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Thank you for this.

I suggest linking to sources to read next time.

I read it as going both ways. Accuses the Qataris of, at the very least, turning a blind eye towards terrorism while also depicting their sympathetic plight. It isn't black and white. If anything, it's too sympathetic and glamourizing.

The issue with utopian settings for me is... where's the conflict?

Would you enumerate the libraries/frameworks/engines in your toolkit? I'm always interested in alternative approaches. Is it https://github.com/jondubois/nombo ?

I believe this is called Wake-Induced Lucid Dreaming (WILD).

I'd love to chat. Please email me; my address is in my profile.

If the hash function were based on your DNA (proof-of-life), that would make shedding your identity significantly more difficult.

Could you elaborate on how Realtalk works? There's a lot of information on Dynamicland, but not much on Realtalk. The gist is that it's like OOP, but physical. But I'm curious as to the exact details of how the printer example (https://dynamicland.org/faq/) might work.

Can you provide some use-cases for why this would be useful in a way that wouldn't violate most sites' ToS?

Unless the language has macros.

Slightly off-topic, but (why) did you give up on Magpie? I followed its development with considerable interest, but then it seemed to drop off. I was actually just reading your old Magpie blog posts today.

In particular, I'm curious why you dropped multimethods in favor of classes in Wren.

EDIT: I see you've already answered this question (http://wren.io/qa.html#what-about-your-other-languages)

This seems like it would be useful for the program-by-example paradigm.

Besides the easy answer that we're looking in the wrong places by virtue of using current human technology, my take is that an "advanced" civilization capable of interstellar travel will have learned to be way more efficient with energy usage. They'd have to be efficient for "advanced" energy usage to be cheap enough at the scale of a civilization instead of rare and expensive moonshot projects.

So they're only undetectable as a side effect of being efficient. Not because they're hiding or have all died in a cosmic extinction.

The problem is to assume that he's a sociopath, but I'm inclined to think not, particularly in light of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15512398. It's possible to have empathy for someone whose actions are disgusting. The world isn't black and white.

I found the Melodyne patents (translated from German into English): https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininvent...

Are there papers anywhere on how Melodyne works?

Ah, that would explain the inspiration for the name.

Which Python libraries do use for media-related things?

What do you think the solution is? Not being snarky here; I'm genuinely interested in the problem you've described, because this unbounded freedom bothers me too.

I think the point of the story was that Cutie could follow orders and prevent harm properly without conscious knowledge of its doing so. Though it consciously believes the humans are going to dissolve themselves, its unconscious circuitry knows otherwise. Does that make sense? Or maybe it's just a plot hole. But I think the purpose of the story is to point out that Cutie can follow all the laws of robotics without realizing it.

I believe this is the story with Cutie (nickname for QT-1) who invents a religion to justify its existence. The amusing thing was that the rituals of its religion consisted of making sure the space colony functioned properly, so the humans decided to leave the robot's faith alone. And the robot thought that the humans were mindless religious fools for believing in Earth:

"""The robot approached softly and there was sorrow in his voice. “You are going?”

Powell nodded curtly. “There will be others in our place.”

Cutie sighed, with the sound of wind humming through closely spaced wires. “Your term of service is over and the time of dissolution has come. I expected it, but -- well, the Master’s will be done!”

His tone of resignation stung Powell. “Save the sympathy, Cube. We’re heading for Earth, not dissolution.”

"It is best that you think so,” Cutie sighed again. “I see the wisdom of the illusion now. I would not attempt to shake your faith, even if I could.” He departed -- the picture of commiseration."""

--"Reason" by Isaac Asimov

They mean the learning curve is steep.

Can you give some examples of common use-cases you run into each day?

I can sort of buy that proper grammar-checking requires "human-level intelligence", but how is it possible to detect illogic, for instance, without the same? Typely would have to understand an argument's structure and actual meaning to prove logical soundness. Doesn't that require human-level intelligence, or at least as much as with a grammar-checking task?

Why is increasing divisibility any better than creating more if the end result is the same?

But perhaps it's all related. Violent crime occurs because it's fueled by an illegal cash cow in the form of drugs. People don't just murder or assault people without being driven to do so. They have an economic incentive.

I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on this. I couldn't find an email address in your profile, but I have an address in mine, so please shoot me an email.

A natural monopoly is where a company operates in an industry in which either network effects or vertical integration make a big difference for the competitiveness of the company, so it's naturally incentivised within the market for one player to gradually become dominant. I don't buy that Google is a natural monopoly for search, but it makes sense for Amazon and Facebook, since network effects are huge. That's how I interpret it.

But what sort of earphones can you wear while swimming that don't fall out?