IIRC Boeing was putting some pressure on the airlines not to make the 787 economy class too much like a can of sardines. That may well change when they're not trying to hype them anymore.
If North Korea actually did it, it was a brilliant move. They've gotten the US, including the government, via the president, to whip itself into an impotent frenzy. Impotent? There's a fair chance that North Korea has nukes, they certainly have the ability to deliver them to several large cities in the region, and they have a large and powerful neighbour who won't take kindly to hostile military action on their borders because of some stupid movie. Nobody is going to be invading North Korea. So Kim gets to laugh as the US is forced to back down.
I don't think NK managed to engineer so much. Some independents hacked Sony and the US government saw it as a great opportunity to get a few Internet surveillance laws passed.
Real atrocities don't make good TV. They're mostly just smoking rubble by the time the cameras get there. Staged atrocities are much easier to turn into fifteen second segments.
True. North Korea lies about everything. The US only lies about important things that advance it's agenda. Like weapons of mass destruction in countries they'd like to invade.
"So assuming hacking sony is the result of wielding a superpower"
I wrote that for a reason. The hack shut down Sony operations and let the hackers blackmail a multinational corporation. I find that quite a bit more impressive than getting a crappy movie release postponed.
I didn't say it was a collection of particular matter and energy. "Pattern" sounds all cool and science fictiony, but it's not really particularly necessary to the definition. A chocolate bar is also constantly swapping it's matter and energy with its surroundings, yet most of us remain comfortable with calling it a hunk of matter called a "chocolate bar."
People, including ones who study these things, disagree on whether a virus is alive or not. You're clearly from the former camp. I'm from the latter. A virus requires a living host to perform *any* of the functions normally associated with life, including both active entropy reduction, energy use, and replication. Classifying viruses as non-life also neatly deals with the question of whether prions are alive. By your reasoning, based on the information contained in DNA, if I wrote down the genetic sequence of a virus then that book (or the computer I stored it in), plus some appropriate host (or another book containing the bits of that hosts's DNA necessary to encode ribosomes and whatever else the virus needed to replicate), would be alive. Also computer viruses. And my note to the secretary asking her to photocopy my note.
Your reasoning about fire is just my definition with a lot more words.
I'm curious what the reaction in the US would be if someone made a major motion picture about the sitting American president being assassinated. Not a film about actual events, or about a fictional president, but the actual one.
Making terrorist threats is certainly wrong, but I strongly suspect there's more than a little hypocrisy in the current "free speech, free speech!" reaction.
In order for you to drive a car, someone had to have the skills to make it. In order for sony to get hacked, someone had to have the skills to discover the vulnerability and write something to exploit it.
So assuming hacking sony is the result of wielding a superpower, who has that superpower? The jokers who pressed a button or the people who made the button and the thing it activated? I agree with the article, it's the coders, even if it was used indirectly, like tricking superman into doing something.
That's not what AI is. It's one possibility, not necessarily the best one. Simulating neurons on digital computers has has given the best results so far, but only because we've got lots of digital computers around. Likely the best approach will be dedicated hardware that will probably work nothing like what we think of as a computer.
So when we build AIs that are not subject to our biological limitations, will they compete with us? Will someone weaponize them? It seems like a good possibility. Of course, lots of other things also have those possibilities. And maybe by the time we have hard AI we'll also have removed some our own biological limitations.
Sure, but they're tough to upgrade and a huge pain in the ass to repair. Not to mention the hardware is delicate and finicky. Given the technology to do so, any intelligent species is going to make some upgrades.
Apple was a niche luxury computer maker until they made the iPhone, which was purchased by everyone from the wealthy elite to the middle poor through the magic of financing.
Look around. The majority of jobs now are bullshit jobs. The sign of a successful modern economy is an overwhelmingly large service sector.
This has been going on a long time. Machines do most of the real work for us but we've bought into the fantasy that we all need to work 40+ hours so most of us are engaged in things like trying to sell each other stuff, handing each other stuff or throwing darts at a board to pick stocks for other people.
It's faded from the front page because it's now so routine nobody cares. iPhoto is free and does decent facial recognition. Facebook runs it on everything. My phone can take natural language spoken queries and respond with reasonable answers much of the time.
I worked on AI fifteen years ago and that was the stuff of dreams. Now you can have it in your pocket for a couple hundred bucks.
This sounds like it's till a bit hacked together (risk scoring?), and only available for business transactions, but it's a step in the right direction. Another ten or twenty years and you might be enjoying something like Europe and Australia's transfer system, or Canada's debit system.
I'm a scientist who works with physicians. Physicians are not "as much scientists as scientists" are.
A physician who has taken a particular interest in research at a good school might have a few of years of part time research experience, plus a few courses in basic stats and research methods. In order to become an independent scientist you need to have eight to ten years of pure research training, plus another two (yeah right) to ten years of additional training and experience, again in full time research. It's not the same thing at all. And it shows. Phrases like "I have a great grasp on statistics" give it away. I know I don't have anything close to "a great grasp on statistics."
I don't feel at all qualified to prescribe drugs, diagnose patients or perform surgery, despite working and studying medical science at a postgraduate level for ten years. Why is it physicians feel they're just as good at science as a scientist?
Doctors yes. Biologists, no. Not that most doctors are shady business people, they're just poorly trained to evaluate scientific evidence.
However, more people are "nearly killed" by all sorts of things than by vaccines. Now that you know you're potentially allergic to particular adjuvants, you can avoid them.
No. My expected enjoyment (not to mention earnings) for the rest of my life are greater than the differential between that and the same thing plus a million dollars. The 90% chance of winning $100 is a roundoff error.
The thing that scares me about Bitcoin is that a significant portion of the total bitcoins that can exist are out of circulation in a few private, anonymous, hands. One of these early adopters could easily crash the whole market, now, or just as easily in a possible future where bitcoin is a major currency.
Governments can crash their currencies but they have a pretty big incentive not to. Bitcoin, no matter how big it gets, could crash just because anonymous18283@hotmail.com decides he wants to cash out and buy New Zealand.
Benett discovers moderation. Speaking of which, the corruption of Slashdot demonstrates how vulnerable the "editor" system is to being swamped by "weirdos with verbal diarrhea." An alternative algorithm could be created that allows readers to rate whole stories, and vote Bennett into oblivion.
Slashdot Mirror
Slingshots.
Care packages back to the friends and family they left behind.
IIRC Boeing was putting some pressure on the airlines not to make the 787 economy class too much like a can of sardines. That may well change when they're not trying to hype them anymore.
True! If it has imaginary mass it can't break the speed of light from above.
A hyphen between mass and squared would help.
Conditioning has a lot of scientific basis. A psychotherapist talking about translating neuroscience to raising kids sounds suspicious.
If North Korea actually did it, it was a brilliant move. They've gotten the US, including the government, via the president, to whip itself into an impotent frenzy. Impotent? There's a fair chance that North Korea has nukes, they certainly have the ability to deliver them to several large cities in the region, and they have a large and powerful neighbour who won't take kindly to hostile military action on their borders because of some stupid movie. Nobody is going to be invading North Korea. So Kim gets to laugh as the US is forced to back down.
I don't think NK managed to engineer so much. Some independents hacked Sony and the US government saw it as a great opportunity to get a few Internet surveillance laws passed.
I'm pretty sure his entire post was sarcastic. The phrases "people are stupid" and "fuck the evidence" sort of give it away.
Real atrocities don't make good TV. They're mostly just smoking rubble by the time the cameras get there. Staged atrocities are much easier to turn into fifteen second segments.
True. North Korea lies about everything. The US only lies about important things that advance it's agenda. Like weapons of mass destruction in countries they'd like to invade.
"So assuming hacking sony is the result of wielding a superpower"
I wrote that for a reason. The hack shut down Sony operations and let the hackers blackmail a multinational corporation. I find that quite a bit more impressive than getting a crappy movie release postponed.
I didn't say it was a collection of particular matter and energy. "Pattern" sounds all cool and science fictiony, but it's not really particularly necessary to the definition. A chocolate bar is also constantly swapping it's matter and energy with its surroundings, yet most of us remain comfortable with calling it a hunk of matter called a "chocolate bar."
People, including ones who study these things, disagree on whether a virus is alive or not. You're clearly from the former camp. I'm from the latter. A virus requires a living host to perform *any* of the functions normally associated with life, including both active entropy reduction, energy use, and replication. Classifying viruses as non-life also neatly deals with the question of whether prions are alive. By your reasoning, based on the information contained in DNA, if I wrote down the genetic sequence of a virus then that book (or the computer I stored it in), plus some appropriate host (or another book containing the bits of that hosts's DNA necessary to encode ribosomes and whatever else the virus needed to replicate), would be alive. Also computer viruses. And my note to the secretary asking her to photocopy my note.
Your reasoning about fire is just my definition with a lot more words.
I'm curious what the reaction in the US would be if someone made a major motion picture about the sitting American president being assassinated. Not a film about actual events, or about a fictional president, but the actual one.
Making terrorist threats is certainly wrong, but I strongly suspect there's more than a little hypocrisy in the current "free speech, free speech!" reaction.
In order for you to drive a car, someone had to have the skills to make it. In order for sony to get hacked, someone had to have the skills to discover the vulnerability and write something to exploit it.
So assuming hacking sony is the result of wielding a superpower, who has that superpower? The jokers who pressed a button or the people who made the button and the thing it activated? I agree with the article, it's the coders, even if it was used indirectly, like tricking superman into doing something.
A little tweaking of the basic idea (and eliminating the floweryness) should make that definition viable.
Life is a collection of matter and/or energy that actively maintains a low entropy state.
That makes rabbits and bacteria life, viruses, prions and fire not.
That's not what AI is. It's one possibility, not necessarily the best one. Simulating neurons on digital computers has has given the best results so far, but only because we've got lots of digital computers around. Likely the best approach will be dedicated hardware that will probably work nothing like what we think of as a computer.
So when we build AIs that are not subject to our biological limitations, will they compete with us? Will someone weaponize them? It seems like a good possibility. Of course, lots of other things also have those possibilities. And maybe by the time we have hard AI we'll also have removed some our own biological limitations.
Sure, but they're tough to upgrade and a huge pain in the ass to repair. Not to mention the hardware is delicate and finicky. Given the technology to do so, any intelligent species is going to make some upgrades.
Apple was a niche luxury computer maker until they made the iPhone, which was purchased by everyone from the wealthy elite to the middle poor through the magic of financing.
Look around. The majority of jobs now are bullshit jobs. The sign of a successful modern economy is an overwhelmingly large service sector.
This has been going on a long time. Machines do most of the real work for us but we've bought into the fantasy that we all need to work 40+ hours so most of us are engaged in things like trying to sell each other stuff, handing each other stuff or throwing darts at a board to pick stocks for other people.
It's faded from the front page because it's now so routine nobody cares. iPhoto is free and does decent facial recognition. Facebook runs it on everything. My phone can take natural language spoken queries and respond with reasonable answers much of the time.
I worked on AI fifteen years ago and that was the stuff of dreams. Now you can have it in your pocket for a couple hundred bucks.
This sounds like it's till a bit hacked together (risk scoring?), and only available for business transactions, but it's a step in the right direction. Another ten or twenty years and you might be enjoying something like Europe and Australia's transfer system, or Canada's debit system.
I'm a scientist who works with physicians. Physicians are not "as much scientists as scientists" are.
A physician who has taken a particular interest in research at a good school might have a few of years of part time research experience, plus a few courses in basic stats and research methods. In order to become an independent scientist you need to have eight to ten years of pure research training, plus another two (yeah right) to ten years of additional training and experience, again in full time research. It's not the same thing at all. And it shows. Phrases like "I have a great grasp on statistics" give it away. I know I don't have anything close to "a great grasp on statistics."
I don't feel at all qualified to prescribe drugs, diagnose patients or perform surgery, despite working and studying medical science at a postgraduate level for ten years. Why is it physicians feel they're just as good at science as a scientist?
Doctors yes. Biologists, no. Not that most doctors are shady business people, they're just poorly trained to evaluate scientific evidence.
However, more people are "nearly killed" by all sorts of things than by vaccines. Now that you know you're potentially allergic to particular adjuvants, you can avoid them.
No. My expected enjoyment (not to mention earnings) for the rest of my life are greater than the differential between that and the same thing plus a million dollars. The 90% chance of winning $100 is a roundoff error.
I'm curious what your answer was.
The thing that scares me about Bitcoin is that a significant portion of the total bitcoins that can exist are out of circulation in a few private, anonymous, hands. One of these early adopters could easily crash the whole market, now, or just as easily in a possible future where bitcoin is a major currency.
Governments can crash their currencies but they have a pretty big incentive not to. Bitcoin, no matter how big it gets, could crash just because anonymous18283@hotmail.com decides he wants to cash out and buy New Zealand.
Benett discovers moderation. Speaking of which, the corruption of Slashdot demonstrates how vulnerable the "editor" system is to being swamped by "weirdos with verbal diarrhea." An alternative algorithm could be created that allows readers to rate whole stories, and vote Bennett into oblivion.