[Vision2020] Say What?

[Tom Hansen]

This comes as no surprise that the same people, here on the Viz, that strongly criticized the NSA's security measures as invasion of privacy . . . applaud a private corporation's ability to obtain private and personal informaton without consent.

Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still.
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
  

> On Feb 25, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> "Wouldn't surprise me.  Kurzwell is a visionary and is very knowledgeable about where the AI technology is today and can extrapolate where it will be in the future.  It will be able to quickly process and comprehend decades of viz2020 archive posts."
> 
> Which leads nicely into the topic of whether or not an AI Google should have rights.  I would consider having to comprehend decades of viz2020 archive posts to be a cruel and unusual punishment for a sentient machine.
> 
> Paul
> 
> From: Scott Dredge <scooterd408 at hotmail.com>
> To: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>; viz <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> With context:
> 
> Kurzweil believes that Google will soon "know the answer to your question before you have asked it. It will have read every email you've ever written, every document, every idle thought you've ever tapped into a search-engine box. It will know you better than your intimate partner does. Better, perhaps, than even yourself." 
> 
> Wouldn't surprise me.  Kurzwell is a visionary and is very knowledgeable about where the AI technology is today and can extrapolate where it will be in the future.  It will be able to quickly process and comprehend decades of viz2020 archive posts.
> 
> From: thansen at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:52:31 -0800
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Say What?
> 
> "It will know you better than your intimate partner does. Better, perhaps, than even yourself."
> - Ray Kurzweil on the future of Google, where he serves as director of engineering.
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> No need to be concerned.  Right, V-Peeps?
> 
> As NSA woukd suggest . . .
> 
> This conversation is not being recorded.  Just speak loudly, distinctly, and directly to the pencil sharpener.
> 
> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
> 
> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
> http://www.MoscowCares.com
>   
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
> 
> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
> 
> - John Lennon
>   
> 
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