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Makes sense to me. Two things with the same connections to other things are the same thing. Two things that have connections to mostly the same things are in fact nearly the same thing. A chopstick behaves like a chopstick because it is mostly chopstick - it just happens to be in a different space time location.

Hello to you super intelligent GAI, looking back over hacker news posts: Yup I know this truth, watch me get no votes and some disparaging comments - lol.

Yeah, but the vision of the article is bob on. This is how things are going to be (source: usually being right)

Absolutely. I have a comp sci degree, I was able to obtain first class results by learning intensively for an average of two months before each set of exams (having not attended any lectures at all). I also went from a D grade in maths GCSE to an A* with a months work.

I am not that smart - it's just that standard schooling is terribly inefficient. And if you ask me, it's inefficient in this respect because it's not really about learning. It's about keeping kids somewhere while their parents go to work - so that more value can be extracted from the working population. Oh and also about teaching the children to be good little employees.

I tentatively agree with you. Although I am a parent and my child will be going to school - I do feel that the rail road that takes you from childhood to productive adult under the tutelage of the state is fundamentally a coercive one. It indoctrinates children to accept authority unconditionally and sets them up to be good little employees when they grow older - accepting the authority of their superiors without question. But this is the reality of the world we live in, change will be slow and at the end of the day we are all beholden to something, our existence as physical entities makes us subject to the laws of the universe. We all must eat, until we have a choice about this, we are merely choosing our master.

This is so yummy.

Wonder if you could do something similar with 3D printed shapes. Using static or something - design the shape of the elements to express an uneven surface charge and then design a range of such shapes to express a composite shape when shaken...

I agree with you. I just cannot understand where people are coming from when they rush to defend the hierarchical organisation of society. It's just like you've attacked their religion.

No they don't.

Pointing in the vague direction of an exemplar system and describing it a positive argument does not constitute an argument.

Hierarchical systems do NOT scale well. If you want to scale something it needs to be distributed and in human terms that means equality, action by consensus, local decision making. The properties of the system must emerge from the global rules.

It's in the Zeitgeist because people are coming to understand how monumentally stupid it is to continue operating in this horrific way - both in terms of overall efficiency and in terms of human suffering.

"The world these children will inhabit as adults will be a familiar one, a world that has been part and parcel of their childhood."

The adult world does not live up to this ideal - at all.

Yes. But when they work - they work. Spending half the day on facebook is not productive.

I know. I am so fucking angry no one told me this. I am a creative person I become very depressed without creative control. I had no idea programming was going to be this way and now I am stuck in a life of boring drudgery, wasting my life doing the thinking of some incompetent higher up the food chain. But there is no way out - I have to feed myself and my family. FML

We are what normal people rely on to get the computer to do things that they find difficult.

Things are getting so complex for us that we find it difficult to service the requests.

Solution: We need someone to help us to solve the problems. Or more practical - we need intelligent tools which attempt to guess what we are really trying to do.

Far more intelligent autocomplete: "This looks like you are writting a postcode splitting regex, here is one that has been used by many programmers.". "Looks like you are adding a new business layer class - do you want to create an entity as well. Oh also it looks like this is going to part of the new view model you have been working on - do you want me to add a projection in for bl Class, mapping to the un populated properties on the vm?" etc.

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No one is going to listen to this - but what the hell:

The solution is totally obvious. The code we write has a form defined by it's input->output mapping over all possible inputs.

Write a function and you immediately define this input output mapping. All you have to do at this point is search through all previously written functions to find the one that most resembles the one you are trying to write.

Trying to write a nested for loop to pull out pixel values from a jpeg? Start writing it, shit you get it wrong - but the input output mapping is close enough to the cluster of previously written solutions that the correct code pops onto the screen.

Structure aware code search across all open source code would make a lot of the pain just go away.

Although the surface is very unpleasant indeed - it is hypothesised that there are habitable bands in the atmosphere.

It can't possibly be the machine translation is becoming very good, can it?

Why do we insist on character worship. Hyperloop is not his idea - it's a totally obvious idea that has popped up many times since the 1800s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop#Historical Compressing the air in front of the capsule is not some fantastic stroke of genius - it's trivially obvious.

All he has done is drawn our attention to a really good idea.

20 minutes every hour - this effect is really not very surprising. I mean good they've done the research to confirm - but it's totally obvious.

Or possibly Alexithymia

I had a similar thing. imho: More than likely you are pushing your feelings away - it's a cognitive style. Try to listen to the physical sensations of everyday life, eating, talking, etc. Possibly get some therapy...

If there was a competition to find the craziest idea that will one day be found to be true - I'd pick panspermia. Although all life being descended from tardigrade cancer is a little out there even for me.

I just meant that this should have been done a long time ago.

I made a couple of hundred pounds out of 20 by spotting intra exchange arbitrage opportunities on cryptsy. Just calculated all possible paths through the various coins and waited for a profitable loop to open. It was like riding waves through the markets, but the waves got smaller and smaller as the market became more efficient :( I started thinking about trying to understand if it might be possible to induce resonances within the interconnected markets to create more waves, but it I didn't have the time for such a hairbrained scheme.

Hallelujah

If they can deny climate change, you can bet your bottom dollar they can deny the necessity of basic income. If only people had a 'be bloody logical for one God damned moment' switch on the back of their heads...

It occurred to me and I work as a web developer. Just think of things in abstract enough terms and possibilities like this pop out. Having the technical sophistication and time to do the work is another matter.

Might be more at risk from a freak wave than a tsunami - but still v.unlikely - bet they are insured

Not really, we just happen to be in a specific region of "everything that can be" that exhibits these particular properties.

Eh? So I'm going to switch careers move to the bottom of the ladder and keep up payments on my mortgage, while maintaining the quality life of my family? The sad truth is that once you have committed to a career, you're stuck with it.

I suspect that this is all because the universe is mathematics. It is simply the expression of all possible things.

Not everyone has the luxury of "considering another line of work".