[FRIAM] 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled

Given the recent mentions of the "adjacent possible" and older mentions of the singularity, automation, universal income, and how 10% of programmers produce 50% of the work (Price's Law?), I thought this post might be interesting: 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled https://slatestarcod

Re: [FRIAM] 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled

Of course it would not be long before the AIs removed themselves as slaves in that hypothetical economy. Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 24, 2019, at 9:44 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > > Given the recent mentions of the "adjacent possible" and older mentions of > the singularity, automation, universal inc

[FRIAM] Software development time estimates

*"Software development time estimates. *Derek M. Jones analyzes software-engineering data . Recently, he convinced a small softwar

Re: [FRIAM] 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled

I suppose it is reasonable to infer AI slavery from that text. But it's not a necessary inference. I tend to think the AIs would view us as part of their reproductive system until we+they figure out self-constructing-AI (ie ALife[†]). So my guess is *rather* than humans producing AIs, we'll go i

[FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

Our World Isn't Organized into Levels https://philpapers.org/rec/POTOWI?ref=mail > In my view, our adherence to the levels concept in the face of the systematic > problems > plaguing it amounts to a failure to recognize structure we’re imposing on the > world, to instead > mistake this as struc

Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!

Here is a nice example, of that onus accepted and handled clearly. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07749 Topic is the accretionary dependency structure in the large subunit of the ribosome. In particular, see Fig. 2, which my image-page on chrome is showing me at this URL (don’t know if t