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Same. Super down to earth. We had our office next to his company that was making a graphics processing tool called Debabelizer. We used it heavily in our games workflow, and would occasionally find bugs... more than once, Dave came over to our office and debugged it on his laptop right in front of us. Truly inspirational dude.

I Keffals broke the law, then that is a matter for law enforcement. It's not the purview of an internet hate mob acting as judge, jury, and executioner. Every defense I've seen of kiwifarms is exactly like yours. Some insinuations about how "distasteful" an individual is, and then an implied "Can you really blame them for going after him/her?"

Do you know of any projects using automated transcription and machine learning to analyze hominid speech? I ask because I remember reading about google translate effectively learning how to translate languages purely through machine learning and a large corpus of transcribed speech.

I disagree. That text doesn't sound psychotic to me.. bitter, yes.. but I think HN users are all too familiar with being passionate about an issue at the expense of personal time and other pursuits, and I respect that.

People are already effectively playing as NPCs in popular videogames. They're called gold farmers.

If you gave me the option as I got closer to 70, that I could be uploaded, and take up zero physical space, and live forever, I would jump at the chance. I don't think it's narcissistic at all. Imagine being able to communicate with your ancestors.. the opportunities for preserving knowledge and ending physical suffering, including the impact of humans living on the planet. Maybe we all just live forever until we run out of disk space. Maybe eventually we can have a lottery/queue where people take turns getting decanted for some IRL living.

One incentive for them doing this is that they have to provide support and if they let everyone use random search engines that deliver malware etc. They end up having to pay their "geniuses" more to un-crud peoples infested machines.

3d graphics and simulations. It's kike infinite Legos.

Tldr.. fonts suck. Article could have been 5 sentences and been more digestible.

So grateful for the engine of capitalism/free market, that has people 3d printing insulin pumps for themselves.

I use the chrome debugger as my IDE. I have been using it to edit/run/debug javascript for years now.

My entire development stack is installed on any machine that runs chrome. It's awesome.

I too have seen the. Classic robot dystopia film Runaway.

I too have seen the. Lassic robot dystopia film Runaway.

Why are they telling everyone and not just doing it? Seems like aiding and abetting, if you've already dismissed the privacy aspect...

That was my first thought as well. Casting doubt, and then in a few days we'll see this opinion piece references by some right wing politician who is vaccinated but "can understand their constituents hesitency to trust the medical establishment".

Also I haven't seen anyone bring up the perverse incentive of capitalism in this thread. Like.. let's just pretend this is moral failing rather than the literal race to the bottom of capitalism.

Check out Andrej karpathys convnet.js and deepq learning web apps.

Also, Palmer Luckey is a weird libertarian/asshole, so who knows.. FB acquisition might have been a net benefit.

Anthropic principle

So.. somehow the heat output of a mining computer just disappears? Oh wait that's nonsense, because your CPU is literally a heat pump.

nonsense. it's electricity. Gas doesn't have the option of coming from carbon neutral sources.

Uh. That sounds.. kinda bad in the context of something like.... DNS.

Enjoying all the confused dog faces in here, trying to understand this.

Its just capitalism, and capitalism is arbitrary and cruel.

When it's you making the money, it starts to make sense pretty quickly.

When it's not you making the money, it feels like egregious sin.

Its. Just. Capitalism.

What a gorgeous writeup. Love it. Gonna go make some lines now.

Gary Larson: School for the gifted.

100%

..they said authoritatively, and without evidence.

But.. I pay my YouTube subscription with my Bitcoin. :(

Because electricity costs money. When the cost of electricity exceeds the value of coin you mine, you will stop mining. If you make a coin that takes half as much energy to mine, miners will just mine twice as much of it. Its like y'all are just discovering capitalism for the first time.

Why do you hate sudokoin?

I'm a bleeding heart hippie but agree 100%.. and when you dig deeper, you may find that those propagating the fud around crypto are actually speculators trying to drive prices.. which makes the fake outrage even more sick.

Once you understand this, you start to understand how the recent FUD about crypto is generated by people with an agenda.