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> AGI has clearly taken everyone's job in 2100

What would be impressive about that? How's that something to get hyped for? The ways people try to shed their humanity are already well described, and all that's left is to outsource the double think to machines that won't mind and that can't be asked uncomfortable questions about their childhood and such things. It's a straight line, moving decision making from the public to sphere to private corporations and from there to black boxes. The cause is still that some people haven't been acknowledged as babies or whatever trauma caused it; the more fanciful the cathedral the more banal the lie it covers up.

All the interesting things about that have been written decades ago, these days it's back to dwarves cheerleading naked emperors. So the people who accumulate capital because of their stunted development will win out and buy it all, removing any persons worth a damn, and any chance for any to ever get born, for good; and being at each other's throats for the rest of eternity. It's the failure of humanity, not its apex.

Just so you know.
Might be because I'm a new account. Not quite sure how things work.
There won't be competition for exclusive content like Disney, AMC, HBO etc. except piracy which is still a lot easier for a lot of people, and if fragmentation continues, it will be Even more so.
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Disney makes a lot of content. You might think of Disney as Disney animation studios, but the company makes a lot of stuff.

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

That doesn't even count Marvel, and LucasFilm, etc, etc. That's more than 1 feature film released every month, and then all the TV content... $5 a month wouldn't be unreasonable, especially if you have kids.
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It seems to be a fairly common viewpoint that your major should be vocational, and you should get a liberal education along the way in core and elective classes.
Works in Firefox for me.
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I'm sure you've seen them. They're everywhere. The ads shouting:

"DIRTY TINDER"
"BADOO FOR FCKING"
"BETTER THAN TINDER"
"GET LAID FASTER THAN ON TINDER"
etc etc etc.

This got me thinking. What those ads are actually doing, are reverse advocating the service they proclaim to be better than. And may* encourage the subjects of the advertisement, to do the opposite of what is suggested in the ad.

"Why should I trust an obviously desperate and low-quality advertisement on a porn site when I can go directly to the source"?

Are the originators behind those ads actually so dumb as to think they're promoting their inferior service by claiming to be better than a superior service?

Perhaps it's just me, but could it be the original services themselves that are behind those ads.....? If so, it's a pretty impressive reverse-psychology scheme.
Is there any incentive or law that causes Github to have a DMCA web form?

If it's possible, then it would be a good act of protest to require individually signed (by an actual person with a pen, not a picture of a signature), individually snail-mailed requests. This would at least make the process take O(n) time and O(n) money, making it a bit harder to abuse.
I think a passive agressive "fuck you" is an important element because it provides enjoyment and some satisfaction to the corporate drones who you are interacting with.

I think allowing low level minions with saddistic tendencies to express that saddism via a kthxbye-but-actually-fu here and there is used to reward them for an otherwise boring and unfulfilling task. In this case it is a bit indirect because it is the developer who wrote the code not necessarily a clerk at the counter or a customer service representative in a call center.

Don't remember the incident, I think it was when someone was fired after some public incident at one of the tech conferences (Pycon I believe) where the HR commenting on the firing said something ridiculous like "we reached out to the developer and told them we'd be letting them go". Which I remembered because it sounded like such a massive and rude passive agressive "fuck you"
If you want to sink it.
What would be impressive about that? How's that something to get hyped for?

I was being somewhat fatuous, as that is a common scare scenario. However, I do believe that it should be our goal as a human species, to create AGI as our intellectual successor. In the same way someone's child replaces them and they die, I think AGI should be our offspring and we as a species go peacefully into oblivion. It's my life's work to help see that happen.

It's certainly an "out there" philosophy, but so far I haven't had anyone really challenge the logic when I spell it all out.
The moon is certainly more accessible, but the purpose of having a base there is more less clear from both a practical and a scientific perspective.

The scientific/engineering (and cultural/sociological) gains from a human return to the moon would be tiny compared to a Mars mission, and any funding (think tens of billions) allocated to such a mission will necessarily push a Mars mission back by a decade or more.

First, the science -- while the robotic mission to Mars have yielded many insights about the early history and present state of the planet, a human geologist could do more in a day or two than all of the rovers have done thus far. A small group of human scientists could completely rewrite the textbooks in a short stay on Mars. Can the same be said about a moon mission?

Second, living on the moon would be much more difficult (temperatures, micrometeorites, lack of ISRU, etc. etc.), and involve very different challenges than living on Mars. Most of what we learn on the moon will simply not translate to Mars--it will certainly not be a lot easier to live on Mars once a moon base is established, we would nearly be starting from scratch.

This is a perennial debate in the human spaceflight program, and I understand the desire to do something given decades of inaction. However, we must be honest about what we stand to lose if we shift our focus to a return to the moon. There is precious little gain from both a science and engineering perspective.
Daily Mail has the following headline based on this study:
Diet drinks and low-calorie meals trick the brain into making you FATTER and trigger diabetes, study claims[1]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4781050/Diet-drink...
You can achieve something similar to bang shortcuts by adding different search engines to your browser of choice and setting short keywords for them.

E.g., in Chrome:
Settings > manage search engines > find Wikipedia > change the shortcut to "w."
Sounds like everyday life in Japan.
I'm not worried about actual AGI; infinitely powerful, not bound to the whims of any person or conglomerate. I see human atrocities born out of weakness, so I'm not worried about something that would have gain nothing from torturing or destroying us. That's assuming it can do and think everything we can, and doesn't need us as slaves. E.g. I like sparrows lots. I don't understand them, I wouldn't want them in my room, but I like seeing them do stuff on the periphery of my life. I can imagine AGI looking at us with an similarly friendly eye.

But that won't happen, whatever grows, it will grow out of the diseased now. Today Trump says "I'm a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can't be doing so badly, because I'm President, and you're not,", tomorrow's Trump will have infinite power over anyone at the press of a button and no uncomfortable questions to even give non-answers to. They'll hand their power over to others who really want it, people who by definition will also be dysfunctional.

As black and white as it may be, I think Erich Fromm's stuff about biophilia and necrophilia applies here, and necrophilia will win out, things staying the same and people staying as obedient as they are. No fate about it, just cowardice.
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This is super interesting. This is the kind of thing I enjoy on HN most, oddly.
They must be reading this thread.
This is a neat idea, hadn't thought of this but it could definitely help me bring new developers into the immutable style more easily.

The only issue with it is, of course, the fact that Proxies are ES6 and everyone still has to deal with old browsers.

I know MobX does similar object observation, and they support IE, but I've never had the time to go into their codebase. Do you know if something like this could be written in a way that allows IE10/11 to support it?

Also, could you elaborate on why it's necessary to use a proxy at all, when in reality you could just do a copy of the object from the very beginning and allow them to do mutations on that?
If this segmentation continues, it'll be interesting to see how streaming devices adapt. Requiring a separate app for each content provider is a pain and makes browsing for content much less pleasant, especially when interfaces differ amongst apps.

I think it'd be ideal to have a single app to access content. Users would purchase their desired networks from within this app and would have a unified viewing experience.
Wow, that is really cool, thanks for sharing that! The YouTube video explaining it is here, well worth the short watch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S2GY3gh6qC8
Maybe the OpenAI team can clarify this point? I agree it is key factor.
I love articles by Troy Hunt. I upvote them, then read them. And they have always been worth the upvote.

Anyways, when are websites ever going to catch on....
> I'm thinking of the project as more of an electron replacement.

I'd love to see that. I think an Electron replacement would be really good.
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Seems very similar to Swift Calcs - https://www.swiftcalcs.com/home
I didn't work for me with Adblock Plus in Firefox.
What hero do you think would be a better test?
No they arent. Out of 7 groups of 3 responses, less than 4 were even semantically valid, and those at no time were relevant.
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I know this post is aimed at laymen but this sentence is not correct.

"A bit more precisely, the Incompleteness Theorem shows that human beings can never formulate a correct and complete description of the set of natural numbers, {0, 1, 2, 3, . . .}."

The second order Peano Axioms are categorical and thus, up to isomorphism, the only model for this axiom system are the Natural numbers {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}. This is a complete system. We can't happen is a recursively enumerable axiomatic description of the Natural numbers that is complete.

Another way to get a complete description of the Natural numbers is to take the collection of all true statements of the Natural numbers and make that our axiomatic system. It's just not a useful axiomatic system but it is a complete description of the Natural numbers.
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I've heard it here on HN that some buy the show then just pirate it when they watch it. Just because pirated content has a uniform interface, and a better overall user experience.
Well I think that's a reasonable thought but in my opinion it's not really describing AGI. Rather, it's describing something near AGI that can be controlled.

That's why I am vociferously against the "Friendly AI" movement, because fundamentally humans aren't friendly - and that doesn't mean friendly in terms of agreeable or altruistic. Rather "Friendly" as used in the FAI sense, means "Does not reject or override the human values." In effect, the FAI movement wants to try to determine how you make AGI without it having it's own goal system. That it would always be subservient to humans. Which is only marginally a human trait. We pride ourselves as a species on not being beholden or enslaved by someone else's ethos. To try and extend that to human level machines is wrong ethically, and would just create unenlightened super soldiers.

Could a sufficient independent AGI decide to wipe out all humans? Maybe, but in that case it would have come to that conclusion, and taken the steps necessary to achieve it (harder than AGI), on it's own. I don't find the paperclip maximizer or gray goo scenario a plausible argument against.
Why does Meetup use a massively long identifier in email verifications?
It's so long, it seems rather inefficient. Why?

Example:
http://meet.meetup.com/wf/click?upn=pEEcc35imY7Cp0tG1yyTt-2BUBUoslNY-2BF5OpsN3Z-2B5GTP6dMs-2BjiVa79z-2BxCFoE0drJuI1EtUdyxnjPvAa2lBegHXkhLo3sGSLIKeLILvN49WNN69trj7APyfH86IArfi_UOCYJbMP7egxXfSOcMVtXoGiwcAh1owf-2F2SXfDH6qtGdLaPDQ2J-2BAHSDPPn3GNACaCM8fkS5c8B1bitAqQjLJUKWvK8nWogCDls-2BrGLd4LWpc2d4mG6rlc6uaYTcfDB5P1SQjPBo6Rj5FtPFUC86bPGH7Ck7fx69YEzOJvrJMji7BtRQxToTLB7S565BbWDFN183oUjE4c1dQhRB7Fu5hJNa4awX5o1sJDp19-2FLaE-2B8-3D
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Pretty sure he did: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/politics/donald-trump-disavow-...
Where do bots go to fight other bots in millions of games, and algorithms compete for superiority? I assume there must be an ongoing "marketplace" to match bots and run the simulations.
... but so far no event has made that really clear to the masses. That's coming, of course.

Although I must say I have an Apple account and made the mistake of switching countries (dialog box on iPad). Half the shows disappeared. No refund, no way to get them back.
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you should also probably itemize the cost of each of those hardware peripherals.
It's very disheartening. Almost every news source has become like this. (Or maybe it was this way for a long time and I never really noticed? Who knows.)

I know inflammatory editorial injections into headlines and articles can increase the amount of clicks and ad revenue, but I wonder how much of this is a marketing tactic and how much is a genuine shift towards heightened polarization among newspaper staff.
>No, those are all policy choices we made.

Who is "we"?

I doubt it. I certainly don't recall being asked, and I'm in a privileged position, relatively speaking.

I'd be curious to see how I could participate in the current environment.
This being said there was a paper recently studying the frequency of meteor impacts with the frequency of the solar system passing by arms of the Milky Way, and it did suggest there were more meteor impacts when the solar system passed in slightly more dense zones.
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I really wish for a news source that published articles on topics such as these that forewent the overwritten "few paragraphs on a quirky introduction, obligatory 'case study' anecdote referenced throughout, etc" article recipe and just stuck with the relevant statistics and a brief commentary for the author's thoughts on the topic.

I suppose I should've been around for /.'s heyday, it seems like that was its thing.
> It's unbelievable that in 2017, in a field that is vastly dominated by males, someone would have the gall to claim "trying to introduce more diversity is repression."

From the point of view of a young white male fresh out of school, to hold them back for no other reason than a female PoC is deemed more diversically attractive, is indeed repression.
On the contrary, it was almost certainly computed using supervised training. Some set of people must have selected and labelled the training data. Their biases are cooked directly into the resulting software.
All at the expense of our future. Consumers are generally ignorant to what the real costs are.
For me at least, the auto fill feature in LastPass didn't work half the time. Simultaneously, LastPass doesn't let me copy and paste my password without opening up the 'Edit' page for that particular username/password entry. In Chrome, the autofill feature didn't always work either (but it did work >90% of the time). However, I could just click the little 'LastPass' logo that popped up in the username/password field and click the 'Copy' button on my password.

For uBlock Origin (or rather, the fork of it since the actual developer abandoned the official version due to the difficulty of developing for Safari), I _hated_ how the icon in the toolbar displays the number of elements blocked in a big red badge that you couldn't turn off. I couldn't just remove it from the toolbar either because uBlock Origin frequently blocks what it thinks is an ad but is actually a critical part of a webpage. The only way to show the webpage correctly is to disable uBlock Origin for that webpage. And the only way to do that was to click on the button in the toolbar.

One of my favorite extensions for Chrome is 'Disable HTML5 Autoplay' which just blocks HTML5 videos from auto playing. Safari has no such extension.

I also hated how when you type in a web address in the omnibar in Safari and hit enter, half the time there would be no response (i.e. no loading bar, no change in the tab's contents, etc.). I don't actually know what's happening behind the scenes, but a refresh usually fixed it.
Good points on both sides of the debate. Why not do both? Imagine the "we" is really 7.4 billion people (~195 countries) so it would seem that surely we could support each others' efforts to reach both destinations. What an achievement for humanity that would be!
Tencent is too powerful already.
Don't dead comments usually have a "vouch" link? I don't see any on his comments.
No, the moon doesn't make any sense. It's a big, dusty, radiation-blasted rock. Sure, we could build bases there, but why would we? That's the question Apollo managers could never answer and why the program was ultimately shut down.
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Well there was Amazon removing some books once from Kindle accounts, and I think there were already several cases on Steam where a couple of games stopped being available as well. There is no reason why this kind of behavior would end anytime soon, and not spread further. After all, all the EULAs make it very clear the user has no rights at all when it comes to what they purchased. I'd really like stores to remove the term "buy" and replace it by "buy a license" to make it very clear that you never own anything. And on top of that, you can never resell what you buy, so it's definitely NOT ownership in any way.
Looks nice. Would there be a native version, for which data are only stored locally? You would certainly have some professional market with that. I would pay for it just to replace LaTeXiT.
there was a "discussion" on nadota.com about the bot and the semipro player that openai used to test chimed in.

apparently the set of items the bot chose to purchase from was limited[1] and recommended by the semipro tester. As someone who knows next to nothing about ai, my question is this: the bot was announced on stage as blank slate, dumped into dota, and built entirely from grinding countless games against itself; is it reasonable to pitch it this way while having this item constraint from an outside source? I also wonder what else was recommended by the tester, and then constrained.

the "discussion" is linked below and the tester is the user sammyboy. Here's a warning though: nadota is 99% trolling, hate, idiocy, and garbage.

[1] http://nadota.com/showthread.php?41718-terrifying-1v1-mid-AI...
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The throngs of support for your position here speak volumes.
It reminds me of this article in the New Yorker about Gödel's and Einstein's talks. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/02/28/time-bandits-2

"Although other members of the institute found the gloomy logician baffling and unapproachable, Einstein told people that he went to his office 'just to have the privilege of walking home with Kurt Gödel.'"
How can you not see applications where replacing humans complements another human's life? I'm sure if you thought about it, you could see how self driving cars, real time translation, image to text for visually impaired, could be of some benefit to peoples lives? These applications might be automating a human out of a job, but they are also far superior at their narrow task.

You can argue the total societal value net the societal cost of putting some people out of jobs, but saying you can't think of any application where AI can complement peoples lives is being intentionally hyperbolic and is a bad start to a discussion.
Yes, so much this!

This is why things like SETI (and arecibo for finding ETs) make no sense. I compare it to using a telescope in 1850 to look for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_semaphore in space. The technology we have to send signals today will look completely pathetic to us when we look back on them in 50 years. Why would we expect ETs to use technology that we ourselves will abandon completely in the relative blink of an eye?
Luckily, this bug was discovered a few days after it was introduced, and fixed within a week, so it never made it to any stable or beta releases of Chrome.
I always find the term 'black swan' to be interesting, because where I live, black swans are the rule rather than the exception. I think this just makes the analogy even better, since it highlights how much your ability to predict events depends on your environment.
Think about why your examples work: We only see the base area and immediate surroundings on Hoth, and only for a short while. These planets work in Star Wars because they're each a single small part of a whole. The planets are monobiomes, but the story moves between enough of them that while it may look silly, the setting is still varied. It's very different to a story that takes place predominantly in one biome.

Note exceptions like Naboo: One of the few planets in the Star Wars movies where a story takes place across wider areas of a the planet. Suddenly there's a planet with varied biomes.

The monobiomes in Star Wars are monobiomes because there was no visual reason to expand, so they just made it the same in most cases.

In the case of Winter the planet is cold - in the middle of an ice age - but while the planet is all cold, it is not all identical. Ursula Le Guin explicitly drew maps [1], showing the glaciers, but also glacier free areas, mountain ranges, oceans, rivers. It's a cold world, but diverse within those limitations. It's not a single identical place. And the cold serves a purpose of setting the cities apart from the adversity of escaping over the ice shield.

I'd argue it's a great example of knowing to break the rules: Make it an interesting ice planet with stark differences between different areas. The problem is not specifically that something is an ice planet or a desert planet, but that something is uniform to the point that describing one place describes the entire planet. The easy way of avoiding that is to not make it an ice or desert or forest planet, and so if you need a tutorial on how to build your world, that's probably your best bet. The hard way is what Ursula Le Guin did with Winter of creating a diverse and interesting world within narrow constraints.

[1] http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Maps/Map-Gethen.html
Techies.
Nothing here attracts me away from pure LaTeX that much except two things: (1) built-in symbol recognition (I still rely on http://detexify.kirelabs.org/symbols.html but it's rare for me to have to look something up) and (2) auto-resizing delimiters.

Can any TeX experts explain to me why delimiters don't resize by default? Why do we need to insert so many \left and \right commands?
It is interesting that modern advanced technologies (electronic books) are only worse for students because of DRM and license restrictions.
The right answer is to lie, cheat, steal, and hurt those who are one step ahead of you because they've figured out "the game".
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You can resell a book but you cannot sell DRM protected electronic materials. Therefore they can be sold for a higher price. Publishers just want to get more profit without improving anything.