Basically funded bogus studies and had a negative press campaign as they came out.
Sacharine-- it turns out-- is actually quite safe while aspartame is bad for some people regardless of how it is handled. Handled improperly (over 100 degrees) it breaks down into bad stuff... but also many people break it down into bad stuff anyway and get headaches from it.
And yet, right here on slashdot, I've had google employees swear in other discussions that google maintains a 45 hour work week when I said a friend declined due to work/life balance issues around her child.
The crazy prior owner put in over 2' of blown in flock fill insulation in the attic. It will probably never pay for itself but holy crap I have low utility bills.
In another 10 years, those will be actual renewable system batteries. A lot of money is going into batteries now-- prices are dropping at microprocessor like rates. And they recently found a new technology around non-rare, non-explosive elements.
I greatly prefer conservation up front over power generation on the back end however.
But batteries are improving rapidly at this point while at the same time prices are dropping rapidly.
It posits three possible intelligence advance scales.
The first is self improvement over seconds. I.e., the machine become conscious. It is able to increase it's intelligence to superhuman levels at machine speeds within a few seconds. There will be no time to react. Even air gapping the machine might not be sufficient as it may figure out new principles which allow it to bridge the air gap, figure out ways to mislead it's human owners as to it's capabilities so they enhance it further, etc.
The second is over a scale of weeks or months. Not much time to react to it. A reliable way to cut the power should work. A nuclear safety net should definitely work. Society certainly couldn't react to it in time. There would likely be mass unemployment as it enabled human replacement within a few years for thinking jobs (and combined with robotic bodies- almost all methods of manual labor).
The last way is over a long time period. Society would have time to react. Perhaps to see and stop it if it was turning bad. Especially if it simply became the equivalent of IQ 160-300 slowly, you might be able to understand it. Later phases where it's iq reached meaningless numbers (6000... compared to it, humans would be like horses in relative intelligence).
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The definitional problem is also there.
"Make people happy". Okay- rig them to machines that feed them pleasure signals in the brain 24/7. Extinct.
Make people smile! Easily obtainable with surgery.
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There is a risk the machine will be "greedy" and basically convert the entire planet (and then the solar system) into a system for increasing it's intelligence. Humans don't play a large part in that scenario. Nothing malicious or personal about it-- not a failure of friendliness.
As Jaffe noted, the $180/kWh price paid by Tesla compares to about $1500/kWh even five years ago, maybe seven years ago when it was $1200 to $1500 per kilowatt-hour. âoeSo $180 per kWh is the price of those batteries, not the manufacturing cost but the price that theyâ(TM)re paying for them,â he said.
You can drive an 18500 BTU window unit with 6 solar panels. What you need is a control box that will turn it on when power is sufficent and turn it off when power is insufficient. (even better if it can scale the cooling to available power as long as power is available).
If you cool during the day, the house stays cool and you don't have to cool it for several hours when you get home.
Battery cost has dropped by 94% in 20 years. I think that's going to be a key element. Instead of grid-tie, you just have some of your utilities on a parallel solar power system. Meanwhile, your central air unit still draws from regular power.
Say you could put a panel on your roof and a plug in your room that would provide 16 hours of 100 watt power + live power during daylight. It won't drive vacuum cleanersfor long but it will drive TV's, cable boxes, a light fixture, laptop, electric shaver, toothbrush, etc.
Including the almost complete lack of minorities. And by the odds at least two of the characters were gays in the closet. Probably church goers too. Many of the men-- WW2 vets with PTSD were beating their wives and everyone was driving drunk. Any of the teens who were gay left for New York- and if their parents found out they were cutoff and tossed out. Some of the men-- probably Andy-- were getting some on the side since you couldn't divorce and when the wife stopped putting out (because the men knew very little about how to please women sexually) you found the town slut or snuck something with the secretary or other office girl.
The businessmen portrayed in the show were dumping pollution in the waterways so fast that a decade later, rivers would be catching on fire- necessitating another set of government intrusion.
Things were easier with a much lower population density and less ability to move around. It was a surveillance state by the sheriff and the religious community. As that population grew and became more mobile, more government intrusion was required.
I *love* the andy griffith show. But it was fiction when it was being shown. It was a pleasant ville.
Ironically, the entire show was an intrusion of government preventing tv shows from showing reality. Men and women slept in separate twin beds, never had sex addictions, never were adulterous.
The show portrays a great time to be alive if you were a successful white male in a monochrome homogenous society.
The main issue we see (and it will cut back on males once females are dominant-- in fact I was already seeing it at my last position under a team of females) is that females will communicate in a female way (less direct, more "request" when it's really an order, go to lunch and talk business with the other females so the guys are clueless (not intentionally- just happens), and bond over new purses or clothing and so give assignment preference to other females.
Likewise, when hiring it's already been noticed in several fields that if the name and gender are obscured, then the hiring agent actually hires on abilities. If they can see the candidate, it immediately affects the percentages. Attractive people over ugly people, one gender over another gender- even "weighting" the same exact facts higher or lower value for a candidate who they know the gender and age (and attractiveness) of.
Dale Carnegie teaches that human beings make their decisions emotionally first- and then they weight the facts so their logic reaches their emotional decision. They imagine they are logical and rational when in reality nothing could be farther from the truth. Truly logical and rational people are actually rare. And ironically, the smartest people are the best at rationalization and so misleading themselves into trouble.
It was actually a valid "example", not an analogy.
aÂnalÂoÂgy
noun: analogy; plural noun: analogies
a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
"an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies"
a correspondence or partial similarity.
"the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia"
a thing that is comparable to something else in significant respects.
"works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature"
The NSA really does capture and store pictures of your junk. NSA employees were capturing AND trading naked pictures of U.S. citizens.
Going overseas was the only way for him to keep the issue alive. He'd have disappeared here.
His soapbox abides.
And how awesome was it that Oliver went to russia to let him speak to a wide audience and bring the issue back to life just before the reauthorization vote in June!
I think Oliver opened with some tough stuff and Snowden didn't lose his shit and was cool-headed and intelligent enough to shift gears to the tone of the interview.
I was neutral/slightly positive on Snowden before and anti-NSA/Surveillance state. I came away from the article very positive on Snowden and wish he could get a pardon. What he did was good for the country.
Yes-- you can blow $10k for capabilities you don't actually need. While you are at it, why not get the undercoating, titanium 24" wheels, self steering package, and every other option because you might need them? Drop a few grand extra for 4 wheel drive even tho all you are going to do is drive it in the city and highways in Florida or Alabama... you want to take it off road into the hill country where there are no roads or you might go somewhere in the winter where it snows regularly.
I'm very tall and so my choice of cars is limited to those with high ceilings.
I've never had a fillup that didn't go over the low 11 gallon range so that's about 24 mpg. And that's with the "E" light on and the gauge on empty to get to about 11.6 gallons used.
I've gotten 300 miles per tank when I got gasoline that didn't have ethanol in it. So about 27mpg with old fashioned gasoline.
Most people don't need the range in reality. They only need it once or twice a year. They are paying a healthy premium- WAY over the cost of renting a vehicle for that once or twice a year that they need the range.
So their argument is sort of like requiring F-650's since once a year they have to carry a sheet of plywood or a piece of furniture.
"1. we know the cost to replace an 85 kwh battery is ~$12,000" This is apparently with a trade in of the old battery...
Others in the same discussion mention 20 year life spans for well maintained batteries. And others say that as long as the range exceeds 75 miles, it's usable for their daily driving needs ( so the tesla battery pack could lose 65% of it's capacity and still be fine. Some say 50 miles (which was typical of my usage for my ICE when I was working).
A person may have superior logical ability but poor ability to recall.
Google makes it easier to recall facts for which you only remember "pointers" to. Then you can exercise logic on them.
You can also have someone with a huge memory who is illogical and irrational.
They are independent skills.
Having a good memory helps an intelligent person when they can't access their notes, the internet, reference books, etc. It's great for trivia and for solving problem quicker.
Slashdot Mirror
Basically funded bogus studies and had a negative press campaign as they came out.
Sacharine-- it turns out-- is actually quite safe while aspartame is bad for some people regardless of how it is handled. Handled improperly (over 100 degrees) it breaks down into bad stuff... but also many people break it down into bad stuff anyway and get headaches from it.
Exactly.
It's like they think people smart enough to work at google are dumb enough to believe that line.
And there's the problem.
Who fits best with a team of 25 year olds?
It leads to a recursive situation where candidates with less experience or other negatives are chosen because they are young and not ugly.
And yet, right here on slashdot, I've had google employees swear in other discussions that google maintains a 45 hour work week when I said a friend declined due to work/life balance issues around her child.
The crazy prior owner put in over 2' of blown in flock fill insulation in the attic. It will probably never pay for itself but holy crap I have low utility bills.
In another 10 years, those will be actual renewable system batteries. A lot of money is going into batteries now-- prices are dropping at microprocessor like rates. And they recently found a new technology around non-rare, non-explosive elements.
I greatly prefer conservation up front over power generation on the back end however.
But batteries are improving rapidly at this point while at the same time prices are dropping rapidly.
It takes a good stab at examining the challenges and possibilities of superintelligent A.I.
Nice summary view here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/l4h/su...
It posits three possible intelligence advance scales.
The first is self improvement over seconds.
I.e., the machine become conscious. It is able to increase it's intelligence to superhuman levels at machine speeds within a few seconds. There will be no time to react. Even air gapping the machine might not be sufficient as it may figure out new principles which allow it to bridge the air gap, figure out ways to mislead it's human owners as to it's capabilities so they enhance it further, etc.
The second is over a scale of weeks or months.
Not much time to react to it. A reliable way to cut the power should work. A nuclear safety net should definitely work. Society certainly couldn't react to it in time. There would likely be mass unemployment as it enabled human replacement within a few years for thinking jobs (and combined with robotic bodies- almost all methods of manual labor).
The last way is over a long time period. Society would have time to react. Perhaps to see and stop it if it was turning bad. Especially if it simply became the equivalent of IQ 160-300 slowly, you might be able to understand it. Later phases where it's iq reached meaningless numbers (6000... compared to it, humans would be like horses in relative intelligence).
---
The definitional problem is also there.
"Make people happy".
Okay- rig them to machines that feed them pleasure signals in the brain 24/7. Extinct.
Make people smile!
Easily obtainable with surgery.
---
There is a risk the machine will be "greedy" and basically convert the entire planet (and then the solar system) into a system for increasing it's intelligence. Humans don't play a large part in that scenario. Nothing malicious or personal about it-- not a failure of friendliness.
High score 1.1 million. Best other than that 680k... so a big leap.
Might have been higher... I was in the zone. But the right joystick broke.
You are out of date.
http://cleantechnica.com/2014/...
As Jaffe noted, the $180/kWh price paid by Tesla compares to about $1500/kWh even five years ago, maybe seven years ago when it was $1200 to $1500 per kilowatt-hour. âoeSo $180 per kWh is the price of those batteries, not the manufacturing cost but the price that theyâ(TM)re paying for them,â he said.
You can drive an 18500 BTU window unit with 6 solar panels. What you need is a control box that will turn it on when power is sufficent and turn it off when power is insufficient. (even better if it can scale the cooling to available power as long as power is available).
If you cool during the day, the house stays cool and you don't have to cool it for several hours when you get home.
Battery cost has dropped by 94% in 20 years. I think that's going to be a key element. Instead of grid-tie, you just have some of your utilities on a parallel solar power system. Meanwhile, your central air unit still draws from regular power.
Say you could put a panel on your roof and a plug in your room that would provide 16 hours of 100 watt power + live power during daylight. It won't drive vacuum cleanersfor long but it will drive TV's, cable boxes, a light fixture, laptop, electric shaver, toothbrush, etc.
Including the almost complete lack of minorities. And by the odds at least two of the characters were gays in the closet. Probably church goers too. Many of the men-- WW2 vets with PTSD were beating their wives and everyone was driving drunk. Any of the teens who were gay left for New York- and if their parents found out they were cutoff and tossed out. Some of the men-- probably Andy-- were getting some on the side since you couldn't divorce and when the wife stopped putting out (because the men knew very little about how to please women sexually) you found the town slut or snuck something with the secretary or other office girl.
The businessmen portrayed in the show were dumping pollution in the waterways so fast that a decade later, rivers would be catching on fire- necessitating another set of government intrusion.
Things were easier with a much lower population density and less ability to move around. It was a surveillance state by the sheriff and the religious community. As that population grew and became more mobile, more government intrusion was required.
I *love* the andy griffith show. But it was fiction when it was being shown. It was a pleasant ville.
Ironically, the entire show was an intrusion of government preventing tv shows from showing reality. Men and women slept in separate twin beds, never had sex addictions, never were adulterous.
The show portrays a great time to be alive if you were a successful white male in a monochrome homogenous society.
The main issue we see (and it will cut back on males once females are dominant-- in fact I was already seeing it at my last position under a team of females) is that females will communicate in a female way (less direct, more "request" when it's really an order, go to lunch and talk business with the other females so the guys are clueless (not intentionally- just happens), and bond over new purses or clothing and so give assignment preference to other females.
Likewise, when hiring it's already been noticed in several fields that if the name and gender are obscured, then the hiring agent actually hires on abilities. If they can see the candidate, it immediately affects the percentages. Attractive people over ugly people, one gender over another gender- even "weighting" the same exact facts higher or lower value for a candidate who they know the gender and age (and attractiveness) of.
Dale Carnegie teaches that human beings make their decisions emotionally first- and then they weight the facts so their logic reaches their emotional decision. They imagine they are logical and rational when in reality nothing could be farther from the truth. Truly logical and rational people are actually rare. And ironically, the smartest people are the best at rationalization and so misleading themselves into trouble.
Yea, I'm an older guy so I still write to my congress lady.
Not a lot of point on writing to my senators. I'm outnumbered there.
Not quibbling or sniping here.
It was actually a valid "example", not an analogy.
aÂnalÂoÂgy
noun: analogy; plural noun: analogies
a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification.
"an analogy between the workings of nature and those of human societies"
a correspondence or partial similarity.
"the syndrome is called deep dysgraphia because of its analogy to deep dyslexia"
a thing that is comparable to something else in significant respects.
"works of art were seen as an analogy for works of nature"
The NSA really does capture and store pictures of your junk. NSA employees were capturing AND trading naked pictures of U.S. citizens.
Going overseas was the only way for him to keep the issue alive. He'd have disappeared here.
His soapbox abides.
And how awesome was it that Oliver went to russia to let him speak to a wide audience and bring the issue back to life just before the reauthorization vote in June!
I think Oliver opened with some tough stuff and Snowden didn't lose his shit and was cool-headed and intelligent enough to shift gears to the tone of the interview.
I was neutral/slightly positive on Snowden before and anti-NSA/Surveillance state. I came away from the article very positive on Snowden and wish he could get a pardon. What he did was good for the country.
These 15 minute "in depth" pieces are amazing AND effective.
But an actual interview with Snowden was amazing.
And oliver covered every angle from what I could see. He brought some reality to Snowden. And He brought some reality to us.
His humor is the sugar that makes the medicine go down.
I'm still pissed off about police officers confiscating people's houses and cars and using the money to buy margherita machines.
Aye. I speak from the perspective of a single car/bicycle house hold.
I'm pretty interested in owning an electric car when gasoline is $3.50 a gallon or higher.
It's a question of math and logic.
Yes-- you can blow $10k for capabilities you don't actually need. While you are at it, why not get the undercoating, titanium 24" wheels, self steering package, and every other option because you might need them? Drop a few grand extra for 4 wheel drive even tho all you are going to do is drive it in the city and highways in Florida or Alabama... you want to take it off road into the hill country where there are no roads or you might go somewhere in the winter where it snows regularly.
Honda Element.
I'm very tall and so my choice of cars is limited to those with high ceilings.
I've never had a fillup that didn't go over the low 11 gallon range so that's about 24 mpg. And that's with the "E" light on and the gauge on empty to get to about 11.6 gallons used.
I've gotten 300 miles per tank when I got gasoline that didn't have ethanol in it. So about 27mpg with old fashioned gasoline.
Most people don't need the range in reality. They only need it once or twice a year. They are paying a healthy premium- WAY over the cost of renting a vehicle for that once or twice a year that they need the range.
So their argument is sort of like requiring F-650's since once a year they have to carry a sheet of plywood or a piece of furniture.
The tesla is a bad example. The 85w has a range over 300 miles.
My gasoline car has a range of 250 to 265 miles (280 pure highway).
Also, it presumes the old battery has zero value. I'm not sure that's true.
There's also some math problem since a tesla owner site says
http://my.teslamotors.com/it_I...
"1. we know the cost to replace an 85 kwh battery is ~$12,000"
This is apparently with a trade in of the old battery...
Others in the same discussion mention 20 year life spans for well maintained batteries.
And others say that as long as the range exceeds 75 miles, it's usable for their daily driving needs ( so the tesla battery pack could lose 65% of it's capacity and still be fine. Some say 50 miles (which was typical of my usage for my ICE when I was working).
Just FYI...
Notch also said Minecraft would be open source someday too...
I seriously doubt that Microsoft is going to be opensourcing minecraft when it dies off or ever.
But hey! 2.5 billion dollars can change reality.
A person may have superior logical ability but poor ability to recall.
Google makes it easier to recall facts for which you only remember "pointers" to. Then you can exercise logic on them.
You can also have someone with a huge memory who is illogical and irrational.
They are independent skills.
Having a good memory helps an intelligent person when they can't access their notes, the internet, reference books, etc. It's great for trivia and for solving problem quicker.
Superpersuasiveness.
So make them cute, let them get past our defenses.. and then like children who grow into adults, they will grow into or reveal their true nature.
We really have to prepare for the worst with A.I. Stringent inability to upgrade at the least.