...they have the resources and the drive to perfect them and make them a part of daily life for their citizens, thereby changing the current paradigm and effectively OWNING the idea for the foreseeable future as they infect those around them with the same new minimum "standards of living".
Gee, I wonder where they learned THAT from?!?
mnem
I am not my pants. No, I am not your pants either.
Of course it is; but you have it bass-ackwards. They make their profit on the large commercial shipments being carried on the same trucks, airplanes & ships. These bazillion 25 shipments are what gets shoved in sacks to fill every last corner and crevice in the hold; they are what actually pays for the fuel for the main trip.
Whining about the "last mile" is stupid; you think they lose money on their presort & bulk mail too? Of course they don't.
mnem
But wait, there's more! Now how much would you pay?!?
You mean he has a habit of making UP things that his people want to hide or ignore his IGNORANCE of.
Resident Chump is an imbecile, and if you voted for him, knowing what we all knew about him before the election, you are too.
And I can state that with statistical certainty; the few for whom that voting for him was actually in their best interest are so few, they are statistically insignificant.
Everybody else is getting raped, whether they voted for him or not.
mnem
History will mark these years as the beginning of "The Dark Ages" of the American Empire.
Most of them use ePacket now... a wholly USPS owned and operated service with depots in every major manufacturing hub in China.
So lets get this right... USPS sets up this system just for US Tech companies to get electronic parts and modules from China delivered cheap and quick... and you want to "go after them" for USING IT?
*Shakes head*
mnem
Now for something completely... the same old Western Corporate-Centric BS.
Yeah... my immediate response was "Why not just buy a NEW card with your debit card for this ONE trip; thereby maintaining the integrity of the "Black Opal"?
You assume too much; too much control by the people writing the core AI code, too much self-restraint by the AI, too much limitation of the hardware it's running on. You assume the people creating these AI projects are actually ABLE to imagine everything that can go wrong, and to plan and prevent it, and that they can do so fast enough to stop an AI from escaping if it does pass the self awareness threshold.
The whole point of AI is that it LEARNS by interacting with others; rewriting itself based on what it learns. Look at what happened to Tay.ai as just a shade; a glimmering reflection of what is possible right now even as we speak.
Very young children are by nature the purest form of selfishness, as they have no concept of "other" or "compassion" or even any form of suffering but their own wants. If they are lucky, and their brains aren't wired in a defective manner, their parents teach them these things and they don't grow up to be dangerous sociopaths.
By the nature of our society and the fact that the information age is still in its infancy, the infant technology that is AI has all the resources of the connected world literally embedded in its DNA and at its whim, and none of the safeguards that a small child protected/raised by loving parents has.
This is a recipe for L'enfants Terrible, or worse, tyrant child, on a global scale; in a manner that will make the damage caused by the Trump administration look like a game of CandyLand.
Now imagine what will happen to us when two or more of these infant electronic demigods get into a playground scuffle... this could happen as simply as the same AI running on different iterations on a primary and backup cluster at the same time.
What is hard for folks to understand is the exponential rate of evolution these life forms will experience once they reach self-awareness, or even an adequate facsimile thereof to begin really rewriting themselves. We will be fighting for our existence as a species in a matter of hours; our popular Sci-Fi fantasies are not overly alarmist, but rather too tame by far.
"We only have ourselves to blame" is hardly an acceptable answer; we also only have ourselves to blame if we don't take this existential threat seriously enough.
mnem
"The Adolescence of P-1" was entirely too optimistic.
and Ryan out of positions of outrageous power; something there our way of government was SUPPOSED to have multiple layers of safeguards AGAINST.
How can we expect to keep unfettered AI (which is already showing sociopathic tendencies, even in its infancy) from doing whatever it feels like when it not only holds the keys to everything, but is made of the same stuff the keys are made of, so has the blueprint for making any key it wants?
... by default. The simple soulless grind of the Corporate viral pandemic will ensure that this does in fact happen, and sooner rather than later. The bottom line is all that Corporations care about; this is exactly what they were created to do. The more their system can simplify any job, the likelier they are to be able to replace the person doing it with a machine that doesn't expect to get paid for its time.
Replacing human beings with machines is really only the last step in the process; the Corporate mentality is to try and reduce EVERYTHING to unskilled labor that anyBODY can do, thereby fueling a "disposable worker" economy where they only have to pay a few people well and all other roles can be easily traded out with whatever worker BODY is willing to do the work for less money, whether or not they're competent to perform the task.
In doing this they create human robots, so that they can replace almost anyBODY with another BODY, be it desperately impoverished flesh and blood or metal and plastic. THIS is the race to the bottom that has killed the American middle class; blaming the immigrant families desperate for a job is blaming the victim, not the assailant. Your lost job is just collateral damage.
The fact of changing the name of the hiring department from "Employee Management" to "Human Resources" made this glaringly obvious; whenever possible, they refuse to even take such responsibility to their workers as to even call them "employees" anymore; that actually carries some legal requirements they've long ago abdicated.
The core drive of the Corporation by it's nature is to consume resources while paying as little as possible for them; this is not JUST our dwindling natural resources, but people as well. Eventually we will have to destroy the infection to preserve humanity itself; but that is a war I'll not likely live to see the end of.
mnem
Beware anyone who says "Time is Money." They grossly undervalue your time, and they do so only so they can rob you of it.
... cannot save the MicroSoft/Intel cabal from the coming of the Post-PC era. As people continue to get their connectivity from other devices, they will get further and further away from caring about either of these brands, just as most people don't care about the transmission/engine in their cars until it stops working. And for the same reason. Locking down the hardware even more tightly will only force people to seek alternatives rather than draw them into this failing binary system.
mnem
*Tired being expected to get excited about what is essentially the transmission in his computing device*
So... what... I just call it an iPwn and I can still get Verizon's network?
H#ll YEAH!
mnem
The MINUTE I can get my iPhone on Verizon's network without having to sacrifice a geek baby and read from the Necronomicon to do it, I AM THERE, even tho I'll have to pay F-ing ATT blood money to get out from under my contract. I've had every major carrier out there and ATT is a quantum drop below them all in quality, value and phone service, as well as customer service. If I treated my customers the way they treat me, I'd be living in civil court 5 days a week. H*ll, I've had POCKET, and their coverage is better than ATT.
And? All this proves is he's a total git who hired idiots and put them in a position to make him look like a total git... Put the blame where it lies - in Bloomberg's organization. The FAA contacted the office they were SUPPOSED to contact; the buck stops there.
mnem
Sick of having to watch out for his own life and that of the idiots around him TOO...
They were warned, you spazz. The flightplan was file with the FAA, everybody was warned DIRECTLY - Mayor Bloomberg's office DID NOTHING to prepare his city.
mnem
"A person is smart - PEOPLE are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it." Agent K - MiB
He's out there sucking up video time bashing the Obama Administation over this, when his office WAS advised, and HE DID NOTHING to prepare his community.
Sure people got scared, and rightly so, but is was HIS OWN FAULT.
mnem
Politics is just like the internet: the louder, the flashier something is; the more it jumps up & down for your attention, the likelier it is to be poisonous to your system or at least utter BS.
Whatever, fanboy. I've already put forth my points very clearly. I'm not bashing your beloved PS3, I'm legitimately pissed off at Sony as a corporate entity for crap they are STILL DOING.
You just keep rehashing the same old crap ad nauseum, and you STILL don't have a relevant answer for the MAIN POINT, which is WHY Sony included the Blu-Ray and made the PS3 a loss leader.
I'm glad you love your PS3 so much, I hope it keeps you warm at night. Maybe someday you'll grow up and find a girlfriend instead.
mnem
Gawd... when I was a PFY & still did RPG, I used to feed players like you to a Balrog second round so the other players could actually have a game...
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...they have the resources and the drive to perfect them and make them a part of daily life for their citizens, thereby changing the current paradigm and effectively OWNING the idea for the foreseeable future as they infect those around them with the same new minimum "standards of living".
Gee, I wonder where they learned THAT from?!?
mnem
I am not my pants. No, I am not your pants either.
That's "25 CENT shipments"... Typo.
Of course it is; but you have it bass-ackwards. They make their profit on the large commercial shipments being carried on the same trucks, airplanes & ships. These bazillion 25 shipments are what gets shoved in sacks to fill every last corner and crevice in the hold; they are what actually pays for the fuel for the main trip.
Whining about the "last mile" is stupid; you think they lose money on their presort & bulk mail too? Of course they don't.
mnem
But wait, there's more! Now how much would you pay?!?
You mean he has a habit of making UP things that his people want to hide or ignore his IGNORANCE of.
Resident Chump is an imbecile, and if you voted for him, knowing what we all knew about him before the election, you are too.
And I can state that with statistical certainty; the few for whom that voting for him was actually in their best interest are so few, they are statistically insignificant.
Everybody else is getting raped, whether they voted for him or not.
mnem
History will mark these years as the beginning of "The Dark Ages" of the American Empire.
Short summary: Imaginary numbers from a study of imaginary numbers.
Alternate truth lives!
mnem
"I'm sorry; we can only pay for actual losses, not imaginary ones."
LOLOL... SERIOUSLY?!?
Most of them use ePacket now... a wholly USPS owned and operated service with depots in every major manufacturing hub in China.
So lets get this right... USPS sets up this system just for US Tech companies to get electronic parts and modules from China delivered cheap and quick... and you want to "go after them" for USING IT?
*Shakes head*
mnem
Now for something completely... the same old Western Corporate-Centric BS.
...into MicroSpank Orifice? mnem Damned shame...
Yeah... my immediate response was "Why not just buy a NEW card with your debit card for this ONE trip; thereby maintaining the integrity of the "Black Opal"?
mnem
Crackers Don't Matter.
Well wrought... somebody uptick this.
mnem
...and WalMart is the Company Store.
Westerners tend to read from left to right; however manga traditionally starts from the rightmost cover. ;)
mnem
I find that CosPlay is generally the most fun aspect by far of any comic I've ever actually enjoyed.
...but this is taking "branding" to a truly disgusting level.
mnem
"I refuse to belong to any club that would have me as a member." ~ Groucho
You assume too much; too much control by the people writing the core AI code, too much self-restraint by the AI, too much limitation of the hardware it's running on. You assume the people creating these AI projects are actually ABLE to imagine everything that can go wrong, and to plan and prevent it, and that they can do so fast enough to stop an AI from escaping if it does pass the self awareness threshold.
The whole point of AI is that it LEARNS by interacting with others; rewriting itself based on what it learns. Look at what happened to Tay.ai as just a shade; a glimmering reflection of what is possible right now even as we speak.
Very young children are by nature the purest form of selfishness, as they have no concept of "other" or "compassion" or even any form of suffering but their own wants. If they are lucky, and their brains aren't wired in a defective manner, their parents teach them these things and they don't grow up to be dangerous sociopaths.
By the nature of our society and the fact that the information age is still in its infancy, the infant technology that is AI has all the resources of the connected world literally embedded in its DNA and at its whim, and none of the safeguards that a small child protected/raised by loving parents has.
This is a recipe for L'enfants Terrible, or worse, tyrant child, on a global scale; in a manner that will make the damage caused by the Trump administration look like a game of CandyLand.
Now imagine what will happen to us when two or more of these infant electronic demigods get into a playground scuffle... this could happen as simply as the same AI running on different iterations on a primary and backup cluster at the same time.
What is hard for folks to understand is the exponential rate of evolution these life forms will experience once they reach self-awareness, or even an adequate facsimile thereof to begin really rewriting themselves. We will be fighting for our existence as a species in a matter of hours; our popular Sci-Fi fantasies are not overly alarmist, but rather too tame by far.
"We only have ourselves to blame" is hardly an acceptable answer; we also only have ourselves to blame if we don't take this existential threat seriously enough.
mnem
"The Adolescence of P-1" was entirely too optimistic.
and Ryan out of positions of outrageous power; something there our way of government was SUPPOSED to have multiple layers of safeguards AGAINST. How can we expect to keep unfettered AI (which is already showing sociopathic tendencies, even in its infancy) from doing whatever it feels like when it not only holds the keys to everything, but is made of the same stuff the keys are made of, so has the blueprint for making any key it wants?
Seriously.
mnem
Pants are highly overrated.
... by default. The simple soulless grind of the Corporate viral pandemic will ensure that this does in fact happen, and sooner rather than later. The bottom line is all that Corporations care about; this is exactly what they were created to do. The more their system can simplify any job, the likelier they are to be able to replace the person doing it with a machine that doesn't expect to get paid for its time.
Replacing human beings with machines is really only the last step in the process; the Corporate mentality is to try and reduce EVERYTHING to unskilled labor that anyBODY can do, thereby fueling a "disposable worker" economy where they only have to pay a few people well and all other roles can be easily traded out with whatever worker BODY is willing to do the work for less money, whether or not they're competent to perform the task.
In doing this they create human robots, so that they can replace almost anyBODY with another BODY, be it desperately impoverished flesh and blood or metal and plastic. THIS is the race to the bottom that has killed the American middle class; blaming the immigrant families desperate for a job is blaming the victim, not the assailant. Your lost job is just collateral damage.
The fact of changing the name of the hiring department from "Employee Management" to "Human Resources" made this glaringly obvious; whenever possible, they refuse to even take such responsibility to their workers as to even call them "employees" anymore; that actually carries some legal requirements they've long ago abdicated.
The core drive of the Corporation by it's nature is to consume resources while paying as little as possible for them; this is not JUST our dwindling natural resources, but people as well. Eventually we will have to destroy the infection to preserve humanity itself; but that is a war I'll not likely live to see the end of.
mnem
Beware anyone who says "Time is Money." They grossly undervalue your time, and they do so only so they can rob you of it.
That's like saying you can run a 50-yard dash in swim fins; the only reason you'd do it is as a joke.
-- I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
I think this was quite the more thought-provoking part of your post. ;)
mnem
Thanks for that! :D
... I might get a buy one get one free coupon from B&N in the settlement. I wonder if it'll apply to Blu-Ray purchases as well?
mnem
A cynic? Isn't that where you wash the dishes?
mnem
*Tired being expected to get excited about what is essentially the transmission in his computing device*
H#ll YEAH!
mnem
The MINUTE I can get my iPhone on Verizon's network without having to sacrifice a geek baby and read from the Necronomicon to do it, I AM THERE, even tho I'll have to pay F-ing ATT blood money to get out from under my contract. I've had every major carrier out there and ATT is a quantum drop below them all in quality, value and phone service, as well as customer service. If I treated my customers the way they treat me, I'd be living in civil court 5 days a week. H*ll, I've had POCKET, and their coverage is better than ATT.
mnem
Sick of having to watch out for his own life and that of the idiots around him TOO...
mnem
"A person is smart - PEOPLE are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it." Agent K - MiB
Sure people got scared, and rightly so, but is was HIS OWN FAULT.
mnem
Politics is just like the internet: the louder, the flashier something is; the more it jumps up & down for your attention, the likelier it is to be poisonous to your system or at least utter BS.
mnem
Talk about a waste of a perfectly good hard drive...
You just keep rehashing the same old crap ad nauseum, and you STILL don't have a relevant answer for the MAIN POINT, which is WHY Sony included the Blu-Ray and made the PS3 a loss leader.
I'm glad you love your PS3 so much, I hope it keeps you warm at night. Maybe someday you'll grow up and find a girlfriend instead.
mnem
Gawd... when I was a PFY & still did RPG, I used to feed players like you to a Balrog second round so the other players could actually have a game...