Sunday, December 2, 2018
Leslie Jones Swears Off Sex In Her Latest ‘SNL’ Rant
Arend Hintze
The Conversation
This is another fine collection of articles about Artificial Intelligence. A subject that has preoccupied many people - including myself.
AI has attracted many people to it. And has taken the place of the Computer Craze of the Nineties.
This is another fine collection of articles about Artificial Intelligence. A subject that has preoccupied many people - including myself.
AI has attracted many people to it. And has taken the place of the Computer Craze of the Nineties.
Having a Native Wife
Having a wife, that is part of the native population, is not difficult to arrange - and is relatively inexpensive, by American standards.
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She keeps some measure of control, as wives do anywhere. If she is satisfied with her situation, she provides love - if she is not, she does provide this. She is not treated as well as an American wife, but she will be satisfied with what she has acquired by her marriage (formal or informal) to an American.
This is made much easier, if the American is fluent in the native language. But that is not absolutely necessary,
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She keeps some measure of control, as wives do anywhere. If she is satisfied with her situation, she provides love - if she is not, she does provide this. She is not treated as well as an American wife, but she will be satisfied with what she has acquired by her marriage (formal or informal) to an American.
This is made much easier, if the American is fluent in the native language. But that is not absolutely necessary,
Mankind has become Destructive
They have noticed (correctly) that the world is not good for them, and for that reason - are destroying it.
Let me examine the first part of that assertion - that the world was not good for them. This was the inevitable result of the Industrial Revolution.
We become more interested machines than we were in people. Because machines were making us rich! Or at least they were making those at the top rich. They made those at the bottom, poorer than they had ever been before.
In America, this was taken to an extreme with the institution of slavery in the American South - the most influential part of America, at the time.
This resulted in the Civil War - the worst war, with the most casualties, the world had ever seen. The North won this war, because it had industrialized, and didn't need slaves in its factories or farms.
About this time, from the middle of the 19th Century to the middle of the 20th, a fundamental change in society took place - machines became more important than people! And the people involved, were not aware of this change - and remained unaware of it, to this day.
This set up the situation today - most people are socially unaware, and determined to remain that way.
Superficially, they feel everything is fine. But deep down, they know it is terrible. And they are destroying it.
Let me examine the first part of that assertion - that the world was not good for them. This was the inevitable result of the Industrial Revolution.
We become more interested machines than we were in people. Because machines were making us rich! Or at least they were making those at the top rich. They made those at the bottom, poorer than they had ever been before.
In America, this was taken to an extreme with the institution of slavery in the American South - the most influential part of America, at the time.
This resulted in the Civil War - the worst war, with the most casualties, the world had ever seen. The North won this war, because it had industrialized, and didn't need slaves in its factories or farms.
About this time, from the middle of the 19th Century to the middle of the 20th, a fundamental change in society took place - machines became more important than people! And the people involved, were not aware of this change - and remained unaware of it, to this day.
This set up the situation today - most people are socially unaware, and determined to remain that way.
Superficially, they feel everything is fine. But deep down, they know it is terrible. And they are destroying it.
Saturday, December 1, 2018
Typhoid Fever
My father nearly died of this when he was a boy.
This illness is caused by polluted water, and nothing else.When he was a boy in Ft. Madison, Iowa - every house had its own water pump, and its own outhouse - and they were right next to each other.
It wasn't long before they installed City Water - and these pipes contained healthy drinking water.
This illness is caused by polluted water, and nothing else.When he was a boy in Ft. Madison, Iowa - every house had its own water pump, and its own outhouse - and they were right next to each other.
It wasn't long before they installed City Water - and these pipes contained healthy drinking water.
A DARPA Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
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DARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
DARPA is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Thinking Fast and Slow
This book is telling me something I already knew - people do not like slow thinking, and will do almost anything to avoid it, and revert to fast thinking instead.
Most of the book is about this - the many ways we do not think, but remain firmly convinced that we are - and not only that, but thinking perfectly.
This has been known for a very long time, but he makes it explicit - by describing all the ways this happens, in some detail.
The condensed version I have, that I got for free, also has something else - text to speech, that works almost perfectly. You can read or listen, either way.
I find looking at the text, while it is being spoken, helps me to learn better.
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