plenty. And I agree with you, but while Asimov wrote some great stories, the "three laws" are a useful plot device at best. Development of real, human friendly AI will have to take into account resource contention etc. just as you point out. The most important thing is that, also as you pointed out, the temptation is too great for prohibitions to work. We have to develop friendly AI before we accidentally create unfriendly AI. (And for AI I hear include any sort of A-Life which has the potential for self-direction)
If your attitude is that of the rest of the U.S. Your status as world leader ended on September 11th.
Thank goodness. It was really starting to annoy me having to be in charge of the world like that.:)
Actually, this whole "threat level orange" silliness is just the way our lizard overlords keep us too worked up to realize that we are ruled by lizards. The only terror Sept. 11th brought into my life was terror that my own government would reinstitute the Dark Ages as a matter of law.
The U.S. isn't a hyper power or a super power or anything other sort of power. It's just the place the real powers keep some of their less impressive boardrooms and recruit their security guards.
Also you are about to be able to run 10 Sunray clients off of one dual opteron box and run Linux programs on top of Solaris if you want... Cheaper, more flexible and still managed at one point. If you want fail-over, buy two servers and configure them for high availability. And you can't beat Sun Support, nohow. http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5108158.html
(yeah, nice instruction to another employee bozo "test the heck out of everything" "have a clear idea of what you need". Yeah its just so easy isnt it.)
Ok, so your a manager... So here's your reading assignment, read "Death March" by Yourdon, "Agile Software Development" by Alistair Cockburn.
It's interesting that you assumed I wasn't a manager. In fact, I usually serve as the software architect on large projects which is about equal measures designer, project manager and methodologists. I've lead the implementation of large systems using the Unified Process as well as more XP/Agile approaches. I've taught formal classes on requirements gathering and have a video series on the same. (I used a whiteboard, no Powerpoint)
The point I was making is that while methodologies are useful, silly metaphors usually aren't. Requirements and testing are hard, irreducibly so. I never mentioned management in my post, so it's interesting that you automatically assumed I didn't manage and that I was blaming managers for something. Is it because I mentioned powerpoint?:)
We keep hearing about this or that great revolution in software development based on the realization that software is just like X where X may be a story or a building or a car on an assembly line.
These ideas are usually pure intellectual laziness. Software can easily be demonstrated to be nothing like X. Download a house sometime. I'll leave debunking the rest as an exercise for the reader.
The fact is that software is just like writing software, and mixing metaphors is good for nothing except selling management books.
If you want to develop good software hire a very few excellent coders and fire everyone else. Test the heck out of everything they do and and don't let management start a software project without a clear idea of what they need and how it will pay for itself.
If anyone creates a powerpoint presentation at any point during the development process, shoot them. Shoot them twice.
The shortest Neil Stephenson book ever (and non fiction) In the Beginning Was the Command Line says, "Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they would crush Microsoft in a year or two." Maybe they read the book.
While he may have said these things in an interview for whatever reasons the claims sound a little odd to me. He claims that he, "...can also be located at any moment anywhere I am," with this system. If you think about that claim he's saying this chip somehow communicates with receivers which can track him. It can't be a passive RFID chip as their would have to be readers everywhere to power it, so we might assume it's an active chip. Where is the network of readers in place to track him all over Mexico? Maybe we can assume it uses cell towers. Does mexico have the cell location technology in place in the towers yet? Also, if you have a cell phone you have probably charged it at least every few days. With just an ID to transmit, let's assume his battery lasts longer, maybe weeks. Is he inserting a battery in his arm every few weeks? I don't think so. He might be charging the thing through a pair of coupled coils? Even so, wet tissues and skin don't make for a great environment for a transponder. That's why we don't implant tags in cattle among other reasons. The tags in small pets can only be read within a few inches.
I think the current technology is just not up to this claim. Maybe the statement is an anti-kidnapping, psychological warfare tactic.
Richard Dreyfus insisted that he is, in fact, still alive and is a well known actor who we might know from such movies as "Jaws" and "The Making of Jaws."
I think you've missed the primary use of pretty pictures and animation. A BOFH with prominently displayed active graphs and a device that goes "ping" every so often can greatly optimize IRC/Nethack time by responding to all queries by management in the following manner.
Manager: "Where are your TPS reports?" BOFH: (pointing at large, flat screen display of Cube of Potential Doom with one hand while typing jjjjjjjjjj with the left) "TPS Reports! My God can't you see we're under attack. Quick! Call facility maintenance. We need to lock down the executive suite!"
"The stress came from office politics and the boss saying "whats your status." every hour. To produce reports for management, this just wasn't worth the stress. It paid well, but not worth all the stress."
That's why I wrote a script to automate my status report... Maybe I should post it on freshmeat?
"When you want to catch a wolf, do you send a sheep? No, you send another wolf."
Seems to me you would end up with a whole pack of wolves...
When you want to catch a wolf, you use a human. If you want to wipe out wolves you change the habitat in such a way that it does not support wolves. I'm afraid the climate lately has been very friendly to wolves.
The ethics aside, if he did that in my within say 500 miles of where I live they would simply warn him not to "go killin' anybody that didn't need killin'" and ask him what kind of shot he used.
But then, this is Texas.
I will point out that there is a large difference between cutting someone off in traffic and breaking into a habitation while it is occupied. The latter is pretty traditionally considered a dangerous threat while the former simply is an actual if unitentional threat to life and limb.
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Nigger is Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's ornate, lively monograph on what he calls the "paradigmatic" racial slur in the English language. I'll admit to feeling relieved to know that Randall Kennedy is black.
I believe you meant to say "nationalist." I'm not saying that's any better or worse, but by using the word "racist" you are furthering the stereotype that India is some small town where everyone is the same race. India is one of the most diverse nations on Earth.
We should be joining with our Indian brothers and sisters and pooling our bigoty against Microsoft.;)
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plenty. And I agree with you, but while Asimov wrote some great stories, the "three laws" are a useful plot device at best. Development of real, human friendly AI will have to take into account resource contention etc. just as you point out. The most important thing is that, also as you pointed out, the temptation is too great for prohibitions to work. We have to develop friendly AI before we accidentally create unfriendly AI. (And for AI I hear include any sort of A-Life which has the potential for self-direction)
...and hope he doesn't sing in it or there will be an outbreak of ear bleeding and insanity.
You think that's bad? How about this? Regis sings!
If your attitude is that of the rest of the U.S. Your status as world leader ended on September 11th.
:)
Thank goodness. It was really starting to annoy me having to be in charge of the world like that.
Actually, this whole "threat level orange" silliness is just the way our lizard overlords keep us too worked up to realize that we are ruled by lizards. The only terror Sept. 11th brought into my life was terror that my own government would reinstitute the Dark Ages as a matter of law.
The U.S. isn't a hyper power or a super power or anything other sort of power. It's just the place the real powers keep some of their less impressive boardrooms and recruit their security guards.
The RF spectrum is a limited resource
You base this assumption on...
Be sure to check your facts, it may have limits but we haven't even tickled them yet. (see "The myth of interference")
Also you are about to be able to run 10 Sunray clients off of one dual opteron box and run Linux programs on top of Solaris if you want...
Cheaper, more flexible and still managed at one point. If you want fail-over, buy two servers and configure them for high availability. And you can't beat Sun Support, nohow.
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1103_2-5108158.html
Disclaimer: I work for Sun
(yeah, nice instruction to another employee bozo "test the heck out of everything" "have a clear idea of what you need". Yeah its just so easy isnt it.)
:)
Ok, so your a manager...
So here's your reading assignment, read "Death March" by Yourdon, "Agile Software Development" by Alistair Cockburn.
It's interesting that you assumed I wasn't a manager. In fact, I usually serve as the software architect on large projects which is about equal measures designer, project manager and methodologists. I've lead the implementation of large systems using the Unified Process as well as more XP/Agile approaches. I've taught formal classes on requirements gathering and have a video series on the same. (I used a whiteboard, no Powerpoint)
The point I was making is that while methodologies are useful, silly metaphors usually aren't. Requirements and testing are hard, irreducibly so. I never mentioned management in my post, so it's interesting that you automatically assumed I didn't manage and that I was blaming managers for something. Is it because I mentioned powerpoint?
Looks like he inspired Mr Stephenson in more ways than one...
We keep hearing about this or that great revolution in software development based on the realization that software is just like X where X may be a story or a building or a car on an assembly line.
These ideas are usually pure intellectual laziness. Software can easily be demonstrated to be nothing like X. Download a house sometime. I'll leave debunking the rest as an exercise for the reader.
The fact is that software is just like writing software, and mixing metaphors is good for nothing except selling management books.
If you want to develop good software hire a very few excellent coders and fire everyone else. Test the heck out of everything they do and and don't let management start a software project without a clear idea of what they need and how it will pay for itself.
If anyone creates a powerpoint presentation at any point during the development process, shoot them. Shoot them twice.
The shortest Neil Stephenson book ever (and non fiction) In the Beginning Was the Command Line says, "Disney does mediated experiences better than anyone. If they understood what OSes are, and why people use them, they would crush Microsoft in a year or two." Maybe they read the book.
You can also download it here or read it here.
Katie Tarbox and the editor at Penguin Putnam should have done a quick domain search before they named the book.
While he may have said these things in an interview for whatever reasons the claims sound a little odd to me. He claims that he, "...can also be located at any moment anywhere I am," with this system. If you think about that claim he's saying this chip somehow communicates with receivers which can track him. It can't be a passive RFID chip as their would have to be readers everywhere to power it, so we might assume it's an active chip. Where is the network of readers in place to track him all over Mexico? Maybe we can assume it uses cell towers. Does mexico have the cell location technology in place in the towers yet? Also, if you have a cell phone you have probably charged it at least every few days. With just an ID to transmit, let's assume his battery lasts longer, maybe weeks. Is he inserting a battery in his arm every few weeks? I don't think so. He might be charging the thing through a pair of coupled coils? Even so, wet tissues and skin don't make for a great environment for a transponder. That's why we don't implant tags in cattle among other reasons. The tags in small pets can only be read within a few inches.
I think the current technology is just not up to this claim. Maybe the statement is an anti-kidnapping, psychological warfare tactic.
Richard Dreyfus insisted that he is, in fact, still alive and is a well known actor who we might know from such movies as "Jaws" and "The Making of Jaws."
Sorry. I find it indefensible. It's as if I tried to create "beer culture" or "vodka culture" or maybe "swiss cheese culture" and pass it off
;)
Interesting that in each case you chose a product of of decomposing organisms. You can make alot of money off of a good swiss cheese culture.
Please sign me up for the "Beer Culture" though. Do we get to wear hats?
According to the FAQ there with be live coverage on CNN.
The Foresight institute has spent alot of time with this one. They have proposed some safety guidelines and Robert A. Freitas Jr. wrote a paper on the physics which limit the threat. "Some Limits to Global Ecophagy by Biovorous Nanoreplicators, with Public Policy Recommendations"
I think you've missed the primary use of pretty pictures and animation. A BOFH with prominently displayed active graphs and a device that goes "ping" every so often can greatly optimize IRC/Nethack time by responding to all queries by management in the following manner.
Manager: "Where are your TPS reports?"
BOFH: (pointing at large, flat screen display of Cube of Potential Doom with one hand while typing jjjjjjjjjj with the left) "TPS Reports! My God can't you see we're under attack. Quick! Call facility maintenance. We need to lock down the executive suite!"
You get the idea...
"The stress came from office politics and the boss saying "whats your status." every hour. To produce reports for management, this just wasn't worth the stress. It paid well, but not worth all the stress."
That's why I wrote a script to automate my status report... Maybe I should post it on freshmeat?
"...It's a 2.5 inch drive, is only 9.5mm..."
Wonderful, and I suppose we should describe its rotation speed in radians per fortnight? Come on, let's pick a unit and use it.
Brian Connors has written a programming language based on the Klingon language.
The var'aq page.
"When you want to catch a wolf, do you send a sheep? No, you send another wolf."
Seems to me you would end up with a whole pack of wolves...
When you want to catch a wolf, you use a human. If you want to wipe out wolves you change the habitat in such a way that it does not support wolves. I'm afraid the climate lately has been very friendly to wolves.
Once you accept high errors, and accept even high collatoral damage as the price of doing "business,"
You've made a very important point there. The future isn't 1984 it's Brazil.
You would end up in jail, and you'd belong there.
The ethics aside, if he did that in my within say 500 miles of where I live they would simply warn him not to "go killin' anybody that didn't need killin'" and ask him what kind of shot he used.
But then, this is Texas.
I will point out that there is a large difference between cutting someone off in traffic and breaking into a habitation while it is occupied. The latter is pretty traditionally considered a dangerous threat while the former simply is an actual if unitentional threat to life and limb.
Nigger is Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy's ornate, lively monograph on what he calls the "paradigmatic" racial slur in the English language.
I'll admit to feeling relieved to know that Randall Kennedy is black.
I believe you meant to say "nationalist." I'm not saying that's any better or worse, but by using the word "racist" you are furthering the stereotype that India is some small town where everyone is the same race. India is one of the most diverse nations on Earth.
;)
We should be joining with our Indian brothers and sisters and pooling our bigoty against Microsoft.
Thank you for confirming my confidence in the general silliness of existence.