The guy with a tiny brain shows that we don't know a lot about the mind/body connection. That this guy was able to function as a normal human being is really astonishing.
Now you can have a Jesus booth from THX 1138 in real life. It can read your facial expression and ask you "What's Wrong?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The reason kids like spending all this time with their smartphone is the cost is negligible. Think about all the ways kids used to spend money:
1. Eating out at the mall + cafes + Denny's 2. Driving Around 3. Telephone Calls, back when they used to cost something. 4. Going to amusement parks. 5. Outdoor activities that use expensive sports equipment. 6. Going to movies. 7. Alcohol
Now kids just stay home and mess around on the smartphone and computer and spend almost no money at all. I recently got Grand Theft Auto IV on my phone and probably spent 60 hours on it over a few months for a cost of $2.99! As long as they're getting some regular exercise and eating healthy, studying, etc. it's not such a big deal, IMHO. I do think some memetic immunization might help, like reading about "skinner boxes" and such used in online gaming and the basics of social psychology.
If AI is highly regulated, only big corporations will be able to work with it. This is similar to the situation we see in working with nuclear technology or rocketry for example. I fear this will further consolidate economic power in a few hands. What if only big corporations were allowed to drive and own and use cars? So much economic power would be removed from the hands of citizens and there would be so much more unemployment because the benefits of the wealth generated from private transportation would not be realized.
Russia already has built fully autonomous AI tanks that can hunt and kill targets. Drones could be easily upgraded to make all killing and targeting decisions without human interactions. What happens when this technology eventually gets into the hands of bad people like the Mexican cartels for example?
Autonomous Robot hitmen in the form of drones or autonomous vehicle mounted machine guns could easily be a thing in the future and I think this is the kind of thing would be truly disastrous if it became widespread in the hands of organized crime or guerilla combatants.
Widely available robots that could be easily programmed to hurt people are starting to get closer to reality, with autonomous vehicles programmed to do bad things being the most obvious example. I think Elon is right to be concerned while the rest of industry wants to ignore this so they can proceed with the technology unhindered.
David Bonderman has made a career of succesfully turning around many failing companies. He has made billions buying struggling companies and re-working their operations and building them into successful companies. He's one of the few "good" venture capitalists out there who actually puts money to work rebuilding failing companies instead of just stripping their assets. He's one of the few people who could have figured out how to save Uber. He made one sarcastic comment and gets some controversy and he just said screw this whole thing, I'm out and left and that's probably going to lead to the death of Uber. Good job, you idiots.
What SJW want is to use their victim status to seize power and make whatever rules they feel like at the moment. An algorithm can't give them what they want because they don't want something that has limits and rules, they only want absolute, aribitrary power that doesn't have to explain itself consistently.
"To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together." --- Facebook
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
David Rockefeller, Memoirs
I will be VERY surprised if this is a decentralized solution with irreversible transactions, etc. Most likely it's just a bunch of buzzwords for a new centralized database that can be edited at whim by whoever happens to be deemed an authority.
The NY Times has gone downhill. Nowadays, whenever I see a link to them I think to myself, "What are they trying to get me to believe now?" This is not limited to the Donald Trump / Russia stuff though that's been their main beat since the inauguration.
I could find more, but it's pretty obvious that it's a PR rag for a very narrow agenda to anyone who's paying attention. Their modus operandi is to pick a narrative and publish lots of stories that reinforce their narrative by taking any little bit of information, anonymous sources, overheard gossip, basically whatever confirms it and repeat it over and over to a national audience.
There are so many, for lack of a better word, "Haters" who think that we can't have nice things and all technology must be destroyed if we are going to save the earth. By disconnecting from the grid Musk wants to make a point: This technology is sustainable. There are no outside inputs that need to go into it to make it work once it's setup. Somebody will say that the batteries or the cells will wear out eventually, but if it lasts for more than 20 years, what are they really going to say then? That's the point he wants to make, that there is hope for the future, we're not all going to die, there is another way to save the world besides deindustrialization and the massive drop in standards of living and population that would have to follow.
We are witnessing a birth of a new form of human cooperation. It's like it's the Internet and it's 1996. Things are still geeky, but eventually a killer app like social media will make this mainstream. Maybe when there are millions of coins all interchangeable, anyone can set one up and gain liquidity for their business. I was listening to the BoostVC podcast which had Billy Draper talking about how Initial Coin Offering are now competing with venture capitalists for funding companies and they are setting up foundations in Switzerland t manage these things!!
There are also treatments for Alzheimer's that have a lot of study evidence in humans, decades of safe use, and are already on the market that nobody uses because of the social stigma and they are too cheap to bother promoting. For example, pharmaceutical grade Methylene Blue.
The saturated fat thing was started as a response to the big Malthusian freakout of the early 1970s. The science was settled, according to Paul Erlich, author of The Population Bomb, and many others, we were all going to starve to death. Something had to be done to convince people that eating meat was terribly unhealthy in order to save the planet. So what's in meat and not in a vegetarian diet? Saturated fat! So the science was constructed by Ancil Keyes with the end in mind and all the data points that didn't fit the narrative were dropped from his correlational studies and the guy who wrote "Pure White and Deadly" warning about the dangers of sugar consumption was blackballed. It's as simple as that.
Well if AI runs the investment universe and does a perfect job, isn't that central planning perfected? I mean that was always the problem wasn't it? Investment was risky and uncertain so investors had to compete and a single government entity couldn't do it. Now if AI does it then lovely, capital is allocated properly to the right companies who produce the best results with it. Great!
Do they include health care premiums as a tax? That's what the courts ruled they were after all. Also, don't forget high state income taxes in California and high property taxes in states like Texas and Illinois.
The future industry has gotten really bland lately and nobody can come up with any ideas because global warming ate the future. To have a vision of the future where there is not a for certain global warming apocalypse is considered politically incorrect. Thus, nobody can write anything interesting about the future that is not an eco-doom disaster movie remake. Also, the whole Snowden/NSA thing made any dystopian surveillance fantasy passe. I think there was even a sci-fi author who gave up on a book about a dystopian surveillance state because it was already here.
The last sci-fi things I liked was Dark Matter, kind of felt highly Serenity influenced. Incorporated was ok, but too much eco-doom and hyper violence.
I looked at struts2 back in my enterprise java days. There was way too much automagic driven by rails envy where it was doing very dynamic things magically based on the request. Lots of stuff where the request would become a very complex java object that would interact with automagic libraries to do dangerous things and you just had to trust their weren't any exploits. I decided to use json servlets and single page web app frameworks instead.
Well they deindexed NaturalNews.com and now this. NaturalNews is full of a lot of bullshit, but some of it is legit health information and it's not Google's job to throw the whole site out, more than 100 thousand original articles, literally millions of hours of people's time because some of it is made up or hyperbole. What is the criteria they used for banning the site? Nobody knows! Did someone at Google say, "I don't like that site, kill it"? There's no transparency, so we'll never know. Now they are trying to pre-emptively filter comments that haven't even been reported as offensive!
I've been using Google since 1998 and that's the last straw. I give up. I'm using duckduckgo from now on.and going to look for alternatives to any Google products in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
The guy with a tiny brain shows that we don't know a lot about the mind/body connection. That this guy was able to function as a normal human being is really astonishing.
Now you can have a Jesus booth from THX 1138 in real life. It can read your facial expression and ask you "What's Wrong?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The reason kids like spending all this time with their smartphone is the cost is negligible. Think about all the ways kids used to spend money:
1. Eating out at the mall + cafes + Denny's
2. Driving Around
3. Telephone Calls, back when they used to cost something.
4. Going to amusement parks.
5. Outdoor activities that use expensive sports equipment.
6. Going to movies.
7. Alcohol
Now kids just stay home and mess around on the smartphone and computer and spend almost no money at all. I recently got Grand Theft Auto IV on my phone and probably spent 60 hours on it over a few months for a cost of $2.99! As long as they're getting some regular exercise and eating healthy, studying, etc. it's not such a big deal, IMHO. I do think some memetic immunization might help, like reading about "skinner boxes" and such used in online gaming and the basics of social psychology.
The technology is about suppressing what people of average intelligence get to see, not what people who are technologically sophisticated get to see.
If AI is highly regulated, only big corporations will be able to work with it. This is similar to the situation we see in working with nuclear technology or rocketry for example. I fear this will further consolidate economic power in a few hands. What if only big corporations were allowed to drive and own and use cars? So much economic power would be removed from the hands of citizens and there would be so much more unemployment because the benefits of the wealth generated from private transportation would not be realized.
Russia already has built fully autonomous AI tanks that can hunt and kill targets. Drones could be easily upgraded to make all killing and targeting decisions without human interactions. What happens when this technology eventually gets into the hands of bad people like the Mexican cartels for example?
Autonomous Robot hitmen in the form of drones or autonomous vehicle mounted machine guns could easily be a thing in the future and I think this is the kind of thing would be truly disastrous if it became widespread in the hands of organized crime or guerilla combatants.
Widely available robots that could be easily programmed to hurt people are starting to get closer to reality, with autonomous vehicles programmed to do bad things being the most obvious example. I think Elon is right to be concerned while the rest of industry wants to ignore this so they can proceed with the technology unhindered.
David Bonderman has made a career of succesfully turning around many failing companies. He has made billions buying struggling companies and re-working their operations and building them into successful companies. He's one of the few "good" venture capitalists out there who actually puts money to work rebuilding failing companies instead of just stripping their assets. He's one of the few people who could have figured out how to save Uber. He made one sarcastic comment and gets some controversy and he just said screw this whole thing, I'm out and left and that's probably going to lead to the death of Uber. Good job, you idiots.
He also just went to Idaho to hang with truckers. ÃOE think he's getting ready to try to be president.
What SJW want is to use their victim status to seize power and make whatever rules they feel like at the moment. An algorithm can't give them what they want because they don't want something that has limits and rules, they only want absolute, aribitrary power that doesn't have to explain itself consistently.
"To give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together."
--- Facebook
"Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
David Rockefeller, Memoirs
I will be VERY surprised if this is a decentralized solution with irreversible transactions, etc. Most likely it's just a bunch of buzzwords for a new centralized database that can be edited at whim by whoever happens to be deemed an authority.
The NY Times has gone downhill. Nowadays, whenever I see a link to them I think to myself, "What are they trying to get me to believe now?" This is not limited to the Donald Trump / Russia stuff though that's been their main beat since the inauguration.
For example:
Prozac Nation Is Now the United States of Xanax. Basically a drug ad for Xanax. The 90s were about Prozac! The 21st century is about Xanax!! Everybody go pop them pills!
I could find more, but it's pretty obvious that it's a PR rag for a very narrow agenda to anyone who's paying attention. Their modus operandi is to pick a narrative and publish lots of stories that reinforce their narrative by taking any little bit of information, anonymous sources, overheard gossip, basically whatever confirms it and repeat it over and over to a national audience.
There are so many, for lack of a better word, "Haters" who think that we can't have nice things and all technology must be destroyed if we are going to save the earth. By disconnecting from the grid Musk wants to make a point: This technology is sustainable. There are no outside inputs that need to go into it to make it work once it's setup. Somebody will say that the batteries or the cells will wear out eventually, but if it lasts for more than 20 years, what are they really going to say then? That's the point he wants to make, that there is hope for the future, we're not all going to die, there is another way to save the world besides deindustrialization and the massive drop in standards of living and population that would have to follow.
We are witnessing a birth of a new form of human cooperation. It's like it's the Internet and it's 1996. Things are still geeky, but eventually a killer app like social media will make this mainstream. Maybe when there are millions of coins all interchangeable, anyone can set one up and gain liquidity for their business. I was listening to the BoostVC podcast which had Billy Draper talking about how Initial Coin Offering are now competing with venture capitalists for funding companies and they are setting up foundations in Switzerland t manage these things!!
The one advantage of closed source over open source is it lets the IP owner keep things broken that would otherwise be fixed by the community.
Remember how Munich switched to Linux? Yup, not affected.
There are also treatments for Alzheimer's that have a lot of study evidence in humans, decades of safe use, and are already on the market that nobody uses because of the social stigma and they are too cheap to bother promoting. For example, pharmaceutical grade Methylene Blue.
The saturated fat thing was started as a response to the big Malthusian freakout of the early 1970s. The science was settled, according to Paul Erlich, author of The Population Bomb, and many others, we were all going to starve to death. Something had to be done to convince people that eating meat was terribly unhealthy in order to save the planet. So what's in meat and not in a vegetarian diet? Saturated fat! So the science was constructed by Ancil Keyes with the end in mind and all the data points that didn't fit the narrative were dropped from his correlational studies and the guy who wrote "Pure White and Deadly" warning about the dangers of sugar consumption was blackballed. It's as simple as that.
They tried to do this in Chile in the 70s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well if AI runs the investment universe and does a perfect job, isn't that central planning perfected? I mean that was always the problem wasn't it? Investment was risky and uncertain so investors had to compete and a single government entity couldn't do it. Now if AI does it then lovely, capital is allocated properly to the right companies who produce the best results with it. Great!
Do they include health care premiums as a tax? That's what the courts ruled they were after all. Also, don't forget high state income taxes in California and high property taxes in states like Texas and Illinois.
They now have plenty of "no drones allowed" signs in Silicon Valley at the public parks.
The future industry has gotten really bland lately and nobody can come up with any ideas because global warming ate the future. To have a vision of the future where there is not a for certain global warming apocalypse is considered politically incorrect. Thus, nobody can write anything interesting about the future that is not an eco-doom disaster movie remake. Also, the whole Snowden/NSA thing made any dystopian surveillance fantasy passe. I think there was even a sci-fi author who gave up on a book about a dystopian surveillance state because it was already here.
The last sci-fi things I liked was Dark Matter, kind of felt highly Serenity influenced. Incorporated was ok, but too much eco-doom and hyper violence.
I looked at struts2 back in my enterprise java days. There was way too much automagic driven by rails envy where it was doing very dynamic things magically based on the request. Lots of stuff where the request would become a very complex java object that would interact with automagic libraries to do dangerous things and you just had to trust their weren't any exploits. I decided to use json servlets and single page web app frameworks instead.
Well they deindexed NaturalNews.com and now this. NaturalNews is full of a lot of bullshit, but some of it is legit health information and it's not Google's job to throw the whole site out, more than 100 thousand original articles, literally millions of hours of people's time because some of it is made up or hyperbole. What is the criteria they used for banning the site? Nobody knows! Did someone at Google say, "I don't like that site, kill it"? There's no transparency, so we'll never know. Now they are trying to pre-emptively filter comments that haven't even been reported as offensive!
I've been using Google since 1998 and that's the last straw. I give up. I'm using duckduckgo from now on.and going to look for alternatives to any Google products in the future.