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I agree, but then I also think that the people who were working the fields with subsistance farming had no idea that a whole new category of work was about to emerge, they simply couldn't understand. Maybe we can't see the new work opportunities because we're so invested in what we do now.

I can't see it, but that's the point.

The problem is that previous revolutions like the industrial revolution were fueled by an increase in the extraction of raw materials from the earth which fueled growth.

Now I see us as having the perfect storm with multiple attacks on our way of life which previous revolutions hdidn't have. We have a massive acceleration of automation and artificial intelligence, coupled with dwindling natural resources, and catastrophic climate change. We don't have the resources to keep our way of life going, and we don't have the resources to have another huge leap forwards economically (unless we start mining asteroids at scale, or something like that).

It could be that this is the peak of humanity, or it could be that the peak is yet to come. But this is no doubt the peak in the way of life that we've been building since the late 1700s.
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Impressive to watch. The Tesla drives quite politely, but not annoyingly so (read that as impeding traffic). It actually stopped for the joggers who wasn't actually in the road, but very close. It also waited for a bicyclist on the right to turn left in front of the car.

Looks pretty promising, not bad, especially since the trend in software (and sensors) is to get better over time.
There's also the longer (3:28) video with the Paint It Black theme:
https://www.tesla.com/videos/autopilot-self-driving-hardware...
The Benny Hill theme tune was a pretty unfortunate choice of background music, not sure if that's the impression they wanted to make (maybe it was, not sure).
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Isn't it interesting that time and again every online forum with moderate affordances for anonymity quickly degrades into name calling and other generic abuse? Seems like the only way to combat this degradation is with heroic manual effort.

Maybe there are automated ways around the problem but it's tricky balancing open discourse with automatic banning of abusive accounts since any kind of automated system will invariably stifle legitimate discussions. The word "nigger" when used in a discussion with the proper historical or even comedic context can be benign but I doubt any automated system will be able to make the distinction since that would require some kind of understanding of history and comedy. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOwjtNEoRYg
I think the most interesting part of this video is that there's a lot of fog.
There is an elaborate analysis of potential error sources, which I appreciate highly. However, I would have preferred a more rigorous quantitative analysis.

The offered explanation model is highly fascinating. I'd appreciate if somebody would chime in with a more understandable version or resources thereto.
Where will your money, which you have to have to buy the incredibly cheap things or services, come from when you do not have a job any more?

We already have a job market where a significant number of people have become permanently unemployable because their competences are not wanted.

Now imagine mass unemployment not only in blue collar work but also in white collar work due to automation. If unemployed white collar workers cannot get jobs and blue collar workers cannot migrate to white collar jobs because both job types are replaced by automation and AI, where will they get an income?
Thanks for further elaborate on it, but it does leave me with a strong sense of contradictions. The initial one being, if want the group with highest total power, why not just use the full mathematical set of people (ie everyone). you can't get anything more powerful in order to change society, and no other group is as blameworthy for current status quo.

It reminds me of a dilemma regarding to voting power. Germany has the most seats of any country with a total of 13%, while Luxembourg has 0.8%. Clearly Germany has more power, and when it comes to influence power in EU, one should go there to cause change. However, a Luxembourg citizen vote counts as 10x more than a german vote as a result of degressive proportionality, which mean by efficiency, any campaign would gain more influence per unity of work going after Luxembourg citizen. So where should the effort go to cause social change in the EU, and whose citizens deserve being blamed for faults?

> That's true (although they may hold some power in their local communities).

During the time of the Black Panther Party, one could easily see how they held a lot of power in local communities, caused by the massive race segregation that existed and still exist to some degree. If we also drag into this discussion some psychology, almost every person in the world has a local space for which they are in control and got highest power. Its a survivability trait in order to regulating stress levels against an otherwise threatening environment.

Looking at the local level seems as a poor method to study the mechanics of racism, and even worse for making predictions. Reductionism is a popular academic method, but it also widely criticized for lacking the ability to make predicts from a theory and thus verified the validity of said theory. The lack of verification is where science normally leaves and cultural, religious or political believes begin.

> even within the bottom, say, 5%, white people still have more power than blacks

Do you have data that shows that homeless people with black skin have less power than homeless people with white skin? I find it generally implausible that people who can't fulfill the lowest level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs has any distinguishable level of power in their subgroups. My best guess would be a proxy like police policy, but then we are entering the area of people being "acted on", and that is generally not considered as an aspect of power. Left politics is quite active in advocating that "acted on" is the opposite of power, regardless of the benefits that the acted on gets.
Or if they're FTE positions, in the future we may work 3 day weeks.
On perfectly marked roads, in fair weather, with no bad behaviour seen from other drivers in the video. Impressive, but the technology has a long way to go yet before it can replace human drivers.
What the OP missed: highways with traffic jams caused by breakdowns somewhere in miles-long platoons of self-driving shipping containers that block entry/exit lanes (because there's no such thing as a perfect drive train, and cost competition will ensure that the cheapest prevail over the best, and of course they'll use drafting and drive nose-to-tail to reduce energy costs, because the failure mode is "only" a breakdown, and the inconvenience and cost is someone else's problem).
There are two reasons for UBI: 1. covering the basic needs of the population, and 2. to keep economy working. If people don't have jobs, they can't buy things, then the reason for the great automated factories ceases to exist.

Companies should desire UBI in order to keep the product demand strong. The larger UBI is, the more money in the pot. The only problem is how to obtain UBI.

I think it will need to be a form of redistribution, where value is taken from where it accumulates and moved to where it is lacking. It will probably be a combination of taxation and issuing money.

Companies will share the benefits of automation with the population by this mechanism, and get to compete for the yearly BHI that is flowing from the population to their coffers.
And to expand/clarify, my point is that racism and xenophobia have been widespread among European-Americans since colonization. And they remain so, and not just in the "red states". Elsewhere, they're just hidden, especially by men from women. KKK may be a fringe, but there's a broad resonance. Consider, for example, that Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for breaking into his own house!

Anyway, the Trump team has now somehow made European-Americans more racist and xenophobic. They just did an outstanding job with the Wallace strategy. Wallace was appealing to blue-collar union members in the North. But now unions are largely gone, and that demographic is either unemployed, or earning minimum wage. And arguably, that has exacerbated racism and xenophobia. Pushback against globalization and the concentration of wealth.
No. The system uses 8 cameras. Three forward facing (narrow, wide, standard), two rear facing sides (the two showed here), one rear, and two side cameras.
Nah man. XMPP for the win.
> "Starting with kindergarten, tell me about your life."

Wow, don't do this. Getting to know your team is extremely important. But, this is a pretty gross pseudo-psychological way to go about it. Also people should be aware some cultures will react extremely negatively to being asked a question like this.

American's tend to have a canned response, what I call an 'origin myth' e.g. "I'm a doctor because as child my relative had (disease X) ... then later ...". They dispense these quite readily at parties and interviews. Try it out.

Ask a European why they do what they do and you'll likely get a glazed expression as they consider nature vs nurture, the class system & the deeply invasive nature of the question itself.
https://player.vimeo.com/video/192179727 for sharing just the video
Richard Garwin? What an amazing character, went from helping to develop weapons to speaking for non-proliferation.
If you use a photon thruster (aka a laser or a flashlight in the right direction), then the maximal thrust is at most 1/c = 3.33 nano-Newtons per Watt = 0.0033 uN/W = 0.0033 mN/KW.

Someone compiled here a list of experiments: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36313.msg13... The list is a few years old, but you can compare the current result you read with 0.0033 mN/KW. The results in the table vary from 3x to 200000x the theoretical maximum of a photon thruster. I think that the typical current value is x4000.

It's a theoretical upper bound that is very easy to calculate using special relativity, and it depends on very fundamental laws, not tricky details of the universe.

The theoretical bound is so fundamental, that it's even true if you use a graviton thruster instead of a photon thruster. This example is not totally made up, someone have an alternative impossible massless drive that "push against the far away stars". They claimed also a thrust/energy ratio > 0.0033 mN/KW, so it was also impossible from a theoretical point of view.

Also, for the EmDrive, someone proposed that it emits twin photons that somehow cancel each other, but the pair still carry momentum. That explanation extremely wrong.
I don't know about other countries, but at least in the Netherlands the Benny Hill song is used mainly in videos to ridicule the subject. I remember when funny 'Home Videos' were a thing on TV (before cats took over on the interweb) this song was used in about 90% of them. So to me, using this song in something as serious as a self driving car demonstration is pretty weird.
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Yeah, I've negotiated out that clause on a few contracts.

I think Google is the same, people who are Googlers with opensourced projects that have nothing to do with Google all have them hosted on the Google github account for this reason.

I'm not in the US but AFAIK US law (or at least Californian law) states that a company can only own what you do in your personal time if it competes with them, the problem is that for companies the size of IBM and Google that could be most things.
Geez, indeed poor choice. I muted it first and kept listening to my deephouse podcast :)
When automation becomes able to self reproduce, we bootstrap a self replicating factory. If it can work with generally available materials and doesn't need rare ones, it can lead to zero costs of production, as the factory will self replicate and expand as needed.

We are probably closer to self replicating factories than AGI. It's just a matter of organizing industrial processes and automating them.
CNN loves selective editing.

See their editing of a victim's relative calling for people to riot and destroy suburbs vs. CNN's "victim calls for peace":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drn0Lg5gIRc

What is that other than a lie? And if we can't call it a lie, what's our standard for truth and reality?

That's not the only edit of theirs this this year. Of course they always correct themselves and "apologize" after the fact (or when they are caught), but they have remarkably poor standards for a news organization.
CNN's wording is incorrect indeed: Trump essentially said most Mexicans in the United States are rapists ("some [...] I assume" implies a minor percentage of the whole), not that all Mexicans in the US are rapists, or that all Mexicans, including those in Mexico, are rapists.

Now, what's with demanding nuance when reporting about someone who makes a point of eschewing nuance?

I'm wary of this "fake news" scapegoat, and I see how media bias is damaging to the electoral process, but Trump is now The Man, the establishment, the man with the secret codes. Imprecise, brash statements are OK when campaigning, but now that he's President (-elect), I expect the media to call him out on every such statement.

The media being lax on Obama is not an excuse.
> Maybe autonomous containers could also be capable of transferring cargo to smaller autonomous delivery cars, then we'd have a full routing delivery network, that could deliver any package from a point of source to a point of destination for a low fee.

If it's fully automated them it'll need security baked-in by design. And I mean security. Because someone will start thinking in terms of bombs in boxes with detonators controlled by something like an RPi with a GPS receiver.

An inadequately secured automatic cargo delivery network is an amazing terrorist enabler (just as long as your hypothetical terrorists include a couple of tame hackers in their number).

Right now, Amazon will let me send anyone (you included, if I have your address) a box of live worms, or crickets or even cockroaches. Some gag, if they're labelled as a gift and you open the box unwarily.) But it has to be something they've already accepted as stock in their fulfilment centers. A fulfilment system with no restrictions ... brr!

(I'm not making it up about the roaches: https://www.amazon.com/Dubia-Roaches-Feeding-Reptiles-Medium... )
All functionality used to reside in conhost.exe, no matter which character mode application you used (command prompt or PowerShell), which is why a lot of commands would work for both character modes. This is not how things work now (though a lot of commands are still shared, like “mode 120,120”) as conhost.exe now just decides if it should give you the legacy console host or the new one (with things like buffer improvements and word wrapping).

There are a lot of subtle improvements I think many are not aware of, like, if you paste in text with smart quotes they will be changed to straight quotes.
Thanks. makes sense, and I guess makes easier to implement some kind of depth perception.
Before we can pass BHI, another simpler measure might be easier to achieve - public works. If the government invests in infrastructure and public works, it can hire back some jobless people. It's a stopgap measure until automation becomes almost complete.
But 1-800 numbers are not cheaper, they just get charged to a different person

The "call" part of an 1-900 costs the same, but it's an added value charge
best part at end: you can save time by exiting before the car parks itself.
I do not understand why the focus on self driving is so much on the whole trip.

90 - 95% of the time I am driving long stretches, I spend on highways. No problem if only that part would be done selfdriving. Those few minutes in busy town centers I do not mind to do myself. No problem of driving short stretches (10 - 15 min) either.
This act is more about telecommunications data than CCTV cameras.

Something that really bothered me is Shami Chakrabarti, previously head of Liberty and a strong supporter of human rights, now shadow Attorney General, abstained from voting.
25% of what? Do you have a source?
Jaw dropping.
I as a European born in a not so fortunate part of Europe (EE) have to really admire America. Americans deliver. Cocky europeans keep on whining how much culture and quality of life they have but at the end of the day they are just insecure about themselves.

1/5 of my countrymen, more than a 1m people escaped from communism to this great country.

* DISCLAIMER : I am aware it's not all wine and roses ;)
Man, he was talking in context of illigal immigration from Mexico. He didn't call Mexican rapists, he said there are more rapists/criminals/drug dealers among illigal immigrants than among Mexicans in general (that is among people they "send").

This is intuitively true: among illegal immigrants you will have more criminals because the selection process of becoming illegal immigrant results in people from poor/troubled backgrounds and those with incentives to run from a country (as well as those willing to break the law in the first place to cross the border illegally).

I mean your conviction on this and the language you are using is exactly what put off a lot of people this election season from liberal side and "respected" news organizations. You are aggressively refusing to see the meaning of his message and you are using a language which suggest the other side is dumb for not seeing it. It's really is huge mental gymnastics to find a position from which you can't see the statement is about illegal immigrants and not Mexicans in general.
So it appears it's reading the road signs? I see it stops on the intersection with a stop sign where's no traffic lights. But what if the sign is damaged or removed? The car will go straight without stopping?
It is used by some studios (and other companies) and they are investing back: https://opensource.com/article/16/11/blender-enthusiasts-gat...

"For the next year at least, Blender is going to have 10 additional full-time paid developers. Some of those developers will be paid by the Blender Foundation or Blender Institute, sponsored with contributions from AMD, Aleph Objects, and the Nimble Collective.

More importantly, developers are being hired by production studios that use Blender, such as Tangent Animation and MAD Entertainment. These developers work on Blender for in-house productions, but their changes get submitted as patches for the version of Blender that we all get to use. This is a far more sustainable development model than sponsored grants and has been incredibly successful in other open source communities. It's only now starting to catch on in the realm of open source creative tools."
You won't need money, in the long run. Just automation. And automation could self replicate cheaply, especially if it doesn't require rare materials.
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This is pretty impressive. Still, at 00:54, getting a closer look at the female runners? Someone following could have gotten caught out if driving too close / playing Pokemon.

A human driver (well, at least myself) would simply have lifted the foot off the accelerator somewhat and drifted closer to the centre line when passing - seeing as there was no oncoming traffic.
Not sure what contradiction you mean. Human bullshit detectors are being gamed all the time (and had been since forever) but they are still more effective than anything contemporary computers could do. Unlike computers, people can go and see events themselves, ask questions to witnesses, ask questions to experts, self-organize, google, bing if google returns crap, lookup official deadtree records and generally do quite a lot of things cheaters would have hard time anticipating in advance.
Couple spots where I think an inattentive driver could have easily rear-ended the car. ~0:55 mark is a prime example.

I understand that whether the driver was paying attention or not, he or she would be at fault, I'm just pointing it out.
A real convincing promo video would be in stormy weather with angry, unpredictable drivers and random jaywalking kids.
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Never seen physically a 0.85" microdrive, or the Imation thingy, but I am familiar with the "normal" 1" IBM/Hitachi microdrive, they were at the time great little devices, not very "obscure", as a matter of fact relatively common.

A blast from the past, one of them was used as mass storeage device on the original Matchbox WebServer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20020601033615/http://wearables....

I still have somewhere a couple of these ones:
https://www.memoryc.com/externalharddrives/tone5gbusb2microd...
there is a 5 Gb Microdrive inside, with a USB bridge.

The 0.85" one was made by Toshiba:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060206172031/http://sdd.toshib...

Incredibly the Imation Microdrive brochure can still be found:
http://www.officeessentials.com/pdf/BR_MicroHD.pdf
it was IMHO a very clever design.
This song is also often used in a recurring absurd segment in cartoons when some people are running after each other and they go into / come out of random doors in a hallway.
I don't understand how the 1.2mN/kW is better than the hall thruster that achieves 60mN/kW ? Isn't it better to achieve higher mN per kW than lower?
maybe your driving behavior is different from other people. I live in a city and do about half time on city streets and half time on highways. Anyway, consistent performance on all parts of the trip is needed to convince buyers.
Belgian speaking here. Have 4 years of experience, my first salary was around 40k. Current salary is 46k, and I am moving next month to Paris in a top tech company (reputed to pay very well there), that will offer me 59k + 14k (average bonus, etc.). And I consider myself on the high end of the spectrum, so yeah, I am pretty sure there is a lot of (young) engineers making less than 50k in Berlin.
What about caregivers, like baby sitters, nurses etc? Will we entrust unattended machines with our children any time soon?
His statement was about illegal immigrants from MExico ("people they send"). Once you accept this point it all becomes clear.
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