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Sounds exactly like what I would say if my life's work revolved around the idea that AI boils down to how many neurons we can simulate

I have also been researching AGI and what I found over the years is that a large majority of the work involved requires knowledge of outside fields that have been studied for centuries. Metaphysics, epistemology, macro/microeconomics, geometry --- dozens of fields that you would never guess should ever be related to AI in any way are actually pivotal when it comes to AGI.

And this is where Square & Patreon's toe-dipping shows it's effects. You can NEVER. N-E-V-E-R allow an organization to have that much power and then not say anything just because they are targeting groups that you happen to also be against, because in the end, they will get a taste of the power they wield, the control they have, and they will abuse it.

I hope it does. I have for years thought about the two possible post-fake worlds we can end up with, either everyone learning gradually on their own how to tell truth from fiction and learning how to efficiently do their own research, or a mass-surveillance system designed to 'protect' those that 'cannot determine truth from fiction themselves'. I guess we'll see faster than I thought.

Sounds like a stretch. If something like that happens, you take it to HR, you don't don a mask and cape and begin rallying your coworkers to fight alongside you.

Incredibly fun game! Thought I would spend maybe 5 minutes checking it out and eventually turned into 30! You should definitely turn this into a mobile game, it can easily pass the time.

Few things:

- It gets really confusing when I have 3 different specializations named Renee

- It makes sense that when you get more team members, you have to scroll to see them, parallels actual work where you can't really give full oversight to large teams

- Because there is an option to get a large team, you should add project managers that can take some team members and auto-perform their work

Great job! Hats off to them, I was only half expecting a see a sentence like "This truly captures the 'essence of Facebook', which we'll refer to as 'Mark' throughout the remainder on this document"

I think it all depends on their mindset on developing the platform and the mindset of new hires - are they being incentivized to "shake X industry" or brainstorm features every other day, or do they look at what they have and figure out how to make it even better. Is Twitter made to make it easy for users to do some thing, or is it being made to do what some other company did, but "for X"

I find most SV companies, like game design, falls apart when it is used as a vehicle to test out a philosophy instead of implementing an idea users actually want.

Sony needs to reconsider it's position in the entertainment market. It's convenient to have a BD player bundled in a console, but I don't buy it because of that, nor do I buy it to watch TV, though if it can do that too, even better.

Being that console parts are particularly cheaper than their PC equivalents, I think they'd make a lot more money focusing on their game management services. PS Now wasn't very good and caps out with respect to a user's internet capability, but the idea of 'leasing' games online could be severely improved. Another avenue could be revising and improving their hypervisor and their SDK to the point where they can confidently open up a homebrew app market. And release a playstation emulator or something similar that enables me to access any of my PS4 Sony-approved, online-verified and signed titles from my PC, provided I'm connected to my PS4 (not online) at all times. These incentives will make me want a Ps4, but don't add any incentives for me to use cracking software, but require effort on Sony's part to build up their security, and focus more on revenue generation than profit generation, so that cracking becomes largely pointless.

A ton of people retired early today. Good for them, I lost 40 bucks so fortunately I'm not quite in the position to be angry.

You probably aren't running headfirst into a warzone

Who's to say country X won't nuke you out of the sky before you have a chance at mining those materials? Whether we like it or not, international politics will dictate the course of humanity when it comes to space, unless some isolated group manages to do it in secret.

Further, even if a group manages to secure trillions of tons of common materials for us today, who's to say it will be given out for free? If it is, well, maybe I want you to give my country a bit more of the share than other countries, or I'll take their share by force. Even if we emerge a united world after something like that, we may find that we've developed far superior technology that has no use for the materials you've acquired.

There are tons of real-world questions that have to be answered, and it doesn't matter if we don't have time to come up with a good one, because someone will pull the trigger first.

I personally have never considered anything other than the license text when choosing a license, and from my experience, anyone I've worked with chooses MIT because it makes open-sourcing easier. Never have I seen anyone in the wild discuss FSF as a reason for not choosing any GPL-class license, but maybe I'm hanging around the wrong places.

I thought the idea was to keep software free, not attract as many people as you possibly can

Because docs take time to write, and good docs require a passionate dev who cares to write them

But that stagnation has nothing to do with anything RMS's behavior

>be heavily distributed over many small sites, with a common fabric, a meta-media, connecting them

That is StackExchange though...

I find it ironic that in an article about how most of this segment of species is a child of 2 bulls, the main scientist is named "Chad"

> Most importantly, I believe we must find a way to stand firm for software freedom while also making a safe environment for victims of sexual assault, sexual abuse, gaslighting, and other deplorable actions.

I understand and I fully stand by his belief that software freedom does not mean egalitarian and morally righteous principles have to be undermined in order to progress.

However, it is not the FSF's job to make sure those values are upheld in every facet of moral righteousness. The goal is clear: make and keep software free as in liberty. That's it. Anything else should be completely within the realm of personal viewpoints.

I completely and wholeheartedly stand by the fact that we as a society need to deal with sexual violence much better than we are currently doing so.

Not an ounce of my being, however, places the burden on dealing with this onto Stallman's, or Kuhn's, or any other FSF member's shoulder. Help if you can. Help if you want, but if your job is to make software free, you're doing great. If you can solve other moral issues while doing so, even better, but it's not required.

This is how it should work, and has worked for decades, centuries even. Unfortunately more and more companies (with an emphasis on those based in Silicon Valley) feel the need to coddle users, as if they're too stupid to decide for themselves what information to believe, or even breaking down matters of opinion into the "right" opinion and the "wrong" opinion.

Make a fact checking company. Let the burden of attracting users fall on that company alone. Let them compete for ad space among users. Push the responsibility of providing an accurate and unbiased service onto them. Let them fail and go bankrupt if no one wants to use those services

In short, stop hiding behind the veil of keeping people "informed". People are as informed as they want to be, and if you truly feel people desire to know facts versus lies, make a company and compete in the free market like everyone else who has an idea to sell.

I use 4chan on a regular basis and haven't seen anything I'd constitute as a raid in nearly half a decade.

But, that aside, why the need for hostility?

What makes you think we won't have a future?

That does not seem to be the case here:

https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/1184475413252210688

From the korean video someone posted in this discussion, it seems you can use any fingerprint just by putting on a screen protector - no retraining necessary

/pol/ has almost always been an echo chamber of whatever opinion was deemed fringe from what I remember. I seriously doubt anyone cared about Ron Paul winning the election other than the fact that they wanted to see what he would actually do in office, as it is with Trump right now - the general stance is Trump is horrible, not because of his policies, but because of the low impact of his policies compared to what anons had in mind would have been enacted.

It still has an air of anarchy/anarcho-capitalism as it always had, the tone has just shifted more towards the anarchism element.

And as it stands now, 4chan is still the most popular imageboard, which is largely why /pol/ is a blob of opinions where the only thing anyone can agree on is that they hate each other.

4chan raids don't really occur in this day and age though

The main issue is that someone can hijack your phone, use the compromising screen protector and get in to your device

Edit: Here is a video demonstration, posted by someone else in this discussion

https://twitter.com/Sta_Light_/status/1184475413252210688

They are clearly at fault, but at this point customers need to be more cognizant of the fine print. I recently did a Google takeout of my data and found for most services they have no tracking on me after March, which is around the time I started actively hunting for options to turn off anything which reveals private information. Taking steps to learn how to reduce my online footprint also helped

I think it's helpful to consider. You'll definitely need the cash to ramp up infrastructure

Haha, damn nice job. I actually thought about this 1 yr ago and started working on something very similar, though it was more interactive. Even started an LLC and got a good prototype, but didn't have the time to work on it.

Great work! This is incredibly useful stuff and can't wait to start trying it out