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Re:Understanding the Danger from Strong AI on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @04:24PM (#38385339)
But the profit-aligned corporations are made of people, as you say, and once the leaders are personally affected by the „deterioration of the ecology necessary for human life to persist“, they will seriously try to stop it. That, I guess, is the difference to how AI would behave by default. (And in the thought experiment that you quote, unlimited capabilities are assumed, so the deterioration can be stopped.)
Re:A city-scale molecular profile of DNA collected from NYC's subway s... on Friday February 06, 2015 @10:11AM (#9009292)
Indeed, title needs to be changed to "Geospatial Resolution of Human and Bacterial Diversity with City-Scale Metagenomics".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282204

Re:How a computer error helped Deep Blue beat humanity's best chess pl... on Saturday October 25, 2014 @07:03AM (#8507836)
"After the loss Kasparov questioned whether Deep Blue's team had cheated in order to beat him, but in a fascinating new short documentary by FiveThirtyEight and ESPN, it's shown that the momentous victory — and the notorious 44th move that led to it — was actually the result of a computer error."

But the video actually says the error occurred in the first game, which Kasparov won, rather than in the second, which he lost and after which he suggested he had been cheated.

Re:Submission titles still subject to change by editors? on Monday September 08, 2014 @03:43PM (#8286773)
From the guidelines: "If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead". This would seem to explicitly allow telling others how to perceive a story, so I don't really see how the privilege thing can be the crucial point. But reading dang's comment I realised how an inferior title might damage the prospects of a story that would have been submitted under a better title by someone else.
Re:Submission titles still subject to change by editors? on Monday September 08, 2014 @04:43AM (#8283888)
Thank you for the explanation! In my 2nd paragraph I had older stories in mind where it's most likely a case of "either I submit it or nobody does". I can see now how my proposal is bad in the "normal" case of hot, new stories.

There should be enough interesting stories out there with good, informative, neutral original titles that it won't be another seven years.

Re:Submission titles still subject to change by editors? on Saturday September 06, 2014 @02:29PM (#8279068)
Thanks! Just looked into this further. The guidelines say you should use the original title when submitting a story. But what if this title is uninformative and the subtitle is too long? Then you have to summarise. I don't think it's acceptable for a moderator to edit this summary, without giving any notice to readers (this was done several times to me). He should kill the whole submission instead if he doesn't like the title.

Apart from that, I guess it would be much better if submitters had a chance to indicate why they find their submission interesting. Just a thought.

Submission titles still subject to change by editors?

Posted by zoltz on Saturday September 06, 2014 @01:18PM
from the self-post dept.

I don't mind moderators killing submissions of mine that are deemed off-topic but what put me off submitting stories here was editors changing the titles of my submissions (without any notice to readers). See my previous submission. New people are running this place now --- do they still do this?

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Re:Ask YC: What methods do you use to manage your time? on Sunday April 06, 2008 @03:53PM (#156371)
Not sophisticated, and only a first step to get some kind of traction, but using it can make a real difference to me:

a) Define your main project

b) Choose an activity that you like and that comes naturally as procrastination

c) Choose a reasonable time ratio between them, and respect it

As an example, every hour of surfing the web has to be (sooner or later) compensated by three hours of work on the main project.

Re:Disagreeing with Paul Graham on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @08:54AM (#151958)
Neither of these arguments even attempts to refute the central point of the essay. In case anyone wants to try it, the central point is that in an organization organized as a tree structure, structural forces tend to give each person freedom in inverse proportion to the size of the whole tree.

Already done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=142597

If I hadn't already done it, I wouldn't bother with it now, though, because:

Even these dishonest DH5s are ...

Roth's contribution is CLEARLY NOT DISHONEST (couldn't resist the uppercase here). I get the impression that the chance you would ever take advantage of any refutations to plug holes and thus further improve the standard of your essay collection is precisely zero. It's all about "picking a winner" (this term actually appears in paulgraham.com/disagree.html) instead of advancing towards the truth. Readers of your essays will do best by just enjoying the incredible density of ideas, then deciding for themselves which ones to accept, rather than following the "comment" link at the bottom.

If anyone has a link to an instance where Paul Graham helps the search for the truth by conceding a nontrivial point in an argument, I would be grateful. That would help repair my impression, and probably some other people's as well.

Re:Disagreeing with Paul Graham on Tuesday April 01, 2008 @07:45AM (#151924)
Refuting the proof of a central point rather than the central point itself must be considered DH6 in Paul Graham's hierarchy. Roth probably took that for granted. I certainly would. Otherwise I hereby claim P = NP and preemptively accuse anyone not accepting this of deliberate dishonesty and bad spirit and categorise their disagreement as "formally possibly up to DH5 but effectively DH1 at most".

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