> But at a moment's notice their allegiance can switch. Is that true, though? I don't expect that the individual biases of officers or judges, or the institutional biases of the police or immigration departments, can…
> it seems pretty close to police state levels of power, corruption and control. And: which country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?
I would expect that the NSA-like orgs have access to the data about where we travel, your spending habits, your comments on Reddit or HN, etc., etc. Basically, a profile on each of us. It might not be a collated…
Yeah, I remember reading that a study found that white and black youth used marijuana at roughly equal rates, but black youth were about 4x as likely to be arrested for it. Due to differences in the # of stops, then…
There are times where you want to check for existence before fetching a key-value pair, and there are times where you want to automatically throw an error if the value doesn't exist. Both have valid use cases. It's…
... have we? Can AI handle driving yet?
This is probably the boldest claim in the entire comments section, considering we're only in 2026. Compare 1926 to 1999, and how technology advanced in that time. Radio wasn't widespread in 1926, nuclear fission hadn't…
> Humans name their vehicles, so they're definitely going to name their $10k-$20k house bot huh. I can only think of one friend I've ever known who named their car. Anyways, not saying I necessarily disagree with the…
> at parties, and even at the dinner table all looking at their phones This is very different from what I see. At coffee shops and on trains, sure, people are working or on their phones. But at dinner and parties, at…
Isn't the modern economy already a runaway improvement? First writing and agriculture, the stone age became copper became bronze became iron became steel, and one Revolution after another - agricultural 1 and 2,…
I don't know of anyone who's suggesting we kill all the mosquitos. Even if we killed all the human-sucking species, that'd still only be 3% of the ~3500 different species.
or... apply some science? Of the ~3500 mosquito species, only about 3% drink human blood. And many of those are invasive in the areas we care about.
Maybe better to put it as "emotionally unhealthy relationships" are costly to society. Singlehood is also less economically 'optimal' than partnerships, and divorce combines some of both.
> You should try AFK dating sometime, it's even worse! Out of all the women I've met, only 0.00000001218% been interested enough to date and marry me, and I didn't even touch any of the apps! Brutal. Sampling bias. How…
> You're telling men to use "conventionally" unattractive women as target practice, implying they will be more receptive to attention, presumably due to a general lack of it. Then your advice is to leave these women…
> Any ideas? Unpopular, maybe, but what about the normal reasons? The researchers are looking to make a name for themselves, and/or they genuinely care about AI advancement.
> Something needs to be done about this. Well, I'm sold. Let's nuke the moon
I mean, for what it's worth, when I need to multiply two numbers, I mentally call the "multiply numbers" algorithm stored in my head, then sit down and work through the process on paper. I've got no problem with an AI…
I mean.. the fact that the "low-hanging fruit" is a Millennium Prize is still pretty impressive. (And yes, I know that they solved the 'easy' form of the NS problem. It's still pretty damn impressive)
/chiming in Eh, it's not obvious to me. A lot of DL NNs generalize well, meaning that they learn whatever the underlying pattern to the data is, and then can accurately reproduce answers that are outside of the training…
> Fundamentally the problem with living forever goes beyond billionaires. People get stuck in their ways of thinking > Philosophically, living forever may be corrupt by nature Sure, if people get stuck in their ways…
Right - I'm saying that you can greatly improve productivity / reduce employment while still having humans in the loop. We've already seen it happen with farming, from 1900 -> present.
eh, farming still requires humans in the loop, only <1% of the number that it used to
I mean, wanting billionaires to not live forever (read: wanting power structures to not become excessively entrenched) is a pretty different thing. I'd even be fine with people who are billionaires living forever, so…
> I normally assume people make mistakes. I don't believe this is a good explanation for news publications, university press releases, politicians, etc. because those are organizations with agenda, and commit…
> But at a moment's notice their allegiance can switch. Is that true, though? I don't expect that the individual biases of officers or judges, or the institutional biases of the police or immigration departments, can…
> it seems pretty close to police state levels of power, corruption and control. And: which country has the highest incarceration rate in the world?
I would expect that the NSA-like orgs have access to the data about where we travel, your spending habits, your comments on Reddit or HN, etc., etc. Basically, a profile on each of us. It might not be a collated…
Yeah, I remember reading that a study found that white and black youth used marijuana at roughly equal rates, but black youth were about 4x as likely to be arrested for it. Due to differences in the # of stops, then…
There are times where you want to check for existence before fetching a key-value pair, and there are times where you want to automatically throw an error if the value doesn't exist. Both have valid use cases. It's…
... have we? Can AI handle driving yet?
This is probably the boldest claim in the entire comments section, considering we're only in 2026. Compare 1926 to 1999, and how technology advanced in that time. Radio wasn't widespread in 1926, nuclear fission hadn't…
> Humans name their vehicles, so they're definitely going to name their $10k-$20k house bot huh. I can only think of one friend I've ever known who named their car. Anyways, not saying I necessarily disagree with the…
> at parties, and even at the dinner table all looking at their phones This is very different from what I see. At coffee shops and on trains, sure, people are working or on their phones. But at dinner and parties, at…
Isn't the modern economy already a runaway improvement? First writing and agriculture, the stone age became copper became bronze became iron became steel, and one Revolution after another - agricultural 1 and 2,…
I don't know of anyone who's suggesting we kill all the mosquitos. Even if we killed all the human-sucking species, that'd still only be 3% of the ~3500 different species.
or... apply some science? Of the ~3500 mosquito species, only about 3% drink human blood. And many of those are invasive in the areas we care about.
Maybe better to put it as "emotionally unhealthy relationships" are costly to society. Singlehood is also less economically 'optimal' than partnerships, and divorce combines some of both.
> You should try AFK dating sometime, it's even worse! Out of all the women I've met, only 0.00000001218% been interested enough to date and marry me, and I didn't even touch any of the apps! Brutal. Sampling bias. How…
> You're telling men to use "conventionally" unattractive women as target practice, implying they will be more receptive to attention, presumably due to a general lack of it. Then your advice is to leave these women…
> Any ideas? Unpopular, maybe, but what about the normal reasons? The researchers are looking to make a name for themselves, and/or they genuinely care about AI advancement.
> Something needs to be done about this. Well, I'm sold. Let's nuke the moon
I mean, for what it's worth, when I need to multiply two numbers, I mentally call the "multiply numbers" algorithm stored in my head, then sit down and work through the process on paper. I've got no problem with an AI…
I mean.. the fact that the "low-hanging fruit" is a Millennium Prize is still pretty impressive. (And yes, I know that they solved the 'easy' form of the NS problem. It's still pretty damn impressive)
/chiming in Eh, it's not obvious to me. A lot of DL NNs generalize well, meaning that they learn whatever the underlying pattern to the data is, and then can accurately reproduce answers that are outside of the training…
> Fundamentally the problem with living forever goes beyond billionaires. People get stuck in their ways of thinking > Philosophically, living forever may be corrupt by nature Sure, if people get stuck in their ways…
Right - I'm saying that you can greatly improve productivity / reduce employment while still having humans in the loop. We've already seen it happen with farming, from 1900 -> present.
eh, farming still requires humans in the loop, only <1% of the number that it used to
I mean, wanting billionaires to not live forever (read: wanting power structures to not become excessively entrenched) is a pretty different thing. I'd even be fine with people who are billionaires living forever, so…
> I normally assume people make mistakes. I don't believe this is a good explanation for news publications, university press releases, politicians, etc. because those are organizations with agenda, and commit…