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Re:Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:26AM (#47436007)
AGI? As if all value that humans offer can be compressed and transmitted in binary form?

You'd have a more serious debate about antigravity.

Put it on his epitaph
Re:A therapy chatbot for depression on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @06:15PM (#14510278)
Far from the first idea I've heard for this, e.g.: http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/the-chatbot-will-see-...
Never before in the history of the Internetz
Re:The Apple Store is down on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @03:10PM (#13925229)
So are my pants
Re:Bump the Lamp: The Reason for Caring on Monday March 06, 2017 @09:37PM (#13807867)
But just how many people think Roger Rabbit is relevant today? Lamp bumped or not, it was forgettable.
Re:AWS is down on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @01:57PM (#13756614)
ZOMG. Call Mike Wallace
Selling your mom
I thought bored journalists who did binge or denial experiments on themselves went out of style in 2015. Please don't come back.
Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:48PM (#13465854)
Awesome
It's funny how people think this crap was just invented in the past 10 years in SF.
Wow. This is a wankfest we all needed.
Re:The Real Name Fallacy on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @04:48PM (#13322367)
Facebook drank the Kool-Aid and failed.
Is this even still relevant though? I had a DSP textbook in college back in the 1980s.
Re:Evernote Employees Can Read Your Notes on Thursday December 15, 2016 @06:51PM (#13189857)
Great message after I abandoned Evernote with their ludicrous sync fees.
Re:The Reddit front page is entirely /r/the_donald posts on Thursday October 27, 2016 @11:37PM (#12812828)
And to think I came here looking for hacker news.
Re:The darker side of machine learning on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:30PM (#12809693)
All technology adoption curves must go through a "wait, this will kill us" and "what about threats to our children!" phases before they reach widespread usage.
Re:Ask HN: How Did You Escape 9 to 5? on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @10:46AM (#12398687)
Who works 9-5 anymore? The factory jobs are all gone.
Re:What a Journey, NASA Had Been Really Close on Saturday August 13, 2016 @08:08PM (#12283701)
Not entirely sure I got the point other than as a basic intro to applying metrics to design goals.
Works great when earthquakes take down the mobile network
But this is old news. The vilified industry is different, but they were saying many of the same things in the 1990s.

Then as now, not everyone is entitled to a nice two-bedroom San Francisco flat for $2000/month. Tokyo has figured that out. Moscow has figured that out. London has figured that out. Why are San Franciscans so slow to catch on?

Re:Late sleepers are tired of being discriminated against on Thursday March 31, 2016 @09:58AM (#11397171)
Who is this "science" person I keep hearing about in the news, and why does he have so many random opinions on the most inane topics?
It took her that long to recognize her own under-employment??
Re:Show HN: Steve Jobs Tribute Page on Friday March 25, 2016 @06:37PM (#11363241)
Thanks, Steve, for showing me how I too could cure pancreatic cancer by eating only peas.
Re:Uber driver kills 6 on Sunday February 21, 2016 @03:05PM (#11146195)
I think he may have had goatee as well. Definitely headline-worthy detail.