Scott Adams: In his own words
It won’t be long before all new drugs are discovered by robots. This start-up is an example of that trend. And it won’t be long before IBM’s Watson can diagnose and prescribe treatments better than any human doctor. Put those two trends together and robots will be programming humans with drugs. Drugs are the…
Read MoreAs regular readers of this blog already know, when computers learn to program themselves (and that will happen) they will quickly acquire so much knowledge and capability that humanity will be threatened. Experts predict it could happen in a few decades. The official name for that situation is the Technical Singularity….
Read MoreIf your firewall is blocking the image, see it here on Twitter. In Top Tech Blog: An artificial leg that feels the floor. What? And how about a car that won’t let you drive if you are drunk? That’s useful, but what we really need is a phone that won’t let you text when…
Read MoreA typical start-up created by an inexperienced entrepreneur has about a 10% chance of success. But if that same entrepreneur pivots, or starts a second company, the odds of the next venture succeeding jumps to about 20%. And that makes sense because you learn a lot during your first failure,…
Read MoreIf your firewall is blocking the image, see it on Twitter here. Humor Dimensions: Recognition (headlines about self-driving cars), clever (humans are meat cargo to unionizing cars, and they only dump every 100th passenger), cruel (third panel), and bizarre (cars unionize, robots talk). Predicted Sharing: Low, because self-driving cars are not yet important…
Read MoreSuppose you could push a button and brainwash another person into changing his thinking to match your preferences. Would it be ethical to push that button? You probably had a bad reaction to the thought of brainwashing another human. It seems counter to every notion of freedom we have. And…
Read MoreIf your company firewall is blocking the image, see it on Twitter here. Humor Dimensions Used: (4) Recognition (current news), cleverness (oddity of water being expensive and oil being cheap, solution of moving robots to California), cruel (robots stealing a state from idiot humans), bizarre (talking robot, surfing robot) Predicted Sharing:…
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