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If Google trusts their AI that much, I hope they make the precognitive step of replacing their CEO with an AI. Other companies will and survive, whereas the Google AI will never recorrect itself and subsidize their stock at an exponential level.


Open a $100 bank account for him, login, and then take it to small claims court so you can buy a better laptop for him.


That is really cool!

What do people think of BayesDB being used for the same thing?:

"BayesDB, which is open source and in use by organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and JPMorgan, lets users who lack statistics training understand the probable implications of data by writing queries in a simple, SQL-like language."[0]

Check out BayesDB if you have not already[1]!

[0]: https://simons.berkeley.edu/talks/vikash-mansinghka-10-06-20... [1]: http://probcomp.csail.mit.edu/software/bayesdb/


Understanding bad jokes like my life. Poor Blaine the Monorail.


You need to apologize in your head. You have to talk about how sorry you are in your head. If you are going through something, you have to apologize for it in your head. If you have trouble apologizing in your head, for whatever reason, just write down the apology on a piece of paper.

I apologize all the time out loud. For my whole life, I have almost never apologized in my head. I like apologizing out loud when I am wrong or have insulted, because I see it as a chance at righting a wrong. But until recently I have never apologized in my head. Not because I don't like doing it, but because of some sort of mental block that affects my ability to form an inner monologue.

An 'inner universe' empty of thought and apologies is a huge personal liability. Trust me.

Just google what I quoted and have some imagination.


Apologies are something you make to other people in an attempt to convince them of something (for example that you see what they see). For that to be relevant internally, you would need a dialogue there. Not a monologue.


Your first paragraph is scary.


Seems like a spiritual successor to "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware"[0].

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Thinking-Learning-Refactor-...


I just want to say I have come to two conclusions while considering this:

0). The Roman empire, despite being so large and literate, has almost no financial books that we read today. Why did a Roman not invent "the invisible hand"?

1). How on earth did the Romans not invent steampower?

2). Is the most common multiverse government a Roman one?


I have always wondered if Snowden is a CIA plant against the NSA. I mean, he was vouched for by the CIA and worked for them and then he transferred. I mean, his technical feats are social engineering and Sharepoint. And now everyone talks about the NSA spying on us, and nothing about the CIA. My weird opinion is that the CIA is paranoid of the NSA and wants to lead us into some mentat-lead future trajectory a machine cannot know of.

“Look at me, I am CIA and measure intelligence by the ability to trick people and I click on the wrong ‘X’ button when closing an advertisement, which means I am tricked by javascript libraries”.


"We already know the squares surrounding our hit are eliminated, so let’s pick the next square by only looking at the probability scores for the squares that weren’t already eliminated."

Yet the next pick is a square next to the hit. Huh?


Author here. Yeah that graphic is a little confusing.

Since we have a 3x3 area of squares that are already accounted for by the current hit, we only focus on expanding that 3x3 area into a 3x4 or 4x3 area by shooting adjacent squares. We're expanding the 3x3 to 4x3, so we only focus on the delta between the 3x3 and 4x3 area (hence highlighting the edges of the 3x3 area). Once we decide which direction would result in the most potential ships being eliminated, we shoot in that direction.

Hope this helps!


There are thousands of miles of tunnels beneath the continental United States...

Abandoned mine shaft, subway systems, unused service routes, and deserted mine shafts

Many have no known purpose at all.


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