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Ringwise, I think marriages just got a lot more fun!

yay

We make fun

...but really though.

Y'all are the smartest people I know, and with a little banter we could figure things out. A win for all parties.

"Yes, Mom, I took my pills today" Lol

Haven't you seen how discussion lately has improved in quality?

For whatever mixture of reasons, the world is finally waking up.

We should start lobbing some good thoughts and respect on folks around us, and start to bring them around. The government is us, and needs us.

The time is here.

If they actually want it to work as intelligently as possible, they'll begin taking these complaints into consideration and building in a wisdom curating feature where people can contribute.

This much is obvious, but they seem to be satisfied with theory over practicality.

Anyway I'm just ranting b/c they haven't paid me.

How about an off the wall algorithm to estimate how much each scraped input turns out to influence the bigger picture, as a way to work towards satisfying the copyright question.

To the brim, for sure.

Probably one day we'll have a "citizen preferences file" where the confidentiality of our interactions with various entities can be granularly set.

Hmm, yeah I suppose anything promoting consumer knowledge would be antithesis to ordinary business schemes.

Pie in the sky, alas.

Maybe they could grab some preventative lobby money with the threat of it. /s

I'd love it if Apple (since they appear not to sell data) would provide an anonymized receipt analysis service like this.

Huge user base right off the bat.

I would add to #5:

Remember, Comparison is the Thief of Joy - By ignoring the unfairness of others' chance good fortune, you can continue harvesting dopamine from satisfaction in your own path of gradual accomplishments.

I was pleased to see this: Succinct, and on the right trail.

Starting at #2 or #3 holds more interest.

Just might help your case with friends who require sources to believe in reason.

Try a used series 4 from eBay if you're curious. They have the same processor as the 5 and 6, and are dirt cheap.

For me it's been good enough to overcome "I could take it or leave it" - it's handy for reading alerts without pulling out the phone, and Google Assistant even works most of the time.

It's also nice to keep the phone on silent and just get a buzz on the wrist for calls and alarms. Plus smarthome integration if you do that.

Someone needs to standardize a simple reverse-authentication system for this.

For example whenever a caller is requesting sensitive information, they give you a temporary extension directing to them or an equal, and ask you to call the organization's public number and enter that extension. Maybe just plug the number into their app if applicable to generate a direct call.

Like other comments have mentioned, the onus should be on them. Also, they would benefit from the resultant reduction in fraud. Maybe a case study on fraud reduction savings could help speed the adoption process without having to invoke the FCC.

Could it be said that entanglement was originally near infinite, as it might now be in black holes? Perhaps now that things are spread out, time appears to move faster because there is less stickiness of entangled particles depending on others in order to proceed, whereas mass entanglement acts like anti-time due to the need of so many webs of chains of entanglement to be notified back to the original particle so they can act in reverse order (as entanglement appears to work). Could a massive density of anti-time entanglement help explain event horizons more completely than gravitational effects alone?

Could the big bang-like event have been entanglement flipping like a magnetic pole and generating a diaspora where things began happening causally -- which is slowly re-condensing when things group densely with the help of gravity as it catches up?

I get the feeling that there is a lot more entanglement than we give credit to, with time-altering effects as complexity grows, maybe leading to brains with consciousness rather than classically predictable chemical networks, and...perhaps mild cell division-sourced innate entanglement? Look forward to finding out.

What kind of mindset would lead to this behavior?? Maybe it doesn't matter. It feels -to me- like simply being exposed to people who say things like: "What?-- no, that's not good" while remaining professional, respectful, and humorous, is a vaccine against not wanting to seem jerky, yet staying secure.

Great question. No study is going to answer this sufficiently. But, remember history. The generation that goes through war remembers that hell and appreciates the following peace because they know the contrast. The following generations generally don't have this anchor. It makes intuitive sense when it's framed in basic mammal psychology, which is how we tend to act, despite attempts to ascribe higher meaning.

There's no reason to rely on imperfectly controlled-for studies when we can generally predict a compounding chain of essentially true things.

Furthermore, less work is more freedom and is preferable, whatever the rationalization of the era is.

We'll probably all be better off when we see tenacious belief in "work ethic" as Stockholm Syndrome's cousin, and realize we're still getting things done because we want to be creative and useful.

Very cool, I had not seen Lie algebras before. More fuel for the organic AI ;-). Your description sounds perfectly accurate; uberdelicate electromagnetic manipulation would be the first logical approach. ...Actually Gizmodo just did an article on "Sycamore" a few days ago! Great read. - Perhaps after the microwave pulses they can get even higher resolution by shining very bright images on it.?

Great comic! How I visualize this stuff is really simple, and so far it doesn't seem to be wrong...

Imagine 2 tennis balls floating in space, each spinning in some direction at some speed.

The quantum amplitude is the extent to which they are matched, or opposed, when you break down the inertia of each into vectors. In fact I'm pretty sure their measurements are very limited in the extent to which they can measure these things to infinite precision. (Duh)

Is this another case of obfuscation by academics? This is truly not complicated. It's even kinda fun. I think we all have a little fear of being mentally outgunned, and fear does what it's always done to creative thought. Dominated it.

> Intelligence agencies have hard problems to deal with. On top of it, they are giant bureaucracies which means cockups, incompetence, turf wars, hiding issues are the norm. All that amplifies the problems, causes defensiveness, over-reactions and reactions to reactions.

This is a good point. In an ideal world their job would be less...complicated. So our job as intelligent, capable citizens is to make the system more ideal for them to do their duties.

Making a "captive workforce" out of AI tools and robots is, to me, the ideal solution. Either way it's inevitable. Since no one else will, I'm trying to get out ahead with thoughtful early planning. Communicating a common goal for the nation without fear is the way to get the technology into the hands of the right people. It's up to us, the intelligent and "good people" communicators, to push for it.

The article is interesting and raises a good point, but I don't think it really solves anything.

With the right perspective on (understanding of) your mental processes, deep, useful, questions like this cease to exist. They are solved. I've had success recently with subtle self-control over curiosity and motivation, and the way to do it is just as simple as it intuitively feels.

Reconfiguring your brain to follow through on your stated goals is a simple process over time that relies on simple goal-setting and reward. You set up a system of trivial goals, always at whatever pace you enjoy, and expand their novelty and risk factor. Being very simple and increasingly binary, this process can easily crystallize in your physical brain. Yet it is ever expanding in complexity as you become excited at your progress in broadening intelligence.

This is the kind of thing that some will want evidence for. Those are the ones that won't be able to make use of it. Follow intuition; only you can convince your inner self of truth in progress. Science is only a semi-precise tool for helping this process, as the controls of any experiment are infinite in reality.

BTW, the comment on Novelty Seeking was great hos234!

I think Facebook's main benefit from this is that they will now have users clicking a button essentially to say, "yes, I believe this." Now they have a direct metric for what type of manipulation works for that user. Because really, no user can actually verify the truth of a media outlet's claims without heroic efforts.

To me, this is truth. Not in the sense that the author is right about everything they say -- that is impossible. Rather, it's like reading the results of a years-long research project, and realizing with happy surprise that the results have not been doctored. Self-aware circumspection with a level of filter absence that, to me at least, indicates a level of mental contentedness. It seems to coincide with trustworthiness.

Turn off autoplay in 10 seconds (Firefox): (1)Open a new tab to about:config (2)Type in autoplay (3) Double click the obvious one. Done.

Thanks for the grounding simile.

Everyone gives something to take part in and benefit by society. Corporations form, and seem to refund to their members all that they gave and occasionally more. We do not measure the externalities well, only the benefits. An externality estimator would be a great economic tool, does anyone know of one?

Amen. Everyone: If you were using CrashPlan for simple p2p backups like this, use SyncThing now. It has versioning, it's open source, and it's secure. Made my day... I will enjoy donating to their project.

Indeed, I believe it really is that simple.

That looks like a pretty entertaining project. And as a nice bonus, they now have a solid heuristic for identifying when a transaction is happening, no matter which language or code-language is being used.

Well...this kind of thing is here to stay, and at least some good may come of it. We can all be reminded that even "true" words are still just words.

An example from all of history: (This is only semi-serious, but felt like a good thought experiment).

> Oligarch to politician - "Make this economic change." > Politician to team - "Give me post-facto justification for this change I am making." aka "Spin this" > Team - Applies economics to numbers > Team to politician - "Here you go." > Politician to people - "Economics does not lie." > Vaunted economics publications - "Sold. And thanks for the like." > Economic failure > Future politician - "Well, we just didn't know then what we know now." > Historian of the future - "Their economic calculations lacked the full set of economic forces and incentives. The economists of the time were in effect hand-waving because they ignored a fundamental economic force--the oligarch. Given the size of the oversight, I'd say they were complicit."

Thoughts: --Economic policy sold without disclosure (or even acknowledgement) of these massive forces is knowingly flawed, and a willing lie to handle people. --Economic theory is rooted in psychology. When an economic decision is spun to cover hidden motives, the psychological motive basis of that instance of economics is, by definition, false. --Data can still fool good economists when it is cherry-picked; any data produced by a non-omniscient process is going to be flawed to some extent.

* This is not to say anything good or bad about oligarchs. Merely that they are a tremendous force, and economics, political policy, and civil discussion could greatly improve with a more accurate model of their effect on global systems.

* I'd love to see an economic modeling tool able to place "black boxes" where market distortions are occurring due to probable hidden forces. Captive markets are a real nuisance.

Sometimes it is necessary to have a strong example of what is wrong to be able to define what right is.

Most people on this forum are the type that can learn without touching the hot skillet for themselves, but we still benefit from helping others to not burn themselves.