TheMagician0's comments

On: Uber’s self-driving cars start picking up passenge...

[TheMagician0]

Will a Self-Driving Car be available for ride service by the end of 2018? http://www.metaculus.com/questions/181/will-a-self-driving-c...

On: Bill Gates et. al. launch massive clean-energy fun...

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Would BEV actually create an impact on this?: http://www.metaculus.com/questions/223/will-we-keep-the-glob...

On: Nintendo Switch Demoed on Late-Night TV

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There is also rumor about Image projection being part of the feature: http://www.metaculus.com/questions/398/image-projection-pate...

On: Aging as a disease?

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Is it going to happen? http://www.metaculus.com/questions/143/will-the-who-classify...

On: The Case Against Dark Matter

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Xenon1T's result is much anticipated: http://www.metaculus.com/questions/199/will-the-xenon1t-expe...

On: Turing Learning uses Turing test to drive unsuperv...

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Great find on the article. Perhaps one day the judges for the Loebren Prize will be replaced by these "self-learning" robots. There is a discussion about this on Metaculus-

http://www.metaculus.com/questions/73/will-the-silver-turing...

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Do you have some kind of relationship with Metaculus? Because 9 of your 10 most recent postings mention them...

On: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Cana...

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Is this going to change the launch window (in 2018) for Red Dragon to Mars?? I guess it all depends on the reason for the launch failure. People on Metaculus are discussing about this- http://www.metaculus.com/questions/224/will-spacex-launch-fo...

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Last accident, Falcon Heavy had a big delay. Apparently SpaceX pulled engineering resources off of FH to work on F9. Given that the 2018 launch window is narrow, it's quite likely that Red Dragon won't launch until the 2020 launch window.

p.s. are you involved with Metaculus in some way? All of your recent postings appear to mention metaculus.com.

On: Just how dangerous is it to travel at 20% the spee...

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Another aspect of the project's challenge is funding. While technically plausible in principle to develop such system, the total funding needed is on the order of $5-10 Billion. There is a relevant discussion about this on [Metaculus](http://www.metaculus.com/questions/208/to-the-stars-1-will-t...), for those who are interested.

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There is actually a "Beam Propulsion Series" on Metaculus(http://www.metaculus.com/questions/#/search/series--beam-pro...) addressing relevant questions about the Starshot Project.

On: Why Apple isn't talking about virtual reality just...

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Count Yours In– The Power Of Collective Prediction http://www.metaculus.com/questions/231/apple-virtualaugmente...

On: One fast vaccine strategy could protect against Eb...

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Would sure hope that this vaccine will prevent [this](http://www.metaculus.com/questions/195/will-the-next-ebola-o...) to resolve positively.