Here is the paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848041/
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This has got me quite convinced that Fred and Fred is going to happen. They are probably connected magically, rather than acoustically, so they might be able to communicate across time. This setup might create the time beacon Harry was wanting.
Or, maybe their connection does not link through time. Send a pair of Weasleys back in time. You now have 4 Weasleys. Wait not-quite-an-hour, and then send 4 Weasleys back in time… 4 Weasleys is twice the number of Weasleys. Are N Weasleys N/2 times as smart as 2 Weasleys? No. It is much more interesting if it is the connections that matter. HE is the Weasley hivemind.
Why should I believe that the way you describe the hypothetical meat-fuck in your head is how it would have really turned out? (I imagine Bricky could have pulled it off)
Hi. I see that the first point is free.
I am a Bay Area (California, United States) 19 year-old Computer Science student. I imagine I’ll actually be taking actual CS classes next year. I’ve been lurking about for about a month.
The narration in chapters 88 and 89 have left quite a bit of room for Weasley Twin shenanigans. They are referred to as “the twins” and “Fred or George” up until one gets beat up by the troll. Additionally, the twins gave a respectful nod to McGonagall’s demand that they stay in the Great Hall; they could have stayed there the entire time. Harry might have been accompanied by, say, Future Fred and Further Future Fred during his broom flight. I am not sure what the use of this would be, but it might involve them being a hive mind.
Worth reading. Over-repeated some points a bit too much. The “Musk Program” looks wrong in the way that “just brute force a path to victory” is wrong.
By the time a non-person predicate returns 0, you have already potentially created a person. You’ll need something more complicated: If I update this model with this data, does it create a person?
A variant of Alexandros’ AI: attach a brain-scanning device to every person, which frequently uploads copies to the AI’s Manager. The AI submits possible actions to the Manager, which checks for approval from the most recently available copy of each person who is relevant-to-the-action.
At startup, and periodically, the definition of being-relevant-to-an-action is determined by querying humanity with possible definitions, and selecting the best approved. If there is no approval-rating above a certain ratio, the AI shuts down.
I’m sure the designer would approve of being modified to enjoy answering stupid questions. The designer might also approve of being cloned for the purpose of answering one question, and then being destroyed.
Unfortunately, it turns out that you’re Stalin. Sounds like 1-person CEV.
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Our multitude of voices exalting Rain’s donation rebound off the faster-approaching towers of the Singularity!
When you say that something is so by definition, what you (most likely) actually mean is that something is so by default. If a human is defined as “a featherless biped”*, you can’t say that Hermione, who has just had an unfortunate accident with Hedwig and a polyjuice potion, is no longer human because she’s grown feathers. “A feathered biped” is only by default not human!
*I don’t think you’ll ever find a definition like that in a dictionary. “homo: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage”: If you’re mentally disabled, stuttering, and hunch-backed, it doesn’t mean that you aren’t, by definition, human. You’ve got bad genes (or bad nurturing), but they’re still Hominidae genes.
I’d like to be able to read the LW archives when I’m without internet. So, it’d be nice to have a dump.
I think best would be a git repository with a file for each article, and another file for the comments.
It’s a threat, not a fallacy. And if I understand LW correctly, few would notice random want-ads because they wouldn’t gain enough votes to make it to the front page.
I’m pretty sure the problem is EY. He could post pictures of his cat, and they’d go all the way up. (And if he doesn’t have a cat, then he should know that there are several in my neighborhood who might be happy to be adopted. And kittens! Omygosh!)
it’s possible that schools aren’t doing a good job of preparing people for typical office jobs
The highschool I went to attempts to prepare students for modern jobs. I hear that the educational model (project-based learning) is spreading to other local schools.
Sharing a list of running processes and DNS lookups would be more privacy-sensitive. (I have no idea how to implement the latter, but the former could at least be done on Linux, and possibly Windows, using ksysguard) You might not want to share your screen with a random stranger, but would you share process names and DNS lookups? How about open sockets?
Require new top-level posts to use a tag that indicates which facet of LW’s interest it lies with. So each new post would have to choose on (or maybe more) of tags like “bayes”, “selfimprovement”, “philosophy”. So, if I think that Lesswrong should really dedicate itself to the study of Victory and nothing else, I might read only posts with selfimprovement tags.
I want bob to think he gets what he wants.
The following reminded me of Arguments as Soldiers:
I’m sorry to have not found his blog sooner.