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Heh, now it's asking me to sign up to Dropbox. Thanks for noting my request, and consider just including the text in the body of the page. It will blow people's minds.
I didn't notice it at first, but there was a link at the bottom of the popup for me that said "No thanks, continue to download." Clicking it triggered the download.
Why does Elon continuously talk about AI as if it's taking over the world? At this point, Siri can barely understand me saying the word 'salad'. Slow down Elon... slow down..
1. Are the any laws of physics that stop us from creating AI ? Answer is No. Nature already built it so its possible.
2. Is it possible to improve AI significantly ? Yes, because if we can build AI, AI can build better AI.
3. How soon can it happen? Since the trend is exponential. It can happen within 100 years.
4. Is it good idea to start worrying about it now? Sure why not.
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Agreed, it's really excessive to take simple text content and trap it within a PDF that's then trapped inside Scribd, which requires a Scribd account and login to download.
Scribd is a YC company. What you're experiencing is called "growth hacking".
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Elon Musk isn't the kind of person I thought he was. > "Politically, Musk has described himself as "half Democrat, half Republican". In his own words: "I'm somewhere in the middle, socially liberal and fiscally conservative."[116] > Musk is a self-described American exceptionalist and nationalist, describing himself as "nauseatingly pro-American". According to Musk, the United States is "[inarguably] the greatest cou…
> I thought he was like John Carmack or something, but at the end of the day he's mostly a sales guy with big dreams. The self-taught rocket engineer stuff is mostly self-promotion. Where do you get that impression? Except maybe from not following anything about him. Unless you think that the following quote from this interview is an outright lie: "I think a lot of people think I must spend a lot of time with media o…
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/539861/techs-enduring-gre...
"Yes, he ushered in the electric car revolution, but the production carbon footprint is still huge!"
"Yes, he's building rockets, but he took a bunch of government money!"
"Yes, he's paving the way to Mars, but what has he done for world hunger?"
And it not just with Musk, but really with anyone who has been successful. I would have thought that the technologists were above such petty envy. We're here to improve humanity's lot, aren't we?
If there's a ton of work done at the various checkpoints, the pace is slow but maybe the length of the line isn't very far?
How would one go about meaningfully contributing to solving problems in genetics without having done the work leading to a MD or PhD (or both)?
Consider computational biology. There are lots of problems which hinge on understanding the impact of genetics on populations and variations in genetics and that effect. As there are already sources of genetic data sets and infrastructure to generate those data sets, genetic research becomes more of a data science problem than a medical problem.
Admittedly that's a bit of a generalization and I am sure there are a decent number of exceptions but consistent with my experience.
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Be useful, that's fine, no need to alter the world drastically.
Big Next shifts: AI & Genetic Modification (oh and a faster connection to our minds)
High probability of failure, not a problem. Tesla, Space X. Push the ball forward.
Democratization of AI is a best possible outcome (direct connection, we are the AI)
Why does Elon continuously talk about AI as if it's taking over the world? At this point, Siri can barely understand me saying the word 'salad'. Slow down Elon... slow down..
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015...