It used to be good for stuff that takes a bit of fussing to enter, like a timer or a calendar reminder and so on. Lately for whatever reason it has become even more useless than it already was... "Set 10 minute timer" and it searches the internet for that string...in any case it certainly isn't worth having it always listening for "Hey, Siri" akin to the creepy home listening devices.
I had 2FA but ironically had to disable it because my FIL gave us an AppleTV he had gathering dust and when trying to set it up it wouldn't work until I turned down the security.
For post-apocalypse, I'd hazard to guess that 'historical' science would be especially important. 90% of STEM would be useless, too... basic hygiene, how disease works, pre-industrial manufacturing methods (informed by anthropology i.e. how to make steel or concrete with minimal processing), pre-industrial farming methods, etc, would be the most basic necessities if you were starting from scratch. How dogs were domesticated would be more useful than how to build a space shuttle.
You don't know what you'll find out if you don't look. You may as well discount all of astronomy because we're not likely to end up visiting any but perhaps the closest of stars.
I think the military is currently used as a 'right-wing friendly' make-work program. You have the poor employed and trained as soldiers, the middle class as scientists and engineers to make the equipment, and the upper class running the industrial complex. Maybe a CCC style program could replace it but I'm not sure that simply cutting the military budget in half would necessarily solve more problems than it would cause with how things stand.
Is Forbes still a serious publication? The only stuff I see from them is on social media and is that inane "n things that will surprise you!" clickbait. Amusingly, without fail the first comment is the bulleted list followed by mocking Forbes for going Gawker.
Well you wouldn't have to rule them out, so much as identify studies that could use replication studies better. Although clearly incentivizing replication studies is needed, as well.
If the root cause of the women needing to hide is due to novelty or rarity rather than, say, lecherousness, isn't it still indicative that their sex is causing a problem working within the system? That'd be sexism, then, just not necessarily rooted in a 'men are horndogs' caricature.
The feminists I know want women to be on the draft... is this not your experience with ones you've talked with? The old guys in congress have been more of a problem for things like that then the Pentagon itself has.
You can leave your laptop at home when vacationing... 6 extra days of paid time while traveling for work but not actually being able to get work done sounds fine to me.
Well the business model won, even if Android did better by market share doing a more open version of the same thing. I'm not sure if they'll keep becoming more like PCs or if malware will preserve the walled garden approach for a while.
Are they even allowed to? It wouldn't surprise me if they were prevented from making repairs and improvements to prevent unauthorized modifications that might end up violating code and so on. That and if you have the skills to improve your house, and the (expensive) tools required to do so, you can go be a handyman and probably won't be living in government housing.
Does Microsoft publish all their games or merely license them to publishers? I thought it was the latter... ie EA publishes games for all the consoles. MS has their subsidiaries wholly owned, like Bungie making Halo, but I doubt they have free reign to let people play Madden as much as they want without having to beg and plead Netflix-style.
The 'risk' there would be like starting a non-Netflix series binge and then they lose the rights before you're done. I don't know how MS will handle it (I'm not a potential customer so I've not looked into it in any detail), but in an ideal world I would think that they would make the game unavailable for download but allow people with it already cached to continue playing, potentially with some long expiration date.
So I can follow along until you get to a sterilization procedure... then the FDA is going to want to see that that was validated, and that the testing is done by trained and/or accredited staff or facility. So that delays you until the other stuff will be ready anyhow. And it is hard to claim you could skip that part, because it'd be a pretty important safety component. You might be able to get away with sending those barrels to someone who already has a validated sterilization system for reagents with similar properties.
Nominally, diversity of backgrounds is an asset when designing or troubleshooting: products, experiments, etc. Diversity of background in this instance is more about how one approaches a problem (an engineer and a scientist, or a chemist and a biologist working together will often be able to solve things more easily than a homogenous group). Gender and race are broader categories and while in some applications may be fairly irrelevant, in others (say, product design) they could be extremely helpful. If you're crunching numbers or something else robots will be taking over soon, I'd be more inclined to agree with you that it isn't as important.
My dog is an intelligence that can't carry a conversation. She's also smarter in a lot of ways than any AI is likely to need to be. I don't think you've laid out proper necessary or sufficient conditions to consider what being an AI would require or entail.
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It used to be good for stuff that takes a bit of fussing to enter, like a timer or a calendar reminder and so on. Lately for whatever reason it has become even more useless than it already was... "Set 10 minute timer" and it searches the internet for that string...in any case it certainly isn't worth having it always listening for "Hey, Siri" akin to the creepy home listening devices.
I had 2FA but ironically had to disable it because my FIL gave us an AppleTV he had gathering dust and when trying to set it up it wouldn't work until I turned down the security.
For post-apocalypse, I'd hazard to guess that 'historical' science would be especially important. 90% of STEM would be useless, too... basic hygiene, how disease works, pre-industrial manufacturing methods (informed by anthropology i.e. how to make steel or concrete with minimal processing), pre-industrial farming methods, etc, would be the most basic necessities if you were starting from scratch. How dogs were domesticated would be more useful than how to build a space shuttle.
You don't know what you'll find out if you don't look. You may as well discount all of astronomy because we're not likely to end up visiting any but perhaps the closest of stars.
I think the military is currently used as a 'right-wing friendly' make-work program. You have the poor employed and trained as soldiers, the middle class as scientists and engineers to make the equipment, and the upper class running the industrial complex. Maybe a CCC style program could replace it but I'm not sure that simply cutting the military budget in half would necessarily solve more problems than it would cause with how things stand.
Is Forbes still a serious publication? The only stuff I see from them is on social media and is that inane "n things that will surprise you!" clickbait. Amusingly, without fail the first comment is the bulleted list followed by mocking Forbes for going Gawker.
Well you wouldn't have to rule them out, so much as identify studies that could use replication studies better. Although clearly incentivizing replication studies is needed, as well.
If the root cause of the women needing to hide is due to novelty or rarity rather than, say, lecherousness, isn't it still indicative that their sex is causing a problem working within the system? That'd be sexism, then, just not necessarily rooted in a 'men are horndogs' caricature.
The feminists I know want women to be on the draft... is this not your experience with ones you've talked with? The old guys in congress have been more of a problem for things like that then the Pentagon itself has.
So they were hazed into posting inflammatory material to the public group? That's an interesting twist.
Sort of... but there are religious universities where you'll be expelled for being the wrong sort of Christian and so on.
You can leave your laptop at home when vacationing... 6 extra days of paid time while traveling for work but not actually being able to get work done sounds fine to me.
Eh they don't prevent that now, they just clean it up afterward.
Well the business model won, even if Android did better by market share doing a more open version of the same thing. I'm not sure if they'll keep becoming more like PCs or if malware will preserve the walled garden approach for a while.
Interesting observation. They may have even been right for the professionals of the time, but the mass market is what won things for Apple.
Are they even allowed to? It wouldn't surprise me if they were prevented from making repairs and improvements to prevent unauthorized modifications that might end up violating code and so on. That and if you have the skills to improve your house, and the (expensive) tools required to do so, you can go be a handyman and probably won't be living in government housing.
Does Microsoft publish all their games or merely license them to publishers? I thought it was the latter... ie EA publishes games for all the consoles. MS has their subsidiaries wholly owned, like Bungie making Halo, but I doubt they have free reign to let people play Madden as much as they want without having to beg and plead Netflix-style.
The 'risk' there would be like starting a non-Netflix series binge and then they lose the rights before you're done. I don't know how MS will handle it (I'm not a potential customer so I've not looked into it in any detail), but in an ideal world I would think that they would make the game unavailable for download but allow people with it already cached to continue playing, potentially with some long expiration date.
"All-you-can-eat electronic monthly subscription service" versus Gamefly which would be the Netflix (DVD service) of videogames.
Ugh... I use Voicemail so I don't have to talk to them. If I get a call I don't recognize twice in a row and they don't leave a message I block them.
So I can follow along until you get to a sterilization procedure... then the FDA is going to want to see that that was validated, and that the testing is done by trained and/or accredited staff or facility. So that delays you until the other stuff will be ready anyhow. And it is hard to claim you could skip that part, because it'd be a pretty important safety component. You might be able to get away with sending those barrels to someone who already has a validated sterilization system for reagents with similar properties.
Nominally, diversity of backgrounds is an asset when designing or troubleshooting: products, experiments, etc. Diversity of background in this instance is more about how one approaches a problem (an engineer and a scientist, or a chemist and a biologist working together will often be able to solve things more easily than a homogenous group). Gender and race are broader categories and while in some applications may be fairly irrelevant, in others (say, product design) they could be extremely helpful. If you're crunching numbers or something else robots will be taking over soon, I'd be more inclined to agree with you that it isn't as important.
Year long memberships to the zoo, museum, campground, pool, etc etc don't add up to that, let alone one weekend.
That is, admittedly, a comfort. Certainly the ISPs use Netflix as a reason to use their higher speed services in their adverts.
My dog is an intelligence that can't carry a conversation. She's also smarter in a lot of ways than any AI is likely to need to be. I don't think you've laid out proper necessary or sufficient conditions to consider what being an AI would require or entail.