This is a good example of how adding a restriction can give you freedom.
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15% on money that never has to be paid back? If we're comparing to Kickstarter, fees are at least 8% and you are contractually obligated to supply a product.
>For comparison, underwriting fees for a large public offering are usually under 4 percent.
Why are we comparing this to a large public offering?
This assumes Oculus would have sold 100% of its shares at a $2 million valuation, and then still sold again for $2B after the developers had cashed out.
It's a nonsense comparison.
There are good reasons some people want to steer clear of any vendor lock-in. If there can be comparable open implementations, I'll use those. If there can't be, then the prospect is that much more alarming.
* You give no justification for rejecting powerful AI
* Many AI projects use robots in development
* An intelligent agent does not need a robot to get things done.
* Many AI projects supply Internet access to the AI.
* A sufficiently intelligent agent might circumvent protections you think are adequate, or manipulate you into doing so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_under_Bayes_theorem
It could be that none of his bad situation is the result of his preferences, but his situation shouldn't be ignored either. You have to be able to consider that you did something unwise in order to take hints from the environment.
Is there no duty from a promise of secrecy? Is morality tied to certain organizations?
What if the motivation isn't atonement but self-interest?
If I learned social skills with the same abilities that made me smart, I wouldn't use that knowledge to interview, I would use it to build an AI.
The comparison is invalid because so far no one has learned social skills that way.
If we understand others by imagining how we ourselves would react, then the things that make it hard to learn social skills will be things that make you different, even if they also help you with something else.
This isn't an explanation. None of it answers the interesting questions.
How and why do computers work? Well they are made of atoms and run on electricity. They do useful work and we call it computation.
This is all true and important to understand, but it is filling a slot that needs to be filled with things like computability theory.
I'm not sure what was meant by nonphysical property, but many materialists disagree over whether consciousness can be copied like a text, or is necessarily destroyed as a book is.
In retrospect the learning curve for SL's content creation was too hard or intimidating. (and Minecraft has obvious limitations.)
>Run it and be amazed how much your disks/raid/OS lie. ("lie" = an fsync doesn't work)
>It seems everything from PATA consumer disks to high-end server-class SCSI disks lie like crazy. Yes, that includes SATA there in the middle. I'll discuss fixing your storage components in a second.
This is like legislating to make URL modification illegal 'hacking' and justifying it by saying programmers are too expensive.
If our society wants people to have stronger protection for large unsecured areas, they it should apply to all such areas.
Or maybe I missed the point.
Did they locate the servers in singapore? No, your 'truth' is also non-literal.
What matters to customers is that there's now a Singapore option in the datacenter drop down box.
There needs to be separate organizations to package and distribute this data and make apps for it. (A web map project will have different needs than an offline phone navigation app. OSM shouldn't try to gain/maintain domain expertise in everything.)