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One of the things that humans are particularly good at is telling others, starting with dogs and children, how good or bad they are being and how much we like or don’t like what they are doing. After that, it will be a case of building up the corpus of practical and moral judgments. Almost all of this will consist of simply knowing how to do things, including making coffee. The more that robots record all these judgments and share them in a central repository, the sooner we will have a corpus on which to base commonsense ability and morality.
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
Over the long term—potentially many years or even decades—Stripe has told investors it could generate 60% operating margins, without accounting for interest, taxes, depreciation, amortization or stock-based compensation. That’ll be a steep climb—up from an expected 3% margin this year. (The company told investors its last three years of operating margins were 8%.)
Why Stripe Is Cheaper Than Adyen
theinformation.com
Research across a variety of settings has shown that being smart makes you better at motivated reasoning, the tendency to reason about information to confirm your prior beliefs and arrive at the conclusion you desire.
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