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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • Scattershots – 15apr17

    George Rebane California’s new gas tax is the latest fraud from Sacramento, and part and parcel of the state’s progressivist plunge.  News comes in daily of more companies departing California for greener pastures – Texas and Nevada next door remain favorite destinations.  The latest gas tax is rammed through by the perpetually insane Dem supermajority,…

  • AI Will Change Everything

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regularly scheduled KVMR commentary broadcast on 8 March 2017.] For those who have been paying attention, you know that AI or artificial intelligence will change everything.  And the word here you want to wrap your head around is ‘everything’.  I’m a lifelong professional computer systems geek who…

  • Ruminations – 13feb17 (updated 14feb17)

    George Rebane Americans have always been told to keep their powder dry; well, the Democrats want you to let government take over that job. Systemic unemployment, in conjunction with the Singularity a much discussed issue on these pages over the years, is now beginning to draw the attention of more and more analysts, commentators, and…

  • Intelligent Design meets the Singularity

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 25 January 2017.] OK folks, it’s time to take a break from politics and give our Trump trashing muscles a short rest – I’m sure we’ll be back at it soon enough, but in the meantime let’s talk about important things…

  • Ruminations – 5jan17 (updated 6jan17)

    Not the village constable. There are men of evil mind, who would make of everything a crime, and not because of passion, but just naturally.  Gracian #109 George Rebane WSJ editor-in-chief Gerard Baker contributes a worthy analysis and commentary in his ‘Trump, Lies and Honest Journalism’.  Therein he touches on and corroborates a RR piece…

  • Guaranteed National Income and Jobs (updated)

    George Rebane We in the IT development industry became aware over thirty years ago that the coming technology revolution would destroy more human jobs than create new ones.  Things would be different, very different.  No one believed us, least of all government types and those in the social sciences.  They all had their eyes in…

  • AI masters Go – time to apply brakes? (updated 30jan16)

    George Rebane A couple of days ago Google’s parent Alphabet (actually its DeepMind division) announced that their AlphaGo deep-learned software system has mastered the ancient Chinese board game Go.  This is a very big deal during these pre-Singularity years and marks a milestone toward intellectual peerage with humans.  AlphaGo is not just a souped-up version of…

  • Preventing a Dystopic Singularity

    George Rebane While most people don’t have a clue about the portents of AI or the Singularity, among those who do there has been a growing concern that super-intelligent machines may not provide the post-Singularity utopia that hopeful technicians like Ray Kurzweil describe (The Singularity is Near). Among this group of knowledgeable commentators are also…

  • Agnosticism vs Atheism

    George Rebane [The is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 June 2015.] Our secular humanist brethren misconstrue Darwin as having claimed and conclusively demonstrated that the cosmos was uncreated, and that life arose by chance from the primordial muck.  In fact, Darwin made neither claim, but did present compelling evidence…

  • Reflections on Directions

    George Rebane We are told that the Internet is forever.  The global system today is already so vast and complex that no one can map it, and no one knows what comprises all of its processors (aka bit shifters) and data storage repositories (aka bit buckets).  So we can think of entries like these as…

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