Questions: 1) Why? What's the underlying cause driving this change? 2) How short will jobs get? 3 years? 2 years? 6 months? 6 days? 5 minutes? 3) What will...
Promoting this Friday's Santa Cruz Future Salon, John Smart will be interviewed on KUSP's Talk of the Bay (http://www.kusp.org/pa/index.html). Listen Thursday,...
Wayne, I don't know the underlying cause driving shorter employments except there is no incentive to stop it. How short will jobs get? Yesterday I heard about...
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Artificial artificial intelligence We had the wrong idea about computers managing without human beings. Computers have realised that the real way to make money...
UFOs Explained at Last. A world event. THE SCIENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS by Eric Julien Translated by Estherella Cartens. ISBN 1-60177-101-0 Hardcover -...
To veterans of future wars Who sleep Among your friends Row upon row Stone upon stone Unknown soldiers in an unknown war Did you know what you were fighting...
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Congress- Terrorism.html?hp&ex=1158206400&en=559efc62c3ef83bb&ei=5094&partner=homepage Democratic Effort to Limit...
... Sorry to take so long to look up the details on this, everybody. The lawsuits were initiated by the whining (anonymously) of ea_spouse on livejournal,...
Dear Wayne, I believe treating employees well is a good idea. My employees appreciate my attitude. Do yours? Spent the last five months being productive, DJ...
I'm just curious why most people are so convinced that strong Al will be primarily digital and rule-based in nature. It seems like the scientific community is...
Nightmare Mortgages They promise the American Dream: A home of your own -- with ultra-low rates and payments anyone can afford. Now, the trap has sprung ...
... I think you are conflating deterministic and axiomatic. If you have the former without the latter, most of the objections that follow do not make any...
... It sounds like you're saying you don't like symbolic AI. My impression is that symbolic AI has been largely been considered a dead end since the late 1980s...
... Hi Stephanie IANAAIR (I am not an AI researcher) and I do find the subject fascinating so I'll try to chip in to the best of my ability. There is more than...
... Is it true? As far I know, the Symbolic Systems major (CS) at Stanford University is still very attractive to many students. Talking about bottom-up...
Yes, Steve, you are correct in your take on my subtext. I do believe symbolic approaches have had their prominence for some decades and need to give way to...
... It's a pretty good book. He has some good ideas that are, as you indicate, more bottom-up. He argues for the ubiquitous structure of the brain, such that...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/19/AR2006091901439.html?referrer=email A Web of Exhibitionists By Robert J. Samuelson Wednesday,...
... I'm not sure how that contradicts my statement. Are you implying that anything that interests students at Stanford must be a promising area of research? If...
Me three...never been to one. I'm keeping an eye on the message board for future meetings. Will they be announced there?? [Non-text portions of this message...
... Not sure whether or not future meetings will be scheduled... but do note that the Bay Area Transhumanists (BA-Trans) have started meeting in San Francisco,...
Ha..witty. Well, I think you know what I was talking about. -Shawn ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!...
... Ya, just having some fun. :-) You're right - there are still academics interested in it. I just haven't heard or seen anything interesting come out of the...
from the "put on your thinking cap and ponder this a minute" desk of joschka fischer Greetings: The importance of this issue is more than abundantly clear...
Hello Bay Area Saloners. Just posted to the blog (go there for the hyperlinks): http://www.futuresalon.org/2006/09/lee_smolin_the_.html Hear Lee Smolin...