To avoid hitting HN's rate limit, I will be adding my answers to this post for as long as I am able to edit (2 hours, I think). Once I am no longer able to edit or have hit a character length restriction, I will create a reply post to this one and do the same thing there.
Also, to reduce confusion, the original title was "Show HN: A belief system is how we create AI that actually think like humans do"
Answer to taylodl's question[0]:
AI will never be able to think exactly like humans do. There will be trade-offs to this. However, enabling AI to think more like humans will enable both AI & humanity to better explore these tradeoffs.
Reply to Voland0's post[1]:
I've found trying to specify my own personal solution process to be very enlightening, but also quite mentally taxing. Such self-awareness comes at quite the cognitive cost!
> How is GP's idea related to 3~4 different home projects of yours and not just one?
My thought process is that if I actually make this for myself, those 3-4 projects would magically get a very impatient new stakeholder who will pester me to actually deliver those projects to them.
It's gonna be interesting to see if I'm able to trick my brain into not just brushing off the agent (or if that's even really an issue, no clue at this point). I've started rolling around some ideas on handling that scenario but I'm just gonna let that stew while I play with different setups so I don't end up just building a convoluted reminder app lol
Unfortunately I had an unexpectedly hectic holiday weekend so I won't get to start playing with the idea for real until tomorrow afternoon.
Personally, I think we need much tighter regulation. There was a study at some point that found that lobyying has a yield of 22,000% in the US, which is a wild figure (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1375082). Lobbying very seriously undermines democracy. The US system of calling lobbying via donations as free speech seems ludicrous. France, for instance, has much tighter laws on lobbying.
I think marrying someone despite being attracted to the other sex without telling them and then having an affair with someone definitely makes you a bad person. But that’s me.
I can even tolerate / excuse / forgive up until that point, because it is indeed an unfair system. She took a gamble and got caught, at which point she ought to have made a deal with the guy. Not exploited the other unfair system of state violence against him.
Not op, but markdown is much more likely to render well in different contexts, without post processing. My editor understands markdown, GitHub understands markdown, the link preview renderer in <random collaborative tool> understands markdown. It’s the lowest common denominator
That's true, and it's why we're all using it. But those different renderers all support different ill-defined interpretations of Markdown. You can forget about all of them accepting raw HTML.
It has sufficient differences to what is already accepted "everywhere" that I would have think about syntax more often than I'd like. That is enough. The minor inconveniences of Markdown incompatibilities are smaller than the inconveniece of AsciiDoc. It simply doesn't offer nearly enough potential advantages to be worth the hassle.
> It would be a pretty bad strategy to continue to outsource everything and continue to see a massive trade imbalance with the outside world for a prolonged period of time.
It's not actually a strategy at all. It's the organic result of being the global reserve currency. Foreigners want American dollars so that they can trade with everyone else and are incentivized to do whatever it takes to get it.
Also, the "massive trade imbalance" is only an imbalance in goods. When you take services & the flow of foreign investments/loans into consideration as well, things don't look anywhere near as uneven as Donald Trump would like you to believe.
It’s not even just the flow of services Trump is ignoring: an iPhone is made in China but the design and software is done in the USA, most of the parts come from other countries, most of an iPhone’s value isn’t originating from China.
Trump wants us to give up high value jobs in designing hardware and software so we can make less working in factories again.
No... not everyone is capable of doing hardware or software design... There are over 350 million people in the US. There are nowhere near that many software/hardware jobs.. or other IP generating jobs. Not only that, but corporations are bringing in a lot of people to do those jobs as well, driving down those wages.
It's not even just jobs, it's also the tax revenue itself.. the population is overburdened with taxes and increased prices combined with relatively lower wages due to excessive inflation the past few years. While tariffs can increase prices, they can also eat into the margins of foreign production leading to more insourcing of jobs.
Beyond those aspects is being able to handle production of critical infrastructure in times of supply constraints... such as war or a global pandemic. You can increase from 50% production of medications to 100% of domestic needs pretty easily, but scaling from 0% is almost impossible in any reasonable time frame.
We already have a low unemployment rate and we have plenty of low paying jobs even in manufacturing that are going unfilled now. Surely those workers have to come from somewhere, and China is really eager to switch places with us. A decade from now Americans will probably be manufacturing stuff for rich Chinese consumers who would rather work jobs in product design and software development that we used to do, and we will owe it all to Trump and the voters that put him in power.
I'm in the middle of a manic episode and could really use a sanity check.
My email is [my first name].[my last name]@gmail.com
Feel free to examine my last submission to Hacker News.
Please begin your email title with "YOUR FIRST MISTAKE IS".
Thanks in advance.
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