It'll be like Deus Ex where the government can shut down your bio-enhancements and activate a "kill switch" to program your embedded nanobots for exponential growth, killing you no matter where you are on earth. That game was so prophetic.
Yep! This kind of research is where our best minds would be best employed, not working as quants. Parallel research into limb regenration too. Glad you posted this! We have "go fund mes" that work pretty well, maybe we need "go solve mes" as well. For example, there are a lot of super smart retired or underemployed folks out there who would be glad to be involved in beneficial research, gratis. Best of luck with your research.
Fuck yeah! Let's get that Cyberpunk dystopia going! I want to see low tech hackers in crossbow fights with cybernetically enhanced feds who have laser blasters...
off topic but just wanted to say my exhusband plays the guitar and in the early years of our marriage had a garage band that was ok. Their best original song was a song called Mr. Green Jeans. It was about weed but still...
Right on. Someone else let me know about Frank Zappa's Son of Mr. Green Genes that I wasn't aware of when choosing the handle, which is an amalgamation including weed farming, gaming (Ganky McGangster), and a childhood watching Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers.
Yeah, even if I was qualified I wouldn't move to California for it. I'm happy in Texas. But if more jobs open up in Austin I'll look more into it... Problem is i have a math/chemistry background and not enough engineering. I'll encourage my husband to apply but his problem is he is really good with technology and engineering but doesn't have the credentials to prove it. He's mostly self taught
one of my mentors is a brilliant engineer and hes self taught. the key is he has a network and list of accomplishments, otherwise its hard to get and interview.
a lot of tech and engineering types are self taught. They start learning young and never stop. Encourage him to get certs if there are any he can get in lieu of the degree. My experience working for an IT company was that the hiring managers looked for those certifications and experience much more than degrees.
Grey's Anatomy had this as a story line several years ago. It was amazing to see on TV although it was fiction. If that technology can become real it will be life changing for so many.
What's Musk going to do? I think he gets way more credit than is due. He just has ideas and a shitload of money, but he's not the one actually designing and building shit.
And Steve Jobs didn’t actually assemble your iPhone. Steven Spielberg didn’t write all his own movies. P.F. Chang isn’t actually working the kitchen. What a terrible point to make.
If it’s that easy, go for it. It doesn’t take a genius after all. Seriously let’s see how far your electric vehicle or space exploration start up gets.
If you think you have to be the cog that physically writes code or the monkey in the lab looking through a microscope to be recognized as a genius, you’re obviously not very intelligent. Genius can be demonstrated in many different ways. Musk is obviously a very gifted businessman at the very least.
Also understand there is a massive media campaign against Musk right now because he is outspoken against the media mob and left wing politicians. These same people told us Trump was a terrible businessman that nobody liked and he would never be elected President. That should be enough to make you stop and think for a second.
I plagiarized this from Quora. It's a good summary.
"Kirk Vollmer
Answered 2 years ago
Overrated yes.
To be fair he does have some real accomplishments with SpaceX. That’s probably where his best accomplishments lie at the moment.
But he didn’t develop Paypal his company just bought it and it got him rich.
Then his post paypal life, most of his companies arn’t really accomplishing anything of note. Tesla is way over valued in terms of market value only because Musk gets people to believe in him. Otherwise a company that sells thousands of cars would never be valued like a company that sells millions.
Tesla has yet to be profitable consistently and really has yet to accomplish anything of note other then making electric cars that are way too expensive for the average consumer and don’t really drive any further then anyone else’s electric cars.
Furthermore it seems like a lot of the love for Musk focuses on what he says he’s going to do and not what he actually has done. Musk seems to me to be like a dreamer. . . he’s got all sorts of really cool dreams that he throws out there. But how many of those dreams are realistic? And how many of those dreams are going to turn a profit so that they can keep going as private enterprises. Only governmental organizations can set out to try and accomplish something without worrying about if it’s going to turn a profit or not. NASA can send people to Mars because NASA doesn’t have to worry about making a profit.
Musk wants SpaceX to send people to Mars but sending people to Mars isn’t a money making venture. It’s a really expensive venture with no monetary return. How many of SpaceX’s investors are going to stay in when Musk starts dropping billions on something that is going to make no profit?
The Hyperloop. . . the infrastructure is entirely cost prohibitive. You are looking at something that is going to be just as expensive if not more expensive then trying to re-create the interstate highway system today. Then when you do that are you going to make it more attractive then just flying?
Musk has some big dreams and he’s able to sell those big dreams to investors. But it seems to me that he also gets tons of credit just for having dreams. I’m not a billionare but I can dream too.
When you compare him to someone like Jobs. It seems to me that Jobs kept his dreams for products internal to the company and didn’t come out with that stuff until he actually had a product to sell. I don’t remember Jobs telling us about how he’s going to make smart phones 20+ years before he actually made one. If you look at Musk though that’s what he does. He throws out these dreams that would take a couple decades minimum to get up and running and somehow gets credit for them.
Furthermore Job’s dreams for products seems to be more achievable and also more likely to turn a profit."
What if those ventures he’s dreaming up aren’t profitable today, but create tons of wealth for future generations? Somebody has to be bold enough to push the limits of what is possible. Sure, real estate on Mars is worthless today, but maybe that won’t be the case in a few thousand years. Why think small? I feel like Trump has been trying to teach us not to buy into others limitations.
And all it takes is money. I have plenty of bold ideas. What I don't have is tons of cash to try them out. Also, Musk got tons of money from the govt, otherwise Tesla would've failed long ago.
Start small and work your way up. Take one of your less ambitious ideas and a little bit of cash. See if you can parlay that into something bigger. Register for a LLC to protect your personal assets if you have any. Take out a loan. Do something.
But he's a considered a genius film maker even though everybody else does all the work. He doesn't hold the camera and microphones, build and light the sets. Way overrated.
Not really. He got lucky and got in on the internet boom early. Not saying he doesn't have good ideas, but that's most of what he has—ideas and money. Lots of people have ideas that are as good or better than his, but they don't have the capital to back it up. He's no Albert Einstein.
WTF
This sort of stuff will lead to our downfall as a society, fucking AI human symbiosis? Are you out of your fucking mind?
It'll be like Deus Ex where the government can shut down your bio-enhancements and activate a "kill switch" to program your embedded nanobots for exponential growth, killing you no matter where you are on earth. That game was so prophetic.
They can already do this with a drone strike. Maybe having the kill bots preinjected would just save tax dollars.
Then: NSA tracks everything you say and type.
Now: THEY'RE IN MY HEAD!!!
knowing my ego, whatever hive mind tries to absorb me is going to trip the fuck out and shut itself down
Oh good
Human / AI symbiosis
Next they'll know your thoughts
Next you'll get fined for thinking
This isn't science fiction
I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you think these negative thoughts.
Your food will now taste like broken glass until you can think more positively!
Trans-Humanism: The only ideology with the potential to be worse than communism.
I feel like no one watches sci fi movies
Yep! This kind of research is where our best minds would be best employed, not working as quants. Parallel research into limb regenration too. Glad you posted this! We have "go fund mes" that work pretty well, maybe we need "go solve mes" as well. For example, there are a lot of super smart retired or underemployed folks out there who would be glad to be involved in beneficial research, gratis. Best of luck with your research.
Surely this will not end badly
Personally, I would love to!! Just wish I was qualified.
If I was younger and just getting started I would try to get hired as a janitor if I had to.Work your way up. Research would be just part of it.
Did you just explain the plot of Good Will Hunting?
Well said. I would be happy to be the janitor!!
He is a special man. I would loved to have worked with him and more than that, I would loved to have known him.
Without doubt, he is the out of the box thinker.
Fuck yeah! Let's get that Cyberpunk dystopia going! I want to see low tech hackers in crossbow fights with cybernetically enhanced feds who have laser blasters...
Does having a spinal injury and being an American cancel each other out in terms of qualifying for the job?
off topic but just wanted to say my exhusband plays the guitar and in the early years of our marriage had a garage band that was ok. Their best original song was a song called Mr. Green Jeans. It was about weed but still...
Right on. Someone else let me know about Frank Zappa's Son of Mr. Green Genes that I wasn't aware of when choosing the handle, which is an amalgamation including weed farming, gaming (Ganky McGangster), and a childhood watching Captain Kangaroo and Mr. Rogers.
sounds a lot like what my ex and his buddies must have been thinking when they came up with that song.
Does Musk identify as a transhuman?
That used to be my dream job. Not sure I qualify for any of the positions but I do live near Austin....
https://neuralink.com/careers/
They have tons of jobs in CA but I'm not sure a position in a cutting edge field such as this is worth living in CA. YMMV.
Yeah, even if I was qualified I wouldn't move to California for it. I'm happy in Texas. But if more jobs open up in Austin I'll look more into it... Problem is i have a math/chemistry background and not enough engineering. I'll encourage my husband to apply but his problem is he is really good with technology and engineering but doesn't have the credentials to prove it. He's mostly self taught
one of my mentors is a brilliant engineer and hes self taught. the key is he has a network and list of accomplishments, otherwise its hard to get and interview.
a lot of tech and engineering types are self taught. They start learning young and never stop. Encourage him to get certs if there are any he can get in lieu of the degree. My experience working for an IT company was that the hiring managers looked for those certifications and experience much more than degrees.
Did elon just bend the knee to the borg?
Once full neural lace is completed, does it mean we can preserve people in glass jars forever holding just their brains? Or... did it already happen?
Grey's Anatomy had this as a story line several years ago. It was amazing to see on TV although it was fiction. If that technology can become real it will be life changing for so many.
What's Musk going to do? I think he gets way more credit than is due. He just has ideas and a shitload of money, but he's not the one actually designing and building shit.
And Steve Jobs didn’t actually assemble your iPhone. Steven Spielberg didn’t write all his own movies. P.F. Chang isn’t actually working the kitchen. What a terrible point to make.
P. F. Chang didn’t really cook my DAn Dan noodles?! Noooo
General Tso also isn't really military. Stolen valor.
Cap'n Crunch slinks away in shame
I’ve really had my eyes opened today
Not really. Musk is made out to be some genius. He's not. Very overrated, and if you had half a brain, you'd realize that.
If it’s that easy, go for it. It doesn’t take a genius after all. Seriously let’s see how far your electric vehicle or space exploration start up gets.
If you think you have to be the cog that physically writes code or the monkey in the lab looking through a microscope to be recognized as a genius, you’re obviously not very intelligent. Genius can be demonstrated in many different ways. Musk is obviously a very gifted businessman at the very least.
Also understand there is a massive media campaign against Musk right now because he is outspoken against the media mob and left wing politicians. These same people told us Trump was a terrible businessman that nobody liked and he would never be elected President. That should be enough to make you stop and think for a second.
I plagiarized this from Quora. It's a good summary.
"Kirk Vollmer Answered 2 years ago
Overrated yes.
To be fair he does have some real accomplishments with SpaceX. That’s probably where his best accomplishments lie at the moment.
But he didn’t develop Paypal his company just bought it and it got him rich.
Then his post paypal life, most of his companies arn’t really accomplishing anything of note. Tesla is way over valued in terms of market value only because Musk gets people to believe in him. Otherwise a company that sells thousands of cars would never be valued like a company that sells millions.
Tesla has yet to be profitable consistently and really has yet to accomplish anything of note other then making electric cars that are way too expensive for the average consumer and don’t really drive any further then anyone else’s electric cars.
Furthermore it seems like a lot of the love for Musk focuses on what he says he’s going to do and not what he actually has done. Musk seems to me to be like a dreamer. . . he’s got all sorts of really cool dreams that he throws out there. But how many of those dreams are realistic? And how many of those dreams are going to turn a profit so that they can keep going as private enterprises. Only governmental organizations can set out to try and accomplish something without worrying about if it’s going to turn a profit or not. NASA can send people to Mars because NASA doesn’t have to worry about making a profit.
Musk wants SpaceX to send people to Mars but sending people to Mars isn’t a money making venture. It’s a really expensive venture with no monetary return. How many of SpaceX’s investors are going to stay in when Musk starts dropping billions on something that is going to make no profit?
The Hyperloop. . . the infrastructure is entirely cost prohibitive. You are looking at something that is going to be just as expensive if not more expensive then trying to re-create the interstate highway system today. Then when you do that are you going to make it more attractive then just flying?
Musk has some big dreams and he’s able to sell those big dreams to investors. But it seems to me that he also gets tons of credit just for having dreams. I’m not a billionare but I can dream too.
When you compare him to someone like Jobs. It seems to me that Jobs kept his dreams for products internal to the company and didn’t come out with that stuff until he actually had a product to sell. I don’t remember Jobs telling us about how he’s going to make smart phones 20+ years before he actually made one. If you look at Musk though that’s what he does. He throws out these dreams that would take a couple decades minimum to get up and running and somehow gets credit for them.
Furthermore Job’s dreams for products seems to be more achievable and also more likely to turn a profit."
No plagiarism here. Just my own brain.
What if those ventures he’s dreaming up aren’t profitable today, but create tons of wealth for future generations? Somebody has to be bold enough to push the limits of what is possible. Sure, real estate on Mars is worthless today, but maybe that won’t be the case in a few thousand years. Why think small? I feel like Trump has been trying to teach us not to buy into others limitations.
And all it takes is money. I have plenty of bold ideas. What I don't have is tons of cash to try them out. Also, Musk got tons of money from the govt, otherwise Tesla would've failed long ago.
Start small and work your way up. Take one of your less ambitious ideas and a little bit of cash. See if you can parlay that into something bigger. Register for a LLC to protect your personal assets if you have any. Take out a loan. Do something.
But he's a considered a genius film maker even though everybody else does all the work. He doesn't hold the camera and microphones, build and light the sets. Way overrated.
He literally made his money designing and building shit
Not really. He got lucky and got in on the internet boom early. Not saying he doesn't have good ideas, but that's most of what he has—ideas and money. Lots of people have ideas that are as good or better than his, but they don't have the capital to back it up. He's no Albert Einstein.
Are you sure you're not thinking of Palmer Luckey?
Musk made his money by investing in the electric car industry, something that is expected to grow. His wealth grew from that.