Here is my 'sci-fi' grant proposal. I hope you approve:
Wait for advanced nanotechnology and brain-scanning tech to emerge over the next 25 years. I'll still need funding during this period to analyze the research landscape for suitable bla bla (i.e. sit on my ass.)
Launch a 'seed' probe using the old space elevator.
Have the seed probe attach to any unclaimed, suitably-sized asteroid and self-assemble the solar arrays, dish, and computing substrate necessary for a couple million transhuman beings + "matrix" environment.
"Broadcast" the willing scanned human minds from Earth for $0/lb (and let the bio-luddites join the dinosaurs.)
Grow our new home into a dyson-sphere-sized Matrioshka Brain around the Sun to add to the "missing [thinking] matter" out there.:)
I don't know why protocols like ed2k or overnet haven't caught on with the slashdot crowd.
edonkey P2P *is* quite popular here, but slashcode won't let you paste a working ed2k link (the slashes and pipes are stripped), and the plaintext workaround has inconvenient whitespace added: ed2k://|file|DeDRMS.cs|7389|55CBF56C77D2BF0CC9B050 A3DE139753|/
I could entertain the notion that a growing "globalism vs. tribalism" trend is to blame
Hey, we're wired for tribalism in our evolutionary psych, so "globalism" is a really tough sell compared to Us vs. Them nationalism. Even after nanotechnology has eliminated the source (scarce resources) of most conflicts, there will still be that innate desire to belong to one righteous (and arbitrary) cultural tribe or another.
I predict that nanotech will... [BE A GODSEND]
Only for a relatively limited window of time, though. Shortly after we've mastered molecular manipulation, parallel advacing tech will mean that many of us will be transcending a limited physical existence for "virtual life".
I also predict nanotech will... [BE THE DEVILS WORK]
There is certainly a dangerous mismatch between our still-primitive human brains and our exponentially advancing tech. Our only hope is 1) being extremely lucky, and/or 2) getting some eggs out of the Earth-basket so we don't lose the whole civilization in one go, and/or 3) give friendly AI control of critical systems such as the artificial nano-immune system (aka: "active shield") infesting every nook and cranny in the future...
Property tax is next to nothing when you're living off the grid out in the middle of nowhere. And if you're never going to call the fire dept and whatnot, just don't pay it and I doubt you'd be bothered (until the sprawl reaches you).
I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Suse 9.1 Pro, which is due to ship on May 8th, but I'm guessing the 'unethical'-but-still-legal ISOs will be leaked to the net a little sooner than that, and definitely way before the FTP-only version is made available.
I've got a gut feeling that Novell's SuSE is going to eventually unseat RedHat as the #1 solution for server AND desktop, so I'd might as well dump my RH9 desktop for it now.
What you're seeing now is very preliminary code; I suspect it will improve and evolve dramatically in the coming months
Wow! You're using genetic algorithms?:)
But seriously, have GA ever been used to optimize video codecs? You'd give it various raw video clips to work with and the fitness function(s) to minimize bandwidth and codec decode/encode time, while maximizing quality.
I'm assuming it's been tried, but that the rate of artificial evolution was still too glacial compared to the human mind, and/or the resulting algorithms were only optimized for the sample video it was fed...
they never show the poor truck driver, driving for 20 hours straight just to earn a living
I have it on good authority that Frogger is set in the year 2012, by which time almost all trucking, driving and piloting jobs had been replaced by more productive robotic systems.:)
Maybe the Gore universe had already invented the nano-assembler, in which case the destruction of traditional agriculture is no big deal because you can simply manufacture food (and anything else).
So, have you cooked a perfect original burger and done the molecular scan yet? I'd love a copy! Major $whuffie$ if you throw the sides into the final molecular blueprint package.
Since you've already got a good amount of whuffie (aka: a good reputation) - I can trust that you're a good cook, and that you won't poison me, unlike those formerly "rich" (in old-economy money) McDonalds bastards passing off those rotten burger fakes on the p2p nets.:)
You know what I'd be really shocked to see happen? Cisco playing a big hand in helping "tame" the wildwildweb with a new "Secure Internet"(tm)(r) enabled router that only routes "trusted" packets with valid certificates.
Enforced accountability in the routers? That would be scary.
Your argument is even worse because you've resorted to the bad comparison between physically scarce tangible objects and abundant intangible copies.
But... to humor you: one day molecular manufacturing will allow you to make an exact COPY of a Corvette for almost no cost by using solar energy and locally available molecules.
1) Will the car makers go hungry?!... No - they can make themselves "free lunches" using the same tech. And so can the former old-tech farmers and old-tech agribiz execs.
2) Will the car makers lose the incentive to design new models if they can't enforce artificial scarcity?... No - open source will extend to the physical world at this point.
even if genetically modified foods do turn out to be ok; Why should we let a few small corporations be able to patent life?
And that is my #1 issue with GM foods: not the frankenfood FUD, but instead the excessively greedy corps like Monsanto who would be able to concentrate wealth & power like you wouldn't believe.
this whole idea of proprietary information is simply being taken too far in our society.
What else is a capitalistic economy based on physical scarcity of resources supposed to do when it doesn't really produce anything tangible anymore? Deal with the reality of information abundance? Nah - If you can't "own the intellectual property" then it has no "value", and we can't have that now can we.
Earth doesn't have a population problem, humans have a resource distribution problem.
The more resources I hoard, and the worse off you are, the better off my genes are. Hahahaha!....Wha?...... Oh, damn! the third world peasants and the 1st world working-poor have joined forces against the elite in yet another revolt. Here we go again... *rolls eyes* If only we had a robotic army without a conscience...
I really don't get people who believe that. The original biological body isn't sacred; it's just a vehicle for our brain which in turn contains our pattern of mind, which can be transfered to other substrates (with minor modifications.)
It's when your brain pattern and memories cease to be, that YOU -- or an instance of YOU -- are dead.
I expect to be paid for that work or for the information, with real currency.
Then in the future you better make sure that you get paid upfront for the scarce (and sometimes NOT so scarce) WORK of creation, since you can't depend on artificial scarcity enforcement without a global police state.
If you've previously earned some goodwill/respect/whuffie, I'm much more open to funding your future efforts, and even *gasp* paying for that effort indirectly by volunteering to buy a non-scarce token copy of your OLD WORK.
If pointers to info are 'illegal' (*cough*2600*cough), then I would also like to state that you cannot buy weed at the park. If pointers to pointers are safe, then I would like to say that it's safe to dereference my friend Joey for the same pointer to the park.
Looks like DeDRMS will be next up for free speech protection in the tradition of the DeCSS Gallery. I just love it when DRM control freaks get their global domination panties in a wad.
DeDRMS? I wrote a song about it. Want to hear it? Hear it goes... *da dum da dum*... slash asterisk bla bla asterisk slash... *da dum da dum*... Using System; *bah bum bah bum*...
Leeches? Like the parasites who make a living suing the city when they "accidentally" trip over potholes. Or the parasites who fake disability. Or the parasites managers who shave hours off workers timesheets. Or the parasites who increase productivy with robots but keep the gains to themselves while the unemployed starve because welfare is still a dirty word. Or the parasites who... bla bla.
The sad fact is that the parasite-to-"honest"-host ratio is almost the same in society as it is nature: pretty damn high.
It's crap like this that absolutely works to destroy the usefulness and wonder of the Internet.
Yeah, but it sure does make the control freaks in power cream their pants.
But not to worry - it also absolutely works to accelerate the evolution of untouchable p2p search vs. centralized cluster search. A hard problem, sure, but more attractive by the day. (the control freaks could also attempt to kill this free communication by requiring "trusted routers" not to route "untrusted" packets; only way to counter that is wireless mesh networking.)
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Here is my 'sci-fi' grant proposal. I hope you approve:
edonkey P2P *is* quite popular here, but slashcode won't let you paste a working ed2k link (the slashes and pipes are stripped), and the plaintext workaround has inconvenient whitespace added: ed2k://|file|DeDRMS.cs|7389|55CBF56C77D2BF0CC9B050 A3DE139753|/
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Hahahahahah! 600 years? Not a lot of time? ... AhhhhHahahhahaahah!!!
I've got your short-term & long-term right here.
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- 0.01 Texas'
- 2000 Rock of Gibraltar's
- 5000 Library Of Congress's
- 10000 Empire State buildings
- 20000 Football Stadiums
- 150000 Houses
- 300000 Semi Trucks
- 2300000 "New Beetle's"
- 2500000 VW Bugs
- 30 Oprah's || CowboyNeal's
(unit conversions came out of my ass just, like most stats)--
Hey, we're wired for tribalism in our evolutionary psych, so "globalism" is a really tough sell compared to Us vs. Them nationalism. Even after nanotechnology has eliminated the source (scarce resources) of most conflicts, there will still be that innate desire to belong to one righteous (and arbitrary) cultural tribe or another.
I predict that nanotech will ... [BE A GODSEND]
Only for a relatively limited window of time, though. Shortly after we've mastered molecular manipulation, parallel advacing tech will mean that many of us will be transcending a limited physical existence for "virtual life".
I also predict nanotech will ... [BE THE DEVILS WORK]
There is certainly a dangerous mismatch between our still-primitive human brains and our exponentially advancing tech. Our only hope is 1) being extremely lucky, and/or 2) getting some eggs out of the Earth-basket so we don't lose the whole civilization in one go, and/or 3) give friendly AI control of critical systems such as the artificial nano-immune system (aka: "active shield") infesting every nook and cranny in the future...
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I've got a gut feeling that Novell's SuSE is going to eventually unseat RedHat as the #1 solution for server AND desktop, so I'd might as well dump my RH9 desktop for it now.
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Sincerely,
Jim Bell
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Wow! You're using genetic algorithms? :)
But seriously, have GA ever been used to optimize video codecs? You'd give it various raw video clips to work with and the fitness function(s) to minimize bandwidth and codec decode/encode time, while maximizing quality.
I'm assuming it's been tried, but that the rate of artificial evolution was still too glacial compared to the human mind, and/or the resulting algorithms were only optimized for the sample video it was fed...
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I have it on good authority that Frogger is set in the year 2012, by which time almost all trucking, driving and piloting jobs had been replaced by more productive robotic systems. :)
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So, have you cooked a perfect original burger and done the molecular scan yet? I'd love a copy! Major $whuffie$ if you throw the sides into the final molecular blueprint package.
Since you've already got a good amount of whuffie (aka: a good reputation) - I can trust that you're a good cook, and that you won't poison me, unlike those formerly "rich" (in old-economy money) McDonalds bastards passing off those rotten burger fakes on the p2p nets. :)
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Enforced accountability in the routers? That would be scary.
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Your argument is even worse because you've resorted to the bad comparison between physically scarce tangible objects and abundant intangible copies.
But... to humor you: one day molecular manufacturing will allow you to make an exact COPY of a Corvette for almost no cost by using solar energy and locally available molecules.
1) Will the car makers go hungry?! ... No - they can make themselves "free lunches" using the same tech. And so can the former old-tech farmers and old-tech agribiz execs. ... No - open source will extend to the physical world at this point.
2) Will the car makers lose the incentive to design new models if they can't enforce artificial scarcity?
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And that is my #1 issue with GM foods: not the frankenfood FUD, but instead the excessively greedy corps like Monsanto who would be able to concentrate wealth & power like you wouldn't believe.
Also, organic food simply taste better.
Organic food also isn't sustainable; organic food can't feed the world.
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What else is a capitalistic economy based on physical scarcity of resources supposed to do when it doesn't really produce anything tangible anymore? Deal with the reality of information abundance? Nah - If you can't "own the intellectual property" then it has no "value", and we can't have that now can we.
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The more resources I hoard, and the worse off you are, the better off my genes are. Hahahaha!....Wha?...... Oh, damn! the third world peasants and the 1st world working-poor have joined forces against the elite in yet another revolt. Here we go again... *rolls eyes* If only we had a robotic army without a conscience...
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I really don't get people who believe that. The original biological body isn't sacred; it's just a vehicle for our brain which in turn contains our pattern of mind, which can be transfered to other substrates (with minor modifications.)
It's when your brain pattern and memories cease to be, that YOU -- or an instance of YOU -- are dead.
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Then in the future you better make sure that you get paid upfront for the scarce (and sometimes NOT so scarce) WORK of creation, since you can't depend on artificial scarcity enforcement without a global police state.
If you've previously earned some goodwill/respect/whuffie, I'm much more open to funding your future efforts, and even *gasp* paying for that effort indirectly by volunteering to buy a non-scarce token copy of your OLD WORK.
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DeDRMS? I wrote a song about it. Want to hear it? Hear it goes... *da dum da dum*... slash asterisk bla bla asterisk slash... *da dum da dum*... Using System; *bah bum bah bum*...
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The sad fact is that the parasite-to-"honest"-host ratio is almost the same in society as it is nature: pretty damn high.
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Yeah, but it sure does make the control freaks in power cream their pants.
But not to worry - it also absolutely works to accelerate the evolution of untouchable p2p search vs. centralized cluster search. A hard problem, sure, but more attractive by the day. (the control freaks could also attempt to kill this free communication by requiring "trusted routers" not to route "untrusted" packets; only way to counter that is wireless mesh networking.)
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