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I don't think we need a genius or a new paradigm for AGI. I think the main ideas of a few different approaches to do it are already out there. There are a lot of tough problems to solve but to me it looks like it's a matter of hard work rather than any totally new approach.

Look up for example Yann LeCun's AGI presentation. Now see projects like Ogmaneo or recent Deep Mind papers that do fast online learning or have ways to work around catastrophic forgetting and other issues raised by LeCun.

I believe that one straightforward way to get there is to continue to apply neural network research towards attempting to mimic animals. And there are a bunch of people doing that and making progress.
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Hang on a minute. I'm both Superprogrammer and a washed up old has-been? This is getting confusing.

There's no shame for me in using integration tests. They just hint at an alternate universe where the design is different and they either disappear entirely or become unit tests. So today isn't the day that happens. Okay. "Perfect" is a verb.
> What’s more, bitcoin’s consumption won’t necessarily keep rising as it has. Data centers, for example, have gotten a lot better. Not long ago, the Department of Energy was predicting that their electricity use would double every five years, and Google was getting slammed for consuming enough to power 200,0000 homes. In recent years, though, the centers’ total electricity use has flattened even as their number has kept growing. As it turned out, better cooling and power management technology improved efficiency. Bitcoin miners are no less motivated by profit, so it stands to reason that they will seek to become more efficient and employ the cheapest energy available, which generally means hydroelectric plants and other renewable sources.

This is just flat out wrong and shows the author has no idea what she is talking about. The rate of BTC production is fixed, so "efficiency" has no impact on the dollar cost of electricity it is using.

If a BTC can sell for $X, it is profitable for the network to spend any amount upto $12.5*X every 10 minutes on electricity(ignoring hardware/fixed costs) mining bitcoin.

At $15,000 a BTC, this means it can consume $27,000,000 worth of electricity a day and still remain profitable.

Furthermore, comparing Bitcoin to physical currency is disingenuous even if you completely discount the (gargantuan)scale difference. You would get rid of that energy consumption even if could get everyone to switch to electronic (fiat) money instead of paper currency, and presumably have it be much greener than having them switch to bitcoin.
> As a human, you can imagine the existence of a color you've never seen.

TIL I'm not human.
Their job isn't just to be attractive. Their job is to help schmooze people who don't seem to be having fun. There are social skills involved, whether or not you value or believe in them.
Just as another counterpoint to this, if you look at https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-future-is-here-alphazero-l..., they point out that there are a number of positions where AlphaZero definitively outplayed Stockfish in a non-opening position. There is definitely more going on there than Stockfish not having an opening book.
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Yes, this analysis assumes the objective was to kill your enemy. Another view would be that generals that won battles with the fewest casualties on either side (or civilian) would be the most effective.

Otherwise, a general who was willing to nuke the other side might "win" a lot of battles, especially against a "replacement" who is morally opposed to civilian casualties.

You can also win the battle and lose the war. Are generals that overcommit to win a battle really good generals?
The difference is not between the hand and the tool it grasps, both of which apply force to manually manipulate the environment, but between the hand/tool and the mind that directs it.

I agree that that is an odd position -- it's not one i hold, but a reductio of the "computers are tools no different than knives" argument above. machines that are able to process novel information and make decisions are fundamentally different from other machines, whether they are composed of tissue or silicon
Replace cash and coins? It has moved in completely other area in the last few years.
Sad that all those good goals set in the beginning were crushed with it's success
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> It takes in to account state taxes

Wildly incorrectly. I live in WA and it overestimates my sales tax deduction by a factor of ten.
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"I've booby trapped the house with corporate resources." Everyone needs a Jared on their team.

[Edit] More detailed/serious explanation: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_05.htm
I haven't seen anyone argue that intentionality, qualia, or consciousness would necessarily be either a precondition or a result of developing AGI. In fact, thought experiments like the "paperclip maximizer" are often brought up to argue that a machine could be very alien in its internal experience or lack thereof, but still pose an existential threat.
But it won't, because the same people who will give away a key to their hows will give away their legal rights as well. Probably the company knows that.
It follows that evolution has at least as much intellect as human beings.
How's your social life both during and outside of work? I personally think working with great comedies is invigorating.
Bitcoin as it is currently envisioned cannot scale to the throughput of either cards or cash of any major economy, let alone all of them combined.

There are data limits on bitcoin that make it literally impossible, and even given big technical changes that significantly lift limits it would still not even be close. Bitcoin would have to go through an enormous transformation to be able to scale to that many transactions.
Thinking about noise reduction I come up with low pass or band pass filters and using multiple microphones to correlate the signal. However I have no experience, at all.

In the most simple case, simply adding two slightly separated signals should not increase the noise. The problem is, the helicopter sound itself is very noisy, so I'm not sure this would work well. A lot of microphones might be needed, increasing the cost many times.

For low pass filtering, there are mufflers for microphones, did you have those?

Edit: and of course that's not really getting any points in the computer science department.
Big miners are likely using somewhat cheaper electricity than that, but yeah, the cost of a transaction could well be in that range. The cost of a transaction to a bitcoin _user_ is now significant.
Patreon always has been bundling many small transactions into one large, that has been the major point from a fee perspective to use them. Their fees already included the processing fees for that.

$0.30 or so per credit card transaction (+ a percentage) is totally expected and what they did until now.
Can you explain what your code example would be used for (instead of just plus)?
You mean stable like the US dollar which went from $35 per ounce of gold when Nixon closed the gold window to $668 ten years later? By contrast the aureus, the solidus, the fiorino and many other metal based currencies preserved their value over several centuries. What eventually destroyed those currencies was not the lack of a central bank but on the contrary eventual debasement by the central authority.
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It's been years since i attended my company Christmas party, last time i went C-levels were bragging how much money/things they have, specially to the new employees and everyone else was either discussing work things or the latest gossip on what c-level is going to get fired. SV parties looks like they are trying hard to make wolf-of-wallstreet-level parties.
Like hiring a software engineer to make code for you?
I am not sure what you mean by "modern nuclear propulsion systems". Some links to details of those would be great. I'm hoping for applications outside military ship and submarines, which have been around since the 1960's. There were actual engines for nuclear rockets, nuclear airplanes, nuclear excavation techniques, etc in the 1960's. Definitely problems with those systems, but we stopped trying. Nuclear test ban treaty, etc. I'm not saying that was not the correct path for a better future (hard to say), but society definitely stopped working on that stuff.

"Moore's law >>>> regulatory environment"

I don't see how this is a disagreement with what I was saying. Imagine if society had the same amount regulation on building software systems as dealing with radioactive stuff. Moore's law would not exist.

"If the output of nuclear power plants had grown exponentially for multiple decades, we'd be in nuclear-powered paradise." Why didn't that happen? Lots of reasons, but I think it could have and still could given a chance.
maybe that's a reflection of their audience?
Thanks for chiming in.

> the only real downside from eliminating meat or reducing it substantially is the reduction in essential B vitamins provided.

Only the B12 actually. And omnis are also often deficient. Even industrially farmed animals were deficient until they started to supplement their feed (so when eating industrial meat, you indirectly eat supplement).

The B12 deficiency in those eating plant-based is a hygiene issue: before settling in villages we ate a lot of "soil" with our food, and drank a lot of soil-run-off surface water. As the soil contains a lot of B12 and the microbes that create it (which probably can even live in our intestines).
More; a lot more.
The point is that bitcoin valuation is driven as a bubble. Inbound coin purchasers are expecting another hundredfold increase over the next two years. So there goes your "several orders of magnitude" right there.

Again, it will crash, so this won't happen. But the community expectation (even if the community doesn't realize it) of bitcoin absolutely is that it will eat all the world's electricity.
But just because it's profitable doesn't mean it can't be more profitable right?

If I'm going to set up a mining operation, wouldn't it make financial sense to set it up near a hydroelectric plant where my electric cost is 1/10th of what it is in my home in PA? Any cost reduction is an increase in profit, so there's still motivation to reduce costs, a pretty large one.
They are hiring them to hack "stupid" geeks that aren't accustomed to attractive female presence, with the usual "to corrupt geek" fun they play since high school. It's trying to hack male biological response in favor of whatever, a pretty low-life stuff.
The marginal cost of hydro energy is nearly nothing. If you build a dam but the local city or factory no longer needs the energy, it costs you nothing to keep sending the water down the turbines. The coal plant might have been cheaper to build, but to produce electricity you need to keep on mining coal for it.

An even better scenario is if the government subsidizes the building of the hydro plant - then you get cheaper up front cost and cheaper recurring costs. This is the case in Austria, according to HydroMiner[0].

[0]https://www.hydrominer.org/faq/
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Clearly the hot women leveraging their physical qualities to be paid money!
Yeah I think the largest owners have between 100k to 300k BTC supposedly. Also, Satoshi Nakamoto has 1 million BTC.

1st market cap is $8 trillion (gold), then next is $200 trillion (currencies). This doesn't include devaluation of the FIAT currencies in between. So it is definitely possible on paper.
if you are good enough, you can move around the world and make 6 figures USD for example...
> I think the price will stabilise at some point with small fluctuations (just like gold).

Have you ever looked at the price history of gold in inflation-adjusted terms? That is VERY much not what gold does.
Having missed the original "space race" by several decades, I have to say I'm incredibly excited that I have a decent chance at seeing the first people on Mars during my lifetime. What a time to be alive.
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A "merged" singularity will lead to a non biological singularity ?

I don't think I understand.
As a thought experiment, if you took out the mining rewards tomorrow and had only transaction costs, the energy put into each block would be much lower and be a function of the value actually provided in each transaction. Plus the value of existing Bitcoin would go up because of even more scarcity.

I'm not saying Bitcoin should do that, but as proof-by-construction that a more green coin with the same properties could exist.
"CRM for Small Businesses" was the second one, kinda vague?
Anyone have recommendations for a good keyless lock? Seems the one Amazon uses has bad reviews on Amazon.
Those Antminer numbers don't actually take into account cooling, other than the fan on the system. Those are the "at the wall" numbers. Since these machines dump their heat into the datacenter presumably if you're running any significant number of them you'll need a cooling system.

You're also operating under the assumption that every miner is already using these systems, which I don't believe is the case. Lots of people are likely running older systems, and as the price of bitcoin gets higher older less efficient machines become more profitable to turn back on.

I think reading the original source of their power consumption numbers will give a much better insight to where those numbers came from- http://blog.zorinaq.com/bitcoin-electricity-consumption/
purposed organizations were worker committees or what is essentially the more democratic version of worker union. With some relatively minor central oversight.
Sometimes committee of experts (not government ones). Definitely the policies were not supposed to be subsumed by national ideology or ideas of people in charge.
It's been a while since I did any xulrunner programming, so my question might be a little Rusty these days, but:

Is it still true that there is only xul? Isn't there a Dana? I want to talk to Dana. Dana. Dana.

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If you file married together, yes. If not, no.
Law enforcement?
You really seem to be wringing your hands pretty hard about an overloaded NGINX instance. Wouldn't a conspiracy that was stealing everyone's money be a lot worse?
Another perfectly good startup killed by the dreams of grandeur of silicon valley investors.

Not everybody company is supposed to be the next Google, guys.
Nice to see this hitting the mainstream. I vaguely recollect Robert Lustig of "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" [1] fame (or someone following/close to him) making a similar point a few years ago.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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It might be different in SV but my experience in IT has been that the vast majority of employees over 25 are in stable marriages and either have or are planning on having kids. Of course the Valley is its own special bubble but doubt singledom is going to be the path most end up on into middle age.
This is not necessarily the same issue as you're talking about, but I feel like in the winter, doing your workouts outdoors in the daytime can be a good thing.

Some people (including me) find that they stay indoors most of the time in the winter. Doing your workout outside gets you out there, which gives you not only sunlight (speaking of Vitamin D) but also a change of scenery that can cut down on cabin fever.

With the proper gear, the cold is tolerable (except maybe in extreme climates). And, especially if the exercise is vigorous, it's more tolerable being outdoors in the cold than it would be if you just went stood or sat around outside.
All these articles seem to imply that bitcoin transactions "cost" energy. My understanding: mining costs energy, the transactions are a side effect of the energy. More transactions does not necessarily mean more energy consumption. What causes higher energy consumption is higher USD/BTC price which drives further investment in mining and increases mining difficulty. Transaction volume may or may not be correlated to USD/BTC, but it seems extremely disingenuous to take the total miner energy consumption and divide it by the # of transactions to put an energy cost per transaction, as if that were a thing.
Precisely. It’s the strip club dynamic. Where men are seen as nothing more than disposable vessels of cash, and women are degraded to the level of livestock on display.
Expats have generous exemptions?
maybe it's obvious relatively to the history of a plan. if one residential building takes N times more than others 24/7 you can assume mining
As long as there is a non trivial profit margin, more miners will keep entering the game until the the margin shrinks to a small enough figure that nobody else wants to start mining.
Next up: models at your weekend company potluck!
Spoken like someone who truly knows nothing about scaling.
I tend to agree, but where does a 'do not resuscitate' order or a power of attorney fit into that?
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Evolution isn't a noun.
There is a lot of certainty in your statement for a bunch of guesses.
Even if you double the estimate, it's significantly less than the BS numbers being tossed around. By a lot.
On the other hand bitcoin doesn't need to be reprinted every few years and same coins can be reused millions of times, especially if transaction rate goes higher in the future.
I still don't know if that comparison is something to care about.
I noticed users on reddit reporting this was rolling out.
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Re: P != NP, I would say that question assumes a certain architecture, so while it might hold for Turing machines, the real question is is a HyperTuring/Turing machine really all there is? I assume you are familiar with Real Computation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_computation I did note the "if real computation were physically realizable" clause, however, I'm not going to be placing bets.

> A scalable analog computer goes against some "first principles", not mere technicalities. If you want to claim that it is feasible to build it, you need a way to address those first principles.

I find your argument to rely on classical logical reasoning as opposed to constructive (intuitionistic) logical reasoning. There is quite a lot of excluded middle in all of these questions that you aren't accounting for. "First principles" are nice and all but, my fundamental problem right now is that I'm having a hard time verifying the "first principles" for myself.

> but if they are pointing out fundamental laws of nature as impediments, maybe it would be interesting for everybody if we try to learn and discuss those fundamental laws.

You are assuming that I'm not aware of those principles. I'm not saying I have solutions, I just don't feel like anyone's given it a proper shake quite yet.
> We can't create something that is greater than our own limitations

If that were true we would still be single-celled organisms. Or do you mean it can't be done intentionally?
Again, speaking from experience, of course as the company you would present it as a benefit, and creators might get upset, but trust me they would be more upset if/when the site shuts down.
Those are vastly different things. Computer programming is a necessary skill for a small number of technical positions in software development, data analysis, and research, a tiny percentage of the jobs in the economy. Even at a midsize SAAS company, 30% or more of the positions don't require programming. Teaching computer science to every single kid because a tiny percentage will need programming for their job would be ridiculous, just like it would be ridiculous to teach every kid history because writing research papers is a "necessary skill for the jobs of the future." You can, however, make a reasonable argument that kids should be exposed to powerful ways of thinking that shape their world, and that learning concrete skills (writing a program, writing a research paper, solving equations) is a good way to familiarize kids with new ways of thinking. The arguments are only similar in that they both claim that studying a topic in school will have some benefit later. That isn't a high degree of similarity in the context of asking what students should study in school.
No idea if this is intenional or if it was just for the drag space / design, but what it also does, is that it moves the start of the URL more into the middle of the viewing area.

And the start of the URL contains security-critical information (http/-s and domain name), so having that closer to your eyeballs is generally helpful, even if it means cutting some of the URL off at the end. Especially so for average users which is ultimately the user group that's mainly going to be using the default.
Postman can import swagger specs[0]. Does insomnia have something similar?

[0]: https://www.getpostman.com/docs/postman/collections/data_for...
I can't remember where, but I saw a fairly damning argument against the intelligence explosion hypothesis on the grounds that it only works if the algorithm used to design a mind with n units of intelligence (whatever these are) scales linearly with units of intelligence. If it scales faster than linear, then your recursive bootstrapping operation takes longer and longer each time, so that eventually your next bootstrapping step will take longer than the amount of time left in the universe, meaning there is some finite intelligence cap for any such bootstrapped mind. It seems quite implausible to me that the problem of designing a mind would scale linearly, given that ostensibly much simpler problems, like sorting a list of strings, require polynomial time or log-linear time algorithms.
The computation has nothing to do with minting. The computation allows every Bitcoin user to “vote” on the correct sequence of transactions in the last block, and the reward for solving a block is just to make sure that people keep hashing. You can’t have a blockchain without a large number of people doing some kind of easily verifiable computation.
This is what I use.

It's not bad at all, Postman's UI is _slightly_ more intuitive, but Insomnia's is good, too.

I use it because they offer a .deb installer and Postman doesn't offer a package installer for Linux.
> even cow farts are much bigger than CO2 footprint of Bitcoin.

It sounds like you're trying to joke about "cow farts" but they're a well-known massive source of pollution, I don't think it's a flattering comparison

> but Internet uses more

So the most important innovation of this century, used by billions of people daily, uses more energy than a financial network doing only ~400,000 transactions per day?

If Bitcoin were to replace the entire financial sector, sure, it would be worth the energy expenditure. But as it is, there are solutions thousands of times more efficient for all of the problems Bitcoin tries to solve.
I have to laugh at this. I know this is in reference to their manufacturing process, but I have worked with Toyota's IT department and they don't follow anything like this. They are a typical stodgy, waterfall, design by committee, ivory tower architect kind of IT department. We pushed agile on them, but they still insisted on signing off on 100-page BRDs before work started. Maybe I just had a bad experience, but I recall constantly wondering why we had to work so hard to sell agile on the organization that practically invented it.