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I've read a great deal of Russian literature old and modern, but I didn't much like this book. It was like an unplanned Salmon Rushdie novel, where the metaphors don't seem to add up to anything - very likely there was a lot of cultural reference in the symbology that went over my head - but still, just didn't get much pleasure from reading it.

"Super Intelligence" made a nice point that AI will likely be very stupid until it's suddenly very, very smart. I thought the AI worries I read about in the media were a bit hyperbolic till I read this book - it makes some good and sensible arguments as to how a human dangerous AI might come about. It doesn't claim general AI is necessarily very likely, but more that, in the event it does come about, it will be very sudden, very swift - it won't be the gradual curve of innovation and improvement we've been used to elsewhere - and so our time to react to it's birth and implications will be very short.

My business depends heavily on rich HTML editing (https://qwilr.com) - and I can't begin to explain how much time and energy and engineering resource we've poured into trying to improve that experience, and make it reliable across browsers.

We had an enormous leg up in that effort - the guy who built the Google Wave editor helped us design and build the core of our editor; even so, its been this massive thorn in our side. Its been months and we still haven't gotten our custom editor out into production for all users (just a beta testing subset at this point).

I recognise of course the myriad competing forces for engineering time on the browser vendors ("implement X new shiny API!") - but O how I wish they would agree upon / build a rock solid content-editable experience.

#totally-selfishly-motivated-whining-complete.

Been waiting for something like this, i.e. light-weight physics animations for ages. Similiar frameworks were bit too heavy weight for my purposes. Excited!

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Another of my kind! I've been eating once a day for about 2 years now.

This is obviously just anecdotal, but for me, I certainly feel more mentally alert during a fasted state; though I wouldn't say I've been sick any more / less than other times in my life.

Friends think I'm quite bizarre for eating this way - but it just seems to work for me.

Whoa; So we've been working on our start-up, https://qwilr.com - for the better part of a year; with the notion of "Documents For The Web" as our guiding principle from day-dot.

Is this competition? I can't really tell.