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Comment Re:Isn't China hostile to the USA? And the world? (Score 1) 28

Replacing makes as much literal sense, as you say, but  the same meaning is not asserted .  USA and Western Europe, while mongrelizing recently, are still living in the shadow of 13-14th Century Italian/French Enlightenment. Russia and China and Islamic lands never experienced  this humanizing experience, and thus in their darkest of hearts still act like 8th century savages.

Comment Re:It's not supposed to be profitable (Score 1) 66

"There is no post-AI economy, there is only homelessness, poverty and starvation. That's exactly what billionaires intend." Really?  Wealth prefers a dystopian hell-whole? I would think the privileged  value SECURITY above all. Peasants with  chicken in every pot and a pork-chop for breakfast ... or a brook trout in every creel ... never threaten the lord-of-manor. Have our financial  masters become stupid in their success? That would be a damning critique of post-modern wealth; say nothing of the institutions that educated them. 

Comment Make the Web Webby Again! (Score 2) 37

That's the problem: they are not a web. The original idea of the internet was to have a web of connections so that a few cables or nodes going bad wouldn't stop data movement, it would route around the bad spots via going through adjacent parts of the web. Seems we have to return to the original vision.

Technically they usually route around damaged sea cables via a larger scale redundancy, such as through another continent, but the webbiness needs to be per sea based on the rate of damage so far.

Comment Re:The Funniest Part... (Score 1) 225

I though Godels Theorem had resolved this "thinking" issue. A machine can generate only algorithmically-based outputs. Humans ( reasoning entities ) may produce non-algorithmically generated outputs(truths). So nominally you are correct ... "Reasoning is whatever a machine cannot yet do". What  issue you left out is that infinite (fluid)  class of outputs a machine (algorithm) CANNOT  NEVER generate.

Comment Re:Could the AI bubble do something good? (Score 2) 54

They're both cheaper than fossil fuels, the main problem with nuclear has been that it can't be built in time to help with global warming and so can serve as a distraction that ties up resources that could've gone into renewables. A mad scramble to build them for the AI bubble could fix that, at least temporarily.

Comment Re:What is thinking? (Score 1) 225

A goodish portion of medicine is applying an algorithm to a set of circumstance. A large potion of the critical thinking has already been done for you. You just need to isolate which algorithm applies when.

The very best doctors (from a very, very good doctor), are interlocutors, teasing out what isn't obvious from what the patient is presenting an piecing out a narrative of what makes sense.

The critical thinking is much after.

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