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“Godfather of Deep Learning” @geoffreyhinton: “We humans are neural nets. What we can do, machines can do”: https://syncedreview.com/2019/05/10/google-i-o-2019-geoffrey-hinton-says-machines-can-do-anything-humans-can/
Peak Hubris. "Smashing the territory with the map". For a man of his stature say things like that, is just bad junk science on the level of a used-cars salesmen.
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On Puerto Rico’s ‘Forgotten Island,’ Tesla’s Busted Solar Panels Tell A Cautionary Tale:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-tesla-puerto-rico-renewable-energy_n_5ca51e99e4b082d775dfec35
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Interview with Robert Solow. #Politics #Economics #ML
Lovely man, charming and intelligent. Yet, extremely shortsighted, narrow, none diverse worldview on display in this interview - exemplary of post-war US intellectual power. The dominance of "Truth is in models, math and technocracy, not in humans and real-world" paradigm. Pure stupid narrow-minded arrogance, disguised as intellectual cleverness."A good 80% of 20th century growth of US economy had to be imputed to the broad concept of technological progress." - Robert Solow
Comment from Youtube by Kemble Walker:
"According to Solow, “Earlier generations are entitled to draw down the pool (optimally, of course!) so long as they add (optimally, of course!) to the stock of reproducible capital” [1]. Throughout his career, Solow has been a consistent apologist for the destruction of our living environment for the accumulation of artificial, man-made rubbish. This ideology has brought human civilization to such a state of existential crisis that we have taken a complete about-turn. The Paris Agreement promises to re-plant massive tracts of the very same forests that Solow vociferously justified destroying for the production of skycrapers, plastic packaging, highways and toxic chemicals.
Such people are embraced by the megalomanic because they make psychopathy sound good. But the horrific consequences of these thoughts will only become more obvious as our natural ecosystems falter and collapse, a process which is already underway. Neo-classical economics is the result of generational hypnosis and dysfunctional neocortex. Unfortunately, many are swayed by accolades. But whatever psychological manipulations are at play in this video, the fact remains that shopping malls do not replace the water cycle; a network of highways does not replace atmospheric oxygen"
[1] Solow, R.M., 1974. Intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources. Review of Economic Studies Symposium, p. 41. -
John von Neumann is heavily overrated: Genius is another name for Insanity.
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Fall of Empire, End to Wars: Johan Galtung Predictions. #Politics
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Hans-Peter Dürr on "Heisenberg". The politics of the Atomic Bomb offer deep insights into the psychology and motivations of science.
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It's comedic how the ideas of the systems theory, cybernetics & complexity crowd since the 1970s are in essence a confused mishmash of ancient Chinese & Indian ideas, desperately bent to sound "scientific" - resulting in a dysfunctional, overcomplicated Intellectual masturbation.
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Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson & Abraham Maslow. Interview on Milton H. Erickson:
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@Sound2Land: "It is remarkable that such a small device has the potential to advance bird monitoring in such huge ways! We are excited to be using this cutting-edge technology for soundscapes2landscapes." (source)
The cost, size and capabilities of sensors keep dropping dramatically. Deploying & running city-scale sensor-networks now requires just a small group of motivated citizens. A trend i like to call "Sense and Sensibility".
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As a rule of thumb, i want to spend less time negotiating science & technology, and more time negotiating silence & love.
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Interesting presentation by Jacques F. Vallee - one of the inventors of ARPANET & close collaborator of Doug Engelbart at SRI: "Software of Consciousness: Intriguing Lessons & Lingering Puzzles on the far side of StarGate"
A Theory of Everything (else)... - talk by Jacques Vallée
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The quintessential criticism of augmentation systems - as expressed by a Zen Monk:
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog
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Malta is drafting a law to give legal personality to DAOs and other decentralised systems. And yes, AIs too: https://decryptmedia.com/6981/civil-rights-for-bots
Malta is known as a premiere EU tax haven & money laundering hotspot for corruption & organised crime. It is very fitting that they are granting "legal personality" to so called "autonomous systems" (complete sci-fi BS) - to further reduce accountability & transparency.
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Theory: In 90% of real world Machine Learning use-cases, the ML could be replaced with alternative techniques which are 90% simpler (to understand, deploy, maintain, etc.) and 90%+ as effective. The results of design driven by techno-fetishism, instead of real human needs.
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High-Technology Vs. Appropriate Technology. #Technology #Regenerative
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Appropriate technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
Open-source appropriate technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_appropriate_technology
Appropedia: https://www.appropedia.org/Welcome_to_Appropedia
#OpenSource #Technology #Regenerative
