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by cubetime 12y ago
I could come up with a story that explains why technical work would more readily admit of sexism, e.g. less opportunity to learn to see coworkers and customers as people rather than gender-based caricatures. I don't think this is a big
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by cubetime 12y ago
I'd expect it's worse in tech than some other professions on average because tech is mostly male, which I think is mostly due to gendered expectations originating from parenting and early education. I think "just don&#x27
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by cubetime 12y ago
I know far more developers that think the egalitarianism myth is wrong and silly than that buy into it unexamined (I'm not sure I know anyone in the second category personally), though I suppose I might've lucked out.
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by cubetime 12y ago
I do sometimes wonder what's added by focusing on sexism in tech, in particular, and suggesting it's uniquely a problem with tech. I can believe it's worse here on average than some other comfortable professional jobs, but se
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by cubetime 12y ago
Ah, yes, "a single neuron" is indeed a small subsystem of a brain, and it is indeed common nowadays.
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by cubetime 12y ago
If you're just saying that this specific project is a poor use of resources at the moment, then yeah, agreed. I don't really feel justified in suggesting that any particular level of abstraction will have so little to tell us that
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by cubetime 12y ago
Agreed that it's unfeasible for now, of course, but I'm a little amazed people aren't seeing the uses of this. We can edit, directly observe, and record/playback simulated brains. We can test ten million different mode
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by cubetime 12y ago
AI safety is more of a game theory problem than an engineering problem. Obviously understanding how the thing is implemented could help a lot in understanding how to handle the thing being embedded in a society, but they're not quite t
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by cubetime 12y ago
Consciousness has next-to-nothing to do with AI safety. People are concerned about software that acts like an agent, not software that has qualia.
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by cubetime 12y ago
I wish it were possible to effectively mass-communicate more complicated beliefs than "X has positive valence" or "X has negative valence". AI will be an enormous boon to every aspect of our lives for probably at least s
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Cognitive Behavioral Prosthetics(convexfunction.com)
1 points by cubetime 12y ago|0 comments
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Lifehacking Considered Harmless(convexfunction.com)
3 points by cubetime 12y ago|0 comments
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by cubetime 12y ago
See also: Do Rational People Exist? http://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2014/06/09/do-rationalists...
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A proof of Löb's theorem in Haskell(lesswrong.com)
49 points by cubetime 12y ago|2 comments
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by cubetime 12y ago
I model people's motivations (and systems made out of their motivations, to a lesser extent) as tangly, illegible, time-varying weighted directed graphs of weighted goals, where none of the nodes seems to actually persistently have ind