In recent years, economists have invaded other intellectual disciplines and, in the dubious name of “science,” have employed staggeringly oversimplified assumptions in order to make sweeping and provocative conclusions about fields they know very little about. This is a modern form of “economic imperialism” in the realm of the intellect.
WorldNetDaily.com is reporting that the House has passed a bill that appears to allow strip searches of public school students in order to “ensure that classrooms, school buildings, school property and students remain free from the threat of all weapons, dangerous materials, or illegal narcotics.” I guess one shouldn’t be shocked that the inmates might end up subjected to unconstitutional searches.
Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent machine could design even better machines; there would then unquestionably be an ‘intelligence explosion,’ and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent machine is the last invention that man need ever make.
There’s an episode of “I Dream of Jeannie” from years ago when Jeannie blinks into existence tomorrow’s newspaper. Everyone is amazed and riveted by the implications of knowing tomorrow’s headlines today. Many possibilities here!
With all the trouble the Bush administration is in, both domestically and internationally, you’d think the Democrats could come up with something better as an election strategy than an anti-business crusade.
The New York Times has reported that California’s Attorney General, Bill Lockyer, is suing the six largest automobile manufacturers because of their alleged contribution to “global warming” and its resulting damage to the State of California.
A few days ago, the Federal Reserve released the latest flow of funds report. It shows in short that the imbalances of the U.S. economy are getting worse than before and that the imbalances were worse before than was previously thought.Household debt for the first quarter were upwardly revised from the $11840.1 billion assumed in the previous release to $12099.3 billion. Moreover the report show that debt rose a further 2.27% to $12373.5 billion.
