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jimbofisher1on Survivorship bias and startup hype

I'm sorry where did I imply they were already safer? I think it's obvious they will continue to improve and surpassing human level is not far away.

jimbofisher1on Survivorship bias and startup hype

Considering around 1/3 of students at schools like Harvard are Legacy Admits who would never otherwise get admitted on their merits, I don't think your argument holds much weight. You seem to be admitting that they are selecting for elite education, if they were selecting ambition and intelligence there are countless people like that who went to a big State school instead of Stanford yet they are not represented in "Elite" firms whether that's VC, IB, Tech etc..

jimbofisher1on Survivorship bias and startup hype

Don't understand the hang up about this. Self Driving cars were always going to kill people. It's not possible to be 100% safe but even a minute improvement over human drivers would save thousands of lives a year.

jimbofisher1on Mall landlords struggling to find takers at a price they’ll accept

>materialist consumerism: something millennials want no part of.

You must have missed Instagram... Consumerism is alive and well among millenials. Remember not everyone is a HN reader who works in IT...

jimbofisher1on The Quant King, the Drug Hunter, and the Quest to Unlock New Cures

I'm not going to cry for Shaw if he wastes his money. He has mountains of it...

jimbofisher1on DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed

https://register.epo.org/documentView?number=US.2017058046.W...

Read the applications for yourself. I'm not a patent lawyer but they seem to be unbelievably broad.

jimbofisher1on DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed

This is extremely concerning. Processing sequences using CNNs is particularly bad. It covers using CNNs to process ANY sequences, text, audio, video, etc.. Basically covering any potential use for a CNN. This would like a company patenting Welding. It's just so insanely broad.

jimbofisher1on DeepMind: First major AI patent filings revealed

Given HN's recent bashing of Google for abandoning it's Don't be Evil mantra this seems like a rather absurd position to take. "Google totes won't abuse this at all!"

jimbofisher1on AI at Google: our principles

The supreme court has ruled that Corporations are people. So why wouldn't it extend to corporations?

jimbofisher1on How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress

https://blog.keras.io/building-powerful-image-classification...

This is a good start

jimbofisher1on Half of all adults in the world have less than $2,300 in wealth (2016)

"According to researchers from Credit Suisse, the richest 1% owned 50.8% of the world’s wealth in 2016"

That should be a wake up call.

jimbofisher1on America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic

Sure and I bet you could find a $500/mo room in a crack house. Doesn't mean a working professional would be willing to live there.

Frankly a realistic number is $3000/mo for a 1BR and my point is that you could own an incredible home in most of the country for that price. People in SV have Stockholm Syndrome and justify the horrendous cost of living, rampant homelessness, insane working hours etc. with their cries of "but look at all my stock options!"

Meanwhile their counterparts in places like Austin make over $100k, can easily own a substantial home, have excellent life-work balance and shocker... have SUBSTANTIAL SAVINGS as well.

jimbofisher1on America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/

Its totally not because the 1% has captured all the value created by increased productivity over the past 50 years. Definitely not.

jimbofisher1on America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic

What adult is paying 2k in rent in SV, with 4 roommates that may be possible... If you want to live like that fine but most of America can afford to buy a substantial house for 2k a month.

jimbofisher1on America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic

Aww how cute, the CEO defends paying his employees 50,000 while he makes 10,000,000. "Its just jealousy folks!"

I'm sure Louis XVI was thinking the same thing right before the public summarily removed his head from his body.

jimbofisher1on America's Startup Scene Is Looking Anemic

Because they are also CEOs at large companies and also want bloated salaries so they approve them for their counterparts.