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I've been wondering when neural networks might be able to compress a movie back down to the screenplay.

Or just live underground. There should be zones at around room temperature not too far off the surface. Colonizing Mercury makes more sense than colonizing Mars. Much more abundant…

Hitler got some of his worst ideas from the Eugenics Institute in California. Such as 'humanely' gassing undesirables and 'genetic defectives'. Eugenics, from Galton on, was consid…

Why not put the city at a pole?

Why? Video game economies are already bigger than many real world nations. If enough of us live in the video game world, game labor has value.

Already happening: WoW gold farmers.

Enjoyed > Some aspects of communication are likely to prove more challenging, Hinton predicted. “Irony is going to be hard to get,” he said. “You have to be master of the literal f…

Anything that behaves like an object, would be the obvious answer. GUI elements, things in games or simulations. More abstractly, an object's a namespace with persistent properties…

I've heard there are two kinds of jobs: the kind where you shower before, and the kind where you shower after.

This is the same question as 'What values should we impose on society?' And that is an irreducible conflict. It's politics. Programming a computer to perform a task is a powerful w…

If your lifestyle basically consists of stuff you could do for free, like cycling and internet, does that mean you're wealthy? The trouble with this definition is that your lifesty…

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - John Steinbeck

This is the problem with democracy: the people making the decisions often aren't those who are affected by them the most. It's how you define the demos . It's unjust for Americans …

Some of us don't think humans are less deserving on account of which side of a border they were born. Agreeing that free trade did somewhat hurt the American worker, America's loss…

How about engineering a society that is a bit kinder to everyone rather than inflicting poverty on anyone? It's also unjust for the 'burger flippers' who make your food to live in …

I think you're saying the problem is that the camera is pointed straight at you, and you're taking this as having the intention to film you. But phone cameras can have a wide angle…

Sonar or lidar is a great idea if it can be made really small and not use much power. Simply, don't include a camera, and make it obvious there's no camera - make the conspicuous b…

People walk around with their cellphones out, and you aren't complaining. Any of them could be filming you. Nor are you punching CCTV camera operators (I hope). I always considered…

You are right that the ideal gas law doesn't describe real gases but it can be a reasonable approximation for some applications, even at fairly low temperatures, provided the densi…

Upholding an unjust law is not ethical. The right thing to do is repeal the law. It is absurd to say refugees and fruit pickers living on next to nothing are cutting in line, as th…

My impression is that it's largely down to who they think gets those handouts. The perception that the face of need and poverty in the US is principally black, has always driven co…

The nation-state is founded on the ideal of a sovereign state for a specific ethno-cultural group, and immigration fundamentally contradicts this. However, that is not a reason to …

I think it's more that, they are systems that model what we know about gravity and light , just taken to an extreme point where light can't escape. That speculation is where the no…