I think this can only be addressed by stating it clearly and upfront. "Automated cars will kill people. They will kill people every year. The only thing they have going for them is that every year they will kill 10 times less people than people driven cars. Life is dangerous, and it's your choice."
Car makers initially fought putting seatbelts in cars because it made them look dangerous. Now seat belts fracture thousands of ribs a year and are required by law. Both initial fear and actual danger were over come due to the massive demonstrable benefit of the technology.
Let me save you the trouble. This guy is a crackpot who doesn't have a clue what he's talking about. Though if you've ever been persuaded by an article extolling the virtues of homeopathy, you might be of the right mindset to enjoy this article.
An interesting point from the wikipedia articles: One version of the theory, that the nemesis star is a brown dwarf, should be testable in the next year or so. The WISE mission is launching in just over 33 days, and its year long mission will detect any brown dwarf stars within 2-3 parsecs of us, which is within the suggested range for nemesis.
I'd like to share a couple gems that psychology has actually produced:
1. One of the most important skills for success is the ability to distract yourself from immediate desires.
Delaying gratification, by looking away, thinking about something else is THE skill behind "self-control."
2. Expertise is developed in a very stable pattern of external motivation, mentoring, and consistent deliberate practice.
That means 1. Surround yourself with people who are doing what you want to do 2. Find someone to TEACH you how to do what you want to do and 3. Spend 30 mins a day rising to 2 hours a day over the course of a year or two on the target of your expertise. (Spending more time on the things you suck at than the easy bits) 10k hours later you'll be an expert.
Can someone from mint.com confirm these figures? Surveys are fine but I trust transactional records more. The figures don't seem far off as I compare to my mint.com breakdown, but I'd like a more comprehensive and modern approach to this data collection.
Old hat. The reverse is actually more interesting! The representation of the brain is reflected in body parts. People think about the brain as being the seat of neuroplasticity but your limbs are actually learning patterns, as are your ears, your eyes. Anywhere there are neurons there is learning and memory. This means that 1. sometimes reaction is faster than transmission to and from the brain could allow for and 2. often input is filtered and enhanced before it gets to the brain based on previous experience.
While it's cool to think that we "become one" with our tools, until they can also form a part of this distributed memory grid they will always feel subtly wrong, clumsy, and foreign.
As always these articles are wonderful to read. I think the hardest thing for people without depression to conceptualize is the crushing weight of insignificant tasks. How picking up a single sock becomes a literal impossibility. How the implications of acting, in any way, are like trying to assume every single associated burden simultaneously.
Why would I want to? I share my network and my neighbors share theirs. I get to help provide the kind of ubiquitus wifi I want everywhere and get connection redundancy while I'm at it. "steal?" that's just paranoid propaganda.
I enjoyed this piece, now whenever I find a loophole in a law that I can exploit for my own benefit I can blame the law! I'm not a bad person, it's a bad law! Along with the invisible hand of Adam Smith, I was basically bitchslapped into maximizing my profit at the cost of the needy, the disabled, and those damn woodpeckers. Won't someone feel bad for poor (rich) little (rotund) old me?
Qubits decohere at anything like room temperature.
From my background in Neuroscience:
100 trillion connections is sufficient for all cognition.
Unfortunately, understanding why this claim is absurd takes a fairly strong background in both sciences. Rather than ask you to take my word for it however, I suggest you pick up a copy of they Feynman lectures and Principles of Neural Science. Read them both and we can then all have a good laugh at quantum-as-thought.
Car makers initially fought putting seatbelts in cars because it made them look dangerous. Now seat belts fracture thousands of ribs a year and are required by law. Both initial fear and actual danger were over come due to the massive demonstrable benefit of the technology.