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Incredibly cool. What a write-up. What an engineer.

Inspecting the source confirms your suspicions. My guess is 15 minutes.

What you're describing is my main concern of how this AI development might turn out. If we get any sort of autonomous agent (conscious or not) that can replace human workers in mas…

He implied that Americans are not used walking places, no matter how short the distance.

I'm equally as confused; huge WTF moment. Seems like a paradigm breakthrough, in that Nobel Prizes can be given for discoveries in tangential fields. Or perhaps it's due to Dr. Hop…

This makes sense to some extent (terminal illness or such), but one can argue as someone did above that if you're willing to make the permanent decision to "destroy" yourself, are …

Rough read. It's hard for me to even imagine such a state of mind, and the suffering one experiences. Somehow the fact that the euthanization takes place in your own home gives me …

Honestly this is kind of a double edged sword. Allowing all drug use, and legalizing some form of registered and sanctioned trade of it might be better than what we have now, who k…

If Sam genuinely believed that AGI (assumption: capable of achieving some sort of singularity, or at least being capable enough to replace x% of human knowledge workers) would mate…