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If Google trusts their AI that much, I hope they make the precognitive step of replacing their CEO with an AI. Other companies will and survive, whereas the Google AI will never recorrect itself and subsidize their stock at an exponential level.
Open a $100 bank account for him, login, and then take it to small claims court so you can buy a better laptop for him.
That is really cool!
What do people think of BayesDB being used for the same thing?:
"BayesDB, which is open source and in use by organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan, lets users who lack statistics training understand the probable implications of data by writing queries in a simple, SQL-like language."[0]
Check out BayesDB if you have not already[1]!
[0] https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/vikash-mansinghka-10-06-20... [1]: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/software/bayesdb/
Understanding bad jokes like my life. Poor Blaine the Monorail.
You need to apologize in your head. You have to talk about how sorry you are in your head. If you are going through something, you have to apologize for it in your head. If you have trouble apologizing in your head, for whatever reason, just write down the apology on a piece of paper.
I apologize all the time out loud. For my whole life, I have almost never apologized in my head. I like apologizing out loud when I am wrong or have insulted, because I see it as a chance at righting a wrong. But until recently I have never apologized in my head. Not because I don't like doing it, but because of some sort of mental block that affects my ability to form an inner monologue.
An 'inner universe' empty of thought and apologies is a huge personal liability. Trust me.
Just google what I quoted and have some imagination.
Seems like a spiritual successor to "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware"[0].
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-...
I just want to say I have come to two conclusions while considering this:
0). The Roman empire, despite being so large and literate, has almost no financial books that we read today. Why did a Roman not invent "the invisible hand"?
1). How on earth did the Romans not invent steampower?
2). Is the most common multiverse government a Roman one?
I have always wondered if Snowden is a CIA plant against the NSA. I mean, he was vouched for by the CIA and worked for them and then he transferred. I mean, his technical feats are social engineering and Sharepoint. And now everyone talks about the NSA spying on us, and nothing about the CIA. My weird opinion is that the CIA is paranoid of the NSA and wants to lead us into some mentat-lead future trajectory a machine cannot know of.
“Look at me, I am CIA and measure intelligence by the ability to trick people and I click on the wrong ‘X’ button when closing an advertisement, which means I am tricked by javascript libraries”.
"We already know the squares surrounding our hit are eliminated, so let’s pick the next square by only looking at the probability scores for the squares that weren’t already eliminated."
Yet the next pick is a square next to the hit. Huh?
There are thousands of miles of tunnels beneath the continental United States...
Abandoned mine shaft, subway systems, unused service routes, and deserted mine shafts
Many have no known purpose at all.
Habitica[0] is free and a semi-idle RPG basically, it's pretty cool. Also has a slick iOS app.
When Koreans invent easy to use technology the Japanese say "easy enough for a Korean".
I see this as an early example of BEAM robotics[0].
Okay, but when I claim that Dwarf Fortress teaches you how to manage artificial complexity of Japanese electronics people still get upset.
If I wanted to work on Serenity OS, how long does it take to compile?
If you are interested in the M1 neural engine, I highly recommend you check out this[0].
[0] https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/master/accel/ane
I have always thought it is hysterical that there are street drugs (MDMA, Ketamine) that have an immediate impact on emotions, yet the global medical establishment only supports drugs that take 2-4 weeks to 'kick in' with a very slight change that a substantial amount of patients do not even get. What is going on when we measure competency that way.
The Talos Principle is really good.
I would invest in something that would have an amplified impact, but probably no benefit for me.
Personally, something that would really help me, is that I make very irrational stupid decisions and waste time. I would like to create some piece of software that prevents that. Something that prompts me, with messages like "What should you be doing?" or helps me make decisions.
Also, I would like it if it presented news articles that are not obviously biased, and then you have a quiz that asks questions about if you know what the bias was, or if the conclusion of the article was correct.
If I was paid to read massive amounts of repetitive English with only 25 keywords besides nouns you are darn right I would setup syntax highlighting.
Performance: Computing pi to a billion as quickly as possible
Real time guarantee: When a hook for an event is called it transfers all computation to that call within a time limit predictably and deterministically
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Abstract:
The nature of reality has been a central concern of philosophy and the social sciences, but since the proliferation of social media, psychological operations have taken on greater visibility and significance in political action. ‘Fake news’ and micro-targeted and deceptive advertising in elections and votes has brought the tenuous character of political reality to the fore. The affordances of the Internet, World Wide Web and social media have enabled users to be mobilised to varying degrees of awareness for propaganda and disinformation campaigns both as producers and spreaders of content and as generators of data for profiling and targeting. This article will argue that social media platforms and the broader political economy of the Internet create the possibilities for online interactions and targeting which enable form of political intervention focused on the destabilisation of perceptions of reality and recruit users in the construction of new politically useful realities.
Edited it, I wrote incorrectly. I know other countries have created digital currencies, I am trying to say they are trying to become the first massive nation dependent on their own.
I answered this on Quora:
--- What does this quote mean: "Questions are a burden to others; answers, a prison for oneself"? ---
It means that there is knowledge which cannot be shared. Questions are a burden, because others cannot tell you the truth, and upon understanding the truth you realize you cannot tell anyone. In my mind, it is a very astute and oblique way of referencing a world-wide conspiracy.
In “The Prisoner Puzzle” Patrick Mcgoohan states that he believes that technology is advancing faster than humanity can. I originally thought this was a luddite view, and confused me quite deeply, as I believe in creating a true strong AI, even if it sees us darkly. But then I realized he was referencing technology being used to manipulate one another, with which I agree completely.
Well, the memory of her being good at git will not be a memory that appears when I meet her again without really trying to access it, but the memory still exists. It's the change in my opinion that disappears entirely - as if the priors for my beliefs are getting reset.
I am glad to have found someone suffering from the same issue. I have been stuck like this since the beginning of high school I think.
I live in the moment in the worst way possible as well. I am not looking looking at myself critically either. I do believe active rumination of conversations, events and what you learn is incredibly important, but for me I cannot do it whatsoever. Recalling a conversation in detail is almost impossible, it is like my brain is there to just hear specific things I can act on, such as "Jira ticket". I suffer from aphantasia as well as you. I think media, entertainment and browsing the internet has become a substitute for thinking, as it is certainly true for me. I do not listen or read critically. To me, that means constantly asking yourself what that person is really trying to say, what are they trying to lead you to believe, what assumptions are they making, and most importantly why they are saying it. I understand critical thinking and listening can be done, but I am just so passive in my thinking. I am definitely a digital addict as well, and I find myself going to ycombinator and reddit without any conscious thoughts, it is just a motorized habit.
I have not thought of doing daily attempts at introspection. I remember reading about how for some people their nightly habit was getting in bed and replaying the days events, and I had never thought of that until I read it. Usually I just zone out as much as possible trying to fall asleep immediately. I am a strong believer as you are that the brain is a muscle, and that what you do not practice you do not better in, at least when it comes to recollecting. I remember reading about how people revisited memories that made them happy, and I never do that. It makes me feel terrible to think how I could have been focusing on good memories, instead of seeming to have some primordial fear of ever accessing my autobiographical memory.
I know what you mean when it comes to remembering things people tell you. Someone I know used to say that if you forget it means you do not care, and it just made me feel horrible all the time. I have forgotten about many important things that I care about, and it pains me deeply.
I hope you find out your own solution to the issue.
I am functioning at a certain level, but I am certainly not proud of the level I am at. It is not a matter of accepting my quirks, it is that I wish to understand them as well.
Than you for that link. It seems like that is quite interesting and relevant, as from that article I learned about the terms episodic (autobiographical) and semantic (factual) memory. I have terrible episodic memory, but my semantic memory seems to be okay for technical subjects.
I did get an MRI, but nothing stood out and I have not sought the opinion of another.
I think that my issue is not my brain, but my mind. Of what little I know of the brain, I am a strong believer in the importance of the environment and 'neurons that fire together wire together'. Which leads me to the belief that normal people must spend a lot of time replaying events after they happened in their mind, which is something I cannot do. Can I remember I met Bob and we talked? Yes. Can I remember any details of what we talked about? No. I cannot replay a conversation in my head whatsoever. If you and I talked about programming, I would forget everything you said but might remember you mentioned a cool library, but I will forget its name.
I have to admit, I just get depressed when I start to take notes. I feel like these are basic things I am supposed to remember, and I tell myself I can remember them, and I should, and I just need to put the effort in. If I have a meeting, I take bullet point notes because I cannot write quickly, and after getting in front of a computer I try to recreate as much as I can from the bullet points. If my boss tells me to do something, I have to hope it is in written communication so I can refer back to it completely. I am basically making every excuse to not take the small steps like proper note-taking and doing Anki to stay sharp and generally just do not wish to think about myself.
When I do take notes, I notice I have a deep seated fear to read them again. Something about reading my own writing revolts me.
I discovered Kudzu[0] and alcoholism a while ago and hope it might help somebody here or their friend or loved one. Kudzu apparently is an amazing drug for helping people quit drinking. I hope if anybody here has trouble, or knows someone with trouble, they try introducing it to them if it makes sense to them. Here is a BBC article[1], but they only did 500mg instead of 2g. Apparently it works by helping you feel drunk faster, speeding up the time delay effect and thus making you not want to drink as much.