Software-only machines are qualitatively different than machines with paper trails, since they can be tampered with en masse by a small number of adversaries without needing physical access at voting time; and because…
It's politics. He's saying it because it's an effective thing to say, not because he actually didn't know health care is complex.
So your philosophy is, "I only do healthy things if they're also painful"? That doesn't seem productive.
You’re right. I didn’t read the paper very carefully, and was myopically focused on the emulating-a-real-brain AI strategy. As in, let’s slice up a real human brain, map the neurons and synapses, and then simulate them…
Let's look at the most important section of the paper. He estimates the processing power of the brain: The human brain contains about 10^11 neurons. Each neuron has about 5 • 10^3 synapses, and signals are transmitted…
Well, if it's possible to build a human level intelligence, it's probably possible to build an intelligence that's much like a very smart human except it runs 100x faster. And in that case, somebody with sufficient…
That's exactly why it's called a deflationary spiral: once you're in it, it's hard to get out even with aggressive monetary policy.
> My general impression is that more and stricter regulations in an industry is usually (though not always) a bad thing for consumers in that industry In cable internet the average consumer has only one or two potential…
This is astonishingly high quality for pop science. It deserves more upvotes!
You're complaining about the system... in response to a powerful instance of the system working correctly? What?
No, booking a ride with the intention to cancel is definitely wrong. My point is that Uber employees aren't doing that frequently enough to affect Lyft at all, so this can't be a plan on Uber's part. It sounds like some…
Lyft says that Uber employees have canceled 5000 rides since last October. That's like $100k in lost revenue -- it's nothing. Definitely not some big plan by Uber to undermine Lyft.
Uh... which of Uber's actions here are unethical? Aggressively poaching drivers from Lyft seems all right to me. That's just healthy competition. And this stuff about wasting Lyft's money by booking and canceling rides…
Your comment makes no sense. GDP is slightly down compared to 2013. Why are you talking about 2008? The article implies that the main driver here is reduced consumer spending from a harsh winter.
If the fixed income came from newly-printed money then yes, it would cause inflation. If it came from taxes then no, it would not cause inflation in and of itself. In both cases, it would increase the purchasing power…
Other industries are deeply unlike tech, so comparing salary trends would be meaningless. A sibling comment suggests that we look at salaries in tech companies that didn't collude. But that doesn't work either, because…
If, in my nonfiction book, I write, "Under normal circumstances, water boils at 80 degrees celsius," then I am a liar, and there is nothing I can say after the fact that will excuse my behavior. Malcolm Gladwell often…
Right now people avoid self-employment because if they get seriously sick it will bankrupt them. Under the new law it won't. That's the argument. The premiums you pay when you're healthy are beside the point.
If nobody's willing to do the job for $6K then why would the salary of the job drop to $6K? Nothing you've written makes any sense.
Citation? I really like the idea of basic income but $2700/month per person seems absurdly high. I don't know why any political faction would try for so much.
1) you might as well not give any money to anybody, because relatively no ones wealth will change Blatantly untrue -- under basic income poor people will see their relative purchasing power increase, and rich people…
This is an incoherent argument. The people who successfully make money have a larger portion of it taken away by the government and given to people who don't make money. They recoup their losses by raising prices and…
Citation?
I love this article, but: what can a practicing math teacher take away from it? How can you apply this stuff if you still have to teach a standard curriculum? I'm really asking -- my friend is about to start as a…
But then these people look at history, and see this giant pile of anecdotes, and all the sudden it's the Middle Ages again and we can hermenutic our way to wisdom by staring at it really hard My whole life is a pile of…
Software-only machines are qualitatively different than machines with paper trails, since they can be tampered with en masse by a small number of adversaries without needing physical access at voting time; and because…
It's politics. He's saying it because it's an effective thing to say, not because he actually didn't know health care is complex.
So your philosophy is, "I only do healthy things if they're also painful"? That doesn't seem productive.
You’re right. I didn’t read the paper very carefully, and was myopically focused on the emulating-a-real-brain AI strategy. As in, let’s slice up a real human brain, map the neurons and synapses, and then simulate them…
Let's look at the most important section of the paper. He estimates the processing power of the brain: The human brain contains about 10^11 neurons. Each neuron has about 5 • 10^3 synapses, and signals are transmitted…
Well, if it's possible to build a human level intelligence, it's probably possible to build an intelligence that's much like a very smart human except it runs 100x faster. And in that case, somebody with sufficient…
That's exactly why it's called a deflationary spiral: once you're in it, it's hard to get out even with aggressive monetary policy.
> My general impression is that more and stricter regulations in an industry is usually (though not always) a bad thing for consumers in that industry In cable internet the average consumer has only one or two potential…
This is astonishingly high quality for pop science. It deserves more upvotes!
You're complaining about the system... in response to a powerful instance of the system working correctly? What?
No, booking a ride with the intention to cancel is definitely wrong. My point is that Uber employees aren't doing that frequently enough to affect Lyft at all, so this can't be a plan on Uber's part. It sounds like some…
Lyft says that Uber employees have canceled 5000 rides since last October. That's like $100k in lost revenue -- it's nothing. Definitely not some big plan by Uber to undermine Lyft.
Uh... which of Uber's actions here are unethical? Aggressively poaching drivers from Lyft seems all right to me. That's just healthy competition. And this stuff about wasting Lyft's money by booking and canceling rides…
Your comment makes no sense. GDP is slightly down compared to 2013. Why are you talking about 2008? The article implies that the main driver here is reduced consumer spending from a harsh winter.
If the fixed income came from newly-printed money then yes, it would cause inflation. If it came from taxes then no, it would not cause inflation in and of itself. In both cases, it would increase the purchasing power…
Other industries are deeply unlike tech, so comparing salary trends would be meaningless. A sibling comment suggests that we look at salaries in tech companies that didn't collude. But that doesn't work either, because…
If, in my nonfiction book, I write, "Under normal circumstances, water boils at 80 degrees celsius," then I am a liar, and there is nothing I can say after the fact that will excuse my behavior. Malcolm Gladwell often…
Right now people avoid self-employment because if they get seriously sick it will bankrupt them. Under the new law it won't. That's the argument. The premiums you pay when you're healthy are beside the point.
If nobody's willing to do the job for $6K then why would the salary of the job drop to $6K? Nothing you've written makes any sense.
Citation? I really like the idea of basic income but $2700/month per person seems absurdly high. I don't know why any political faction would try for so much.
1) you might as well not give any money to anybody, because relatively no ones wealth will change Blatantly untrue -- under basic income poor people will see their relative purchasing power increase, and rich people…
This is an incoherent argument. The people who successfully make money have a larger portion of it taken away by the government and given to people who don't make money. They recoup their losses by raising prices and…
Citation?
I love this article, but: what can a practicing math teacher take away from it? How can you apply this stuff if you still have to teach a standard curriculum? I'm really asking -- my friend is about to start as a…
But then these people look at history, and see this giant pile of anecdotes, and all the sudden it's the Middle Ages again and we can hermenutic our way to wisdom by staring at it really hard My whole life is a pile of…