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Comment how to hide a recession (Score 1) 104

don't stop buying our tech stocks we are not having a recession. that is not why we are laying people off. no not at all. normally laying people off would mean we are in a recession but we are replacing people with AI. that is great you should buy more of our stock because we are more efficient. think about the future and all the amazing stuff we will do. dont look at what we have actual done recently the future is so bright.

Comment Re:AI Prediction Trash Bin (Score 1) 63

its all marketing. In the early 2000's, Crystal Reports packaging for some version said it had "Smart Engine Technology" with a cool AI graphic. I remember thinking. oooh cool AI. I was on the Crystal Info team. I went to talk to Tony who was managing Crystal Reports at the time. I asked him about the cool "Smart Engine Technology". He rolled his eyes and said that for the previous version they were rushed so they could only write one driver using ODBC for all the DB's and it was a piece of shit and very slow. For the current version they wrote native drivers for all the DB's since they had time. That was what marketing called "Smart Engine Technology". That is how I learned the difference between marketing and technology.

Comment transmission of thoughts with language (Score 2) 120

The thoughts of humans can not be completely expressed in language. Language can just be used to transmit the conscious thoughts. The unconscious thoughts are built from interaction with the real world and they cannot be transmitted by language. When humans talk to each other we can invoke the unconscious thoughts in others with language because they are there due to the others having experienced the same reality. The neural nets don't have the same unconscious thoughts since they don't experience reality with a body so the conscious thoughts transmitted are grounded in nothing. I wrote a programmed solution to language based on generalising an operator precedence parser. It can be seen here http://thinktelligence.com/ .

Comment numbers (Score 1) 561

So a number of successful companies are found to have a large percentage of white males working for them. This is looked at as bad and the diversity numbers are not good enough. It would seem the interpretation should be that having a large number of white males working for your company makes the company more likely to be successful.

Comment the government corporation (Score 1) 439

It was interesting that the politicians got 21 million for the act and 5 million against. That is a great money making model for the politicians in the government. They just have to come up with proposals that are zero sum and hurt some company's business and help others. Then the companies will be motivated to bid for or against the law. The more damaging the law to some companies the more money they can make.

Comment Re:Naive (Score 2, Interesting) 126

An extension might be useful for causing elected politicians to have desired behaviour. The problem is when a politician wants votes before they are elected you can influence them but after they are elected then they are influenced by others. You need to maintain the before election influence after they are elected. Creating a contract that the politician signs before they are elected is good. This contract will constrain their behaviour. If they violate the contract then the contract becomes their official unrevokable resignation from office. During the election you can then advertise which politicians have signed which contracts. After the election if they violate they contract they are out and people can vote again. Politicians have different behaviour before they are elected than after so getting weaker politicians to sign on might cause the more senior ones to sign on if they have too in order to compete.

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