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What's holding back robots is perception - you have machines that can physically do just about anything, but what's lacking is object recognition. And the problem for that is reall…

I don't think you can blame globalization for that, -technology has eliminated many jobs -companies have become more efficient at "desklling" workers into more narrowly defined rol…

The decreasing cost of manufactured goods, increase in quality of them, and the increase in GDP that has occurred over the past 30 years. (You can argue much of this can be attribu…

A good way to find startup ideas might be to simply go to forums/sites for particular communities, such as the firefighting community, or cnc machine community, and simply ask what…

By elitist I meant to say cliquey, you might filter out people you would really excel

Sounds pretty elitist, and your company might suffer for it.

What about the children of poorer families who don't have the luxury of going to college. The above would be fine if parents/students were paying the full cost of the facilities, b…

But you're assuming outsourcing is bad for individuals in the US, whereas most indications are the opposite, it increases their wealth. The point about the nongrad IT worker is tha…

No I'm being serious, and "Awesome Dude" is in the eye of the beholder, you can only really judge that in interviewing.

A better way to teach how to learn to learn, would be to teach a class in exactly that. The motivational speaker industry does a better job in "meta" subjects, such as "getting thi…

I would go further to say that the current system is disadvantaging rich countries immensely. I typical person without a college degree is likely to think he shouldn't even attempt…

Sounds like we need to end the tenure system and get the academic "pigs" off their high horses!

In the UK, the higher education system is as you desribed in point 1, you get a degree in exactly your subject. yet they have no shortage of people who can debate on the issues you…

Requiring everyone to learn some nonpractical things is a waste of societal resources. If some people want to learn something just for the sake of it, they could join reading group…

You could create certification tests for those as well - general knowledge test, creativity test, writing test, personality test

If you liked that, you should see his lectures very informative, controversial and funny http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3136634457413762837&...

Google image labeler http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ allows people to play a game labelling images, thus give data towards their machine learning research on image recogniti…

I'm trying to draw a parallel between how content on the web is being created and how an artificial mind might be created. If you sat down at tried to engineer a giant encyclopedia…

My point is about the "democratization" of classifer creation. I personally am not a programmer and don't have the talent to create a startup, and there are millions more people li…

Yes, what I'm saying is there are far too few of these, there's over a million developers out there. Even many of these strikeiron services are just news, you send a small query an…

That's exactly my initial reason for posting this. In the singulariy enthusiast community artificial intelligence is the most important thing we as humans can create (post scarcity…