David Runciman: How Democracy Ends https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-demo...
I'll watch and read this,thanks, but in the meantime my money is on democracy ending with the automation of military, police, and security operations.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
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#12On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8
Compiling C to printable x86, to make an executable research paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA_DrBwkiJA
HDR Photography in Microsoft Excel?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkQJdaGGVM8
Zebras All the Way Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE
Solving Layout Problems with CSS Grid and Friends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkzpgWoYEI
Console Security - Switch https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch
Let's move SMM out of firmware and into the kernel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEaw4msq6g
Bringing Linux back to server boot ROMs with NERF and Heads https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9056-bringing_linux_back_to_serv...
Sharing the Chisel https://youtu.be/2C8F7GBRluY?t=11m31s (looks like the actual conference video wasn't released)
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#13Jessica Kerr's "Shaving the Golden Yak" [1] or "If Coco Chanel Reviewed Elm" [2] by Tereza Sokol.
[1]: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/easier-software-developm...
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
#14Tony Seba on Clean Disruption: https://www.startupsilike.com/blog/emerging-trends-the-futur...
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#15Having just gotten back from 34C3 I'm going to post a few of my favorites from there:
Dude, you broke the Future! https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9270-dude_you_broke_the_future
Pointing Fingers at 'The Media' https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-9106-pointing_fingers_at_the_med...
Social Cooling - big data’s unintended side effect https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8797-social_cooling_-_big_data_s...
Full list here: https://media.ccc.de/c/34c3
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#16Not a single talk, but a series: Jordan Peterson’s Psychological Significance of the Bible Stories. As an atheist I found his explanations extremely interesting. Peterson is a brilliant scholar and draws connections between psychology and brain structures, human evolution, and religion. I don’t believe in any trascendental being, but listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral va…
>listening to these lectures made me understand better the psychological and moral value of these stories
You might enjoy the Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell.
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#17'On storytelling' by Evan Czaplicki:
https://www.deconstructconf.com/2017/evan-czaplicki-on-story...
Whether you like Elm or not, Czaplicki is an highly charismatic conceptual thinker and his talks are very relevant.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
#18David Runciman: How Democracy Ends https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/blog/2017/71-how-demo...
I'll watch and read this,thanks, but in the meantime my money is on democracy ending with the automation of military, police, and security operations.
My money is on it ending with the automation of propaganda and con artistry at scale.
A small group of people could use AI and social media to virtually sit down with every single person and convince them of something using a detailed micro targeting profile. It would be like diapatching an individual evangelist to work on each of a billion people in parallel.
We saw very primitive and still largely manual versions of this in 2016. When the real thing arrives it will be the hydrogen bomb of persuasion.
This is also what I think an "AI takeover" would look like. Forget about terminators. A superintelligence would find us trivial to con and manipulate. We will just be convinced to do what the AI wants. Skynet will launch words not bombs, but much like the nukes in the Terminator story we are building the infrastructure of our own destruction ahead of time.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
#19Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite talk from 2017?
#20One of my favourite talks I watched was "Low Cost Non-Invasive Biomedical Imaging - An Open Electrical Impedance Tomography Project"
https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8948-low_cost_non-invasive_biome...
As it presented an interesting technique I'd never heard of before, along with an implementation.
Also I thought the 'Breaking the x86 Instruction Set' talk was extremely clever - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ