jferguson

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From Cognitive Biases to Institutional Decay(ribbonfarm.com)
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Notes on Arrogance(blog.podsnap.com)
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by jferguson 13y ago
The price of a Bitcoin is the amount of other resource (possibly a more traditional currency, like electrum or cocoa beans ;) ) that two parties can agree to trade at. What's fairness?
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by jferguson 13y ago
Or it could be intentional misdirection, as with "favour". Not that I'm particularly invested in Satoshi==Szabo, but if I were interested in deflecting suspicion, that would be one obvious-looking way to do it.
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by jferguson 13y ago
No fun allowed, people. Your software either needs to be practical or intentionally pedagogical.
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by jferguson 13y ago
What do you disagree with from http://www.gwern.net/Slowing%20Moore%27s%20Law#state-actors-... ?
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by jferguson 13y ago
They are all you, until they start reacting differently to their different inputs and anything stochastic within their simulation, and at which point they stop being "the same" you is basically up to you. The difference between th
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by jferguson 13y ago
Some abstraction would probably be involved; the idea is to recreate all the relevant activity that impacts consciousness while avoiding going any deeper, and most neuroscientists would (I think) speculate that individual molecules aren&#x2
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by jferguson 13y ago
Consciousness is in the brain; the idea here is to simulate the brain, resulting in the mind.
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by jferguson 13y ago
A computer with input and output, yes. Some representation of relevant neurotransmitters and sensory inputs and such seems necessary. Think whole brain emulation, rather than extracting the "mind information" while ignoring all th
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by jferguson 13y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/
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by jferguson 13y ago
For a small number of tasks in Clojure, it's very sensible to write a Java program that handles what you want to do, then call it from Clojure. Here's an example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14949705&#x
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by jferguson 13y ago
> Like for example manually copy/pasting stuff from your managers Excel sheet into phpmyadmin. This can take you days, and it is really boring. You cannot always quit your job when you got a boring task. As valuable as accepting inevita