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28:08 "If you're watching this video you can likely afford a roof over your head and groceries,...  or you live in Canada." 


What a brilliant video! Thank you. Unfortunately the tech oligarchs are very likely wrong about AI and none of them seem to know how you could actually develop technology that really works. The answer as you say is teaching, and they're not interested in that because it needs good communications which is awkward. 

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So I got half an hour in and I realise way too late that I am now committed to a 3.75 hour Israeli settlement with the Palestinians in Gaza. Sorry, I let my autosuggestion finish that sentence. I just wanted to see why it guessed "Israeli" after I typed "3.75 hour" the average time it takes the IDF to kill someone after they agree to a ceasefire I guess. What are we missing for that Star Treck TNG future,... That's why I have to keep watching. When is "the enterprise" going to be something owned by a government?

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The first Star Trek episode aired on September 8, 1966. I thought it was a seventies thing, but it was just that it was on British TV ten years later! 

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Samuel Scheffler New York University. This is an awful lecture! But maybe it gets better? I have only listened to the first thirteen minutes and I think this guy would benefit greatly from listening to Janet talking about the soul. 

20:40 He seems to be imaging not just one, but a whole class of people who all know that human life on earth will be extinguished half an hour after their own simultaneous deaths. So maybe it is not by any natural causes that these people are going to die, but because their Neuralink™️ implants all explode or something,... 😯💥😵‍💫! 

22:44 On an imagined mineral defficiency: see On the physiological function of lithium from a psychiatric view point. 

I can't bear this. The hypothesis his discussion is predicated upon is so ludicrous and ill-defined that it actually undermines the arguments he makes. I am half an hour through, and at no point yet has he considered the social constructions that most of most people's intentional actions depend upon, nor how those constructions could change overnight. He clearly does not know wholeness.

The instant anyone is "informed" that all human life will be extinguished by an asteroid half an hour after they die, they would have a very immediate task to find out where that information came from and how it could be verified. Of particulat interest would be the question of how their own death could be so accurately forecast. Once that threat has been evaluated, the next question would be to find out how it is known that the impending asteroid collision would extinguish all human life. The fact is that certain knowledge like that is a physical, empirical impossibility. So the situation is diluted to one where a majority of human life may be terminated, and therefore that there remains a finite possibility of an 'afterlife', and so one's goals, desires and ambitions would be reareanged accordingly. In fact the adjustment necessary would not be so different to the one everybody alive on August 29, 1949 after the first Soviet atomic bomb test was carried out. Where the thirty day warning came from I don't know. Maybe some elites were given cyanide tablets and promised 30 days notice of an impending nuclear holocaust? 

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A place where Waterloo’s growing IoT companies can find the spark needed to compete in the global market.

... a 465,000 sq ft space purpose-built for makers. The building serves as a concentration point for the talent, hardware engineering services, and venture capital support needed to build next-generation companies. 

A special place for IoT companies! Wow! You got to feed them vulture capitalists. See Stuff That Used to Happen in Ontario. 

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This reminds me of the time I went to a place on St John's Innovation Park in Cambridge, UK and got kicked out by a security guard who worked for Raspberry Pi. Apparently it's on private land so you can't take photos there. They have an office next door to a company called Darktrace. It wasn't nice! It had the same vibe: loads of money, and nothing really happening. That's also IoT, they provide a single point of surveillance for people who want to self-host servers on their home Internet connections. 

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