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QUOTE: So often people are working hard at the wrong

In Link,Shared on September 29, 2009 by Benton Barnett

I found this on the internet: QUOTE: So often people are working hard at the wrong

So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

—Caterina, on working hard

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After the Seige

In Culture,Link on July 15, 2009 by Benton Barnett

I was recently reminded of the short story After the Siege by Cory Doctorow, which is published free under Creative Commons (like all of Cory’s work). It tells the story of a country ravaged by a war fought over royalties for things like food and medicine as seen through the eyes of a fifteen year old girl. It left me feeling the same way that I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream had, terrified and excited for the future.

Anyways, you can read it here: After the Siege by Cory Doctorow

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The Technium: Inevitable Minds

In Link on April 8, 2009 by Benton Barnett

Kevin Kelly speaks about the nature of intelligence and why we don’t think of machines as being intelligent the same way we think of animals, or ourselves, as being intelligent.

We are blind to this massive eruption of minds in the technium because humans have a chauvinistic bias towards any kind of intelligence that is not precisely, human. Unless an artificial mind behaves exactly like a human, we don’t count it as intelligent. Sometimes we dismiss it by calling it “machine learning.” So while we aren’t looking, billions of tiny minds, on the scale of biology, have blossomed in the technium.

You can read the rest of the article here: Inevitable Minds

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