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deleteson Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious

It would spend all it's time and resources in order to even slightly decrease the probability of a human coming to harm.

You are assuming there are no thresholds, which is not correct for any decent ( fictitious )ai, I believe.

deleteson Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious

I should have specified I mean only the Robot trilogy. I have yet to read every book.

deleteson Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious

In the books the robots adhered to the laws strictly. The problem was that humans were able to circumvent the laws rather easily. For example; lie to the robot or divide the murder trough many robots each unaware of each other. In absence of humans the robots were perfect for deciding moral subjects( as long they have enough information ), the opposite what tomp is suggesting.

deleteson Zuckerberg, Musk Invest in Artificial-Intelligence Company Vicarious

  * Zeroth Law: A robot must never harm humanity or, by inaction allow humanity to come to harm.

Every other law gets an unless this interferes with the zeroth law. suffix.

I encourage anyone to read the robots series, specifically( in that order ): The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn, where the three laws are used in the story, and even the zeroth law is implied in the third book.

deleteson 2048 Directory

The 2^53 is missing.

deleteson 2048 Numberwang

Looks like the internal state of the numbers that actually decide what can be merged is changed when you press a key. Also works if you hold it down, which is a bug I think.

Just hold down one direction to observe.

deleteson 2048 for physicists

Are the collisions at least plausible?

deleteson Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men (1924)

What if John Carmack is an average programmer, and the rest of us are just lazy in comparison.

deleteson Larry Page: I’d Rather Leave My Billions to Elon Musk Than to Charity

Why then don't geniuses come from third world countries. Improved standard of living will help that, not pure numbers.

deleteson Windows XP Will Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

That is a bad analogy. Unlike software, building take time, people and material resources to build and cost magnitudes more, yet windows can be installed/upgraded in an hour.

Microsoft already issued a patch( not that they didn't support XP a long time over its lifespan ), it is called Windows 7, Apple does this as well, with their yearly OS releases, even though in a more clever way.

deleteson Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected

I can think of Kindle as a physical device that comes with ads until you pay more money. Surely there is potential in this approach for other home appliances.

deleteson Earth dodged a massive magnetic eruption from Sun that could have wreaked havoc

A common misconception. Ha, try finding that one...

deleteson Earth dodged a massive magnetic eruption from Sun that could have wreaked havoc

I would say you are a victim of the overly dramatic article, designed to attract clicks.

deleteson How to turn into a tree after you die

Sounds implausible. It is more probable that he inhaled it and didn't realize or is ashamed to admit it.

http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/article.aspx?articl...

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/04/russian-man-did-not-as...

deleteson How to turn into a tree after you die

I didn't think about it so literally. I understood it more as a methaphor/explanation for life and meaning of life.

deleteson How to turn into a tree after you die

The correct answer. Life is a continuous process.

deleteson Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"

Here is one way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvBOUy9E5Qw&feature=youtu.be&...

Don't watch if you are emotionally attached to pc hardware.

deleteson Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected

When I first read Ubik I though their economy is unrealistic. How do the appliances and doors that charge for usage make sense?

It makes an interesting replacement for the warranty in the item contract. Pay the toll, and the item is kept constantly serviced. The protagonist's attack on the door also makes sense since it is considered a breach of contract.

deleteson Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headset coming to PS4

The devs at Sony really like the matrix. Not very subtle.

deleteson Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headset coming to PS4

Oculus Rift FOV is 110°.

deleteson Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headset coming to PS4

60 Virtual speakers What does that even mean? It sounds like clever marketing talk.

I bet they have just regular stereo and software. Here, take a pair of good stereo headphones and try this 3d demo. And don't forget to close your eyes.

Virtual barber shop: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUDTlvagjJA

deleteson 2048 in 4D

You didn't do a lot of mashing keys right. This version really takes some thought.

deleteson 2048 in 4D

Undoubtfully the number is really large, but I'm not sure what exactly you mean by cube Planck lengths. A comparison to atoms would be more clear.

Still, it wouldn't have to. Since most arrays would have pieces with lower numbers( 2,4,8 ) you could very efficiently compress the data.

At some point you would run out of memory but it would be playable. Just like those Game of Life implementations with seemingly infinite grid.

deleteson 2048 in 4D

edit: Looks ok, I'm confused :)

It is interesting. The best way to solve it is to forget about dimensions and just learn the rules of what key does what in terms of piece movement.

deleteson 2048 in 4D

So 2048 in 2048 dimensions after that?

deleteson 2048 in 3D

Yes but not always. A pre-filled version would likely be made for commercial release.

deleteson 2048 in 3D

Yet it can't be solved by mashing and requires some thought.

deleteson Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto Denies All Bitcoin Ties in Verified Letter Via Lawyer

Not really, you can fake both.

deleteson 2048 in 3D

This is the best version of the game.

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There needs to be a clear while line separating the boxes; after intense staring I have difficulty separating the individual boxes.

A "solution": keep pressing right and E and up or down if you get stuck. Make some manual moves if the board gets cluttered.

Do not use the strategy to cluster pieces into a corner.

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Solved it. http://i.imgur.com/sb3VMCY.jpg

And apart from the 2D variants it required some thinking. This is THE version to iterate and improve. It has gameplay.