LeoJiWoo

The hunt for aliens suddenly cropping up in the nytimes has the feel of a distraction.

The video itself felt like one of those old bigfoot vidoes.

I want to believe in aliens as a huge fan of star trek (TNG is best :) ), but I feel skeptical for now.

The government will embrace Bitcoin, but not as a currency (unless we end the Federal Reserve and/or shift back to the gold standard).

Its a time of political upheaval worldwide.

Nationalists are rising or at least becoming more vocal in at least Britain, India, United States, Austria, Germany, Korea, and Japan.

They are direct threats to the established status quo. Censoring their political speech will cause a "Streisand Effect" and only further galvanize a backlash against the establishment.

Social Media will probably be broken up by country (Ex. The chinese model), so that national laws on speech can be enforced.

However pros and cons of the new political groups must be debated on a public stage.

Not a good implementation, this feature should be been far more explicitly stated in some sort of alert rather than buried.

This is something that is burning the good will towards apple. Something that is in shorter supply since the days of Steve Jobs. You can see the polarization about it on social media.

Again whether the feature was good/bad, there is clearly something to be learned from the shitstorm that it is causing. Something I hope Tim Cook learns quickly.

EFF has proven to be an ineffectual organization. They bungled NN(infuriating me to no end), and proven partisan at every turn, which would not be a problem if they were successful.

But its clear we need a nonpartisan group who can successfully rally most of America on the left and the right.

Is this still applicable? I've been hearing seed funding is dramatically drying up.

I don't see the problem in pinking stuff.

If that's the social cue to make tech okay for a large majority of girls, what's the harm. Most people seem to want to be male or female.

The more options the better, I think. We need to increase the amount of women in tech.

Susan Fowler is a great person but this reeks of a clickbait agenda.

She is important but Xi, Bezos,and Musk are radically changing the face of the world in a much much greater capacity.

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Musk has the hyperloop, tesla, spacex. These are what I consider revolutionary technologies that could change the face of our global civilization.

Bezos is eating the world with amazon, whole foods, and washington post. Amazon is leading so many new industries drone deliveries, cloud, and so many are cities are competing for hq2. What isn't amazon doing lately ?

Xi is changing the face of silicon valley by making SV more like china which has huge global implications.

I think Fowler is great, but she isn't on the same level.

It's not really technology pushing people into cities is it ?

I assumed its really due to a lack of well paying jobs, combined with an increased debt burden from college.

I guess one could argue technology has lead to increased automation and reduction of jobs typically found outside of cities.

A "merged" singularity will lead to a non biological singularity ?

I don't think I understand.

I don't think it is wise to trust monopolies who have a history of doing the wrong thing.

It might just take one genius like Albert Einstein to create a new paradigm, so I could believe it happening sooner rather than later with the more people are working on it.

I suppose it depends on your view of the theory of scientific revolutions.

Well drones have really captured the imagination of the public this time, and we have very public and popular tech leaders warning the public about AI. Combine that with the 24/7 media clickbait cycle, I think we have a unique situation.

I agree, its definitely due to a Sam's bubble/filter. Its way way too generalized for the general population.

I'm not convinced on the "merge" happening. I fear humans cling to that idea, because we want a biological part of our selves to pass on.

I expect a technological singularity to supplant/replace biological life completely.