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ptr_void··on The Myth of a Superhuman AI
The article is good first step, the second step would be to pick up an introduction to philosophy of mind book and realize the enormous number of issues one has to resolve, and methods needs discovering before getting close to answering such questions as whether AGI is possible.
ptr_void··on Ask HN: What project can I start in my free time to make some side-cash?
I'd advice against that, I don't think stock market is for beginners unless you are into gambling.

Here's a good set of lessons, something that will give you enough info to know why you shouldn't put money into stock market:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK78nVl6dRdUemHszve34...

ptr_void··on Tmux and Vim – better together
On the same boat, recently switched to VSCode.

I wish I could have had some sort of true-integrated-vim-key-bindings, none of the vim-bindings plugins feel as productive, but editor as a whole has a lot more features for a lot less work.

ptr_void··on How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media
I don't understand why non-youtubers care about these nuisance. These 'independent media' provides little to no value or productivity, these people are mostly equivalent to those who dance on the train or street to get money. Online, they get the money by deterring from their own content to who-knows-what advertisers who paid the most.

If anyone actually produces any value in need, they should be able to create a business model where people would exchange money for it.

ptr_void··on Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
Having uMatrix and NoScript addons on firefox may reduce some risks, also in general web browsing
ptr_void··on Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor
Tried it a few times, submitted some general interest links from my bookmarks, only to be redirected to scam sites :( Interesting idea, but it's unrealistic to expect good behavior from internet as a whole.

It could be useful to have a delay before redirect to be able to read the url and choose whether or not to go in it.

ptr_void··on An off-grid social network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_mesh_network https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLU755T6_I
ptr_void··on Men Without Work
Dr. Tyler Cowen has a related video series about these issues (Complacent class, New era of segregation, Americanized stasis, Missing men, ..): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-uRhZ_p-BM4Pei6Xlr_A...
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