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Deep Learning is currently an empirical science guided by intuition of practitioners. A main principle in experimental sciences is that a theory without predictive power is not con…

What people make is ultimately what demand & supply dictate. On the other hand, for one-off cases where the market is super small, people make what they can negotiate. Of course, e…

See the references I give below; if he is talking about general trends in AI and is giving an estimate of 7 or 8 years for emergence of AGI, where is he basing it on? Is he basing …

I assumed akvadrako downvoted that since the vote and the comment appeared very close to each other and both right after my comment. But of course, I surely could be mistaken. And …

See e.g. Smerity reporting on Elon's talk in NIPS 2017: https://twitter.com/Smerity/status/938994837323259904 as well as https://goo.gl/trX8SJ & https://goo.gl/aTMqv6 What's your e…

Except for Elon Musk, who with all due respect, I believe does not count as an informed person in DL. It really bothers me that he (who is clearly an excellent entrepreneur and hum…

To summarize your points AirBnB has these effects: 1) more supply & cheaper options for travelers/short-term renters 2) higher rent and less supply for long term renters. 3) More i…

So the question is are laws sacred things that should never be broken. I don't think so. I think there are cases that people should break the law so we progress. In other words, ou…

Hotels/hostels are not supposed to not list on AirBnB I thought. (I stayed at a very low-end hotel booked from AirBnB in, and I was very disappointed. When I book an AirBnB I hope …

Very good points; I'm in general though space skeptic in the following sense. Human race as a whole always seeks more, bigger, further, faster as solution its problems. I don't thi…

I wonder if they start somehow "cracking down" on that. For now, it might not be worth it but eventually?

Well, I hadn't heard of them till this minute. If they did bizarre things so they start getting mentioned more in HN or TechCrunch I guess it'd help their cause :P

AirBnB is such a great business. No significant competition for now among startups. Primary (initial) market is different from the incumbents (hotels) and it can gradually chip awa…

I guess purely logically, you are right. But I would be against the underlying theme behind that general type of thinking. If you take that line of thought and extrapolate it, it s…

That's a great point. Hip, cool, modern entrepreneur types can easily work as agents of gentrification which as you pointed out can lead to massive increase in wealth for nearby pr…

I feel like for WeWork style business, it should be a race to the bottom (in terms of prices). Once the idea is validated, there would be (as there are) lots of local clones that w…

I wonder what will happen to the Facebook the company as this progresses. It would be quite funny if the main product of Facebook becomes Instagram -- and the original product fade…

I don't think so. A/B testing is like gradient descent which is a greedy algorithm. You move in the direction that locally looks best. Evolution on the other hand allows for subopt…

Just look at his profile (a click away). He is the founder of Skymind.

Maybe. Part of me thinks it's somewhat of a small money grab. (hope it's not.) What I will bet money on though is that no massive success will come out of this. The key to AI is da…

In my view philosophy is important in and of itself, because these are natural questions about our existence which many brilliant people have thought about and written on for centu…