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New comment by doctorstupid in "A neural network to auto-complete your thoughts"

doctorstupid — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 01:48:08 +0000

But people do actually speak like ads these days.

Buddhist temple in Japan puts faith in robot priest

doctorstupid — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 12:09:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/buddhist-temple-in-japan-puts-faith-in-robot-priest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20723604

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New comment by doctorstupid in "Technician keeps computer made in 1959 still humming along"

doctorstupid — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:55:06 +0000

In operation it sounds a bit like a pachinko parlor. Imagine if pachinko machines performed a useful computation, allowing the parlors to be server farms powered by gamblers.

New comment by doctorstupid in "“Roman Biro”, complete with joke, found at London building site"

doctorstupid — Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:46:58 +0000

I didn't know that the shape of the hexagonal pencil has ancient roots.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI"

doctorstupid — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 05:32:26 +0000

What's this "Pre-AGI" arrogance? Why are they so certain that it "will scale to AGI"? Is it an attempt at branding, or have they forgotten that AI is a global effort?

And do people really want to be "actualized" by "Microsoft and OpenAI’s shared value of empowering everyone"?

New comment by doctorstupid in "What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth?"

doctorstupid — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 10:54:59 +0000

Perhaps genetic replication did emerge multiple times on Earth, but always to the same solution which had the highest probability?

New comment by doctorstupid in "No Kings: How Do You Make Good Decisions Efficiently in a Flat Organization?"

doctorstupid — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 09:38:08 +0000

But democracies are capable of producing such leaders when required, as England did for the Second World War.

New comment by doctorstupid in "WeChat and the Surveillance State"

doctorstupid — Sun, 09 Jun 2019 05:09:55 +0000

Strongly encrypted private communications are already effectively banned in Australia.

New comment by doctorstupid in "A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules"

doctorstupid — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:34:41 +0000

Whilst possibly overwhelming or discomforting, walking through Donki gives an honest display of consumerism, and manages to make it exciting. Like Walmart, it's essentially an incredible variety of stuff jumbled together. But Walmart is an Amazon warehouse in which the customers do the picking. It's systematic and depressing, and one feels like they might be in an item in a production line. Donki is chaotic, musical and risqué. It's not uncommon to see well-dressed couples on dates swinging tipsily through, because it's somehow conducive to romance, or at the very least, not a very shameful place to be seen. A store will have a variety of atmospheres, not all of them pleasant, but I much prefer the honesty of the chaos to the censored productions of most consumer 'experiences'.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Unveiling the first-ever image of a black hole [video]"

doctorstupid — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:10:58 +0000

Don't it's no fun you'll get space sickness trust me.

New comment by doctorstupid in "U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content"

doctorstupid — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 14:23:54 +0000

Who is to say that society has a body dysmorphic disorder? Are governments such trusted doctors? Should a government control a society's self-image with an airbrush? If one doesn't believe that individuals are responsible enough to govern their own communications, then perhaps so. But I believe that the best society-doctor is society itself, and given past and current efforts, am skeptical of the sincerity of governments when they do pull our their airbrushes. Mass-murder-selfies are obviously evil, but what about mentioning factory air pollution? I know of one government which will readily airbrush over such online blemishes, and if these two seem ridiculously far apart, remember that wedges start thin. The latter example raises what I believe to be the main point of government airbrushing - to better its own mirror-image, rather than for the health of society.

Speaking of censorship, why has my comment been grayed out?

New comment by doctorstupid in "U.K. unveils plan to penalize Facebook and Google for harmful online content"

doctorstupid — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 09:38:09 +0000

When you don't like what you see in the mirror, it's easiest to just blame the mirror.

New comment by doctorstupid in "AWS DeepRacer League"

doctorstupid — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 02:04:07 +0000

Must the training be done in their cloud?

New comment by doctorstupid in "Google’s Secret China Project “Effectively Ended” After Internal Confrontation"

doctorstupid — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:56:29 +0000

No, in response to things like WhatsApp the Australian government just passed a bill enabling it to force companies to create backdoors to encrypted communications.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Australia’s vague anti-encryption law sets a dangerous new precedent"

doctorstupid — Sun, 09 Dec 2018 01:16:24 +0000

I now call him Backdoor Bill.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Beijing to Judge Every Resident Based on Behavior by End of 2020"

doctorstupid — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 04:43:54 +0000

You're comparing a social credit system to a financial credit system. Your hospital doesn't care who your friends are.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Tim Cook makes blistering attack on the “data industrial complex”"

doctorstupid — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:11:44 +0000

Why don't you start the trend now? Please post here your personal details.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Australia drafts laws forcing Facebook and Google to reveal encrypted data"

doctorstupid — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 11:01:26 +0000

People always seem to miss the point of that joke, which is that the physical enforcement of the law can be readily used to persuade people into surrendering encryption keys.

New comment by doctorstupid in "A tool that lets you hear both Yanny and Laurel"

doctorstupid — Fri, 18 May 2018 05:32:09 +0000

I would be surprised if this isn't dependent on the listener's accent.

New comment by doctorstupid in "Go's New Brand"

doctorstupid — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 05:17:48 +0000

In this case the cliché brand identity is the jeans and t-shirt combo. Does hip branding not make a language seem juvenile? You talk about serious image, but surely you can't find more serious languages than those devoid of branding, like C and Lisp.