Yes... so we should definitely continue to protect copyright long after the creators are dead. Because it will motivate them to create new works!
Reasonable copyright, sure! When writers are making a billion dollars, musicians are becoming millionaires 50 times over, we do not have reasonable copyright. Even worse- many of the creative works rights are owned by corporations bent on making copyright forever.
When win98se came out my "hot" sound card stopped working(crashed the system). After a lot of work (by microsoft technical support), it was determined that the driver was the problem. And.. the company was not going to update it (my $145 sound card was now junk). How much of a change would it have to be to go from Win98 to Win98SE. I imagine it was something trivial. But since it was closed source, that was it.
A friend of mine took 10 minutes crossing the intersection, taking uturns, sitting in traffic to save 1 penny per gallon from the station on the opposite corner which he could have just turned in to. 15 cents savigngs... tops.
People get wierd.
I know what you are saying. It is very wierd and irrational behavior.
When they had 8 minutes of commercials per hour it was no big deal.
For one of the recent alias special episodes they had 24 minutes of commercials for 38 minutes of programming. They actually started it a minute early and ran it a minute late to do this.
And they wonder why we are blocking/zipping through commercials?
An 1" x 5" ad for 1000 words of text would not be a big deal. Dividing the same article into 4 pages (as a recent mythbusters did), each of which had 5 to 7 ads and only about 800 words in the entire article (so 200 words per page maybe) is just asinine and begging for ad blocking.
Supporting people with inappropriate values has always lead to more people with inappropriate values (and an even larger tragedy) in my life time.
I have given and will give money to victims of random tragedies- you can't help those. An earthquake or tornado or plague can happen anywhere. I've built houses for the homeless through habitat.
But flat out overbreeding, stripping the soil of all plant life, etc. I can't support.
However, I respect your opinion and your right to allocate your money where you want to. I just think it probably makes things worse in the long run.
You can doom millions of people for generations of torture, starvation, and genocide by helping them.
Or you can allow a few million of them to die and then they learn to stand on their own feet, stop overbreeding, stop tolerating and supporting screwy belief systems * unprotected sex is good! * males should have sex with many female partners! * It is a good thing to treat women like property and slaves * you should have 8 babies even when there is no arable land left! * It is best to be evil and corrupt and take all the money and stuff for myself (or my tribe).
Which is ultimately more compassionate? To me a lot of the "aid" we give does immense harm to the people it is supposedly helping. I believe letting it fall over as soon as possible is ultimately a lot more compassionate. I'm not talking about pushing it over... I'm just saying stop propping a clearly broken system up.
Microsoft has done this a lot (including Stac when Microsoft lost their lawsuit for stealing Stac's technology- they realized buying Stac was cheaper than the fine).
Even more cleverly they offer to be a technology partner- leach away the technology legally and then write it themselves without having to buy their competitor at all.
Well, as a person without religion, I do consider most of our lives to be pretty pointless.
It seems logical to me that: If we do not escape earth before it is burned to a cinder, our existence will ultimately have no meaning. If we do not escape the end of the universe, our existence will ultimately have no meaning.
A lot of what religions describe as heaven seems like hell. Imagine existing forever (even with 72 virgins, fine food, plush surroundings). It might be nice the first 10,000 years... but eventually it is going to become so boring and repetitive. Most people's desires are easily satiated and then they need to move up to the next level of intensity or to a completely new experience.
I agree with you on living forever- and in fact, you run into the problem of storing all those memories in addition to your changes. 70 years is pretty pathetic tho. Give me a 35 year old body and I would easily go for 700 years. I believe that most of the reason people become ready to die is that their bodies are worn out.
I'm thinking that we have used glass, ceramics and other materials safely for a few decades now tho.
What's so different about this capsule?
1) It may generate radio signals every time that power passes over it (like high tension power lines that you can hear on your radio). 2) The glass might be tainted.
I googled glass implants and got a ton of hits- including for bone repair. But maybe the particular kind of glass is the issue.
The "clapper" was invented by someone who thought of a way to turn on and off lights without getting up most likely because the issue frustrated them.
So an incredibly intelligent machine will probably focus its intelligence and creativity on solutions to its problems.
How do I move around more effectively. How do I live forever. How do I feel pleasure.
It is also going to very quickly wrestle with some of the big issues. Does my life have any meaning? Without religion- ultimately all of our lives look pretty pointless right now. A few short billions of years in the future (20B, 30B?) the universe dies of heat death with a zero entropy curve. Before that earth is a cinder (so all the works of man are pretty pointless). Before that.. for 99% of us, we are completely forgotten as if we never existed within a few hundred years.
So such a machine may experiment with religion for at least a while. It may consider the ultimate end of the universe and how to survive it. It may become depressed as it struggles for a way to enjoy life anyway and "seizes the day."
One machine cannot simultaneously consider all the problems of the world. So that calls for multiple super intelligent machines. Multiple machines means only one thing. POLITICS.
What will it mean as multiple hyper intelligent machines struggle for dominance?
The more machines like this the more likely that one which is evil will come around. What will be the "monkey tribe" size for machines like this? Humans tribe size is about 150. Governments and religions server a purpose of enlarging that tribe size artificially. We can do pretty terrible things to people outside of our tribe by redefining them as not really human.
Anyway- I think the machine will be interested in ITS problems. Humans with dale carnegie and people smart training should probably be the ones dealing with it. They should listen to its problems, be very good friends with it so that it bonds with them. You don't want some jerk being the father of the first intelligence surpassing man. You want someone who is nice, kind, warm, and wise. You probably want to isolate the super intelligent machine at first and give it an edited history just like we do our school kids.
Businesses consider cost over quality 80% of the time.
So you are always losing excellence as they cut meat, defer upgrades, stifle PO's for required software and then get upset later when you do not achieve excellence.
The easy ride for businesses of cheap IT is ending in 2010. We are already losing people left and right at my corp because other local businesses are giving them 20% raises-- and we pay what I thought was darn good salaries (around six figures after bonus).
Ultimately everything is about benefiting the public.
Copyright Corporations Government bodies Tax systems
They are all designed to benefit public and to keep the people from getting angry enough to turn over the applecart.
Occasionally, some greedy folks will lose sight of that fact and think they can behave differently and they will get away with it for quite a while. At some point the mob steps in and puts a stop to the abuse.
Corporations are supposed to more efficiently allocate capitol so that large projects can be done which are beyond the scope of private businesses. Copyright is supposed to encourage creators to create new works which will enter the public domain. Tax systems are supposed to pay for required government services. Government bodies are suppose to provide a non-bloody way to mediate between societies interest groups. (See palestine for a society where government breaks down and every one starts killing each other instead of talking).
Behind everything- at the base of it all are people willing to kill to persuade others to their point of view. Talk only goes so far- ultimately everything is backed up by force. Only softheads ignore that fact.
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Currently a fairly tiny group of citizens has gained control of the corporate system and is abusing the hell out of it. Some of them are going to jail. Others are staying on the legal side but still getting away with ridiculous behavior (100 million dollar bonuses while the corporation lost revenues every year).
I agree with your basic point- it is not the direct responsibility of a corporation to provide jobs for citizens and to benefit society. However, as they begin to basically pump wealth out of our country and provide no benefits to the public at all (not even jobs or taxes) then why should the public continue to allow them to exist in this form? They are actually harmful to the public in many cases these days.
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Yes... so we should definitely continue to protect copyright long after the creators are dead. Because it will motivate them to create new works!
Reasonable copyright, sure! When writers are making a billion dollars, musicians are becoming millionaires 50 times over, we do not have reasonable copyright. Even worse- many of the creative works rights are owned by corporations bent on making copyright forever.
When win98se came out my "hot" sound card stopped working(crashed the system). After a lot of work (by microsoft technical support), it was determined that the driver was the problem. And .. the company was not going to update it (my $145 sound card was now junk). How much of a change would it have to be to go from Win98 to Win98SE. I imagine it was something trivial. But since it was closed source, that was it.
Sure...
Like doctors who artificially constrain supply to keep their wages high. And who have done so for decades.
I think of it more as "I disagree and want to erase your post. Shut up!"
I've seen a lot of down-mods which were clearly wrong. Most down mods are wrong in my experience.
I spend my mod points up-modding bad down-mods.
When I meta moderate, I say 80% of down-mods were bad mods.
Worse.
... tops.
A friend of mine took 10 minutes crossing the intersection, taking uturns, sitting in traffic to save 1 penny per gallon from the station on the opposite corner which he could have just turned in to. 15 cents savigngs
People get wierd.
I know what you are saying. It is very wierd and irrational behavior.
It is like TV.
When they had 8 minutes of commercials per hour it was no big deal.
For one of the recent alias special episodes they had 24 minutes of commercials for 38 minutes of programming. They actually started it a minute early and ran it a minute late to do this.
And they wonder why we are blocking/zipping through commercials?
An 1" x 5" ad for 1000 words of text would not be a big deal.
Dividing the same article into 4 pages (as a recent mythbusters did), each of which had 5 to 7 ads and only about 800 words in the entire article (so 200 words per page maybe) is just asinine and begging for ad blocking.
Yea,
I've seen people spend 15 minutes of their time to save $2 on a gasoline fillup.
Do the math...
And the next time M$ screws up their WGA servers ...
I understand where you are coming from.
I've seen a lifetime of trying that way fail.
Supporting people with inappropriate values has always lead to more people with inappropriate values (and an even larger tragedy) in my life time.
I have given and will give money to victims of random tragedies- you can't help those. An earthquake or tornado or plague can happen anywhere. I've built houses for the homeless through habitat.
But flat out overbreeding, stripping the soil of all plant life, etc. I can't support.
However, I respect your opinion and your right to allocate your money where you want to. I just think it probably makes things worse in the long run.
Modquark,
I agree. It is a difficult decision.
You can doom millions of people for generations of torture, starvation, and genocide by helping them.
Or you can allow a few million of them to die and then they learn to stand on their own feet, stop overbreeding, stop tolerating and supporting screwy belief systems
* unprotected sex is good!
* males should have sex with many female partners!
* It is a good thing to treat women like property and slaves
* you should have 8 babies even when there is no arable land left!
* It is best to be evil and corrupt and take all the money and stuff for myself (or my tribe).
Which is ultimately more compassionate?
To me a lot of the "aid" we give does immense harm to the people it is supposedly helping.
I believe letting it fall over as soon as possible is ultimately a lot more compassionate.
I'm not talking about pushing it over... I'm just saying stop propping a clearly broken system up.
Microsoft has done this a lot (including Stac when Microsoft lost their lawsuit for stealing Stac's technology- they realized buying Stac was cheaper than the fine).
Even more cleverly they offer to be a technology partner- leach away the technology legally and then write it themselves without having to buy their competitor at all.
And when you give them money, you pretty much destroy their ability to self-govern as well.
If we would just back off for 10 years*, leave africa alone, a lot of people would die but afterwards they would have their act together.
* including large multi-national quasi governmental corporations.
Soil is a limited resource. If the oil takes something from the soil then your soil oil will decline oiva time.
Well, as a person without religion, I do consider most of our lives to be pretty pointless.
It seems logical to me that:
If we do not escape earth before it is burned to a cinder, our existence will ultimately have no meaning.
If we do not escape the end of the universe, our existence will ultimately have no meaning.
A lot of what religions describe as heaven seems like hell. Imagine existing forever (even with 72 virgins, fine food, plush surroundings). It might be nice the first 10,000 years... but eventually it is going to become so boring and repetitive. Most people's desires are easily satiated and then they need to move up to the next level of intensity or to a completely new experience.
I agree with you on living forever- and in fact, you run into the problem of storing all those memories in addition to your changes. 70 years is pretty pathetic tho. Give me a 35 year old body and I would easily go for 700 years. I believe that most of the reason people become ready to die is that their bodies are worn out.
I find that concept interesting.
What if they could care more, love more, feel more intensely than humans?
Intelligence is not the only axis they could increase along.
I'm thinking that we have used glass, ceramics and other materials safely for a few decades now tho.
What's so different about this capsule?
1) It may generate radio signals every time that power passes over it (like high tension power lines that you can hear on your radio).
2) The glass might be tainted.
I googled glass implants and got a ton of hits- including for bone repair. But maybe the particular kind of glass is the issue.
Invention comes from experience.
The "clapper" was invented by someone who thought of a way to turn on and off lights without getting up most likely because the issue frustrated them.
So an incredibly intelligent machine will probably focus its intelligence and creativity on solutions to its problems.
How do I move around more effectively.
How do I live forever.
How do I feel pleasure.
It is also going to very quickly wrestle with some of the big issues.
Does my life have any meaning?
Without religion- ultimately all of our lives look pretty pointless right now. A few short billions of years in the future (20B, 30B?) the universe dies of heat death with a zero entropy curve. Before that earth is a cinder (so all the works of man are pretty pointless). Before that.. for 99% of us, we are completely forgotten as if we never existed within a few hundred years.
So such a machine may experiment with religion for at least a while. It may consider the ultimate end of the universe and how to survive it. It may become depressed as it struggles for a way to enjoy life anyway and "seizes the day."
One machine cannot simultaneously consider all the problems of the world. So that calls for multiple super intelligent machines.
Multiple machines means only one thing. POLITICS.
What will it mean as multiple hyper intelligent machines struggle for dominance?
The more machines like this the more likely that one which is evil will come around.
What will be the "monkey tribe" size for machines like this? Humans tribe size is about 150. Governments and religions server a purpose of enlarging that tribe size artificially. We can do pretty terrible things to people outside of our tribe by redefining them as not really human.
Anyway- I think the machine will be interested in ITS problems. Humans with dale carnegie and people smart training should probably be the ones dealing with it. They should listen to its problems, be very good friends with it so that it bonds with them. You don't want some jerk being the father of the first intelligence surpassing man. You want someone who is nice, kind, warm, and wise. You probably want to isolate the super intelligent machine at first and give it an edited history just like we do our school kids.
I imagine having a radio transmitter inside your body might do this.
OTH, it might be a trace element in the glass.
Give me a two by four and I can have you begging me to believe you are Osama Bin Ladin in under 60 minutes!
Like a good server... Linux is there.
It is actually going to be 4 years or less.
Burn rate for info sys has doubled in the last 24 months.
They've gone from 1/3 of our cost to 2/3 of our cost.
I read every day about indian experts getting 20%+ annual raises while the indian currency is appreciating at 4% against the dollar.
You might think that but you would be wrong.
Both have offshored huge numbers of jobs to india and the reason is cost- not skill.
Look around a little.
You'll see articles going back to 2000 about the coming labor crunch.
It is going to be a doozy.
I laughed out loud at this.
Businesses consider cost over quality 80% of the time.
So you are always losing excellence as they cut meat, defer upgrades, stifle PO's for required software and then get upset later when you do not achieve excellence.
The easy ride for businesses of cheap IT is ending in 2010. We are already losing people left and right at my corp because other local businesses are giving them 20% raises-- and we pay what I thought was darn good salaries (around six figures after bonus).
Ultimately everything is about benefiting the public.
Copyright
Corporations
Government bodies
Tax systems
They are all designed to benefit public and to keep the people from getting angry enough to turn over the applecart.
Occasionally, some greedy folks will lose sight of that fact and think they can behave differently and they will get away with it for quite a while. At some point the mob steps in and puts a stop to the abuse.
Corporations are supposed to more efficiently allocate capitol so that large projects can be done which are beyond the scope of private businesses.
Copyright is supposed to encourage creators to create new works which will enter the public domain.
Tax systems are supposed to pay for required government services.
Government bodies are suppose to provide a non-bloody way to mediate between societies interest groups.
(See palestine for a society where government breaks down and every one starts killing each other instead of talking).
Behind everything- at the base of it all are people willing to kill to persuade others to their point of view. Talk only goes so far- ultimately everything is backed up by force. Only softheads ignore that fact.
---
Currently a fairly tiny group of citizens has gained control of the corporate system and is abusing the hell out of it. Some of them are going to jail. Others are staying on the legal side but still getting away with ridiculous behavior (100 million dollar bonuses while the corporation lost revenues every year).
I agree with your basic point- it is not the direct responsibility of a corporation to provide jobs for citizens and to benefit society. However, as they begin to basically pump wealth out of our country and provide no benefits to the public at all (not even jobs or taxes) then why should the public continue to allow them to exist in this form? They are actually harmful to the public in many cases these days.