It's really hard to find who is a good contributor and who is a good pretender in a team. Surely in future AI/big data is going to assist the management if figuring out whom to keep and whom to fire when they want to cut-cost. Measuring your state at work (including how long you take breaks, are you distracted while coding, how your body systems are working (biometrics)) will surely aid in figuring out who gets to be kept. I think today it's mostly politics which play a greater role in the firing time but it needn't be so in future.
True; but the things for basic survival will be pushed out of their control. They will brain-wash people (thru' advertisement, even early schooling) to think a big house, an i-phone etc are essential. But with intelligence you can see thru' those are not needed. Today no one appreciates that they get free oxygen to breathe. Why the rich/powerful did not put a tax on it? it's very easy to approximate how much oxygen a person consumes and ask him to pay a tax.. It did not happen. Similarly in future food/shelter/cloths will be available for free. Things like i-phone, a round-trip to moon or space-travel will cost you money.. these the rich/power will control.
Utopia can be created for you if you wish. Why you need a $100 monthly electricity bill? Utopia is not for all; you just quit (similar to ppl who chose to live off-the-grid... like in a mountain cabin). Yes, rich/power will manipulate.. it will sell a bottle of "ultra energized pure crystal" water for $10. It's upto you to fall or not fall for their brain washing. You can live with just simple vegetarian meal (twice/thrice may be a day), water and probably sleep under the sky (weather permitting) and be in bliss.
A few years/decades ago, to live like that live, you need to beg. With post-scarcity, you can get your basics without begging. Of course if you believe u need that piece of paper (college degree etc) for you (or ur kids/family), then you will struggle. If you believe you need a fancy car, then you will suffer. So majority of society will still live in matrix and not in utopia. But you are free to escape. It's much easier now.
Utopia is available right here, here-now if one chose to take the off the beaten path.
Basically technology will advance so much that a very small fraction of population will produce all the needs of people. Even those people will work out of their interest/passion and not forced to work. Money loses its value. It's like how a father/mother provides for say a large family of kids. The kids don't work. It's also not expected from them. As I said, today we take for granted free air to breathe. It will be similar for basic needs of food/shelter/entertainment/information in future.
That is contribution to society will become optional.
This does not imply people won't work or strive to better one another. But those will be for things which are not survival centric. Some may still want to be the best singer or a dancer. The human nature to compare and compete with others will be there. What will vanish is need to work for survival and basic entertainment. If you can't slay jealousy then you will continue to be in an artificial rat race [there may be competitions over stupid things.. like who can bark like a dog the better, kinda things].
And what is money? in post-scarcity it's like how you breathe oxygen, you don't pay for it. it's just there. You rent a self-driving car and go around seeing place (of course very soon you will be bored with that as well). [for renting, you may use a govt/society given credit..like basic income]
Where do these "suicidal murderers" come from? why only in US these are more prevalent than the rest of the world? Almost all these people were under severe psychotic drugs. Someone makes money off them (read big pharma, hospitals). So it's better to stop the loopholes which feed a normal mind with all kind of chemicals and turn that mind into a monster. Now with easy access to an automatic military grade weapon, he(/she?) becomes a mass murderer.
These extra 'eyes n ears' talk about big data and kinda AI/ML (machine learning) and have the ability to "predict". That is they claim anamoly detection. They even use the word "future"..predict future. So once the system senses a guy is a potential "mass murderer", it can alert the human backend (which in future may deploy a remote drone kind of attack on the person)
corporates are there to remove any human element which may come in the way of efficiency. Not sure why this is wrong. The rapid technological growth in the last 100 or so years is purely due to capitalism. It kindles the human nature of greed; so that nature can be harnessed much more rapidly. A human however efficient still has a heart.. he may hesitate to do the most ruthless act which a soulless corporate will do; because it's mantra is efficiency. And at the end everyone gains however u may want to color it bad [today a billions of ppl hv access to information/internet]
but why not just kill the mind and wander about like say hmmm a street dog?... what's wrong with that? killing the body is kid's stuff anyway. I mean if you've decided that you are fed up with life, why not just drift about.. and let death come n take you when it wants. That is, stop making efforts to maintain the body..whatever food/shelter/fun comes let it come.. kinda way.
web interface lets one use their desktop/big screen n full keyboard/mouse. It's much much more convenient than the touch screen of a phone (at least for a large majority of population I would guess). Of course you can use your favorite browser (chrome, say). And you can do the usual browser things like large cut n paste, book marks, downloads. So can't see why it's 'utterly pointless'. Whatsapp needs a phone. no point is bringing that to say web interface is useless. What I fail to see now is what desktop app brings new over the current web whatsapp.
This statement is made by your brain; how do I know it doesn't have some vested interest in promoting a lie? That is it has free-will but by first making u believe in physics/chemicals etc it tries to convince u that you don't have freewill.
Or when that report comes how do I know that my brain is not going to interpret it as though I have a freewill? That is it convinces it self that the report is just a play and I should ignore it.
From what I see these are like Godel statements for our brain; we can't solve them one way or the other.
No - just the opposite. Meditation is not 'zoning out' or going to sleep - it is actually the opposite of that - becoming acutely aware of everything around you while quieting the inner stream of consciousness (monologue or dialogue depending on your level of schizophrenia). I think of the mind in this state as being like a computer with more free CPU cycles -- more processing can be directed constructively - thus having the outward effect of speeding up your reaction times in various scenarios.
Not only your CPU runs at say 0.1% load, you will see time slowing down; like how Neo stops/picks the bullets when Smith fires at him.
Of course no one can relate to this, unless you do it and experiment with yourself. blue-pill takers will only ridicule.
To recognize a bald eagle, I don't need to be fed with a million eagle pictures;
show me one flying eagle once or may be two or three times, it's done. Human visual cortex must be using ways of rotating a 3-D object and projecting how the object will appear if viewed in 2-D from different angles; also it can do simple scaling (bigger/smaller); and how color changes can affect [grey-scale/color].
Machine learning takes a million eagle pictures and does something of a curve-fitting to know how far a new point is from current cluster of points.
It has no idea of 3-D objects/what effect a rotation could do; etc.
In this case it's like a brute-force method versus a more sophisticated algorithm.
also a human will try to match the shown picture to whatever set of objects he knows already. e.g. a 3 year old who has learnt only say first 10 alphabets, if shown P may say it's D.. 'coz to him/her the closest match is D. computer vision may not do this.. because with a training set size running into millions.. potentially every class will claim a hit.
depends if the shit is 10 km away or 1 feet away. It doesn't need keen awareness to do the latter. Basically you can't go to the left too much without swinging the other side - ying n yang of existence.
They try unusual approaches, they fail, they try again, they fail better next time, and most importantly: they identify when they fail to free up resources to try something else.
The skill that smells failure early is the same one that smells a distant success. That is you have the vision/intuition/awareness to see things which are not in the visible range of others.
A less aware person will keep working on xyz even after it is exhibiting signs of failure...his read-resolution of failure is low;
Thus as you train yourself to spot failure early; you also gain to see that unusual smell of success from a vast distance -- like how a shark knows the presence of an injured prey from a few drops of blood miles away.
, true failure isn't when the project stumbles and falls due to some major technological obstacle. It's when you fail because of something you really could have foreseen... or when you fail to learn from your failure.
While it's true to see it from failure perspective, the real benefit of the new approach is you may find a hidden new efficient path which no one before you saw. It's like how columbus went west to reach India; You never know what treasure you may arrive at because you are moving in a totally unknown path. The rewards may be staggering. I see moving into the unknown is the key here -- trusting your gut.
I thought to do business in a society (I mean developed/modern one) you can't discriminate a customer.
Just because someone's behavior is not agreeable to you, how can you deny him the right to purchase your product?
This law can be easily refuted by saying 'I don't know'
Q: how do you explain these content in your computer?
A: I don't know
Case finished.
But this law can be used to abuse/bully lot of folks who don't know the above Q & A
For industry xyz to take off, you need laws/policies supporting xyz. To get the laws, you need the 1% to support. Nuclear is a technology which can benefit everyone in the long run (all physics principles, energy density, etc); but it doesn't benefit the 1% now. It only negatively affects them (like revenue loss to coal industry/ solar/ wind etc). So unless the industry is going to benefit the 1% and it's in a such way they reap the lions share of the profit, the industry is not going to take off.
As we know, it's democracy only in the name.
Cheap foreign labor is just a temporary issue; Keynes talks about a situation which transcends country boundaries. Let's say you have a remote island village where there is one rich-family which owns the land; and 99 worker/laborer families. The workers are paid just enough grain for survival and they work every day (say from sunrise to sunset with breaks). Now due to some global climate change (equivalent of technological advancement), rainfall shoots up and there is lot of productivity (lot of grains from smaller land). The land-lord can employ only 50 workers..and why is there a need to pay more than what he was always paying? See the point is..once you are in control.. when you hold the power, you can pay any amount and will find a worker for it. Laws (like minimum wage) don't keep up fast and also these days laws are anyway bought by the rich. So the underlying problem is polarization of wealth/power.. and power begets power (there is a positive feedback loop)..so you can't easily break out of the loop [Traditionally its' social revolts that break the loop]
One who pursues relative happiness is a fool. He will never reach his goal. Thus we see the sorry state of human kind. No, the 1% is also in hell so as the remaining 99%.
How else we will harvest all other info about you [like your GPS, microphone input]? If it's an app, we can know everything about you (who knows may even peek inside your digital wallet). It's hard to do with web-only. In fact I read some big online retailers are pushing for app-only purchase and shutting down their web-interface.
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It's really hard to find who is a good contributor and who is a good pretender in a team. Surely in future AI/big data is going to assist the management if figuring out whom to keep and whom to fire when they want to cut-cost. Measuring your state at work (including how long you take breaks, are you distracted while coding, how your body systems are working (biometrics)) will surely aid in figuring out who gets to be kept. I think today it's mostly politics which play a greater role in the firing time but it needn't be so in future.
True; but the things for basic survival will be pushed out of their control. They will brain-wash people (thru' advertisement, even early schooling) to think a big house, an i-phone etc are essential. But with intelligence you can see thru' those are not needed. Today no one appreciates that they get free oxygen to breathe. Why the rich/powerful did not put a tax on it? it's very easy to approximate how much oxygen a person consumes and ask him to pay a tax.. It did not happen. Similarly in future food/shelter/cloths will be available for free. Things like i-phone, a round-trip to moon or space-travel will cost you money .. these the rich/power will control.
Utopia can be created for you if you wish. Why you need a $100 monthly electricity bill? Utopia is not for all; you just quit (similar to ppl who chose to live off-the-grid ... like in a mountain cabin). Yes, rich/power will manipulate.. it will sell a bottle of "ultra energized pure crystal" water for $10. It's upto you to fall or not fall for their brain washing. You can live with just simple vegetarian meal (twice/thrice may be a day), water and probably sleep under the sky (weather permitting) and be in bliss.
A few years/decades ago, to live like that live, you need to beg. With post-scarcity, you can get your basics without begging. Of course if you believe u need that piece of paper (college degree etc) for you (or ur kids/family), then you will struggle. If you believe you need a fancy car, then you will suffer. So majority of society will still live in matrix and not in utopia. But you are free to escape. It's much easier now.
Utopia is available right here, here-now if one chose to take the off the beaten path.
Basically technology will advance so much that a very small fraction of population will produce all the needs of people. Even those people will work out of their interest/passion and not forced to work. Money loses its value. It's like how a father/mother provides for say a large family of kids. The kids don't work. It's also not expected from them. As I said, today we take for granted free air to breathe. It will be similar for basic needs of food/shelter/entertainment/information in future.
That is contribution to society will become optional.
This does not imply people won't work or strive to better one another. But those will be for things which are not survival centric. Some may still want to be the best singer or a dancer. The human nature to compare and compete with others will be there. What will vanish is need to work for survival and basic entertainment. If you can't slay jealousy then you will continue to be in an artificial rat race [there may be competitions over stupid things.. like who can bark like a dog the better, kinda things].
And what is money? in post-scarcity it's like how you breathe oxygen, you don't pay for it. it's just there. You rent a self-driving car and go around seeing place (of course very soon you will be bored with that as well). [for renting, you may use a govt/society given credit ..like basic income]
Where do these "suicidal murderers" come from? why only in US these are more prevalent than the rest of the world? Almost all these people were under severe psychotic drugs. Someone makes money off them (read big pharma, hospitals). So it's better to stop the loopholes which feed a normal mind with all kind of chemicals and turn that mind into a monster. Now with easy access to an automatic military grade weapon, he(/she?) becomes a mass murderer.
These extra 'eyes n ears' talk about big data and kinda AI/ML (machine learning) and have the ability to "predict". That is they claim anamoly detection. They even use the word "future"..predict future. So once the system senses a guy is a potential "mass murderer", it can alert the human backend (which in future may deploy a remote drone kind of attack on the person)
corporates are there to remove any human element which may come in the way of efficiency. Not sure why this is wrong. The rapid technological growth in the last 100 or so years is purely due to capitalism. It kindles the human nature of greed; so that nature can be harnessed much more rapidly. A human however efficient still has a heart.. he may hesitate to do the most ruthless act which a soulless corporate will do; because it's mantra is efficiency. And at the end everyone gains however u may want to color it bad [today a billions of ppl hv access to information/internet]
Rendering that html may trigger an exploit which fries the RJ45
when walking carrying your computer, how do u handle the wired ethernet? do you have someone carry a large spool of wire? just curious
but why not just kill the mind and wander about like say hmmm a street dog?... what's wrong with that? killing the body is kid's stuff anyway. I mean if you've decided that you are fed up with life, why not just drift about.. and let death come n take you when it wants. That is, stop making efforts to maintain the body..whatever food/shelter/fun comes let it come.. kinda way.
web interface lets one use their desktop/big screen n full keyboard/mouse. It's much much more convenient than the touch screen of a phone (at least for a large majority of population I would guess). Of course you can use your favorite browser (chrome, say). And you can do the usual browser things like large cut n paste, book marks, downloads. So can't see why it's 'utterly pointless'. Whatsapp needs a phone. no point is bringing that to say web interface is useless. What I fail to see now is what desktop app brings new over the current web whatsapp.
This statement is made by your brain; how do I know it doesn't have some vested interest in promoting a lie? That is it has free-will but by first making u believe in physics/chemicals etc it tries to convince u that you don't have freewill.
Or when that report comes how do I know that my brain is not going to interpret it as though I have a freewill? That is it convinces it self that the report is just a play and I should ignore it.
From what I see these are like Godel statements for our brain; we can't solve them one way or the other.
No - just the opposite. Meditation is not 'zoning out' or going to sleep - it is actually the opposite of that - becoming acutely aware of everything around you while quieting the inner stream of consciousness (monologue or dialogue depending on your level of schizophrenia). I think of the mind in this state as being like a computer with more free CPU cycles -- more processing can be directed constructively - thus having the outward effect of speeding up your reaction times in various scenarios.
Not only your CPU runs at say 0.1% load, you will see time slowing down; like how Neo stops/picks the bullets when Smith fires at him. Of course no one can relate to this, unless you do it and experiment with yourself. blue-pill takers will only ridicule.
To recognize a bald eagle, I don't need to be fed with a million eagle pictures; show me one flying eagle once or may be two or three times, it's done. Human visual cortex must be using ways of rotating a 3-D object and projecting how the object will appear if viewed in 2-D from different angles; also it can do simple scaling (bigger/smaller); and how color changes can affect [grey-scale/color].
Machine learning takes a million eagle pictures and does something of a curve-fitting to know how far a new point is from current cluster of points. It has no idea of 3-D objects/what effect a rotation could do; etc. In this case it's like a brute-force method versus a more sophisticated algorithm.
also a human will try to match the shown picture to whatever set of objects he knows already. e.g. a 3 year old who has learnt only say first 10 alphabets, if shown P may say it's D.. 'coz to him/her the closest match is D. computer vision may not do this.. because with a training set size running into millions.. potentially every class will claim a hit.
depends if the shit is 10 km away or 1 feet away. It doesn't need keen awareness to do the latter. Basically you can't go to the left too much without swinging the other side - ying n yang of existence.
They try unusual approaches, they fail, they try again, they fail better next time, and most importantly: they identify when they fail to free up resources to try something else.
The skill that smells failure early is the same one that smells a distant success. That is you have the vision/intuition/awareness to see things which are not in the visible range of others.
A less aware person will keep working on xyz even after it is exhibiting signs of failure...his read-resolution of failure is low; Thus as you train yourself to spot failure early; you also gain to see that unusual smell of success from a vast distance -- like how a shark knows the presence of an injured prey from a few drops of blood miles away.
, true failure isn't when the project stumbles and falls due to some major technological obstacle. It's when you fail because of something you really could have foreseen... or when you fail to learn from your failure.
While it's true to see it from failure perspective, the real benefit of the new approach is you may find a hidden new efficient path which no one before you saw. It's like how columbus went west to reach India; You never know what treasure you may arrive at because you are moving in a totally unknown path. The rewards may be staggering. I see moving into the unknown is the key here -- trusting your gut.
I thought to do business in a society (I mean developed/modern one) you can't discriminate a customer. Just because someone's behavior is not agreeable to you, how can you deny him the right to purchase your product?
This law can be easily refuted by saying 'I don't know'
Q: how do you explain these content in your computer?
A: I don't know
Case finished.
But this law can be used to abuse/bully lot of folks who don't know the above Q & A
In my opinion, the law is wrong
If you recursively apply your logic (which is sound), you will arrive at the above statement. To make it clear s/the law/any law/
For industry xyz to take off, you need laws/policies supporting xyz. To get the laws, you need the 1% to support. Nuclear is a technology which can benefit everyone in the long run (all physics principles, energy density, etc); but it doesn't benefit the 1% now. It only negatively affects them (like revenue loss to coal industry/ solar/ wind etc). So unless the industry is going to benefit the 1% and it's in a such way they reap the lions share of the profit, the industry is not going to take off. As we know, it's democracy only in the name.
Cheap foreign labor is just a temporary issue; Keynes talks about a situation which transcends country boundaries. Let's say you have a remote island village where there is one rich-family which owns the land; and 99 worker/laborer families. The workers are paid just enough grain for survival and they work every day (say from sunrise to sunset with breaks). Now due to some global climate change (equivalent of technological advancement), rainfall shoots up and there is lot of productivity (lot of grains from smaller land). The land-lord can employ only 50 workers..and why is there a need to pay more than what he was always paying? See the point is ..once you are in control.. when you hold the power, you can pay any amount and will find a worker for it. Laws (like minimum wage) don't keep up fast and also these days laws are anyway bought by the rich. So the underlying problem is polarization of wealth/power.. and power begets power (there is a positive feedback loop) ..so you can't easily break out of the loop [Traditionally its' social revolts that break the loop]
One who pursues relative happiness is a fool. He will never reach his goal. Thus we see the sorry state of human kind. No, the 1% is also in hell so as the remaining 99%.
it's zero or one... one for utopia
How else we will harvest all other info about you [like your GPS, microphone input]? If it's an app, we can know everything about you (who knows may even peek inside your digital wallet). It's hard to do with web-only. In fact I read some big online retailers are pushing for app-only purchase and shutting down their web-interface.