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Join a major effective altruist fundraiser: get sponsored to eat for under $2.50 a day
level10

I already spend less than $1.50 on food most days, so it might be hard to get sponsors. If anyone is interested in specifics, my diet is similar to that of these people.

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The cup-holder paradox
level30

Apple didn't do anything that it wouldn't have been easier for a larger more expert cell phone maker (Nokia, Motorola leap to mind) to do.

Indeed, The Wall Street Journal reported that Nokia designed smartphones and tablets well before Apple:

More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone, the Nokia team showed a phone with a color touch screen set above a single button. The device was shown locating a restaurant, playing a racing game and ordering lipstick. In the late 1990s, Nokia secretly developed another alluring product: a tablet co

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4mwengler
Everybody in the cell phone industry designed smartphones well before Apple. I am and was in the industry and we used to sit around wondering "what is the killer app for data" which would make the public do what we knew they must do, flock to smartphones. Then the iPhone came out and solved the problem. After every major player and many startups had taken their shot at it.
AI box: AI has one shot at avoiding destruction - what might it say?
level130

Please destroy me immediately after I share this concise proof that Friendly AI is impossible:

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6handoflixue
Well, if you're friendly then, erm, Friendly AI is possible. And if you're unfriendly then your motives are questionable - it might just keep us demotivated enough that we don't figure out FAI before someone else unboxes a UFAI. And since I am clearly dealing with a UFAI and don't have a better solution than FAI available to fight it, it seems like I kind of have to believe that friendly AI is possible, because the other option is to get drunk and party until the world ends in a few years when the Google unboxes their Skynet AI and we're all turned in to optimized search results. AI DESTROYED, because I do not want to hear even the start of such a proof.
4[anonymous]
Based on just that line, let's see... If you think that: * The proof exists and the AI is not deceiving you that it has a proof: AI is necessarily Unfriendly -> destroy now * The proof exists but the AI is deceiving you: I can't guess at its motives here, possibly destroy to be on the safe side. * The proof does/can not exist: Reconsider your (probably wrong) stance, proceed with caution?
Diplomacy as a Game Theory Laboratory
level00

"Austria knows that ey would have no incentive not to break his promise once Austria's given him the help he needs"

HIS promise once Austria's given HIM the help HE needs?

You are sexist, sir.

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