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doctorstupid

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    Comment #21001789

    But people do actually speak like ads these days.

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    Comment #20572676

    In operation it sounds a bit like a pachinko parlor. Imagine if pachinko machines performed a useful computation, allowing the parlors to be server farms powered by gamblers.

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    Comment #20549998

    I didn't know that the shape of the hexagonal pencil has ancient roots.

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    Comment #20504642

    What's this "Pre-AGI" arrogance? Why are they so certain that it "will scale to AGI"? Is it an attempt at branding, or have they forgotten that AI is a global effort? And do people…

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    Comment #20400768

    Perhaps genetic replication did emerge multiple times on Earth, but always to the same solution which had the highest probability?

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    Comment #20163051

    But democracies are capable of producing such leaders when required, as England did for the Second World War.

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    Comment #20137243

    Strongly encrypted private communications are already effectively banned in Australia.

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    Comment #19690011

    Whilst possibly overwhelming or discomforting, walking through Donki gives an honest display of consumerism, and manages to make it exciting. Like Walmart, it's essentially an incr…

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    Comment #19631833

    Don't it's no fun you'll get space sickness trust me.

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    Comment #19605458

    Who is to say that society has a body dysmorphic disorder? Are governments such trusted doctors? Should a government control a society's self-image with an airbrush? If one doesn't…

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    Comment #19603625

    When you don't like what you see in the mirror, it's easiest to just blame the mirror.

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    Comment #19448727

    Must the training be done in their cloud?

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    Comment #18706770

    No, in response to things like WhatsApp the Australian government just passed a bill enabling it to force companies to create backdoors to encrypted communications.

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    Comment #18638620

    I now call him Backdoor Bill.

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    Comment #18525506

    You're comparing a social credit system to a financial credit system. Your hospital doesn't care who your friends are.

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    Comment #18291057

    Why don't you start the trend now? Please post here your personal details.

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    Comment #17246004

    People always seem to miss the point of that joke, which is that the physical enforcement of the law can be readily used to persuade people into surrendering encryption keys.

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    Comment #17098959

    I would be surprised if this isn't dependent on the listener's accent.

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    Comment #16938596

    In this case the cliché brand identity is the jeans and t-shirt combo. Does hip branding not make a language seem juvenile? You talk about serious image, but surely you can't find …

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    Comment #16755686

    What if it only had to model a single mind?

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    Comment #16713431

    Slow down and process the metaphor.

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    Comment #16507579

    This isn't about western power, it's about western values being protected in the west. I'm sure that people wouldn't be so concerned if China kept its censorship within its borders…

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    Comment #16507341

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-04/australian-sovereignty...

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    Comment #16372230

    At least you weren't just passively consuming. As monkmartinez might say, you were making the decisions and interacting with the physical world. If you wanted fun you had to make i…