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Batman costume != “unexpected events”

> projects will create hundreds of permanent jobs See, the AI is gonna create jobs, not eliminate them lol. Now let us strip mine your hood G.

Putting aside my personal concerns and frustrations with the state of parental controls (it’s hell), what does the author propose here? By his own admission the controls which comp…

Replace "training and instincts" with "incentives" and you may have the rudiments of an argument, though it's not clear to me what that argument is.

I suspect expectations of retirement had to be level set to account for the reduced standard of living / the necessity to work longer.

> this whole ageing conversation has been dominated by the Boomers, often blamed for the world’s problems or pitted against younger generations. A tad unfair. I'm in my mid-fourtie…

Dang, and I can't edit it :(

not on principle (unless i was applying to work in HR) - recruiters are not the company ambassadors you seem to imagine but cogs in a small machine that you're not likely to encoun…

Not necessarily. Imagine a health insurance provider even partially automating their claim (dis)approval process - it could be both lucrative and devastating.

A gun is not smart or magical but is nevertheless a powerful tool that can be scary depending on who is holding it. Accordingly, I worry less about my occupation and more about the…

Nothing stiffles my creativity so quickly as intrusive thoughts of marketability. I can follow the muse or the outcome, not both. I wonder how much of a role this played in the dis…

The problem as applied to philosophy is particularly concerning to me since those errors become the framework for thought, but yeah its otherwise not terribly different from the ar…

It's intuitive, that the pursuit of mastery demands sacrifice (in family life and beyond). Unfortunately philosophical mastery would seem to require full participation in life (to …

I have an idea kicking around I'd like to subject to your collective scrutiny: 1. source code has competing audiences with conflicting goals -a) the machine, with the goal of accur…

why use a static seed on the random generator and could that be making this appear more interesting than it might otherwise?

As a former owner and synth head, I feel the DX7 was good for poorly simulating a broad range of superior instruments. Also it wasn't merely difficult to program - it made sound de…

You make an interesting point about the lack of incentive to protect others' private data - it may only hurt the subject of the data and leave a negligent company unscathed. But ho…