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For anyone unfamiliar with this story: https://philosophy.williams.edu/files/Egan-Learning-to-Be-Me...

I believe this is it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/finger-haptics >This method depends on what’s called “referred sensation,” where stimulation of your body in one place gets felt in …

Economists aren't "obsessed with job creation". Politicians are.

>It's like Google found developer goodwill burdensome, and decided to pack it all up into container trucks and ship it all to Microsoft. Funny how that changes. If anyone told me i…

Judging from the fact that RIM (the makers of the Blackberry line of devices) is shown to have 39% of the market in that chart, this must've been quite a while ago indeed.

This sucks, but it seems likely that we've had the first victim of autopilot-induced inattentiveness. From the deceased's viral video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5rraWJq6E …

What a stupid joke.

>I wonder if AlphaGo has some specialized knowledge to handle ladders Yes. A representation of ladders is among the input features of its neural networks. https://gogameguru.com/i/…

>Demis says he certainly does not worry about a "terminator" or "ex machina" style scenario Neither does the Friendly AI crowd.

>Does a child need to look at billions of images to figure out what a chair or cat is? Of course! Not exclusively images of cats or chairs, but children have absolutely seen billio…

Mostly the latter, I believe. The human brain uses the incredible 20 Watts to achieve things that modern megawatt supercomputers aren't capable of.

The right to encrypt really should be the modern equivalent of the RKBA. The parallels in regards to defending against tyrannical government are stark.

Of _course_ I want specific titles.

Games.