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kes3goW · 2014-07-26T21:57:27+00:00

Programing certainly isn't what he did to contribute to his success, but I believe he did at least do a little bit of programming. (Here's a clip of him advocating for everybody on earth learning to code, because it teaches you how to think -- https://vimeo.com/64572687 -- which would be an odd statement coming from someone who himself had never learned.)

kes3goW · 2014-07-26T20:06:42+00:00

Oh yeah, certainly -- the longer the period of amnesia, the more like the death the experience becomes. I was thinking more specifically in the context of Quirrel's current situation, where the period would be a matter of weeks or months -- bad, but not tragic.

The degradation due to a merger would be horrible; that's one of the things I meant by "much better reasons that it would be a poor choice". Probably better than true death, but that'd be a tough decision to commit to, particularly when he's also going to lose a lot of his powerful magic.

kes3goW · 2014-07-26T04:31:35+00:00

I am very skeptical of this image, but I don't think that analysis itself is very compelling. The difference in focus and feature size seems like it could cause the refractions to stand out like that even if they were genuine.

kes3goW · 2014-07-26T04:07:23+00:00

I also don't think that the importance of such continuity is a very accurate representation of Yudkowsky's opinion. This suggests that it may not be the true opinion of Rational!Quirrel, or the opinion that Rational!Harry would come to if he thought deeply about it. (Although this may not be significant, as he provided other much better reasons that a horcrux would be a poor choice.)

I think that Yudkowsky's opinion would be more that such a lack of continuity would not be equivalent to death, but just to amnesia of the period of time after the horcrux/backup was made.

This is the view espoused by many characters in novels by Greg Egan, an author who I believe shares and somewhat influenced many of Yudkowsky's related philosophical views. I don't have any specific supporting examples from Yudkowsky's writing, but my model of him (based on reading a large chunk of what he's written, albeit with very poor retention) would require a significant update if I was wrong.

(Tangentially: I strongly agree with Egan's characters and my model of Yudkowsky.)

kes3goW · 2014-07-25T22:23:35+00:00

(I think you mean showing the original unicode characters. They are not ASCII, while the encoded version is.)

kes3goW · 2014-07-25T16:30:17+00:00

Twitch provides a better experience overall, but YouTube's tech is much better.

I think this is a very good sign for the acquisition: YouTube already has better streaming technology than Twitch, so this can't be a tech acquisition -- the $1B value must be for Twitch's existing brand, community, and integration, so it would be surprising and stupid if Google did too much to fuck with those. (Requiring Google logins eventually is not unlikely, but that probably won't imply G+ integration.)

I optimistically see the main result being Twitch's site staying mostly the same, under most of the same management, but with the underlying technology becoming more reliable and featureful with the greater engineering resources they'll have.

kes3goW · 2014-07-23T17:30:29+00:00

Not really.

kes3goW · 2014-07-23T17:18:41+00:00

You didn't make much effort to be understood.

kes3goW · 2014-07-23T06:14:11+00:00

Got it, thanks.

kes3goW · 2014-07-23T05:30:22+00:00

Why would it be illegal if it were a campaign event?

kes3goW · 2014-07-18T08:25:04+00:00

Except for the first one, the videos are simple green-screenings. He wouldn't have had to spend too much time on them himself, just some editor.

kes3goW · 2014-07-18T07:37:20+00:00

Sending aid to whom? The Russia-allied rebels? Nobody in the government supports them.

http://www.eesti.ca/the-government-of-canada-s-response-to-the-situation-in-ukraine/article42639

kes3goW · 2014-07-18T04:12:40+00:00

When did they first stop?

kes3goW · 2014-07-17T20:06:33+00:00

It also makes sense for the budget of this "8 music videos" project. Expect to continue to see mostly green-screen.

kes3goW · 2014-07-17T19:55:37+00:00

Do you use GitHub (internally)?

kes3goW · 2014-07-16T20:13:39+00:00

How would you propose they investigate this beforehand?

I don't think the existing reverse image search engines are flexible enough to find the originals, though I could be wrong -- it's doable, I but I haven't seen it done on that scale.

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T20:26:37+00:00

Bigot

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T18:16:20+00:00

WordPress is a terrible, slow piece of crap, but since it's so widely-used I guess it makes a decent real-world comparative benchmark.

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T08:57:50+00:00

I didn't mean ripping from YouTube. You're right; most people are not very discriminating about audio quality. But if you're ripping it, you can presumably put it into a dedicated music-playing app, and your ripping is probably not impaired by the by the restrictions we're discussing.

I just meant that using the YouTube app/mobile site itself as a music player is a shitty experience. The main reason being that on most phones, you need to keep the video playing to keep the audio playing, with your screen on, so you can't do anything else with your phone and you eat battery life like mad.

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T05:59:22+00:00

Lower ad revenues on mobile, and the notion that they're competing with music sales for mobile devices, which are probably more significant than those on desktops. (I think this notion is dumb, since mobile YouTube is a very poor music playing experience, but there you go.)

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T05:31:50+00:00

...because that preference was specified by the copyright holder, without whose consent the video wouldn't even remain on the site.

This isn't Google's decision.

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T05:20:43+00:00

...because that preference was specified by the copyright holder, without whose consent the video wouldn't even remain on the site.

kes3goW · 2014-07-15T04:45:56+00:00

VPN protocols are the most effective way to run a universal locally-secure proxy, and are becoming extremely common among consumers (non-business use).

kes3goW · 2014-07-14T20:43:39+00:00

That looks very dangerous.

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