The Burning Platform publishes its final excerpt from How You Got Screwed by Allen Marshall. I reviewed the book here and highly recommend it.
Looks as if the fedgov will finally — grudgingly — “allow” terminally ill patients to have a shot a lifesaving medicines that haven’t yet gotten full FDA approval.
Amazon’s facial-recognition system and law enforcement: Raising serious privacy and constitutional questions. (“Favorite” part: When Deputy Jeff Talbot says, “It is not mass surveillance or untargeted surveillance.” Hahaha. So amusing, those cops.)
Mandatory E-Verify will increase identity theft (which, frankly, seems among the least of its evils).
In yet another sign of the decline of Western civilization, a Publix market censors a graduation cake because both human employees and the store’s computer system think summa cum laude contains a bad word.
Antidote to entitlement and cultural insanity: Teen sees old woman in wheelchair sitting in the blazing sun, gets an umbrella, and spends nearly two hours shading her until her bus arrives. (You have to wonder why no one else was looking out for her.)
“We also want to conduct some communication with a machine that is meaningful, and meaningful means matching our intuition. If you deprive the robot of your intuition about cause and effect, you’re never going to communicate meaningfully.”
At last. Judea Pearl has explained why so much science is off-course these days, while he’s out there looking for Mike (the “human computer” in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”)
I want that book, “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect.”
“In his latest book, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, he argues that artificial intelligence has been handicapped by an incomplete understanding of what intelligence really is.”
This is where psychology has failed to enlighten us. By throwing science off-course as to what the mind is capable of, we remain stuck in the superstitious ruts of yesterday which lead us away from reality.
maDDtraPPer, I’m glad you noticed that. 🙂 Most days that I post links I do try to end either with a dog story, a feelgood event, or something funny. On really good days, it’s all three at once.
Some days, nothing wonderful comes to hand. But I try, ’cause I agree it’s a good thing to do after so much negative news. Thank you for appreciating it.
Anyone who thinks AI isn’t out to take over the world isn’t using Windows 10.
Sunday I flipped on this computer to print the email with instructions to a choir party we were due at. A two-minute job.
Instead of opening, it updated. “Your computer is Updating. Don’t turn it off. It may take some time. Update is at 1% complete.”
An hour and a half later Update had gotten all the way to 79%. We had to leave. Luckily we had a dead-tree city map for navigation.
The Update finally completed, giving me several new features I have no use for. I turned back off a bunch of settings the Update figured I shouldn’t have disabled. I thought I got off lucky.
Preparing for a class Tuesday night, I discovered that whatever else the Update did, it “fixed” PowerPoint so presentations I worked on in this computer will no longer play properly on the laptop I use in the classroom.
What feel-good story?
Oh. What the kid did.
Sorry. I was wondering why Houston’s “Metro Lift, a public transport bus for individuals with disabilities” left an elderly woman in a wheelchair to roast curbside in the Texas sun for two hours.
It’s that kind of day. I do usually appreciate Claire’s finalae.
Tonight’s choir practice will sort me out.
Sorry. I was wondering why Houston’s “Metro Lift, a public transport bus for individuals with disabilities” left an elderly woman in a wheelchair to roast curbside in the Texas sun for two hours.
I wondered something similar. Was it Metro Lift’s responsibility? Or did some caregiver leave her on the sidewalk to wait? Either way, that good young man may have saved her life.
fredMay 23, 2018 3:11 pm
Linux- Constant updates you control IF you want them,and when,and they are fast.Plus you continue to use machine as it does updates.You control Linux,Windows controls YOU.No brainer why I love Linux.
The jailer woman story is more a story of why is she allowed to reproduce at will,so we the people can support her spawn? She should be sterilized,not sure how,but must be some way to do so.Thats reversible when she is drug free and competent to raise children.
I know it opens a can of worms,but she is a total drag on us all,without any upside.
[…] If the child has medical problems because he and his mother were denied medical care, then they should all have whatever retirement income they do have garnished. Instead the taxpayers in that locale will be on the hook because some guards were too selfish to look in on a woman giving birth. (They KNEW what was going on. And they are NEVER wrong. How dare you question their authority?!) Hat tip to Claire Wolfe. […]
The jailer woman story is more a story of why is she allowed to reproduce at will,so we the people can support her spawn? She should be sterilized,not sure how,but must be some way to do so.Thats reversible when she is drug free and competent to raise children.
So…bring back the eugenics movement? Because that’s a power we want some bureaucrat having over everybody? Yeah – that always works out really well…
fredMay 24, 2018 11:51 am
Exactly Joel.
I want it temporary,not bureaucrats willy nilly permanently denying reproduction.Like a trial,with lawyers,witnesses and juries perhaps? A three year term,and another trial?
Thats enough time to get off the drugs,get an income and off the public teat of lifetime support.Cant do it? See you in three more year brackets until you do or decide to quit making kids you dont care for,your choice.
Sure it costs,so do stupid weapons money pizzed away for example.
“We also want to conduct some communication with a machine that is meaningful, and meaningful means matching our intuition. If you deprive the robot of your intuition about cause and effect, you’re never going to communicate meaningfully.”
At last. Judea Pearl has explained why so much science is off-course these days, while he’s out there looking for Mike (the “human computer” in “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”)
I want that book, “The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect.”
“In his latest book, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, he argues that artificial intelligence has been handicapped by an incomplete understanding of what intelligence really is.”
This is where psychology has failed to enlighten us. By throwing science off-course as to what the mind is capable of, we remain stuck in the superstitious ruts of yesterday which lead us away from reality.
Snopes says that the condom policy isn’t new.
I can’t be the only one flashing back to The Hollies on that umbrella story.
Hey Claire can you end each post with a feel good story like the umbrella one? Makes starting the day a little easier lol.
maDDtraPPer, I’m glad you noticed that. 🙂 Most days that I post links I do try to end either with a dog story, a feelgood event, or something funny. On really good days, it’s all three at once.
Some days, nothing wonderful comes to hand. But I try, ’cause I agree it’s a good thing to do after so much negative news. Thank you for appreciating it.
Anyone who thinks AI isn’t out to take over the world isn’t using Windows 10.
Sunday I flipped on this computer to print the email with instructions to a choir party we were due at. A two-minute job.
Instead of opening, it updated. “Your computer is Updating. Don’t turn it off. It may take some time. Update is at 1% complete.”
An hour and a half later Update had gotten all the way to 79%. We had to leave. Luckily we had a dead-tree city map for navigation.
The Update finally completed, giving me several new features I have no use for. I turned back off a bunch of settings the Update figured I shouldn’t have disabled. I thought I got off lucky.
Preparing for a class Tuesday night, I discovered that whatever else the Update did, it “fixed” PowerPoint so presentations I worked on in this computer will no longer play properly on the laptop I use in the classroom.
What feel-good story?
Oh. What the kid did.
Sorry. I was wondering why Houston’s “Metro Lift, a public transport bus for individuals with disabilities” left an elderly woman in a wheelchair to roast curbside in the Texas sun for two hours.
It’s that kind of day. I do usually appreciate Claire’s finalae.
Tonight’s choir practice will sort me out.
Sorry. I was wondering why Houston’s “Metro Lift, a public transport bus for individuals with disabilities” left an elderly woman in a wheelchair to roast curbside in the Texas sun for two hours.
I wondered something similar. Was it Metro Lift’s responsibility? Or did some caregiver leave her on the sidewalk to wait? Either way, that good young man may have saved her life.
Linux- Constant updates you control IF you want them,and when,and they are fast.Plus you continue to use machine as it does updates.You control Linux,Windows controls YOU.No brainer why I love Linux.
The jailer woman story is more a story of why is she allowed to reproduce at will,so we the people can support her spawn? She should be sterilized,not sure how,but must be some way to do so.Thats reversible when she is drug free and competent to raise children.
I know it opens a can of worms,but she is a total drag on us all,without any upside.
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[…] If the child has medical problems because he and his mother were denied medical care, then they should all have whatever retirement income they do have garnished. Instead the taxpayers in that locale will be on the hook because some guards were too selfish to look in on a woman giving birth. (They KNEW what was going on. And they are NEVER wrong. How dare you question their authority?!) Hat tip to Claire Wolfe. […]
The jailer woman story is more a story of why is she allowed to reproduce at will,so we the people can support her spawn? She should be sterilized,not sure how,but must be some way to do so.Thats reversible when she is drug free and competent to raise children.
So…bring back the eugenics movement? Because that’s a power we want some bureaucrat having over everybody? Yeah – that always works out really well…
Exactly Joel.
I want it temporary,not bureaucrats willy nilly permanently denying reproduction.Like a trial,with lawyers,witnesses and juries perhaps? A three year term,and another trial?
Thats enough time to get off the drugs,get an income and off the public teat of lifetime support.Cant do it? See you in three more year brackets until you do or decide to quit making kids you dont care for,your choice.
Sure it costs,so do stupid weapons money pizzed away for example.
Like I said,a can of worms.