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rsofaer

72 karma · joined February 28, 2010

Currently a PhD student in the Software Systems lab at Columbia University. rafi at sofaer.net
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rsofaer··on Confessions of A Job Destroyer
The idea is that they or other businesses will spend their new surplus on hiring workers to do what can't be automated.
rsofaer··on On being a girl in computer science - a confession
Norms don't necessarily get weaker over time. Some, like computers being for men, have gotten stronger.
rsofaer··on The Net Is a Waste of Time (1996)
Try googling "swastika temple". It's been used in both directions as a religious symbol.
rsofaer··on Haidinger's Brush: How to see polarization with the naked eye
How would you distinguish between an innate ability and something our brains are capable of? Those seem like the same thing to me.
rsofaer··on A Most Peculiar Test Drive – Follow Up
It's just wrong for reasons that are covered in comments near the top. The public editor isn't part of Broder's management, and Musk is vastly exaggerating what she wrote about Broder anyhow.
rsofaer··on Testing 3 million hyperlinks, lessons learned
The sort of tarpit you're talking about wouldn't even affect this link validator. You really think Stack Exchange should have given up on validating links because Github's robots.txt has:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

in it?

rsofaer··on Roger Penrose Says Physics Is Wrong, From String Theory to Quantum Mechanics
We have so much more to understand about brain functioning in our current paradigm, and no pressing reason to try to build a new physics to help neuroscience. The theory of mind/experience of consciousness is an output of the brain, not part of its architecture.
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