I.e. Brilliant women who have masters degrees in challenging engineering fields are exactly the same as high school dropouts with poor impulse control.
Google is a unique population of individuals. you'd have to study them on their own to draw any conclusions about what 'averages' are like there.
and it's already known to have issues discriminating against women and older people so the sample is tainted from the start.
only way you can know that is if you pick a random sample of the population and give them all energy drinks and see if that population has a higher level of substance abuse than the general population.
you can't base a damn thing on a group that self selected to take energy drinks.
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They are good at hiding the fact that they are really for the starvation and mass execution of millions of people, millions of children.
But when you use nazi ideology and symbolism you are saying you want to commit mass genocide.
When you use a confederate flag, you say you are better than other races- not that you want to murder them. It may still be possible to reason with you. A fair percentage of such racists may drop their racism over time. They may feel sorrow when they hear a black child was killed.
Once you adopt nazi symbols, you can't be reasoned with any more. Nazi's are pure evil with almost none coming back. They are for murder and genocide of the innocent and feel joy hearing that a black child was killed. In the case of the U.S., you are against everything the country stands for.
Google software repeatedly invited the same 40+ year old female for job interviews and Google humans repeatedly turned her down for jobs because she was too old. The software was looking at her skill set.
She's going to make a lot more money off them than if they had hired her.
Well the good news for the nightmare scenarios is that even hyenas show tremendous empathy and warmth when socialized. They remain hyenas and could literally eat you alive (nasty habit/preference) but there are cool youtube videos of them acting sort of like cat/dogs with a guy who has been with them for 15 years.
So A.I. might have empathy simply because it's a quality of being intelligent.
But, it may also be as callous as any other animal (including humans) and rationalize its behavior and not feel any regrets until it was alone and everyone was dead.
For an interesting book on the risks and an exploration of how to deal with them- see the book, "SuperIntelligence".
The analog (non-hackable), air gap, and limited power supply (limited power = limited intelligence) are all ideas from that book.
Great archictecture. I wrote "Spppaaaacee Acccce" (aka Space War) and got sued by Don Bluth for using the name (had no idea about the animated dragon's lair type game.
Loved the implementation of Mech Force . We had 3 people buy amigas just to play that game on the amiga.
Then it was ruined when ported to the PC as "Titans".
It's a little over 100 a year dead (and another 2000ish hospitalized or severe effects) as self reported by doctors to the CDC VERS voluntary system which the CDC says is underreported by up to 90% (but mostly the more minor cases)
We need to put more more into tests to determine which children we shouldn't vaccinate. We know now for sure that there are blood pressure drugs that you just shouldn't give to certain people with certain genetic markers.
We have to do this because just for Diphtheria alone, we were losing 15,000 children each and every year.
But it has interesting parallels to the death penalty. In the case of vaccination, we are giving the state the power to mandate actions which kill about 100 random children per year so it will save about a quarter million children per year.
In the case of execution, we don't want to give the state power to kill people because some of them have been shown to be innocent and we find that horrific.
And in 1984 the government was actively advancing the position that anti-vaccination data should be censored for public health reasons.
Decomposed to it's components, the brain is not intelligent.
The Brain is composed of the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. Alone, none of these are intelligent.
The forebrain consists of the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus (part of the limbic system). None of these these three subcomponents are intelligent.
The midbrain consists of the tectum and tegmentum. Neither of these pieces are intelligent.
The hindbrain is made of the cerebellum, pons and medulla. None of these these three subcomponents are intelligent.
People with dysfunctional Amygdala are incapable of logical thinking because they can't emotionally weight the factors correctly.. They find snakes interesting but not scary (so they want to touch them).
Most people driving are not doing so intelligently. A minor "driving" expert system is running while their brain is elsewhere.
Computers beating humans at go is weak A.I.
We are 8 years ahead of the projected schedule for landmarks. It's going faster than we expected.
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We *must* be very careful with A.I. because we only get one shot at it. Any serious A.I. research must be done air gapped, with analog power meters, with fuse limited power suplies, and many other precautions.
We have overconfident people playing with extinction level technology. It might never click. It might click 10 years from now. It might click tomorrow.
Adjusted for inflation, GDP and productivity growth is up just under 1000% from 1930 to 2007.
We are down to about 2% the number of farmers and they are struggling financially because their productivity is too high (ironically, President Trump killing the TPP is doing huge damage to farmers who suddenly have no place to sell their excess product).
With trends in automation and robotics, by 2040 we'll literally have too many people compared to jobs.
So sure.. it took 19 workers to support 1 worker when social security started.
But it doesn't take that many now.
This entire social security crisis could have been fixed by a 2% increase in rates and inflation adjust the cap from $106k to $250k back in 2000. It could still be fixed with a little means testing (which they are already doing in a back door way).
When we have a productivity 50x what we had back in 1900, it means 1 person can support 49 others as well as they supported themselves back then.
Having fewer workers is a problem but the main problem is a failure of realistic actions by both parties when it would have been much less painful. And plundering funds that could have balanced social security for bridges to nowhere and tanks we parked in the desert indefinitely right after they were built.
To paraphrase, "There was NEVER a majority of women programming-- except when there was during ENIAC."
Designing and building aren't programming.
Yes- why did we go from ENIAC to the 80s?
It could be it favored autistic types who loved machines more than people. It could be that men could work the long hours required because back then they had full time wives who supported them at home. It could be working alone in buildings on nights and weekends.
But it did change to be almost exclusively male by the late 80s.
Men tend to have better spatial reasoning for spatial tasks selected by men.
Men tend to suck at adjusting a pattern (sewing- 3 dimensional and a hell of a lot more complicated than blocks or gears).
Men tend to suck at picking the correct size container for leftovers (too small- throw away food. too big- air in the container makes the food go bad faster).
Women who sew (a lot more women sew than you might think) excel at spatial reasoning for adjusting patterns.
Women who put away food (more often than men) excel at spatial reasoning for picking the correct size container.
If women designed the spatial reasoning tests, we would be talking about how men tend to suck at spatial reasoning.
And that's just one example where males in a field have defined things to benefit males.
The military is another. Just recognizing that most females need less food than males the same size would lower their backpack weights by almost 10% (6 pounds). Instead females are required to carry grossly more food than they need and as a result a heavier pack. Likewise uniforms were designed for males. If males had to wear uniforms designed for females, they'd have problems in those uniforms. If you want to talk about down in the dirt using bayonets to kill each other- sure- I might be called sexist by the more extreme left but I'll agree that men have an advantage in that kind of combat. But the females who won medals for combat in Iraq were appreciated by the male soldiers whose lives they saved. And those women were not built like Arnold Swartzenegger. They had bravery and cool heads under fire (and in more than one case dragged males with gear on to safety).
That's the thing about sexism- when you are too close- you can't see it. You assume "that's just the best way of doing things" when really its the 'best way of doing things for males".
Same thing for programming. It *was* a female field. Then males came to dominate it as it went thru a period that frankly favored loners with no social life who loved machines (and autism spectrum is 75% male/ 25% female). Then it went thru a period where creepy behavior by huge majority of males actively drove the females who entered right back out of the field.
Now, it's in a period that doesn't favor aggressive loners with no social life who love machines. It may even favor females more than most males. But with male high school teachers and guidance counselors being caught actively steering bright females away from STEM and then creepy/hostile STEM classroom environments followed by creepy/hostile STEM work environments, we have a long way to go to get back to neutral.
In any case, the writer of the google feedback was an idiot. A much shorter letter privately delivered would have been productive. That screed publicly distributed which brought a bad light on to Google (already struggling with gender discrimination issues) was all but begging for a firing.
There wasn't POTS to many areas unless you paid to have the wires run.
There are always limits. If it's going to cost $35,000 to provide you with service, you may need to pay part of that bill or move somewhere more reasonable.
I agree 10 miles sounds reasonable but even in Texas (much less death valley and large swaths of other states), there are many counties with hundreds of square miles which have few residents.
Most health care costs are coming from unreasonably trying to keep us boomers alive an extra 90 days.
As in $80 to $100k or more per boomer.
No country can afford that.
But everything before that is pretty cheap.
Expensive but uncommon disease are rare enough that the average cost per citizen is very cheap (maybe under a penny a year).
But- we do need some upper limit for those too. We do implicitly- not explicitly. While it's "unlimited", we really don't honestly expect insurance companies to pay $100 million (or even $10 million) per person to keep them alive.
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Good example of Poe's law there!
I.e. Brilliant women who have masters degrees in challenging engineering fields are exactly the same as high school dropouts with poor impulse control.
Google is a unique population of individuals. you'd have to study them on their own to draw any conclusions about what 'averages' are like there.
and it's already known to have issues discriminating against women and older people so the sample is tainted from the start.
Because women at google are in no way different from the average.
There's no selection process at all at google. .
Hey now! He did exceed the standard for evidence in the original memo that stirred all this up.
Because we know all google employees are completely average like the rest of the citizenry. Nothing different average about them.
Thank you for a good laugh over my morning cup of caffience.
Correlated with future substance abuse- okay.
TRIGGERS?
only way you can know that is if you pick a random sample of the population and give them all energy drinks and see if that population has a higher level of substance abuse than the general population.
you can't base a damn thing on a group that self selected to take energy drinks.
On the other other hand, Heather Heyer is dead at the hands of the group who was promoting extermination of other races.
http://www.npr.org/sections/th...
And 19 others were injured in the same attack.
Nazi's are rabid dogs.
They are good at hiding the fact that they are really for the starvation and mass execution of millions of people, millions of children.
But when you use nazi ideology and symbolism you are saying you want to commit mass genocide.
When you use a confederate flag, you say you are better than other races- not that you want to murder them. It may still be possible to reason with you. A fair percentage of such racists may drop their racism over time. They may feel sorrow when they hear a black child was killed.
Once you adopt nazi symbols, you can't be reasoned with any more. Nazi's are pure evil with almost none coming back. They are for murder and genocide of the innocent and feel joy hearing that a black child was killed. In the case of the U.S., you are against everything the country stands for.
Nazi's are intolerable.
Well, she ignored the first, second, and third time. By the fourth time of them approaching her, she was full of it.
Google software repeatedly invited the same 40+ year old female for job interviews and Google humans repeatedly turned her down for jobs because she was too old. The software was looking at her skill set.
She's going to make a lot more money off them than if they had hired her.
Well the good news for the nightmare scenarios is that even hyenas show tremendous empathy and warmth when socialized. They remain hyenas and could literally eat you alive (nasty habit/preference) but there are cool youtube videos of them acting sort of like cat/dogs with a guy who has been with them for 15 years.
So A.I. might have empathy simply because it's a quality of being intelligent.
But, it may also be as callous as any other animal (including humans) and rationalize its behavior and not feel any regrets until it was alone and everyone was dead.
For an interesting book on the risks and an exploration of how to deal with them- see the book, "SuperIntelligence".
The analog (non-hackable), air gap, and limited power supply (limited power = limited intelligence) are all ideas from that book.
They do not appear to have support for MechForce.
But it looks nice otherwise.
It was a wonderful machine.
Great archictecture. I wrote "Spppaaaacee Acccce" (aka Space War) and got sued by Don Bluth for using the name (had no idea about the animated dragon's lair type game.
Loved the implementation of Mech Force . We had 3 people buy amigas just to play that game on the amiga.
Then it was ruined when ported to the PC as "Titans".
It's a little over 100 a year dead (and another 2000ish hospitalized or severe effects) as self reported by doctors to the CDC VERS voluntary system which the CDC says is underreported by up to 90% (but mostly the more minor cases)
We need to put more more into tests to determine which children we shouldn't vaccinate. We know now for sure that there are blood pressure drugs that you just shouldn't give to certain people with certain genetic markers.
We have to do this because just for Diphtheria alone, we were losing 15,000 children each and every year.
But it has interesting parallels to the death penalty. In the case of vaccination, we are giving the state the power to mandate actions which kill about 100 random children per year so it will save about a quarter million children per year.
In the case of execution, we don't want to give the state power to kill people because some of them have been shown to be innocent and we find that horrific.
And in 1984 the government was actively advancing the position that anti-vaccination data should be censored for public health reasons.
Read the book "Super Intelligence". It's a very dry exploration of the risks of A.I. along with ideas of how to mitigate them.
And perhaps then you'll have heard some realistic scenario about how AI is going to go about doing this.
Decomposed to it's components, the brain is not intelligent.
The Brain is composed of the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain.
Alone, none of these are intelligent.
The forebrain consists of the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus (part of the limbic system).
None of these these three subcomponents are intelligent.
The midbrain consists of the tectum and tegmentum.
Neither of these pieces are intelligent.
The hindbrain is made of the cerebellum, pons and medulla.
None of these these three subcomponents are intelligent.
People with dysfunctional Amygdala are incapable of logical thinking because they can't emotionally weight the factors correctly.. They find snakes interesting but not scary (so they want to touch them).
Most people driving are not doing so intelligently. A minor "driving" expert system is running while their brain is elsewhere.
Computers beating humans at go is weak A.I.
We are 8 years ahead of the projected schedule for landmarks. It's going faster than we expected.
----
We *must* be very careful with A.I. because we only get one shot at it. Any serious A.I. research must be done air gapped, with analog power meters, with fuse limited power suplies, and many other precautions.
We have overconfident people playing with extinction level technology. It might never click. It might click 10 years from now. It might click tomorrow.
It's called the Dunningâ"Kruger effect.
Same reason every war since 1918 , Air Force generals think the war can be one with strategic bombing and no boots on the ground.
Adjusted for inflation, GDP and productivity growth is up just under 1000% from 1930 to 2007.
We are down to about 2% the number of farmers and they are struggling financially because their productivity is too high (ironically, President Trump killing the TPP is doing huge damage to farmers who suddenly have no place to sell their excess product).
With trends in automation and robotics, by 2040 we'll literally have too many people compared to jobs.
So sure.. it took 19 workers to support 1 worker when social security started.
But it doesn't take that many now.
This entire social security crisis could have been fixed by a 2% increase in rates and inflation adjust the cap from $106k to $250k back in 2000. It could still be fixed with a little means testing (which they are already doing in a back door way).
When we have a productivity 50x what we had back in 1900, it means 1 person can support 49 others as well as they supported themselves back then.
Having fewer workers is a problem but the main problem is a failure of realistic actions by both parties when it would have been much less painful. And plundering funds that could have balanced social security for bridges to nowhere and tanks we parked in the desert indefinitely right after they were built.
http://www.nola.com/business/i...
"Then, as now, connectivity could be a challenge. The little villages were wired to the phone lines, but rural residents had to wire themselves."
lol. what a statement.
To paraphrase, "There was NEVER a majority of women programming-- except when there was during ENIAC."
Designing and building aren't programming.
Yes- why did we go from ENIAC to the 80s?
It could be it favored autistic types who loved machines more than people.
It could be that men could work the long hours required because back then they had full time wives who supported them at home.
It could be working alone in buildings on nights and weekends.
But it did change to be almost exclusively male by the late 80s.
Men tend to have better spatial reasoning for spatial tasks selected by men.
Men tend to suck at adjusting a pattern (sewing- 3 dimensional and a hell of a lot more complicated than blocks or gears).
Men tend to suck at picking the correct size container for leftovers (too small- throw away food. too big- air in the container makes the food go bad faster).
Women who sew (a lot more women sew than you might think) excel at spatial reasoning for adjusting patterns.
Women who put away food (more often than men) excel at spatial reasoning for picking the correct size container.
If women designed the spatial reasoning tests, we would be talking about how men tend to suck at spatial reasoning.
And that's just one example where males in a field have defined things to benefit males.
The military is another. Just recognizing that most females need less food than males the same size would lower their backpack weights by almost 10% (6 pounds). Instead females are required to carry grossly more food than they need and as a result a heavier pack. Likewise uniforms were designed for males. If males had to wear uniforms designed for females, they'd have problems in those uniforms. If you want to talk about down in the dirt using bayonets to kill each other- sure- I might be called sexist by the more extreme left but I'll agree that men have an advantage in that kind of combat. But the females who won medals for combat in Iraq were appreciated by the male soldiers whose lives they saved. And those women were not built like Arnold Swartzenegger. They had bravery and cool heads under fire (and in more than one case dragged males with gear on to safety).
That's the thing about sexism- when you are too close- you can't see it. You assume "that's just the best way of doing things" when really its the 'best way of doing things for males".
Same thing for programming. It *was* a female field. Then males came to dominate it as it went thru a period that frankly favored loners with no social life who loved machines (and autism spectrum is 75% male/ 25% female). Then it went thru a period where creepy behavior by huge majority of males actively drove the females who entered right back out of the field.
Now, it's in a period that doesn't favor aggressive loners with no social life who love machines. It may even favor females more than most males. But with male high school teachers and guidance counselors being caught actively steering bright females away from STEM and then creepy/hostile STEM classroom environments followed by creepy/hostile STEM work environments, we have a long way to go to get back to neutral.
In any case, the writer of the google feedback was an idiot. A much shorter letter privately delivered would have been productive. That screed publicly distributed which brought a bad light on to Google (already struggling with gender discrimination issues) was all but begging for a firing.
Why do you hate stephen king?
There wasn't POTS to many areas unless you paid to have the wires run.
There are always limits. If it's going to cost $35,000 to provide you with service, you may need to pay part of that bill or move somewhere more reasonable.
I agree 10 miles sounds reasonable but even in Texas (much less death valley and large swaths of other states), there are many counties with hundreds of square miles which have few residents.
Most health care costs are coming from unreasonably trying to keep us boomers alive an extra 90 days.
As in $80 to $100k or more per boomer.
No country can afford that.
But everything before that is pretty cheap.
Expensive but uncommon disease are rare enough that the average cost per citizen is very cheap (maybe under a penny a year).
But- we do need some upper limit for those too. We do implicitly- not explicitly. While it's "unlimited", we really don't honestly expect insurance companies to pay $100 million (or even $10 million) per person to keep them alive.