Hi Trent. I'm certainly not a leftist, and no longer the mild
technologist I was, and my Windows Skynet analogy was actually meant to
be serious. The problems I have, in rough chronological order, are
a) corporate malevolence,
b) governmental malevolence (esp by the left) that dwarfs the corporate
malevolence,
c) the obvious potential of cascading bugs and other misfires,
and d) introduction of new bugs and misfires, as software "engineers"
these days are so in love with their cleverness that they often can't
even program correctly the basic features in their apps. And the idiotic
"features" written in bloated OOP will magnify horribly.
How far can disk and memory requirements go when 64bit is no longer
enough to address it all?
Since all this requires higher skill levels and constant oversight - of
multigenerational code, yet - and may require many man-hours to solve
(or resist!) the new issues, I don't see programming jobs going away
anytime soon. Or in our lifetimes.
Dystopia isn't necessarily fear-mongering. Spyware. Malware. NSA. Face
recognition. Excessive copyright enforcement. The Great Firewall.
Corporate/governmental censorship to conform to repressive "moral"
standards around the world.
Man creates nothing that men don't ruin, and preserving freedom and all
its benefits will always be a constant battle just as it always has
been. Expecting the worst along with the best is a way to stay prepared
for the next battles. What sci-fi authors have always done, we're
(sorta) doing here. We're looking before we leap, cause the leap may
well be coming.
On 3/10/2017 12:19 AM, trent shipley wrote:
> A while ago I heard a futurist say that if you wanted your kid to make
> money in the future, they should pursue a creative career. He expected
> technology jobs to go the way of manufacturing jobs -- automated out
> of existence. The up side is that owners of capital will make MUCH
> higher profits, while consumers of IT will save some money. Also,
> access to IT should be more democratic since it will not rely as much
> on left brain thinking and scarce training.
>
> Microsoft is hardly alone in trying to make administrators and
> programmers obsolete, and the repressive leftist politics or dystopian
> fear mongering strike me as burying the lead--especially if you are a
> technologist whose job is in the cross-hairs of economic and technical
> history.
>
> Trent.
>
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 11:34 PM Vara La Fey <varalafey@gmail.com
> <mailto:varalafey@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Oh. Joy. A Cortana that can write its own spyware. Windows Skynet.
> Upgrade today. Or else.
>
> - Vara
> - www.facebook.com/vara.lafey <http://www.facebook.com/vara.lafey>
>
> On Mar 9, 2017 11:18 PM, "Victor Odhner" <vodhner@cox.net
> <mailto:vodhner@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> Hmmm. Did my post get blocked?
> __________________
>
> On Mar 9, 2017, at 16:59:21, Keith Smith
> <techlists@phpcoderusa.com <mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com>>
> wrote:
>
> Yep what we need is smart computers. When all this started
> computers were supposed to create a shorter work week. Now
> look what we have. Racist computers - LOL!!
>
>
>
> On 2017-03-09 15:32, Anon Anon wrote:
>> http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-deletes-racist-genocidal-tweets-from-ai-chatbot-tay-2016-3
>> On Mar 9, 2017 15:17, "Stephen Partington"
>> <cryptworks@gmail.com <mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>> Really? you took this there.
>>> On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Nathan England
>>> <plug-discuss@nmecs.com <mailto:plug-discuss@nmecs.com>> wrote:
>>> On 2017-03-09 08:47, Anon Anon wrote:
>>> How long until they teach this one how to create html filled
>>> with
>>> explitives and hate speech?
>>> I read this and about died laughing. All I could think of was
>>> someone designing this software to act like any other liberal
>>> online. Write basic html filled with explitives while spouting
>>> hateful intolerant garbage, and it has artifical
>>> intelligence, just
>>> like so many of today's liberals (brainwashed university
>>> intellectualism).
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>>> Nathan
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>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent
>> you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze
>> button.
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