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by pde3 4y ago
And then check out this very cool project from six years ago, which uses a block-stacking game inspired by Shrdlu but learns whatever language you choose to teach it instructions with :) https://shrdlurn.sidaw.xyz/
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by pde3 4y ago
This is a nice fantasy, but it's a fantasy. The tech stack and network we have is too dense a forest to be replaced by clean slate designs. But maybe some of the problems could be improved with some new platforms and APIs. Mind you, ML
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by pde3 4y ago
A possible experiment to try: what happens when you only browse Reddit through an anonymous, not-logged-in browser and IP address? And then only use your account when you are actually sure you want to post something?
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by pde3 4y ago
Split this into two questions: (1) Why do we procrastinate? (2) What is it about various Internet platforms and patterns that makes them so addictive, and good for procrastination? For me, (1) turned out to be about not having a clear pictu
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by pde3 5y ago
How do you find the RF performance? For me the OnHub was vastly better than other home wifi gear I've used, but would consider more trustworthy replacements if they have comparable performance...
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by pde3 5y ago
In addition to tests, I wonder if anyone has thought about a risk pool where car manufacturers pay in (or are paid out) according to whether their vehicles cause more or fewer pedestrian & cyclist fatalities. That would give them a clea
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by pde3 6y ago
Many workers experience monopsony for their labor for reasons that might not make sense to you (switching costs, rational risk aversion, fallible human psychology). A union on their side just levels the playing field. Empirically, societies
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13 things tech companies can do to fight coronavirus(stop-covid.tech)
3 points by pde3 7y ago|0 comments
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by pde3 7y ago
Yes, this is one specific safety problem -- there are many other RL safety problems that deserve high quality benchmarks too. See eg https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.06565.pdf or https://medium.com/@deepminds
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by pde3 7y ago
The problem is very easy to solve if the reward function (avoid altering the green life patterns) is specified. The aim in SafeLife version 1.0 (future versions will add more safety problems) is to find an agent/architecture that natur
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SafeLife: AI Safety Environments Based on Conway's Game of Life(partnershiponai.org)
71 points by pde3 7y ago|12 comments
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EFF White Paper: How Militaries Should Plan for AI(eff.org)
1 points by pde3 8y ago|0 comments
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by pde3 8y ago
We spent a lot of time thinking about this before we started building Let's Encrypt. In the case of the Web we didn't think there was a way to make self-signed certificates workable for anything because older browsers will always
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by pde3 8y ago
We think we can make a huge difference even by listing a few dozen or a few hundred of the highest-traffic email domains.
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by pde3 8y ago
We did think about those issues before writing the piece. It's safer to figure out how to get AI systems to be robust, reliable and safe in civilian contexts before rushing to weaponize them. We need to understand how to avoid technica
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by pde3 9y ago
Turns out "anyone can edit" also meant anyone could mess with the sharing settings. So I've made it read only, which is a pity. Will investigate alternative hosting arrangements that might support pull requests at some point.
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by pde3 9y ago
Which is what stopped me from using them for some serious crowdsourced data projects in the past. This was a sheet I had lying around anyway and thought others might find useful :) Might be nice to have someone define a clean 1:1 mapping be
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by pde3 9y ago
Heh, you might be right :)
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A spreadsheet of lightweight Linux laptops for hackers(docs.google.com)
27 points by pde3 9y ago|15 comments
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by pde3 9y ago
You should consider adding gradients in addition to flat colors!
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by pde3 9y ago
EFF and other privacy groups fought against this for a long time, and eventually succeeded in having the FCC intervene to stop these practices: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/victory-verizon-will-s...
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by pde3 9y ago
Yes, we've also thought about the "meta metric" idea. We may try to make one if we feel that the taxonomy is at all complete and trustworthy.
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by pde3 9y ago
You're asking great questions :) EFF isn't necessarily a fan of the way that current institutions of governance or the law operate, but when those institutions attempt to interfere with the development of technology, we step in to
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by pde3 9y ago
The measurements for each metric are tabular, but the taxonomy of problems above them is currently tree (or forest) structured. CSV export or import for specific metrics would be very easy to add if you'd like it. We already have a rou
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EFF launches AI progress measurement project(eff.org)
12 points by pde3 9y ago|0 comments
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Intel's “Management Engines” are a security hazard; they need an “off” button(eff.org)
15 points by pde3 9y ago|0 comments
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EFF needs your help to stop Congress dismantling Internet privacy protections(act.eff.org)
10 points by pde3 9y ago|0 comments
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by pde3 10y ago
A couple of suggestions based on recent (0.5.0+) Certbot features: 1. You can now do certbot certonly --post-hook "service XYZ reload" to run something if and only if certs were obtained / renewed. Or if you use the renew ve
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by pde3 10y ago
Yes certbot-auto should work on Raspbian 7 but note you'll need a large swap file enabled in order for it to succeed at building the recent version of python-cryptography that it depends on: https://github.com/certbot
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by pde3 10y ago
Certbot supports both use cases; "certonly" stops after getting the cert; "run" installs it if there's a plugin available for your webserver.

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