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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
~1 Exaflop leaves room for error.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is inaccurate. We understand much of how it works, how vision, speech, etc work but we don't understand consciousness which is quite different.
Comment · 7 years ago
Modern supercomputers are still a factor of 10 off of the brains compute power(~1 Exaflop) but I don't think anyone in the field believes that you suddenly get consciousness once you reach a critical mass of compute. It's clearly a software problem.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Colleges can admit whoever they want for whatever reason they want, there's nothing fraudulent about that. Unfair? Obviously but certainly not fraudulent. The examples I gave however are illegal and obviously different than donations for admission.
Comment · 7 years ago
Some of the examples were egregious, bribing Athletic Coaches to create fake profiles for the kids who weren't even athletes or paying people to take the SAT for their kids. Quite different than donating $100M for Admission.
Comment · 7 years ago
Exactly, how many thousands of very strong engineers are there in SV and most of them are not coming up with great businesses.
Comment · 7 years ago
>This accidents won’t harm Boeing reputation

It's already harmed and they longer they wait to take action the worse it will get. Their stock price is plummeting as we speak.

Comment · 7 years ago
>The lives lost already are a sunk cost.

You are either Autistic or you work for Boeing.

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