I enjoy watching action can videos of mountain bike riding which shows me all these places around the world for free. They are purely a positive influence on my life and I don’t even own one
Aren't they plugged into all of Silicon Valley through PRISM, and 'logging into' high-risk targets' pc's through Intel ME? Is this some sort of glitzy distraction piece for that?
Last I heard, Snowden is still scapegoated, and nobody from the NSA has been held accountable, or anyone inside any of these other 3 letter government agencies...
Something that really blew my hair back is hREA (formerly Holo-REA) - which is a combination of the Resources Events Agents (REA) accounting method, together with the distributed application framework holochain. It can help us move from corporate Enterprise Resource Planning software to follow (material) resources, to Network Resource Planning software, where all resources are stewarded in the commons based on open access and mutually consenting agreements/protocols. And holochain makes it all easily evolvable and unenclosable. It's one of the most exciting projects I've come across.
hREA is aimed at creating a radically inclusive supply chain system. It is fully open source and being developed here: https://github.com/holo-rea/holo-rea
> 4. By placing order with Lurebees, you agree to have library books picked up by Lurebees drivers and deliver to your house address.
So basically a (soon to be VC funded) Uber-like gig economy delivery app for renting books? For $7 it's a service only for the rich, while also putting gig workers at risk.
I'm not saying it's a terrible idea, I'm just tired of seeing another rentierist middleman app that dresses up a simple protocol and exploits the working class.
"Exploitation, now available from your local library!"
Thank you so much for your reply and interest. We are currently working on reducing the price to make it more affordable for everyone. As for the risk, we do care for our driver and would not put them on any risk.
I'm very sorry about your feeling on middleman. As for our drivers, they have the ability to make significant amount of money from one library pickup. For example, if there are 20 orders to be picked from one library this can generate significant amount of pay in one library stop.
Local libraries around the US don't have the budget or capacity to start delivery service for the entire county. Our tax money doesn't stretch that far when it comes to library services. However, there are libraries that do have delivery service, but its only for patrons with permanent disability or other limitation.
Although currently abstract, I think it's going to be one of the most important ethical questions we face in the future. If we create machines that can suffer, then we've got a profound ethical responsibility to make sure that we avoid this outcome, since the magnitude and duration of that suffering can potentially be much larger than a human's
capacity for suffering.
I don't think that's gonna happen. And if it did, it wouldn't be real, and those that think it is are fooling themselves. Only biological organisms feel. Why are you wishing for a cold lump of steel to feel something?
In my mind only someone who struggles severely with emotional intimacy with other humans would want to create a machine that tries to imitate human feelings, and thus ‘suffer’; likely done in an effort to try to feel close to 'it'. It sounds like that person might not be having their human needs for safety, connection and acceptance met, which is very painful. I think tackling this issue is the important and worthy cause. That would be better than spending money on some Hollywood-inspired notion of 'AI' - which itself seems more a story made up to keep the USA spending insane sums of taxpayer money on research, weapons and other tech at DARPA.
I do think society is super alienating to most humans in it's current form [1], so I can somewhat understand the science fiction.
I don't want to create machines that feel. I'm saying that if it is possible, then it becomes a profoundly important ethical question.
It's a matter of debate in philosophy of mind as to whether it's plausible that hardware can possibly have qualia, or whether that's a property that's exclusive to wetware. I personally think it's quite likely that they will be able to, I don't see anything intrinsically special about wetware that's necessary for the generation of qualia.
> let the films serve as a compelling aesthetic work and the reading as essentially a citation. Alternatively, maybe I should try to compile some for each of his films.
Yes, that would be awesome, and would add much more weight to the arguments he makes in his documentaries.
> Of course in the modern world, calories are too cheap to meter. Our instincts no longer make sense.
Maybe for intellectual laborers in the global north. Not for the starving billion who are barely surviving, yet are also producing all the commodities global north capitalists force them to make: often after having been forcefully bribed/expelled from their land, mostly by ruthless global north firms together with corrupt governments. [1]
