doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts
But people do actually speak like ads these days.
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doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along
In operation it sounds a bit like a pachinko parlor. Imagine if pachinko machines performed a useful computation, allowing the parlors to be server farms powered by gamblers.
doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: “Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site
I didn't know that the shape of the hexagonal pencil has ancient roots.
doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI
What's this "Pre-AGI" arrogance? Why are they so certain that it "will scale to AGI"? Is it an attempt at branding, or have they forgotten that AI is a global effort?
And do people really want to be "actualized" by "Microsoft and OpenAI’s shared value of empowering everyone"?
doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?
Perhaps genetic replication did emerge multiple times on Earth, but always to the same solution which had the highest probability?
doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?
But democracies are capable of producing such leaders when required, as England did for the Second World War.
doctorstupid | 6 years ago | on: WeChat and the Surveillance State
Strongly encrypted private communications are already effectively banned in Australia.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules
Whilst possibly overwhelming or discomforting, walking through Donki gives an honest display of consumerism, and manages to make it exciting. Like Walmart, it's essentially an incredible variety of stuff jumbled together. But Walmart is an Amazon warehouse in which the customers do the picking. It's systematic and depressing, and one feels like they might be in an item in a production line. Donki is chaotic, musical and risqué. It's not uncommon to see well-dressed couples on dates swinging tipsily through, because it's somehow conducive to romance, or at the very least, not a very shameful place to be seen. A store will have a variety of atmospheres, not all of them pleasant, but I much prefer the honesty of the chaos to the censored productions of most consumer 'experiences'.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]
Don't it's no fun you'll get space sickness trust me.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content
Who is to say that society has a body dysmorphic disorder? Are governments such trusted doctors? Should a government control a society's self-image with an airbrush? If one doesn't believe that individuals are responsible enough to govern their own communications, then perhaps so. But I believe that the best society-doctor is society itself, and given past and current efforts, am skeptical of the sincerity of governments when they do pull our their airbrushes. Mass-murder-selfies are obviously evil, but what about mentioning factory air pollution? I know of one government which will readily airbrush over such online blemishes, and if these two seem ridiculously far apart, remember that wedges start thin. The latter example raises what I believe to be the main point of government airbrushing - to better its own mirror-image, rather than for the health of society.
Speaking of censorship, why has my comment been grayed out?
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content
When you don't like what you see in the mirror, it's easiest to just blame the mirror.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: AWS DeepRacer League
Must the training be done in their cloud?
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation
No, in response to things like WhatsApp the Australian government just passed a bill enabling it to force companies to create backdoors to encrypted communications.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent
I now call him Backdoor Bill.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020
You're comparing a social credit system to a financial credit system. Your hospital doesn't care who your friends are.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”
Why don't you start the trend now? Please post here your personal details.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: Australia drafts laws forcing Facebook and Google to reveal encrypted data
People always seem to miss the point of that joke, which is that the physical enforcement of the law can be readily used to persuade people into surrendering encryption keys.
doctorstupid | 7 years ago | on: A tool that lets you hear both Yanny and Laurel
I would be surprised if this isn't dependent on the listener's accent.
doctorstupid | 8 years ago | on: Go's New Brand
In this case the cliché brand identity is the jeans and t-shirt combo. Does hip branding not make a language seem juvenile? You talk about serious image, but surely you can't find more serious languages than those devoid of branding, like C and Lisp.
doctorstupid | 8 years ago | on: Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for This?
What if it only had to model a single mind?
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