A new class of trees have evolved, Phone trees! 😉
Looking for Amazon flex delivery jobs people are hanging there phones in the trees.
What a crazy world we are living in. On the other hand it’s similar as guys hanging around and waiting for day jobs. We are just using another technology now.
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-flex-delivery-drivers-phone-trees-161728196.html
I was reading the great book „Virus of the mind“ by Richard Brodie. Richard is famously know as the original author of Microsoft Word.
The first chapters were not so intersting for me as I already read some books from Richard Dawkins. Richard Dawkins is the inventor of the word „meme“, that now results in the science of memetics.
Although we are still talking about Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, most of the people are in the mean time accepting that as a theory that could not be falsified so far (see Karl Popper about falsification). In other words, it is accepted to be True.
And the same evolution and replications that are (still) happening on (hardware) DNA level are happening on the (software) mind level.
Very intersting is also the theory of how societies and religions evolve. These are based on a bunch of memes. And this evolution will also go on for ever. Of course much faster as on DNA level.
But from the structure you really can view genes and memes quite similar. Both are having replicators and hosts, and don’t care at all about an individual. The only thing that counts is that the genes and memes are surviving and therefor must replicate.
We are all infected by some virus of the mind. But as soon as we know that, we can detect if the viruses we are infected with, are matching with our real goal of life.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and related tracking measure, Hawai is arresting passengers without a smart phone.
And very soon you have to have a digital id.
Otherwise you are not allowed to enter the country because you cannot be tracked so easily.
The wordpress app did not support in-app-purchasements, so Apple blocked the wordpress app updates till there was an agreement.
Every method is right to fullfill the interests of the company, getting a share of everything.
https://www.engadget.com/wordpress-ios-in-app-payments-030422512.html
In the mean time they came to an agreement, somehow…
https://www.engadget.com/apple-allows-wordpress-without-in-app-purchases-152650859.html
Manche bezeichnen es als Leben 3.0, manche als Leben mit künstlicher Intelligenz.
Dieser Blog Eintrag basiert auf dem Buch von Max Tegmark, Leben 3.0.
Natürlich ist immer die Frage, was man unter künstlicher Intelligenz versteht.
Und Intelligenz definiert sich dadurch, wenn man es schafft, ein selbst definiertes Ziel zu erreichen.
Daraus ergibt sich sofort das aus meiner Sicht größte Problem. Wie können wir sicher stellen, dass die Maschinen, die wir bauen, ihre Ziele nicht ändern? Aus meiner Sicht, ist das ein Widerspruch in sich. Einerseits wollen wir Intelligenz, andererseits wollen wir, dass die intelligenten Maschinen, die wir bauen, unsere Ziele verfolgen.
Es ist natürlich eine Definitionsfrage, was man unter künstlicher Intelligenz versteht. Aber ich denke, wir müssen uns in der nächsten Zeit auf ein Leben mit künstlicher Intelligenz einstellen.
Ich finde das hier referenzierte Buch schon recht gut, das Buch Our mathematical universe von Max Tegmark aber noch viel besser.