Just who would be producing the equipment used to implement this "clean power plan" nationwide? I bet China, our obvious enemy today, would benefit greatly.
This blithe dismissal of the fact that a machine is making decisions that kill people falls right in line with the need of industry to change the mass perception about machines killing people. And it will get better, right? Death by death. People are expendable apparently.
I was coughing and began to see strangely appropriate cough medicine ads on tv. And other such strange events make me suspicious that I'm already being listened to for advertisement reasons. I have amazon echo and an iphone and ipad.
Sometimes a study pops out of the mass of studies as particularly important and to the point. This is one such study. Also, there is no such thing as a "virtual avatar." It is redundant.
There is so much money to be made that corrupt and incompetent legislatures will allow these machines to kill humans, claiming that the benefit outweighs the loss of human life. This, of course, crosses a line. Machines will be allowed to kill people.
"What a mature citizen of the digital age should be competent at is not spotting and confirming the veracity of the news. Rather, she should be competent at reconstructing the reputational path of the piece of information in question, evaluating the intentions of those who circulated it, and figuring out the agendas of those authorities that leant it credibility."
There is just too much information out there to do anything but rely on others to synthesize it and give us a result. That is why reputation is so important. We cannot possibly even do what this author so easily calls on us to do from the comfort and speed of his/her/its computer communications. It is easy to write the impossible as a "should do."
It is a large part of what makes us human: the ability to handle tools I have to wonder what the larger loss is if children do not learn to be experts in hand control early in life because not only is hand control necessary in interacting with this complex society, but use of our bodies also forms our brains. If they are not touching the things they would be using with their hands their brains are not getting experience with the textures and physics of the real world. Computers and video games are also taking children away from other physical activities like jumping, running, pulling, pushing, climbing etc. in the real world and this is how we learn the rules of the real world and how we shape our bodies and minds for the real world. Are we making "virtual humans?" Are people becoming Matrix-like? You would not really be able to be born into a computer simulation, disconnect, and interact just fine in the real world as they do in the movie.
If you can't do science anymore, do science fiction. There are an infinite number of evolutionary paths and there is nothing in science or logic that I can see that indicates that it is possible to follow exactly our four billion year evolutionary path. No aliens, sorry, be bored.
Over the last 50-60 years Hollywood has developed and intensified the theme of what I call "just revenge," where a protagonist has bad things done to his loved ones and then goes on a justified psychopathic murder spree filled with blood and bodies. The audience is supposed to applaud and feel good that the good guy has "got his back," at the bad guys. This assault on the nation-mind, especially the most vulnerable young people, those with mental problems caused by genetics or social environment relentlessly pursued by Hollywood for money must have an effect, and I believe we are seeing that effect in the increasing number of school massacres. I blame the studios, directors, and writers of Hollywood for this theme. [The rest of this, naming actors who have responsibility is redacted by me, sqreater, here, but you know who they are.] Bruce Willis's new just revenge movie coming out next month based on the 1970s "Death Wish" movies of Charles Bronson should be withdrawn from theaters.
We all know they are going to build a highway through this part of the Universe, necessitating the destruction of the Earth. When they rebuild the Earth I doubt they will remember to rebuild a clock hidden in a limestone mountain.
And yes, you are right. But you are not seeing it for what it is: part of the general complexity growth in all things that must eventually lead to some sort of collapse. Programming is harder, but EVERYTHING is harder. And it will become harder and harder until there is a "Black Swan" of some kind collapsing everything.
Searching for "alien life" is probably one of the most useless human activities ever invented. I hate to have to say this, but we are the Universe asking itself what it is, and I seriously doubt that the Universe has multiple personalities asking the same question.
I keep warning that you cannot keep adding complexity to life and systems year after year after year without an inevitable "complexity collapse." Systems, including humans, cannot deal with infinite complexity, but that seems to be the assumption. There needs to be discussion of "sustainable complexity," the levels of complexity that are comfortable for humans and that allows systems to actually work with one another reliably going forward. Deliberate actions must be taken to simplify. No more free-for-all addition of complexity in all things.
In WW2 the U.S. Navy had a problem with torpedoes turning back 180 degrees after launch and attacking the submarine that launched them. Lets hope the Russians didn't get the memo.
I learned in the Air Force in the seventies that security is impossible to expect from your average American. They just don't get it, no matter how hard you try to explain it to them. Americans are just not afraid of things they should be afraid of, and not suspicious of people and things they should be suspicious of. They don't feel endangered. And it is very hard to make them feel so.
And it isn't like they have been around for hundreds of millions of years and responded to climate changes all along the way. If this is the way they survive such changes perhaps the scientists should try to understand why this allows them to survive.
Twelve different providers and probably twelve different policies eventually, each becoming more and more detailed and complex themselves. Complexity in all things continues to advance at a tremendous rate.
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Just who would be producing the equipment used to implement this "clean power plan" nationwide? I bet China, our obvious enemy today, would benefit greatly.
This blithe dismissal of the fact that a machine is making decisions that kill people falls right in line with the need of industry to change the mass perception about machines killing people. And it will get better, right? Death by death. People are expendable apparently.
Hire a malcontent, get a malcontent.
I was coughing and began to see strangely appropriate cough medicine ads on tv. And other such strange events make me suspicious that I'm already being listened to for advertisement reasons. I have amazon echo and an iphone and ipad.
Sometimes a study pops out of the mass of studies as particularly important and to the point. This is one such study. Also, there is no such thing as a "virtual avatar." It is redundant.
There is so much money to be made that corrupt and incompetent legislatures will allow these machines to kill humans, claiming that the benefit outweighs the loss of human life. This, of course, crosses a line. Machines will be allowed to kill people.
"What a mature citizen of the digital age should be competent at is not spotting and confirming the veracity of the news. Rather, she should be competent at reconstructing the reputational path of the piece of information in question, evaluating the intentions of those who circulated it, and figuring out the agendas of those authorities that leant it credibility."
There is just too much information out there to do anything but rely on others to synthesize it and give us a result. That is why reputation is so important. We cannot possibly even do what this author so easily calls on us to do from the comfort and speed of his/her/its computer communications. It is easy to write the impossible as a "should do."
These studies never address the CULTURAL change in thought and behavior that takes place over decades. And movies are the greater threat there.
It is a large part of what makes us human: the ability to handle tools I have to wonder what the larger loss is if children do not learn to be experts in hand control early in life because not only is hand control necessary in interacting with this complex society, but use of our bodies also forms our brains. If they are not touching the things they would be using with their hands their brains are not getting experience with the textures and physics of the real world. Computers and video games are also taking children away from other physical activities like jumping, running, pulling, pushing, climbing etc. in the real world and this is how we learn the rules of the real world and how we shape our bodies and minds for the real world. Are we making "virtual humans?" Are people becoming Matrix-like? You would not really be able to be born into a computer simulation, disconnect, and interact just fine in the real world as they do in the movie.
If you can't do science anymore, do science fiction. There are an infinite number of evolutionary paths and there is nothing in science or logic that I can see that indicates that it is possible to follow exactly our four billion year evolutionary path. No aliens, sorry, be bored.
Over the last 50-60 years Hollywood has developed and intensified the theme of what I call "just revenge," where a protagonist has bad things done to his loved ones and then goes on a justified psychopathic murder spree filled with blood and bodies. The audience is supposed to applaud and feel good that the good guy has "got his back," at the bad guys. This assault on the nation-mind, especially the most vulnerable young people, those with mental problems caused by genetics or social environment relentlessly pursued by Hollywood for money must have an effect, and I believe we are seeing that effect in the increasing number of school massacres. I blame the studios, directors, and writers of Hollywood for this theme. [The rest of this, naming actors who have responsibility is redacted by me, sqreater, here, but you know who they are.] Bruce Willis's new just revenge movie coming out next month based on the 1970s "Death Wish" movies of Charles Bronson should be withdrawn from theaters.
We all know they are going to build a highway through this part of the Universe, necessitating the destruction of the Earth. When they rebuild the Earth I doubt they will remember to rebuild a clock hidden in a limestone mountain.
And yes, you are right. But you are not seeing it for what it is: part of the general complexity growth in all things that must eventually lead to some sort of collapse. Programming is harder, but EVERYTHING is harder. And it will become harder and harder until there is a "Black Swan" of some kind collapsing everything.
Searching for "alien life" is probably one of the most useless human activities ever invented. I hate to have to say this, but we are the Universe asking itself what it is, and I seriously doubt that the Universe has multiple personalities asking the same question.
I keep warning that you cannot keep adding complexity to life and systems year after year after year without an inevitable "complexity collapse." Systems, including humans, cannot deal with infinite complexity, but that seems to be the assumption. There needs to be discussion of "sustainable complexity," the levels of complexity that are comfortable for humans and that allows systems to actually work with one another reliably going forward. Deliberate actions must be taken to simplify. No more free-for-all addition of complexity in all things.
Will it be placed in the cellar? Will it make an alien copy of me while I sleep?
In WW2 the U.S. Navy had a problem with torpedoes turning back 180 degrees after launch and attacking the submarine that launched them. Lets hope the Russians didn't get the memo.
Just more fuel for the eventual complexity collapse of of civilization. Complexity cannot continue to rise to infinity without expected consequences.
I learned in the Air Force in the seventies that security is impossible to expect from your average American. They just don't get it, no matter how hard you try to explain it to them. Americans are just not afraid of things they should be afraid of, and not suspicious of people and things they should be suspicious of. They don't feel endangered. And it is very hard to make them feel so.
And it isn't like they have been around for hundreds of millions of years and responded to climate changes all along the way. If this is the way they survive such changes perhaps the scientists should try to understand why this allows them to survive.
Universities will not re-think allowing so many foreign students to take the seats of Americans.
They do this with "secret" payloads.
It is the very existence of humans in growing numbers that is changing the environment and changing this or that is only a patch.
Few people in the general public know who Steve Jobs was.
Twelve different providers and probably twelve different policies eventually, each becoming more and more detailed and complex themselves. Complexity in all things continues to advance at a tremendous rate.