George Rebane
MIT’s Max Tegmark just released Life 3.0 – Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, which I bought immediately and dove right in last night. In his prelude Tegmark takes us through a scenario of a developing AI super-intelligence and its human ‘handlers’ that includes treatment of rampantly systemic unemployment addressed through an institutional approach very similar to the Non-profit Service Corporations which I have proposed in these pages (here). The book promises an education of how the current pre-Singularity years will unfold – check it out, Tegmark writes good stuff.
The Boy Scouts of America have decided to start admitting real girls, and I guess that means going beyond just boys who wake up feeling like they have been issued the wrong plumbing. The move seems to be motivated by more than political correctness in these gender-confused times. According to the Girl Scouts of America it really has to do with the BSA needing more funds, and thereby raiding the GSA membership is a reasonable plan forward. The resulting dust-up will continue between what were two of America’s iconic institutions, as the times they are a’changin’. (more here)
I have always viewed Kaspersky’s popular antivirus software with a gimlet eye. I guess that I just don’t trust Russian companies, given the kleptocratic regime under which they all operate, and therefore are all instruments of the state in one way or another. So why would I want to install Kaspersky on my company’s in-house computer systems, especially if I develop high tech stuff or have other valuable intellectual property that keeps me in business? Well, now it turns out that ‘Russia Has Turned Kaspersky Software Into Tool for Spying’ – whouda thought?
[update] Implicit Bias, another flat-earth pseudo-science lapped up by the liberal legions turns out to be bullshit. Few academic ideas have been as eagerly absorbed into public discourse lately as “implicit bias.” Embraced by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and most of the press, implicit bias has spawned a multimillion-dollar consulting industry, along with a movement to remove the concept of individual agency from the law. Yet its scientific basis is crumbling. (the hilarity of it all continues here)
Wanna see another liberal shibboleth bite the dust? Take a look at ‘A Flawed Study Depicts Drug Companies as Profiteers’. And then corroborate that with the share price histories of the big pharmas.
The ‘Casting Couch’ has been a Hollywood staple for over 80 years. And since most of show biz folks have been historical proto-communists, the Left has left the sexual abuses of young sweet things under the rug where they have always had a home. Now ol’ sleazebag Harvey Weinstein finally gets exposed, and our lamestream is making it out as if they have found the only bad apple in their barrel. Another demonstration that they don’t give a crap about women save what political advantage they can wring out of our fair sex. I’d love to see a clean sweep of the overwhelmingly leftwing entertainment industry to expose what aspiring women have really had to put out or up with to succeed. It didn’t all happen in corporate offices of other industries that have a tilt to the right.
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