Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
``I can't help but wonder about our conceptual need for "digital" abstractions.'' For example, quantum calculations can be performed on digital computer, or by an artificial system made up of superconducting Josephson junctions, or observed in crystal structures.There are tradeoffs between

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-07 Thread glen ☣
If you meant to say that our conception of programming (as opposed to understanding of programming). Along the same lines, I just ran across this: http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/overview.html "Just as the digital logic gate abstraction allows digital circuit designers to create

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-07 Thread Marcus Daniels
"The problem is this unjustified dichotomy between machine and biology." There isn't engineering practice in place for developing programmable nanomachines in the way there is for fabricating circuits, but biology demonstrates it is possible. It could be we work from the bottom, learning how

[FRIAM] Boring application tale

2016-06-07 Thread Gillian Densmore
To mach Coddy Doder Son's tale of how he fixed power converter: I just applied a place looking for some creative types. It had 5 serious questions and 4 goofball Qs. I am (supposedly) one of however many people applied to actually be considered. What I don't get is though is How many people are

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-07 Thread sasmyth
What a Panopoly of responses (or is it more of a Plethora?) on this topic here. I can't begin to respond to the many very interesting and thoughtful points made here. This general topic (the existential implications of the co-evolution of humans and technology, the "extended phenotype" as

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-07 Thread glen ☣
On 06/05/2016 02:22 PM, Robert Wall wrote: > This one, titled "Where do minds belong? > > (Mar > 2016)" discusses the technological roadblocks in an insightful, highly > speculative, but entertaining manner.

Re: [FRIAM] Fascinating article on how AI is driving change in SEO, categories of AI and the Law of Accelerating Returns

2016-06-07 Thread glen ☣
On 06/06/2016 02:22 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > https://medium.com/utopia-for-realists/why-do-the-poor-make-such-poor-decisions-f05d84c44f1a > was interesting, vis a vis what happens when you just give poor people > money. Excerpt: > So in concrete terms, just how much dumber does poverty make