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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • Scattershots – 8dec17 (updated 10dec17)

    George Rebane ‘The Merge’ is the new label for progress toward transhumanism.  RR readers have been aware of this phenom for some years now.  Today such merging of Man and machine has entered the popular forums, and in some is starting to raise concerns about who will get to merge and to what extent such…

  • Systemic Unemployment – now it kills (Addended)

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 29 November 2017.] Longtime listeners to these commentaries are aware of the approaching Singularity – when super-intelligent machines match and then exceed human intelligence – and what is happening with jobs and employment in these pre-Singularity years.  As machines replace more…

  • Scattershots – 15nov17 (update 18nov17)

    George Rebane Whistling past the jobs graveyard.  Here is an example of highly paid people who don’t know what they are talking about as they attempt to convince us that AI will create more jobs for humans than the number it will destroy.  An inane example assures us that “In retailing, store jobs lost to…

  • An Innumerate SCOTUS, oh my!

    A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.  Thomas Jefferson George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 November 2017.] Numeracy is the name given to a set of math oriented skills that an educated lay person is supposed to have in order to…

  • The Singularity is Nearer

    George Rebane Have you noticed over the years when we have met in these pages to talk about the Singularity, that today finally everyone is talking about it in one fashion or another.  It’s as if suddenly everyone who reads is being introduced to the newest developments in AI and the possible futures it portends…

  • Ruminations – 11oct17 (updated)

    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…

  • Max Tegmark, welcome aboard!

    George Rebane The Singularity must really be near when we have MIT physicist Max Tegmark climb aboard with the spate of science and industry luminaries who have recently discovered that intelligent machines will someday surpass humans, will systemically displace human labor, and (in a TBD form) will become the dominant lifeform on Earth.  Dr Tegmark…

  • The Return of Featherbedding (updated 5aug17)

    George Rebane When George Westinghouse patented his railway ‘fail-safe’ airbrakes in 1869, that new technology inaugurated a century of what came to be called featherbedding for the railroad industry as unions successfully fought the railroads to continue employing unneeded workers.  Prior to airbrakes on each railroad car, the speed of trains on down grades were…

  • Scattershots – 12jun17 (updated 13jun17)

    George Rebane Investigations will cease only after all allegations have been proven – Dictum from The Swamp The ‘Robot-Human Alliance’ is a hopeful promotion by Dr Kenneth Goldberg, a UC Berkeley engineering professor (here).  He sees little to worry about human job markets with the advance of ever more intelligent machines, and bases his sanguinity…

  • Scattershots – 20may17 (updated 21may17)

    George Rebane It’s ALL in the algorithm.  Most of those who have the means to pay attention and are doing it know that AI is now on the march everywhere.  And suddenly everyone has concerns about AI taking human jobs – what difference a mere ten years makes.  Here we have talked about all this…

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