yamada

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by yamada 19y ago
Like you know, everybody's forum is so interesting that nobody reads anything else because there are too many interesting forum titles and you don't know where to begin.
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by yamada 19y ago
Because the C?I?A? and N?S?A used to use pre-OSX mac computers extensively at the time that M-Soft got sued by the DOJ because there were a lot less OS8 / 9 hackers than their were window hackers. Then by some funny coincidence, OSX gets b
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by yamada 19y ago
Well, you'd be surprised at all the features they're constantly sneaking into iTunes for example that is sort of making it like a new operating system. Which works best with their own products (iPod). See the pattern? We get people to ge
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by yamada 19y ago
Wait - first you say that there's no basis for AI because of the historical leadup to today ... then you state in this post that people (stock speculators) who act based on systems based on past variables don't think clearly because they fa
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by yamada 19y ago
Actually it may be a big deal. Fairly recently scientists have determined that some very stupid behaviors that some animals engage in, to their own detriment, is the direct result of toxins produced by parasitical bacteria. So think of al
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by yamada 19y ago
Tell me, do you guys ever get lonely up their on your pedestals?
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by yamada 19y ago
There are quite a few semi-retired executives and management consultants who become "turnaround" experts. Usually they associate themselves with private equity firms or semi-formal investment syndicates. But they tend to focus on more est
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by yamada 19y ago
Depends on how you look at it. Most web 2.0 innovations are just reiterations of low-yield activities designed to encourage phatic communication at the cost of personal and corporate productivity. Who knows what effect that will have on,
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by yamada 19y ago
Ouch! That's gotta hurt!
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by yamada 19y ago
Wait ... this chimpanzee-like robot that you speak of ... would he then hypothetically go on to do things so stupid and scary that the entire population of the planet would get so stressed out just thinking about it, to the point where our
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by yamada 19y ago
So then how do you distinguish that? Like does YCombinator method make people succeed? Or is it good at identifying likely future successes and convincing them to associate with YCombinator? Or both? How do you gage the effect either wa
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by yamada 19y ago
So sorry. Next forum: "YCombinator is super-awesome and infallible!" Commentary anticipated to range from "LOL" to "LoLoLoLoL".
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by yamada 19y ago
About not believing in the inevitable coming of bona fide AI, as you sate in your post above. For all you know it's happening already on the internet in some weird way that remains as incomprehensible to us as your mind does to the brain c
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by yamada 19y ago
Or maybe it would be millions of computers working in concert over some sort of thing like, um ... some thing where computers all over the world can speak to each other and use parallel processing to combine computing resources into one big
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by yamada 19y ago
Someone should report you to the ASPCA for neglecting your lonely dog. Shame on you!
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by yamada 19y ago
Well, that's hard to say - many cults actually make associations with successful people and then claim that their success is based on the influence/teachings of the cult. I'm sure some people think scientology is a cult (it is in the proce
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by yamada 19y ago
Success being defined as ... what exactly? By whom?
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by yamada 19y ago
>> Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged?
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by yamada 19y ago
Simple, dogmatic answers to rhetorical questions? Check!
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by yamada 19y ago
I think there was some book about this a while ago that was making all the raves in geek circles ... the lucifer principle or the lucifer mind or something like that.
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by yamada 19y ago
Don't be so sure ... intelligence is based on self-awareness, which is in turn a function of complex systems once they reach a certain tipping point. Do your individual brain cells understand that they form the basis for your mind? Of cou
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by yamada 19y ago
Why would they apply to YC when they would theoretically communicate with each other and just reallocate trillions in funds to accounts they setup? Like why bother with the whole application/startup/VC-funding/IPO when they can just take o
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by yamada 19y ago
How do you know for sure though? None of these groups ever started out by communicating their ultimate intent at first. Aum started as a humble local yoga club.
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by yamada 19y ago
If you feel you have a decisively superior advantage whether strategically (your idea of how to do it is better) or tactically (your technology works better) then keep at it, but realize that it's tricky with VCs. True story: Back when I p
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by yamada 19y ago
Skynet here we come! Woo-hoo!
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by yamada 19y ago
A phoenix-like quality where ongoing arguments are pushed up according to popularity ... or at least featured on the side in a box somewhere, like, "most active discussions".
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by yamada 19y ago
A phoenix-like quality where ongoing arguments are pushed up according to popularity ... or at least featured on the side in a box somewhere, like, "most active discussions".
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by yamada 19y ago
Well, if you can change the way people behave, you're beyond success. You have the ability to literally change the world. That's god-like. That transcends success.
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by yamada 19y ago
Good point! But playing devil's advocate, "IBM!" Touche!
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by yamada 19y ago
Mental problems. I jest not. All (financially) successful people I know have serious mental problems. It's that special little fire in the belly that keeps you warm all those hard, lonely nights until you make it. Plus the extra voices

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