tehchromic

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by tehchromic 10y ago
The author gets it close to right when he talks about Google Maps as a form of AI, and the notion of raising the bar. What's missing in this article as well as most reporting on AI is the differentiation between artificial intelligence
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So it's hopeless afterall
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by tehchromic 10y ago
I actually agree with you. I think that chasing dreams and visions, ie "the afterlife" is a better motivator than scolding and regulating ourselves. Even so, I think at the level of intellect and organizational administration, it&
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by tehchromic 10y ago
I find the "colonize other planets" dream of the secular/scientific community to be most like the "you'll go to heaven when you die" idea in religious paradoxy. You would think we might have experimented with t
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by tehchromic 10y ago
Once had a job working in the basement of a building in Los Alamos NM operating a digital scanner to digitize various documents from the lab archives. I encountered a few boxes of photos of various atomic tests - beautiful and spooky.
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by tehchromic 10y ago
I couldn't be happier in the context of permacultural revolution, it make sense. Art povera will make a comeback next mark these words!
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by tehchromic 10y ago
It's a great read and feels good to know FB is solving problems that we all run into!
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by tehchromic 10y ago
It's a great read and feels good to know FB is solving problems that we all run into
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by tehchromic 10y ago
Ok I'm going to go with: Rethink is dead, long live Rethink!
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by tehchromic 10y ago
More to the point: if I had Elon's advantages and talent, I would have begun with a more humble product and system, and taken on trains - not hyperloop, but freight and communter. Our trains are a system that's ripe for a revoluti
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by tehchromic 10y ago
A perfect example of unsustainable European cultural paradigm!
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by tehchromic 10y ago
I am not sure that all European cultural paradigms are unsustainable, but I said that the one Elon is working under seems to me to be. I think Elon is doing the best he can working on the problems that are available for him to work on. To m
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by tehchromic 10y ago
What's interesting about a savant is how they can end up defined by what they don't see. I have nothing but respect for Elon, however I think he is working on the wrong problems. That's not his fault and he is most definitely
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by tehchromic 10y ago
Queue the fracking-causes-quakes deniers! I can hear the floor speeches already.
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by tehchromic 10y ago
Beekeeping. I go to sleep thinking about the little bugs, and wake up with them on my mind. When I'm bothered by work or life I think about the colony doing it's thing and feel better. They're awesome.
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by tehchromic 10y ago
It's the quality of engaging posts like this one that draws me here on a Friday night.
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Long term the impact I see is better tourists and better cities.
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can you give me specific examples of how tho?
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by tehchromic 10y ago
One important component that should not be overlooked is how BI is tied to basic occupation. People do need something to do, no matter how automated the future becomes, and that thing ought to be something they are well adapted to do. It sh
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or eyes! lol
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by tehchromic 10y ago
"I think what religion and politics have in common is that they become part of people's identity" You might also say that people have identity and religion and politics use those to advantage. But is it wrong to have identity
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by tehchromic 10y ago
Hip hip hooray!!!
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by tehchromic 11y ago
Don't forget the ether! I hear the ether is posed to make a comeback, big time!!
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by tehchromic 11y ago
It sounds wrong to say so but that is as it should be!
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by tehchromic 11y ago
No one could have predicted this based on any kind of evidence tho so we best go about business as usual without making any changes to our way of life.
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by tehchromic 11y ago
well i agree with you, and I wouldn't knock food transport and scale provided it is done in a sustainable and non toxic way. but i definitely take issue with the "weird pleasure" comment, as there is nothing weird about the p
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by tehchromic 11y ago
yeah, well I think the mega-farm outputting tons of food for cities across state lines has it's place, however I think, and a lot of research as well as the direction of industry backs me up, that the conventional farming techniques on
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by tehchromic 11y ago
not quite, since that one trip produced many pounds of fresh healthy food over many weeks, whereas a comparable amount of fresh produce from the grocery store takes many trips. That said, it's a culture of food production that's r
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by tehchromic 11y ago
local, organic, small-scale farming is certainly practical, and it's also imperative for a sustainable model to support our immense population. So is automation, and greenhouses, and transporting food from far away places. What is inco
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by tehchromic 11y ago
"do more damage" sorry, that's the claim that is not substantiated by evidence and it isn't close to being accurate. Conventional farming is a toxic mess, and it's heavily subsidized by unsustainable resources and p

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