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camilo16 t1_iw0znmw wrote

Reply to comment by ProtoplanetaryNebula in Scientists Taught an AI to ‘Sleep’ So That It Doesn't Forget What It Learned, Like a Person. Researchers say counting sleep may be the best way for AIs to exhibit life-long learning. by mossadnik

The way it learnt was by setting a few million floating point values to some number sequence.

If that number sequence changes it might no longer be able to perform the original task it learnt.

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camilo16 t1_itxbh8l wrote

Reply to comment by lilmammamia in Recycling plastic is practically impossible — and the problem is getting worse by chrisdh79

Dude I don't think you are thinking about all the plastic we produce and consume.

Your phone has plastic elements in it, the airbags used to cushion items in transit use plastic. The packaging of most consumer goods uses plastic. The packaging of lots of food items such as fruits and vegetables and meat uses plastic.

Go over every item in your house, notice how many items you have that use plastic or came in a plastic packaging. The issue is beyond just consumption patterns.

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Reply to comment by Gavus_canarchiste in [OC] Chances to attend a "Grande Ecole (Top university) in France. If you want to attend "ENA", the best university in France, you have 330x chances if your father graduated from there. by pacmanpill

There's 2 different concepts you are merging. Merit and access to opportunity.

If I am hiring people based on intelligence and I hire the truly smartest person. That was a meritocratic selection.

If the person is the smartest because they were born to smart parents, got lots of academic support and an environment conductive to learning, that was unequal access to opportunity relative to other people.

A system can both be meritocratic and have a large disparity in access to opportunity, the concepts are totally orthogonal.

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