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I have a bizarre love for the heat death theory, partially because it goes so well with Lovecraft's "And with strange aeons even death may die" in my mind.

This is like asking a group of artisans what is the best kind of timber to make furniture out of, I'm afraid.

What other interests should the EU have on this topic? Genuinely interested in people's views.

Although just like the things you list, I can think of a plethora of ways with which advertising can literally, indirectly change my life by convincing me to purchase a product or service.

Yesterday I promised myself to not buy cigarettes anymore nor ask anyone to do it on my behalf. This first step only requires tremendous willpower when visiting a store, as the dispensers are placed at checkouts so I must stand right next to them when I'm in the queue.

I was intrigued by this a while back. I think of training a NN as generating a function, an equation, from a training set which, given a specific input, outputs a prediction. If you can come up with an equation-input pair that, when executed, a) accurately enough approximates some data, and b) requires less space than the original file, you have achieved (most likely lossy) compression.

My acquaintance tells me the same. Presidential election being less than a month away I can see it being a big thing there, too.

I would guess one of the reasons to be the fact that there are a myriad of (money-free) hosting providers out there offering plain drag&drop file uploading with PHP support (often paired with a mysql database access). This makes PHP software extremely easy to install.

Not that it would be even possible to run non-PHP server side scripts with majority of said providers...

This is just a wild guess which I can't verify at the moment, but have you tried setting the evil bit in your outbound packet headers, as per RFC3514?

For now, these decisions will be made for me by our gofmt overlords.

Perhaps the thing we call empathy is just a strange side effect of the negative subconscious feedback a member of group-oriented species gets when their friend is, or is going to be harmed, physically or otherwise. The choice between gaining/saving an ally or gaining a treat can certainly be a selfish one, and in my opinion most likely is.

"Any sufficiently advanced AGI is indistinguishable from parent" just crossed my mind and I wanted to share.