mariusz79

Mole Skin? Nah. Vela Workings engineering notebooks are the best. Highly recommended.

War on Ads will end just like the War On Terror, War On Drugs, War on Cancer and all other similar wars - there will be more of X, in this case Ads. To win that war we would need to change ourselves, and that's not going to happen. When I tell people that I have no cable, and Netflix/Amazon Prime is enough for my entertainment needs they are quickly to point out that I can't see the newest shows, or movies. My answer is always the same - it's entertainment - an activity that is just a small part of my life, not something that defines it.. Yet people act like they are losing part of themselves when they can't watch their favorite shows, or sporting events. That's why online streaming has so much problem acquiring new shows - cable networks know that some people are just too attached to their mindless entertainment, and will never give it up. A similar situation can be observed with the web and ads. People just want their fix of entertainment even if it means that they are being tracked, hacked and used. And it's never going to change.

"All the physics experiments in the world aren't going to give you insight into problems unless you have workable ideas for how to integrate the findings into understanding/knowledge."

That's why you need both. You can't solve physics just by thinking about it, and you can't solve it just by doing experiments. And "solving physics" may also involve solving math, chemistry, philosophy and even linguistics (after all "the new physics" may not be describable in our own language, and AI will need to come up with a creative way to explain it to us)

Let's just consider a basic example - AI tries to develop better algorithms to simulate fluid dynamics.

1. How do you expect AI to create these simulations? Will it program it itself? I assume that the answer is yes, if so a. it needs to know how to program. b. it needs to know how to efficiently use the hardware that it can access. c. it may need to know all the quirks of the software, hardware and operating system that it works with. d. it also will need to have a pretty good math skills

Someone will need to teach AI how to do all of that or it will need to learn by itself.. This will take time.And experience.

Such AI will need to run the simulation it created, analyze it, compare results, come up with a hypothesis, and do it all over again to refine the results. What if there is a wrong assumption about fluid dynamics that is caused by some wrong assumptions on a lower level, i.e theory of matter. How will that change the results and will AI need to go back a step lower to "fix" our understanding of matter? what if there are some issues with math that first need to be "fixed", or totally new math theories must first be created?

Of course AI will not need to have everything perfect, right from the beginning, and better theories will suffice, but to say that long-term experiments such as this, are not necessary simply because AI will solve physics is just wrong.

no matter how many hypothesis you create you need to be able to test them. AI won't be able to run experiments by itself, at least not in the beginning. and even when it could, some of them will require years to complete, simply because so much science depends on real physical phenomena that often are very slow. Computer based simulations are often very slow, and AI won't be able to speed it up, just because it's AI.

And how will GAI solve physics? AI is not god.

It's not about uranium but about plutonium .

How about Chernobyl exclusion zone? "Ukrainian officials estimate the area will not be safe for human life again for another 20,000 years" [1]

"The time frame in question when dealing with radioactive waste ranges from 10,000 to 1,000,000 years" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#The_Exclusi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Long_term_ma...

yeah, it's very safe.. you have areas of land where people won't be able to live for thousands of years.. and you have hundreds of these "safe" power plants all over the world.. in addition to that we have to store the waste from these "safe" plants for few millennia, and hope that after our civilization is gone, it won't destroy the life on this planet.

There is too much crappy content (including this comment) on the web anyway. If the websites can't find another revenue stream .... too bad. I won't miss them.

And here I was hoping for a map in 1:1 scale :/

What do we want? 3D XPoint Memory.. When do we want it? NOW

too bad that the battery will not be removable.

It will have rounded corners and four wheels!... It will be ... revolutionary.

Unless you're outside of their jurisdiction.

You forgot to add - "With all due respect...."

:)

Self-driving cars may be too expensive for one person to own soon after they are available.. It will take a lot of time and resources to build these machines to be safe and reliable, and companies will need to recuperate the costs in some way. On the other hand, most families will not need as many cars as they do now, so the demand will be lower than most people expect, which will raise the price. We can also expect companies to be the first users of self driving cars, as it will make more financial sense for them, so many suppliers will move to service businesses like Uber. Companies like Uber and Lyft will lobby lawmakers to make it harder for people to own self-driving cars, and effectively make it unaffordable to most. In short time Car-As-A-Service will become reality. In the name of safety and cost reduction, many roads will be closed to regular cars, effectively making it pointless to own a car.

Source: Crystal Ball

You're advocating political correctness instead of engineering. That's wrong.

And perhaps it's you who's wrong and stubborn and that's why people with more experience need to scream at you to get their point across?

Isn't it ironic that Google's own Nexus phones won't be able to use this as they don't have microSD card connector?

> But Joe stays in businees because because he fills a niche the big guys aren't interested in.

But the big guys with their automated trucks will be possibly cheaper, and all these niche jobs jobs could potentially go to them.

Walmart alone has around 6000 trucks. When they start using autonomous trucks, there will be many unemployed truckers competing for these niche jobs.

Where is your /sarc tag?

If you manage to build something comparable to fb, and your profits will be around $700mln with 1.4 billion users, you will be able to pay each user 50 cents.. whoa... BIG is now a real possibility!

There was a lot written about this by smarter and more articulate people, and I'm sure you can google it, if you really want to know.. From myself I can only add my observations, as someone who works in automation.

It's simple really - technology to automate a lot of jobs it already here. In most cases it's very economic to automate the jobs, and doesn't really take long. Many more companies are moving in that direction. However, some government contractors are required to have a specific number of employees. They get tax incentives to keep people working. That's holding back automation.. And there is one more reason - a lot of small companies, which are still majority of the economy, are run by older guys that are afraid of big changes, and afraid of technology. Their businesses work, and bring money, and they will not implement any changes until they absolutely have to. As the demographics shift, and people who are more open to automation come aboard automation will speed up.

True. I think that if basic income is ever implemented, it will happen simply to control the masses.

The ship has sailed, in my opinion, because these people who could/should be behind it right now, will have no leverage, and people who don't need to get behind it now, but will in a few years, will lose that leverage before they realize what happened

The Basic Income ship has already sailed, and it's not coming back any time soon. The main reason for this is the fact that automation is here to stay. Every day new systems are being automated, first replacing low-skilled, low-wage jobs. People in these job don't really have much power, knowledge, will nor money to push the BIG agenda. Often times, they are not even aware that such thing is being proposed. People in better paying jobs are also being slowly replaced, but they rarely see this as threat to their jobs, but more like productivity improvement.

When some tradesmen, or engineer loses a job because of automation, they first try to work on their skills to stay relevant in the field. They usually won't blame automation for being unemployed, but instead they blame their age, lack of specific new skills, outsourcing or the economy. Without a well paying job, they quickly drop from the affluent middle class to a poor low class. In the mean time, their peers don't see what the real reason for this is, and they happily continue working, hoping that it's not going to happen in their case. They have no incentives to support BIG as they already believe that a lot of taxes go to support the lower classes, and put unfair strain on them.

This shift from middle to low class, is already happening. To keep themselves safe, the high middle class, and the 1%'s will support militarization of police, and push even more entertainment options to the masses. People will rarely revolt, as it's easy to imagine that if you're a father and see your kids starving, you will either work even harder trying to support your family, or you'll drink, do drugs and abuse the kids because you may feel that you failed, and you will try to hide this feeling not only from them but from yourself.

I think the biggest flaw is the location of the entertainment center next to sewer system.

"You've been smoking something really mind altering, and I think you should share it.

x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit."

The rest of the rant is here:

http://www.electricmonk.nl/log/2007/10/25/virtualization-sec...

Trichloroethylene, acrylamide, and many more including pesticides like Aldrin, Dieldrin, Chlordane and Heptachlor.

It's a drug. It's full of harmful chemicals because of the way it's processed. It affects mind and body, often negatively. But it's great money maker so we will be hearing more about its "benefits" in a near future.

Nope. you're wrong. 10 years ago you could do all of this from your fucking home, just like you can do it now. The only difference is - you did not have to deal with all that Javascript bs.