—“Aristocracy is to freemen what capitalism is to small business owners. You don’t have to be a billionaire to flourish under capitalism just as you don’t have to be an accomplished warlord to thrive under aristocracy; we all flourish because of our natural, competitive, high-agency element with all the right incentives for eugenic selection and cooperation under natural law.”— Simon Ström
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-10 05:23:00 UTC
—“The human brain’s processing power is estimated at about 38 petaflops. But all it needs to operate is about 20 watts of energy.”—
That’s less than half of the current supercomputer (that runs on algorithms). But an algorithmic computer that could produce anywhere near the plasticity of the human brain would need thousands of times that processing power.
Back in, i dunno, mid 2000’s I told people that the reason I got out of AI was when I understood that the power needed to create a general AI with current technology would turn the surface of the earth to cinders. And of course I was speaking (as usual) illustratively and therefore hyperbolically.
But you know, the whole point is, that it’s actually a hardware problem. Most of what we need to do is not calculate, but to search. Algorithms calculate. (expensive). Search is cheap. And while many models require calculation, most of what humans need is to do is search.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-09 11:18:00 UTC
—“And so the (left’s) circle of stupid continues.”—
Why? Because it is rational and presumptuous, and not empirical and juridical.
Conservatism says only ‘demonstrate small successes first, then scale.’
But the left creates moral hazards we cannot back out of creating a continuous cycle of decline.
Thush “One may take no action, personal or political, for which one cannot perform restitution and reversal.”
This is the limit to ‘reciprocity’.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-09 07:36:00 UTC
http://www.asiteaboutnothing.net/w_eprime.html
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-07 20:06:00 UTC
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-07 20:06:00 UTC
—“Each year teachers race to cover more material faster, and the goal of intellectual pursuit is forced to compete with Trivial Pursuit.”— Lynn Erickson
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-07 18:52:00 UTC
http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/cnn-staff-reeling-after-personal-info-leaked/HOW IT IS DONE.
PAYBACK FOR THE LEFT ISN”T SO GOOD?
I remember when professors were threatened by black panthers and told to teach different versions of history.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-06 18:35:00 UTC
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/microsoft-cuts-3-000-jobs-focus-cloud-171151815.htmlDEAR REDMOND/BELLEVUE: YOU ARE THE NEXT ROCHESTER
You know, I said all this would happen. I said they couldn’t course correct. I said WHY they couldnt’ course correct. And I was right that Ballmer was the reason it wouldn’t be able to course correct. There is no replacement generation.
They cannot buy a way into competency. Microsoft management culture and organizational cultures is Toxic.
Not gonna happen. It won’t be a decline like Kodak, but it will be a decline like Xerox. And for the greater seattle area it will make the Boeing debacle in the 70’s look like a bad hair day.
You become your parents if you aren’t careful. (IBM)
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-06 16:44:00 UTC
by Taimur Akbar
Interest is used for economic calculation in commercial loans in that that money is going towards expanding the productive capacity of the market, and it is a matter of reciprocity for the borrowers in commercial loans to give “dividends” to the lenders in the form of interest, as well as to signal to the market the profitability and risk inherent in said investments, allowing for credit to shift the interest rates towards equilibrium in calculation of risk/reward, leading to sustainable credit markets and production lines.
Then, with consumer loans, all that is happening is that the family wants to use their future income to make purchases now, and it is a matter of consumption vs a matter of investment, so the financial sector engages in a conflation between constructive and consumptive lending, when consumption and investment should not be treated the same as they serve different functions. The treatment of consumption and investment as one then allows predation if one accepts the act of extension of a loan as the key ingredient rather than the purpose of the loan.
So one should regard the purpose of the end funds rather than the extension of the funds as the operation.
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-06 14:51:00 UTC
—“I’m not at all opposed to incremental suppression via an army of waifu.”—Megan K. Usui
Source date (UTC): 2017-07-05 16:29:00 UTC