I dug out some old Compute! magazines last year at my parent's house.
Rereading some of the 35 year old articles it is still interesting some of the tricks people used and how the hardware worked. Today it's all about what CEO had to resign for sex with whatever.
I used to design computer chips and have written bioses and design a couple of computers from the chip level. I also wrote a couple of GUI systems, used to be heavy into linux hacking, but have never used an iphone and would probably be considered computer illiterate.
My experience also and I grew up in what would be today considered to be a poor area. I had an almost inexhaustible number of activities that I could choose from and had a very busy schedule between cubscouts, swimming, soccer and after school activities.
We played a game called tote. It was a sword sized heavy wooden pole with 20cm wrapped in electrical tape at one end (so it looked kinda like a sword). Everyone would stand in a circle and "pass" the pole to the next person by throwing maybe 5-10m. You could only touch the sword on the electrical tape and if the other part touched you, you were out. It was very violent, but a lot of fun.
I lived in the middle of nowhere, later to become known as bf egypt. My suburb had lots to do. As a kid, I remember going to the pool, ayso soccer at my school, to archery club, baseball and softball games at the school, to the mall (with two movie theaters), bike riding, dirt bike riding up a big mound, flying model rockets and rc planes at the school's football field(this was a big a popular thing) , playing in the fields, after school workshops at my school. All within minutes walking distance.
To make chatbots seem more human like, it would be easiest, fastest and most economical to, through the use of social manipulation, dumb down humans to the point of being unable to have a conversation.
One of the most interesting and exciting (maybe because of it's novelty) was following someone during the first gulf war on NN in realtime of someone living in israel as their neighborhood was hit by a missile. That was a non-journalist (something that didn't exist at the time). Anyway, it was just in general a big discussion board on any topic you wanted to make up.... aside from a.b.p.e.:) Essentially reddit without ranking
Since the same thing was true 30 years ago, it makes sense that people knew what they were getting into so likely they had mental problems to begin with.
I mean having someone pre-negotiate a price and strike a deal is part of their service.
Imagine a company that only found you rides for a %. Then a competitor comes along and offers you rides for $X where neither the driver nor the passenger has to negotiate anything. I think most people would go with the competing service.
Sounds like a requirement of the service. I've been in many countries where just about anyone with a car will stick a taxi sign in the window to pick up a few extra dollars here and there. You could easily be going through a service like Craigslist or a bulletin board to find rides, but it's not as convenient.
I took my first uber ride last week (I came along for the ride with a friend). The driver really seemed to enjoy the job and had quit his full time job a few months earlier to concentrate on driving. He said he'd driven over 200k miles in the previous year.
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If it ain't reinvinted, it ain't invented.
Or an asteroid hits the pool seconds before the kid is about to all into it.
No, it's not a joke. This was built by some classmates as a senior design project class for an EE degree in the 1990's.
I spent decades in science trying to remove bias from observations.
Basically why I retired.
I dug out some old Compute! magazines last year at my parent's house.
Rereading some of the 35 year old articles it is still interesting some of the tricks people used and how the hardware worked. Today it's all about what CEO had to resign for sex with whatever.
I used to design computer chips and have written bioses and design a couple of computers from the chip level. I also wrote a couple of GUI systems, used to be heavy into linux hacking, but have never used an iphone and would probably be considered computer illiterate.
You probably joke, but it's true. This happened to me when some friends were visiting and their kids were playing in my back yard.
My experience also and I grew up in what would be today considered to be a poor area. I had an almost inexhaustible number of activities that I could choose from and had a very busy schedule between cubscouts, swimming, soccer and after school activities.
Bike lanes were not even invented when I was a kid. You would ride on the side streets went everywhere and the traffic much slower.
We played a game called tote. It was a sword sized heavy wooden pole with 20cm wrapped in electrical tape at one end (so it looked kinda like a sword). Everyone would stand in a circle and "pass" the pole to the next person by throwing maybe 5-10m. You could only touch the sword on the electrical tape and if the other part touched you, you were out. It was very violent, but a lot of fun.
I lived in the middle of nowhere, later to become known as bf egypt. My suburb had lots to do. As a kid, I remember going to the pool, ayso soccer at my school, to archery club, baseball and softball games at the school, to the mall (with two movie theaters), bike riding, dirt bike riding up a big mound, flying model rockets and rc planes at the school's football field(this was a big a popular thing) , playing in the fields, after school workshops at my school. All within minutes walking distance.
is 900 kcalories
To make chatbots seem more human like, it would be easiest, fastest and most economical to, through the use of social manipulation, dumb down humans to the point of being unable to have a conversation.
One of the most interesting and exciting (maybe because of it's novelty) was following someone during the first gulf war on NN in realtime of someone living in israel as their neighborhood was hit by a missile. That was a non-journalist (something that didn't exist at the time). Anyway, it was just in general a big discussion board on any topic you wanted to make up.... aside from a.b.p.e. :) Essentially reddit without ranking
If www never exist, NN would have undoubtedly become more ubiquitous though. People would eventually found alternative uses..
What if the www never existed and the same thing was done through netnews?
There may be another.
Not really.
a good primer on manipulation is The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing by Swedish Psychologist Joost Meerloo
Since the same thing was true 30 years ago, it makes sense that people knew what they were getting into so likely they had mental problems to begin with.
Imagine a company that only found you rides for a %. Then a competitor comes along and offers you rides for $X where neither the driver nor the passenger has to negotiate anything. I think most people would go with the competing service.
Sounds like a requirement of the service. I've been in many countries where just about anyone with a car will stick a taxi sign in the window to pick up a few extra dollars here and there. You could easily be going through a service like Craigslist or a bulletin board to find rides, but it's not as convenient.
I ran my own business for years and did not make minimum wage. Where are the laws to protect private business owners.
I took my first uber ride last week (I came along for the ride with a friend). The driver really seemed to enjoy the job and had quit his full time job a few months earlier to concentrate on driving. He said he'd driven over 200k miles in the previous year.
between "The Gig Economy" and running your own business where you use a service to find customers?