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TLDR: Players are more likely to pick the move that just won.

To exploit that, the best strategy would probably be to always pick the move that wasn't played. Should give you an edge until your opponent notices your pattern :)

Apple never showed the path prominently in the first place. Since System 7 you can Cmd-Click the title bar to show a menu with the path, and you can use Cmd-I to show the path in the Info panel.

Not including a path bar by default doesn't mean they "try to hide the information", it's just a different UI design.

No one said love was without risks!

Joking aside, I think you are misunderstanding me.

I don't suggest anybody should be fired for asking someone for a date. I'm saying that company policy can give you an easy way to say "no" to a date: "Sorry, I don't want to jeopardize my career, you know company policy.". Ideally, the person asking you out will accept your rejection, and there's no need to fire anyone.

I assume it's about setting expectations. If you meet your true love at work, company policy isn't going to stop you.

But company policy might give you an easy way out when someone is hitting on you (and you aren't interested), without hurt feelings.

Also, this isn't just about men hitting on women; it also goes the other way.

But information can not be transferred as we please. I believe that our consciousness arises from the information stored in the material structure of our brain. But there is no reason to believe we have any way of extracting or transferring this information to another place.

If you assume this step is a "small leap" you are entering the realm of science fiction. And that's okay, I greatly enjoy reading science fiction. But if you tell people that this might actually become reality in the future, they will rightfully be skeptical.

The argument with the trash I was trying to make was that we don't need magic to make things that are beyond our understanding. I do believe that our conscious derives from the physical structure of our brain, but that doesn't mean it is possible to "upload" it.

Yes, part of the impossibility stems from the impossibility of reading a brain. Non-destructive measurements aren't possible because the amount of energy required to scan the tiny structures in the brain would destroy it. Destructive measurements would destroy the brain while we read it, and we can only read a subset of the information before the whole brain is destroyed.

But even if it was possible to scan a brain, I think you are underestimating the task of creating an artificial brain. Storage is the least of our troubles. To actually simulate the neural net, each of these two thousand hard drives must be connected to every other one, requiring millions of interconnects, and then you need millions of processors, and every simulation step touches every byte of every hard drive. This is so many orders of magnitude beyond what we can do now that I doubt it is ever possible.

I think the only feasible way of uploading a brain will be to create a program that can convince everyone that the uploaded person is actually living inside the computer, similar to the Turing test. You'd configure the program by telling it anecdotes from your life and taking psychological tests, rather than "scan your brain". However, I consider even this variant unlikely, because it would basically require something similar to an AI.

> your business failed because nobody signed up

Why? Almost all websites require email confirmation; sending someone a login-URL via email actually has less friction because the password-choosing step is removed!

> it's perfectly possible to store passwords in a secure format

But it's very hard to do so. Even if you use scrypt, it is very hard to make sure your whole system is actually secure against password leakage.

The simple truth is that letting your users choose their own passwords is a liability; and I've decided to avoid this liability.

The biggest issue here is that users are allowed to pick their own passwords in the first place. Sure, you can require them to use passwords with a capital letter and with a number and with a punctuation character, but that will just make them pick "Password1."

Better: Use one time passwords sent via SMS. Or send a one-time-login URL via email.

If you do have to use a password, just generate a 10 digit numeric code. Sure, some of your customers might complain, but at least you aren't responsible for disclosing people's ebay password when your site gets hacked.

> relies on the assumption that there is something special about the mechanisms behind the human brain's function

Imagine someone spilled the contents of a large trash in a pile on the floor. Now it is your task to create an exact replica of this pile.

There was absolutely nothing special going on when that pile of trash was generated, and yet it is impossible to replicate.

Sure, you can create similar piles of trash by spilling other trash cans on the floor, or you can carefully arrange banana peels an half-filled soda cans to create a pile that looks similar from the surface. But generate an exact copy? No way.

> It doesn't take much of a leap...

Do you have any clue about the current state of neuroscientific research? Scientists are struggling to understand a single neuron, there are no models that reliably predict networks of more than two neurons, and the current state of the art is recording partial signals from a few dozen neurons.

"Brain upload" is just the modern day version of the philosophers' stone. As more knowledge about the human brain will be taught in schools, and the current state of the art will become public knowledge, people will look back at the idea of "brain uploads" just like we look back on the idea of "turn lead into gold".

If it's just about target audience, then I wonder why all these companies seem to target detergents / toothpaste / toilet paper exclusively to 25 year olds...

Losening your grip just as the axe hits the wood also works for normal axes. Makes chopping a lot easier on the wrist.

I find it odd that the only moral issue people seem to find with procedures like this is whether it is okay to kill an egg cell, or an early stage embryo.

These egg cells don't grow on trees. They must be harvested from human beings. Egg cell harvesting is a complex process, requiring the donors (young women) to take experimental drugs with possibly harmful long term sideeffects.

If we are using human egg cells for experiments, or at some point in the future, for curing old people, aren't we exploiting the young woman we take those egg cells from?

Mac OS X has something similar to this "Software HSM": the Keychain. You can put private keys in your keychain, and apps can use them for signing or encrypting, but they can't extract them. It's quite nicely implemented; when an app tries to access a key the first time, a dialog will pop up saying something like "Mail is trying to use key xyz for decryption. Do you want to allow?".

Of course, this requires using Apple's APIs, which are poorly documented and a pain in the neck even compared to OpenSSL. It's also not suitable for servers.