It is my opinion that a primary function of school is to teach individuals to be submissive to authority. This helps the capitalist classes maintain control. So when you turn up to work on your first day, you are already a nicely preprogrammed little robot.
Perhaps the brain just provides a place for the patterns to live? Perhaps it is not so much searching for patterns of activity which allow it to predict the future, but allowing the patterns of activity induced by the world to grow and evolve together. Then all it has to do is modulate this evolution when the organism gets something it likes. Reward modulated hebbian learning I believe it is called. I've not read the whole paper, but it seems overly complicated and unnecessary when you consider the above conception...
I cannot understand the logic that could make this kind of contract enforceable.
By this reasoning, the patent office employing Albert Einstein owned the theory of Special Relativity and presumably therefore a stake in subsequent commercialised technological development?
It makes me feel physically sick that this is a thing.
I had a probably similar clause in an old contract, anything I built or indeed thought, in or out of work belonged to the company.
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This is a rare glimpse of the true nature of our world.
We really do live in a time when individuals are owned by corporate entities. I cannot express the depth of my anger and revulsion at this horrendous state of affairs.
Yet people talk about it as if it's something that is OK. They talk about it for a few minutes, shrug their collective shoulders and move on. It is not OK, this is not just one of those things.
We seem to believe ourselves in some bright new dawn, an enlightened age full of magic, gods and joyous, eternal, unbroken song.
It is a non-sense that the pitfalls of the past no longer apply.
Do not make believe that things have changed, that the human spirit is no longer corruptible.
I honestly think we need to be mindful of the fanciful seeming visions of some of our finest prophets.
I will leave you with a quote:
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
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This is a tired mantra. It does not bear close scrutiny. It is a meme created by the wealthy and powerful to maintain their wealth and power. It is similar to the belief inculcated by royalty that they rule by divine right.
You call it a "tired mantra" and a "meme". If that were the case, then I'd think that you'd destroy my position with data vs a couple of lines of rhetoric.
To what kind of scrutiny are you referring? I'd think that if governments were good at redistributing wealth, one of the many communist countries would have been a resounding success.
Can you point me to one?
I can point you to many information sources that show that economic freedom is closely correlated to average wealth and higher standards of living.
Wow. You managed to write all that without actually including a word that might have supported what you were saying. Maybe it's a "tired mantra" because it's true.
Programming is taking the patterns which make up a thought and approximate them in the patterns which can be expressed in a programming language. Sometimes the thoughts we have are not easily expressed in the patterns of the computer language which we write in. What is needed is a computer language which pulls the patterns from our thoughts and allows them to be used within the computer language. In other words we need to automatically determine the correct language in which to express the particular problem a user is trying to solve. This is AI, we need compression - modularisation of phase space through time. The only way to bring about the paradigm shift he is describing in any real sense is to apply machine learning to programming.
When you lose money for two weeks straight, it's nice to be able to figure out if it's a statistical blip, or if there's a fundamental reason that the trade stopped working. If all you have is a statistical correlation, you can't do that, and you have to guess. If you have a causal relationship in mind, you can examine the market to see if there are reasons to believe that the causal relationship might have broken down.
