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Jeremy Clarkson Suspended from Top Gear(bbc.com)
2 points by hedges 12y ago|0 comments
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by hedges 12y ago
>We still have the power – we don't have to turn it over to the robots now or ever. In theory, but can we control ourselves? There are a lot of financial incentives in developing better machines and algorithms. We couldn't stop
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Transcending Complacency on Superintelligent Machines(huffingtonpost.com)
43 points by hedges 12y ago|34 comments
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by hedges 12y ago
As long as a more equal distribution of wealth would reduce suffering, we can certainly consider wealth inequality harmful. One would have to have rather alien values to think that luxuries for a few are preferable to food and health for al
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by hedges 13y ago
> If I was a guy, they'd be happy to talk business and learn about my startup. That's unlikely. If you were a guy they wouldn't be talking to you at all. Even less likely they'd do so with genuine interest. That is th
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by hedges 13y ago
It was absolutely unusable. Here in the north you would get two hours of sunlight during the winter, and f.lux would work accordingly. Similarly in the summer, you would get only a few hours of darkness, making f.lux almost completely usele
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by hedges 13y ago
While pursuing his entrepreneurial dream, he walked around asking women for their used sanitary pads (while most men struggle to ask for a date), almost gets tied to a tree when a witch doctor incites the local villagers against him, has hi
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by hedges 13y ago
Identity has few benefits compared to the increased safety and honesty that anonymity affords.