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I made an online-dating profile on okcupid a couple of months ago. Here’s some stats: I can’t see exactly how many “likes” or swipes-right I’ve gotten because it just says 99+, but it’s safe to say that at least 100 women swiped right, and here’s how many times a women made the initial contact...

To me that sounds like a similar issue to the "stop button problem" in artificial general intelligence. If this machine has some sort of utility function associated with what it's supposed to do – deliver mail or for example – then you can code in a categorical imperative like "never harm a...

I kinda like that lol. If someone consistently talks like that, that's pretty cool

here's an example, at 08:26 ("China, US, ECK CETERA"): I think it's just due to people not looking up what "etc" actually stands for and just going with what it sort of sounds like when spoken verbally. Dunno why but it annoys the hell out of me

Exactly, dude.

to echo ZenRaden though, considering that money is just a medium of exchange, if money didn't matter it would either mean that nothing of value mattered or that we didn't have a medium of exchange and had to live in a barter economy. In the latter case I would live the exact same life except...

No matter what the codified laws of a society are based on, whether it's religion or something else, you are at the mercy of the people making the laws. If society decides that it should be legal to punch people in the face, it doesn't matter to you whether that justice system is potentially up...

What is up with people pronouncing "et cetera" as "eck cetera"? It sounds completely retarded. When I hear that shit I'm like Howard Hughes when he sees germs.

I would start vigorously masturbating to pictures of myself.

I would launch myself into space and explore space. A space monkey!

From what I have seen, the de facto leaders (as opposed to nominal leaders) are those who have the clearest vision, who have the competence in the given circumstances to tell what the exact next steps are, and who voice their opinion and clearly justify the opinions with facts. “Charisma”...

Let me say this though. I can understand the use of IQ the way it was originally used by the military, ie to identify people who are too dumb to do basic things. But when you get above a certain level, doing well in life and certain domains becomes all about other things like: having good...

I did an IQ test once and it said I won a free Nintendo Wii

I love people who talk really loudly on public transport. You just know these people were raised by some 85-IQ imbeciles who left their kids playing in the mud all day.

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the ability to talk to cats so that I can gather an army of cats and direct them to attack certain targets first target would be Cognisant

yeah the really hard part of any subject is usually when you arrive at the point where you have to apply all the theory in the real world. Any subject can become easy on paper by systematically understanding all its concepts and mechanics.

Brilliant.

Here you have moved onto something else – the reputation of scientists. If someone consistently publishes garbage research, that may be a reason to start ignoring them, yes. But that can happen to atheists and religious people alike. It has nothing to do with that scientist's religious beliefs...

No lol, that's not what the "whole peer review system is about". In fact one of the important points of it is to avoid what you are suggesting - argument from authority. That system is meant to assess papers purely based on their content as opposed to who wrote them. Besides, take Newton who was...

@Marbles I recently found that Alessandro Cortini guy and I have been pretty amazed by all his stuff, so atm I would recommend another one from him lol: another recent favorite: but also this genius thing:

some words of advice, don't react super-defensively and in lack of any iota of social grace any time someone isn't kissing your ass and agrees with you 100%. That way it won't look like you have a severe inferiority complex when it comes to formal fallacies. I didn't "accuse" you of anything, I...

That would probably be either inverse fallacy, base rate fallacy, or prosecutor's fallacy or similar. I.e. e.g. confusing 1) the probability of having a certain gender conditioned on being a pedophile with 2) the probability of being a pedophile conditioned on gender.

Tbh from my perspective sticking the ding dong into the vagina is the most boring part. It's all the intrigue that comes before that which is the coolest.

Measure theory in math and concurrent computing in comp science

Microsoft and everything they make is an abomination.

Tbh I think it’s naive, counterproductive and self-defeating to have a categorical view that school and educational establishments are useless. They have their negatives and positives. If one thinks that all you need is some online courses and self-teaching in order to master anything, that’s a...

Yup, the technique of dropping the “fascist” bomb started with Adorno and turned into a part of Alinsky’s more practical guide later on. And btw as to slave morality, I think it’s a result of the Marxist roots of the people who shaped most of the contemporary leftist-liberal language. In...

I think it shows that the concept of "tolerance" is inherently flawed and logically incoherent. And by virtue of being logically incoherent, it can be used and abused to serve whatever purpose one wishes, and this is what's been happening in liberal western countries for the past few decades...

Don't think I can compete with the inventiveness of mr_darker lol, but I do mostly stuff in the computational/statistical/machine-learning realm.

Super mario 64 That was a cool experience btw, I tried to play it recently after not having touched it since I was a little kid, and I remembered all the places and where to go and everything. Amazing that the brain stores stuff like that for such a long time. That must mean that either my...

I've smashed up a few computer keyboards and misc itmes up through the years, but that was mostly just for fun. Last one was very good, they keys were flying all over the place. But I could have chosen not to if I wanted to, it's just fun to express emotion physically sometimes. I don't do...

It feels like this;

Who cares about smell, man. I only use smell to check if I can re-use unwashed shirts.

That's a good point lol. I mean imagine standing next to a couple having sex and jerk off to that, that would be weird as hell. Also, considering that the man is usually physically bigger than the woman, what you mostly have on your screen is another naked dude.

like you said, those are not issues with capitalism but individual behavior and the moral values of the individuals. Freedom means people will act as individuals and not uniformly as per prescribed imperatives designed by bureaucrats. But that’s not to say laws should not exist; there’s an...

I think when people talk about “capitalism wants this and that”, they are forgetting that capitalism doesn’t want anything - the only fundamental principle of capitalism is your freedom to own things and allocate your resources whither you want. A system like communism infuses morality into the...

I dunno, I’m someone who can spend years drilling down in problems without ever committing to a finalized solution. By defining concrete plans with deadlines I force myself to arrive at a compromise between time and quality. It does become a problem however when other people don’t understand...

Initiating conversation, actively seeking out the opposite sex, escalating things sexually and romantically. Hey, I would have loved if things were perfectly equal, but certain biological and cultural facts prevent that. A biological fact is that the supply of dick is usually larger than then...

I see you're trying really hard to not understand anything I write. Suit yourself.

Yes.

Oh yes it enhances focus. You basically get all the good parts of the caffeine (alertness, focus) while the chamomile removes the jittery feeling, racing heartbeat etc. I recommend mixing green tea with chamomile (and perhaps your favorite sweetener). It actually tastes surprisingly good as well.

Caffeine and loads of it. You kinda reminded me that I’ve forgotten about L-theanine (a compound found in for example chamomile tea). I used to mix that with caffeine to get a really nice and steady focus. I also use nicotine. I was going to quit, but then I read that it enhances focus, so...

I don’t know about you folks but I cannot watch porn with men in it. First of all I don’t like looking at other dicks, and secondly men look stupid when they have sex.

My point was that the goal of algorithms mostly pertains to problems solved by this cortex. Whether or not it's easier to understand it physiologically is besides the point. It's not a myth. As it currently stands it's as sure a fact as 2+2=4. Your second statement also wrong because it's...

Here’s what I think is going on with people’s general (mis)conception of AI nowadays: we take a certain subset of human intelligence related to the neocortex (or whatever it’s called) - which is a very underdeveloped part of our brain viewed in light of the total history of evolution; this part...

tell her that you care about her and because you care about her you want her to know that if she aspires to be any good in music she should work harder. Just don’t say it like you know everything and she doesn’t; be a bit humble about it. I don’t know about you but when I find out that a...

In real life I don’t really argue with people unless something real is at stake (like when you have to make a decision with real consequences) because I know how little interest people have in reason and logic. And if I am forced to argue I simply use whatever tricks are necessary to come to a...

You can have a complicated algorithm which "learns" some set of moral principles from data, yes. You can even have it optimize its decisions ethically if you specify what to optimize and with what constraints. It will remain a mere algorithm, however – without any concept of morality of its own...