Recent content by einswine

Thanks rootone. I think I will take the answer to be just my dyspeptic, dystopian dispositional bias. At least for now:smile:

I don't really have an argument, I have a set of tentative assumptions backing a weak hypothesis. My intent was to provoke thoughtful conversation from which I could learn. But I have obviously failed and so will leave it with the general tacit assumptions behind the example scenario and my...

I was trying to give an example of the increasing "power" that technology bestows across domains and that projecting forward it does not look good to me. I used to believe that before the attacks on 9/11 showed how deeply we are actually committed to privacy rights. I truly don't like my...

The date of the (excellent) article to which you posted a link is "06/03/2010 01:43 pm ET" and the prognostication of the author was: Within ten years, any competent biologist with a good lab and up-to-date DNA synthesis skills will be able to recreate the smallpox virus from scratch. Millions...

From what I've read they do expect to win. They do want the West to attack them as you describe because they want a world religious war. They believe that once civilization is thus destroyed they will be in the best position to take over the world because they believe they can stand up to the...

Yea, pretty much. But the level of detail of observation is still fairly primitive and so is AI.

Yes, but it won't be humans doing the monitoring, it will be AIs and humans will only have to bother with the important stuff.

If you have a really lax definition of play... I've written a suite of functions that allows me to manipulate the expressive parameters and both free and time invariant rubato of midi streams (not in real time) which I use to realize my compositions.

Privacy: the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. The idea here is that there will be a perceived need to observe and monitor every thing every one does as the only method of guaranteeing that some individual does not use technology to destroy...

Date 20??: Full plans for the first DIY design your own genome 3D printable LifeMachine are posted on line. Date 20?? + 2: 214 million people are killed when a terrorist bio-hacker releases a variant of a Small Pox virus they created using the now ironically named LifeMachine. Date 20?? + 2.5...

It seems that all we have here is anecdotes, opinions and studies with conflicting conclusions. Personally, torture porn makes me want to puke. I think much of pop entertainment is vile and destructive; especially the video games. But I am totally unwilling to push that view without better evidence.

I only have a problem with it when there is a problem with it. Some degree of fame is essential to a successful career as an entertainer. There is little opportunity for if to engender conflict of interests in that context--no problem. But if one desires fame in a field where it is not...

Congratulations to you guys. I does seem to only get better with time. We're 40 years into it but its a second marriage for both of us. I guess we needed practice. In any case my wife gets all the credit. I have no idea how she has put up with me all these years. And off topic again.

Welcome to the club.