Mars doesn't have any magnetic field to speak of, and the atmosphere isn't thick enough to be much help, so you're vulnerable to both cosmic and solar radiation. You're further from the sun so it's better than the moon, but in practical terms it's not really that much better.
Engineers are professionally responsible for their actions. That's what "professional" really means. They write exams, go through an appreticeship-type program, and then join their professional association, get a stamp, and the legal power to certify things. When they do sign off on things, they're taking responsibility. They aren't lawyers, but they're required to know the relevant law and act accordingly.
This isn't a web page. It's a car, and everything that goes into it will have to have been signed off by a professional engineer. Even if it WAS a mistake, the PEng who stamped it is responsible. That's why PEngs can charge you hundreds of dollars for slapping their rubber stamp on something.
I was doing my open water certification dives in a lake in Jasper National Park. I had just finished suiting up and was about to carry my tank down to the lake when my friend pointed out there was a bear by the shore. So I put the tank down (to wait for the bear to leave) and picked up my camera (to be ready if the tourists swarming it learned the difference between teddy bears and real ones).
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more in schools already, actually. When I was in high school, some students figured out that if they built up a static charge and touched the lock (computers back then had physical input locks) on the case, the motherboard would get fried. They fried four or five machines until someone figured out what was going on recruited a few of us to disconnect the input locks on the rest of the machines.
Ha ha, if the kid was some kind of sleeper agent for the Illuminati he wouldn't have attached a giant clock to his biological weapon. He'd have sat quietly in class and sneezed. Or if we're going chemical, he'd have poured a few drops of dimethylmercury on the floor while turning the page of his math textbook.
Ha, right. The American public cares very much about losing people. September 11th provided an idealogical reason to go to war, but the US public still expects the savages to be killed with negligible American casualties. An actual cheap-and-plentiful war would involve losses orders of magnitude above what the US has experienced since WWII.
Thus, drones, cruise missiles, air strikes, and a lot of force multiplying technology.
There are disadvantages to nuclear subs. They need to be bigger to house the reactors, and are usually noisier because the reactors require constant cooling. They're also extremely expensive. Diesel-electric subs are used by most of the world other than the US, Russia and China.
The problem with that lesson for the west is that they can't possibly compete with anybody in a zergging battle. In realistic wars the US is going to be fighting in obscure foreign places for obscure foreign reasons, and the US public isn't going to be happy with lots of kids dying on the other side of the world. Plus you don't want to go up against people with nothing to lose with a cheap and plentiful strategy. The other possible adversaries are the Chinese, and you also don't want to go man-for-man with them.
Yeah sure, the same issues you'd have if you put some copyrighted material into a Slashdot comment, or on any of the rest of those comment systems that infest websites. It's a problem that's been dealt with.
Besides, I expect that a URL shortener would reject your URL if you tried to put anything substantial (like a song) in the URL. It's not magic: all you're doing is attaching the data to the end of a URL.
It's possible you're one of the rare people who are truly lazy, and happy with only their basic needs being covered. Those people are very rare, particularly in materialistic societies such as the US.
In reality (and keep in mind that basic income has been implemented and does work), most people will work to increase their income over the basic minimum. When I was a kid my parents fed, clothed and housed me. Yet I still did odd jobs, worked for my allowance, and picked bottles so that I could buy things I wanted.
Your assertions that a basic income cannot possibly work are handily demolished by the fact that it has been implemented, on multiple occasions, in multiple places, and it does work.
It's not the size of society, it's the richness. If you're on a desert island with someone who doesn't want to work, and you have a source of food that provides a comfortable excess, you are absolutely morally obligated to give some food to the other person. That principle is also in the bible, if your the type who believes morality springs from a book.
Pekka Himanen wrote an interesting book about the protestant work ethic, which is what you're describing, and how it's being supplanted. Clearly not everyone has gotten the memo yet.
It's interesting how Americans can discount evidence from other places in the world. Gun control, basic income, education.... I might be willing to believe that a revolutionary start and a couple hundred years of living with the right to bear arms enshrined in their constitution has made Americans more violent than people from other countries, but it's hard to believe that a history of generally substandard social programs has made them lazier than others.
There's no need to eliminate any departments entirely. The new basic income department will need staff. Government departments are downsized and reshuffled all the time. Well, that's not quite true. In the USA it apparently happens mostly under democratic governments.
The idea behind a basic guaranteed income is that it replaces all that, and is universal. EVERYBODY, regardless of age, disability, location, job, or dead relatives is guaranteed the basic income. It replaces government pensions, welfare, food stamps, even the minimum wage, and all of the redundant bureaucratic apparatus (and chances to cheat) that are associated with those programs.
It uses a neural network to recognize good moves. If you don't consider training a neural network "changing it's program" then I've got some bad news regarding your own autonomy.
The point is not to win. Chess supercomputers already do that. The point is to write a program that can play well using limited resources, and maybe learn something about how humans do it.
You said yourself: "It's damn amazing how well grand-master level pruning actually works."
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Mars doesn't have any magnetic field to speak of, and the atmosphere isn't thick enough to be much help, so you're vulnerable to both cosmic and solar radiation. You're further from the sun so it's better than the moon, but in practical terms it's not really that much better.
Engineers are professionally responsible for their actions. That's what "professional" really means. They write exams, go through an appreticeship-type program, and then join their professional association, get a stamp, and the legal power to certify things. When they do sign off on things, they're taking responsibility. They aren't lawyers, but they're required to know the relevant law and act accordingly.
This isn't a web page. It's a car, and everything that goes into it will have to have been signed off by a professional engineer. Even if it WAS a mistake, the PEng who stamped it is responsible. That's why PEngs can charge you hundreds of dollars for slapping their rubber stamp on something.
Sure, because you can't fake e-mails, especially the ones forwarded to personal accounts.
If your boss asks you to commit a criminal act, at least get him to give you the order on paper, signed. Then send it to the proper authorities.
I was doing my open water certification dives in a lake in Jasper National Park. I had just finished suiting up and was about to carry my tank down to the lake when my friend pointed out there was a bear by the shore. So I put the tank down (to wait for the bear to leave) and picked up my camera (to be ready if the tourists swarming it learned the difference between teddy bears and real ones).
I'm surprised it doesn't happen more in schools already, actually. When I was in high school, some students figured out that if they built up a static charge and touched the lock (computers back then had physical input locks) on the case, the motherboard would get fried. They fried four or five machines until someone figured out what was going on recruited a few of us to disconnect the input locks on the rest of the machines.
Timothy McVeigh? It illustrates your point that you can't even remember the guy who committed the second most deadly attack on US soil.
Ha ha, if the kid was some kind of sleeper agent for the Illuminati he wouldn't have attached a giant clock to his biological weapon. He'd have sat quietly in class and sneezed. Or if we're going chemical, he'd have poured a few drops of dimethylmercury on the floor while turning the page of his math textbook.
Ha, right. The American public cares very much about losing people. September 11th provided an idealogical reason to go to war, but the US public still expects the savages to be killed with negligible American casualties. An actual cheap-and-plentiful war would involve losses orders of magnitude above what the US has experienced since WWII.
Thus, drones, cruise missiles, air strikes, and a lot of force multiplying technology.
There are disadvantages to nuclear subs. They need to be bigger to house the reactors, and are usually noisier because the reactors require constant cooling. They're also extremely expensive. Diesel-electric subs are used by most of the world other than the US, Russia and China.
The problem with that lesson for the west is that they can't possibly compete with anybody in a zergging battle. In realistic wars the US is going to be fighting in obscure foreign places for obscure foreign reasons, and the US public isn't going to be happy with lots of kids dying on the other side of the world. Plus you don't want to go up against people with nothing to lose with a cheap and plentiful strategy. The other possible adversaries are the Chinese, and you also don't want to go man-for-man with them.
In the 1970s you could take a thousand pilots, throw them at the enemy, and hope you got back half of them. You can't do that anymore.
Yeah sure, the same issues you'd have if you put some copyrighted material into a Slashdot comment, or on any of the rest of those comment systems that infest websites. It's a problem that's been dealt with.
Besides, I expect that a URL shortener would reject your URL if you tried to put anything substantial (like a song) in the URL. It's not magic: all you're doing is attaching the data to the end of a URL.
Wait... you're saying crusty nerds are just hipsters? A clever disguise, the overgrown beards and body odour....
It's possible you're one of the rare people who are truly lazy, and happy with only their basic needs being covered. Those people are very rare, particularly in materialistic societies such as the US.
In reality (and keep in mind that basic income has been implemented and does work), most people will work to increase their income over the basic minimum. When I was a kid my parents fed, clothed and housed me. Yet I still did odd jobs, worked for my allowance, and picked bottles so that I could buy things I wanted.
People who want to do more than scrape by.
Your assertions that a basic income cannot possibly work are handily demolished by the fact that it has been implemented, on multiple occasions, in multiple places, and it does work.
It's not the size of society, it's the richness. If you're on a desert island with someone who doesn't want to work, and you have a source of food that provides a comfortable excess, you are absolutely morally obligated to give some food to the other person. That principle is also in the bible, if your the type who believes morality springs from a book.
Pekka Himanen wrote an interesting book about the protestant work ethic, which is what you're describing, and how it's being supplanted. Clearly not everyone has gotten the memo yet.
http://www.amazon.ca/The-Hacke...
It's interesting how Americans can discount evidence from other places in the world. Gun control, basic income, education.... I might be willing to believe that a revolutionary start and a couple hundred years of living with the right to bear arms enshrined in their constitution has made Americans more violent than people from other countries, but it's hard to believe that a history of generally substandard social programs has made them lazier than others.
There's no need to eliminate any departments entirely. The new basic income department will need staff. Government departments are downsized and reshuffled all the time. Well, that's not quite true. In the USA it apparently happens mostly under democratic governments.
Most people are not happy with a basic living, and will certainly work to supplement it.
You know Switzerland has already implemented a basic income right? Strangely, they have not been plagued by a mass of people quitting their jobs.
The idea behind a basic guaranteed income is that it replaces all that, and is universal. EVERYBODY, regardless of age, disability, location, job, or dead relatives is guaranteed the basic income. It replaces government pensions, welfare, food stamps, even the minimum wage, and all of the redundant bureaucratic apparatus (and chances to cheat) that are associated with those programs.
It uses a neural network to recognize good moves. If you don't consider training a neural network "changing it's program" then I've got some bad news regarding your own autonomy.
I suppose it would be more impressive if it learned how to play without knowing the rules. On the other hand, that's a little unfair, no?
Although, there are types of neural networks that have learned to play things like Mario Kart by watching human players play.
The point is not to win. Chess supercomputers already do that. The point is to write a program that can play well using limited resources, and maybe learn something about how humans do it.
You said yourself: "It's damn amazing how well grand-master level pruning actually works."