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by robg 3y ago
Seems pretty straightforward, the dev day was a breaking point for the non-profit interests. Question is, how did the board become so unbalanced where this kind of dispute couldn’t be handled better? The commercial interests were not well-r
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by robg 3y ago
Far from an AI century, we still don’t understand how brains create and drive intelligence. The more we learn about actual intelligence from brains, the more artificial versions will approximate what we’ve evolved to do. Modern neuroscience
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by robg 3y ago
Great point, Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions covers the orthodoxy well and how it inhibits progress based on merit.
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by robg 3y ago
Isnt this ad hominem itself a “culture war position”?
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by robg 3y ago
Pretty wild if you told me 20 years ago we’d buy always watching cameras for outside our homes and always listening microphones for inside our homes.
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by robg 3y ago
People I know tape their mouths shut to force breathing through the nose. Have you looked at that or done a sleep study for apnea?
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by robg 3y ago
Yesterday’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence that seeks to help the federal government lead in responsible innovation mentions Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) as part
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by robg 3y ago
I was a PIF for almost three years at FDA / VA working horizontally on digital biomarkers. Really happy to answer any questions, the cohort model means you end up getting to know a small group of innovators working across government.
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Bring your AI industry expertise into government service, apply by Nov. 17(presidentialinnovationfellows.gov)
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by robg 3y ago
Walking and other automated activities can boost your energy levels and help you to concentrate on the meeting. But if you're trying to focus on two things that require cognitive attention simultaneously, you can't hear if someth
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by robg 3y ago
I know you probably meant the negative impacts but the Arab Spring was over 10 years ago. We saw and celebrated then came the countervailing forces.
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by robg 3y ago
To echo wslack, experiences with moving initiatives through grit and collegiality is key. The PIF program is a bit easier to apply for than USAjobs and really focuses on being more of an entrepreneur-in-residence, as much as that’s possible
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by robg 3y ago
I was a Presidential Innovation Fellow for almost three years at FDA / Veterans Affairs, happy to answer any questions. The program is looking for industry experiences to better inform and shape government policies.
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CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg – 7 December 2005 [video](youtube.com)
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by robg 3y ago
Seems like this list could have been written 10 years ago. Honest question: What’s changed?
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by robg 3y ago
What’s your data to back that up? If truck drivers, there’s nothing close that would turn huge trucks robotic for the current generation.
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by robg 3y ago
Who were the astronauts that died with Challenger? Notoriety is hardly an index worth investing in. A colony on the moon is technically possible, albeit very expensive. Many nations could create one today. People are choosing to spend their
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by robg 3y ago
Sustained funding for 60 years shows the continued interest in there, to use one of the “reasons” you cite for Apollo.
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by robg 3y ago
Those two “reasons” are no where in the same universe. Take away the Soviets and it wouldn’t have happened. See also the last 60 years.
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by robg 3y ago
Exactly this. The current hype for a human on Mars is repeating the mistakes of Apollo then the Shuttle. By contrast the public has absolutely been engaged in what rovers and telescopes find.
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by robg 3y ago
And if the Apollo “success” is any guide, it actually hampers further progress because the milestone was overhyped with no sustainable plan.
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by robg 3y ago
The last 60 years have shown the interest is there without humans AND having humans in the loop dying have deeply impaired progress based on limited resources and their allocation.
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by robg 3y ago
That’s neither simple nor a fact. Space exploration has almost all been robots, telescopes, probes, etc. The interest has been self-sustaining with an endless stream of discoveries, discoveries including still Voyager.
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by robg 3y ago
He’s conflating all of the resources spent with the outcomes involved. Need to see the graph? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-Budget-Federal.svg Now imagine if those same resources were spent on fusion propul
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by robg 3y ago
Everything you say can be applied to the history of humans on the Earth’s moon. 50 years later you’ve been proven wrong. Robots are better and cheaper at space exploration and humans being in the loop have only made things more expensive an
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by robg 3y ago
It’s been over 50 years since a human was on the moon. The need to replicate that psychological success has not been there for humanity given the costs and better use of resources. Mars is exponentially more expensive.
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by robg 3y ago
Yet. I choose to not give them that opportunity given their main revenue stream when Apple gives me better choices for my health data.
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by robg 3y ago
With no next gen propulsion system and no self-sustaining colony, humans on Mars are a resource sink with no added benefits. Lest you forget it took 300 years for North America to generate self-sustaining colonies from the first Europeans.
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by robg 3y ago
You’re telling me we can’t send, in the next 100 years, a fleet of remote controlled backhoes with the same sensors and assays the human would use?
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by robg 3y ago
The push for humans on Mars is deeply misguided. The same resources should be used to send many more probes and for far longer durations. After 100 years of deeply mapping all available resources, then maybe send humans if a long-term col

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