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Considering he's beaten Lee Sedol and Gu Li, who knows how this will play out.

But no doubt he'll talk to Sedol about his take away from playing AlphaGo, especially since part of playing against any computer is reverse engineering its decision tree.

So great to see Neil Postman and Marshal Mcluhan on the top, as well as Joseph Campbell and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the middle

Essential reading for a world that usually promotes taking media for granted.

The creation of something this sustainable (especially for lower and middle income communities) needs an equally sustainable tool-shed and parts factory for use at the same time.

These are not things that industry tends to provide on an individual or even communal basis, so they will most likely have to be built into communities themselves through fabrications labs and community-owned 3d printers.

neil gershenfeld's talk on fab labs and their social applications if anyone's interested (warning: tedtalk)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n-APFrlXDs

he has a bunch of good ideas. if anyone's curious, buy his books or watch any of his most recent talks discussing digital reality

interesting that most of the comments who disagree with you actually just take issue at your calling it a "trivial application"

language aside, you're hitting on an important idea that a lot of people are missing:

'trivial' doesn't mean useless, but this specific type of artistic agency and communication are unfortunately the only means of expression most have when there are no economic means of personal expression (i.e. going back to college, affording consistent healthcare, paying rent without going in debt, having disposable income to go out with friends, buying materials/server-space to use as means for artistic or scientific personal expression rather than needing to rely on a pre-programed photo-filter).

there's an honest sadness to the idea Snapchat is funded so heavily when the same amount of money could be used to fund multiple small businesses who might need to integrate tech into their operations and who can create jobs for people who need them

This will work for the first handful of times! But, like using your favorite song as an alarm for an early class or a stressful job, it creates a large problem for the user and their music taste:

The user's favorite piece of calming music will now be consistently connected as an alarm for the more stressful times of their profession/life.

Eventually, playing that music at any other point will induce some level of panic when they hear it because now they've trained their brain to associate it with this stress.

"By Disabling Ad Blockers, Forbes Can No Longer Pretend To Be a Tech Magazine"

The Black Book seems like a fun read. I'm having a problem finding a copy in english (spanish, french, and chinese so far) but it's definitely now on my finding/reading list!

Hahaha, yikes! Too bad this article is from TechCrunch and not Nature, Science Daily, or even Psychology Today.

It gives a strange feeling, reading "A Dyson engineer explains why the company spent $71 million and four years developing a high-tech hair dryer" next to this conversation we're all suppose to have about changing the fabric of our biology.

Freud's biggest contextual problem was outlined by Alice Miller in most of her works, notably "Thou Shalt Not Be Aware" and "Drama of the Gifted Child".

It was basically that Freud was suffering from his own unresolved childhood traumas and avoiding them forced him to narrate his theories from the perspective that the parent was innocent and the child was guilty, especially when discussing the treatment of seemingly misbehaved children.

Unfortunately, this continued to be the main perspective in psychoanalysis and child development until the late 1970's/early 1980's

She gives an explanation in its simplest form in a 1987 interview with OMNI Publications International:

Traditional analysis, says Miller, duplicates the parent-child relationship with the conventional analyst in the position of power. [...] The child undergoes a long inner struggle “between the fear of losing the person he loves if he remains true to himself, and panic at the prospect of losing himself if he has to deny who he is. A child cannot resolve a conflict of this nature and is forced to conform because he cannot survive by himself. Therapy should not repeat this condition.”

fascinating read if anyone's interested, especially when she describes the first time she discussed this to a conference of psychoanalysts:

http://www.alice-miller.com/en/the-feeling-child/

Glad to see this reach the font page today! it's little talked about, but how we grow up and the skills we develop to navigate childhood basically defines how we use and develop technology. it begs the question, what kind of technological and security environments will flourish as familial and childhood trauma become individually resolved on a mass scale?

Doesn't it feel like this particular use of artificial intelligence is just a way of stopping general purpose computing in the marketplace?

I mean "artificial intelligence" would still need to be licensed by the user at the end of the day. Does no devices mean no ownership?