That's a human universal in every nation on Earth not just the US. Its why democracy barely works, the stupid people always vote for the most sparkly bauble or get herded like chickens by fear or panic.. Sadly the stupid people are 9 in 10 and the smart ones 1 in 10, which is the real disaster....:)
The simple fact that the base unit cost for full Strong AI's is likely to run from about $400,000 to over $2 million per machine suggests a basic reason why CEO's & executives might be vulnerable and good targets for replacement.. The costs for robots doing heavy or complex manual tasks are also likely to be very high - in constant maintenance and replacement parts - most CEOs do very little with their hands making them ideal candidates...
Its all in humour of course - CEO's get to make the decisions and no one is going to replace themselves....
Apollo in the 1960's cost over $25 billion - a lot of money..
The Vietnam war at the same time cost $125 billion and took 50,000 American lives and over 3 million Vietnamese lives..
The US nuclear weapons program at the same time consumed roughly $150 billion to over $300 billion. (extrapolated from available figures..)
So in the 1960's the US spent on defence at a rate of some 10:1 to 20:1 on defence compared to Apollo. Also every 1 dollar spent on Apollo eventually returned roughly 2 dollars to the US economy..
Conclusion Apollo was cheap. - We need another space race.
If Skylon was a US project it would (probably) be flying by now.. Sadly...
Actually Lockheed have a pretty close (~70%) to finished 2nd gen Space Shuttle ready to go - if only someone was willing to fund it.. Well if Skylon was a Space X project it would (probably) be flying by now...
Have an absolute rule of no phones or electronic gadgets inside the chamber.. Could even give everyone an EMP pulse on the way in - after a warning of course. Depends what kind of work is going on inside the chamber - a phone might be a serious security risk or even damage or interfere with work going on inside..
"Also, by definition, no encryption is unbreakable, you just need a few thousand years to crack it."
Just not true. In fact with enough knowledge and the right setup completely unbreakable crypto is relatively simple.. Basic multi-channel multiplexing encryption algorithm + redundancy remover + recursion + noise injection + a long enough key. The really difficult part is online crypto where you have to share public keys and other parties have complete public access to the full algorithm.
The total password in the system I am working on is 2 megabytes + long and generated by a non-pseudo random number generator, it also uses strong hardware level defences because that's the main real vulnerable point. This encryption is intended to protect Strong AI systems such as autonomous cars or aircraft, and so is life-critical.
Yes but the UK government already work for the Chinese don't they? or for any foreign buyer with enough money to oil the wheels..They certainly don't seem to work for the British people.. Sigh!!!
It may sound bizarre but it actually solves one of the biggest problems with benefits - that the poor become better off if they don't work. In this system any amount of work always makes you better off. The base benefit is not generous either - just enough to eat and pay for low cost rents and utilities. It also cuts down on a vast amount of government bureaucracy and snooping. No one knows whether this will work, it is an experiment and has never been tried before.
Just imagine if the 300 billion wasted of the F35 development were spent on NASA and space tech instead.. It isn't even a very good aircraft, too complicated, expensive, fragile, not very reliable. Looks like the old method of having different specialist fighters for different combat roles was cheaper and more effective..
You don't understand the purchase model for PC games. - It is pretty complicated, it's a very big, complicated, and segregated market.. Basically most AAA and other games have a sales lifecycle where they either make the money back or not. By the time a game hits Humble Bundle or other budget resellers the game is already effectively dead, so selling it for a very cheap price is no huge loss. And despite the low costs per game, studios can actually still make a bit more money off of it. It also means that more people get exposed to the game, which can act as free marketing for the studios more recent games and for any newer sequels..
When it comes to AAA games, the cost to make one game runs from about $150,000 to about $10 to 20 million. The total PC games market (I'm guessing) for most AAA games is a maximum of about 20 million to 150 million machines. That means that a really hot seller can make a studio in the region of about a billion dollars or more. Most flops will struggle to break even or will make a loss. I think that most of the big studios work on a principle of about three to one - they need about 1 really hot seller for every 3 to 4 flops.. Some studios focus on making only chains of poor quality games that sell as flops but with low enough production costs to always stay in profit. This is why most licence based or tie-in games are of such poor quality, slapped out as cheaply and quickly as possible to milk the licence movie or TV series or whatever for whatever its worth.. AAA Console games of course can be even more profitable - with a very high set price per unit game, better anti-piracy protection, a mostly very un-savvy and gullible user base, and a global market of up to something like 500 million machines..
Sadly no. If 'Margaret's Knitting Knook' was run the way NASA was run it wouldn't be in business for very long. "Duuur lets save money by not buying in that new knitting shuttle to replace the old one that needs replacing... "
This man Matt Ridley forms the very definition of the term ‘dangerous idiot’. This is not the voice of science and intelligence it is the voice of radical Luddism and anti-science in a new guise.. It follows along the same self defeating arc as UK industry - its no coincidence that he’s British. Remove the basic research behind them and no technology is ever possible. What he is really arguing for is stagnation and failure followed by bankruptcy or economic takeover and asset striping by foreign competitors.
We should send him to become an economic advisor to ISIS in Syria, or send him to Guantanamo for a few decades. Treat him like he’s a terrorist - he’s far more dangerous to America and the worlds future than any terrorist..
And you forget just how vile neo-Nazi vitriol can become.. and then..
Seriously your speech patterns indicate severe mental illness. You are subject to severe delusions it just happens that in this case that they centre on the 'Jewish conspiracy' fallacy.. The first stage to getting help is accepting that everything you said was rubbish. And remember in the heart of madness your instincts almost always betray you - every time, that feeling of absolute certainty is the greatest lie of all and you are telling it to yourself... Get help.
Of course we can actually create exotic matter. - The quark gluon plasmas created briefly by particle accelerators like the LHC are effectively forms of exotic matter... If dark matter does have negative mass then it is probably tachyonic, which would also explain why it does not interact except through gravity.. This would also offer a neat explanation for the observed imbalance between matter and antimatter because +n + -n = 0..
"The assumption that FTL is possible and we just have to work out how is not backed by anything more rigorous than Star Trek."
So that's a lot more proof than there is for the version of the FTL described by General Relativity. If the general relativity version is correct then 'wormholes' theoretically allow unlimited travel anywhere in space and maybe even in time. However this is only because the whole universe is flexible and bendable and essentially completely unstable. Among other things this general relativity version is also almost completely incompatible with black holes which it predicts should collapse in on themselves and become externally massless.
Any real scientific analysis leads straight to a simple absolute frame FTL model universe. That makes FTL travel theoretically possible, but also makes long range wormholes impossible because the universe doesn't fold like a pretzel. It also makes time travel impossible because there is only one reality and time as dimension doesn't exist - except at quantum scales...
Google's aim seems to be specifically at things that may have big long term pay-offs. - Some of them probably a decade or more in the future. That's where the really huge stupendous amounts of money lie. In Strong AI the long term market (20 to 30 years) could easily hit over a trillion dollars a year. And Strong AI isn't like software, it tends towards a natural monopoly with only a few very big players and strong regulation.. Software doesn't generally tend to kill people when things go wrong - Strong AI does.. That actually is likely to be a common selling point, 'Only XXX Corp can build your Strong AI safely!'
When I saw it I thought can that be real. A quick Google search gives the answer "Docking into a huge silicone cock". But what the hell is going on I don't know....
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That's a human universal in every nation on Earth not just the US. Its why democracy barely works, the stupid people always vote for the most sparkly bauble or get herded like chickens by fear or panic.. Sadly the stupid people are 9 in 10 and the smart ones 1 in 10, which is the real disaster. ... :)
The simple fact that the base unit cost for full Strong AI's is likely to run from about $400,000 to over $2 million per machine suggests a basic reason why CEO's & executives might be vulnerable and good targets for replacement.. The costs for robots doing heavy or complex manual tasks are also likely to be very high - in constant maintenance and replacement parts - most CEOs do very little with their hands making them ideal candidates...
Its all in humour of course - CEO's get to make the decisions and no one is going to replace themselves....
Apollo in the 1960's cost over $25 billion - a lot of money..
The Vietnam war at the same time cost $125 billion and took 50,000 American lives and over 3 million Vietnamese lives..
The US nuclear weapons program at the same time consumed roughly $150 billion to over $300 billion. (extrapolated from available figures..)
So in the 1960's the US spent on defence at a rate of some 10:1 to 20:1 on defence compared to Apollo.
Also every 1 dollar spent on Apollo eventually returned roughly 2 dollars to the US economy..
Conclusion Apollo was cheap. - We need another space race.
If Skylon was a US project it would (probably) be flying by now.. Sadly...
Actually Lockheed have a pretty close (~70%) to finished 2nd gen Space Shuttle ready to go - if only someone was willing to fund it..
Well if Skylon was a Space X project it would (probably) be flying by now...
The UK has first world ambitions, third world funding..
I like that one - tap water causes cancer...
Have an absolute rule of no phones or electronic gadgets inside the chamber.. Could even give everyone an EMP pulse on the way in - after a warning of course. Depends what kind of work is going on inside the chamber - a phone might be a serious security risk or even damage or interfere with work going on inside..
A dangerous health hazard.
No just send him to work in the hazardous materials department..
You can pick any two :- General Relativity, Black holes, the Conservation of momentum.. :)
"Also, by definition, no encryption is unbreakable, you just need a few thousand years to crack it."
Just not true. In fact with enough knowledge and the right setup completely unbreakable crypto is relatively simple.. Basic multi-channel multiplexing encryption algorithm + redundancy remover + recursion + noise injection + a long enough key.
The really difficult part is online crypto where you have to share public keys and other parties have complete public access to the full algorithm.
The total password in the system I am working on is 2 megabytes + long and generated by a non-pseudo random number generator, it also uses strong hardware level defences because that's the main real vulnerable point. This encryption is intended to protect Strong AI systems such as autonomous cars or aircraft, and so is life-critical.
Yes but the UK government already work for the Chinese don't they? or for any foreign buyer with enough money to oil the wheels..They certainly don't seem to work for the British people.. Sigh!!!
It may sound bizarre but it actually solves one of the biggest problems with benefits - that the poor become better off if they don't work. In this system any amount of work always makes you better off. The base benefit is not generous either - just enough to eat and pay for low cost rents and utilities. It also cuts down on a vast amount of government bureaucracy and snooping. No one knows whether this will work, it is an experiment and has never been tried before.
Just imagine if the 300 billion wasted of the F35 development were spent on NASA and space tech instead.. It isn't even a very good aircraft, too complicated, expensive, fragile, not very reliable. Looks like the old method of having different specialist fighters for different combat roles was cheaper and more effective..
You don't understand the purchase model for PC games. - It is pretty complicated, it's a very big, complicated, and segregated market..
Basically most AAA and other games have a sales lifecycle where they either make the money back or not. By the time a game hits Humble Bundle or other budget resellers the game is already effectively dead, so selling it for a very cheap price is no huge loss. And despite the low costs per game, studios can actually still make a bit more money off of it. It also means that more people get exposed to the game, which can act as free marketing for the studios more recent games and for any newer sequels..
When it comes to AAA games, the cost to make one game runs from about $150,000 to about $10 to 20 million. The total PC games market (I'm guessing) for most AAA games is a maximum of about 20 million to 150 million machines. That means that a really hot seller can make a studio in the region of about a billion dollars or more. Most flops will struggle to break even or will make a loss. I think that most of the big studios work on a principle of about three to one - they need about 1 really hot seller for every 3 to 4 flops..
Some studios focus on making only chains of poor quality games that sell as flops but with low enough production costs to always stay in profit. This is why most licence based or tie-in games are of such poor quality, slapped out as cheaply and quickly as possible to milk the licence movie or TV series or whatever for whatever its worth..
AAA Console games of course can be even more profitable - with a very high set price per unit game, better anti-piracy protection, a mostly very un-savvy and gullible user base, and a global market of up to something like 500 million machines..
Von Braun and Wiley Ley, plus maybe Disney and a few others..
Sadly no. If 'Margaret's Knitting Knook' was run the way NASA was run it wouldn't be in business for very long. "Duuur lets save money by not buying in that new knitting shuttle to replace the old one that needs replacing... "
This man Matt Ridley forms the very definition of the term ‘dangerous idiot’. This is not the voice of science and intelligence it is the voice of radical Luddism and anti-science in a new guise.. It follows along the same self defeating arc as UK industry - its no coincidence that he’s British. Remove the basic research behind them and no technology is ever possible. What he is really arguing for is stagnation and failure followed by bankruptcy or economic takeover and asset striping by foreign competitors.
We should send him to become an economic advisor to ISIS in Syria, or send him to Guantanamo for a few decades. Treat him like he’s a terrorist - he’s far more dangerous to America and the worlds future than any terrorist..
Sadly your probably right... Sigh..
And you forget just how vile neo-Nazi vitriol can become.. and then ..
Seriously your speech patterns indicate severe mental illness. You are subject to severe delusions it just happens that in this case that they centre on the 'Jewish conspiracy' fallacy.. The first stage to getting help is accepting that everything you said was rubbish. And remember in the heart of madness your instincts almost always betray you - every time, that feeling of absolute certainty is the greatest lie of all and you are telling it to yourself... Get help.
Of course we can actually create exotic matter. - The quark gluon plasmas created briefly by particle accelerators like the LHC are effectively forms of exotic matter...
If dark matter does have negative mass then it is probably tachyonic, which would also explain why it does not interact except through gravity.. This would also offer a neat explanation for the observed imbalance between matter and antimatter because +n + -n = 0..
"The assumption that FTL is possible and we just have to work out how is not backed by anything more rigorous than Star Trek."
So that's a lot more proof than there is for the version of the FTL described by General Relativity. If the general relativity version is correct then 'wormholes' theoretically allow unlimited travel anywhere in space and maybe even in time. However this is only because the whole universe is flexible and bendable and essentially completely unstable. Among other things this general relativity version is also almost completely incompatible with black holes which it predicts should collapse in on themselves and become externally massless.
Any real scientific analysis leads straight to a simple absolute frame FTL model universe. That makes FTL travel theoretically possible, but also makes long range wormholes impossible because the universe doesn't fold like a pretzel. It also makes time travel impossible because there is only one reality and time as dimension doesn't exist - except at quantum scales...
Google's aim seems to be specifically at things that may have big long term pay-offs. - Some of them probably a decade or more in the future. That's where the really huge stupendous amounts of money lie.
In Strong AI the long term market (20 to 30 years) could easily hit over a trillion dollars a year. And Strong AI isn't like software, it tends towards a natural monopoly with only a few very big players and strong regulation.. Software doesn't generally tend to kill people when things go wrong - Strong AI does.. That actually is likely to be a common selling point, 'Only XXX Corp can build your Strong AI safely!'
When I saw it I thought can that be real. A quick Google search gives the answer "Docking into a huge silicone cock". But what the hell is going on I don't know....
Kids commit crime - lets shoot all kids problem solved.. The right wing solution to everything .. stupidity.