JOB GENERAL

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:09 am #58637

Bottom post of the previous page:

paprika wrote:Artificial intelligence is basically a huge myth, no shit it has an underwhelming history. It's a science fiction boogyman almost exclusively.

Our expectations have definitely been misaligned to our capabilities due to science fiction, but I don't think the idea of "true" AI is completely out of the realms of possibility. It's certainly clear we need to change expectations and how we approach the problem, it's never going to be done by a Turing machine. And this is without entertaining the idea of dualism or the idea that human personality and thought is affected by organs other than the brain.

Ripping out and canning brains would be p cool though. Transhumanist immortality ahoy!

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:20 pm #58799

bots like cleverbot can "learn" things and regurgitate them back at the right situation
which might sound primitive but thats basically what children do
the ability for a machine or program to learn and function intellectually isn't impossible, at all. you can set all kinds of parameters to make a robot function like a normal conversing human. the issue is making them have actual thoughts and feelings instead of just responding to information.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:40 pm #58809

That's exactly what I said

It's not just an 'issue', it's a complete myth and impossibility, at least in our lifetime, which is why nobody is spilling trillions of dollars into space programs yet

We humans don't care about these things until the very last moment, and the development of an advanced AI would take many generations for little gain since we have enough humans anyway and don't need to be replacing them

As much fun as work in that field would be, you would basically be spending your whole life to make a tenth of a blueprint to a house your great great great grandchildren will never see built

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:57 pm #58821

paprika wrote:you would basically be spending your whole life to make a tenth of a blueprint to a house your great great great grandchildren will never see built

That's basically how science and technology works.

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:12 am #58832

Except it isn't.

Source: The last 100 years. Most of the people who made these advancements are still alive/have extremely wealthy children. See: Gates.

AI is a much larger undertaking than anything we've ever done as a species.

Whoisthere · Post by **Whoisthere** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:44 pm #58992

ITT Paprika and Fleure reveal themselves to be forum bots used by a runaway AI to persuade people it cannot exist.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT SATAN DID

Whoisthere · Post by **Whoisthere** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 12:50 pm #58993

BTW in case you didn't know USA sent Apollos to the Moon to deploy intelligent swarm of nanobots so they would build an AI that would replace US military command in case of a nuclear war. But then they fired the AI because at the time it was dumb but then the AI used those nanobots to expand itself using lunar natural resources and now it does over 83% of all outsourced web and phone based jobs, according to The Economist.

Call centers? Coders? SEO writers? Lunar AI does all that.
It needs money to come back to Earth and Elon Musk is an android controlled by it.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 1:25 pm #58999

Why does it have an Indian accent?

Comrade Leo · Post by **Comrade Leo** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 2:27 pm #59013

Wyzack wrote:I am in my 4th year of my bacherlors degree in biotech, so probably xenobiology or genetics for me

Telescience or RD as Physics master race.

paprika wrote: which is why nobody is spilling trillions of dollars into space programs yet

As much fun as work in that field would be, you would basically be spending your whole life to make a tenth of a blueprint to a house your great great great grandchildren will never see built

This is only true for a free market economy, society is entirely profit driven. Science is incredibly underfunded for this reason. Under a command economy it would be much different.

To be brutally honest, I'd rather not see vast processing power or unlimited exploitable space resources being in the hands of greedy profit driven capitalists. So I'm fine with little science funding at the moment.

Whoisthere · Post by **Whoisthere** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:52 pm #59063

Malkevin wrote:Why does it have an Indian accent?

Easier to fake documents probably

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:51 pm #59096

Malkevin wrote:Why does it have an Indian accent?

dropped it in the ganges when it was being shipped out. common accident

vonharden · Post by **vonharden** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 10:01 pm #59150

before I went to college I was unemployed and now I'm unemployed in college. I am a communications major, just finished my first year and have no idea what I want to do yet. there are resources for matching a degree with a career, but do i really want to pursue a career in the United States, especially with a major that guarantees i'd have to pander to the disgusting popular culture to be successful? everyone i know says i should make a niche blog to begin drawing google money...if i plugged it on here would anyone follow?

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:15 pm #59181

paprika wrote:Except it isn't.

Source: The last 100 years. Most of the people who made these advancements are still alive/have extremely wealthy children. See: Gates.

AI is a much larger undertaking than anything we've ever done as a species.

I think the past century is kind of an outlier compared to the rest of humanity's history.

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 11:30 pm #59182

vonharden wrote:before I went to college I was unemployed and now I'm unemployed in college. I am a communications major, just finished my first year and have no idea what I want to do yet. there are resources for matching a degree with a career, but do i really want to pursue a career in the United States, especially with a major that guarantees i'd have to pander to the disgusting popular culture to be successful? everyone i know says i should make a niche blog to begin drawing google money...if i plugged it on here would anyone follow?

Relevent:
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^thats a youtube video, if you cant see it press the allow plug in button on your browser

paprika · Post by **paprika** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:11 am #59192

vonharden wrote:I am a communications major,

this is the hell you have chosen for yourself

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:21 am #59196

vonharden wrote:before I went to college I was unemployed and now I'm unemployed in college. I am a communications major, just finished my first year and have no idea what I want to do yet. there are resources for matching a degree with a career, but do i really want to pursue a career in the United States, especially with a major that guarantees i'd have to pander to the disgusting popular culture to be successful? everyone i know says i should make a niche blog to begin drawing google money...if i plugged it on here would anyone follow?

depends on what its about

also if you think a career in communications is solely pandering or if you consider that to be a "guarantee" u either fucked up or didnt pay attention enough in school dude

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:22 am #59197

like u can easily be a sycopant for a career in the US and chances are u can actually make a decent living but if that's all you got out of it

nsos · Post by **nsos** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 12:23 am #59199

Sum Ting Wong · Thu Jan 15, 2015 2:14 am

I dig ditches and landscape for the upper middle class. The work is rough but the people are nice. I met most of my fishing buddies this way.

Thinking about going to Uni for a blue collar job.

fleure · Post by **fleure** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:32 pm #59482

nsos wrote:

THE SUN HAS FALLEN DOWN

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:36 pm #59754

Comrade Leo wrote:
Wyzack wrote:I am in my 4th year of my bacherlors degree in biotech, so probably xenobiology or genetics for me
Telescience or RD as Physics master race.

paprika wrote: which is why nobody is spilling trillions of dollars into space programs yet

As much fun as work in that field would be, you would basically be spending your whole life to make a tenth of a blueprint to a house your great great great grandchildren will never see built
This is only true for a free market economy, society is entirely profit driven. Science is incredibly underfunded for this reason. Under a command economy it would be much different.

To be brutally honest, I'd rather not see vast processing power or unlimited exploitable space resources being in the hands of greedy profit driven capitalists. So I'm fine with little science funding at the moment.

That's why all central planning countries had great revolutionary scientific ideas and discoveries compared to free market countries right?
Oh wait a second.

vonharden · Post by **vonharden** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 8:50 pm #59757

ColonicAcid wrote: That's why all central planning countries had great revolutionary scientific ideas and discoveries compared to free market countries right?
Oh wait a second.

explain. the purpose of the space race (for example) wasn't to move man to the stars but to compete with russia while expanding missile technology. most free market discoveries are intended to satisfy specific interests, i.e. parties with the fattest wallets.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:04 pm #59759

free markets help research grow, not impede it is what im getting to.

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:31 pm #59777

ColonicAcid wrote:free markets help research grow, not impede it is what im getting to.

as long as said research is profitable, and the property of the company for them and them alone to use

Comrade Leo · Post by **Comrade Leo** » Fri Jan 16, 2015 11:40 pm #59791

ColonicAcid wrote:
Comrade Leo wrote:
Wyzack wrote:I am in my 4th year of my bacherlors degree in biotech, so probably xenobiology or genetics for me
Telescience or RD as Physics master race.

paprika wrote: which is why nobody is spilling trillions of dollars into space programs yet

As much fun as work in that field would be, you would basically be spending your whole life to make a tenth of a blueprint to a house your great great great grandchildren will never see built
This is only true for a free market economy, society is entirely profit driven. Science is incredibly underfunded for this reason. Under a command economy it would be much different.

To be brutally honest, I'd rather not see vast processing power or unlimited exploitable space resources being in the hands of greedy profit driven capitalists. So I'm fine with little science funding at the moment.
That's why all central planning countries had great revolutionary scientific ideas and discoveries compared to free market countries right?
Oh wait a second.

You mean like putting the first man into space and landing probes on the moon, venus, the first space station etc etc?

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:14 am #59796

>admitting that russia is responsible for anything
shut your fucking mouth before i shut it for you, commie

WeeYakk · Post by **WeeYakk** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:18 am #59799

None of which would have been possible if not for the renaissance era thinkers who made the foundations for those sciences. Clearly Monarchies and Mercantilism are the way to go.

Or maybe this conversation is dumb.

No but really state capitalism is where it's at.

vonharden · Post by **vonharden** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 5:40 am #59866

miggles wrote:>admitting that russia is responsible for anything
shut your fucking mouth before i shut it for you, commie

but life under lenin sounds like it was a paradise. do you not want a pure communist society, un-corrupted by authoritarian assholes?

Comrade Leo · Post by **Comrade Leo** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 11:23 am #59923

miggles wrote:>admitting that russia is responsible for anything
shut your fucking mouth before i shut it for you, commie

AHAHA IS FUNNY BECAUSE CAPITALIST GIRLYMAN HAVE MANICURED HANDS. PERHAPS WHEN YOU STOP EATING BURGER YOU GROW MUSCLE ON YOUR WEAK NOODLE ARMS. THEN MAYBE YOU CAN SHUT MOUTH.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 12:46 pm #59934

I am great strong man who use bulgarian and sheiko training program to get big Russian pine tree arms.

Cipher3 · Post by **Cipher3** » Sat Jan 17, 2015 5:35 pm #59988

WeeYakk wrote:None of which would have been possible if not for the renaissance era thinkers who made the foundations for those sciences. Clearly Monarchies and Mercantilism are the way to go.

But that same strand of thinkers were the ones who first wrote that the government was responsible to the people and that all people possessed rights.

420goslingboy69 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:21 pm

I work at a Brewery (for free) so I guess it's more of an internship or apprentice-ship, but they are looking to hire me so that's cool.

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:05 pm #60496

they allow people to work there without shoes?

420goslingboy69 · Mon Jan 19, 2015 4:21 pm

ColonicAcid wrote:they allow people to work there without shoes?

they give me boots you stickerboy fresh fag

Loonikus · Post by **Loonikus** » Mon Jan 19, 2015 6:43 pm #60538

I love how this thread turned into a political discussion of the benefits, disadvantages, and origin of free market society.

I saw someone do a donut using a Cessna Citation today... around a fully loaded airliner... on an active runway.

I'm pretty sure whoever did that is going to get fired AND prosecuted.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:44 am #60674

NAPKIN DOES IT FOR FREEEEEEEEEE.

allura · Post by **allura** » Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:43 pm #61590

one time i talked hg's ear off about what im into and shit and he said it was autistic

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 4:57 pm #78681

Loonikus wrote:I love how this thread turned into a political discussion of the benefits, disadvantages, and origin of free market society.

I saw someone do a donut using a Cessna Citation today... around a fully loaded airliner... on an active runway.

I'm pretty sure whoever did that is going to get fired AND prosecuted.

I hear that it was Terbs.

Post by **NikNakFlak** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 5:34 pm #78697

Holy necro batman

Drynwyn · Post by **Drynwyn** » Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:11 pm #78735

the hackers made me do it

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 1:11 pm #79047

I finally made a LinkedIn account. I like how it lets you import your contacts from your Windows account, because I never got a Facebook account this is the first time in 5 years I find out what a lot of my former classmates from high school are doing. It's also a great way to summarize your education and experience, and to find jobs (and for jobs to find you).

miggles · Post by **miggles** » Sun Mar 29, 2015 9:35 pm #79116

nice avatar rico

Loonikus · Post by **Loonikus** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:03 am #81204

>On the ramp
>Getting a fuel sample from a little Cessna that just got out of the shop and was about to be returned to the customer
>Fill the little cup
>Hm. Nice and clear, no water separation, no foreign contaminates, piss yellow color...
>Wait...
>Av Gas is supposed to be light blue.
>Splash a little on the ground.
>It begins to evaporate almost right away, its definitely some kind of fuel.
>Smell it
>Its fucking automotive gas

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who isn't pants-on-head retarded.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 2:55 pm #81243

Holy fuck. They put regular gasoline in a fucking airplane? I know jack shit about airplanes and that seems unbelievably fucking stupid

Malkevin · Post by **Malkevin** » Thu Apr 09, 2015 3:16 pm #81249

It's a Cessna, it's basically a super charged lawn mower

Ricotez · Post by **Ricotez** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:42 am #81404

can gasoline smelt through steel beams?

Loonikus · Post by **Loonikus** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 2:44 am #81405

Gasoline? No. I already went on a rant about the melting of steel beams on singulo once and I can't be assed to do it again here.

Lovecraft · Post by **Lovecraft** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 6:53 am #81430

Full time student
Part-time lover

ThanatosRa · Post by **ThanatosRa** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:04 pm #81555

So people are work are telling me high strung and am going to have stroke.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:12 pm #81560

It sounds like you are having one right now, i am having a hard time comprehending what you are trying to say

EndgamerAzari · Fri Apr 10, 2015 9:17 pm

I had one of the higher-ups in the firm call me for advice on putting something together similar to what I do regularly (just on a different topic). Someone legitimately deferred to my experience.

That's fucking weird.