Month: February 2017

the-future-now:

After all this time, Twitter finally found some women scientists to recommend

follow @the-future-now

so nice to see a photo and the name of someone you’ve taken classes with on a twitter-exchange, and find out she is a PM at Twitter. I don’t envy her job , though this looks like an interesting problem to solve. 

Tesla warns that ‘thousands’ of Model 3 reservations holders will go outside of Connecticut to buy without direct sales

This should be seen as less about the dealers’ greed, but about the fact that we still have no clue about what to do when electric cars (that require a lot less service) will make all these fairly well-paid working class people like auto mechanics’s jobs go extinct. Not in 50 years, but in 5 or 10. And it’s inevitable, whether Connecticut passes this now or later. 

This is exactly what Democrats and liberals everywhere need to seize on. Come up with a detailed plan (three or four-day work weeks, universal basic income, etc) – sell it relentlessly – better than Trumpists, get elected and just do it. Our entire civilization depends on it.

Tesla warns that ‘thousands’ of Model 3 reservations holders will go outside of Connecticut to buy without direct sales

Elon Musk reiterates the need for brain-computer interfaces in the age of AI

utopiaville:

He’s spoken about the potential of brain interfaces, including a “neural lace,” before, but at the launch of Tesla in UAE during the World Government Summit in Dubai on Monday, Musk articulated more clearly why we might seek to deep our ties to our computing devices in the near future.

The need for this, he said on Monday in Dubai, could “achieve a symbiosis between human and machine intelligence, and maybe solves the control problem and the usefulness problem,” reports CNBC.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/13/elon-musk-reiterates-the-need-for-brain-computer-interfaces-in-the-age-of-ai/

Wonder what this will do to world inequality.

Elon Musk reiterates the need for brain-computer interfaces in the age of AI

Patrick Stewart Will Look Great Forever

I miss my old neighborhood, and my old neighbor.
I always wanted to be like this man when I grow up. I still get the same wide eyed happiness when I am in certain parts of this city where anything seems possible. But not this one.
Could it be that this place where he lives now, and the life that he lives now, will now be forever in my past, and never in my future again?

Patrick Stewart Will Look Great Forever

Actually had a deep sleep, first time in I don’t know how long. I was in Cuba, a spontaneous all-too-short trip, and discovering a tiny all-metal church in Havana that would only fit two people at most, and an incredible ruins of an enormous pre-Colombian city on the mountain(!) above Havana, with elephant trees growing through city walls like in those Khmer cities in Siem Reap (but they were dry and flooded with sunlight here – unlike Cambodia). There were very few tourists wandering about, and the only way to get up there was a rickety van, no usual tourist infrastructure with hawkers, guides and ticket booths, but a sign said to download an AR app that will explain everything. I considered cost of data and did it anyway because I knew that very soon this place will get commercialized and destroyed. I regretted not having read a guidebook, knowing nothing of context of this place, and my rudimentary Spanish.
But then I got woken up and had to get ready for a conference call. I never found out why that city was there or who lived in it.