humanarity

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by humanarity 11y ago
“Unfounded assumption” that’s why they’re called assumptions, so we don’t have to found them. We don’t have to and we also can, so let’s found some of them. “No reason speed of light would be processing speed.” No reason it isn’t, and actua
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A simple test of whether the Universe is a hologram (or a computer)
8 points by humanarity 11y ago|21 comments
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by humanarity 11y ago
What's FB?
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by humanarity 11y ago
continuing It's like the universe at galactic scale: broadly the same in all directions as far as you look. And if I'm on this one peak of many peaks, then if I go off searching, it's likely I'll find other peaks com
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by humanarity 11y ago
Wow, I got my first "That comment was too long". Okay, I'm breaking this into two replies because it's just too good to not put here. I ended up getting a better job overseas (paid to research and code what I want). And
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by humanarity 11y ago
When you've decided it's failed. Many successful people say: "Never give up. Be persistent. That's the key to being successful." Edison would agree with them.
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by humanarity 11y ago
- Machine superintelligence as a scientific research aid. - Consciousness transfer to machine substrate research. - Other life extension research. Invest enough in some businesses to ensure the pot is renewed yearly.
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by humanarity 11y ago
For some reason this reminded me of female primates using violence to get male interest and sex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82GUjPConiE The Bonobo society also exhibits female alphas and uses extensive sexual activitie
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by humanarity 11y ago
Right and there's about 9 million items, so average is 4 points per item. I don't feel the average is very meaningful in this case. I'd also want to know, range, median and mode and a frequency histogram for the 100 largest,
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by humanarity 11y ago
Also I'm now wondering what's the total karmic wealth of reddit, stackexchange and Facebook each?
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by humanarity 11y ago
Does that include down votes ?
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Ask HN: Total karmic wealth of all HN?
15 points by humanarity 11y ago|17 comments
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by humanarity 11y ago
And then there's that. Now I've learned another thing new today.
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by humanarity 11y ago
I beg to differ. According to the poll there are 4. The poll was designed to be future proof. Who will be able to research the present in 1000 years if we don't make records today? Doomsday book for HN.
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by humanarity 11y ago
You and 4 others :)
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Poll: HN readers, what's your karma?
3 points by humanarity 11y ago|8 comments
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by humanarity 11y ago
A 1,000,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
B 500,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
C 250,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
D 100,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
E 80,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
F 40,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
G 20,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
H 10,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
I 8,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
J 6,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
K 4,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
L 2,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
M 1,000
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by humanarity 11y ago
N 800

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