Morlock,
while I don't believe that there was a single mind or small group of
multiple minds that planned the app based information society I do
believe that the US military does exceptionally well in the discovery
(invention?) and subsequent kick-start of "potential". Furthermore, I do
On 17/12/2017 10:07, e...@x80.org wrote:
Morlock Elloi writes:
Echoing recent digital critics such as Douglas Rushkoff or even myself,
they ask themselves what’s revolutionary or prophetic in an industry
that relies on old-school capitalism, monopolies, micro-work,
I'm following this whole thread with great interest and feel that I
could add a few synthesizing comments from a strategic designer's
perspective. These designers are usually hired to be less concerned with
the creation of the perfect, shiny object but more with shaping the
structures culture
arkets did.
\\vincent
On 02/11/2017 13:53, charlie derr wrote:
On 11/02/2017 05:29 AM, Vincent Van Uffelen wrote:
Nevertheless, it [AI] remains a very powerful tool, and it is in the
hands of a very few (and their software engineer/programmer management
layer).
While it's still in the embryonic stag
I also wonder if just one skillfully performed twitch with the left leg
could trip a gait detection algorithm? There are many holes to poke
into. Having access to the interpreting system, as those researchers
did, makes it obviously much easier to find the right "markers" to
tweak. But
What bleak topic to engage with... Today's uplifting news is that all
the machine learned intelligence needed to roll all this out on the
large scale does rely on very complex algorithms which have severe
issues with being too dependent on the initial condition. While the
paper linked below
One way to go forward would be to clearly define a moral compass and do
our best to propagate it. After all, Brexit got barely voted yes, Trump
got barely voted in (at least in popular vote), the progressive are not
a small minority but constitute probably in many countries the