I'm sorry to say (it broke my heart to learn it) we are never going very far at all using conventional motion. Unconventional motion, such as the alcuberie drive, all require such extreme amounts of energy and exotic matter that they won't be macroscopically possible possibly forever.
There is no getting around time dialation, simply crossing the Milky Way takes 100k years, another 100k to get back. After a few tens of trips the universe will have doubled in age, we would have collided with andromeda and other galaxies long ago and the universe would be old. Simply moving through space, even at light speed, is far too slow to ever get us more than a small handful of nearby systems, each being essentially cut off from the rest of the universe.
Most people are extremely bad at assessing risk. The odds of aliens showing up to destroy the world hollywood style is only infinitesimally better than the Hisenburg uncertainty principle spontaneously assembling stacks of money in my refrigerator. However, global warfare (doesn't have to be nuclear), or a serious pandemic, or even just automation based inequality are real and not that unlikely by comparison threats that could kill (or indirectly kill) 1 in 10 or more decimating the world.
Our brains have many different parts each with thier own function(s). It's pretty apparent humans have many simple algorithms running simultaneously, in addition to whatever else happens. So the obvious conclusion that will surprise no one is that a true AI like a human would just have deep learning (or a number of deep learning modules) as a single component among thousands that would be required to get the emergent behavior that is strong AI. The technique is simple, easy to implement, and accomplishes certain simple tasks with ease so it's usefulness as a tool when designing strong AI won't ever go away. There is no magic in our molecules, there is nothing magic about strong AI, it should be obvious a single algorithm won't ever make a strong AI, we and other animals prove it can be done it's just difficult. People need to get over it and realize that when millions of people work together, contributing our results and pooling our knowledge, we can make much of science fiction a reality (hopefully just the better parts).
And in 10 years we will be probably be debating if the camera in our smart underwear really is that invasive. Between new sensor technology and computers in general getting better, smaller, and cheaper all the time, and inexpensive ubiquitous data connections I think we are past the point of no return.
I agree but I have this tiny inconsequential concern. It's not just porn. It's going to be everywhere and for everything - news reports, social media, Snapchat+, Facebook, home video editing, etc... Think we are plagued wtih fake news now? Because this technology seems poised to undermine all video sources forever. It's going to get worse when you can correctly simulate it across multiple simultaneous feeds, which I assume is already on the drawing board. Yep. Was nice knowing you all.
Maybe explain why article 1 states Nixon obstructed justice because you make it sound like a sitting president is not capable of obstructing justice. Secondly the pardoning powers were never intended to self pardon so that you may continue your crime spree in office while congress tries to act fast (fast is months to years), there is absolutely no precedent for that. The real danger is the creep we are seeing in political openness to stating they are openly corrupt - this is getting worse on both D and D sides as they get more and more comfortable being above the law.
At least with Beanie Babies you got some fluff to hold onto. With crypto you just get a bunch of numbers that don't even have stitches and cloth baking them.
Sounds like the problem is you aren't storing your bits in a cuddly medium. I think we can have it both ways by encoding the bits straight into the cloth and fluff. Gives new meaning to holding your crypto, plus has the benefit of cute cat video viral advertising. I expect 100 fluff coin as payment for unleashing this cuddly genius upon the world, and given the beanie baby craze should be enough to buy a nice island somewhere.
I'm sorry, did you just call a PhD engineering student who dropped out to form a multimillion dollar technology push company from just my masters thesis a conservative? Because I think I can add bad at stereotypes alongside judge of character. If you don't believe me have a look at my post history.
From someone who has had thier not that small startup get absolutely trashed by VC I agree with most of what you wrote, my main disagreement is it's a worse landscape than you paint. You are leaving out a complete disregard for all laws or actions that they probably won't be held accountable to. Here is how I was scammed
It was a university startup and while I had the largest ownership by a good margin, we started with around 12 owners including some facility and licensed the technology through the university (you don't own what you invent at universities just like at companies). This made politics an issue from day one as emails from senior university officials from the business development office had comments like "who cares, fuck the students" and the law services butchered the articles of incorporation when a simple boiler plate would have been better. I was working two and a half full time jobs managing the technology and as this was my first company I had quite a bit to learn. We eventually took on money to produce product, but this basically "required" taking on a CEO with experience who due to various NDAs keeping information from us turned out to be a typical finnancial criminal. After the first CEO colluded with this new hire CEO, he was able to vote shares not yet vested through the milestones outlined in his agreement through a stupid and ignorant loophole in our articles and the agreement language. By combining them with the shares we lost in the opening round we lost control of the company. The CEO then made a predatory purchase agreement with the contract manufacturer who also happened to be the largest VC. This 10 million dollar purchase was hidden from finnancial disclosure during a subsequent investment round. When the company had a shortfall and couldn't pay an emergency shareholder meeting was called 1 week from an announcement on Christmas Eve night where it was announced the 10 million dollars invested in the company was now worthless because the company was insolvent and we now were so lucky to have our entire company bailed out ( with a 14-1 dilution) by undisclosed people who only paid 400k and the whole deal was kept secret to a few select large VC who fucked all the others (and me) over using inside knowledge of the company. They wouldn't provide any of the legal documentation required by law before the meeting and when a class action lawsuit started up the independent council investigating took verbal confirmation that they had in fact had a secret document that had disclosed the 10m off the books deal. I should have known when I tried to hire a law firm and the first 12 had conflicts that I was really fucked.
tl:dr VC will just take your company and kick your withered corpse to the curb but only after milking all of your contacts and resources dry then burning the bridges on your behalf. The only reason you should take on money is if you are damn sure you can get the upper hand and fuck them over financially, because that's the only reason VC invest in startups.
You cannot teach critical thinking when it comes to religion or politics. There is something that goes on deep in the brain that causes people to cling to ideologies. It applies to all ideologies and almost all people.
I and many studies disagree with you, if you include children. Children aren't born Christian or Muslim that bullcrap needs to be pushed in while the brain is still malleable and will believe anything. The same thing goes for teaching kids morals. You provide no direction and it defaults to anything goes mob rule might makes right instead of a moral system that is fair and respects people's freedoms. I actually liked lying to my kids about santa and the tooth fairy. My oldest has figured it out on his own and we had a great talk about how he now knew what I was saying was a lie. Now they don't trust me before thinking things through for themselves, it's a little known and critical part of growing up that some people never do they switch from blindly believing thier parents to the similar talking heads on thier tv/phone. Trying to fix the atrophied brains late in life rarely ends well, they often just rage and can't explain why when presented with facts contrary to thier world view.
Since it appears we have reached the point where too many Americans believe things like Hillary is running a child sex slave ring on Mars I'd just like to say it's been fun but I think we are well and truly fucked at this point. This is really just another "failure" like Tey where the problem is just that it is a reflection of how people want to use the technology. The algorithm is "failing" because divisiveness, tribalism, hatred, not challenging people to think and a deep seated pride in willful ignorance fuled by confidence in whatever you believe is real is what the free market wants because that's what people want. The real bad actors are those that don't teach people to think critically from a young age, if you don't know what's real it's not even possible to act in your own self interest - people make choices they never would have if they only had a clear understanding of reality.
Yea, remember that now in 2018 half Trillion usd that we Americans gave to ISP? They now have stolen half a trillion dollars. Maybe this eli5 description will help you understand that companies will just fucking steal the money by socializing the costs and privatizing the gains. No, dumping more money on these asshats will make it worse. To make it end, hold each and every one of these criminals responsible, up the regulations several orders of magnitude to the point of bringing felony criminal charges to the CEO and board every offense, and put the protection back on the consumer instead of protecting and diverting public funds to for profit companies that commit crimes.
Maybe he should have rephrased it to if a poor person and rich person do the same crime, the poor person is 500x more likely to do the time because that is closer to reality than rich people get the same justice as poor. In reality the poor can't commit the large finnancial and environmental disasters that the rich are so rarely if ever held to account.
Open up the Phone app and dial in *3001#12345#* , then hit Call . Field Test Mode will open up immediately and you'll see the signal strength in dBm in the upper left corner of the screen. Tapping the number (or baubles) will toggle between dBm and little baubles
Is pure gold on iPhones because when you have a real signal strength reading you have a much better idea of how well your phone is receiving and where dead spots are.
Probably not any help but I had the same issue occasionally on my 6s but it stopped when I switched carriers so I assumed it was a SIM card or carrier issue.
I think phones have been on a steady decay of actual performance as a phone ever since they stopped using sensible antennas. Not to worry, I'm sure those people were just answering it wrong...
What would you prefer: a smashed camera, or blatant evidence of actions which would definitely put your life in danger.
I'm assuming if you are a journalist with that task then you don't value your safety much in the first place. It's really surprising more don't just end up "missing". Anyhow the best bet in this case is to have a satellite link and dummy photos on your camera. Because I agree with you and xkcd on the security of encryption.
I'm pretty sure the only ones that are going to take an ass pounding are WF victi^h^h^h^h^h customers. This unaccountability is the result of unlimited money and the citizens are no longer fairly represented by either side.
I can't wait for a general purpose android with weak AI. With a true general purpose humanoid robot I'm sure we will hear the same argument that surely there should be at least one human on the assembly floor, or in the kitchens. But eventually the last mile problem in general will be solved. It may not be a good idea to put total control of the technology and infrastructure that took billions of humans to in the hands of a dozen or so people who couldn't possibly have earned or even understood what they were claiming ownership of.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sorry to say (it broke my heart to learn it) we are never going very far at all using conventional motion. Unconventional motion, such as the alcuberie drive, all require such extreme amounts of energy and exotic matter that they won't be macroscopically possible possibly forever.
There is no getting around time dialation, simply crossing the Milky Way takes 100k years, another 100k to get back. After a few tens of trips the universe will have doubled in age, we would have collided with andromeda and other galaxies long ago and the universe would be old. Simply moving through space, even at light speed, is far too slow to ever get us more than a small handful of nearby systems, each being essentially cut off from the rest of the universe.
Most people are extremely bad at assessing risk. The odds of aliens showing up to destroy the world hollywood style is only infinitesimally better than the Hisenburg uncertainty principle spontaneously assembling stacks of money in my refrigerator. However, global warfare (doesn't have to be nuclear), or a serious pandemic, or even just automation based inequality are real and not that unlikely by comparison threats that could kill (or indirectly kill) 1 in 10 or more decimating the world.
Our brains have many different parts each with thier own function(s). It's pretty apparent humans have many simple algorithms running simultaneously, in addition to whatever else happens. So the obvious conclusion that will surprise no one is that a true AI like a human would just have deep learning (or a number of deep learning modules) as a single component among thousands that would be required to get the emergent behavior that is strong AI. The technique is simple, easy to implement, and accomplishes certain simple tasks with ease so it's usefulness as a tool when designing strong AI won't ever go away. There is no magic in our molecules, there is nothing magic about strong AI, it should be obvious a single algorithm won't ever make a strong AI, we and other animals prove it can be done it's just difficult. People need to get over it and realize that when millions of people work together, contributing our results and pooling our knowledge, we can make much of science fiction a reality (hopefully just the better parts).
And in 10 years we will be probably be debating if the camera in our smart underwear really is that invasive. Between new sensor technology and computers in general getting better, smaller, and cheaper all the time, and inexpensive ubiquitous data connections I think we are past the point of no return.
Quit being obtuse. Clearly it's this kind of leek
I'm sure Apple has a team of smart folks going over this code with a fine toothed comb, and any issues found will be fixed soonish.
To be honest, since this code came from apple, I'd be quite suprised indeed if it was never checked for issues.
I agree but I have this tiny inconsequential concern. It's not just porn. It's going to be everywhere and for everything - news reports, social media, Snapchat+, Facebook, home video editing, etc... Think we are plagued wtih fake news now? Because this technology seems poised to undermine all video sources forever. It's going to get worse when you can correctly simulate it across multiple simultaneous feeds, which I assume is already on the drawing board. Yep. Was nice knowing you all.
D and R goddamn you auto errect.
Maybe explain why article 1 states Nixon obstructed justice because you make it sound like a sitting president is not capable of obstructing justice. Secondly the pardoning powers were never intended to self pardon so that you may continue your crime spree in office while congress tries to act fast (fast is months to years), there is absolutely no precedent for that. The real danger is the creep we are seeing in political openness to stating they are openly corrupt - this is getting worse on both D and D sides as they get more and more comfortable being above the law.
At least with Beanie Babies you got some fluff to hold onto. With crypto you just get a bunch of numbers that don't even have stitches and cloth baking them.
Sounds like the problem is you aren't storing your bits in a cuddly medium. I think we can have it both ways by encoding the bits straight into the cloth and fluff. Gives new meaning to holding your crypto, plus has the benefit of cute cat video viral advertising. I expect 100 fluff coin as payment for unleashing this cuddly genius upon the world, and given the beanie baby craze should be enough to buy a nice island somewhere.
I'm sorry, did you just call a PhD engineering student who dropped out to form a multimillion dollar technology push company from just my masters thesis a conservative? Because I think I can add bad at stereotypes alongside judge of character. If you don't believe me have a look at my post history.
From someone who has had thier not that small startup get absolutely trashed by VC I agree with most of what you wrote, my main disagreement is it's a worse landscape than you paint. You are leaving out a complete disregard for all laws or actions that they probably won't be held accountable to. Here is how I was scammed
It was a university startup and while I had the largest ownership by a good margin, we started with around 12 owners including some facility and licensed the technology through the university (you don't own what you invent at universities just like at companies). This made politics an issue from day one as emails from senior university officials from the business development office had comments like "who cares, fuck the students" and the law services butchered the articles of incorporation when a simple boiler plate would have been better. I was working two and a half full time jobs managing the technology and as this was my first company I had quite a bit to learn. We eventually took on money to produce product, but this basically "required" taking on a CEO with experience who due to various NDAs keeping information from us turned out to be a typical finnancial criminal. After the first CEO colluded with this new hire CEO, he was able to vote shares not yet vested through the milestones outlined in his agreement through a stupid and ignorant loophole in our articles and the agreement language. By combining them with the shares we lost in the opening round we lost control of the company. The CEO then made a predatory purchase agreement with the contract manufacturer who also happened to be the largest VC. This 10 million dollar purchase was hidden from finnancial disclosure during a subsequent investment round. When the company had a shortfall and couldn't pay an emergency shareholder meeting was called 1 week from an announcement on Christmas Eve night where it was announced the 10 million dollars invested in the company was now worthless because the company was insolvent and we now were so lucky to have our entire company bailed out ( with a 14-1 dilution) by undisclosed people who only paid 400k and the whole deal was kept secret to a few select large VC who fucked all the others (and me) over using inside knowledge of the company. They wouldn't provide any of the legal documentation required by law before the meeting and when a class action lawsuit started up the independent council investigating took verbal confirmation that they had in fact had a secret document that had disclosed the 10m off the books deal. I should have known when I tried to hire a law firm and the first 12 had conflicts that I was really fucked.
tl:dr VC will just take your company and kick your withered corpse to the curb but only after milking all of your contacts and resources dry then burning the bridges on your behalf. The only reason you should take on money is if you are damn sure you can get the upper hand and fuck them over financially, because that's the only reason VC invest in startups.
You cannot teach critical thinking when it comes to religion or politics. There is something that goes on deep in the brain that causes people to cling to ideologies. It applies to all ideologies and almost all people.
I and many studies disagree with you, if you include children. Children aren't born Christian or Muslim that bullcrap needs to be pushed in while the brain is still malleable and will believe anything. The same thing goes for teaching kids morals. You provide no direction and it defaults to anything goes mob rule might makes right instead of a moral system that is fair and respects people's freedoms. I actually liked lying to my kids about santa and the tooth fairy. My oldest has figured it out on his own and we had a great talk about how he now knew what I was saying was a lie. Now they don't trust me before thinking things through for themselves, it's a little known and critical part of growing up that some people never do they switch from blindly believing thier parents to the similar talking heads on thier tv/phone. Trying to fix the atrophied brains late in life rarely ends well, they often just rage and can't explain why when presented with facts contrary to thier world view.
Since it appears we have reached the point where too many Americans believe things like Hillary is running a child sex slave ring on Mars I'd just like to say it's been fun but I think we are well and truly fucked at this point.
This is really just another "failure" like Tey where the problem is just that it is a reflection of how people want to use the technology. The algorithm is "failing" because divisiveness, tribalism, hatred, not challenging people to think and a deep seated pride in willful ignorance fuled by confidence in whatever you believe is real is what the free market wants because that's what people want. The real bad actors are those that don't teach people to think critically from a young age, if you don't know what's real it's not even possible to act in your own self interest - people make choices they never would have if they only had a clear understanding of reality.
lol that's not a problem, it took years of lobbying and massive inside collusion with competitors to price fix nearly all internet in America.
Yea, remember that now in 2018 half Trillion usd that we Americans gave to ISP? They now have stolen half a trillion dollars. Maybe this eli5 description will help you understand that companies will just fucking steal the money by socializing the costs and privatizing the gains. No, dumping more money on these asshats will make it worse. To make it end, hold each and every one of these criminals responsible, up the regulations several orders of magnitude to the point of bringing felony criminal charges to the CEO and board every offense, and put the protection back on the consumer instead of protecting and diverting public funds to for profit companies that commit crimes.
Maybe he should have rephrased it to if a poor person and rich person do the same crime, the poor person is 500x more likely to do the time because that is closer to reality than rich people get the same justice as poor. In reality the poor can't commit the large finnancial and environmental disasters that the rich are so rarely if ever held to account.
Open up the Phone app and dial in *3001#12345#* , then hit Call . Field Test Mode will open up immediately and you'll see the signal strength in dBm in the upper left corner of the screen. Tapping the number (or baubles) will toggle between dBm and little baubles
Is pure gold on iPhones because when you have a real signal strength reading you have a much better idea of how well your phone is receiving and where dead spots are.
Probably not any help but I had the same issue occasionally on my 6s but it stopped when I switched carriers so I assumed it was a SIM card or carrier issue.
I think phones have been on a steady decay of actual performance as a phone ever since they stopped using sensible antennas. Not to worry, I'm sure those people were just answering it wrong...
What would you prefer: a smashed camera, or blatant evidence of actions which would definitely put your life in danger.
I'm assuming if you are a journalist with that task then you don't value your safety much in the first place. It's really surprising more don't just end up "missing". Anyhow the best bet in this case is to have a satellite link and dummy photos on your camera. Because I agree with you and xkcd on the security of encryption.
I'm pretty sure the only ones that are going to take an ass pounding are WF victi^h^h^h^h^h customers. This unaccountability is the result of unlimited money and the citizens are no longer fairly represented by either side.
I don't think flame throwers are the best for this, there is too much collateral damage.
It's hard to judge fairlywithout knowing all of the details.
FTFY. Because half the reason we are in this mess it it's damn easy for people to judge off a clickbait headline.
I can't wait for a general purpose android with weak AI. With a true general purpose humanoid robot I'm sure we will hear the same argument that surely there should be at least one human on the assembly floor, or in the kitchens. But eventually the last mile problem in general will be solved. It may not be a good idea to put total control of the technology and infrastructure that took billions of humans to in the hands of a dozen or so people who couldn't possibly have earned or even understood what they were claiming ownership of.