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'Blindsight' was great. Probably in my top-5 Sci-Fi of all time.

I hadn't heard of 'Echopraxia'- thanks for the recommendation!

The main assumption I make with AGI is that we'll be very bad at hitting the sweet spot between 1) "toy", 2)"human-level intelligence", and 3) "beyond human-level intelligence".

I doubt we'll stop at any point between (1) and (2). And then by the time we get even a decimal point beyond (2) and toward (3), we're toast.

To follow your analogy, it would be like birds trying to make a bird-like creature and keep it contained, but overshooting. By the time they realize they've overshot, they've got a human in their cage, and that human has 10,000 bird generations of time to evaluate his environment and think about escaping.

We can guess pretty well that the birds are out of their depth, and were doomed from the start.
I work in an environment that requires me to have political/social conversations while also retaining my personal neutrality (I am not allowed to acknowledge personal beliefs).

I can second the usefulness of this approach. It goes a long a way toward keeping the discussion on the issue at hand and avoiding personal defensiveness.
Well, a diplomat perfectly well understands those are not equivalent statements. The later is a much stronger, balder statement while the former suggests building consensus before acting. Each signals a quite different posture.
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The story you link to describes interactions with two women. One ends with

> "Just as we’re coming out of the bar, here comes Ann, running across Route 66 toward me. She puts her arm in mine, and says, “Come on, let’s go over to my place.”"

the other with

> "We went into the bar, and before I sat down, I said, “Listen, before I buy you a drink, I want to know one thing: Will you sleep with me tonight?”

> “Yes.”"

These interactions seem like voluntary, enthusiastic consent by rational adults. Maybe I'm seeing a contradiction where there is none, but if a woman who left and never had any need to see him again ran back to initiate physical interaction and invite him to her place, is it possible she knew more about the situation than you and didn't consider his behavior quite bad?
I don't understand. You can use any reusable bag. Even a cotton or nylon one you can toss in the wash.

Do you also have a sanitary issue with reusable plates and panties? Or do you just wash them?
To me, these don't look like ads; they look like events and posts shared by users.

Or are these shared events and posts bring used as ads?

You'll have to turn off your adblocker to see the ads.
Is there an English translation?
Kenya banned plastic bags last year and the difference is remarkable. A lot less trash floating around.

https://www.nema.go.ke/index.php?option=com_content&view=art...
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I agree, there is always a trade-off, and it is good to make it as explicit as possible.
> I think, on the positive side, it'll make people reconsider that genetics and race affect intelligence

I’m wondering why people dig at this so much, what is the answer you are looking for? To me the reason it’s not “politically correct” is because it comes off like the answer you want is for whatever race you believe yourself to be, to be superior to other races in a fundamental way, which would justify subjugating them.

There’s seems to be quite a bit of research done around genetics and intelligence. But every definition of race I’ve seen is either an ill-defined regional genetic stereotype or a description of physical appearance.

Now if some genes are associated with high intelligence or happiness or conscientiousness or empathy, and you want to engineer your children to have those genes, that’s understandable, if an ethical minefield. It also has nothing to with race.
To a far greater degree than the vast bulk of movies, TV shows, especially genre ones, spawn pretty fanatical followers. And, as you suggest, rather than ragging on a series for wasting 2 hours of their life, they just stop watching.

Among the series you listed, I see several that, for me, were basically meh superhero shows I might have watched an episode of and then tuned out. There’s too much good TV for me to bother with stuff that I suspect I’ll be indifferent to in the 5 hours or so if TV I watch in a week.
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Haha, how ironic.
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The conclusion is that it's best to reduce all waste.

Reuse is a major component of achieving that the same way we reuse our pots and pans.

Focusing on paper vs plastic, imo, misses the point. How about paper vs plastic vs a bag that you reuse indefinitely?
What if we put "me" into 2 robots? What if one robot "killed" the other "me"?
I don't have a feeling anyone wants him to go away, me and most of my peers (PhD) students hold him in rather high regard. Also feeling he is right about the fact that so much deep learning work is just derivative and marginally improving over original LSTM work.

This is an uncomfortably biased article, I think

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/technology/artificial-int...

is much more balanced.
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>Consiousness = the ability to feel,

Feelings based on the body and its chemistry, probably consciousness goes way beyond that.
Generally live in Vim; i've remapped Caps->Ctrl on win/OSX/Linux on every computer I've owned for well over a decade now.
I changed the title to better reflect the content of the article. The article is about the more subtle kind of climate denialism from politicians and industry outside the US, which is also similar to the kind of climate denialism that is present currently in the US Democratic Party and its industry sponsors. It is particularly relevant to this community because it is the kind of thinking that is widespread here.
This is just going to make it more competitive for everyone. Even more European professors will be hired away for even more money.

Note: I am not saying it’s better or worse, just (much) more competitive.
It goes against Microsoft's EULA for people who build their own PC to buy the OEM version of Windows for it instead of the full retail version.

In my experience, nobody shows a lot of concern there either.
I can maybe do that, but I can't make that Chinese bag disappear from the bottom of the ocean any more than I can make 2 billion people disappear.
Current AIs are at the level of an average 10y old or 85y old.

That's pretty smart already if you ask me.
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For Worldwide income tax payments, and form submission are you using a service?

Or do you do everything yourself?

I looked at H&R block and they want to charge 300-500 USD. Do other platforms out there exist?
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It depends on whether you think Apples EULA is valid or not. It's never been ruled on by a court as far as I know.

The closest we got was the Psystar case which Apple won, so there is precedent that third parties can't install MacOS on a computer and sell it to you. I suppose it's also precedent that at least some of Apples EULA is enforceable.

Personally, I think that the EULA is valid and hackintoshes are a violation. Even so, it's unlikely that Apple will sue you for it.
The bags at the store are more like a forgetter's fee. Though I don't see how they aren't reusable.

I don't understand your criticism when you can bring any reusable bag into the store. Don't like the store's bags? Bring your own.

If the best criticism you can come up with for the reusable bag mandate is that you need to bring your own, that's not very damning.

In fact, I wouldn't mind if stores sold the same shitty bags as before but for 10 cents. The real win is a cultural shift towards reusability, not a good deal on plastic bags at the point-of-sale. Once again, just keep your favorite reusable bags in your car.
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Looks like an excellent introductory primer.
Well, if I compare Bluetooth (often doesn't work for no apparent reason) to WiFi (works, and when it doesn't there are comprehensible reasons) - this one might actually work. Mesh networking is very hard to do right so I can imagine how well Bluetooth's attempt worked. Probably might as well not have it at all level.

Edit: I was thinking of more dynamic and larger meshes - those are really hard. This standard seems to have a smaller scope. It's still more difficult than one-to-one.
FuseTools is a great product, it is what InVision's Sketch should be. Hopefully Fuse goes the way of Lucene and Solr, supporting two different companies (LucidWorks and ElasticSearch) that effectively consult to larger organizations.
Yes it seems like most people tend to not care about this kind of thing and assume that as long as it's a large company getting the short end of the stick, whatever an individual person does is okay.
AI won't disappear definitely. However, more graduates will enter market as we move forward. Thus there will be more supply than demand which leads to drop in salaries.

This has happened in many markets in recent years. Don't you recall big data hype around 2007? You would be considered as God if you can barely install Hadoop back then.
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It is not about who is victim.

It is about who is doing it NOW, and what can be done about it. Some plastic program in the west has 0% impact on the polution on global scale. That doesn't mean that the west shouldn't be active in addressing the problem, but it means focussing on where the problem is and actually doing somethig about it.

You can blame the west all you want, but please don't think that other countries only produce for the west. There is a much bigger market.
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> So, you'd rather use something that is decades old because you can't/don't want to (ask to) install 1 new program on the server and take a weekend to rebuild your config file?

Absolutely, yes. Because long story short, bash is TriedAndTrue® technology. Stuff that works.

It takes a bit of dedication to be mastered at a decent level but it pays off immensely. It's so ubiquitous it is one of those tools that you can learn once, use for the rest of your life, and use in a lot of contexts.

It's so widespread that it can bring you very far with very little.

All this being said, as someone who used to write code for a living (and now works as a System Engineer, using the bash shell everyday) I must say that if you do not do input verification (according to the language of your choice) and something goes wrong then it's your fault.
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> A competing operating system ... for generic PCs.

Never gonna happen. Mac's are very secure and polished exactly because there is no PCs and only Apple hardware. Think Secure Enclave and EFI. No freaking vendors and their requirements, done right because they can. Amen.
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Tbh not really, I often stop to investigate stuff anyway. I personally prefer to have it at my pace and under my control than listen through someone laboriously explain something I know in great detail.

But this is the great thing about the internet - there's so much information on how to make more of it, you'll definitely be able to find videos which are more to your taste.

I recently watched Andrew Van Slaars series on the Maybe type: https://egghead.io/courses/safer-javascript-with-the-maybe-t... - that was much more traditional and slower paced, and still very good. Maybe give that a shot if you found the Frisby stuff too frenetic.
I'm not talking about boring technical info but user visible changes like easy image / file sharing, "X has read until this point..." etc. They are small changes and already present in proprietary solutions but for users this is a visible change.

I put my entire family on a self hosted server and for them it looks like any other modern messenger. (no voice video calls yep).
My recollection is that Facebook mixes advertising posts into users feeds amongst subscribed content making the two difficult to distinguish, as people pay more attention to them that way.
No they are not. They minimize an error of some arbitrary fitness function.
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But notice that you didn't link to any nor provide anything beyond "Actually the course on Egghead is terrible" when someone else added value to the world by linking to the free video courses.

Imagine if your approach, instead of knee-jerk negativity and dismissal, was to enumerate those videos you thought were better if your intention was actually to communicate that you've seen better ones. That would've been a great contribution.
The entire far east, India, Africa, Mexico, Central and South America. What is that, 90% of the world's popuplation? They aren't following any of these high-minded ideals about recycling.

Remember the Olympics in Brazil where they tried to clean up the water enough to get the rowing sports in there? Remember the rowers getting sick from the polluted water and stuck by needles? It's shit. The entire human race is shit.
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External to the site itself, but uploaded by the project (sourceforge.net/projects/archiveos), not just links to distros' sites.

Should be archive.org instead of sourceforge.net...
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There's a wonderful novel by Javier Marías, A Heart So White, where the opening focuses on a simultaneous translator at a meeting between a thinly disguised José María Aznar and Margaret Thatcher. He starts to take small liberties with the translation of what "Aznar" is saying, watching reaction of "Thatcher"'s female translator, each time taking slightly bigger liberties because she doesn't say what's happening. It's a lovely portrait of a risky, silent conspiracy, all in the name of testing boundaries rather than ulterior political motives.
Why on Earth would this get down voted?
I know... it really bothers me how everything becomes a binary evaluation. Something not to your taste isn't objectively terrible, it's just not to your taste. I think it's a symptom of youth and a lack of perspective - I was so much worse with that back when I was a teenager.
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I have read the statement on eff https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you... and can't think about that this is a PR for Signal. I assume that signal will start some e-mail services soon and try now to shade the current mostly safe communication tools in bad light. I hope I'm wrong, the future will it shows.

It would be interesting to know if the https://darkmail.info/ initiate is still active. As far as I understand this solution are the metadata also invisible at the transport level. Can anyone shade a light on this?
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For anybody else excited when they hear "open" and "AGI" in the same sentence, if you don't know the OpenCog project, the wiki (especially if downloaded in book form) makes for fascinating reading:

https://wiki.opencog.org/w/The_Open_Cognition_Project
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What they are doing is not particularly reasonable either. They have their reasons, we have ours.

Tutorials like these help people who have more time than money. While I don't use or encourage the use of this kind of software, for some its their only option to get started.
While I've never experienced conflict issues with bookmark sync, one pet peeve of mine is how their sync implementation has never supported syncing search engines.

I mean proper OpenSearch support, different from using keyboard bookmarks with %s as a hack, since you actually get proper autocomplete.

In fact that whole situation there is just a mess, no proper way to use sites that implemented OpenSearch from the awesomebar like the Tab to search in chrome's omnibar.
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Surely lecturers will just keep one foot in each world? Back before '08 when finance gurus were killing it, many of them kept ties with academia. It's a useful insurance policy, and it's great to be able to fall back to teaching or research once you've had enough of industry.
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It's not doctors who are "mocking the actual disabled" here.
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I notice a pattern in all articles about BASH. Some people say it should die. Others praise its ubiquity and versatility at handling certain tasks. Of course, both sides are right.

From my point of view, BASH will never disappear, because it's not a living thing that runs out of food or habitat and dies. That doesn't happen, unless there's a major revolution in computing that makes current paradigms obsolete, something on the scale of the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

Until that happens, I welcome any projects that aim to decrease the amount of buggy BASH in the wild. I avoid it as much as possible, but if someone's going to use it, at least they'll have safety nets to reduce the possible damage.

PS: I have a feeling my metaphors are all over the place, but I hope that doesn't detract from the message.
I bet similarly shaped C code of similar size could render the same image in less than a second :)
Yes of course the advertisements are total bollocks. That is the claim. You are making these very strident back-of-the-envelope "economics" arguments without realizing that the economic ideal for the health care industry is to provide therapies that make people sicker, thereby ensuring their return for more therapies.
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I think it's because there is only one obvious solution:

prevent AI from ever being developed

And how we could do that is too pessimistic to talk about.
Does that somehow make it all right?

What happens to westerners plastic bags? They end up in landfill. not a whole lot better in my opinion.
I agree that the intent behind that regulation is good and yes, as an ethically sound company you shouldn't have to worry about it.

However, the implementation of these laws so far has been less than stellar, to say the least. There's a lot of room for interpretation and some rules are left vague - sometimes intentionally in order to avoid having to constantly update the regulation. Given the huge, potentially ruinous fines associated with GDPR you'd want laws to be as explicit and as specific as possible in order to avoid ambiguity and profiteering.

What's more, different European countries have implemented GDPR differently - or not at all. Privacy (or the lack thereof) - in the EU of all places - shouldn't be a competitive advantage or a bargaining chip.
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> unlikely that Apple will sue you

Agree, very unlikely, its not Oracle after all

> that third parties can't install MacOS

Well ... I'm a First party :D
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can they pay professors in different departments very different amounts?

Absolutely. The baseline salary for a given rank varies across divisions (salaries in STEM fields start higher than in the social sciences, which in turn pay better than humanities) and varies across schools (law and medical schools pay better than arts and sciences, since the former compete directly with the private sector). More importantly, faculty compensation is negotiated on an individual basis, and deans have tremendous leeway in how much they can offer to retain talent in the face of competing offers. At a first- or second-tier research university it's typical for star faculty to have a salary that's 2x or 3x the department baseline (or more).
> But still you kind of have to know most of the street names off the top of your head to function properly.

I know 10 street names in my city. The rest, I look up.

Well, I used to, now I use the GPS.

Note that I do think you are more efficient if you know the street names and where they are.

But I also do think the time and energy requires to learn 100 street names and position in my city can be better used for something else.
Other way round, surely : facts are complicated, inaccessible and often resistant to summary. Whereas the most important thing in politics is how people feel about the outcome.

(This is what Rumsfeld meant by contrasting himself with the "reality based community"; humans are really a subjectivity-based community unless they put a lot of effort into detaching.)
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I find it a little horrifying that there seem to be people who want to create a being vastly more intelligent than themselves, capable of thought and reasoning, able to solve problems creatively, and then debate how to properly enslave it.

I dunno. I guess I'm the outlier here. If we manage to create beings that are effectively people, and those people turn out to be better than us, and ultimately replace us, well, what more could a parent want for their children?

PS: I'm speaking more about the people here than the article.
A 30-something is old? I feel like we have differing age categorizations.

Then again, I'm 36.

For my part, I've spent less time on things that don't matter and more time on things that do matter. So while yes, the web has lost its luster from my teens and twenties, I think my general sense of life fulfillment has broadened considerably.
I guess that's where we disagree. I think it's quite reasonable for Apple and Microsoft to decide on what terms you can use their product.

I do sympathize with people who's only option for starting out with iOS or MacOS development is a hackintosh, though. In an ideal world that would not be the case.
I miss this so much. I used to play TF2 on a server that ran a single, somewhat obscure, map. Lots of randoms would drop by to try the map; some would stay and become regulars, some wouldn't. I did. The same regulars would be there every week, many of them every day. Some players were good, some not so good, nobody took it too seriously - we tried hard, but nobody got salty. There was the odd feud, but no griefing. They had alltalk voice chat on, and there was a constant stream of entertaining chit-chat. One guy would come on half-cut and start lecturing about physics. We had a half-joking clan tag, someone set up a website with a forum, there was a challenge match against an American clan at some point. Good times.

It's been rubbish since matchmaking came in.