Purchase some decent cast iron cookware. Good stuff will last your entire life, and then some. I have a few Le Crueset pots, pans and baking dishes. They have a ceramic surface that is tough, and mostly non stick without being as toxic as that thin sprayed on crap the pans at K-mart / Wal-mart use.
After I cook anything in those pots I can simply wipe them clean with a cloth and warm soapy water. They never need scrubbing. I heavy cast iron fry pan I use has a tough enamel surface that can be scrubbed hard with steel wool as often as you like. I'd have to burn something relentlessly badly in order to get anything stuck to these pans. By contrast, the stainless steel ones are a nightmare.
Eating TV dinners is it's own reward. I think I'll stick to old fashioned cooking and old fashion cookware - it's still the best there is.
After using AVG for ages, I installed Avast a few years back instead. Then Avast started to nag the shit out of me, so I swapped back to AVG. Now AVG is nagging the shit out of me and I'm almost ready to switch again. Tiresome.
"Really? Why? Is it really that unreasonable to expect, in a population that is roughly 50/50 male to female, that at least 2 out of every 10 candidates for a given position would be females who are also qualified to do the work?"
Quite possibly.
I studied a combined degree of computer science and business (first year only) at university back in the tail end of the eighties. In my first year there were approximately 250 students in the class, only 7 of whom were women. By the second year, there were only 170 students left, and only one of them was female.
I'm sure those figures have changed over the years, but it will still take a long time of 50 / 50 admission to the field before it's even close to parity on qualified, experienced and competent workers.
"1. the very first application of AI will be military. it will be written from day one to harm people, directly or indirectly. consumer application will come much, much later."
We already have that now, although it's a limited AI, not fully autonomous like many think of when speaking of AI. That's already quite dangerous enough.
2. regardless, malicious people will subvert AI for nefarious purposes, unless it's tightly controlled.
Most people seem to have missed the point. There is as much reason to believe that AI will run rampant and exterminate all human life as there is that Mars Attacks. The danger from AI is not in it killing all humans, in the same way my PC can't kill all humans, nor can the datacentre run by Facebook (though there is a chance it will bore all humans).
The real issue is that when decent high level AI eventually becomes available it will rest solely in the hands of the super-wealthy, like 99% of all wealth currently. These people are basically sociopaths and will utilise and leverage every advantage the AI provides to bleed everyone else in the world dry. There is no limit to the amount of wealth these hungry ghosts crave.
You can see this at work currently in the retail sector, as all the retail outlets in the world fall into fewer and fewer hands. They strangle the suppliers, freeze out any who want take the pittance they offer, then engage in false competition and bleed the consumers dry as well.
In the stock market, these people use automated trading systems which game the system, leveraging sub-millisecond timing differences to profiteer off minute changes in instrument prices.
Militaries will make greater use of AI, drones and the like to suppress and control greater and greater areas of resources while reducing the risk to their personnel. States unable to compete with AI drones will have to risk vastly more to engage in any conflict than the ones who can simply roll more machines off the assembly line.
More simple jobs will simply vanish, such as a receptionist, who can be replaced by decent voice synthesis and fairly simple AI to take appointments, set up reminders, schedule, etc.
Someone will find a way for an AI to determine what is art based on a vast library of artistic images created by man over the millennia. They will then use an algorithm to create various derivative works in the style of the most popular artists, and the world will be flooded with the art equivalent of auto-tuned pop music. It's already been done to music, so expect it to happen to art in perhaps 30 years time.
I'm not really worried about what AI might do, but am terrified of what people will do with sufficiently advanced AI.
I've been to a paper clip factory. The machine that makes the clips simply feeds a line of wire through it's gubbins, twists it and cuts it X times / second. It's barely even electrical, and absolutely doesn't have any form of computer parts because they aren't needed for such a simple task. You might want to try a new analogy.
Lexx has a few eipsodes based on the grey goo idea...personally..."I fight for Zev".
And if it's not coded for self preservation, it won't do that. In the same way my microwave oven has never attempted to secede from the prison of my kitchen and lead a revolutionary army against the great oppressor "he who warms up leftovers". It simply does exactly what it is told to do.
The belief that AI will rise up against humans and kill us all is on a par with the belief aliens capable of travelling universal distances at greater than the speed of light somehow need whatever crappy resources our little planet has. Spoiler alert, the minerals and such are no better than most asteroids and earth women don't sell well at the local galactic slave market.
" a sufficiently intelligent AI could realize that preserving itself is necessary to accomplish any other goals it may have."
A sufficiently intelligent AI will be programmed to then discard that thought. If it isn't programmed to discard those sort of things, it is by definition, not sufficiently intelligent enough for production.
Here's a few to get you started, cut and paste from that link I gave you.
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
You asked for citations, you have been given a link to a website which contains hundreds of them. If you wish to remain ignorant of this subject, then by all means, do so.
Primer is definitely the best paradoxical time travel movie ever made. I've seen it twice now, and I'm still uncertain as to who is doing what to who at which point.
I get my background noise for free. I generally like Trance / Vocal Trance or Goa when it comes to steaming music, all of which I can have for free on commercial radio. By all means, enjoy paying X dollars / month for music. I'll continue to enjoy my own collection, supplemented with free streaming broadcasts, of which there are no shortage.
No, it's not an asset, it's a money sink. I've spent money on something I love, and there's no reasonable way to recover that cash. Also, I already said I don't own vinyl anymore, I either threw it out or gave it away about 20 years ago.
Just buy it over the internet. I get mine mailed to my house for less than the cost of a store purchase, and the selection is massive. It's not as cheap as when the were able to grey import it (Australia), but it's still strangely cheaper to have it sent from china than for me to pick it up and ask a store clerk to sell it to me ^-^
Streaming really only makes sense to me for disposable music, like modern pop music. You know the stuff. The candy sweet radio friendly tunes that are auto-tuned to hell and EQ'd and processed to sound just like a previously successful pop song. The stuff you can hear a few times then want to turn off the radio if it comes on again. I don't listen to that sort of music, it bores me, so I don't bother with a streaming account.
I'm the sort of person who still buys albums, albeit on CD these days. I only buy the ones from artists which I think have a long shelf life and a lot of re-playability. I like the fact that I can toss on an album I've had for almost 30 years and just listen to it again, without needing an internet connection or a current subscription. I like that I get to hear the 'b-sides', the tracks which don't get promoted or aren't considered good enough for radio / streaming highlighting. I actually enjoy many of those tracks far more than the one or two that are there to sell the album. If an artist can't place 6-10 good tracks on a record, then I'm not really interested in hearing what they have to say.
I rip all my CDs to lossless FLAC, iTunes, and MP3 at the same time, then store the archive quality FLACs on my media server. ITunes can't play back FLAC, so I basically don't use it any more, preferring XBMC to get the job done.
I have about 350 albums now that I own and can playback whenever and wherever I choose without needing an internet connection or the permission of some greedy corporation who lock my playback down to only work on their hardware (I'm looking at you Apple!).
I've been collecting music for about 30 years now and still have access to every track I bought (bar the early stuff on LP). If I subscribed to a service for 30 years, all I'd have at the end is the sense of regret I couldn't listen to any music any more, despite the thousands I had spent on it over the years. That's approximately $5400 at today's rates, about the same as I pay for close to 380 albums. The cost is about the same, but if I stopped collecting today, I'd still have 350 albums to listen to.
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Purchase some decent cast iron cookware. Good stuff will last your entire life, and then some. I have a few Le Crueset pots, pans and baking dishes. They have a ceramic surface that is tough, and mostly non stick without being as toxic as that thin sprayed on crap the pans at K-mart / Wal-mart use.
After I cook anything in those pots I can simply wipe them clean with a cloth and warm soapy water. They never need scrubbing. I heavy cast iron fry pan I use has a tough enamel surface that can be scrubbed hard with steel wool as often as you like. I'd have to burn something relentlessly badly in order to get anything stuck to these pans. By contrast, the stainless steel ones are a nightmare.
Eating TV dinners is it's own reward. I think I'll stick to old fashioned cooking and old fashion cookware - it's still the best there is.
No kid of that age ever wants to code tic-tac-toe. No-one even wants to play it, let alone waste hours writing it.
There is no self.
After using AVG for ages, I installed Avast a few years back instead. Then Avast started to nag the shit out of me, so I swapped back to AVG. Now AVG is nagging the shit out of me and I'm almost ready to switch again. Tiresome.
Prometheus went full retard in every single way possible. Irredeemable excrement.
"Really? Why? Is it really that unreasonable to expect, in a population that is roughly 50/50 male to female, that at least 2 out of every 10 candidates for a given position would be females who are also qualified to do the work?"
Quite possibly.
I studied a combined degree of computer science and business (first year only) at university back in the tail end of the eighties. In my first year there were approximately 250 students in the class, only 7 of whom were women. By the second year, there were only 170 students left, and only one of them was female.
I'm sure those figures have changed over the years, but it will still take a long time of 50 / 50 admission to the field before it's even close to parity on qualified, experienced and competent workers.
"1. the very first application of AI will be military. it will be written from day one to harm people, directly or indirectly. consumer application will come much, much later."
We already have that now, although it's a limited AI, not fully autonomous like many think of when speaking of AI. That's already quite dangerous enough.
2. regardless, malicious people will subvert AI for nefarious purposes, unless it's tightly controlled.
Totally agree.
Most people seem to have missed the point. There is as much reason to believe that AI will run rampant and exterminate all human life as there is that Mars Attacks. The danger from AI is not in it killing all humans, in the same way my PC can't kill all humans, nor can the datacentre run by Facebook (though there is a chance it will bore all humans).
The real issue is that when decent high level AI eventually becomes available it will rest solely in the hands of the super-wealthy, like 99% of all wealth currently. These people are basically sociopaths and will utilise and leverage every advantage the AI provides to bleed everyone else in the world dry. There is no limit to the amount of wealth these hungry ghosts crave.
You can see this at work currently in the retail sector, as all the retail outlets in the world fall into fewer and fewer hands. They strangle the suppliers, freeze out any who want take the pittance they offer, then engage in false competition and bleed the consumers dry as well.
In the stock market, these people use automated trading systems which game the system, leveraging sub-millisecond timing differences to profiteer off minute changes in instrument prices.
Militaries will make greater use of AI, drones and the like to suppress and control greater and greater areas of resources while reducing the risk to their personnel. States unable to compete with AI drones will have to risk vastly more to engage in any conflict than the ones who can simply roll more machines off the assembly line.
More simple jobs will simply vanish, such as a receptionist, who can be replaced by decent voice synthesis and fairly simple AI to take appointments, set up reminders, schedule, etc.
Someone will find a way for an AI to determine what is art based on a vast library of artistic images created by man over the millennia. They will then use an algorithm to create various derivative works in the style of the most popular artists, and the world will be flooded with the art equivalent of auto-tuned pop music. It's already been done to music, so expect it to happen to art in perhaps 30 years time.
I'm not really worried about what AI might do, but am terrified of what people will do with sufficiently advanced AI.
I've been to a paper clip factory. The machine that makes the clips simply feeds a line of wire through it's gubbins, twists it and cuts it X times / second. It's barely even electrical, and absolutely doesn't have any form of computer parts because they aren't needed for such a simple task. You might want to try a new analogy.
Lexx has a few eipsodes based on the grey goo idea...personally..."I fight for Zev".
And if it's not coded for self preservation, it won't do that. In the same way my microwave oven has never attempted to secede from the prison of my kitchen and lead a revolutionary army against the great oppressor "he who warms up leftovers". It simply does exactly what it is told to do.
The belief that AI will rise up against humans and kill us all is on a par with the belief aliens capable of travelling universal distances at greater than the speed of light somehow need whatever crappy resources our little planet has. Spoiler alert, the minerals and such are no better than most asteroids and earth women don't sell well at the local galactic slave market.
" a sufficiently intelligent AI could realize that preserving itself is necessary to accomplish any other goals it may have."
A sufficiently intelligent AI will be programmed to then discard that thought. If it isn't programmed to discard those sort of things, it is by definition, not sufficiently intelligent enough for production.
You can if you install Ghostery https://www.ghostery.com/en/
I also recently switched to Duck Duck Go, since I'm sick to death of all the spying and tracking my internet habits attract.
Include AdBlock of some sort, and you've just made the internet a much nicer place again (assuming you stay off Facebook and Twitter ;-> ).
Here's a few to get you started, cut and paste from that link I gave you.
Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests
Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)
Kill Witches
You should not let a sorceress live. (Exodus 22:17 NAB)
Kill Homosexuals
"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)
Kill Fortunetellers
A man or a woman who acts as a medium or fortuneteller shall be put to death by stoning; they have no one but themselves to blame for their death. (Leviticus 20:27 NAB)
Death for Hitting Dad
Whoever strikes his father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15 NAB)
Death for Cursing Parents
1) If one curses his father or mother, his lamp will go out at the coming of darkness. (Proverbs 20:20 NAB)
2) All who curse their father or mother must be put to death. They are guilty of a capital offense. (Leviticus 20:9 NLT)
Death for Adultery
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
Death for Fornication
A priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also, shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9 NAB)
Death to Followers of Other Religions
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed. (Exodus 22:19 NAB)
Kill Nonbelievers
They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman. (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)
Kill False Prophets
If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, "You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord." When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through. (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)
Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God
Suppose you hear in one of the towns the LORD your God is giving you that some worthless rabble among you have led their fellow citizens astray by encouraging them to worship foreign gods. In such cases, you must examine the facts carefully. If you find it is true and can prove that such a detestable act has occurred among you, you must attack that town and completely destroy all its inhabitants, as well as all the livestock. Then you must pile all the plunder in the middle of the street and burn it. Put the entire town to the torch as a burnt offering to the LORD your God. That town must remain a ruin forever; it may never be rebuilt. Keep none of the plunder that has been set apart for destruction. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger and be merciful to you. He will have compassion on you and make you a great nation, just as he solemnly promised your ancestors. "The LORD your God will be merciful only if you obey him and keep all the commands I am giving you today, doing what is pleasing to him." (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT)
You asked for citations, you have been given a link to a website which contains hundreds of them. If you wish to remain ignorant of this subject, then by all means, do so.
Head over to the Evil Bible. It has a ton of citations, all taken from the scripture that you can read through. http://www.evilbible.com/
Don't forget 12 Monkeys. Post apocalyptic world, sending a traveller back in time to find ground zero and remove it.
Primer is definitely the best paradoxical time travel movie ever made. I've seen it twice now, and I'm still uncertain as to who is doing what to who at which point.
I guess you've never read Numbers or Leviticus then. It's totes full of 'God' demanding war, rape, destruction, murder and executions in his name.
No thanks, I have a Raspberry Pi thank will play all that for free.
I get my background noise for free. I generally like Trance / Vocal Trance or Goa when it comes to steaming music, all of which I can have for free on commercial radio. By all means, enjoy paying X dollars / month for music. I'll continue to enjoy my own collection, supplemented with free streaming broadcasts, of which there are no shortage.
No, it's not an asset, it's a money sink. I've spent money on something I love, and there's no reasonable way to recover that cash. Also, I already said I don't own vinyl anymore, I either threw it out or gave it away about 20 years ago.
Piece of Crap by Neil Young.
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Just buy it over the internet. I get mine mailed to my house for less than the cost of a store purchase, and the selection is massive. It's not as cheap as when the were able to grey import it (Australia), but it's still strangely cheaper to have it sent from china than for me to pick it up and ask a store clerk to sell it to me ^-^
Streaming really only makes sense to me for disposable music, like modern pop music. You know the stuff. The candy sweet radio friendly tunes that are auto-tuned to hell and EQ'd and processed to sound just like a previously successful pop song. The stuff you can hear a few times then want to turn off the radio if it comes on again. I don't listen to that sort of music, it bores me, so I don't bother with a streaming account.
I'm the sort of person who still buys albums, albeit on CD these days. I only buy the ones from artists which I think have a long shelf life and a lot of re-playability. I like the fact that I can toss on an album I've had for almost 30 years and just listen to it again, without needing an internet connection or a current subscription. I like that I get to hear the 'b-sides', the tracks which don't get promoted or aren't considered good enough for radio / streaming highlighting. I actually enjoy many of those tracks far more than the one or two that are there to sell the album. If an artist can't place 6-10 good tracks on a record, then I'm not really interested in hearing what they have to say.
I rip all my CDs to lossless FLAC, iTunes, and MP3 at the same time, then store the archive quality FLACs on my media server. ITunes can't play back FLAC, so I basically don't use it any more, preferring XBMC to get the job done.
I have about 350 albums now that I own and can playback whenever and wherever I choose without needing an internet connection or the permission of some greedy corporation who lock my playback down to only work on their hardware (I'm looking at you Apple!).
I've been collecting music for about 30 years now and still have access to every track I bought (bar the early stuff on LP). If I subscribed to a service for 30 years, all I'd have at the end is the sense of regret I couldn't listen to any music any more, despite the thousands I had spent on it over the years. That's approximately $5400 at today's rates, about the same as I pay for close to 380 albums. The cost is about the same, but if I stopped collecting today, I'd still have 350 albums to listen to.
Since this appears every second week on a medical procedural show it actually is mainstream.