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…far (AMD, APD, BHI, CAT, ETFC, GE, GOOG, IBM, MCD, MSFT, PH). We’re about to see how resilient an equity market is when one of its key selling points is how expensive bonds are. The recent pick-up in leading indicators suggests that earnings expectations may stabilize early in th...

…pendence was being signed. Politicians never seem to get it about education. What history do students “need to know”? None, actually, unless they plan on being historians, or maybe senators. Now I realize this is a radical point of view, but history is not something anyone needs...

…al (#5 Hig), for years the premier Chinese- language paper in the United States serving immigrants from Taiwan and only one of the six newspapers owned by the United Daily News (UDN), Taiwan’s most influential newspaper company. The paper once dominated news coverage in Chinatown...

216 12 The Engineering and Development of Ethics Once one goes beyond simplistic, childlike notions of fairness (“an eye for an eye” and so forth), applying rational justice in a purely intellectual sense is just as difficult as any other real-world logical inference problem. Et...

…ing in our own work, is to develop AGI systems with explicit, hierarchically-dominated goal systems. That is: e create one or more "top goals" (we call them Ubergoals in CogPrime ) e have the system derive subgoals from these, using its own intelligence, potentially guided by e...

…id I should in early September, by the end of January I would have made $2.4 million. (Alas, I did not invest.) At any one moment, he is making a series of bets for himself and others--very much not as a workaday hedge fund, and much more as a privileged association. Money is al...

BILL WAS ONE OF ——_— View this image > National Enquirer Tellingly, many of those articles — which have notably increased in tempo in recent weeks following Roberts’ late December accusation that noted attorney Alan Dershowitz was one of the men she was forced to have sex with...

…esses, controlling a single agent, work together in such a way as to help each other be more intelligent. Typically, if one has cognitive processes that are individually susceptible to combinatorial explosions, cognitive synergy involves coupling them together in such a way that...

… real, we would have to gather information from an enormously wide area. Information spreads out at the speed of light. One minute after the dominoes topple, the information about the event will have spread one light minute — that is over a sphere forty-million kilometers across...

…e had to stay until after he left, and he often worked late. He did not believe in vacation for the clerks—“It’s only a one year job, and that means 365 days”—no personal time off. When I first came to work over the summer, I asked him for a few days off to take a preparation cou...

…ct, diverting from that story for a moment, my secretary, who never went to college, insisted that her daughters go, so one of them found herself in an art history course that she hated and complained to her mother who in turn complained to me. Why does she have to take art histo...

…ble of breaking the improved Enigma, and, in May 1943, it succeeded. By the time the war ended in 1945, the US had over one hundred giant decryption machines in operation. This unrivalled capability to read the communications of foreign nations, which remained one of America’s mo...

…re code. The five core developers are like Linus Torvalds of Linux. They decide what changes are made to the core code. One of the five is the lead developer, Wladimir, and one is the Chief Scientist, Gavin. > Gavin, Wladimir and Cory (an important contributing developer) were be...

…ndon during the summer of 2011, but similar incidents happen all across the world. People choose different moral paths; one person makes a good decision; the other, a bad one. Did they make these decisions freely or was their behavior inevitable, dictated at the dawn of time? Fr...

…use of their research credentials, and teaching doesn’t matter much. There is some lip service about the subject but no one ever got hired at Yale as a professor because she was a great teacher who did no research. Here is a professor of computer science from a very highly ranke...