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Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 1:08 pm
by Malcolm
but the effects of NASA are much wider and that was a product of the straight laced conformist from the 50's.
Funny you should bring up rocketry. Considering how much of a jumpstart NASA got from all those Nazis we captured at the end of WWII, I don't think that holds much water, either. America's space program benefited tremendously from the Germans and Russians scaring the shit out of many intellectuals.
EDIT: Wait a second. Hmm, didn't Watson and Crick publish their paper on the structure of DNA in 1953? Yep. Crick was tripping acid when he came up with the double helix, too.
Here are more drug mindfucks from those "straight laced guys" that made up the 1950s.
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Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 1:23 pm
by Vince
Never mind Malcolm. You're right. Dopers are the greatest! They keep the economy going! They run all the biggest corporations! All the NASA scientists and engineers were probably tripping balls! I think the hardest thing for them was to develop the bong for Armstrong that wouldn't consume the entire Apollo cabin in flames with the enriched oxygen.
At least now we know what really happened on Apollo 1
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 1:27 pm
by Malcolm
My point was the '50s was not dominated exclusively by guys with crew cuts and pocket protectors and social rebellion had taken plenty of root.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 2:05 pm
by Vince
You can find outliers in any group. However, each generation is defined by a certain group. We were talking about hippies, and they are a good example. They made up the minority of young adults in the 60's but they had the largest influence of their age group in that time. They defined their generation.
While Jack Kerouac may have been somewhat influential, he (thankfully) didn't define his generation as he couldn't hold a job and was a barely functional alcoholic. That's just not what you think of when you think of the returning WWII vets.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2015 2:14 pm
by Malcolm
While Jack Kerouac may have been somewhat influential, he (thankfully) didn't define his generation as he couldn't hold a job and was a barely functional alcoholic. That's just not what you think of when you think of the returning WWII vets.
Uh...
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Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 1:32 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 2:40 pm
by TPRJones
Neat, but of limited usefulness. Since they have to patch into remaining muscle the amputation has to be low.
When they can patch directly into the nerve cords, then we'll see something spectacular.
Posted: Wed May 20, 2015 2:45 pm
by Malcolm
Got to start learning somewhere.
Posted: Sun May 24, 2015 2:29 pm
by Malcolm
Bionic contacts. 3x better than 20/20. Implant time, under 10 minutes.
Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 1:36 pm
by Malcolm
LAWS. Here's where I think we'll see a fucktonload of robots in the near future. Maintenance of machines once they leave the battlefield is easier than maintenance of humans. There is a funny line, though.
Professor Russell said: "LAWS could violate fundamental principles of human dignity by allowing machines to choose whom to kill — for example, they might be tasked to eliminate anyone exhibiting ‘threatening behaviour’
Yeah, that power is reserved for the state alone, goddamnit.
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:10 pm
by Malcolm
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:19 pm
by Malcolm
Malcolm wrote:I think it's easier to make a human-machine hybrid than it is to make an AI with originality, creativity, and intuition comparable to a person. It's not the 'bots, dude, that I think will be the future. It's the 'borgs.
DARPA is obviously spying on me and stealing my ideas.
The U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Wednesday that it's building an implantable neural device that can transfer data between the human brain and the digital world.
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:46 pm
by Troy
Definitely feel like if that many jobs are replaced by machines, a shit load of jobs are going to have to be created to debug the fucking things.
And there are so many parts of the world, and even the U.S. (day 4 of driving across America) that machines would take a very, very long time to gain any traction, if at all.
New Mexico is gorgeous, btw.
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Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:32 am
by Leisher
New Mexico is gorgeous, btw.
I lived there for three years. Up North it's gorgeous. Down south not so much.
Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2016 11:58 am
by Troy
Leisher wrote:New Mexico is gorgeous, btw.
I lived there for three years. Up North it's gorgeous. Down south not so much.
Our stopover was Cloudcroft. Sleepy little mountain town that shuts down at 5. We roll in from Austin at 4:55 and get stink eyes from the hotel ppl. Everyone else was great though, and the food (at the ONLY two places open for dinner and breakfast) was solid. The drive back down the mountain headed west was surreal.
Arizona has been "meh"
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Re: Humans in the Robot Economy
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 2:36 pm
by Malcolm
Hah.
Pizza Hut has partnered with MasterCard to deploy robotic waiters to its restaurants in Asia.
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Former McDonald's USA CEO Ed Rensi warned on Tuesday: "It's cheaper to buy a $35,000 robotic arm than it is to hire an employee who's inefficient making $15 an hour bagging french fries,"
I wonder how long before some luddites start smashing these and the self-driving cars that'll be around in the next couple decades.
Re: Humans in the Robot Economy
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 5:56 pm
by GORDON
Another new job: robot security. Protecting those arms that replaced the fucktards in restaurants.
Re: Humans in the Robot Economy
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 7:49 pm
by Alhazad
GORDON wrote:Another new job: robot security. Protecting those arms that replaced the fucktards in restaurants.
Start a hand-carved, artisanal wooden shoe factory for aspiring saboteurs.
Re: Humans in the Robot Economy
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 8:34 pm
by GORDON
I understood that reference.
Re: Humans in the Robot Economy
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 9:02 pm
by TheCatt
I did not.