Knowing Taylor series can save your life

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by nickb • 18 years ago

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wallflower• 18 years ago

I sometimes joke with my diabetic friend that if we lived in the Middle Ages we'd be sent into the fields to farm and we'd die pretty quickly (weak, not able to produce) but this story gives me pause.

eyudkowsky• 18 years ago

Clearly, they don't make bandits like they used to.

aswanson2• 18 years ago

Completely off topic Eliezer, but have you researched the possiblity of Sneaky AI in your studies of Friendly AI?

jey2• 18 years ago

What's "Sneaky AI"? Google isn't helping me here.

("Friendly AI" refers to a technical definition of "Friendly", not the colloquial sense of "an amiable person".)

hugh• 18 years ago

It seems they were anti-communist vigilantes rather than ordinary "bandits".

Anti-communist vigilantes who respect mathematics? We need more of those in our universities.

Knowing Taylor series can save your life

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