komaromy

Not really seeing the connection here

One of the only things giving me hope right now.

I'm paying $1400/month for a 17.5'x10' room in a popular part of the city. That's almost $2k/month saved by having roommates.

This seems unnecessarily combative.

Hashcash is interesting, but it's probably not applicable to every scenario and it hasn't seen much adoption. There might even be a bit of a stigma now around proof-of-work algorithms because of cryptocurrency mining.

You can mess up your serotonin levels for an extended period of time through MDMA abuse.

I guess that might be a direct effect rather than a side effect, but that doesn't seem to be your point.

Evidence?

It requires:

- Natural language understanding (choosing the right dialog options)

- Interpretation of visual cues (navigating terrain and buildings)

- Hierarchical planning (training certain Pokémon to relatively high levels rather than a scattershot approach)

- Puzzle solving (for gym access)

and quite a bit more.

Often stated, rarely with any actual support.

If this was limited to chess, I would unquestionably agree.

If it was limited to image recognition, I would tentatively agree, although things like [0] make me cautious (admittedly, that was from March, and I'm not familiar with progress since then).

However, the author seems to be generalizing beyond those two domains, to the limits of human understanding. That seems like a couple-orders-of-magnitude leap too far to me. For example, I don't know of any autonomous system capable of understanding a short novel with simple language and writing a one-page summary of it, as might be expected of a human ten-year-old.

[0] https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/846478348947668992

The events surrounding TheDAO, which the annotations mention, occurred in 2016.

I'm not sure where the 2015 in the HN title is coming from.

I don't have a good sense of how much that is.

Serpent is outdated; Viper is an up-and-coming replacement.

First link I found.