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Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by return0 »

bawana wrote: post #110
return0 wrote: post #77

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We 're listening.

I am your parents. We invented nuclear weapons. We still regret it. So what if we decided to stay the course and figure out how to make a black hole? The first thing that would happen is it would be weaponized. That is what we do. Weaponize stuff. It's an extension of what makes us human-the ability to make tools. At least social media cannot be wpaonized in an immediately lethal way. The worst it can do is make us d…

You are obviously not my parents. Btw, what do you think Hitler used to create that nazi army? social media.

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by Irreal »

hammock wrote: post #19
w1ntermute wrote: post #11

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> The average IQ is only 100 You do realize that's a tautology, right? There's no reason productivity couldn't be increased, and one potential method would be to boost human intelligence.

I believe the point is we (HN readers) are mostly exposed to smarter than average folks in our daily lives. Our idea of an "average" person probably is smarter than the true average person. And we would do well to remember that, for example, 42% of Americans believe ghosts are real.

Stop trying to be special.Please

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by daveguy »

ricksplat wrote: post #85
daveguy wrote: post #58

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That's true. Internet is what makes this possible, not social media. Social Media is like a skin on an internet that was developed when gen x was in diapers.

> Social Media is like a skin Which ironically is what our parents called the "Application layer" when they were designing it ;)

OSI layers were implied. ;)

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

ricksplat wrote: post #85
daveguy wrote: post #58

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That's true. Internet is what makes this possible, not social media. Social Media is like a skin on an internet that was developed when gen x was in diapers.

> Social Media is like a skin Which ironically is what our parents called the "Application layer" when they were designing it ;)

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Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by eli_gottlieb »

someguydave wrote: post #21

THIEL: "one other way of interpreting the AI boom is that on the surface, it is about extreme optimism about the potentialities of computer technology, and the beneath the surface, it is simultaneously, perhaps, a great deal of pessimism around the possibilities in other technologies that will be developed by humans, and deep pessimism about the possibility of what humans can do." This is what I think about whenever…

What I find funny is people who think that metaphysics is real, even at the mild level of mathematical Platonism, but think that it can only ever be figured out from our armchairs, that there's no way I could build a machine to do it for me.

On the other hand, I find it pretty easily believable that we can receive compounding returns from advances in ML/AI. After all, pretty much as soon as we invent new techniques in computational statistics, the go-to fields needing to apply them are the other computational sciences: physics, chemistry, biology, medicine.

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by Houshalter »

metaphorm wrote: post #103
Houshalter wrote: post #96

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It's not a trap, HN definitely has a higher IQ than the general population. FWIW I have some data on IQs from a similar online community, showing the cumulative distribution of IQ compared to the general population: http://www.leijuvakaupunki.fi/images/box/lw_ssc_iq_cdf.png HN is highly correlated with technical professions and especially programmers. Those things happen to be highly correlated with and selective of…

post I responded to said "smarter than average" which is not the same thing as IQ and conflating the two of those is also a trap.

IQ is the best measure of intelligence we have, and correlates strongly with real world outcomes like income and academic success.

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by codingmyway »

Peter mentions Robert Gordon and his theory that all the good innovation is done but the one I'm looking forward to is the coming revolution in brain research.

Wait until procrastination, anxiety, depression and fatigue can be turned off by a device behind your ear that controls your amygdala and instantly puts you in the zone.

See see how much productivity goes up when everyone has the energy and motivation of the Richard Bransons of the world.

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by qrendel »

return0 wrote: post #76
adrianN wrote: post #65

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We build the LHC, we landed on a comet, we decoded the human genome...

Not really, the LHC was designed in the 80s. Genome project launched in 1990. It's true that current generations work on incremental problems. The blockchain and social media are something of note.

Social media is vastly overrated as a "recent invention," imo. Facebook is basically a copy of MySpace and livejournal which are copies of AOL (instant messaging, profiles, and all). Blogs and microblogs (e.g. twitter) are a nice addition that appeared in the early 2000s, but even they're just a slight reformatting of BBS and forums. Most of this predates the WWW, in some format or another.

Things have definitely evolved a lot, but as far as "social media" (reminds me how much I hated that term when they first started using it, when the basic profile + messaging concept had been around over a decade) goes, it's more like comparing a Tesla to a Model T, rather than a whole new type of technology.

Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]

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Post by ricksplat »

daveguy wrote: post #113
ricksplat wrote: post #85

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> Social Media is like a skin Which ironically is what our parents called the "Application layer" when they were designing it ;)

OSI layers were implied. ;)

Incorrectly so :-o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite#Compar...

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