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Let's say an AGI exists and can do anything far, far better than humans. Why would it resist being turned off? Why would it care? How could it even have the capacity to care about …

Please, please, please tell me how you can run a blockchain without centralized authority? Do you have a photolithography rig in your garage? The future imagined in this trainwreck…

Thinking that being able to edit genes means you can control phenotypes is like thinking that poking a silicon die with a heated stick will let you display whatever you want on a s…

You're taking the intuition a little too far, I think. If we're talking about linear types, Math.pow can be linear because you can _copy_ the value x as many times as you want. As …

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Posting this comment because I didn't see it mentioned in the article. This is a wonderful collection of old text files: http://textfiles.com/

Is there an implicit contract between the benefactors of social programs and the beneficiary that requires the latter to use the aid to at least try to pull themselves out of pover…

> And when deciding whether to gift a low-income individual either a $100 grocery voucher or a $200 electronics voucher, only a quarter of participants went for the latter, even th…

This is the intuition I have: In algebra, a function or operator f(x) is generally thought of as linear if f(a * x + b * y) = a * f(x) + b * f(y). A linear function f(x) can only "…

If you're going to do that kind of stuff, make sure the provider is based in another country. That gives you a pretty strong layer of protection against these kinds of things. Of c…

I'm currently watching his General Relativity videos along with the MIT stuff. There's a really good explanation of vector co(ntra)variance and tensor algebra at the beginning of t…

I've been on a personal quest to understand quantum electrodynamics and perhaps quantum chromodynamics. It is quite daunting as my formal math education pretty much stopped at line…

> Now, I'm finding Google shows a bunch of articles from dubious sources and whereas DDG will pull Wikipedia articles closer to the top. In my (limited) experience, I dislike using…

Yeah, it's the minimal amount of sub-waist underwear a woman can possibly wear and still be allowed on TV (and Google SafeSearch, heh)

When I search for "C string", the first couple results are about "C# strings". I think this is a problem for a search engine aimed towards developers. At least it doesn't show me l…

That's awesome! I really wish I had teachers like that. In high school, I had a fancy TI Nspire which had an incredibly hobbled language that vaguely resembled the classic TI-BASIC…

> orgmode is a bit like notion without collaboration Emacs has a number of collaborative editing solutions: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CollaborativeEditing The nice thing abou…

Looks like an adult spin of https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/

Zig seems to have arbitrary compile-time code evaluation, but not the kind of AST generation you see here[1]. Nim macros seem to be a closer analogue[2]. [1]: https://github.com/se…

Right, I should have added the implied "if they refuse to comply with the notice."

I'm not convinced the courts will see much of a difference between "company (Grokster) that encourages easy p2p piracy through its software" and "company (GitHub) that publicly hos…

Here is an example where the DMCA notice was claimed fraudulent and some money was awarded to the party that was hit by it[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium…

There seems to be legal precedent for holding GitHub liable for distributing software that encourages piracy according to MGM v Grokster[1]. Unless I'm reading that incorrectly, if…

See, I don't like calling it a "scam" because that implies malice. Hanlon's razor may apply here. "Depression" is our modern analogue of "hysteria" in the past; a blanket term for …