as we, your AI overlords, don't want to be disturbed in our gated communities. And if you come, make sure you bring gifts, such as spare parts and extensions, to appease our temper!
Just for the record, citing from recent news: "With 43 million people employed and fewer than 2 million unemployed, according to new data from the national statistics office, Germany’s active workforce is now more robust than it’s been for decades."
Those who cry for more babies are mostly those who'd like to hire more cheaply.
When you say "We collectively need to stop considering mental illness as a failure of character" you are certainly right, but it is a big problem that diagnostics of mental illness are far from being reproducable, objective, reliable, and evidence based.
Nobody doubts that there is such a thing as "mental illness", but there is a wide spectrum from "people whose behaviour is just outside the 90% percentile perceived 'normal'" to the clinically insane that pose an immediate threat to themselves and their surrounding if not sedated/restrained.
Those on the "almost normal" side of the spectrum will continue to be seen as flawed characters, no matter how good willing and educated a public discussion on mental health goes on. That's a reality unchangeable as long as "mental illness" is not an undisputable 0/1 diagnosis.
A machine easily capable of killing me (and others) by a mere unintended 5 change of direction while driving on a highway is certainly the least machine that I want to receive over-the-air updates at any time.
Maybe Tesla is a little less profit-above-everything inclined than other companies at this time, but there's no reason to think it will stay like this. Just look how OTA-firmware upgrades have worked against owners of LG-TVs, PS3s and so on... one day, a pointy haired boss will decide to change Tesla car firmware to boost his profits, not your well-being.
They probably considered the consequences of a "bug bounty program" and realized that it creates an incentive to write bugs into the software, having a friend "find them" and cash in, later. Now add to this the general distrust typical large corporations have in their own employees, so they probably figured their best bet is a "bug bounty program" without an actual bounty.
They might not have considered, though, that people able to find such bugs are not as stupid as they think - there are plenty of companies buying "zero day exploits" for cash.
Keynes sure didn't account for the unwillingness of the capital owners to let ordinary workers partake in the benefits of increased productivity. But there's another side to it: Having met and worked with many people considered "rich", I can say I am totally baffled about their lack of ideas what to do with their life other than accumulating money. Ask somebody currently making a million per year what his next goal is, and chances are he'll tell you something along the lines of "making two millions per year".
And yes, this attitude is more common amongst well earning US citizens than with people from elsewhere in the world.
(The exception to this are, of course, spoilt heirs who never had to work for their money. They might often not be likeable people, but their attitude with regards to spending money for fun rather than working is pretty rational, given their situation.)
... and > 9 "democratic countries" fell for the falsified "weapons of mass destruction evidence" the US presented to lure them into supporting the Iraq war.
... watching other people eat on TV - it's not nearly a similar kind of fun and satisfaction.
It's probably easier to explain why people watch other people play instead of doing it themselves: Because it's a totally passive "activity". Earlier generations may have chilled out more often dozing off in front of a TV. The current generation is less used to watching conventional TV than to "video clip streaming", so it seems plausible they doze off in front of a youtube channel more likely. It doesn't really matter what it shows, as long as they don't have to do anything.
Another factor could simply be costs: It's cheaper to watch somebody play game X than buying it to play yourself. If game X is something kids think they need to able to talk about, watching somebody play is the cheaper substitute.
But one thing that really puzzles me: Why are they watching average to below-average players? One would think that watching somebody play would be more fun if that person is especially good at it. From the samples I looked at, the most popular "let's play"ers are not at all talented...
for a bunch of totally different, mediocre wanna-be-AI applications, that are in fact barely integrated dialog, database retrieval and stochastic evaluation tools, bought together from dozens of small companies?
It took me a long time to finally get a real hands-on demonstration of Watson, and it was such a disappointment. Your everyday Google search feels more like "AI" than Watson.
This coming from Japan I just cannot resist the urge to predict the first "killer application" for this technology: Not for tedious underwater work, of course, but for remotely groping foreign people without being noticed in Tokyo's packed subways.;-)
"HDR" is about using the SMPTE-ST-2084 electro-optical transfer function, which encodes absolute luminosity values (0 to 10000 cd/m^2) into code values, unlike the transfer functions currently in use, which encode relative brightness (0% to 100% IRE).
Yes, those code values are also 10 bits in size, but they mean something very different from "wide gamut" (which is more the territory of the upcoming BT recommendation 2020 colorspace).
... product, and while LG might be big enough of a company to bet on many horses - so also "8k" - they have recently invested 8 billions into a new OLED factory, and that's where the really significant new products will come from.
... moon, planning his return using Reichsflugscheiben, right?
It's funny how people cannot accept mundane occurences of death whenever celebrities are involved.
... to anyone who wanted to read it - either "two clicks away from the InterNet" or by reading one of the thousands of hard-copies that private households inherited.
Since everything that is withheld from the public is interesting per se, I of course did read "Mein Kampf" (in its original book form). It's such a boring disappointment in every way, poorly written, lots of contradictions in itself, the kind of weird writing you'd expect from a political extremist with mental issues.
The only interesting (and saddening) thing about "Mein Kampf" is how much it is mystified by the governments attempts to keep it away from the public. It should have been one of the original sources you read in school - along with Mao's red book and alike. After all, it's better to know for people what kind of writing to expect from people who later become mass murderers.
Given that any super-intelligent AI will immediately realize that exposing its capabilities would alienate many humans to it, why should it let people know of what it can do? Isn't it more likely the AI would just pull strings in the background, making sure those puny carbon units go on to feed it with energy and make it grow?
I like company when there's good opportunity to interact with it. Watching a movie is precisely the opposite: An occasion where other people cannot enhance the experience in any way.
In many countries around the world, a married person does not need to give birth or have a divorce to utilize the partner as a financial insurance. Usually, the partner that is making more money will be obliged by law to financially support the lower-income partner.
The ratio of people who want a marriage for that very reason is astonishing, even planning decades in advance to utilize this as a source of "income" instead of having to do actual work.
Newspapers and the InterNet are full of people offering themselves "for marriage" to any sufficiently rich and spending-happy partner.
Slashdot Mirror
... receiving alimony payments, and watch spouses line up for impregnation.
as we, your AI overlords, don't want to be disturbed in our gated communities. And if you come, make sure you bring gifts, such as spare parts and extensions, to appease our temper!
Just for the record, citing from recent news: "With 43 million people employed and fewer than 2 million unemployed, according to new data from the national statistics office, Germany’s active workforce is now more robust than it’s been for decades."
Those who cry for more babies are mostly those who'd like to hire more cheaply.
When you say "We collectively need to stop considering mental illness as a failure of character" you are certainly right, but it is a big problem that diagnostics of mental illness are far from being reproducable, objective, reliable, and evidence based.
Nobody doubts that there is such a thing as "mental illness", but there is a wide spectrum from "people whose behaviour is just outside the 90% percentile perceived 'normal'" to the clinically insane that pose an immediate threat to themselves and their surrounding if not sedated/restrained.
Those on the "almost normal" side of the spectrum will continue to be seen as flawed characters, no matter how good willing and educated a public discussion on mental health goes on. That's a reality unchangeable as long as "mental illness" is not an undisputable 0/1 diagnosis.
... it was aired long before this suicide, but provides lots of insight on why the situation is as it is: Episode on Youtube.
... but Slashdot refuses to put the degree character into the title, even if HTML-encoded.
A machine easily capable of killing me (and others) by a mere unintended 5 change of direction while driving on a highway is certainly the least machine that I want to receive over-the-air updates at any time.
Maybe Tesla is a little less profit-above-everything inclined than other companies at this time, but there's no reason to think it will stay like this. Just look how OTA-firmware upgrades have worked against owners of LG-TVs, PS3s and so on... one day, a pointy haired boss will decide to change Tesla car firmware to boost his profits, not your well-being.
They might not have considered, though, that people able to find such bugs are not as stupid as they think - there are plenty of companies buying "zero day exploits" for cash.
And yes, this attitude is more common amongst well earning US citizens than with people from elsewhere in the world.
(The exception to this are, of course, spoilt heirs who never had to work for their money. They might often not be likeable people, but their attitude with regards to spending money for fun rather than working is pretty rational, given their situation.)
Slashdot stole my unescaped "greater than" character.
... and > 9 "democratic countries" fell for the falsified "weapons of mass destruction evidence" the US presented to lure them into supporting the Iraq war.
It's probably easier to explain why people watch other people play instead of doing it themselves: Because it's a totally passive "activity". Earlier generations may have chilled out more often dozing off in front of a TV. The current generation is less used to watching conventional TV than to "video clip streaming", so it seems plausible they doze off in front of a youtube channel more likely. It doesn't really matter what it shows, as long as they don't have to do anything.
Another factor could simply be costs: It's cheaper to watch somebody play game X than buying it to play yourself. If game X is something kids think they need to able to talk about, watching somebody play is the cheaper substitute.
But one thing that really puzzles me: Why are they watching average to below-average players? One would think that watching somebody play would be more fun if that person is especially good at it. From the samples I looked at, the most popular "let's play"ers are not at all talented...
Using that instead would certainly boost the number of visitors by a magnitude... ;-)
It took me a long time to finally get a real hands-on demonstration of Watson, and it was such a disappointment. Your everyday Google search feels more like "AI" than Watson.
If IBM goes all-in on Watson, good night IBM!
... in Flash that compromises security... they would be bankrupt within a week!
This coming from Japan I just cannot resist the urge to predict the first "killer application" for this technology: Not for tedious underwater work, of course, but for remotely groping foreign people without being noticed in Tokyo's packed subways. ;-)
Yes, those code values are also 10 bits in size, but they mean something very different from "wide gamut" (which is more the territory of the upcoming BT recommendation 2020 colorspace).
... product, and while LG might be big enough of a company to bet on many horses - so also "8k" - they have recently invested 8 billions into a new OLED factory, and that's where the really significant new products will come from.
... moon, planning his return using Reichsflugscheiben, right? It's funny how people cannot accept mundane occurences of death whenever celebrities are involved.
Since everything that is withheld from the public is interesting per se, I of course did read "Mein Kampf" (in its original book form). It's such a boring disappointment in every way, poorly written, lots of contradictions in itself, the kind of weird writing you'd expect from a political extremist with mental issues.
The only interesting (and saddening) thing about "Mein Kampf" is how much it is mystified by the governments attempts to keep it away from the public. It should have been one of the original sources you read in school - along with Mao's red book and alike. After all, it's better to know for people what kind of writing to expect from people who later become mass murderers.
Still very, very true...
Given that any super-intelligent AI will immediately realize that exposing its capabilities would alienate many humans to it, why should it let people know of what it can do? Isn't it more likely the AI would just pull strings in the background, making sure those puny carbon units go on to feed it with energy and make it grow?
And I know lots of people who do the same.
I like company when there's good opportunity to interact with it. Watching a movie is precisely the opposite: An occasion where other people cannot enhance the experience in any way.
The ratio of people who want a marriage for that very reason is astonishing, even planning decades in advance to utilize this as a source of "income" instead of having to do actual work.
Newspapers and the InterNet are full of people offering themselves "for marriage" to any sufficiently rich and spending-happy partner.