires more reasons donate their money than less.

If setting up a foundation that actually helps a ton of people means that their families can get a fraction of that money back, that's fine with me...

Unless you are implying that they are getting more money back through the salaries than they are in donating. In which case i'd love to see a source.
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Wow. I am speechless. Going to dive in another day.
I agree with you in principle, but the combination of the base rate for "26-year-olds redefining reality" being so low and the consequences being not nearly as dire as you make out mean I stand by my claim, at least for the case of heuristics on how to identify dangerous cults.

With regards to the Einstein bit, per my above comment I still think that skepticism of GR was perfectly rational right up until it got an empirical demonstration. And it's not like the consequences for disbelieving Einstein prior to 1919 were that dire: the people who embraced relativity before then didn't see any major benefit for doing so, nor did it hurt society all that much (there was no technology between 1915 and 1919 that could've taken advantage of it).
Because there are tradeoffs. Whatever it's goal is, some of those "drives" (instrumental values) will be more effective for reaching that goal over the timespan that it cares about.

Sometimes "accumulating more resources" is the most effective way. Sometimes "better understanding what problem I'm trying to solve" is the most effective way". Sometimes "resisting attempts to subvert my mind" is the most effective way. And yes, sometimes "becoming better at general problem solving" (self improvement of one's intelligence) is the most effective way.

But there's no guarantee that any one of those will be a relevant bottleneck in any particular domain, so there's no guarantee an agent will pursue all of those drives.
You're kidding right? You americans only got 10, 15 days top per year? really?

I have a hard time taking seriously a company that doesn't give me 25 days in EU. (better be with 25 sick days :D).
Sometimes it's even more fun and cozy in a tiny apartment.

In a big house, the party often naturally squeezes into the kitchen, leaving the handful of introverts to sit quietly in the living room.
The King's Gambit hasn't been solved nor is it likely to be solved any time soon. That article was one of Chessbase's annual April Fools posts. https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-chebase-april-fools-revisi...
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Which they will ignore.
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Also, AMT credits: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/an-upside-to-the-alternativ...
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> Why is enforcing the law and following policies so everybody can make a successful transition to become a US citizen a bad thing?

Because the laws are unjust. There is clearly an immigration problem in the United States and I personally don't believe tracking and deporting he people already here will ever contribute to a successful solution.

> If your illegal, and most likely your not going to pay your fair share for the entitlements and services you and others use then I have zero respect for you.

Many illegal immigrants still pay taxes and will never receive direct benifits for their contribution [0]

Illegal immigrants also work jobs that you would never think of working. Remember when they deported a bunch of immigrants in the south and food was rotting in the fields because no one was there to pick it a few years ago?
Ask HN: any native deep learning solutions for iOS and Android?
We would prefer not to use cloud APIs. We want the deep learning solution to do machine recognition and analysis in sub 100ms - do you know of any libraries or products that provide this?
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What if I told you, salt water is not a byproduct of fracking...
Not to nitpick, but the word "rationalize" usually has a negative connotation — to rationalize something is to attempt to justify/explain something that wasn't a rational choice to begin with [1]. In short, you're implying that people's decision to use ES6 wasn't based on a conscious, analytical decision.

If that's not what you meant, perhaps "justify" would be a better word to use. Or maybe just: "Why?"

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rationalize
Did you see what dang said to you here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13191305

I flagged this comment, and your "black people are criminals" comment, because of the tedious race baiting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13242008
They'll listen to the "real" news, of course.
> The "Terminator" scenario of a rogue malfunctioning AI is a silly distraction from the real AI threat, which is military AIs that don't malfunction. They will give their human masters practically unlimited power over everyone else.

To be fair, it's a small step from effective AI that doesn't malfunction, to an AI over which humans have lost control. It's precisely one vaguely specified command away in fact, and humans are quite excellent at being imprecise.
and as an industry, we are tending towards fast, cheap, and you can write code to work around not having "good"
That can't be right. According to the Wall Street Journal [1] there is a total of 11 million illegal immigrants in the US as a whole.

[1] - http://www.wsj.com/articles/number-of-illegal-immigrants-in-...
Can you explain to me why you think taking all of the wealth of 100 billionaires will help the poor? 100 billion spread over the population of California is less than $3000/person. So you can wipe out all of the billionaires and give everyone $50/week for one year, what is that going to change?
I think some people don't like being visible in a public space that includes "others". Maybe a feeling of being judged and feeling self-conscious as a result?

Go back 10,000 years and almost all people encountered would be people familiar to you. Any other instances would've been a potential stand-off. I'd guess it's a carry over from that.
You need to charge more if you get two competitors for you.

Maybe they'll be only one company willing to pay then, maybe that will be the one with the one day interview :D
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how does this compare to chess.com ?
that site also has a post-game analyse feature which presents alternative lines
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I fail to see the misinformation. If he believes in "infohazards" and takes his "timeless decision theory" seriously, then he took this seriously. In fact he took it seriously enough to delete the thread. Nothing he said contradicts these facts.

I'll say it. The guy is a quack. A quack in the robes mathematics rather than medicine, but a quack all the same. No one in philosophy or in mathematics takes these ideas seriously. He never puts these ideas up to peer review, but rather sticks them on his blog where a bunch of people that think of themselves as "smart" and "deep thinkers" read them and nod in agreement. Yet in the end all of these are very very fringe ideas with no evidence either logically or physically to support them.

In the end, Roko's Basilisk, and these ideas of the some potentially benevolent or malevolent AI that controls the the simulation in which we live are indistinguishable from God and his ideas about them are indistinguishable from the same flawed centuries old Pascal's Wager complete with the exact same logical flaws pointed out centuries ago.
I've been working on https://instantexporter.com/ I'm surprised by how much longer it actually took me to build the v1, compared to what I initially thought it will take (5+ months vs 1 month!). Also, I thought that I wouldn't fall for the common psychological pitfalls as I know about them well, but here we are.
Without disclosing anything proprietary, I challenge you to describe your "MVP in Three". In other words, what are the three most important value-creating activities your app will facilitate?
I'm not sure I understand your comment. Is most of the Gold in the world traded? The same for currencies and stocks. Unless I'm missing something.
I'd like to have similar tool for the game of Go!
The pace the world is moving towards its doom, one can be forgiven to think the Internet has gained consciousness and pulling tricks to get us all killed.
Despite what the code may look like, they all have a very easy to use API. Take stb_image.h for example. Most people need just two functions, stbi_load(), which loads any supported image format to a byte array. And stbi_image_free(), which frees the data.

But if you need anything more than that it's all there. e.g. loading from memory, loading via callbacks, support for HDR images, support for custom allocators, preprocessor flags let you exclude code for unused image formats, etc etc
The Chinese premium means nothing since there is capital controls. Bitcoin has a premium where there is capital controls. It's not related to the volume or demand of BTC itself.
Old people aren't quite as tuned-in to the technical realities of the internet and its in-groups and out-groups.

The premise that "there is no anonymous" escapes 4 out of 5 people I talk to. It takes very careful explaining, to bring people to the understanding that their are hacking teams with names, that get away with things, and the things that those named sub-groups manage pull off are perpetrated by "some unknown, anonymous group of people" until evidence demonstrates who done it.

Because of this, The Proles (people who aren't paying close attention) often confuse the premise being a simple anonymous tipster with being affiliated with the fictious premise of an organized, regimented imaginary hacking group that possesses a rightful claim to the mantle of "Anonymous" as if it were Batman.

Then media outlets exploit this cluelessness, to sell advertising, by drumming up exciting click-bait that perpetuates the false narrative that there is a movement called Anonymous, rather than the prank call it really is.
Not necessarily family. Having some good old friends can serve as a seed to start connecting with other folks in the community.
> Also hacked coins that can't actually be sold by the hackers

If that were true, why would anyone bother to hack coins?
Estimates range from 11 to 16 million illegal immigrants, though a few years ago the highest one was at 20 million.
Do you think the responses are unsatisfying

Their response to

"Maybe we've finally reached the point where there's no work left to be done, or where all the jobs that people can easily be retrained into can be even more easily automated."

Is

If the problem is automation, and we didn't experience any sudden leap in automation in 2008, then why can't people get back at least the jobs they used to have...

Seems there is a pretty easy explanation- recessions and growth are a feature of our financial system, the noise of which dominates the underlying trend. So yes, people lost their jobs in the recession, but jobs have been recovered since the recession too- just not as many, which is what you would expect from a gradual trend.

Their responses to the horses question, which I think is a very good question, is merely

No, no, a dozen times no, for the dozen reasons already mentioned. and then no mention of the reasons, for which I certainly don't see a dozen.
Sure I get that. What you call "The P2P Web", I call "The Web". Now if you want to talk about P2P Twitter, that is a different animal.
Has the site been around for long? I've never heard of it but it looks like a large-ish community.
I'm not even talking about robots; I'm just talking about computers. The majority of people developing software aren't creating new jobs, they're deliberately and explicitly reducing the need for human labor.
> Because the laws are unjust

So the solution is just don't obey them? Also, I don't think the laws are unjust. The laws are there to make sure fiscally the United States has the resources and security to protect its citizens.

See how well open borders has worked for Germany. These policies have further strengthened extreme right parties in Germany which potentially will be much worse (see Germany brexit or equivalent of Trump in Germany) which is very possible.
I meant the comments here. They always follow the same route with Facebook / Google exploits.
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Pressure to "do whatever it takes" to grow, including break laws.
It's not really an indicator of how well or poorly it's run, but it definitely is an indicator of the culture there (had a 48 hour exploding offer before, and the C brass culture was quite toxic).
People tend to ignore the negative consequences of causes they support. We all want to live in the best possible world, and it's hard to accept that any policy we choose will have serious negative consequences. We know for a fact that failing to enforce immigration laws will lead to tens of thousands of murders and kidnappings every year. And yet enforcing them will lead to a lot of misery for those who are deported. There's no convenient solution where everyone wins. It's hard to accept the reality of the situation, and so we often choose to see only one side.
One of the biggest differences of the Philippines that I noticed on arrival was how many people are out and walking around in neighborhoods and around the city in general. One of the first comments my friend made when moving from the Philippines to the US was that she never saw people because everyone was either in their cars or their houses.

Personally, I love being alone. I don't get lonely though. It's from my social life where all my bad and unhealthy habits come from. So, I would say it's a wash for me.
And Python 2.7 to be specific. All the big framework releases are still 2.7 first. You have to wait for ML researchers to be bothered with 3.x.