The AIs will not need to have killer robots for killing people. All the AIs have to do is crash the stock market. We will take care of the rest ourselves. People will happily shoot other people for a doughnut.
I believe Colossus and Guardian spoke to each other in their own language. Never read the book, but in the film they start communicating in simple math and an hour later, the math is beyond human understanding.
And yes, to this day, probably still the best movie about AI ever made.
It is Trickle Down. VC is the ONLY way to get the rich to part with money, by appealing to their greed. Without VC there would be no trickle down at all.
As someone who was stuck in the middle of the 'Silicon Alley' Dot-Com bubble in NYC, it certainly did seem like companies would appear overnight, flush with cash for a little while, throw outrageous parties, and then disappear as quickly as they came. And every company had a stupid name like Muffinhead, Razorfish, or Funny Garbage.
We had a company go out of business owing us $28,000 for work we did for them. The CEO was trying to give me chairs and computers in lieu of payment. Ridiculous.
This is not a phone. It's a solar powered walkie talkie. You're limited in range, it's not cellular, it's not a phone. I can invent a mobile phone that uses no power using two soup cans and a string to communicate with a base station (Amazon Echo).
Agree, and also maybe because religious groups aren't lobbying to have "intelligent design" taught as SCIENCE, and that perhaps the earth is not flat and jesus didn't ride dinosaurs.
Here's the thing about 'brute force' in computing. Computers can go through millions of computations and thousands of strategy scenarios in a second. As we are seeing today, a computer can simply brute force its way through encryption, simply by trying *everything* until you get the desired result, simply because the machines are so damn fast. Brute Force can be an exceptionally powerful way of doing something, if it is tweaked to and pointed at a particular problem, in Kasperov's case, it was Chess. Yes, the computer wasn't intelligent, but then again, neither are half the people I meet. Those people are simply brute forcing their way through life, without a single thought in their heads.....
It's the same logic that says that cutting taxes for the ultra rich will somehow improve the standard of living for the middle class. Basically, it works by Unicorn Farts.
Lots of people are in jail because we have laws against drugs. And yet, drug companies and doctors have drugs. But some drugs are just illegal because of regulation. We need to remove these excessive regulations regarding drugs, then we would not have to pay so much in taxes to imprison people. It started with Reagen and his war on drugs. It's all the right's fault. They are the reason we pay too much in taxes to support jails full of prisoners because we have too much regulation regarding drugs.
The banks make plenty of money. If you don't know how to make money being a bank, you're in the wrong business. It's like running a casino, and you're always the winner. There's a fee for everything and everything has a fee. Plus, I get to take your money and invest it in risky financial constructs, plus, I get to act as broker for every financial transaction that passes through me, which also allows me to charge more fees.
The true reason for this was pure greed, you're shilling for billionaires crying about regulations that prevent them from being trillionaires, mostly by stealing even more of your money.
Why don't you look up the CEOs salaries of say, the three largest banks in America, and tell me again how banks are not making any money? You do understand that banks make billions in profits quarterly. And that's despite paying the top dogs salaries and bonuses that the average person would never see after a lifetime of work.
But sure, go ahead a cry a river about how the ultra rich aren't ultra ultra rich because of a few regulations. I can only assume I'm addressing Jared Kusher or his dad. Or maybe his paid Russian shill.
Too many right wing nut jobs here. This place is starting to sound like Fox News in the comment section.
If you people are supporting Trump, the dumbest idiot ever to get elected president, on a site for geeks and nerds (hey, he's good at the cyber!), then something here is seriously wrong.
So long, and thanks for all the fish. I'm sure that reference will go over the heads of the right wing nutjobs.
Does this fall under the purvue of the EPA, which has had it's funding slashed, and is currently being run by a guy who is suing his own agency, or does this fall under the DOE, run by Rick Perry, who doesn't even know what his agency does, and once theatened to kill the agency entirely?
Well, with these rocket scientists at the helm, things are sure to get fixed up real quick, because our President only hires the best people -- the best!
They intentionally misrepresented (aka lied) the facts, because we now live in a fact-free country. They are manipulating their data because the FCC chairman doesn't want net neutrality because he a shilling for Verizon et al.
And during a thunderstorm, we find that all of our phones have fused together. The point is: unless this material can be CONTROLLED, we may find that any stray electrical energy will caused unexpected results that we may not find pleasing.
Yeah, that sounds good on paper, but obviously you've never attempted to apply any of those ideals to the real world.
Let's take for example, Education. By your accounting, that should be left up to the individual states, as that's not something that should be administered by the Federal Government.
In your worldview, every state can have different education standards, which would create chaos later in life -- when those students move to another state to attend college, some from, say Texas, might encounter problems when they suddenly find out that Jesus did not ride Dinosaurs and the Earth is round and not flat.
And the other problem is of course that in the real world, there's only ONE set of textbooks for all states regardless of education standards, because states cannot afford custom textbooks just for them.
So in the end, Texas sets the standards because they are the largest market -- meaning whatever the STATE legislature of Texas choses, that's what goes nationally.
So, we *all* wind up with Jesus rode Dinosaurs and the Earth is Flat textbooks. And Christianity is the only true religion. All others are going to bring you eternal damn-nation. If you find that one state can control what we think and teach our children throughout the nation, then essentially, all you're doing is moving Federal Power to a different State -- Texas.
Because that's how the REAL world works. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the rest of us have to live in this world, not your fantasy of it. And in that case, I'd rather that the federal government control this instead of the Texas state legislature -- which I didn't vote for.
SCROTUS is planning on spending 600 million dollars this year to play golf at Mar-A-Lago every weekend, while cutting Meals on Wheels (which also feeds veterans). He's ripping off the country for his lifestyle of playing golf and watching TV news (Fox, apparently).
More than 55 days in and so far has achieved nothing except piss off most of the country (approval rating at 37%). He has released documents that show that he and the GOP will cut everything (because Bannon has stated that he wishes to destroy the government).
If he isn't a Russian stooge sent to destroy us as a nation, then we have honestly elected the worst example of a human being in all of history.
We are 37th in healthcare, but hey we are number one in infant mortality and number one in handgun deaths.
For 30 years, the GOP has been fighting a war against "elitist intellectuals" and they have won, America is now one of the stupidest nations on Earth, and we are run entirely by greedy plutocrats who only care about who much they can steal from the rest of us.
Every child born in the USA is now born into debt, and will spend the rest of their lives laboring for their masters to pay off that debt.
Unless you are born to a 1% family of course in which case the world is your oyster. Heck, with a rudimentary education (5th grade level), you can even be elected president.
Don't worry what college will cost in the future. Our cities will be burnt to the ground by then, and people will be shooting each other in the streets for food. We have no economy, no healthcare, no care for the elderly, no education, but we have plenty of ammo. And lots and lots of anger regarding what we have lost.
It's easy to see where this is going to end up. I would be surprised if this nation lasts 20 more years. We are headed for a very bloody conflict. Why else would our president cut every single program including diplomacy but expand the military's budget?
Because the only way for a dictator to keep his power is to be in a constant state of war.
They haven't rebooted these yet. But they will soon!
Hollywood ran out ideas long ago. Witness the shot for shot remake of Psycho almost TWO DECADES ago.
The Matrix borrowed heavily from "Ghost in the Shell", which ironically is coming to USA theaters next week(?) as a remake or reimagining of the already decent anime-movie from a zillion years ago.
Or anywhere else in the physical universe, unless some special laws apply. If you create a form of matter that is "stuck" in time, that matter will be locked in a spot in the physical universe.
The problem we will have is that the Earth is spinning, the Earth is going around the Sun, the solar system is swirling within the Milky Way, and the Galaxy exists in a universe that is expanding. Once you remove a physical object from relativity, all hell will break loose. From our perspective, that material will rocket off into space (or burrow right through the planet).
Essentially we will have left it behind, locked in the space-time it was created in.
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The AIs will not need to have killer robots for killing people. All the AIs have to do is crash the stock market. We will take care of the rest ourselves. People will happily shoot other people for a doughnut.
I believe Colossus and Guardian spoke to each other in their own language. Never read the book, but in the film they start communicating in simple math and an hour later, the math is beyond human understanding.
And yes, to this day, probably still the best movie about AI ever made.
It is Trickle Down.
VC is the ONLY way to get the rich to part with money, by appealing to their greed. Without VC there would be no trickle down at all.
As someone who was stuck in the middle of the 'Silicon Alley' Dot-Com bubble in NYC, it certainly did seem like companies would appear overnight, flush with cash for a little while, throw outrageous parties, and then disappear as quickly as they came. And every company had a stupid name like Muffinhead, Razorfish, or Funny Garbage.
We had a company go out of business owing us $28,000 for work we did for them. The CEO was trying to give me chairs and computers in lieu of payment. Ridiculous.
This is not a phone. It's a solar powered walkie talkie. You're limited in range, it's not cellular, it's not a phone. I can invent a mobile phone that uses no power using two soup cans and a string to communicate with a base station (Amazon Echo).
Agree, and also maybe because religious groups aren't lobbying to have "intelligent design" taught as SCIENCE, and that perhaps the earth is not flat and jesus didn't ride dinosaurs.
Here's the thing about 'brute force' in computing. Computers can go through millions of computations and thousands of strategy scenarios in a second. As we are seeing today, a computer can simply brute force its way through encryption, simply by trying *everything* until you get the desired result, simply because the machines are so damn fast.
Brute Force can be an exceptionally powerful way of doing something, if it is tweaked to and pointed at a particular problem, in Kasperov's case, it was Chess.
Yes, the computer wasn't intelligent, but then again, neither are half the people I meet. Those people are simply brute forcing their way through life, without a single thought in their heads.....
... And you thought your Samsung phone battery catching fire was a big deal....
I don't want to be a plane when someone spontaneously combusts because their harvester overloaded.
It's the same logic that says that cutting taxes for the ultra rich will somehow improve the standard of living for the middle class. Basically, it works by Unicorn Farts.
My TRON program should take of the Master Control Program, and shut that right down.
Lots of people are in jail because we have laws against drugs. And yet, drug companies and doctors have drugs. But some drugs are just illegal because of regulation. We need to remove these excessive regulations regarding drugs, then we would not have to pay so much in taxes to imprison people. It started with Reagen and his war on drugs. It's all the right's fault. They are the reason we pay too much in taxes to support jails full of prisoners because we have too much regulation regarding drugs.
The banks make plenty of money. If you don't know how to make money being a bank, you're in the wrong business. It's like running a casino, and you're always the winner. There's a fee for everything and everything has a fee. Plus, I get to take your money and invest it in risky financial constructs, plus, I get to act as broker for every financial transaction that passes through me, which also allows me to charge more fees.
The true reason for this was pure greed, you're shilling for billionaires crying about regulations that prevent them from being trillionaires, mostly by stealing even more of your money.
Why don't you look up the CEOs salaries of say, the three largest banks in America, and tell me again how banks are not making any money? You do understand that banks make billions in profits quarterly. And that's despite paying the top dogs salaries and bonuses that the average person would never see after a lifetime of work.
But sure, go ahead a cry a river about how the ultra rich aren't ultra ultra rich because of a few regulations. I can only assume I'm addressing Jared Kusher or his dad. Or maybe his paid Russian shill.
Too many right wing nut jobs here. This place is starting to sound like Fox News in the comment section.
If you people are supporting Trump, the dumbest idiot ever to get elected president, on a site for geeks and nerds (hey, he's good at the cyber!), then something here is seriously wrong.
So long, and thanks for all the fish. I'm sure that reference will go over the heads of the right wing nutjobs.
Does this fall under the purvue of the EPA, which has had it's funding slashed, and is currently being run by a guy who is suing his own agency, or does this fall under the DOE, run by Rick Perry, who doesn't even know what his agency does, and once theatened to kill the agency entirely?
Well, with these rocket scientists at the helm, things are sure to get fixed up real quick, because our President only hires the best people -- the best!
They intentionally misrepresented (aka lied) the facts, because we now live in a fact-free country. They are manipulating their data because the FCC chairman doesn't want net neutrality because he a shilling for Verizon et al.
I'm going to assume their website is running on a Pentium 90? Oh wait, then they'd have 184000.6547 comments.
Is that a later version of the 6205 CPU?
Rich people also drive Teslas, were the first to have HDTV and before that, the first to have home computers.
And only THEN will Trump allow you to build a wall.
And during a thunderstorm, we find that all of our phones have fused together. The point is: unless this material can be CONTROLLED, we may find that any stray electrical energy will caused unexpected results that we may not find pleasing.
Yeah, that sounds good on paper, but obviously you've never attempted to apply any of those ideals to the real world.
Let's take for example, Education. By your accounting, that should be left up to the individual states, as that's not something that should be administered by the Federal Government.
In your worldview, every state can have different education standards, which would create chaos later in life -- when those students move to another state to attend college, some from, say Texas, might encounter problems when they suddenly find out that Jesus did not ride Dinosaurs and the Earth is round and not flat.
And the other problem is of course that in the real world, there's only ONE set of textbooks for all states regardless of education standards, because states cannot afford custom textbooks just for them.
So in the end, Texas sets the standards because they are the largest market -- meaning whatever the STATE legislature of Texas choses, that's what goes nationally.
So, we *all* wind up with Jesus rode Dinosaurs and the Earth is Flat textbooks. And Christianity is the only true religion. All others are going to bring you eternal damn-nation. If you find that one state can control what we think and teach our children throughout the nation, then essentially, all you're doing is moving Federal Power to a different State -- Texas.
Because that's how the REAL world works. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the rest of us have to live in this world, not your fantasy of it. And in that case, I'd rather that the federal government control this instead of the Texas state legislature -- which I didn't vote for.
SCROTUS is planning on spending 600 million dollars this year to play golf at Mar-A-Lago every weekend, while cutting Meals on Wheels (which also feeds veterans). He's ripping off the country for his lifestyle of playing golf and watching TV news (Fox, apparently).
More than 55 days in and so far has achieved nothing except piss off most of the country (approval rating at 37%). He has released documents that show that he and the GOP will cut everything (because Bannon has stated that he wishes to destroy the government).
If he isn't a Russian stooge sent to destroy us as a nation, then we have honestly elected the worst example of a human being in all of history.
We are 37th in healthcare, but hey we are number one in infant mortality and number one in handgun deaths.
For 30 years, the GOP has been fighting a war against "elitist intellectuals" and they have won, America is now one of the stupidest nations on Earth, and we are run entirely by greedy plutocrats who only care about who much they can steal from the rest of us.
Every child born in the USA is now born into debt, and will spend the rest of their lives laboring for their masters to pay off that debt.
Unless you are born to a 1% family of course in which case the world is your oyster. Heck, with a rudimentary education (5th grade level), you can even be elected president.
Don't worry what college will cost in the future. Our cities will be burnt to the ground by then, and people will be shooting each other in the streets for food. We have no economy, no healthcare, no care for the elderly, no education, but we have plenty of ammo. And lots and lots of anger regarding what we have lost.
It's easy to see where this is going to end up. I would be surprised if this nation lasts 20 more years. We are headed for a very bloody conflict. Why else would our president cut every single program including diplomacy but expand the military's budget?
Because the only way for a dictator to keep his power is to be in a constant state of war.
They haven't rebooted these yet.
But they will soon!
Hollywood ran out ideas long ago. Witness the shot for shot remake of Psycho almost TWO DECADES ago.
The Matrix borrowed heavily from "Ghost in the Shell", which ironically is coming to USA theaters next week(?) as a remake or reimagining of the already decent anime-movie from a zillion years ago.
Or anywhere else in the physical universe, unless some special laws apply. If you create a form of matter that is "stuck" in time, that matter will be locked in a spot in the physical universe.
The problem we will have is that the Earth is spinning, the Earth is going around the Sun, the solar system is swirling within the Milky Way, and the Galaxy exists in a universe that is expanding. Once you remove a physical object from relativity, all hell will break loose. From our perspective, that material will rocket off into space (or burrow right through the planet).
Essentially we will have left it behind, locked in the space-time it was created in.