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I don't think there are actually major legal concerns. Copyright protects reproduction of a specific image. Looking at an image and producing something in a similar style is not co…

Google's arrogance here is astonishing. The police say no fault, and it's the subject of an NYT investigation, and they still won't restore the account. What hope do the rest of us…

Completely agree. Some of the tools for interpretability can be useful (particularly for debugging), but I think the broader idea that we always need to be able to understand our o…

I recognize what you're saying is partly true, but I still have an almost irrational burning hatred for AMP.

Is the email address something someone else might enter by accident? I constantly get emails intended for someone who has the same surname and first initial as me (and presumably a…

Why would this help them? Facebook already lets you target by geography, they could just target all US residents much more easily.

As a European start-up founder, I agree with this. The unintended consequences of the GDPR will be to (1) cement the power of Google and Facebook, since they have logged in consent…

The DGraph team have done some very interesting work. The recent addition of transactions is an extremely impressive technical accomplishment, and a very good long term move. Excel…

Alternative perspective: Like many universities, the value of YC to founders is mostly signalling and network. What you actually learn at YC is a minor component of the value (sinc…

What you're describing is called email. Seriously - it is exactly this, right?

Paper from a few years ago comparing Google's OCR system to commercially available benchmarks: http://www.educatingsilicon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/p... A lot better for text…

The same thing happened to my grandmother. She went in for a minor hernia operation, and came out a different person. She never recovered. It was very dramatic and very sad.

Nice.

If we a seriously believe AI is an extinction level risk, and getting there more slowly might improve our chances, then it seems like we should try anything with a good chance of w…

I think @sama's plan isn't very likely to work. Once strong AI is possible, there's no regulatory structure that will keep the genie in the bottle for a meaningful amount of time. …