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horseass

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    Comment #2254665

    In other words, the current economic system is a brutal primitive jungle where only a tiny minority like Tom Cruise and Dana White get an insanely unequal share. The only start up …

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    Comment #2254558

    Much like happy meals with toys inside, it does imprint the google brand on the youngins though. Predators like hyena typically go after the weak vulnerable children so it would ma…

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    Comment #2237316

    Reminds me of the seinfeld episode. Why do you want to return this? "Spite". Sorry, we don't allow refunds for spite. "Ok, I'll change my reason". No sorry, you already said spite.…

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    Comment #1399739

    boobie testucles boobie testucles boobie testucles One thing I like about hacker news is that some complete moron, like me, can write 'boobie testucles' in reply to the topmost com…

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    Comment #1356431

    This was a great article, thanks for sharing it. I'm a huge fan of twitter myself, so I can only imagine how awesome this bank will be. I wish him luck in his future endeavors.

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    Comment #1355881

    Well I rate your rating -1

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    Comment #1355656

    Some chick in some ramachandran youtube video, if I remember, said a giant black widow told her to cut her shirt with scissors or it'd bite her. And there was a conspiracy against …

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    Comment #1355443

    'Someday an entrepreneur will make a fortune by figuring out how to monetize personal attention in the most efficient way.' pimps

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    Comment #1031847

    I don't know, but its probably like a cellular automata on a hexagonal 2d plane (like wolfram 'new kind of science' stuff). I wonder why they're flat/ not 3d- I guess something do …

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    Comment #996233

    If i remember, they used to have shells in their evolutionary history (like the nautilus).

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    Comment #989111

    Never trust 'wizard' characters who offer help on computers. They're a species of tricksters that either purposely mislead you, like microsoft's internet connection wizard, or, whe…

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    Comment #983025

    The letter 'g' is a completely arbitrary shape. Similarly an entire word 'everything' is just an arbitrary shape (though subdivided into constituent organized blobs of arbitrary sh…

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    Comment #983007

    There seems to be an assumption that there would be just a single AI. It might be a group. Though, given that they'd likely have ability to transfer information amongst individuals…

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    Comment #982918

    Good point. Evolution has replication at its core so perhaps is better for creating artificial life rather than specifically searching for brain designs (there'd have to be a lot o…

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    Comment #981992

    How dictionaries circularly define words using other words, and how humans might learn by progressively expanding analogies starting with simple 'axioms' of body sensations like up…

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    Comment #981816

    I think evolution is the best approach, given its proven power. Maybe we need replicators (like genes, only artificial/computer related) that actually codes to build hardware as th…

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    Comment #981317

    I suspect that something with approximately human equivalent intelligence would require real world embodiment to learn and manipulate things, so it might not even be likely that a …