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    Comment #12021997

    What's got energy expenditure to do with logic? Isn't what you talk about Bayesian Inference? > while one scrambles up a nearby tree I'm not sure that is just a nervous reflex or t…

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    Comment #12020099

    People have an OK grasp of formal logic, that is the formalism. It's learned at an early age, it's prerequisite for deductive (or inductive?) learning actually. Most might lack the…

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    Comment #12020069

    > to arrive at their preferred judgment first > then ... to justify their rulings Well, unless justification and judgment aren't pretty much synonym, that's a contradiction? The su…

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    Comment #12019133

    the emergency line is the stressor I ment.

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    Comment #12019081

    I don't even get it and so may the downvoters

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    Comment #12013610

    apparently, for some, many even, this puts them under some stress and pressure, socially and organisatoric.

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    Comment #11984574

    Extrapolated from their numbers, in 2045 it will be an unbelievable 16 billion, 2 bookings a night per human. All that vacationing will lead to vacation fornication and generate th…

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    Comment #11958653

    That's probably why they have John Carmack on board. Half Life was a mod to his Quake 2. They had a friendly, cooperative relation so far, so I wouldn't worry.

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    Comment #11958641

    > There's only one App store on iOS vs Android. maybe I misunderstand but Adroid is targeted by many app shops.

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    Comment #11947019

    reminds me of this comic http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=4141

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    Comment #11941660

    It reminds me all too much of genetic programming, but I know the latter almost only by name.

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    Comment #11941652

    On a datacenter the size of the middle of nowhere.

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    Comment #11941633

    > imagine trying to reverse engineer a modern CPU vs merely designing one I can't really imagine the latter to begin with.

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    Comment #11941612

    > why not the converse In that regard, the term superhuman-AI is used.

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    Comment #11941595

    Capitalism is rather a human worth maximizer. It's not a money maximizer.

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    Comment #11941559

    In terms of hormonal emotions, which would be the most direct sense of value that we have is completely different. Love might feedback into aggression, but they are very different.…

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    Comment #11914633

    Many do. Foundations of mathematics is a specialized but deeply philosophical topic. Many would be interested orthogonal to maths, too.

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    Comment #11914621

    > When you develop a fully native app you do it pretty much in one place. On iOS you’re in Xcode, for Android you’re in Android Studio. With React Native you have a terminal (with …

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    Comment #11914614

    It's supposed to be distracting, but moodlifting, seeing the post exposes essentially negative oppoinions. Of course they are devoid of content.

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    Comment #11888804

    If I could downvote you, I would. That's probably why I'm not allowed to. :)

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    Comment #11870017

    I'm currently in a project to build a line track driving car with a bit of image processing, physics and control theory. It'll be written in C++ and openCV. This link is highly of …

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    Comment #11835581

    > I'm a physics graduate, an amateur astrophotgrapher, a pilot with an expired license, and I can identify aircraft, satellites, and so-forth - but some stuff I can't explain. You …

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    Comment #11803293

    > Most of us spent years at each other's throats in a Lord of the Flies type environment, so it's natural for this behavior to transfer to the internet. You are shifting the perspe…