Friends, Elon has almost $5 belllllion dollars in federal subsidies. Talk about vision. I'm a fan, and not just about the money either. It's mostly about the money.
Elon is already making a list of people to send to Mars. And you know, Jeff Bezos must be one of those fanbois too - he put Elon's name at the top of his list to get off the planet.
Seriously, I'm in awe of Elon Musk. Electric cars made in autonomous factories, SpaceX, home batteries, crazy-ass solar panels - this guy really does have a vision. He tells you where he thinks the world is going, how most of us are going to screwed, and what to do about it. No wonder he has enemies that don't stop at the truth, but peddle what they'd have you believe.
Good point. All this Dr. Frank-N-Furter 'In just seven days I can make you a man' nonsense is crap.
Besides, nobody reads anymore. Who would? It's a big book, and Prof. Harari is on YouTube a lot talking about Homo Deus anyway, as well as his last international bestseller.
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"A riot is an ugly thing. Und I think that it is just about time that we had one."
- Inspector Kemp, Young Frankenstein
Apparently Hawking hasn't read "Homo Deus". Yuval Harari sees a grimmer future for us low class trash: extinction. We still lose jobs to machines. But the super rich start having bio-engineered babies; literally a have-it-your-way, "intelligent design", faster "evolution revolution", leading to a new, self-designed species, and the end of us homo sapiens, among other things...
I don't think he's being attacked online just because Elon Musk is at odds with right-wing hate based fantasies. And I don't think it's because they're scared he might run for political office, as the article suggests. This seems to be a very skillful, well orchestrated campaign. It almost has to be because he's talking about UBI, a Universal Basic Income - and that goes against the right wing's current thinking.
Ah, remember when only the lefties didn't trust the news? Me neither. Now 60%+ of Americans think the news is manipulated.
Is it a coincidence Google is being accused of bias about the same time Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are accused of Fake News? All information portals repackage content, so yes, they manipulate - even CanIRank. But the planting of fake news, and CanIRank accusing Google of bias, shows that these very portals can be manipulated too, producing doubt, and damaging reputations with short term and long term repercussions.
For good or bad, the IOT could eliminate large swaths of paperwork. It could monitor and record, in the proper formats, the acquisition, use, lifespan, repair history, reordering, upgrading and disposal of everything related to procurement (office supplies, cars, properties, services, supply chains, etc.). It's even possible to have an automatic tie-in with business software (FMS, CRM, HRM,...), eliminating not only paperwork, but computer stations and people. Oops - that's bad.
I stand corrected. Your point about a phishing scam is well taken. As for Seth Rich, the Assange connection, and his murder... even I see the Vince Foster analog. Poor passwords, Weinergate, and Clintonian exegesis (or eisegesis) - it's all very troubling.
As for nukes, it's hard to imagine the national psyche back then. I've read about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Stanislav Petrov (the man who saved the world). The Doomsday clock stands at 3 minutes till midnight right now, so I'm scared. As far as Global Warming is concerned, North Korea, Pakistan & India might beat out carbon emissions. And let's not forget that both Russia and the US are back in the nuclear proliferation game big time.
My response to Admiral Rogers' press release does not exclude such social engineering as phishing, btw. They've got courses on social engineering. It's part of the mix, along with NSA "upgrades" to Cisco Routers, Stuxnet variants, built-in zerodays, secret courts... the list just goes on. If I've got Bill Benney and Snowden right, all telecommunications have been hacked. And they ain't doing it to protect us - ThinThread could have done that.
With all due deference to Admiral Rogers, we all know those bears broke into the DNC using NSA's back doors. National security has been undermined by those who assert the security of the state demands society's surveillance to the point of damage. Now it's all "Ask not what the government can do to you, but what you can do to them." I tell ya, we gotta rethink security.
If knowledge is power, Google, YouTube and the NSA rule. And the military have been there all along, funding the nascent Hi Tech Munition\Cyborg\Computer revolution since the 1940's. They are there now, funding Bioengineering. Genetic DARPA challenges ain't far off. There's a whole lot of Hi Tech human\animal\plant\computer\electro-mechanical hybrid engineering going on.
With Dr. John Zhang's miraculous spindle nuclear transfer in late 2016, a three-parent child was born, a deadly mitochondrial disease avoided, and the age of human genetic engineering officially began.
Philip Mirowski and Yuval Harai are making my brain hurt. I'm having visions of the future: only a very few biologically enhanced and augmented sapiens will comprise the new master race. Intelligent automation will make the lower classes redundant, and at that point, most all of us are lower class. We won't go gently into that good night, and our betters know that. What did they plan for our finale?
I enjoyed your DKIM authorization argument. Thanks for annotating your point and keeping it simple.
I wish I could claim the idea that Facebook has become part of the social construction of reality, but even South Park beat me there ("You Have 0 Friends", Episode 199; Season 14, Episode 4).
And yes, math has it's problems; personal, social and other. I've watched "Dangerous Knowledge" about Geog Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Godel and Alan Turning. I think it's on Youtube, if you're interested.
People do make off the cuff decisions based on a web of belief. When beliefs gets purposely manipulated, that's a problem. In response to President Obama and others accusing Facebook of tilting the election, Zuckerberg says Facebook is a tech company, not a media outlet. Unbelievable, especially as a story on Gizmodo in May 2016 accused Facebook of "Imposing human editorial values" onto its trending news algorithm by having "news curators" suppress and inject stories. In this light, Facebook's editorial imposition demonstrates it is a news outlet, albeit nonobjective. "All the news that fits, " as it were. This is a clear attempt of trying to manipulate its users' web of belief.
Zuck is not the only one doing this. Media manipulation went into overdrive after the 2008 global economic collapse. One of their tricks was to nickname it a "recession", so people wouldn't notice it was the biggest depression since 1929.
Ugh boy. Here goes: Reinforcing the belief in fake or real stories is what makes social media social, and often fake stories reinforce social bonds more so than real stories do. Something doesn't have to be "True" to have "truthiness." Social acceptance of stories as true or false demonstrate the validity mechanisms that are part of reciprocal social reinforcement. Here, meaning is embedded into abstract and coded stories, slogans and gossip, which aligns one to and bestows identity with the group.
Think of the possibilities when choosing your fact checkers. Say we go to court. Your lawyer uses PolitiFact.com, The Royal Society and ASCD; my lawyer uses the Heritage Foundation, The George C. Marshall Institute, The Templeton Foundation and the Texas State Board of Education; the judge uses Glenlivet and the jury doesn't. Who do think will (not should) win?
These days, it's not other people's work, it's the stuff I pay for. BTW, the money-value-work thing is a good segue to Karl Marx: Sorry Elon, a guaranteed minimum wage will be condemned as communism. Besides, the government is being hollowed out right now, and it may not be a safety net much longer. He's right though, the jobs will be lost to automation. Adapt or perish.
I appreciate ErichTheRed pointing out management pooping on the aged and full-time workers alike. Execs dream of the day when they can replace everyone with automation. It's obvious now, sooner or later conventional jobs are going away, and as Elon Musk said, we're going to have to figure out how to integrate in a world with a more advanced A.I. We're a working species; what we do changes the environment, and those changes change us. With these A.I. changes coming down the pike, we've got work to do, but just what? A population decline seems inevitable. Which of us survive, what impact A.I. will have on the planet, what niches we manage to carve out, and even how all this will eventually change the species is beyond me.
Wonder if Anthony Weiner would let me use his computer if I login as "Fancy Bear"? Better ask James Comey to clear it with Julian Assange first. (I'd down-vote this myself if I could.)
Microsoft is pushing its customer base away. Nowadays, all of the outside consultants bring in Macs and boot into Windows when necessary, which btw, is because of legacy, lethargy and support for a soon to be retiring lead programmer.
Meh. Welcome to yesterday. Dallas police have already used a robot with a pound of C-4 to blow up a sniper in July 2016. This ain't no cheesy science Fiction.... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
Someone suggested moving the jobless to a trailer park in Texas and giving them basic cable. But given that governments are tools of the rich, demogrants are unlikely. Plan for prison, war and escape routes were the unemployed become somebody else's problem. Barring such weeding out of the unneeded, there could be an arts and crafts revival. It happened before in Japan and the West in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as an anti-industrial movement. It could happen again. Do you garden?
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Elon is already making a list of people to send to Mars. And you know, Jeff Bezos must be one of those fanbois too - he put Elon's name at the top of his list to get off the planet.
Seriously, I'm in awe of Elon Musk. Electric cars made in autonomous factories, SpaceX, home batteries, crazy-ass solar panels - this guy really does have a vision. He tells you where he thinks the world is going, how most of us are going to screwed, and what to do about it. No wonder he has enemies that don't stop at the truth, but peddle what they'd have you believe.
Besides, nobody reads anymore. Who would? It's a big book, and Prof. Harari is on YouTube a lot talking about Homo Deus anyway, as well as his last international bestseller.
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"A riot is an ugly thing. Und I think that it is just about time that we had one." - Inspector Kemp, Young Frankenstein
Putting the "die" in "diesel"?
Apparently Hawking hasn't read "Homo Deus". Yuval Harari sees a grimmer future for us low class trash: extinction. We still lose jobs to machines. But the super rich start having bio-engineered babies; literally a have-it-your-way, "intelligent design", faster "evolution revolution", leading to a new, self-designed species, and the end of us homo sapiens, among other things...
I don't think he's being attacked online just because Elon Musk is at odds with right-wing hate based fantasies. And I don't think it's because they're scared he might run for political office, as the article suggests. This seems to be a very skillful, well orchestrated campaign. It almost has to be because he's talking about UBI, a Universal Basic Income - and that goes against the right wing's current thinking.
Does that mean come January 20, Angela Merkel will be the leader of the free world?
These days Germany conquers via Deutsche Bank.
Is it a coincidence Google is being accused of bias about the same time Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit are accused of Fake News? All information portals repackage content, so yes, they manipulate - even CanIRank. But the planting of fake news, and CanIRank accusing Google of bias, shows that these very portals can be manipulated too, producing doubt, and damaging reputations with short term and long term repercussions.
Never mind.
As for nukes, it's hard to imagine the national psyche back then. I've read about Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Stanislav Petrov (the man who saved the world). The Doomsday clock stands at 3 minutes till midnight right now, so I'm scared. As far as Global Warming is concerned, North Korea, Pakistan & India might beat out carbon emissions. And let's not forget that both Russia and the US are back in the nuclear proliferation game big time.
My response to Admiral Rogers' press release does not exclude such social engineering as phishing, btw. They've got courses on social engineering. It's part of the mix, along with NSA "upgrades" to Cisco Routers, Stuxnet variants, built-in zerodays, secret courts... the list just goes on. If I've got Bill Benney and Snowden right, all telecommunications have been hacked. And they ain't doing it to protect us - ThinThread could have done that.
There's more, but I bore.
With all due deference to Admiral Rogers, we all know those bears broke into the DNC using NSA's back doors. National security has been undermined by those who assert the security of the state demands society's surveillance to the point of damage. Now it's all "Ask not what the government can do to you, but what you can do to them." I tell ya, we gotta rethink security.
With Dr. John Zhang's miraculous spindle nuclear transfer in late 2016, a three-parent child was born, a deadly mitochondrial disease avoided, and the age of human genetic engineering officially began.
Philip Mirowski and Yuval Harai are making my brain hurt. I'm having visions of the future: only a very few biologically enhanced and augmented sapiens will comprise the new master race. Intelligent automation will make the lower classes redundant, and at that point, most all of us are lower class. We won't go gently into that good night, and our betters know that. What did they plan for our finale?
I wish I could claim the idea that Facebook has become part of the social construction of reality, but even South Park beat me there ("You Have 0 Friends", Episode 199; Season 14, Episode 4).
And yes, math has it's problems; personal, social and other. I've watched "Dangerous Knowledge" about Geog Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Godel and Alan Turning. I think it's on Youtube, if you're interested.
People do make off the cuff decisions based on a web of belief. When beliefs gets purposely manipulated, that's a problem. In response to President Obama and others accusing Facebook of tilting the election, Zuckerberg says Facebook is a tech company, not a media outlet. Unbelievable, especially as a story on Gizmodo in May 2016 accused Facebook of "Imposing human editorial values" onto its trending news algorithm by having "news curators" suppress and inject stories. In this light, Facebook's editorial imposition demonstrates it is a news outlet, albeit nonobjective. "All the news that fits, " as it were. This is a clear attempt of trying to manipulate its users' web of belief.
Zuck is not the only one doing this. Media manipulation went into overdrive after the 2008 global economic collapse. One of their tricks was to nickname it a "recession", so people wouldn't notice it was the biggest depression since 1929.
There's more, but I don't want to bore.
I'll drink to that.
Ugh boy. Here goes: Reinforcing the belief in fake or real stories is what makes social media social, and often fake stories reinforce social bonds more so than real stories do. Something doesn't have to be "True" to have "truthiness." Social acceptance of stories as true or false demonstrate the validity mechanisms that are part of reciprocal social reinforcement. Here, meaning is embedded into abstract and coded stories, slogans and gossip, which aligns one to and bestows identity with the group.
Think of the possibilities when choosing your fact checkers. Say we go to court. Your lawyer uses PolitiFact.com, The Royal Society and ASCD; my lawyer uses the Heritage Foundation, The George C. Marshall Institute, The Templeton Foundation and the Texas State Board of Education; the judge uses Glenlivet and the jury doesn't. Who do think will (not should) win?
These days, it's not other people's work, it's the stuff I pay for. BTW, the money-value-work thing is a good segue to Karl Marx: Sorry Elon, a guaranteed minimum wage will be condemned as communism. Besides, the government is being hollowed out right now, and it may not be a safety net much longer. He's right though, the jobs will be lost to automation. Adapt or perish.
I appreciate ErichTheRed pointing out management pooping on the aged and full-time workers alike. Execs dream of the day when they can replace everyone with automation. It's obvious now, sooner or later conventional jobs are going away, and as Elon Musk said, we're going to have to figure out how to integrate in a world with a more advanced A.I. We're a working species; what we do changes the environment, and those changes change us. With these A.I. changes coming down the pike, we've got work to do, but just what? A population decline seems inevitable. Which of us survive, what impact A.I. will have on the planet, what niches we manage to carve out, and even how all this will eventually change the species is beyond me.
Wonder if Anthony Weiner would let me use his computer if I login as "Fancy Bear"? Better ask James Comey to clear it with Julian Assange first. (I'd down-vote this myself if I could.)
Microsoft is pushing its customer base away. Nowadays, all of the outside consultants bring in Macs and boot into Windows when necessary, which btw, is because of legacy, lethargy and support for a soon to be retiring lead programmer.
Didn't Tesla's 2015 model S P85d get Consumer Reports' best car rating ever? My, my.
Meh. Welcome to yesterday. Dallas police have already used a robot with a pound of C-4 to blow up a sniper in July 2016. This ain't no cheesy science Fiction.... http://www.nbcnews.com/storyli...
Looking past its purpose or the abhorrent nature of the act, this suggests WikiLeaks (or somebody) has an internet dimmer switch. Wow.
Breaking News: SpaceX offers Jeff Bezos a free ride.
Someone suggested moving the jobless to a trailer park in Texas and giving them basic cable. But given that governments are tools of the rich, demogrants are unlikely. Plan for prison, war and escape routes were the unemployed become somebody else's problem. Barring such weeding out of the unneeded, there could be an arts and crafts revival. It happened before in Japan and the West in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries as an anti-industrial movement. It could happen again. Do you garden?