So it is much more a problem of AI getting into the wrong hands than AI itself. Which raises the prospect that it may get used prematurely and with weaknesses. This reduces very much the self perfection scenario completely without human intervention.
In turn, the human/AI evil scenario warrants a look at the history of "empire builders". ... long story .... But I do believe that history is not Musk's forte.
And btw, what about crowd sourcing and scaling? Just bog standard human collaboration. I would not underestimate this (history again). These things can be just as powerful as AI.
To other posters. This vulnerability is so trivial (it creates a function in an environment variable), not some kind of sophisticated buffer overflow etc., that I wonder if this was once a bash feature.
This is fabulous. It makes me speechless as to why this true and not surprising at all.
My quick theory is that deep down we are social animals and a lot of our 'management' decisions stem from this part of us. Not from wanting to rationally and technically solve problems. For example, many 'higher' animals have pecking orders. We have too. On the other hand, we are capable of rationality after all. But we will have to be much more honest with ourselves of what we are. Maybe a lot of human development in history is about escaping our limits. Which is not to say that we should negate or supress them.
There is tons of studies on mismanagement in organisations (state down to enterprises) but this article nails it.
Why not eastern Europe. Budapest comes to mind. They do have a well educated tech work force. The politics may be inconvenient but its the EU after all.
Cost is low and it is a real adventure :-)
If anybody has a convincing idea, I'll come along (fluent german and english). Hungarian will work after a while.
True, and they have been surging again after the chinese government eased monetary conditions after the financial crisis in 2009 (remember).
But to Xi Jinpings credit -and I do not think he is getting enough of it- he has pricked it.
For those not actively following china. There is a big difference between the central government (Xi Jinping) and provincial and local government. In that the central government has much less control than one would think or is used to in the West.
Chinese leadership is implementing a lot of new policies which can be summarized under 'improved quality of economic growth'. So we will see how that goes. But it should have an impact on emigration.
Very true. I think it is precisely the not-fitting in which makes cultural mixture very very productive. Or in other words, cultural homogeneity is stagnation and unproductive.
Besides, did anybody realize how much chinese are contributing to high tech, battery tech from a chinese guy at stanford. Math from many chinese.
That said, of course the chinese government will want to take advantage of this like the russians will with their emmigres. The scale though may be frightening.
I have been privately lumping causation and correlation together for decades now. It freed my thinking. While the two are certainly different, it is also true that causation does not have the set-in-stoneness/invariability that is commonly taken for granted. Witness the recent discussion about nasa's impossible-space-propulsion.
In terms of a human acquiring knowledge, correlation certainly is the first step. It is also called observation. Causation just seems to be a subsequent underpinning with context and concepts.
Well, in the first place I cannot. I take the thing as it is. This is the risk-taking part. But, I guess, that is why I have to move from correlation to causation or rather embed this one correlation into a broader context. Because it protects me against correlational flukes.
<quote>To me, however, a programmer is who I'm looking for, while a resume full of revenue increases and cost reductions sounds like an "anomalously high-cost parasite who types some mumbo-jumbo into Excel and PowerPoint, claiming credit for others' work".</quote>
Mind you, I am not saying that value-adding is a bad-thing. But given all the opportunities these days, Flash storage for example makes a world of difference, it is amazing how stubbornly all those PowerPoint mumbo-jumbu types resist. Usage of these technologies (in jargon, embracing technology) can add big bucks.
Oh boy, they love powerpoints and meetings as much as they lack technical skills, in my experience.
Well, what if being a "Programmer/Analyst II" is precisely what you want? In my case it is absolutely true, both of it.
For once, I would love to see those despisers of hands-on-technology honestly describe what they want for themselves. Just admit it, you 'people-persons' (or hedonists maybe) just want a lazy convenient live with consumption to the hilt.
I think you misread it. "Programmer/Analyst II" is the exact same job in term what you need to do as "Jesus Saviour Software God", it is just less paid.
You should read parent as are you looking to be a loved programmer or a despised programmer.
For example, in my city, if you work in a Bank, you earn 40% more. Period. Yes, I didn't work in a bank when I arrived, and now I do - the job is exactly the same - the name of the stuff you need to get out of the database is different but otherwise that is the same shit: upstream system is sending some stuff that you need to filter for downstream system. Most of the knowledge is not even domain based, they are based on design quirks of both systems.
And btw, what about crowd sourcing and scaling? Just bog standard human collaboration. I would not underestimate this (history again). These things can be just as powerful as AI.