Wasting money speculating on future tech.

the story of the Copernican Revolution shows that science was, from its birth, a dynamic process, with good points and bad points on both sides of the debate. Not until decades after Kepler’s On the New Star and Locher and Scheiner’s Mathematical Disquisitions did astronomers begin to come upon evidence suggesting that the star sizes they were measuring, either with the eye or with early telescopes, were a spurious optical effect, and that stars did not need to be so large in a Copernican universe.

"The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" should be required reading, but isn't because it would destroy the aura of infallibility the university pinheads enjoy.

We have to equip machines with a model of the environment. If a machine does not have a model of reality, you cannot expect the machine to behave intelligently in that reality. The first step, one that will take place in maybe 10 years, is that conceptual models of reality will be programmed by humans.

The next step will be that machines will postulate such models on their own and will verify and refine them based on empirical evidence. That is what happened to science; we started with a geocentric model, with circles and epicycles, and ended up with a heliocentric model with its ellipses.

Robots, too, will communicate with each other and will translate this hypothetical world, this wild world, of metaphorical models.

More or less my conclusion. The nice part is that computers already have a nice model of resource scarcity, and discoverable rules that can form the basis of cause-and-effect reasoning.

BONUS: The Japanese may be on to something.

Spoiler alert: FDA still killing people with their moronic "efficacy" standard thanks to the thalidomide scandal where they didn't even follow their own "safety" standard back in the 70s. Screw those guys.

Something people who have been paying attention have known for years. Guy's probably on the state payroll. So much for NPOV, gotta get that NGO $$$ for Jimbo's drug stash.

E.G. A fabricated CB.

Gotta make those Uighurs stop being rowdy.

Idiots

Many open source projects shutting down rather than pay the EU's De-facto Licensure requirements. It's either that or a 20mm euro fine. As usual the statists have their typical bromides, but at the end of the day they forget the damage prior restraint and the chilling effect has. The web's brain drain has begun.

If so it's a godsend for Arthritics.

Over the Iran Sanctions. Good news if so.

What do you expect when the FIB & Po Po shot first?

Great profile of a hitman.

Again, abolish public schooling. No need to coerce children into this social pressure cooker, which results in these monstrous extreme behaviors.

It's "Not real socialism" to bankrupt your country with subsidies beyond what you can afford and then print money like a lunatic to cover for your failure, apparently. This is yet more proof of the point -- any and all government meddling in prices (socialism AKA centralized economic planning) is guaranteed to fail. It's inflexibility to demand guarantee this -- but I'm sure the author sees this as a defect of democracy, and that more Stalinist computers can fix it (TM).

In the 70s, just when they were pimping their moral authority as non-terrorists, they were doing car-bombings in Lebanon. Ariel Sharon was a real piece of work.

When it comes to politics, you must have allies, and there are only two games in town. James gets this.

priests are being verbally abused and spat at, and property vandalised.

Tensions have risen this year in the Christian and Armenian quarters of the 1 sq km ancient walled city, which includes the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the holiest place in Christianity where Jesus was believed to be crucified and resurrected. The Old City is also home to places of critical religious importance to Jews and Muslims.

The churches say they are facing onslaught on three fronts: a war of attrition waged by hardline settlers; unprecedented tax demands by Jerusalem city council; and a proposal to allow the expropriation of church land sold to private developers.

Is it too early to declare a crusade against the government of Israel?

Still less effective than the LP, an they're retarded.

Dammed out and gonna go bust.

Unlike NBC, no bailout is forthcoming.

Shortly after conquering Palmyra, on 27 May, ISIS released an eighty-seven-second video message promising to preserve the Roman ruins. That did not prevent ISIS a month later from initiating the systematic destruction of the graceful colonnades that stretched into the desert for nearly a mile along the ancient Roman road. Militants smashed the famed Lion of al-Lāt, a beautiful stone statue of a lion god protecting a gazelle that Polish archaeologist Michał Gawlikowski discovered only in 1977. Subsequent reports from Palmyra were vague about what was happening. Then, in late August, satellite photographs confirmed that ISIS had razed the site’s most impressive structures, the Roman-era Temples of Baalshamin and Bel. UNSECO head Irina Bokova called ISIS’s vandalism a ‘war crime’ and an ‘intolerable crime against civilisation’. ISIS followed those outrages with the destruction of Palmyra’s distinctive funeral towers that had stood for centuries at the fringe of the old city. If the jihadists stayed much longer, archaeologists feared, nothing would remain.

Thank you for funding these head choppers, USG

The crime was being proud of his monopoly. Gov was like "HEY HES MAKING US LOOK BAD!!!1"

This is part of the process that creates polarization and echo chambers. If you see an attempt at social shaming and feel triggered, that’s the second-best result from the perspective of the person who put it up. The best result is that you never went into that space at all. This isn’t just about keeping conservatives out of socialist spaces. It’s also about defining what kind of socialist the socialist space is for, and what kind of ideas good socialists are or aren’t allowed to hold.

I think easily 90% of online discussion is of this form right now, including some long and carefully-written thinkpieces with lots of citations. The point isn’t that it literally uses the word “fuck”, the point is that the active ingredient isn’t persuasiveness, it’s the ability to make some people feel like they’re suffering social costs for their opinion. Even really good arguments that are persuasive can be used this way if someone links them on Facebook with “This is why I keep saying Democrats are dumb” underneath it.

I think the author goes off the rails late in the article where it's clear they don't realize this is all well-trod ground literally a thousand years ago. His examples of 'winning an argument' were all incrementalist positivist pap as you would expect from a modern science goon.

"Good enough for Government Work"