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AI does not need to become Skynet or AGI to be harmful or catastrophic to humanity. As a powerful tool in the wrong hands it’s already enough. And even without those bad intend how it deprives our human ability to use our own mind and abilities.

Super cool. My wife and me recently analyzed a small bagel shop that was open for sale in Berlin. Unfortunately it didn’t work out for us. But such a software would have been incredibly useful. Former owner did everything in .xls.

… is there such a thing? For a Rolleiflex?

Does anyone known The source and exact wording of this Tom Waits quote:

‘It getting harder and harder to find a real bad cup of coffee.’

.. just listening to the audio book. It supports the articles headline with substantial insights. I can recommend it. Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984800

As this comes out very late in their life, seems not be able to influence the natural selection process in human evolution.

... blockchain as the coded constitution for a future AI world: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2016/10/computational-law-sym...

... like your classification. My version of that is in short:

Blockchain is a technical protocol ( crypto signed list over a P2P network with consensus). DLT is a higher level function on top of a blockchain which adds social / legal / economic status to the data in a blockchain.

Blockchain coordinates databases over different legal entities. That's the magic. It's still your DB in your Datacenter when you run your own node. You have autonomy over your own records with your keys. And you have visibility of all other records. A big central DB is under the control of a central body. With a blockchain the central control is / could be limited.

Look at R3 Corda, transactions only shared and stored between parties involved, not the rest of the network.