Do the hive-"people" really believe they will be able to keep the pro-freedom folks from seceding, taking with them an amount of land value commensurate with their population? After all, not only does the Declaration of Independence defend the moral principle, but the whole point of the abolition of slavery was to subdue those who thought they had a right to keep others from leaving them.
Clearly, the kind of people voting for disarming The People are not the kind of people who originated the United States in any meaningful way. Perhaps their perspective is that the Nation of Settlers was barbaric compared to the subsequent Nation of Immigrants and therefore Civilizing the Barbarians is necessary, as it was during first millennium in northern Europe. You know. The cultivars got out into the wilderness of the New World and went feral. "Smething must be done."
There is an equivalent to "throwing away data" in the Hutter Prize, and that is the portion of the compressed representation that can be considered "noise" rather than the knowledge model. The difference with natural intelligence here is that in natural intelligence there are biases as to which data can be thrown away that are imposed by the natural algorithms themselves. These biases are related to the evolutionary fitness of including or not including the data in the analysis. In the case of the Hutter Prize, the determination of the equivalent of "evolutionary fitness" of the data is made at the time the prize is defined as being in terms of a given sample of Wikipedia. Beyond that, everything operates essentially the same as in a natural system that must accurately predict evolutionary relevant phenomena.
The resource limitation on the Hutter Prize is analogous to resource limitations in other contests that have objective measurements of success. The question isn't how "smart" you can be give infinite resources, but rather how efficiently smart you can be. That is a test of the algorithm and provides some idea of how "smart" it will be if scaled up.
This makes it more economical to run the contest and includes a greater range of participants as contestants.
Human intelligence is clearly a particular kind of intelligence but when I said "general intelligence" was referring to something more general that is sometimes called "universal artificial intelligence".
If the goal is to pass the Turing Test, that is one thing. But clearly they are trying for something more general in some of their contests. I'm just informing them (assuming they are watching) that better tests are available.
The claim that "winning both industrial and academic data competitions with minimal effort" might be more impressive if it included the only provably rigorous test of general intelligence:
I've had "Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks" for several weeks on interlibrary loan. It interviews 17 "fathers of neural nets" (including Hinton) and it isn't even a complete set of said "fathers".
Look, this stuff goes back a long ways and has had some hiccups along the way, like the twenty year period it was treated with little more respect by the scientific establishment than has cold fusion for the last twenty years. There are plenty of heroics to go around.
By advocating your "meritocracy" at the Federal level, you are imposing on the environment of other human subjects experimental treatments of their ecologies to which they did not consent.
You are, of course, free to test your causal hypothesis in human ecology (opening borders causes prosperity and happiness or whatever it is you value). Critically, however, to do so without allowing those who do not consent to your experimental treatment their own territory with perfect border continence -- the kind that can be achieved with appropriate defense investments (not the kind we see being made by the US overseas), is inhuman. As an inhuman being they may ethically treat you as a force of nature.
The most parsimonious explanation for a wide range of phenomena, including the very significant phenomenon of massive immigration following on the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 to replace the population lost with the destruction of the middle class along with its total fertility rate during the ensuing generation, is a breeding program getting rid of individualism in favor of eusocial workers. Individualist tendencies are hard to manage.
Anyone who lived in Southern California for the 2 decades following the Reagan Amnesty can attest to the fact that more immigration is good for the environment generally. That's why the Sierra Club banned all debate about immigration after receiving hundred million dollars or so from a donor who told them to STFU about immigration and the environment.
Let's see, just prior to their demographic collapse, creating a population vacuum now being filled by invading populations from around the world, people of European descent were being labeled as"whites" and "racist" and "xenophobic" and "prejudiced" and "discriminatory" and "imperialistic" and "genocidal" and "supremacist", there being "no place for" them if they wanted to be left alone as that would be "segregationists".
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(You will notice how I am not only a xenophobic racist in the above exclamation, but I am inarticulate if not down right illiterate. This merely goes to show that people of my race/gender/age (white/male/old) not only must, as an urgent economic necessity, be displaced by importing hundreds of thousands if not millions from abroad, but that we deserve to be displaced.)
I don't think anyone literate in aviation history has ever disputed that people have "flown" before the Wrights. The problem they solved with controlled flight. The fact that they were able to get a lightweight engine built is interesting but really secondary. Lots of folks could have built a lightweight engine.
What people need to credit the Wrights for is their pioneering work in aerodynamic engineering that led to controlled flight. This was their key contribution.
Since the US landed men on the moon 40 years ago, why can't it at least land robots to guard the site?
Oh, that's right. THAT "US" has been replaced by a much "stronger" US through "diversity" and as we all know, "weakness is strength", "war is peace", etc.
The H-1b program is a program to support ethnic nepotism in hiring. That's what's really going on. If it were actually about substituting equal or better quality labor while lowering labor costs -- which is, of course, an illegal use of the H-1b program -- the companies engaging in the most H-1b fraud would be more viable than their competition. So what happened to Sun? What is happening to HP and MIcrosoft?
Cryogenic valve failures are problems that seems to put about 50% of private launch service companies under or at least at serious risk from decades ago.
I'm sure Musk is aware of this but really, it just seems to make sense to find the best cryo valve guy in the world and give him one and only one full time job: Make sure the damn things work!
People keep going on about the robocaplypse and the "friendly AI problem" but the real problem has, for millenia, been the "friendly NI problem" or friendly natural intelligence problem. Whether the drones being manipulated by the natural intelligences are made of silicon, metal and composites powered by electricity, or they are flesh and blood constructs powered by chemistry is beside the point.
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If H-1b visas are being requested for level 1 support jobs, the FBI should investigate the requesting companies for fraud.
Vertical transmission means you close off the borders to transmission and only transmit from parent to child.
Do the hive-"people" really believe they will be able to keep the pro-freedom folks from seceding, taking with them an amount of land value commensurate with their population? After all, not only does the Declaration of Independence defend the moral principle, but the whole point of the abolition of slavery was to subdue those who thought they had a right to keep others from leaving them.
Well, how about Reservations?
Its always a good idea to have the slot machines make a lot of noise when they pay off.
There is an equivalent to "throwing away data" in the Hutter Prize, and that is the portion of the compressed representation that can be considered "noise" rather than the knowledge model. The difference with natural intelligence here is that in natural intelligence there are biases as to which data can be thrown away that are imposed by the natural algorithms themselves. These biases are related to the evolutionary fitness of including or not including the data in the analysis. In the case of the Hutter Prize, the determination of the equivalent of "evolutionary fitness" of the data is made at the time the prize is defined as being in terms of a given sample of Wikipedia. Beyond that, everything operates essentially the same as in a natural system that must accurately predict evolutionary relevant phenomena.
This makes it more economical to run the contest and includes a greater range of participants as contestants.
If the goal is to pass the Turing Test, that is one thing. But clearly they are trying for something more general in some of their contests. I'm just informing them (assuming they are watching) that better tests are available.
The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge
The last time anyone improved on that benchmark was 2009.
Look, this stuff goes back a long ways and has had some hiccups along the way, like the twenty year period it was treated with little more respect by the scientific establishment than has cold fusion for the last twenty years. There are plenty of heroics to go around.
I can recommend the book highly.
You are, of course, free to test your causal hypothesis in human ecology (opening borders causes prosperity and happiness or whatever it is you value). Critically, however, to do so without allowing those who do not consent to your experimental treatment their own territory with perfect border continence -- the kind that can be achieved with appropriate defense investments (not the kind we see being made by the US overseas), is inhuman. As an inhuman being they may ethically treat you as a force of nature.
The most parsimonious explanation for a wide range of phenomena, including the very significant phenomenon of massive immigration following on the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 to replace the population lost with the destruction of the middle class along with its total fertility rate during the ensuing generation, is a breeding program getting rid of individualism in favor of eusocial workers. Individualist tendencies are hard to manage.
Anyone who lived in Southern California for the 2 decades following the Reagan Amnesty can attest to the fact that more immigration is good for the environment generally. That's why the Sierra Club banned all debate about immigration after receiving hundred million dollars or so from a donor who told them to STFU about immigration and the environment.
Everything else is in the noise.
Slashdot has become People Magazine.
Wasting chloraphylies is a capital offense, punishable by death.
Yep, clearly hate speech causes genocide.
One can see from the spin put on recent stories that Slashdot itself has been compromised.
(You will notice how I am not only a xenophobic racist in the above exclamation, but I am inarticulate if not down right illiterate. This merely goes to show that people of my race/gender/age (white/male/old) not only must, as an urgent economic necessity, be displaced by importing hundreds of thousands if not millions from abroad, but that we deserve to be displaced.)
Bitcoin doesn't need the "help" of regulators to make that happen anymore than did Gates need their help to spread DOS.
I don't think anyone literate in aviation history has ever disputed that people have "flown" before the Wrights. The problem they solved with controlled flight. The fact that they were able to get a lightweight engine built is interesting but really secondary. Lots of folks could have built a lightweight engine. What people need to credit the Wrights for is their pioneering work in aerodynamic engineering that led to controlled flight. This was their key contribution.
Oh, that's right. THAT "US" has been replaced by a much "stronger" US through "diversity" and as we all know, "weakness is strength", "war is peace", etc.
The H-1b program is a program to support ethnic nepotism in hiring. That's what's really going on. If it were actually about substituting equal or better quality labor while lowering labor costs -- which is, of course, an illegal use of the H-1b program -- the companies engaging in the most H-1b fraud would be more viable than their competition. So what happened to Sun? What is happening to HP and MIcrosoft?
I'm sure Musk is aware of this but really, it just seems to make sense to find the best cryo valve guy in the world and give him one and only one full time job: Make sure the damn things work!
People keep going on about the robocaplypse and the "friendly AI problem" but the real problem has, for millenia, been the "friendly NI problem" or friendly natural intelligence problem. Whether the drones being manipulated by the natural intelligences are made of silicon, metal and composites powered by electricity, or they are flesh and blood constructs powered by chemistry is beside the point.