I attended a presentations in the mid 90's sometime by Dr. Hecht-Neilson who had a company that evaluated people for their credit worthiness using neural networks.
I have chickens and spend maybe $14 every 6 months for food. Treats really because they mostly scavenge in the yard. I get free eggs every day also. Depends on where you live though.
And he was right. The civilization that he was trying to protect no longer exists.
My neighbor's kid was telling me last night that they "don't do things like study apostrophes any more" in school, relating to a science presentation that he'd finished. He's in the 7th grade gifted program and didn't know many grammar rules of any kind.
Yeah, I don't buy into his AI and live forever stuff, but he was right about the sensors, miniaturization, smartphone and how society would react to them. Most people aren't aware of how much miniature sensors have changed the world.. It's one of the things I think about a lot because there are a very finite number of things that are measurable and we're close to being able to measure them all and with grater accuracy than can be used.
This has lead to great economic growth in the recent past, but is ending
Yeah, that's what I get out of him. He has made some good predictions or at least popularized them when they weren't well known at the time, but all most people do is make fun of all the vitamins he takes in the quest for whatever. I'm sure I would have specialized in different subjects had I not read some of the things he wrote and I'm grateful for that.
It's funny, I read a couple of his books and don't even remember some of the looney things he said (uploading our consciousness and immortality by 2035 or whatever), while that's all that other people remembered. I guess my brain filtered out the crazy bits and kept the good information.
Yeah I have. They're all walking around and doing stuff, not staring into their tricorders and watching cat videos on the main viewer.
I came up with a skit for this once. Star Trek: The Millennial Generation
It's an unsolvable problem. In the distant future, poor people will own star systems, middle class will own their own star clusters, the rich will own galaxies and the.0001% will own galaxy clusters
There's nothing quasi about it. OTOH, his predictions of smaller ubiquitous computers - smartphones and people making relationships with them - was spot on. Not exactly his original idea, but popularized by him. And that was during a time when tower computing was all the rage and the concept of a supercomputer in your pocket was something few people were realistically talking about other than when trying to describe moore to people.
Do you support hackable? Just a couple of years ago people were bringing out the proverbial pitchforks because manufacturers were building cars with non serviceable areas and people were demanding access to the things they own, bemoaning the slide to an ownership class and a renter economy. The same arguments that were applied to non hackable cell phones (I think I saw that one yesterday).
That's a poor example because not a lot of effort has gone into creating a device to sort and fold laundry. Dump a hundred million dollars into the problem and it will likely be solved in not to long of time.
here is a picture of all that is required to drive a car under nominal conditions. This has been possible for decade, nearly perfected at that.
The problem is that there are no nominal conditions while driving, unlike flying an aircraft, rocket or spacecraft. Nothing is going to be in your way to steer around, your path was charted down to the last meter months in advance, every move that you could possibly make was built into the design years in advance. Automobiles operate under an almost entirely different set of requirements, many unknown until the last hundred milliseconds.
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I attended a presentations in the mid 90's sometime by Dr. Hecht-Neilson who had a company that evaluated people for their credit worthiness using neural networks.
Gout was historically known as "the disease of kings" or "rich man's disease".
From wikipedia
They are cannibalistic too. They have no compulsion against eating chicken, so why should I?
https://www.amazon.com/Katadyn...
It's very easy. It's almost like they know how to take care of themselves without any human intervention.
I have chickens and spend maybe $14 every 6 months for food. Treats really because they mostly scavenge in the yard. I get free eggs every day also. Depends on where you live though.
Yes, but the chickens don't believe in it.
was sitting on a log in a rainforest watching The Neverending Story projected on a bed sheet.
Maybe they could try that.
and then go kill a chicken because i hate them and they're really dumb and eat my garden.
If someone wears a hearing aide (like a few people I know do), why don't they get a cell phone that works with them (like a few people I know did).
Everyone in my aunt's nursing home has a cell phone so it can't be that complicated.
What's sadder is that the SCSC was cancelled so that the ISS could be doing this r&d for cheaper. At least that was NASA's promise.
The SCSC would have been three times larger than the LHC.
And we now see their rants were justified.
And he was right. The civilization that he was trying to protect no longer exists.
My neighbor's kid was telling me last night that they "don't do things like study apostrophes any more" in school, relating to a science presentation that he'd finished. He's in the 7th grade gifted program and didn't know many grammar rules of any kind.
Yeah, I don't buy into his AI and live forever stuff, but he was right about the sensors, miniaturization, smartphone and how society would react to them. Most people aren't aware of how much miniature sensors have changed the world.. It's one of the things I think about a lot because there are a very finite number of things that are measurable and we're close to being able to measure them all and with grater accuracy than can be used.
This has lead to great economic growth in the recent past, but is ending
$60 million is really not a lot of money.
At least you have, or many have, the choice to drop out and live a quasi stone age or Amish existence.
Yeah, that's what I get out of him. He has made some good predictions or at least popularized them when they weren't well known at the time, but all most people do is make fun of all the vitamins he takes in the quest for whatever. I'm sure I would have specialized in different subjects had I not read some of the things he wrote and I'm grateful for that.
It's funny, I read a couple of his books and don't even remember some of the looney things he said (uploading our consciousness and immortality by 2035 or whatever), while that's all that other people remembered. I guess my brain filtered out the crazy bits and kept the good information.
Yeah I have. They're all walking around and doing stuff, not staring into their tricorders and watching cat videos on the main viewer.
I came up with a skit for this once. Star Trek: The Millennial Generation
It's an unsolvable problem. In the distant future, poor people will own star systems, middle class will own their own star clusters, the rich will own galaxies and the .0001% will own galaxy clusters
There's nothing quasi about it. OTOH, his predictions of smaller ubiquitous computers - smartphones and people making relationships with them - was spot on. Not exactly his original idea, but popularized by him. And that was during a time when tower computing was all the rage and the concept of a supercomputer in your pocket was something few people were realistically talking about other than when trying to describe moore to people.
Your Future Car's Hood Will Be Welded Shut
Do you support hackable? Just a couple of years ago people were bringing out the proverbial pitchforks because manufacturers were building cars with non serviceable areas and people were demanding access to the things they own, bemoaning the slide to an ownership class and a renter economy. The same arguments that were applied to non hackable cell phones (I think I saw that one yesterday).
That's a poor example because not a lot of effort has gone into creating a device to sort and fold laundry. Dump a hundred million dollars into the problem and it will likely be solved in not to long of time.
The problem is that there are no nominal conditions while driving, unlike flying an aircraft, rocket or spacecraft. Nothing is going to be in your way to steer around, your path was charted down to the last meter months in advance, every move that you could possibly make was built into the design years in advance. Automobiles operate under an almost entirely different set of requirements, many unknown until the last hundred milliseconds.