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I read Superintelligence and found it "watery" -- weak arguments mixed with sort of interesting ones, plus very wordy.

At the risk of misrepresenting the book, since I don't have it in front of me, here's what bothered me most: stating early that AI is basically an effort to approximate an optimal Bayesian agent, then much later showing that a Bayesian approach permits AI to scope-creep any human request into a mandate to run amok and convert the visible universe into computronium. That doesn't demonstrate that I should be scared of AI running amok. It demonstrates that the first assumption -- we should Bayes all the things! -- is a bad one.

If that's all I was supposed to learn from all the running-amok examples, who's the warning aimed at? AFAICT the leading academic and industry research in AI/ML isn't pursuing the open-ended-Bayesian approach in the first place, largely isn't pursuing "strong" AI at all. Non-experts are, for other reasons, also in no danger of accidentally making AI that takes over the world.
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It doesn't seem like a false dichotomy. It's about whether you believe there are things that are fundamentally not comprehensible in the universe. Things that are magic in the sense of "fuck it, that doesn't make sense, let's go get drunk instead". If you believe that all phenomena can in principle be understood given enough time and effort (including even building a better intelligence to figure it out), then you have materialistic belief.
Yes, if you live in the Matrix that doesn't acknowledge Apple's victories and praises Google and Microsoft failures.
Is having large amounts of code in headers common in real world C code (aside from stb)? Seems like it would be a nightmare to chase down issues, though maybe compiler error messages have gotten smarter since I've last dealt with C.
Just because an interview is rigorous doesn't mean you will be working with competent people. It can often mean the exact opposite.
Creativity knows no boundaries, especially (unfortunately?) in America's legal system.
Indeed, it's a list of about 100 registered known spammers from SpamHaus. Really nothing to do with the FBI whatsoever.

The dude paid his tuition by sending SPAMS. Should have seen the rare combination of tech and business talent earlier!
Can we crowdfund this?
Came back to say that it runs well on the T60, and in Virtual box on the same T60 (win7) and a T61. Pretty spiffy, very nice build.
Anything for PRODUCTION data processing that doesn't have strong/static typing is a crappy experience.

That being said, for adhoc work, with Scala you get the best of both worlds.

Python is certainly approachable from early programmers, and R from mathemticians/business folks. Sadly there are more early access libs here, but all the popular stuff is aviailable in the languages above.

C++ is really efficient, but it's a bit unforgiving.
The elite own the machines, stupid.

The new plutocracy will be balanced by iron fisted CEOs, algorithmically advised and steered boards, and a chosen few human elites that bear each other due to a wealth standoff. The rest of us die hungry, cold, and broke as shit, while the elites mine galaxies and excavate the stars by the trillions.

The end
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I assume you're right, though I would love to see some of the original discussion around it. That said, while I don't think it's a catastrophic point against "declarations mirror use", I do think it's a strike against it.

Edit: I guess I'll also note here just for fun that while

char [5]arr;

seems reasonable enough,

char [4][5]arr1;
char[5][4] arr2;

seems less so.
I would also add, if getting-to-know-you conversation is difficult for you, memorize a list of about 10 basic questions (do you have any siblings, did you grow up here, what's something you really enjoyed about the last year, etc). Ask people these and be ready to share your answers, and it'll become pretty clear when someone wants to be your friend.

I too have made friends with strangers I've met in bars, as well as with servers and bartenders at places I've been a regular.
Danger hosts their website with GitLab Pages[0], iTerm hosts their issue tracker there[1], the game Xonotic is hosted on GitLab.com[2], and then VLC[3] and GNU[4] both have their own instances of GitLab.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/danger-systems/danger.systems

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues

[2]: https://gitlab.com/groups/xonotic

[3]: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/VLCKit

[4]: https://git.gnu.io/explore/projects
Apropos: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2015/02/accept-no-imitations...
HN has gotten real shitty lately. Too much left
Who cares?

What would be interesting, it would be compiling iOS Applications to macOS and JavaScript.
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Worse, I think some nonprofits are inadvertently contributing to make the problem worse, e.g. Faith in Action putting rent control on the ballot in San Mateo, and Asian Pacific Environmental Network expanding rent control in Oakland. That's why this year I donate and got company matching donations to California Renters Legal Advocacy and Education Fund.

http://carlaef.org
If this generation has heartedly embraced open office spaces then they should not mind sharing space with their parents either. The corporates had you by your balls and took away many hard earned rifts. Trump is gonna squeeze you now for the last drop of juice. Then and only then you might grow up.
This is a very insightful comment, not sure why anyone would vote it down.

Indeed the wrongdoing revealed has compromised the legitimacy of the state significantly in my mind. When you combine deliberate PR/propaganda with a surveillance state the result is pretty scary.

The worst part is that our president has not even addressed the issue head on and acknowledged blatant excesses and offered reassurance that something (even in secret) is being done.

I'm sure that if I worked at the NSA I'd take it for granted at some level that the work I was doing was inherently good, and thus I'd read critiques like this thread as horribly misguided.

But there is such a thing as consent in a democracy, and while we don't have a direct democracy there are certain rights which the government is not supposed to violate under any circumstances.
Yeah CA is the worst state...Except for all the others.
I used to be like you. I am high functioning autistic so social interaction is mentally very hard for me and I feel completely drained after talking to people for an extended period of time. That said, I am now quite extroverted, especially when intoxicated.

Making friends is hard. I am a lot more social than I used to be now but I have a wide and shallow list of people I get along with. I don't feel there is anyone I am actually close to (other than my wife and kids). So don't take my advice too closely because I am definitely not a model for socialisation, I spend most of my free time child raising and studying.

If I can give one piece of advice it is that you should get involved in some activities. Be it sports, gaming, joining a hackerspace, whatever it really doesn't matter what it is as long as there is some level of complexity that keeps people hooked and enough to keep you interested as well. You will find that in situations of mutual difficulty you find the people you actually like and the people who actually like you. As long as you aren't a completely antisocial arsehole you should develop a connection to someone eventually if you just throw yourself into it. Listen to people when they talk, almost everyone has some interesting story lurking away inside them. Even if you don't like them at all you can at least be entertained by the occasional anecdote or bizarre circumstance. The important thing is to try and you might surprise yourself.
No there isn't. It's easy enough to manipulate the individual to do anything.

We speak of Nazis frequnetly, but consider what Curtis LeMay did in war and prepared to do after the war.

AI and robots give plausible deniability and reduce the number of witnesses. They also make suicide raids more practical.
I would say that the upper class of each country has a distinct subculture. And now those subcultures have somehow converged into a global subculture of the rich.

A golf club membership for example can cost $100,000. Some people will probably never save up that much, and if they did, they would never spend it in a golf club membership. But for some it's completely normal and part of their everyday lives.

Same with schools, same with restaurants, etc... by being strictly exclusive you set yourself apart from the rest and miss out on a lot of things.
It is, but not in the first release: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/GC.md
I love gitlab! We just deployed our review app deployment to Kubernetes (create a new subdomain in route53, create a new namespace in k8s, create all kubernetes manifests in that namespace, create ingress manifest, boom!).

Here's some thing I wish for gitlab:

1. On merge, run "stop_review" so that we don't end up with a lot of old review apps.

2. I wish you could take over https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab or offer something similar. I find it a little crazy that you have a single docker image for redis, gitlab, postgresql. There's multiple reason why we don't want to use this, but the simplest is: we already have mysql running (and feel no need to move to pgsql), and we already have experience in running redis.. I kinda like my containers to do 1 thing and 1 thing well.

Merry Christmas, thanks for this patch!
Stupid nonsense? What would your alternative be, mind you, an alternative that would be as powerful and performant? Is there even such a thing?
Ah. Thanks. Never saw that before.
Cool. If they ignore the great big banner which says "do not enter any personal info, bank info, etc etc into this window" and they're attacked, obviously they didn't care much. In the meantime, people who actually understand security can make a reasonable decision.
> If Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking etc all expressed belief in UFOs being from aliens, and you didn't know a lot about UFOs and affiliated cults, what would be the smart thing to believe?

Surprisingly relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1170/.

What's more likely? That all those smart people, who in other domains prove their level-headed thinking and good moral compass (past history of Microsoft notwithstanding), have suddenly suffered brain damage, or that the argument against them indeed is another piece in an on-going series of author bashing the techies?
I think you're _exactly right_. This is precisely the reason the Iraq and Afghanistan wars proved too costly to prosecute was that it proved too costly in men and materials. The logistics and cost of procuring and moving weapons, vehicles, living supplies etc was high, but manageable. The cost of each body bag which had to be explained to the public was not.

Which is why President Obama pivoted to a drone war in areas like Pakistan. Scores of Pakistani civilians are killed on a regular basis for crimes no worse than standing next to a tall bearded man or attending the funeral of a neighbour. The American public has no issues with this because hey, it's cheap to deploy the drones and no American lives are ever in jeopardy. And to be fair about it, apart from the high collateral damage, the Drone War in Pakistan is generally considered to be successful at inhibiting the Pakistani Taliban.

This Drone War was the first successful war that we've seen fought without boots on the ground. It's likely that we'll see many more like this as on-board AI improves.
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Yeah, I borrowed some css for a chess board from it for a (never published) project I was working around 2010 or perhaps slightly earlier!
So now it's just people who quit half the quick games they start with you?
lol. Nice little gentle nudging there.
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Those sound like an odd bunch of criteria. I'd go for a list more like:

1. Performance (either speed of opening if it's the kind of app you open and close a lot) or just responsiveness in use
2. Quality of user experience
3. Stability
4. Cost.
5. Features
6. Interoperability

At the moment across a range of app types it's roughly 50/50 between web apps and native apps and I occasionally switch alleigence.
I recently learned that this trick also works with merge. `git merge -` merges the last branch you were on onto the current one. So far i've found it very useful :)
If your interested in cool and unique features, try resetting your password:

https://en.lichess.org/password/reset
> None of those 'lies' have anything to do with assembler.

They do. Lets take a look at the very first one. "Array name is just a pointer".

Assebler "array" is a name of a label. So its just named address in memory. Or we can alternatively say, that assembler array is constant pointer.

`sizeof' returns size of array in bytes? Hmm... maybe that because main C abstraction for memory is the assembler one: memory is a continuous sequence of bytes? `sizeof' meant to be used for functions like malloc or memcpy, not for operator `new'. When we use some dynamic memory allocation in assembler we get pointer to untyped memory chunk, compare with C:

void* malloc(size_t size);

If you wish I can show you the connections of other 'C lies' with assembler abstractions. I'm too lazy to write about all of them, but I could write about one more if you ask. Just pick one you like more.

> now we are stuck with those bad decisions forever

Yes, you are right. We stuck with that. And it is bad. But it doesn't make my point wrong. C is crossplatform assembler, and these decisions looks pretty good from perspective of assembler. They give to programmer low level control on generated machine code while keeping code portable, and its very useful in some cases. For example when you developing an OS kernel.
Summer 2008, and widely criticized from then to now. I wonder if a professor of English can ever have the same perspective as a professor of biology or a professor of mathematics. I don't think he has made the case that higher education that can properly be called "elite" is actually disadvantageous.

https://psmag.com/the-problems-with-william-deresiewicz-s-ne...
No, but I'll upload it shortly.
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After $2500 for administration, there's just enough for a new aircraft carrier
> Cherry picking phrases out of my comment just like you cherry picked the article.

Wow, even when you set up straw men you can't knock them over.

> This guy is not a programmer.

This guy said ageism is big in the valley. He said nothing about roles.

> You have no idea what his utility preferences are, so suggesting to trade 40 hours/week of work for an additional 5k of compensation is laughable.

Reading comprehension much? I said it doesn't cost him more to apply, just that it costs him more to accept.

> Irrelevant.

Ridiculous.

See how you need reasons for your opinions before they convince anybody? Maybe you should take some rhetorical courses before spewing nonsense.

> So the value of your account/opinion is null.

That's ridiculous. That absolutely negates all discourse, as you can simply write off somebody's thoughts/reasons as not relevant, because their situation is not exactly the same as yours.

You notice that the more examples your arguments can apply to, the weaker and sillier they sound?
There are more high level players on ICC because that's where the high level players are. Chess.com also has a decent interface, but they particularly excel in chess news, event coverage and community support.
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There's also another thing. AI may not need to be superhuman, it may be close-but-not-quite human and yet be more effective than us - simply because we carry a huge baggage of stuff that a mind we build won't have.

Trust me, if I were to be wired directly to the Internet and had some well-defined goals, I'd be much more effective at it than any of us here - possibly any of us here combined. Because as a human, I have to deal with stupid shit like social considerations, random anxiety attacks, the drive to mate, the drive of curiosity, etc. Focus is a powerful force.
What does Canvas have to do with audio? Web Audio has the necessary components to do spatialized audio. And spatial recognition is an input. Canvas is for output.
Not for naming it that, but for falsely implying the existence of an explosive device on the plane.
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> how "life of the driver" was basically never mentioned as one of the risks of proceeding.

To be fair, a failed engine rarely causes the driver to die.
I'm not intentionally trying to snub philosophy. With concrete theory, the point I was reaching for is that when you look to measure impact you probably want to point back to a compact articulation of an idea.

The book comparison was probably a cheap shot (on the other side of it, Einstein didn't need popular interest/approval for his ideas to matter; I think that is a positive).

I think as much as anything the comparison is worthless because we can look backwards at Einstein.
I have a bachelor's degree in philosophy and linguistics from an elite university. My parents owned and auto parts store in a small town, which was next door to my grandparents' bakery. Based on my experience, it seems this guys' problem is a boring backstory; no university can or should make up for the fact that you don't regularly mix with non-university types.
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Go with an Ask HN thread.
> they still don't have anything to nail the guy with.

And they have now resorted to an attempt at slander with a familiar story-line. "He was a disgruntled employee... He was a loner who didn't get along with his supervisors..."

Blah, blah, blah. Just go for the hat trick, call him a pedophile, and let's all go home.
If AI is able to self-improve, don't you think it will reach to a level of complexity where it will start asking, why?
Naturally , Asimov already wrote about this. _The Last Question_ and _The Last Answer_

Really,Asimov is more on point and more fun to read than all these Superintenlligence pundits
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> or debunking "free will"

Interesting. I thought that "free will" was utterly debunked by the economy :). Not to mention the advertising industry, which is basically applied exploitation of the limits of human "free will" :).
I think the key mistake this piece made is assuming that having an elite education stops you from being culturally and socially aware beyond your class. Sure, many top colleges don't teach this, but as someone who grew up in a family with under $20K income who goes to a pretty good private school, I've seen a very distinct difference in some of my classmates. The education isn't the problem, the bubble is.

I read this article some time ago, so pardon if my memory failed me.
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I have some similar usage patterns... I really hope this is true because I think you just inspired me to switch from Chrome to Firefox! Chrome can't handle 100 (w/ a bunch of apps like Gmail) on a fully loaded Macbook very well.
The only other thing I'd use is a few Chrome apps like Keep and Signal.
Too late to edit, so I'll post just a few examples here:

>The only way out of this mess is to design a moral fixed point, so that even through thousands and thousands of cycles of self-improvement the AI's value system remains stable, and its values are things like 'help people', 'don't kill anybody', 'listen to what people want'.

Bostrom absolutely did not say that the only way to inhibit a cataclysmic future for humans post-SAI was to design a "moral fixed point". In fact, many chapters of the book are dedicated to exploring the possibilities of ingraining desirable values in an AI, and the many pitfalls in each.

Regarding the Eliezer Yudkowsky quote, Bostrom spends several pages, IIRC, on that quote and how difficult it would be to apply to machine language, as well as what the quote even means. This author dismissively throws the quote in without acknowledgement of the tremendous nuance Bostrom applies to this line of thought. Indeed, this author does that throughout his article - regularly portraying Bostrom as a man who claimed absolute knowledge of the future of AI. That couldn't be further from the truth, as Bostrom opens the book with an explicit acknowledgement that much of the book may very well turn out to be incorrect, or based on assumptions that may never materialize.

Regarding "The Argument From My Roommate", the author seems to lack complete and utter awareness of the differences between a machine intelligence and human intelligence. That a superintelligent AI must have the complex motivations of the author's roommate is preposterous. A human is driven by a complex variety of push and pull factors, many stemming from the evolutionary biology of humans and our predecessors. A machine intelligence need not share any of that complexity.

Moreover, Bostrom specifically notes that while most humans may feel there is a huge gulf between the intellectual capabilities of an idiot and a genius, these are, in more absolute terms, minor differences. The fact that his roommate was/is apparently a smart individual likely would not put him anywhere near the capabilities of a superintelligent AI.

To me, this is the smoking gun. I find it completely unbelievable that anyone who read Superintelligence could possibly assert "The Argument From My Roommate" with a straight face, and thus, I highly doubt that the author actually read the book which he attacks so gratuitously.
One of the things I'm seeing there that strikes me is the lack of criticism of using contractors in this kind of work. I'm curious as to how many off the cuff conversations about the programs weren't brought up in hearings because he was a contractor, and thus not afforded as many of the rights under whistleblower statutes that employees are afforded. His chain of command is so meandering and circuitous that it would discourage damn near anyone from reporting if the toilet was backed up, let alone real problems.
I don't want to break your hopes but stateful containers will only ever run on GCE and AWS.

The entire existence of stateful containers depends on having network storage at hands.

The only good network storages are GCE and AWS volumes, which are proprietary trade-secret technologies only available there.

If you want to play it old-school. You can run virtual machines with VmWare on bare metal servers with SAN disks (iSCSI/Fibber Channel). The Vm can be hot migrated from an host to another. It works and it's been battle tested for almost a decade. (IMO: Docker is not only new but a toy in comparison to that).
This is why I refuse to give up on my `will_stop_or_run_forever` script.
Yeah, they asked the DMV to revoke their cars' registrations.

http://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/12/california-dmv-revokes-u...
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