But where is the Principle of the Mind [or Theory of the Mind, if you will]? AI can't be done without it.
Throughout history, there have often been practical benefits to technology long before the theoretical basis was understood. The Romans knew how to temper steel, cure cement, and ferment wine, but knew nothing about the chemistry behind these processes.
I'd prefer if they could disable the wifi function though.
That should be user configureable, So when you are ready to sleep, you just use the thought interface to shutdown communication. Of course, the Amber Alerts will still be enabled so the government can wake everyone in a 600 mile radius if a blonde white girl is kidnapped.
But I doubt if it will use Wifi. Wifi is too power hungry for a glucose powered device. Most likely it will use Bluetooth or an even simpler protocol to communicate with the cell phone in your pocket, which will bridge to Wifi.
Exactly Musk (and he is smart enough to know better) is conflating intelligence with access to information.
He is combining the two. The biobrain will supply the intelligence. The embedded chip will supply the information. So you get the best of both. Human intelligence with immutable memory, ability to lookup any information with just a thought, rapidly perform complex calculations, and find patterns that would not be perceptible to an unaugmented brain.
Distracted pedestrians walking into traffic are a good example: Elon's chip would fix that problem. The human brain has difficulty focusing on more than one task at a time. But a multi-core embedded chip could do that with ease. One core could focus on situational awareness of the immediate surroundings, while another core focused on scanning messages, and yet another on gathering data about a work assignment.
If we don't want to be replaced by machines, then we need to merge with them.
Their arses are covered for a recession by golden handshakes/parachutes... A cyber security breach may lead them to being dismissed without their full payment.
This makes sense. If a company loses money in a recession, it is not the CEO's fault. One person didn't cause the recession, and the best a company can do is have enough financial cushion to ride it out. But a breach is preventable, and the buck stops with the CEO, so they should be held accountable.
Bernie didn't support protectionism as much as he supported enforcing tax, labor and environmental standards on manufacturers of US sold products.
Expecting Bangladesh to adhere to American labor standards is absurd, and demanding that they do so is tantamount to just shutting them down, hurting the very people that Bernie hypocritically claimed to be helping. Free trade has brought prosperity to billions of desperately poor people.
So Dubya was a Trumpist when he levied steel tariffs in 2002?
GWB was widely criticized for the steel tariffs by Republicans and many Democrats praised him. Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the house, criticized him for not going far enough. You can read more here: Political response to 2002 steel tariffs.
He didn't implement the tariffs out of ideology, but was trying to swing Pennsylvania to red in 2004. He still lost the state by 2%.
I didn't realize that Larry Kudlow and Trump were leftists. Guess you learn something new every day.
Trumpism is an amalgam of the stupidest ideas from both left and right. His protectionist views on trade were a big reason for the "Never Trump" movement by traditional conservatives.
Bernie's support for protectionism was very popular with the left.
Keep in mind, SV tech execs tend to be pretty liberal and CNBC is a part of NBC News so they're well left of center as well.
The Left tends to take a hardline on trade and favor protectionist policies, while the Right tends to favor free trade... so this is a case of leftists being leftists.
Of course not. The most likely culprit is experimental error, and the 2nd most likely is outright fraud.
So far AGW has warmed the earth by 1.3 C (2 F). That is a serious trend, and a big concern for the future but is unlikely to wipe out 98% of insects today. It is also implausible that nobody has noticed this massive worldwide catastrophe before this lone researcher stumbled onto the evidence of our life support systems "collapsing".
This sort of shrill hyperbolic alarmism is counterproductive to getting people to take climate change seriously. This is so over-the-top that I suspect this guy is on Exxon-Mobil's payroll as a false flag operation to make scientists look incompetent.
Anyway, we will soon find out. If he is right, we will all be dead by this time next year.
You are assuming that politicians actually want to solve illegal immigration, rather than keeping it going as a wedge issue.
While the politicians have ranted and dithered, illegal immigration has mostly faded away to near zero net migration. It is mostly a non-issue. We should move on to something that matters.
There's no proof that thinness is an innate killer of user-replacability in batteries
Go look at the available phones with swappable batteries. They are NOT thin, at least not compared to an iPhone.
If instead of soldering a battery to the PCB, you put it into a plastic case, add electrical contacts, and put an access port with a latch on the case, you are obviously going to end up with a thicker phone.
nor that people wouldn't choose that if it were an option.
But it IS an option. There are phones out there with swappable batteries, and they are not big sellers.
People have a choice, and they are NOT choosing swappable batteries. You also have a choice. If you want one, go buy it.
Apple has been completely evil ever since they came back from the dead in the late 90s.
They were evil before that, but they were just so weak than nobody cared.
Through the 1990s, Microsoft had a 98% market share, and behaved like a desperate startup. Apple has a 2% market share and behaved like a smug monopolist.
Can a minor actually legally agree to a TOS? Don't legally binding documents need the approval of a parent or guardian?
At the beginning of the school year, a parent receives a packet of documents that are signed and returned. This includes authorization for direct electronic communication between school and student.
Yes, but tan as an attractive trait is relatively new, really only coming to be in the mid 1900's.
In most of the world, lighter skin is more fashionable. Go shopping in Asia or Latin America, and you will see shelves full of skin lightening products.
Even in America, tanning is done more for fashion than beauty. The point of fashion is not to attract a mate, but to signal status. A woman carries an LV handbag to raise her status among other women, not because men find it attractive. If anything, a man will think that she is either self absorbed and high maintenance, or that she already has a rich husband/boyfriend. Likewise, when men describe what they find attractive in a woman, "a good tan" is generally not mentioned.
Teachers cannot use private messaging services like WhatsApp, at least in the US. All communication with students has to be archived
Why does the fact that they are "private" mean that messages can't be archived? Why doesn't the ban apply to Verizon, which is also a private company?
I don't use WhatsApp, but I do use WeChat, and one of the options for how long to keep messages is "Forever". I have a log of every message I have ever sent or received, going back over a decade.
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But where is the Principle of the Mind [or Theory of the Mind, if you will]? AI can't be done without it.
Throughout history, there have often been practical benefits to technology long before the theoretical basis was understood. The Romans knew how to temper steel, cure cement, and ferment wine, but knew nothing about the chemistry behind these processes.
I'd prefer if they could disable the wifi function though.
That should be user configureable, So when you are ready to sleep, you just use the thought interface to shutdown communication. Of course, the Amber Alerts will still be enabled so the government can wake everyone in a 600 mile radius if a blonde white girl is kidnapped.
But I doubt if it will use Wifi. Wifi is too power hungry for a glucose powered device. Most likely it will use Bluetooth or an even simpler protocol to communicate with the cell phone in your pocket, which will bridge to Wifi.
Exactly Musk (and he is smart enough to know better) is conflating intelligence with access to information.
He is combining the two. The biobrain will supply the intelligence. The embedded chip will supply the information. So you get the best of both. Human intelligence with immutable memory, ability to lookup any information with just a thought, rapidly perform complex calculations, and find patterns that would not be perceptible to an unaugmented brain.
Distracted pedestrians walking into traffic are a good example: Elon's chip would fix that problem. The human brain has difficulty focusing on more than one task at a time. But a multi-core embedded chip could do that with ease. One core could focus on situational awareness of the immediate surroundings, while another core focused on scanning messages, and yet another on gathering data about a work assignment.
If we don't want to be replaced by machines, then we need to merge with them.
Their arses are covered for a recession by golden handshakes/parachutes... A cyber security breach may lead them to being dismissed without their full payment.
This makes sense. If a company loses money in a recession, it is not the CEO's fault. One person didn't cause the recession, and the best a company can do is have enough financial cushion to ride it out. But a breach is preventable, and the buck stops with the CEO, so they should be held accountable.
Great news. There are a lot fo quality mineral-based sunscreens that don't kill coral.
Hawaii did it first. These sunscreens were banned there last year.
It's amazing how one cherry picked moment suddenly becomes a political standard
I didn't pick it, and it is an exception rather than the rule. Republicans generally support free trade, Democrats generally don't.
NAFTA Vote:
Republican: 132 yes, 43 no
Democratic: 102 yes, 156 no
CAFTA Vote:
Republican 202 yes, 27 no
Democratic 15 yes, 187 no
Believe it or not, there are actual differences between left and right. It is astounding how many people don't know what those differences are.
Um, the mainstream of both parties favor free trade.
This is not supported by evidence:
NAFTA Vote:
Republican: 132 yes, 43 no
Democratic: 102 yes, 156 no
CAFTA Vote:
Republican 202 yes, 27 no
Democratic 15 yes, 187 no
Bernie didn't support protectionism as much as he supported enforcing tax, labor and environmental standards on manufacturers of US sold products.
Expecting Bangladesh to adhere to American labor standards is absurd, and demanding that they do so is tantamount to just shutting them down, hurting the very people that Bernie hypocritically claimed to be helping. Free trade has brought prosperity to billions of desperately poor people.
So Dubya was a Trumpist when he levied steel tariffs in 2002?
GWB was widely criticized for the steel tariffs by Republicans and many Democrats praised him. Dick Gephardt, the Democratic leader in the house, criticized him for not going far enough. You can read more here: Political response to 2002 steel tariffs.
He didn't implement the tariffs out of ideology, but was trying to swing Pennsylvania to red in 2004. He still lost the state by 2%.
I didn't realize that Larry Kudlow and Trump were leftists. Guess you learn something new every day.
Trumpism is an amalgam of the stupidest ideas from both left and right. His protectionist views on trade were a big reason for the "Never Trump" movement by traditional conservatives.
Bernie's support for protectionism was very popular with the left.
Keep in mind, SV tech execs tend to be pretty liberal and CNBC is a part of NBC News so they're well left of center as well.
The Left tends to take a hardline on trade and favor protectionist policies, while the Right tends to favor free trade ... so this is a case of leftists being leftists.
That is not to be used in any school/college report as a reference?
It should not be used as a reference because it is an encyclopedia. References should always be to primary sources.
You can find links to the primary sources at the bottom of the Wiki page.
It would be better to teach everyone (or at least a lot of the population) the basics of programming.
They already do. Basic programming is already part of the standard curriculum for Finland's public schools.
Really? The most likely culprit?
Of course not. The most likely culprit is experimental error, and the 2nd most likely is outright fraud.
So far AGW has warmed the earth by 1.3 C (2 F). That is a serious trend, and a big concern for the future but is unlikely to wipe out 98% of insects today. It is also implausible that nobody has noticed this massive worldwide catastrophe before this lone researcher stumbled onto the evidence of our life support systems "collapsing".
This sort of shrill hyperbolic alarmism is counterproductive to getting people to take climate change seriously. This is so over-the-top that I suspect this guy is on Exxon-Mobil's payroll as a false flag operation to make scientists look incompetent.
Anyway, we will soon find out. If he is right, we will all be dead by this time next year.
You are assuming that politicians actually want to solve illegal immigration, rather than keeping it going as a wedge issue.
While the politicians have ranted and dithered, illegal immigration has mostly faded away to near zero net migration. It is mostly a non-issue. We should move on to something that matters.
There's no proof that thinness is an innate killer of user-replacability in batteries
Go look at the available phones with swappable batteries. They are NOT thin, at least not compared to an iPhone.
If instead of soldering a battery to the PCB, you put it into a plastic case, add electrical contacts, and put an access port with a latch on the case, you are obviously going to end up with a thicker phone.
nor that people wouldn't choose that if it were an option.
But it IS an option. There are phones out there with swappable batteries, and they are not big sellers.
People have a choice, and they are NOT choosing swappable batteries. You also have a choice. If you want one, go buy it.
Apple has been completely evil ever since they came back from the dead in the late 90s.
They were evil before that, but they were just so weak than nobody cared.
Through the 1990s, Microsoft had a 98% market share, and behaved like a desperate startup. Apple has a 2% market share and behaved like a smug monopolist.
If that is true, why aren't people buying phones with user replaceable batteries?
Because replaceable batteries have negative implications for thinness.
Apple is giving people what they want. If it is not what YOU want, then buy something else. There are plenty of phones with replaceable batteries.
WhatsApp has an abusive TOS and requires high speed internet.
WhatsApp is not the only messaging app.
Also, WhatsApp does NOT require "high speed" internet. It will work fine over 2G or DSL.
Can a minor actually legally agree to a TOS? Don't legally binding documents need the approval of a parent or guardian?
At the beginning of the school year, a parent receives a packet of documents that are signed and returned. This includes authorization for direct electronic communication between school and student.
For a much longer time, a tan was associated with lower class people who worked outdoors
Today, a tan signals that you can afford a tropical vacation in the winter.
Monitor tans for the best life quality
Not anymore. In the olden days, CRTs generated some UV light. But modern LCD and OLED monitors emit none.
Yes, but tan as an attractive trait is relatively new, really only coming to be in the mid 1900's.
In most of the world, lighter skin is more fashionable. Go shopping in Asia or Latin America, and you will see shelves full of skin lightening products.
Even in America, tanning is done more for fashion than beauty. The point of fashion is not to attract a mate, but to signal status. A woman carries an LV handbag to raise her status among other women, not because men find it attractive. If anything, a man will think that she is either self absorbed and high maintenance, or that she already has a rich husband/boyfriend. Likewise, when men describe what they find attractive in a woman, "a good tan" is generally not mentioned.
... because students should be compelled to agree with another abusive TOS
The messages are also available on the school website. The texts are for convenience, but the information can be either pushed or pulled.
... and be forced to have high speed Internet access at home?
Receiving a text does not require "high speed".
Teachers cannot use private messaging services like WhatsApp, at least in the US. All communication with students has to be archived
Why does the fact that they are "private" mean that messages can't be archived? Why doesn't the ban apply to Verizon, which is also a private company?
I don't use WhatsApp, but I do use WeChat, and one of the options for how long to keep messages is "Forever". I have a log of every message I have ever sent or received, going back over a decade.