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“If AI can help humans become better chess players, it stands to reason that it can help us become better pilots, better doctors, better judges, better teachers. Most of the commercial work completed by AI will be done by special-purpose, narrowly focused software brains that can, for example, translate any language into any other language, but do little else. Drive a car, but not converse. Or recall every pixel of every video on YouTube but not anticipate your work routines. In the next 10 years, 99 percent of the artificial intelligence that you will interact with, directly or indirectly, will be nerdily autistic, supersmart specialists.” - Твоё первенство и эго

“This post is about word processors, but I got the idea for it from something W. H. Auden once said about political philosophers. In 1947, talking with his learned young secretary about an anthology he was compiling, The Portable Greek Reader, he mentioned Isocrates, a Greek orator whose simple-seeming ideas about relations between rich and poor cities were sane and practical. Naïve-sounding Isocrates had solved problems for which Plato’s grand theories had no answer. “Isocrates reminds me of John Dewey,” Auden said. “He’s a mediocrity who’s usually right whereas Plato is a man of genius who’s always wrong.” Only a genius could have devised Plato’s theory of the forms—the invisible, intangible “ideas” that give shape to every visible, tangible thing. But the theory of forms is always wrong when applied to political thinking, as every experiment in ideal, utopian politics has proved.” - Твоё первенство и эго

"One day in the fall of 1981, eight men in their 70s stepped out of a van in front of a converted monastery in New Hampshire. They shuffled forward, a few of them arthritically stooped, a couple with canes. Then they passed through the door and entered a time warp. Perry Como crooned on a vintage radio. Ed Sullivan welcomed guests on a black-and-white TV. Everything inside — including the books on the shelves and the magazines lying around — were designed to conjure 1959. This was to be the men’s home for five days as they participated in a radical experiment, cooked up by a young psychologist named Ellen Langer. ¶ The subjects were in good health, but aging had left its mark. “This was before 75 was the new 55,” says Langer, who is 67 and the longest-serving professor of psychology at Harvard. Before arriving, the men were assessed on such measures as dexterity, grip strength, flexibility, hearing and vision, memory and cognition — probably the closest things the gerontologists of the time could come to the testable biomarkers of age. Langer predicted the numbers would be quite different after five days, when the subjects emerged from what was to be a fairly intense psychological intervention." - Твоё первенство и эго

“Having a face that people deem "dominant" is a predictor of rank advancement in the military. People are more likely to invest money with people who look "trustworthy." These sorts of findings go on and on in recent studies that claim people can accurately guess a variety of personality traits and behavioral tendencies from portraits alone. The findings seem to elucidate either canny human intuition or absurd, misguided bias.” • #схватил_за_мозг - Твоё первенство и эго

“When you look at a Hyperion gun, I want you to feel classy. Synergy. Dynamicism. Longitudinal. Words with heft. Words with meaning. Words that evidently nobody in this room understands given the blank looks you troglodytes are giving me right now.” • #проигры - × × ×

"Монахи Спасо-Преображенского монастыря на острове Валаам начнут производство итальянских сортов сыра. Об этом говорится в сообщении, опубликованном на странице монастыря в фейсбуке. ¶ Оборудование по сыроварению для нового молокозавода уже закуплено у итальянской фирмы. Кроме того, начальник фермы Валаамского монастыря монах Агапий в октябре прошел в Италии курс обучения у местных мастеров и может обучить других производителей. ¶ Среди сортов, которые планируют производить монахи, — моцарелла, морлакко, качотта, копченый рикотта и сыр с белой плесенью бьянка." - × × ×

Выводы простые: ложиться спать в полночь — прекрасная, но несбыточная мечта, если только не форсировать это всё жёсткой дисциплиной. Все мои предположения о том, что я попадаю в нормальный объём восьмичасового сна с редкими отклонениями, оказались ошибочными. - × × ×

Потому что этот сборник анекдотов я хотя бы могу представить! - × × ×

#we_put - mindszenty

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