"No sooner would your spreadsheet application spontaneously become a 3D game engine than an intelligence designed for help spontaneously become a harmful entity."
The problem is that even when you give a super-AI a job that would be benign in the hands of a human, the AI can do the job so well that it will cream us in the process.
One danger that is often brought up is an AI created by a company. If you think Bill Gates is anticompetitive...
"""No Shit. Just like if you want a Ford, Viagra or any other specific product you have to no "choice", since you already made you "choice" when you chose that product. Oddly enough you don't often hear someone arguing that they should be able to make copies of Impalas to distribute how they see fit (or to make a back up even). But if you notice if you want to make your own products in the same genre you can and administer the rights to it however you want. Make you own space opera if you don't like the way Lucas distributes his."""
You know, this led me to an interesting thought. Eventually, some believe, nanotch will be perfected. Complex machines could be manufactured at low prices, just like CDs today. You could buy a bucket of nanites and turn them into a chainsaw, or some such. This could be the end of poverty. But now Ford and Nike and other manufacturers will lobby United Earth Government to create Nanotech Millenium Copyright Act (NMCA), which would have anyone who brings nanomanufacturing to the unwashed masses chained to a mountain, and birds would peck his liver.
Could somebody please explain to me how outsourcing amounts to job theft? I always wondered. I'm sure that those foreigners hired to stare out the window do not impede your own opportunities. And the ones ho work as hard as you do... They're not stealing, they're just better than you.
I just wish to hear some better argument than sour grapes.
In Russia, there's a story (my grandmother claims she heard the broadcast herself... I was too young) that says that during some discussion involving some foreigners, some woman had the occasion to say that there's no sex in the Soviet Union. (It was back then, in the last years.) My dad claims that she then said "on TV", but one way or another, the phrase "there's no sex in our country" ( ) has become one of our most famous ciches.
Why do I keep seeing these retarded, blatantly off-topic personals in serious threads all over the web? And now this "serious replies only" crap.
Unless this one is some sort of inside joke, because I didn't read the article yet...
Could someone tell me what the hell this is? Why do I keep seeing it? Is it common spam, or some clever Slashdot in-joke? Why isn't it modded down? I know a mod might not have gotten to it yet, but I don't think it was modded the other three or four times I've seen it, either.
You know, the first time I ran Win on my new computer, I instantly opened IE - to download Opera. Yes, even Opera needs a browser to get to you.
But you know, the word "FUD" seems to have lost any connection to what the acronym stands for. I never realized this until now.
Slashdot Mirror
"No sooner would your spreadsheet application spontaneously become a 3D game engine than an intelligence designed for help spontaneously become a harmful entity." The problem is that even when you give a super-AI a job that would be benign in the hands of a human, the AI can do the job so well that it will cream us in the process. One danger that is often brought up is an AI created by a company. If you think Bill Gates is anticompetitive...
Plutocrat.
"""No Shit. Just like if you want a Ford, Viagra or any other specific product you have to no "choice", since you already made you "choice" when you chose that product. Oddly enough you don't often hear someone arguing that they should be able to make copies of Impalas to distribute how they see fit (or to make a back up even). But if you notice if you want to make your own products in the same genre you can and administer the rights to it however you want. Make you own space opera if you don't like the way Lucas distributes his.""" You know, this led me to an interesting thought. Eventually, some believe, nanotch will be perfected. Complex machines could be manufactured at low prices, just like CDs today. You could buy a bucket of nanites and turn them into a chainsaw, or some such. This could be the end of poverty. But now Ford and Nike and other manufacturers will lobby United Earth Government to create Nanotech Millenium Copyright Act (NMCA), which would have anyone who brings nanomanufacturing to the unwashed masses chained to a mountain, and birds would peck his liver.
Could somebody please explain to me how outsourcing amounts to job theft? I always wondered. I'm sure that those foreigners hired to stare out the window do not impede your own opportunities. And the ones ho work as hard as you do... They're not stealing, they're just better than you. I just wish to hear some better argument than sour grapes.
Including you.
Phrenology?
In Russia, there's a story (my grandmother claims she heard the broadcast herself... I was too young) that says that during some discussion involving some foreigners, some woman had the occasion to say that there's no sex in the Soviet Union. (It was back then, in the last years.) My dad claims that she then said "on TV", but one way or another, the phrase "there's no sex in our country" ( ) has become one of our most famous ciches.
One thing I'm curious about... Why are PowerPC Macs not PCs? What are they, mainframes?
I thought the dirty word is stealing. He said piracy. The only kinds of piracy I know are copyright infringement and robbing ships.
Isn't it more like a vacuous truth?
Wait, 50% market share is a failure?
I saw one on an 18-wheeler. That was hilarious.
Would it run linux?
All I read in my classes is lecture notes. I open the book only when a slide doesn't have enough detail for me to understand it.
Why do I keep seeing these retarded, blatantly off-topic personals in serious threads all over the web? And now this "serious replies only" crap. Unless this one is some sort of inside joke, because I didn't read the article yet...
Could someone tell me what the hell this is? Why do I keep seeing it? Is it common spam, or some clever Slashdot in-joke? Why isn't it modded down? I know a mod might not have gotten to it yet, but I don't think it was modded the other three or four times I've seen it, either.
Do you not find, in retrospect, that you're overreacting just a tad? It's just a misunderstanding.
Whatever. I buy the anime, not the extras. Extras are extra. No, really.
I keep hearing that. When was black cool?
>>How little could Nicky be then? Nimbus 2000 and all? OUCH ... the wand alone is hard enough to think about ..
Magic!
You know, the first time I ran Win on my new computer, I instantly opened IE - to download Opera. Yes, even Opera needs a browser to get to you. But you know, the word "FUD" seems to have lost any connection to what the acronym stands for. I never realized this until now.