The concern is not that I will sneak into your room and use my deadly USB killer on your computer.
Instead, the concern is that someone (like say Uber) will print up 300 USB Killers, perhaps with a label that says something like "best porn", and scatter them around the competition's headquarters (like say Lyft - or vice versa).
Then some curious Vice President or CEO picks them up and puts them in his computer...
Inflation has been stopped in Japan.
In the US, it is currently at a very, very low level.
I would argue the opposite of what you seem to think is true - that the government is intentionally not giving us enough inflation.
Part of the issue is that the first quote, while true, is also incomplete and misleading. It leaves out investors and retired folk and implies that a category of 'savers' includes investors, when it really just includes people that invest in low risky set instrument securities (bonds, annuities).
Inflation benefits governments, stock investors, and profligate borrowers. Deflation (and low inflation -= aka under 3% a year), benefits people that save cash and equivalents, and people on a fixed income.
This is a valid choice by government, as it encourages people to take real risks, funding real economic growth, rather than safe bets.
1) Right now the US is the only real SuperPower - No other country, including China and Russia has the navy or airforce to stand up to the US in a full on war, except for nuclear power. Correction 1. Change the word "Superpowers" to "nuclear powers".
2) Keeping other countries from developing nuclear power is not a 'boot on the throat' A boot to the throat is both a threat to continued existence (breathing) and economic growth. Correction #2. change "boot to throat" to handcuffing their military ambitions.
3) The nuclear countries are not united, as can be seen by Russia's attack of US funded Syrians, and by China's continued support of North Korea. The idea that "they" do anything together is ignorant to say the least. The few people that US, Russia and China agree to threaten are extremely bad actors that no sane person would trust.
4) How much did you get paid to spread this disinformation? Or are you simply free-lancing for the terrorists?
This statement indicates the real problem with the author's logic:
"Its cars must identify all nearby objects correctly, need perfectly updated mapping systems, and must avoid all software glitches."
Incorrect in principal and practice. It's like the angry bear vs the two people. You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other human being.
The cars' don't need to be perfect - they just need to beat a human mind that is NOT an expert. If the car by itself can do better than a human without the AI, than it is sufficiently good to replace the current model that is human without the AI.
The idea that we need to achieve the maximum possible result of human+AI ignores the current situation's inherent problems of poor drivers, the elderly, drunk drivers, children, etc. etc. etc.
Parents of teenagers, children of the elderly, alcoholics and their loved ones ALL are VERY comfortable with the idea of having the car drive, not the person. They will provide the demand and market. Once their demand is met, then simple continuing research will eventually make EVERYBODY comfortable with letting the AI drive. If you are OK with the AI drive your teenager, your grandma, and your drunk cousin Joe - knowing they might be in the car next to you, then you will be OK with letting them drive you.
His comparison of other modes of transportation such as space, submarine and airplane, is also flawed.
The main reason we never automated those is that their need for accuracy was much much higher than we have for automobiles and up until recently, computers have not had the real ability to beat a trained, expert human. But in cars, they don't have to beat an expert, just a licensed and impaired human - drunk, young, elderly for example.
A better comparison is to look at welding. Originally people welded. Then robots came along and were better. Automated welding has taken over a large proportion of welding, we don't have humans over-riding them. Why? Because the robots are better at it than humans in most cases.
Basically, Tasers are the most convenient for the cops. They don't go bad, multiple charges can be kept, it's electronic allowing for easier tracking - including lights and/or cameras.
But it does have some drawbacks for the victim. It can set gasoline on fire rather easily, and can cause heart attacks in people with heart issues. It also can be abused - being basically a form of torture. Foam is the safest - you can apply it to a persons's limbs, not their heads, so you can avoid ingestion. It basically is the equivalent of a long distance handcuff.
But the cops don't care about the victims, they care about their own interests. Without legal action (court or legislatative), I see Tasers continuing their prime spot in non-lethal defense.
I always hate when someone confuses cause and revelation.
The people were always this mean, the shortage is just revealing the meanness, not creating it.
In my mind, that is the real truth behind the canard "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
The reality is that almost all people were already corrupt, and the power merely revealed the corruption, rather than caused it.
Similarly, when your ex cheated on you, they were ALWAYS the type to cheat - and you should have been able to see it when you met them. (My sister met a married law professor, who left his wife for her. Guess what, he cheated on her too.)
There was a time before we had money - there was even a time before we had barter. Yes. this works and well. But only for small communities, not for large groups.
A prime example is a family. Within most families, you don't pay money to get something done. The father doesn't pay the wife, they share the money. The kids don't get paid per se (though they may or may not get an allowance), but they get fed.
It can even work reasonably well for a small community of 20 people. But once you hit 100 people, you start having serious problems and it doesn't work. You need money.
The entire concept of uploading/duplicating is based on a deterministic view of the universe - one without quantum mechanics.
This viewpoint is false. Not only is quantum mechanics part of the universe, but the specific reactions involved in the brain require quantum mechanics.
As such, the concept of a physical copy or uploading is nonsensical. It can not be done. The best we can do is make a poor copy - one that will NOT react the way the real you would.
You've never met these people have you? You try that shit with the kind of person willing to do this and you will be looking down the barrel of a Gatling gun, a soviet tank, and a flame thrower. All three of these are legal to own in the places where these yahoos live.
The idea that you can make it to the shelter is ridiculous. If by some chance we need one, we won't have enough notice to do more than move 50 miles. The only people that could possibly be saved by the these luxury shelters are those that work there.
Honestly, almost all of the people selling this kind of crap are scammers.
You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.
If upper management is not aware that lower level employees are engaging in a massive fraud against their customers, than that means:
1) Upper management are morons that have no idea what is going on in their company. It's the equivalent of a farmer claiming he had no idea that his 'organic' corn is actually bio-engineered and covered with Round-Up.
2) That they personally are directly and legally responsible by failing to manage their employees. The buck stops at the BOSS, not the janitor.
3) Are also committing the Wage-Theft by not doing their official declared job of MANAGING their employees.
Claiming ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence is not a valid legal defense.
Eventually they will see it as a "feature", rather than a bug. Buy our car and WE pay for the insurance. Of course, in reality, the price of insurance will be bundled into the vehicle.
Also, self-insuring is not as big a deal some people seem to think it is. Yes, there will be some legal/regulatory hurdles, but a lot of the that has to do with financial resources to pay it off, which VW will either still have or be out of business.
More importantly, it will eventually lead to huge profits as current computers are already far safer drivers than human beings.
Always remember it's like being chased by a bear - you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than your competitors.
The EPA has a better reason than most to put a high value (the people killed by pollution usually have NOTHING to do with the product - car owners take some responsibility for buying the car)., but even so, 9 million vs 6 million is not worth arguing about. Also, the EPA stuff lasts for decades, while cars, medicine, etc. can be upgraded almost immediately with new information.
The TSA on the other should be laughed at when they request we spend $180 million to save a single life, when no one else thinks it is worth $10 million.
So does the TSA, the FDA, and many other government agencies.
The problem is that the set dollar values DIFFER.And not by small amounts. Most insurance companies value human life at about $50,000 per year with younger people having more years left, while older people having less. Basically, 70 grand parents = 1 baby. The NHTSA uses a value of around $550,000 - if it costs much more than that, they don't require a safety device, less it becomes a law. The EPA says a human life is worth $9 million. Economists tend to value it at just $1 million, while the USA anti-terrorism services estimates they spend $180 million per life saved.
So your 'solution' is not helpful - you just end up arguing about whose numbers to use.
Once there was a creature called the Short Nosed Bear.
They weighed on average 900 kilograms - basically 2000 lbs. The largest of them were over 12 feet tall. - more than twice my height. They could reach up and grab things 14 ft above the ground. They could run over 40 mph. On all fours, were still taller than men.
They ate meat. Humans are made of meat.
Humans lived in the same place as the Short Nosed Bear. Humans that didn't have bows and arrows, let alone guns. Just spears. With rock points.
Humans probably didn't intentionally kill the S.N.B. - we just killed all it's food, and let them starve.
Humans: The most terrifying killing machine Earth has ever seen. Nothing is worse than a human.
This car is obviously designed to be self-driving. As such, it makes sense to add a ton of displays. If such a car gets built, it will almost certainly be designed to turn all displays into driving controls (speed, engine temperature, fuel, etc.) whenever manual control is activated.
The same is (or at the very least was) true for Roman Catholicism (Rome), Mormonism (Utah), and to a lesser extent the far majority of Christian churches.
The major innovation that the Christians created (and Islam copied) is the idea of "you must belong to us". Christianity used "if you don't you go to hell" - a concept unheard of before then, while Islam came up with "and you can't quit us afterwards".
Up until then, Judaism, Hinduism, and the rest of the world's religions were "If you want to join us, you have to prove yourself worthy".
So don't go complaining about Islam being expansionist, when they just copied the Christians.
It is now technically possible, we just have to work out the rules and regulations - insurance, financial and legal liability, regulatory approval.
I think that ten years from now, not a single wealthy person under 21 or over 70 will be driving a car. In 20 years, replace "not a single wealthy" with "only very wealthy American", as we flee the dangerous practice of allowing humans to drive on public roads.
At heart, most of the issues he said can be described as follows:
Bioweapon creation is so deadly, that any attempt to create by a civilian it will most likely kill you before you succeed, unless you take expensive counter measures that will act as red flags, telling everyone what you are trying to do.
It does not prevent ISIL and similar groups from attempting it. They have sufficient money and size to hide their attempts, just like the USA and USSR did during the cold war.
Uber is a company built on lies (They promised far higher sales than they had, encouraged employees to give false, bad reviews to competitors, and did other similar crap.
But when it comes down to it, their business is getting started less than a decade before robots are going to destroy their market.
Lets face it, we already have viable driverless cars, the only reason we don't already have them available for sale to the wealthy old folk that drive into farmer markets and wealthy parents of drunkard teenagers are the legal and insurance issues.
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Instead, the concern is that someone (like say Uber) will print up 300 USB Killers, perhaps with a label that says something like "best porn", and scatter them around the competition's headquarters (like say Lyft - or vice versa).
Then some curious Vice President or CEO picks them up and puts them in his computer...
Found USB sticks - the poor man's 'super hack'.
I would argue the opposite of what you seem to think is true - that the government is intentionally not giving us enough inflation.
Part of the issue is that the first quote, while true, is also incomplete and misleading. It leaves out investors and retired folk and implies that a category of 'savers' includes investors, when it really just includes people that invest in low risky set instrument securities (bonds, annuities). Inflation benefits governments, stock investors, and profligate borrowers. Deflation (and low inflation -= aka under 3% a year), benefits people that save cash and equivalents, and people on a fixed income.
This is a valid choice by government, as it encourages people to take real risks, funding real economic growth, rather than safe bets.
2) Keeping other countries from developing nuclear power is not a 'boot on the throat' A boot to the throat is both a threat to continued existence (breathing) and economic growth. Correction #2. change "boot to throat" to handcuffing their military ambitions.
3) The nuclear countries are not united, as can be seen by Russia's attack of US funded Syrians, and by China's continued support of North Korea. The idea that "they" do anything together is ignorant to say the least. The few people that US, Russia and China agree to threaten are extremely bad actors that no sane person would trust.
4) How much did you get paid to spread this disinformation? Or are you simply free-lancing for the terrorists?
Incorrect in principal and practice. It's like the angry bear vs the two people. You don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than the other human being. The cars' don't need to be perfect - they just need to beat a human mind that is NOT an expert. If the car by itself can do better than a human without the AI, than it is sufficiently good to replace the current model that is human without the AI.
The idea that we need to achieve the maximum possible result of human+AI ignores the current situation's inherent problems of poor drivers, the elderly, drunk drivers, children, etc. etc. etc.
Parents of teenagers, children of the elderly, alcoholics and their loved ones ALL are VERY comfortable with the idea of having the car drive, not the person. They will provide the demand and market. Once their demand is met, then simple continuing research will eventually make EVERYBODY comfortable with letting the AI drive. If you are OK with the AI drive your teenager, your grandma, and your drunk cousin Joe - knowing they might be in the car next to you, then you will be OK with letting them drive you.
His comparison of other modes of transportation such as space, submarine and airplane, is also flawed.
The main reason we never automated those is that their need for accuracy was much much higher than we have for automobiles and up until recently, computers have not had the real ability to beat a trained, expert human. But in cars, they don't have to beat an expert, just a licensed and impaired human - drunk, young, elderly for example.
A better comparison is to look at welding. Originally people welded. Then robots came along and were better. Automated welding has taken over a large proportion of welding, we don't have humans over-riding them. Why? Because the robots are better at it than humans in most cases.
2) Cook trainees/apprentice
3) Mentally challenged people looking to make a contribution
4) Other non-monetary compensation, such as transport to and Right to live in certain areas - i.e. move to a new world, but you have to be a waiter.
But in general, no money societies must be small - less than 100 people. It doesn't work well for larger groups.
But it does have some drawbacks for the victim. It can set gasoline on fire rather easily, and can cause heart attacks in people with heart issues. It also can be abused - being basically a form of torture. Foam is the safest - you can apply it to a persons's limbs, not their heads, so you can avoid ingestion. It basically is the equivalent of a long distance handcuff.
But the cops don't care about the victims, they care about their own interests. Without legal action (court or legislatative), I see Tasers continuing their prime spot in non-lethal defense.
In my mind, that is the real truth behind the canard "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
The reality is that almost all people were already corrupt, and the power merely revealed the corruption, rather than caused it.
Similarly, when your ex cheated on you, they were ALWAYS the type to cheat - and you should have been able to see it when you met them. (My sister met a married law professor, who left his wife for her. Guess what, he cheated on her too.)
A prime example is a family. Within most families, you don't pay money to get something done. The father doesn't pay the wife, they share the money. The kids don't get paid per se (though they may or may not get an allowance), but they get fed.
It can even work reasonably well for a small community of 20 people. But once you hit 100 people, you start having serious problems and it doesn't work. You need money.
This viewpoint is false. Not only is quantum mechanics part of the universe, but the specific reactions involved in the brain require quantum mechanics.
As such, the concept of a physical copy or uploading is nonsensical. It can not be done. The best we can do is make a poor copy - one that will NOT react the way the real you would.
You've never met these people have you? You try that shit with the kind of person willing to do this and you will be looking down the barrel of a Gatling gun, a soviet tank, and a flame thrower. All three of these are legal to own in the places where these yahoos live.
Honestly, almost all of the people selling this kind of crap are scammers.
You want to really protect yourself? Get into the distribution/warehouse business - so you have a warehouse full of food, water, etc. on hand all the time. Put a shelter under/in your work place.
1) Upper management are morons that have no idea what is going on in their company. It's the equivalent of a farmer claiming he had no idea that his 'organic' corn is actually bio-engineered and covered with Round-Up.
2) That they personally are directly and legally responsible by failing to manage their employees. The buck stops at the BOSS, not the janitor.
3) Are also committing the Wage-Theft by not doing their official declared job of MANAGING their employees.
Claiming ignorance, stupidity, and incompetence is not a valid legal defense.
Also, self-insuring is not as big a deal some people seem to think it is. Yes, there will be some legal/regulatory hurdles, but a lot of the that has to do with financial resources to pay it off, which VW will either still have or be out of business.
More importantly, it will eventually lead to huge profits as current computers are already far safer drivers than human beings.
Always remember it's like being chased by a bear - you don't have to be faster than the bear, just faster than your competitors.
The TSA on the other should be laughed at when they request we spend $180 million to save a single life, when no one else thinks it is worth $10 million.
The problem is that the set dollar values DIFFER .And not by small amounts. Most insurance companies value human life at about $50,000 per year with younger people having more years left, while older people having less. Basically, 70 grand parents = 1 baby. The NHTSA uses a value of around $550,000 - if it costs much more than that, they don't require a safety device, less it becomes a law. The EPA says a human life is worth $9 million. Economists tend to value it at just $1 million, while the USA anti-terrorism services estimates they spend $180 million per life saved.
So your 'solution' is not helpful - you just end up arguing about whose numbers to use.
Delete App.
You want to offer voice command only if you give microphone access? Fine. But to demand it is not acceptable.
They weighed on average 900 kilograms - basically 2000 lbs. The largest of them were over 12 feet tall. - more than twice my height. They could reach up and grab things 14 ft above the ground. They could run over 40 mph. On all fours, were still taller than men.
They ate meat. Humans are made of meat.
Humans lived in the same place as the Short Nosed Bear. Humans that didn't have bows and arrows, let alone guns. Just spears. With rock points.
Humans probably didn't intentionally kill the S.N.B. - we just killed all it's food, and let them starve.
Humans: The most terrifying killing machine Earth has ever seen. Nothing is worse than a human.
This car is obviously designed to be self-driving. As such, it makes sense to add a ton of displays. If such a car gets built, it will almost certainly be designed to turn all displays into driving controls (speed, engine temperature, fuel, etc.) whenever manual control is activated.
Brought to you by GOP and self-fulfilling prophecies - if we don't like something we can always cut their funding and 'prove' they can't do the job.
That kind of flaw is easily solved by passenger oversight.
The major innovation that the Christians created (and Islam copied) is the idea of "you must belong to us". Christianity used "if you don't you go to hell" - a concept unheard of before then, while Islam came up with "and you can't quit us afterwards".
Up until then, Judaism, Hinduism, and the rest of the world's religions were "If you want to join us, you have to prove yourself worthy".
So don't go complaining about Islam being expansionist, when they just copied the Christians.
I think that ten years from now, not a single wealthy person under 21 or over 70 will be driving a car. In 20 years, replace "not a single wealthy" with "only very wealthy American", as we flee the dangerous practice of allowing humans to drive on public roads.
Bioweapon creation is so deadly, that any attempt to create by a civilian it will most likely kill you before you succeed, unless you take expensive counter measures that will act as red flags, telling everyone what you are trying to do.
It does not prevent ISIL and similar groups from attempting it. They have sufficient money and size to hide their attempts, just like the USA and USSR did during the cold war.
In my mind, this is the ideal situation - it forces those people that don't want to work to get off their bum and actually do the assignment, rather.
The other way, with one prime student and a mix of bums, the bums never learn anything.
But when it comes down to it, their business is getting started less than a decade before robots are going to destroy their market.
Lets face it, we already have viable driverless cars, the only reason we don't already have them available for sale to the wealthy old folk that drive into farmer markets and wealthy parents of drunkard teenagers are the legal and insurance issues.
They have a sellby date, just like Newspapers.