miej's comments

I'm some young person with brightly colored hair and weird fashion. I sound a little strange when I talk, and if you see me around, my group of friends will probably look a little eclectic. But I've spent years in the tech healthcare industry devoting all of my work to things that would directly and significantly improve the lives of patients and doctors. I created tens of millions of dollars of value, all while simultaneously saving many many lives. I flat out refused to do work that would very clearly only benefit the wallets of elites, though at the financial and healthcare well-being of many many many patients.

Now, I myself and many many of the people I am close to and care about are living in day-to-day terror for our lives. In america. In california. In the SF bay area. Bluest of the blue.

I am a transgender american. Our president signed an executive order stating that all transgender people are fundamentally dishonest and untrustworthy. We are having our vital id documents confiscated and/or refused to be issued, thus preventing many of us from leaving the country. The president signed an executive order demanding the cessation of one of the most effective life-saving, extremely well studied medical treatments in all of medicine for 18-year old ADULT citizens.

These days, I'm afraid to step outside my home, since especially in recent weeks, about half the time I do so, I face some form of harassment from bigots emboldened to express their hatred onto another human being.

The architect of project 2025, which details an explicit plan to eradicate transgender people, has been appointed to one of the most important positions in the federal government.

And yet here on hacker news, it's so very, very eerily quiet.

Please hear me, friends. We are on the precipice of GENOCIDE. Make no mistake, and know I don't say that lightly. Every new day brings a new horrific step along the darkest of paths a country can take.

Please don't wait to take action until there's clear, abundant, and undeniable evidence that millions of americans are being slaughtered right before your very eyes. We still have time to stop this madness before existence in America becomes truly hell on earth.

Please remember, inaction and preemptive compliance with wildly unethical and unconstitutional demands equates to passive support for the atrocities being enacted by the current administration.

Don't be silent. Don't let our lives and loves be eradicated. Please, I'm begging you. I'm begging you for my life. Have mercy. Have the courage necessary to have mercy. Do not relinquish your morality and ethics just for the sake of conformity. Stand for something.

Don't be silent. Don't allow for silence. The most terrible drumbeat of the spectre of genocide is growing louder by the day. It won't be long before it's so loud that you can't hear anything else. So loud it'll deafen you.

Will you notice when we start disappearing? Have you noticed that we already have begun? Will you walk downtown and think to yourself, "huh, I haven't seen that weird colored hair person around in a while...". All those lives I saved, and now I don't even know if I can save my own from my government. And at this point I honestly don't know what hurts more- that my government could exhibit unimaginable cruelty upon myself and many I care deeply about, or the deafening silence I am hearing from the vast majority of people who are not involved in the queer community. Silence buys our deaths. Will you truly be willing to make that purchase? And what will you have to give up in order to meet that price?

Getting downvoted? Schmidhuber did it first :)

I created a solution to the prior authorization processes in healthcare that has saved Americans several lifetimes worth of waiting for insurance approval for their medically necessary procedures, prescriptions, and treatments. What would otherwise be a several day to several week long process where the patient has no recourse but to wait and continue to suffer their illness without treatment, my products have shortened substantially, and sometimes even resulting in on-the-spot approvals before they have even left their doctor's office.

It's still relatively small (/early) in terms of rollout/adoption, but I'm always proud to be able to make a real, positive difference for humans in their times of need.

Wrong thread, friend.

Quantum mechanics. Interdisciplinarity produces superlinear returns

Looks cool, purchased.

"Whatever works."

Not in a dismissive way like a statement of idle non-preference, but rather as a hyper-pragmatic statement along the lines of ''doesn't matter how weird/silly the solution, if it solves something important, then it is valuable"

1. I created a bot that would optimize trade routes and buy/sell orders in EVE Online. It made 15000% roi in the first 20 minutes I ran it.

2. Did a bunch of analytics/etc for a guild in a game.

3. Created a neural net architecture that in addition to some task, also learned its own connective structure....in tf1 :)

Bonus points for continuous, uninterrupted service.

I have not, is it good?

I mean, technically i implemented it with a few different board states to help organize the 'common knowledge' board, the 'up-to-date' board, and each players' respective information. :)

Beyond that, what you described is basically how the implementation operates anyways. it notifies a player if they are put in check (without identifying the threatening piece, though I could change that pretty easily), likewise if theres a checkmate/stalemate. And in a situation where only one move is possible, it just auto-uses that move and notifies the player.

So the two players dont really 'discover' the outcome of the game out-of sync, per se.

An especially fun part is related to piece capture - eg if black captures white's pawn, then on white's turn, they will simply see their piece missing. So technically they would 'know' about the capture before their opponent would, which...I cant really even imagine the implications of yet, since I haven't had a chance to playtest this variant yet :)

absolutely! I was thinking about this also - there would almost certainly be some tradeoff between 'paying' for more information by attempting potentially disallowed moves. For this initial implementation, I figured I would just allow that to be balanced by (being lazy and not trying to code up some special way to handle that, and) just saying 'if you input a legal move, that is your move and no take-backs' :)

why not just use pokerstove?

very nice write-up. also reminds me of spurious correlations.

reminds me of a few old-ish horror movies I've seen, particularly from Japanese cinema, where the concept of a social contagion has been explored a few times. eg: Infection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infection_(2004_film) or Suicide Circle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Club_(film) to name a few.

well-stated.

why was this article posted prior to the publication of their actual research paper?

ignorant question here, but: how should scientists resolve the ethical questions surrounding the topic of creating and/or experimenting on systems that are reasonably expected to be capable of intelligence and/or consciousness - or, are reasonably expected to, in a relatively consistent environment, naturally grow into a system innately capable of intelligence and/or consciousness?

And I'll slightly clarify to say that I'm more specifically interested in sort of...the first principles approach to the ethical consideration, as opposed to trying to ask just about the current status quo in modern legal systems.

As an aside, you may also note that I've explicitly avoided specifying whether such systems are composed from an organic/biological substrate or an inorganic/synthetic one. Until the hard problem of consciousness is solved, some part of me that enjoys dark humor occasionally toys with a thought experiment where neural nets may define and/or support a similar, though likely more limited form of consciousness, where in the face of our lack of a rigorous understanding of the nature of qualia, something like the back-propagation algorithm could possibly be phenomenologically similar to torture.

Probably not, obviously(?), but like I said, dark humor thought experiment :P

this made my morning :)

vaguely a combination of 12:02-ish with 48:26-ish. my understanding was the general idea of the spin animation was proposed to be localized and manifest to some region of the kleinert crystal roughly corresponding to a given particle. so basically an internal torsion co-located with the phonon behavior that defines the paricle in that framework