notadonut

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by notadonut 6y ago
For some reason, I rarely know what points the authors of Nautilus articles are trying to make. What are they claiming? How are they backing up those claims?
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by notadonut 6y ago
"failure disguised as success" is a profound insight. The Silicon Valley version of this is raising a lot of money when you don't have product-market fit or the right co-founder or both. Getting other people to commit million
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by notadonut 6y ago
Please propose a system whereby facts can be collected, interpreted, verified and distributed for free. If it is not free, who funds it? How do we prevent the organization funding it from perverting the facts to serve its own interest? If w
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by notadonut 6y ago
> furthermore, nyt are mostly shills for their advertisers. Your Medium post does not prove your claim. That's not how newspapers work. There is a wall between advertising and news at the big national papers (less so at local ones s
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by notadonut 6y ago
Revenge is underrated. The opportunities to avenge oneself without also shooting oneself in the foot, or entering an endless cycle of reciprocal vendettas, are very rare. But when they do come, the closure is liberating.
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by notadonut 6y ago
5. Here is the book and one instance of Scott's full name in the book. https://books.google.com/books?id=wtQkDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR9&lpg=PR... Voluntarily publishing something like that makes me believe that Scott did
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by notadonut 6y ago
This conflict is complicated and our understanding of it is limited. * We only have SSC's account of the conversation between him and the NYT reporter. * The NYT does not have a history of doxxing people, particularly their home addres
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by notadonut 6y ago
He was attendee and sponsor and running the conference.
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by notadonut 6y ago
Thank you. Thiel was an early backer of SI and attendee of the Singularity Summits that ran from 2006-2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_Summit Soon after that, awareness of AI and superintelligence went m
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by notadonut 6y ago
You don't need secrets for your theory of insiders to work. What Thiel and Musk saw was DeepMind. Then they invested in it. Altman acted later. And the vision of what AI was becoming was voiced much earlier by Yudkowsky, whose Singular
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by notadonut 6y ago
Why are we doing these "privilege" callouts? What does this add to the discussion? Should Malan apologize? Should the New Yorker apologize for him? Individuals are regularly used metonymically to represent a larger system. And tho
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by notadonut 6y ago
> we are in this to help foster worldwide collaboration, not get bogged down in politics. That was my point. Belgium, a famously neutral country, allows you to do that.
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by notadonut 6y ago
Eclipse added Huawei as a strategic member last fall: https://blog.huawei.com/2019/10/22/huawei-becomes-a-strategi... As well as another company that partners with a Chinese government lab. I have to wonder w