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You are right. But as someone who probably would fall in the same category, let me tell you why I'll always put a great weight on the "money paid" metric when evaluating alternative jobs: I'm reasonably young (second to last generation of professionals?), and most of us have grown up with a quite nihilistic view of things (prob. due to overexposure to media and dire economic conjectures). A fair share of us has 0 interest in their jobs. That's not defining of our lives as it was for past generations. It's just a tool to enable us to do the things that matter. And the more money we can make, the better. Would we love a job we love? Of course. But any job sucks in some measure(hence why you get paid for it), so might as well get paid a lot for it and retire at 45. Of course there is a line somewhere (actual harm caused by your products), but copyright infringement against big labels is hardly over that line.
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A NYC Subway that’s 40% worse than it was 10 years ago is still by far the best transit system in North America.

But compared to just about any major city in Europe... seriously, it's almost a joke.
Fake email providers are good for these situations. Giving away personal information is not necessary in many cases.
Fatal Discord by Michael Massing and The Library Book by Susan Orlean look interesting. And the list has too many (51 out of 100) fictions.
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You're essentially arguing that AGI can't exist, and you're assuming when people say "AI will turn the world to paperclips" they mean a really smart go-playing neural net could do that. Of course it can't.

Everyone agrees there is some magic smoke necessary for AGI that we haven't figured out yet. The arguments that AI will eat the world are about AGI, not current instances of narrow AI.

It may be true that an AGI will never be created, but I don't see a reason to believe that just because nobody has figured it out yet. That philosophy is just like the physicist who, shortly before fission was discovered, didn't think splitting the atom was possible. Bohr, maybe? I don't remember.
I don't doubt that a lot of people use VPN's for this. I also know based on surveys and internal data that the core user base of our service is using it for privacy protection and security reasons -> against ISP data collection and snooping. I don't have a problem with people watching porn, nor with someone using VPN to support this. This conscious use case however is very different from getting an unsolicited porn popunder in your face when you are streaming a football match.
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I'm triggered by the word "problematic". It was used in similar euphemisms when my country was still communist.
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A little bit in the same vein (arguing against the singularity): "The impossibility of intelligence explosion"

https://medium.com/@francois.chollet/the-impossibility-of-in...
The implication is that the set of problems programming can solve and the set of problems people are trying to solve with programming are two different sets with less overlap than a programmer might think.
That all sounds like a starter pack for arguing like undergraduates--one accusing the other of this fallacy that, while being insufficiently critical of--or even outright oblivious to--the premises they're starting from.

Would probably be better served digging into epistemology, all of the great philosophers, and if you want to start getting mathematical about it, look into Judea Pearl's books.

For something less academic, Ray Dalio is a surprisingly good resource in this area.
No.

That he was the sole member is not relevant.

And you're misunderstanding the issue of 'non profit': he was not operating a profitable entity. His comp. doesn't count as profit for the org.

Again - there's nothing here. He was part of a private firm that did advocacy, among other things. 1/2 of the people that go into government go in from private firms, and we know nothing about their relationships otherwise.

This guy worked for this odd non-profit long before anyone could have conceived that he would be the US chief attorney, so there's no smoke here really.
I fully agree that adversity is worth celebrating. I'm therefore 100% congratulating Tracy Young for this achievement. I'm congratulating her on the base that taking a company to this point is really hard.

I'm not congratulating her based on her sex or race. It is unfortunate that some sexist and/or racist behavior exist in tech but if you treat people differently and congratulate them based on their race//gender and not on their individuality, you are not doing anything differently than the racists//sexists.
Not a problem, that's why the very, very large business of reinsurance exists. You don't have to be nationwide to effectively pool risk and diversify across many industries and nations.
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
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> There's an awful lot of snark about iOS slowing down with each successive version, but I'm not at all convinced it's universally true

Yes, it is, just not this time because of all the backlash Apple has received over the past few years over this issue. Let's see how iOS13 and 14 do, but my guess is they will be slower still.
Presumably any space-faring civilization would be interested in knowing if others exist; at a minimum, first contact (should they have any expectation of external life) would likely offer an extreme advantage in whatever competition they have locally (eg technological gifts, information exchange, prinary point of contact, etc). Furthermore, if they are spacefaring, they will require long-range transmissions regardless: it would be odd to think they’d send ships into multi-year journeys without being able to phone home, or having the tech and not utilizing it (a lost ship is likely costlier than transmission).

A civilization not capable of spaceflight might be in your position, incapable of producing transmission cheap enough, and not being curious enough to cast it into the void, but otherwise, any being capable (and willing) of long-distance travel should find sufficient use for long-distance communication to utilize it, independent of a search for alternate life.

That is, advanced civilization should be noisy for their own sake. (Though perhaps in a manner we can’t detect, or don’t expect).
I could also just be a phrase which means just what it seems to mean. Maybe you could point me to the book of allowable phrases. If he used it to describe another logical fallacy, that would be wrong, but in this case it's just a couple words that make sense and also have some other meaning in some other context.
Iep, a platform for mobile ads management.

ad-tech is pure ev1l. now they are probably making a ton of money though.

I wish I could go back in time :( it was one of those moments that i won't be able to erase from my life
The only "standard" full-fledged IDEs I can think of that are Java are IntelliJ and Eclipse. Visual Studio (WPF), Xcode (Cocoa), Qt Creator (Qt), KDevelop (KDE Frameworks/Qt), GTK Builder (GTK) are all built with their platform's native toolkit.

Concerning text editors, I think that field is split between Electron-based, Sublime and terminal-based editors. I can't picture users writing in Java editors in 2018.
This is a question of motivation on the part of such an AI. How is the AI bad? If it's killing millions, why? It would have to have some kind of "will", or objective, it's attempting to achieve and also be intelligent enough to think through every lateral strategy any human or group of humans could ever employ, for every given scenario, ever.

Possible? I think so, but unbelievably improbable. I do think pursuing countermeasures, like Elon Musk and friends are doing with Neuralink, is a wise move since, even if we never get to a superintelligent AI, we'll still augment our own intelligence greatly.
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A kakoune user made this one: https://delapouite.github.io/kakoune-tv/

It shows the solution to vimgolfs inside kakoune, with number of keystrokes
Site is in german but may be of use regardless

https://www.computerbase.de/preisvergleich/?cat=umtsover&xf=...
Good for you. I've had a 'no online gambling / no defence work' clause in my resume / Linked-In profile for a while now, cuts down on a lot of crappy or dodgy offers, that's for sure!
Not your fault mate.
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FATCA has nothing to do with KYC / AML provisions.

It involves, simplified, reporting requirements of US account holders by foreign banks to the US authorities. It's main purpose is to avoid tax dodging by US persons.

I'm not arguing that it's a great law, since it's not. For example: it can make it extremely hard for US persons living abroad to open a bank account because foreign banks just don't want to bother with those onnerous reporting requirements.

It has nothing, whatsoever, to do with KYC / AML provisions, which are very rightfully imposed on financial instituions. And yes, I work for one.
Catch 22: people will not buy your game if your development and marketing budget aren't high (taking a long time to make a game is a huge increase in development budget). Yet sales of a game at the industry standard price-point barely cover the costs already. It would only take 2 failed AAA titles for my company to be on the verge of bankruptcy.

I guess it's dishonest to push so hard to have "high quality" games with a lot of content when you know that it's impossible to actually cover the cost with the list price, but it's what people demand. And it gets harder every year.
I had a freelance gig, a very long time ago, to create a full-screen ad takeover for one of the UK's better known "lads' mags" (now defunct, I think). I hate ads and I hate those sorts of magazines, and I hate ruining people's browsing experiences. Yuck.

When I was working as a permanent employee for an agency, I created two games for the UK's lottery operator. They both had quite intricate rules to snare and addict the people playing them (let's just say that these games are anything but a game of chance). I felt a constant sense of disgust as I was doing it, though it was a moderately interesting technical challenge.

However, I have had the opportunity as a consultant several times to do work for gambling companies (and also for Camelot again!), and I have turned all of these down and made it extremely clear I was doing so for ethical reasons.

I was once asked by a client if we could capture people's email addresses in a sign-up form even if they didn't hit submit, so we could email them later. I am still quite proud of my response, which was, "Yes, we absolutely can! No, we absolutely won't help you do that!"
I disagree with most of the points. Every platform has some issues and no platform is perfect.

The documentation updation I agree. But commenting on WWDC videos is not good. You will not find any other platform videos like that. It is one of the highest quality of documentation you can find.

No one is saying watch all the years videos. I see whatever I am working on and intrested.

This article is written to find only mistakes.

The one major drawback of iOS platform is it's closed api other than that all the API's are well documented and I do not get any problems while using them.
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> The trick is to allow the transportation authority to own and manage its own real estate.

Well, that seems like a pretty major subsidy. So if a new line or station is built, the government uses eminent domain (or equivalent) to buy the land, and gives it to the transport authority?

I mean, it might be better in that it lets the transport authority operate without being dependent on government handouts that can vary wildly from year to year due to local politics.

> The US model seems to reward random real estate developers who just happened to own the land near the future station.

The government should apply some form of land value taxation to (partially) fix this. Would fix a lot of other problems too, but I digress.
No. Completely false.

A man who works for a private advocacy firm for years before going into public office, wherein nobody on earth would have had a clue that this guy was going to be the US chief attorney is - does not even hint corruption.

This guy was working this advocacy group in 2014. Are you really indicating that some people knew, in 2014 that Donald Trump would be pres 2 years later, and that 2 years after that, that Drump would put 'their boy' in as Att. General? Because that's what you'd have to insinuate if you think this guy is guilty of something (at least from this non-profit)

You have offered no rebuttal to my position, or remotely any evidence of corruption ... just ad-hominem.

In order to hint at 'corruption' you'd have to indicate that somehow, some time ago - before Trump was even President - that this guy was collecting millions from some vague source so that 'one day' he'd act on it.

It's absurd.

This new Att. General has enough glaring problem that are probably lower hanging fruit. This non-profit is probably not one of them, at least superficially.
Not that new anymore (the first part of the series was published in 2011) but I can highly recommend William Hertling's Singularity Series, which starts with Avogadro Corp: http://www.williamhertling.com/books/
The threshold is protein folding. Anything lower level than that is noise, but folding itself is important, as it can go wrong sometimes and kill you. (Prions.)

And things can be approximated, sometimes very close to the real thing. Hence the connectome. Synapses are the interconnects and neurons are tiny networks of very simple computers on their own.

And it's not "just" pattern matching, it's very very likely Turing complete. (You can do counting networks, you can do conditionals, you don't really need anything else to learn, match, execute simple programs.)

We know enough to claim that it's increasingly unlikely that we are missing any relevant physical phenomena for understanding the brain and the mind. (So no quantum woo is required.)

Sure, it that unlikeliness is not zero, and it might turn out that some kind of quantum effect is important for some very strange step in the workings of the brain, but even then it's very likely that we can classically model it with good approximation. (Because as others mentioned, energy scales, and other fundamental things constrain any process going on there.)
Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea about this - I've got a lot of reports to submit!
it's more keystrokes (and more complicated ones) than just doing cursor editing, and you have to think of every replacements in advance while with the multi cursor if you have five others replacements to make in the same line you can just make them easily one after the other
> You could get from any point in London to anypoint for less than an hour only by rail and walking.

Whilst in general I agree with the sentiment of your comment, this is not true. Lots of residential areas in Greater London will have ~20 min walk to nearest tube or overground, and if you're going across the city, the train part of your journey can definitely be > 40 min.

As an example, I've got two friends, one lives in Wimbledon (far south), the other in Barnet (far north). It takes quite a bit longer than an hour for one to get to the other's house.
Keynes famously predicted 88 years ago [1] that "the economic problem" would be solved 100 years thence (hence in 12 years), and assumed that people would only need to work 15 hours a week. But back then already he pointed out two issues:

* what will people do with their free time? "It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional society. To judge from the behaviour and the achievements of the wealthy classes to-day in any quarter of the world, the outlook is very depressing!" He asked whether there might be a "general 'nervous breakdown'" of people "who cannot find it sufficiently amusing [...] to cook and clean and mend, yet are quite unable to find anything more amusing."

* While most of our needs would easily be fulfilled, he noted a second class of needs, jostling for relative status, that might never be: there are two classes, "needs which are absolute in the sense that we feel them whatever the situation of our fellow human beings may be, and those which are relative in the sense that we feel them only if their satisfaction lifts us above, makes us feel superior to, our fellows. Needs of the second class, those which satisfy the desire for superiority, may indeed be insatiable; for the higher the general level, the higher still are they."

And he got somewhat overly optimistic then maybe:

"The love of money as a possession – as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life – will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. All kinds of social customs and economic practices, affecting the distribution of wealth and of economic rewards and penalties, which we now maintain at all costs, however distasteful and unjust they may be in themselves, because they are tremendously useful in promoting the accumulation of capital, we shall then be free, at last, to discard.

Of course there will still be many people with intense, unsatisfied purposiveness who will blindly pursue wealth – unless they can find some plausible substitute. But the rest of us will no longer be under any obligation to applaud and encourage them."

Seems to me the massive inequality and concomitant struggle for relative status keeps most everyone working like crazy, even though we have many times more than what people had a century ago.

[1] https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/keynes/...

EDIT to add: Keynes biographer Lord Skidelsky has a book about it, How much is enough?:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jun/29/how-much-is-en...
What really terrified me wasn't skynet or Hal, but what Charles Stross describes in his novel Accelerando.

Basically, machine controlled businesses (“slyly self-aware financial instruments”) evolving to the point where their aptitude at understanding and manipulating economics eclipses anything a human can compete with.

It terrified me because there is efficiency incentive for the buying/selling of goods and services to be realtime and computer based. Not just stock markets but also e-comm, smart contracts, supplier-buyer platforms, on-demand services, financing etc. The traditional infrastructure blocks (discovery, quality control, payments, compliance etc) are rapidly disappearing.

There are some yet to be addressed, but they are not huge. For example a computer cannot incorporate a company. But it could easily interact via API to a human nominee who sets one up on their behalf. Companies are already non-human in intention but are a completely rational construct.

And it doesnt even have to be anywhere near ground level. Imagine a smart contract from a private equity firm that legally forces businesses to act in a specific way based on accountancy metrics. And a bunch of smart investor bots rapidly tracking the progress of these bot-led funds. How quickly would the system optimise and what would those optimisations look like to people on the ground?

Out of all the disaster situations with AI this one strikes me as so realistic because there is so much incentive to work towards it (as opposed to creating skynet, hal or the paperclip machine).
That's incredibly wholesome, the thought didn't even occur to me.
Completing your PhD would give you credence, being taken seriously even if you are right can be an issue (and justifiably so, evaluating new ideas take time and lots of cranks come up with new ideas). Also making contact in academia certainly can't be bad.
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I tried the Focus mode. Pretty good.

I curate a fairly large (over 46 hours) Spotify playlist for coding: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ZwAxFYf7y36Al1e1DKUlu

It has a lot of eccentric "spacemusic", but my criteria is simply to add songs when they help me focus on coding, and remove them when I find that they distract from it. It's in no particular order, so I recommend shuffle play.
The big players used to corner small markets which then led to extreme blowouts. It doesn't happen as much now as there are tighter regulations on max position sizes and the volumes are higher.

Significantly influencing the price of a commodity with liquid markets, such as corn or soybeans is pretty much impossible unless you're acting on behalf of a country or are able to control weather. The existence of liquid markets is beneficial for the producers and consumers as the price volatility is reduced and hedging becomes easier. I like to showcase the effect of information on price with the example of fish price in Kerala before and after the introduction of mobile phones to fishermen[1].

The financial world is evolving very quickly with various participants driven by different goals pulling the rug in opposite directions which theoretically should reduce volatility and spreads. However, when people get greedy - and there's a lot of that in finance - bad things happen, e.g. see the natural gas last week[2].

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Changes-in-fish-price-vo...

[2]: https://www.ft.com/content/b7c525f6-ec44-11e8-89c8-d36339d83...
Most of the arguments ignore premise 5 (time scale). I'm sure that if Stephen Hawking had a magical cat-pausing time freeze machine, unlimited budget, no deadline, every sensor known to science, and a few million similarly equipped assistants, he could have figured out how to get the cat in the cat carrier. People have no intuitive comprehension of what a microsecond feels like. The article references Yudkowsky, but doesn't mention that he wrote a story about this exact issue:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5wMcKNAwB6X4mp9og/that-alien...
It depends on what you mean by "most". Even shielding 95% may not be sufficient, if the remaining 5% is too strong. It is a tradeoff - the thicker the plating, the better protection, but beyond some limit the plating gets too heavy, which is very costly especially when it is to be put in orbit.
Actually it goes a bit further than that.

It means to determine the actual beneficiery of a bank account in addition to traceability of the funds used.

The bloke showing id may not be the actual owner of the funds and it's up to the bank to determine this.
If you mean it would be dangerous in that it can improve itself beyond our ability to understand, contain, or mitigate it, then possibly.

If you're scared of it copying itself and then having multiple existing copies at once, then not necessarily. In that case it would be competing with itself for computing power and bandwidth. Look what happened when bitcoin forked - it lost a bunch of silicon time.

(Cue conspiracies about Bitcoin actually being a hugely powerful general AI disguising itself as cryptocurrency...)
The trees have evolved to withstand fires very well, using bark over 10cm thick, dropping the lower needles during fire. Perhaps it is possible to cover buildings in similar isolating material as well. However, people would still need to be evacuated due to the lethal smoke.