The Red Cross made this same point in a blog post recently: http://blogs.redcross.org.uk/emergencies/2010/01/help-not-hinder-haiti/ - I think it’s the first time I’ve seen a charity make the point so explicitly and publicly.
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Would it be possible for whoever to did the design to also do the layout for this? The style can go in the main .css, otherwise it could interfere with any future layout tweaks of the site.
I like the idea, I just don’t like the potential future work of having to go update N signatures when the main site styles are tweaked.
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Example of poor decision making under pressure (from game show)
To save folks from Googling it: https://mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae5_3_3.pdf (PDF file, 15 pages)
When signing up, I was told the password I tried to use was too long (I have unique, randomly generated, passwords for each site I use). so I generated a < 20 chars password instead—however, password length limits around this size suggest that the site might be storing the passwords as plain text, rather than only storing a salted hash of the password.
So I was wondering, if that’s the case here?
[Link] Skeptics Stack Exchange
What are some examples of recent progress in AI?
In several of Elizer’s talks, such as this one, he’s mentioned that AI research has been progressing at around the expected rate for problems of similar difficultly. He also mentioned that we’ve reached around the intelligence level of a lizard so far.
Ideally I’d like to have some examples I can give to people when they say things like “AI is never going to work”—the only examples I’ve been able to come up with so far have been AI in games, but they don’t seem to think that counts because “it’s just a game”.
The Roomba is an example that seems to get a bit more respect (although it seems like a much simpler problem than many game AIs to me), but after that I pretty much run out of examples. Maybe I’m just not thinking hard enough because a lot of AI isn’t called AI when it becomes mainstream?
Examples that are more ‘geeky’ would also be good for me, even if they would be dismissed by non-geeky people I meet.
For those who haven’t heard the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUQn0HhGEk
Is it possible for you to give an example of this works in practice? I’m curios what type of things you would note down.
It sounds like a useful idea worth trying out, but I’m having trouble seeing how I would start using it.
Did he give a reason? Just wondering if you’re “not famous enough” for him to risk losing to you.
For example, if we started a human-level AGI tomorrow, it’s ability to revise itself would be hugely limited by our slow and expensive infrastructure (e.g. manufacturing the new circuits, building the mainframe extensions, supplying them with power, debugging the system).
This suggests that he see the limiting factor for AI to be hardware, however I’ve heard people argue that we probably already have the hardware needed for human-level AI if we get the software right (and I’m pretty sure that was before things like cloud computing were so easily available)
I wonder how likely he thinks it is that a single organisation today (maybe Google?) already has the hardware required to run a human-level AI and the same speed as the human brain. Assuming we magically solved all the software problems.
You can find his “Reading Yudkowsky” series at http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13052
Good question. I have a recurring direct donation set-up, but maybe donating via the Facebook page will make it more interesting for my friends to have a deeper look (and maybe donate).
Does anyone know what % of the donation via the causes app goes to the charity? I’m guessing it’s not 100%, so I’m wondering if that x% is worth it to have it announced on Facebook. Although I could just announce it myself, I think I’ll do that next time my donation happens.
Is the iPhone sufficiently awesome to justify its high price? Are there good low-cost smartphones? Ios or android?
My first question would be: how do you intend to use the device?
The two apps you mentioned are also available on Android, and I’m very happy with Evernote on my HTC Desire HD (I don’t use Toodledo). So if your main use would be those apps along with the typical phone stuff (calls/text message/email/web browsing) then an Android device should be fine for you.
However, a high-end Android device gets close to the price range of an iPhone.
It can still be done online, e.g. Google+ Hangouts are an example of live group interaction (up to 10 people) that seems to be fairly popular.
The experience still isn’t as rich as in-person meeting, but it’s a big step up from pre-recorded video.
That seems likely to me.
I enjoyed this post a lot, and I’ve shared with several other people that I think would also like it (and spend the time to read it). But it did take me a while to get to get through, I made coffee at least twice while reading it. I think it was almost 2 hours from opening the article to getting to the end. Not all of that time was spent reading—as well as getting coffee, I paused several times to digest what I’d read so far. However, it was still a lot longer than I’d normally spend on a single post.
On your Android phone, open ‘Market.’
Search for ‘Anki’.
Install the ‘AnkiDroid Flashcards’ app.
Only makes a slight difference, but you can also install apps via the Market website, so you can give a direct link to the AnkiDroid Flashcards app. However, it does depend on the version of Android you’re running for remote installs.
Text is faster than speech, but if the video isn’t important (e.g. with BHTV) you can listen to them during times that you couldn’t read. Such as driving, or walking.
I listen to a lot of podcasts on my way to and from work, and it effectively doesn’t use extra time in my day—I’d be travelling anyway, so I might as well make good use of the time.
This is almost always the case with warning labels (such as the silica gel example), I don’t recall ever seeing a warning label that also told you why it was warning you.
This reminds of a recent post over at Meteuphoric: Don’t warn nonspecifically!