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Register.com outage: account logins down, DNS records deleted
2 points by exratione 5y ago|0 comments
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by exratione 8y ago
I think the basic premise is correct, that suffering is by far the most important determinant in where utilitarianism takes us in the long term. Adding the good has far fewer world-changing requirements and consequences than removing the ba
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by exratione 8y ago
It is interesting to compare this interpretation of Aristotle on happiness with the transhumanist take on happiness, pleasure, and suffering known as the Hedonistic Imperative. When doing so, Aristotle starts to look a lot closer to stoicis
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by exratione 8y ago
A lens to look at this through is the struggle for control over the population. The competing factions in the Middle Ages were very different from those now - so the manifestations of authoritarianism naturally differed in the Middle Ages.
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by exratione 9y ago
This manages to get lost in its own trees. From a reductionist perspective: - Intelligence greater than human is possible - Intelligence is the operation of a machine; it can be reverse engineered - Intelligence can be built - Better intell
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by exratione 9y ago
Related topic: could the Romans have usefully practiced public key encryption, say for very small key sizes?
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by exratione 9y ago
I just wrote up some thoughts on the topic: https://www.exratione.com/2017/10/in-search-of-the-spark-whe... Essentially, the question asked is just the setup to watch someone approach a novel experience. If the ca
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by exratione 9y ago
I feel that those who argue that any approach other than running human brain emulations and then reverse engineering them or speculatively modifying them is the most likely way to get to AGI has a pretty steep hill to climb in order to just
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by exratione 9y ago
Some humans are likely to become more powerful than other humans some day. Most such humans will by default develop instrumental subgoals that conflict with other human interests. This could have catastrophic consequences. If we don't
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by exratione 9y ago
Worrying about lack of variability in the human condition, as the author does here, seems like a strange fear in the face of the future ability to edit, copy, and amend the function of the mind. Once human minds are emulated, those capabili
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by exratione 9y ago
Run it in AWS. They keep their IP ranges comparatively clean. Other hosting services, yes, you may as well not bother. I haven't found another one yet that is reliable enough at keeping deliverability from their IP ranges in good enoug
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by exratione 9y ago
Many phone companies will allow you to (a) add an annotation to your account to declare the number you are using should never be ported to another company, and (b) add a password to the account that you will have to provide to customer serv
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by exratione 9y ago
There are a factions in the strong AI community whose members espouse the idea that a planned economy would become feasible given greater computational capacity and better software. I have to think that the major objection to this is that t
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by exratione 9y ago
This would be somewhere in the Vingean Scholastics portion of the Venn diagram I proposed a few years ago: https://www.exratione.com/2012/01/the-future-of-the-venture-... The future is wandering towards Fast Times
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by exratione 9y ago
It is a strange journey that we'll all be going on, just through the incremental process of desiring and adopting improvements. https://www.exratione.com/2017/04/blind-upon-the-eve-of-apot... But really, tran
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Blind Upon the Eve of Apotheosis(exratione.com)
1 points by exratione 9y ago|0 comments
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by exratione 10y ago
I've made a similar argument here. The goal of elimination of suffering leads to a future very different from the world we inhabit today, but definitely better for it. A world of limited beings who all suffer is amenable to improvement
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by exratione 10y ago
I think this misses another equally important reason, which is to do your part to help build the gift economy upon which we all rely in our day to day work. Near every common solution and recipe has been written up by someone, somewhere, an
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by exratione 10y ago
A while back, after some months of frustration with significant levels of S3 API failures in bulk that never made it to the status page, I ended up writing a tool that continually monitors S3 via making random requests, and alerts if too ma
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by exratione 10y ago
I think the general consensus in the futurist community is that this vision requires molecular nanotechnology, which means first sorting out the basics of mechanosynthesis in carbon and simple nanoforges. There are groups working on the fou
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by exratione 10y ago
Everyone has been put in the position of coming to a dead halt on some aspect of the work that just won't yield. Or at least not for the combination of you, your knowledge, and your resources at that given time. This never goes away. S
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by exratione 10y ago
Looks like recent versions of WordPress may or may not reject emails with the quoted name format of "bad stuff"@example.com. Might depend on your plugins. My experimentation produced varied results for my sites and testbeds. filte
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by exratione 10y ago
While I think this particular sketch isn't going anywhere without a lot more work on concrete implementation details, I do believe it is well worth spending time on what a working formalism of development would look like built atop the
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by exratione 10y ago
I've worked with a group using Flynn to host a score of internal apps. It required one full time developer to keep it running, and saved a bunch of time and effort for the people maintaining those apps - no need for devops, pretty much
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by exratione 10y ago
Location: Austin, TX Remote: Yes, with experience in remote projects. Willing to relocate: For the right position. Technologies: architecture, team lead, security processes, devops, particularly AWS-focused, full stack web application devel
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by exratione 10y ago
No-one is safe these days it seems. The present message, for posterity, minus the specific contact info: ----------------- September 13, 2016 – 10:10 p.m. EDT Dear EurekAlert! Registrants: The EurekAlert! website has been taken offline as A
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AAAS site EurekAlert user data compromised, taken offline(eurekalert.org)
1 points by exratione 10y ago|1 comments
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Lessons from Working with Elasticsearch at Scale(exratione.com)
2 points by exratione 10y ago|0 comments
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by exratione 10y ago
So far I'm feeling pretty good about the decision to skip the first generation containerization infrastructure. At the outset it had the look of something that wasn't an advance over standard issue virtualization, in that it just
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by exratione 10y ago
I'd argue that the goal of creating a good, useful changelog can be one of the forcing motivations to establish a working process for commit documentation and great, informative, useful commit messages. If that means git log gardening

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