h4nkoslo

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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
This is all very rich coming from someone who also wants a totalitarian government regime dedicated to suppressing machine learning research. http://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-2
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Some of the things CA "receives" from the federal government are zero percent interest rates and preferential access to vast capital markets, a heavy implicit labor cost subsidy via immigration policy, an implicit promise of massi
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
If merely hosting a headline & link like this is problematic, you must also have an issue walking by news stands, visiting bookstores, or watching CNN. It sounds exhausting.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
It's fascinating to see how the people pushing this argument prioritize economic nationalism exactly to the extent it promotes open borders, and exactly no further.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
You also have a problem with precision. A test with a 100% pass threshold is a really poor estimator of an underlying failure rate; at best it can bound it, but you really do care about the precise underlying odds of failure.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
If your system requires 100% perfection from all of its subcomponents, it is a shitty, fragile system. Robust systems can be made of parts with known failure rates.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The flip side of strong ethnic ties and ingroup preferences enabling fraud, is that they make it possible for, eg, Hasids to conduct an extemely high-value diamond trade on a handshake basis internally. https://www.algemeiner.co
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
And Hillary Clinton wasn't elected. As I said, imagine .
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The South Korean presidential scandal is one of the odder bits of contemporary political history. Imagine an alternate-history US President Hillary Clinton being impeached over PizzaGate and it starts to get close. Besides the actual corr
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The disturbance you feel is likely at least partly cognitive dissonance at the idea of open borders amounting to labor colonialism. It's an interesting idea, wouldn't you say? What are the effects of ensuring Sudan or wherever i
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Good. The entire premise of the internet is that it allows coordination at low latency over distance. It's also probably not fantastic for the United States to be strip mining the entire >130 IQ population of eg Sudan and packing th
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The traditional answer is various ways of forced community-building (collective punishment & reward, forming in/outgroups, etc) as a way of building loyalty to their individual unit. Also note that in modern militaries, the ratio o
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
No one seems to be mentioning that doing so would presumably screw over the NRA harder than Everytown. The target viewer for gun control content would presumably not be interested in an NRA ad, but the NRA is nonetheless paying to run it. O
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Weev is working on a similar project: https://youtu.be/ZMptVkyZWE4
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
One consequence of gay organizations deciding to focus all of their energies on punishing rubes in flyover country via gay marriage campaigns has been a significant de-emphasis on HIV education / treatment / prevention. The latte
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
That's a revolutionary discovery; you should probably publish it immediately since it refutes decades of genetic research. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9f67/21bf5954d1129d0212bc4f... http://journals
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Uh oh. The "great filter" hypothesis is essentially that the rarity of intelligent life has to be explained by some parameter of the Drake equation, and that whatever the "small" parameter is is either in our past or in
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Given current interest rates, even a long-term bond at 5.5% will have significant default risk priced in. Vanguard's non-junk long-term corporate bond ETF presently yields ~4.4%. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Weev's use of every IP-connected printer in the US to publish antisemitic "samizdat" significantly predates this. There's no real exploit in most cases, just things connected to the internet doing what they're told
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The expression "bake my cake" comes to mind. Somehow one faction has an inalienable right to compel speech from its ideological opponents out of pure spite, because sacred principles of antidiscrimination or whatever, but when it
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The implication is that the modern identity of "gay" is a recent, politicized, Western (& really more like American) construction. The further implication is that this identity is also deconstructable. Which seemingly refute
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Left out of these discussions of the joys of automated checkouts is that the illiterate and/or obstinate population makes up a large segment of consumers in certain areas. McDonalds has enough difficulty training their staff to use
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Partly because they are involved in politics on a mostly cosmetic basis. It is much easier to imagine a specifically politically connected figure (imagine a John Podesta or Rick Perry level personality) being arrested for some sort of corr
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
It is unfortunately likely that antibiotic-resistant STDs will be the ultimate end of this mating pattern. http://www.nbcnews.com/health/sexual-health/3-common-stds-be... https://www.cdc.gov/nchhst
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Expand your imagination, it is a predictable dynamic. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/opinion/sunday/artificial... https://www.propublica.org/article/breaking-the-black-box-h
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
...At which point we would get a series of think-pieces about whether the AI was implicitly misogynist.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Yes. It ends up being unprofitable to buy from donors directly, but it is still legal. There is also a thriving secondary market in selling donated blood, the Red Cross for instance makes a large amount of money selling blood. http:&#x2F
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Blood is renewable, and is already a buyable/sellable item. Discovering a new use for it would simply boost demand.
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
Summary: infrastructure costs to maintain spread out exurb style development end up being more than the incremental tax revenue, especially when you consider replacement costs and the potential for future higher borrowing costs. Property de
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by h4nkoslo 10y ago
The FBI has been repeatedly caught with their hands in the cookie jar. http://www.floridabulldog.org/2016/06/u-s-attorneys-office-f... http://www.mintpressnews.com/fbi-planted-bugs-california-cou..

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