The problem with mathematicians is that they focus on optimization in the worst possible places. If they took a course on algorithms or at least studied graph theory, they would understand that you can model the cars and the space and derive what's not that.
You do realize that graph theory is a branch of mathematics that long predates computers, right? Euler published the first paper on the topic on 1736, on the bridges of Konigsberg, and humorously the first textbook was published in 1936 by a mathematician named Konig.
Dual graphs - one example of modeling the "space in between" (though not perhaps what you had in mind) are an old idea as well. The delightful 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel has a neat video on using graph duality to prove Euler's Formula (his "V - E + F = 2" formula that is, guy had a lot of formulas).
You're talking about some ideal of Communism. I'm not. I'm talking about what Stalin and Mao actually did as part of murdering 160 million people between them The "lost generation" in China is a direct result of tearing down all belief systems other than the state, starting with encouraging everyone to kill their teachers (and, heck, just anyone with a degree).
The rise of identity politics in America was on racial lines.
Seems like you've bought into the post-modernist song and dance. It's not psychologically healthy, and it's not good for the country.
lot of his supporters look a lot like Hitler supporters in their mindset.
Do you mean the people who want a stable economy, clean factories, universal halth care, social security, and all the similar stuff the Nazis rose to power on? I don't think you do. I think you're talking about the hate agression that became the focus after Hitler took power, and murdered all the Nazi leaders who cared about all the early stuff. Do you see the difference?
The video you linked to (seen it, I subscribe to that guy) was about people gaming the YouTube recommendation engine to get views from pre-literate kids for ad money. It's pretty much algorithmic imagery at this point. It's not what people are worried about, except to the extent they show characters kids know being injured. That latter part is much like the long-running debate on cartoon violence.
There's also a problem with stuff like "images of clowns with blood on them, scary advertisements and messages telling them someone was at their door", which are not coming from the monetize-the-kids guys, and are very likely 4channers etc deliberately messing with YT Kids.
Does someone want to tell this particular leftist what "post-modernist" actually means?
Post-Modernism grew out of Stalinist/Maoist Communism, and is sort of a super-set. Communism focused on tearing down people's beliefs in anything but the state, and keeping people against each other on Marxist class warfare lines. Post-Modernism widens to use identity politics to set everyone against everyone else, and tears down not just peoples beliefs, but the idea of individual merit (anyone more successful than you must have cheated the system or oppressed you, because merit is a myth/social construct), and logical reasoning as a whole ("logic is a tool of the patriarchy" and "mathematics embodies Whiteness" are actual papers, plus replacing reasoning with credentials).
The rise of identity politics in America, and the rise of this malicious mental conditioning to take offense at every little thing, are direct results of Post-Modernists growing in power.
BTW, the right-wingers you're worried about will seem much less threatening if you study how Hitler rose to power. These losers are neo-Nazis, and the difference is important: all they offer is hate and rage, which really isn't very compelling. The actual Nazis had far more mainstream appeal as they rose to power, selling order and stability in a very chaotic Germany, and amped up the hate and rage mostly after they had power. I.e., the current losers are missing any bait and offer only hook. (Let's hope their never smart enough to figure that out).
The colorful videos of copyrighted characters, while jarring and disturbing to adults, isn't what people are complaining about. This is the same old song as the complaints about Coyote and Roadrunner cartons. However, there's also some legitimately disturbing stuff there, though it's very rare, as groups like 4chan try to game the system for lols.
The clown costume is just a parody of the homeless alcoholic (at least, the homeless of a few decades back, when it became ritualized). Or at least I hope it's a parody, and not a remnant of a time when people paid random hobos to entertain their kids.
Wow. You really have some extremist views of the left.
Replace "left" with "progressive", or more honestly "Post-Modernist", and I agree with him. This is a problem the right in the US struggles with: there's this very small, but very vocal, part of the US left that active works to destroy America, or at least what we stand for. It's far too easy to attribute that motive to the left as a whole, but that's nonsense on par with calling all Trump supporters racists.
I think an important part of healing the current cultural rift in America is to distinguish between the actual fringe and the 80-90% of Americans left and right who are just normal people, without crazy views.
In fact, the people who like stuff like the Care Bears, Barney and My Little Pony are, in my opinion and experience, some of the most damaged and deranged individuals around, often with a complete inability to function in normal society.
CARE BEAR STARE! O.O
Oh, wait, this isn't an MMO flame war about whether the devs should focus on PvP or PvE content? Never mind then.
. Knife usage, safety, and care *used* to be part of Cub Scout and Boy Scout lore.
To this day when someone hands me something I will say "thank you" once I've grabbed whatever it is firmly. People think I'm oddly polite, but it's the Cub Scout sharps training: "thank you" is the verbal signal for the person handing you the knife to let go. Funny what stays with you.
Unless he also abused emulator features to cheat. That's why emulator runs have additional requirements to prove you're not cheating before they count.
The worst part of all of that is that Google is the worlds leading expert at demographic-based advertising. No one in the world knows better which ads would sell well on a Christian channel vs a prepper channel vs a movie review channel vs funny cat videos. But actually making a viable business out of YouTube is unimportant compared to their actual goal. Pisses me off to no end as I own a bit of GOOG stock indirectly. Evil and unprofitable is no way for a corporation to go through life.
Channels have to get to a certain size/credibility before anyone will. It's the only viable model though - I don't think any of the channels I watch are still monetized (and I only watch one political guy). No, wait, there's one magician who's still monetized, out of 20 or so channels I subscribe to. WTF youtube?
But, of course, no matter how egregious PewDiePie becomes, they'll keep showing ads on his channel.
Star Trek is about Star Fleet, though. Are any of the actual planets we've libertarian? I mean, there must have been one someone along the years? Right?
Ford has been investing in automation as heavily as the possibly could for about 40 years. They've fired every employee they possibly could because of that automation. To work around unions, they moved new vehicle lines to Mexico, moved to an almost entirely new models of vehicles (despite vehicle models have 100-year brand value) to get out of union restrictions, then moved almost every line back to heavily automated factory in the US. Ford is robotting as hard as they can! It doesn't get any more robot than Ford. Ford has 200,000 employees still.
It ain't a fucking magic wand, man. Change takes time.
It will be garbage. There's just no way Hollywood will show a functional, reasonably happy, libertarian society, any more than Paul Verhoeven could make Starship Troopers as anything but a cartoonish fascism.
The progressive movement looks very much like the early days of communism in Russia. And not by accident either - it's the same philosophy. None of the Leninists saw Stalin coming, after all (which is why he was able to kill them all). The American Neo-Nazis are, I think, less like the early Nazis, because the early Nazis were popular for reasons other than nationalism and racism, even after Hitler killed all the actual socialists the party still had a lot of local appeal on social issues.
Because humans are limited creatures and our actual material needs can already fulfilled quite easily with current technology. The rest of our needs, which are on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, many of us attempt to plug in material things to fill a void that won't be filled by materialistic possessions.
So, given human nature won't change, won't we just ramp up the material possessions to try to fill other needs? I fully expect whole new industries of consultants - as it gets harder to buy manufactured status symbols, status symbols will be more about clever personalization, and of course you'll be able to spend money to get that.
Our public schools are graduating students with little to no job skills, what makes us think this will change? How can these people _be_ trained for these jobs?
There are over a million skilled manufacturing jobs in the US that can't be filled due to lack of skilled workers. Germany has solved this problem, by not pretending "everyone goes to college". We'd do well to copy them.
As far as older workers needing to be retrained, most are smart enough that given good vocational training they could move to such a job - but there is no such training to be had in the US today for most jobs. That's another problem we need to solve, regardless of who pays for it.
But the worst problem is the growing % of people who just aren't smart enough to do skilled work (not even talking engineering, but skilled trades and skilled manufacturing). Do we give them makework jobs? Just giving them money but nothing to do is the wrong answer - that's exactly why we have the Oxy epidemic.
Right now less that 2% of jobs are done by "AI-related" automation. How fast do you imagine this technology will grow? 10x in 20 years would be amazing growth.
Only thing you can do is develop the ability to learn new thing quickly.
That's called "general intelligence" and is what IQ measures. If you can find a way to raise IQ, there's a multi-billion dollar market for that. Long term, it's possibly the most valuable invention possible. Poorly funded too, sadly enough.
What makes you think our wants are limited? What makes you think this time is special, this time unlike all the previous times there won't be new things we want?
Henry Ford needed a lot of people to build cars. Facebook and Google need far fewer people to write the software that makes up the profitable core of their businesses.
Ford today employs more people than Google and Facebook (200k vs 100k), but Ford when it was in it's first decade employed far fewer, even as a percentage of population.
If an individual or small team of people can write a best selling book, make a movie, write a program, produce a game, etc. that sells world wide to billions of people, The profits will be concentrated in a few hands.
No one has ever found a way around the Pareto Principle, and it seems to be the natural consequence of equality of opportunity. Because it's an exponential distribution, the larger the market the more concentrated success will be. Moving from many small markets to one global market inevitably produced this increased concentration, but the world is only so big, and we're already close to a single market for everything. I don't think this trend continues much farther.
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The problem with mathematicians is that they focus on optimization in the worst possible places. If they took a course on algorithms or at least studied graph theory, they would understand that you can model the cars and the space and derive what's not that.
You do realize that graph theory is a branch of mathematics that long predates computers, right? Euler published the first paper on the topic on 1736, on the bridges of Konigsberg, and humorously the first textbook was published in 1936 by a mathematician named Konig.
Dual graphs - one example of modeling the "space in between" (though not perhaps what you had in mind) are an old idea as well. The delightful 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel has a neat video on using graph duality to prove Euler's Formula (his "V - E + F = 2" formula that is, guy had a lot of formulas).
Well played, sir.
You're talking about some ideal of Communism. I'm not. I'm talking about what Stalin and Mao actually did as part of murdering 160 million people between them The "lost generation" in China is a direct result of tearing down all belief systems other than the state, starting with encouraging everyone to kill their teachers (and, heck, just anyone with a degree).
The rise of identity politics in America was on racial lines.
Seems like you've bought into the post-modernist song and dance. It's not psychologically healthy, and it's not good for the country.
lot of his supporters look a lot like Hitler supporters in their mindset.
Do you mean the people who want a stable economy, clean factories, universal halth care, social security, and all the similar stuff the Nazis rose to power on? I don't think you do. I think you're talking about the hate agression that became the focus after Hitler took power, and murdered all the Nazi leaders who cared about all the early stuff. Do you see the difference?
You're just trolling at this point.
The video you linked to (seen it, I subscribe to that guy) was about people gaming the YouTube recommendation engine to get views from pre-literate kids for ad money. It's pretty much algorithmic imagery at this point. It's not what people are worried about, except to the extent they show characters kids know being injured. That latter part is much like the long-running debate on cartoon violence.
There's also a problem with stuff like "images of clowns with blood on them, scary advertisements and messages telling them someone was at their door", which are not coming from the monetize-the-kids guys, and are very likely 4channers etc deliberately messing with YT Kids.
Does someone want to tell this particular leftist what "post-modernist" actually means?
Post-Modernism grew out of Stalinist/Maoist Communism, and is sort of a super-set. Communism focused on tearing down people's beliefs in anything but the state, and keeping people against each other on Marxist class warfare lines. Post-Modernism widens to use identity politics to set everyone against everyone else, and tears down not just peoples beliefs, but the idea of individual merit (anyone more successful than you must have cheated the system or oppressed you, because merit is a myth/social construct), and logical reasoning as a whole ("logic is a tool of the patriarchy" and "mathematics embodies Whiteness" are actual papers, plus replacing reasoning with credentials).
The rise of identity politics in America, and the rise of this malicious mental conditioning to take offense at every little thing, are direct results of Post-Modernists growing in power.
BTW, the right-wingers you're worried about will seem much less threatening if you study how Hitler rose to power. These losers are neo-Nazis, and the difference is important: all they offer is hate and rage, which really isn't very compelling. The actual Nazis had far more mainstream appeal as they rose to power, selling order and stability in a very chaotic Germany, and amped up the hate and rage mostly after they had power. I.e., the current losers are missing any bait and offer only hook. (Let's hope their never smart enough to figure that out).
The colorful videos of copyrighted characters, while jarring and disturbing to adults, isn't what people are complaining about. This is the same old song as the complaints about Coyote and Roadrunner cartons. However, there's also some legitimately disturbing stuff there, though it's very rare, as groups like 4chan try to game the system for lols.
The clown costume is just a parody of the homeless alcoholic (at least, the homeless of a few decades back, when it became ritualized). Or at least I hope it's a parody, and not a remnant of a time when people paid random hobos to entertain their kids.
Wow. You really have some extremist views of the left.
Replace "left" with "progressive", or more honestly "Post-Modernist", and I agree with him. This is a problem the right in the US struggles with: there's this very small, but very vocal, part of the US left that active works to destroy America, or at least what we stand for. It's far too easy to attribute that motive to the left as a whole, but that's nonsense on par with calling all Trump supporters racists.
I think an important part of healing the current cultural rift in America is to distinguish between the actual fringe and the 80-90% of Americans left and right who are just normal people, without crazy views.
In fact, the people who like stuff like the Care Bears, Barney and My Little Pony are, in my opinion and experience, some of the most damaged and deranged individuals around, often with a complete inability to function in normal society.
CARE BEAR STARE! O.O
Oh, wait, this isn't an MMO flame war about whether the devs should focus on PvP or PvE content? Never mind then.
. Knife usage, safety, and care *used* to be part of Cub Scout and Boy Scout lore.
To this day when someone hands me something I will say "thank you" once I've grabbed whatever it is firmly. People think I'm oddly polite, but it's the Cub Scout sharps training: "thank you" is the verbal signal for the person handing you the knife to let go. Funny what stays with you.
Unless he also abused emulator features to cheat. That's why emulator runs have additional requirements to prove you're not cheating before they count.
The worst part of all of that is that Google is the worlds leading expert at demographic-based advertising. No one in the world knows better which ads would sell well on a Christian channel vs a prepper channel vs a movie review channel vs funny cat videos. But actually making a viable business out of YouTube is unimportant compared to their actual goal. Pisses me off to no end as I own a bit of GOOG stock indirectly. Evil and unprofitable is no way for a corporation to go through life.
Channels have to get to a certain size/credibility before anyone will. It's the only viable model though - I don't think any of the channels I watch are still monetized (and I only watch one political guy). No, wait, there's one magician who's still monetized, out of 20 or so channels I subscribe to. WTF youtube?
But, of course, no matter how egregious PewDiePie becomes, they'll keep showing ads on his channel.
Star Trek is about Star Fleet, though. Are any of the actual planets we've libertarian? I mean, there must have been one someone along the years? Right?
Ford has been investing in automation as heavily as the possibly could for about 40 years. They've fired every employee they possibly could because of that automation. To work around unions, they moved new vehicle lines to Mexico, moved to an almost entirely new models of vehicles (despite vehicle models have 100-year brand value) to get out of union restrictions, then moved almost every line back to heavily automated factory in the US. Ford is robotting as hard as they can! It doesn't get any more robot than Ford. Ford has 200,000 employees still.
It ain't a fucking magic wand, man. Change takes time.
It will be garbage. There's just no way Hollywood will show a functional, reasonably happy, libertarian society, any more than Paul Verhoeven could make Starship Troopers as anything but a cartoonish fascism.
The progressive movement looks very much like the early days of communism in Russia. And not by accident either - it's the same philosophy. None of the Leninists saw Stalin coming, after all (which is why he was able to kill them all). The American Neo-Nazis are, I think, less like the early Nazis, because the early Nazis were popular for reasons other than nationalism and racism, even after Hitler killed all the actual socialists the party still had a lot of local appeal on social issues.
Fair point, given things ramp up faster today than 100 years ago.
Because humans are limited creatures and our actual material needs can already fulfilled quite easily with current technology. The rest of our needs, which are on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, many of us attempt to plug in material things to fill a void that won't be filled by materialistic possessions.
So, given human nature won't change, won't we just ramp up the material possessions to try to fill other needs? I fully expect whole new industries of consultants - as it gets harder to buy manufactured status symbols, status symbols will be more about clever personalization, and of course you'll be able to spend money to get that.
Our public schools are graduating students with little to no job skills, what makes us think this will change? How can these people _be_ trained for these jobs?
There are over a million skilled manufacturing jobs in the US that can't be filled due to lack of skilled workers. Germany has solved this problem, by not pretending "everyone goes to college". We'd do well to copy them.
As far as older workers needing to be retrained, most are smart enough that given good vocational training they could move to such a job - but there is no such training to be had in the US today for most jobs. That's another problem we need to solve, regardless of who pays for it.
But the worst problem is the growing % of people who just aren't smart enough to do skilled work (not even talking engineering, but skilled trades and skilled manufacturing). Do we give them makework jobs? Just giving them money but nothing to do is the wrong answer - that's exactly why we have the Oxy epidemic.
Right now less that 2% of jobs are done by "AI-related" automation. How fast do you imagine this technology will grow? 10x in 20 years would be amazing growth.
Only thing you can do is develop the ability to learn new thing quickly.
That's called "general intelligence" and is what IQ measures. If you can find a way to raise IQ, there's a multi-billion dollar market for that. Long term, it's possibly the most valuable invention possible. Poorly funded too, sadly enough.
What makes you think our wants are limited? What makes you think this time is special, this time unlike all the previous times there won't be new things we want?
Henry Ford needed a lot of people to build cars. Facebook and Google need far fewer people to write the software that makes up the profitable core of their businesses.
Ford today employs more people than Google and Facebook (200k vs 100k), but Ford when it was in it's first decade employed far fewer, even as a percentage of population.
If an individual or small team of people can write a best selling book, make a movie, write a program, produce a game, etc. that sells world wide to billions of people, The profits will be concentrated in a few hands.
No one has ever found a way around the Pareto Principle, and it seems to be the natural consequence of equality of opportunity. Because it's an exponential distribution, the larger the market the more concentrated success will be. Moving from many small markets to one global market inevitably produced this increased concentration, but the world is only so big, and we're already close to a single market for everything. I don't think this trend continues much farther.