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ibmconsulting: Pathways, Timelines and Superintelligence Scenario noreply@blogger.com (brian wang), nextbigfuture.com Wait but Why summarizes some of the timelines and definitions for artificial super-intelligence. The general consensus among AI researchers is that Artificial superintelligence could arrive around 2060.Nick Bostrom defines superintelligence as…
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taleoftales: We are featured in this movie! GAME LOADING – RISE OF THE INDIES is a documentary about Independent Videogame Making a.k.a “the indie scene” um, at least a timecapsule of a certain time and place and how certain people (many of whom we know and love) make videogames. It seems they’ve finally put up…
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mapsontheweb: Map of Nixtun, Guatemala. Earliest city in Mesoamerica to use a grid system and did it 100 yrs before Teotihuacan.
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I came to learn that women have never had a history or culture of leisure. (Unless you were a nun, one researcher later told me.) That from the dawn of humanity, high status men, removed from the drudge work of life, have enjoyed long, uninterrupted hours of leisure. And in that time, they created art,…
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thegits: fish-boned: shickalenia: dduane: thesuitsofwoah: that’s almost too cruelalmost I had to do this once with Privateer II: The Darkening. It gained a bit when he said “I bet you didn’t play it through, I bet somebody just told you how…” and I was able to smile gently and say “God, possibly, since I wrote…
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Having leisure time is now a marker for poverty, not riches
mostlysignssomeportents: In Post-Industrious Society: Why Work Time will not Disappear for our Grandchildren, researchers from Oxford’s Centre for Time Use Research argue that there has been a radical shift in the relationship between leisure, work and income. Where once leisure time was a mark of affluence, now it is a marker for poverty. The richer…
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Locating “The Big Hole in HCI Research”
notesonresearch: At CHI 2014 a paper was presented (Liu et al., 2014) which sought to demonstrate, through an analysis of keywords specified in a large tranche of CHI papers (from the last 20 years), that HCI research is lacking in “motor themes”. According to the paper, a motor theme is a commonly addressed topic in…
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hyperallergic: In the ’60s, photographers anxious about the art form’s legitimacy set out to distinguish fine art from documentary practices. Photographer Duane Michals has shattered these preconceptions about photography throughout his career. Profiled in Storyteller, a book by Linda Benedict-Jones, released by Carnegie Museum of Art to coincide with last year’s retrospective of the same…
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Nina Paley passes on Netflix DRM and thousands of dollars [2010]
mostlysignssomeportents: Nina Paley was approached by Netflix to offer her amazing animated feature Sita Sings the Blues on their streaming service. Sita retells the saga of Rama and incorporates some vintage jazz, to marvellous effect. In order to clear this old jazz music, Paley had to go through an enormous rigamarole, and this experience has…