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P vs NP is also distinguished in that many people think it has profound philosophical implications. Nick Land seems to think this (http://www.uf-blog.net/crypto-current-021/), and so does Scott Aaronson (“if P=NP, the word would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be ... there would be no value in “creative gaps””). Though I think Land’s idea is a lot more interesting — he says P vs NP is a paraphrase of the analytic vs synthetic distinction.

> Information theoretically speaking, how do you generate a "synthetic" dataset (as the article calls it) with the same fidelity as an original dataset without having access to a critical basis set of the original?

Information theoretically speaking, this is impossible. The synthetic dataset will always have exploitable mathematical properties in a way non-synthetic dataset will not. It will open up the trained model to easy adversarial attacks.

Simulated data is provably more vulnerable to adversarial attacks. It only gives the illusion of more data (quite literally), and should not be used for mission-critical debiasing. A NN trained on mostly simulated minority faces and mostly real non-minority faces is a nightmare, the worst of both worlds: a plausible deniability that the algorithm is unbiased, and extreme susceptibility to adversarial attacks that take advantage of this illusory unbiasedness.

Very useful, thanks

I know this.

You are making a shallow, angry, generic, and therefore boring low-threshold indignation against the commenters.

Also known as hailstone problem from GEB

it's a philosophy grad student making a point about economics. clickbait.

source?

There's a limit to the "meanness" one can stomach, however, without some aspect, such as mental health, going awry. In short bursts it may be useful, but in the long run, meanness is not sustainable.

it's really simple. the world is exponential, not linear. wealth grows (or decays) exponentially. that's it. too bad very few understand exponentiation.

This. The right way to think is that each component, in parallel, have a chance of succeeding, so chance of total system failure is exponentially small in the number of components. Not: oh if this layer fails, the next one will catch it... which makes the chance of failure as high as the weakest link.

tell me how to transition from pow to pos

Doesn't matter; there are no technical details for this, and so far nobody has a solution on how to do this. Yes, permissionless networks exist; but no network has transitioned from a permissioned to a permissionless network. While transitioning from a permissioned to a permissionless network, you open your gates to a horde that are financially incentivized to exploit this newfound permission. How then are you going to secure yourself from an attack? Nobody has this figured out. It's mathematically unsound.

Sure, but that’s a problem way down the stack, a problem for language designers, not application developers.

It’s a great book.

Something about your comment rubs me the wrong way, and I think it’s a kind of toxic idealism that doesn’t acknowledge how software isn’t a mathematical object but situated in the real world.

You realize 48 years ago is the Unix epoch? Circumventing this problem to admit commits that were made before 1970, which clearly has no real world use case, is over engineering at its worst. Similarly, with designing a system to last longer than 68 years. The number of tech companies that have lasted more than 68 years can be counted on one hand.

> Nick Bostrom argues that the only way to defend against a global catastrophe is to employ a universal and invasive surveillance system, what he calls a “High-tech Panopticon.”

I suspected as much since the simulation argument but looks like Bostrom has really lost his marbles.

I got a 1000/1600 on my first try of the SAT. Then I went through a $6,000 SAT summer camp, and got a 1600/1600. I used this score to tutor privileged children charging upwards to $100/hr. The conclusion, for me? The SAT has become just another way for the privileged to incestuously perpetuate privilege among themselves. I believe it's a great move to stop considering these test scores.

Sorry, who in their right mind thinks the Cloud is decentralized? It is literally the opposite.

i believe this was called WordPad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPad

These cameras will be connected to the internet to drive profit. They will be used for mass surveillance and they will be mass hacked.

Sounds like Hegel's (incoherent) idea that China has space but no time.

There is a premise in this deduction, which Randstad made: 1. We need darker faces in our training data. 2. Therefore, gather training data from homeless people.

How do you go from 1 to 2? With the premise "darker-faced people tend to be homeless".

This is not necessarily a false premise -- statistically, it is true, and it is a reflection of systemic injustice -- but the outrage is not whether it's true or false; the outrage is that Randstad exploited this painful fact.

The fact that these photos are so beautiful makes me uncomfortable. Without context, these are simply beautiful pictures of nature. With context, it's terrifying.

Not really. He does say in Philosophical Investigations that he had made some mistakes earlier in his career, but there is a thread uniting his earlier and later works: psycho/logical monism, as Imrad Kimhi calls it.

Treat the symptoms, not the disease. Way to go!

what's the DG alias?

How is this "advanced" linear algebra? This was all covered my freshman linear algebra course.