“Patents block progress” – says Lester Earnest, founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford, on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay

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24 thoughts on “Billionaires Shouldn’t Control Artificial Intelligence – Lester Earnest on RAI (4/5)”
  1. Love this guy. I think what he's talking about is SPAN (Smartphone Area Network). Basically connecting everyone in a wide global network by bouncing data packets from phone to phone. It would be completely free to use, only costing battery power. FireChat is an app that is using such a mesh network, and people have used it to communicate in countries (Iraq, Hong Kong, Ecuador) where the government shut down the Internet in their country. However that app isn't open source, so it lacks that.
    I agree also that patents are only bad news, and in fact money as a concept is hindering innovation and technology development. Only things that are scarce can have monetary value, even true for things we as human beings value a lot (like oxygen to breathe). Producing an abundance of technology would be economically unwise, as would producing an abundance of anything including food. Money is only a tool to control us all anyways. It's all about power and control, and money provides the power to coerce people to act in certain ways through work. It's all in hour heads, money isn't a real physical thing. We can't eat money. If you try to eat a dollar bill you're not really eating money, you're eating paper.

  2. Runaway Hothouse Earth And Runaway Mass Extinction = Unstoppable + Irreversible

    99% of Rhinos gone since 1914.

    97% of Tigers gone since 1914.

    90% of Lions gone since 1993.

    90% of Sea Turtles gone since 1980.

    90% of Monarch Butterflies gone since 1995.

    90% of Big Ocean Fish gone since 1950.

    80% of Antarctic Krill gone since 1975.

    80% of Western Gorillas gone since 1955.

    60% of Forest Elephants gone since 1970.

    50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985.

    40% of Giraffes gone since 2000.

    30% of Marine Birds gone since 1995.

    70% of Marine Birds gone since 1950.

    28% of Land Animals gone since 1970.

    28% of All Marine Animals gone since 1970.

    97% – Humans & Livestock are 97% of land-air vertebrate biomass.

    10,000 years ago we were 0.03% of land-air vertebrate biomass.2030 = 40% more water needed.

    2030 = 10% more emissions emitted.

    2030 = 15% more energy needed.

    2030 = 50% less emissions needed.

    2018 = The world passes 100 million oil barrels/day for the first time.

    2025 = In 7 years oil demand grows 7 million barrels/day.

    50 years until all the soil is gone says Scientific American.

    100% emissions reductions will take 70 years says Vaclav Smil.

    There has never been a 100% energy transition, we still burn wood.

    50% of Europe's renewable energy is from burning trees imported by ship worldwide.

    No Soil & Water Before 100% Renewable Energy

    https://lokisrevengeblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/24/no-soil-water-before-100-renwable-energy/

    We have to reduce emissions 50% in 10 years to avoid 1.5 C.

    We have to reduce emissions 100% in 20 years to avoid 2.0 C.

    Runaway Hothouse = 5 major tipping points triggered between 1.5 – 2.0 C.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/environment/comments/95vjve/15_c_50_reductions_in_10_years_it_gets_worse/

    Runaway Hothouse = unstoppable + irreversible.

    Runaway Extinction = unstoppable + irreversible.

    2035 = Runaway Hothouse Extinction subject to change

    Once Runaway Hothouse Extinction is triggered, there is nothing we can do about it.

    Why Renewable Energy Won't "Save" Us

    Electricity production is only 20% of all the world’s total energy demand. Therefore…

    If renewables = 25% of electrical production now, then renewables = 5% of total world energy demand.

    If renewables = 40% of electrical production by 2040, then renewables = 10% of total world energy demand.

    Our food and its packaging is feminizing and sickening us.

    Our tech fetish culture is emotionally numbing and mentally ill.

    Our transhuman immortal tech overlords talk like hippies, and act like defence contract thieves.

    They got so many IOT bugs up our asses, they can fuck our brains over twice before breakfast.

    Facebook AI knows 50 ways you'll leave your lover, before you even know one.

    We need action. What can we do now to mitigate collapse?

    Fix It Instructions

    The top 10% earners = 50% emissions, if taxed down to a middle income, emissions will decline 33%, says Kevin Anderson.

    If we tax the top 30% of earners to a middle income, emissions will decline 999% faster than anything else we tried so far.

    100% energy transitions take 70 years. Taxing the rich takes one year.

    We have 10 yrs to reduce emissions 50%, and 20 yrs to reduce emissions 100%.

    After taxing the rich to pay for education and health by governments, you add a 100% private carbon tax which will fund a Basic Income Credit worldwide.

    100% private carbon taxes = 0% for governments and corporations.

    Both Socialists and Fascists hate this idea.

    *100% private carbon credits will unite the left and right and stop a race/sex/extinction war*

    All America has to do to fix their county is cut the Pentagon budget 50%. These are the kind of actions needed to save mankind, worrying about your identity is for pub nights.

    Break It Instructions

    Fascism infects Socialism, Capitalism and Communism equally. All 3 are 100% corruptible. Young socialists say there is no difference between male and female. They also say that since there’s more variation within each race than between races, then race is purely a social construct. They say that race and sex are social constructs.

    They also say white males are to blame. So, we are ruled by 2 social constructs. White and male. I knew whitey had it in him. We are ruled by ghosts, the ancient ghosts of ideology. Marx, Engels, Smith etc.

    I can feel Adam Smith giving me an "invisible hand" job right now.

    The 1st female Secretary of State starved 500,000 Iraqi children to death.

    The 2nd female Secretary of State destroyed Libya. She’s bi-sexual.

    The 1st Black President destroyed Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.

    Both Obama and Trump starved to death 85,000 kids in Yemen.

    Blacks, gays and women are every bit as evil as straight white men. This is a true equivalency statement.

    The Addiction of Ideology 25 min Gabor Maté, addiction expert

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YdpvnwtGc

    There's a lot of bullshit out there about how solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars will save us. None of it is true, but why do we keep hearing it over and over again. It's because corporations own our schools, and if they want us to eat poison, they will publish a dozen papers on how safe that poison is to eat.

    The Conspiracy of Scientific Fraud

    70% of Experiments Cannot Be Replicated, 50% of Researchers Cannot Reproduce Their Own Results

    https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970

    U.S. Campus Corruption

    http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0015/001502/150259e.pdf

    Is the Peer Review Process a Scam? – enago academy

    https://www.enago.com/academy/is-peer-review-process-a-scam/

    “In 2005, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a software program called SCIgen that randomly combined strings of words to generate fake computer science papers. The objective of the exercise was to prove that the peer review process was fundamentally flawed and the conferences and journals would accept meaningless papers. After being notified by other researchers who were tracking those SCIgen papers, journals were still quietly pulling articles as late as 2014.”

    Three researchers have written 20 hoax papers on 'grievance studies'

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6239071/Academic-journals-caught-massive-hoax-involving-20-FAKE-papers.html

    I remember a story about French post-modern philosophers in the 1970s, who received a document from a renowned physicist who pranked them. He took all their, what Chomsky calls, unintelligibly garbled reasoning, and he rearranged and regurgitated all those fine words and blessed them with a kiss. That kiss was a tacit endorsement of their reasoning. They forgot to verify and corroborate what the physicist said before publishing it. They looked like fools.

    Let’s end reviewer fraud – Publons

    https://publons.com/blog/lets-end-reviewer-fraud/

    107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud | Ars Technica

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/107-cancer-papers-retracted-due-to-peer-review-fraud/

    Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science – Google Scholar

    http://scholar.google.ca/scholar_url?url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/014107680609900414&hl=en&sa=X&scisig=AAGBfm0D9oaDV4YG6rsHdvwE8ygJ8b4dgA&nossl=1&oi=scholarr

    Why scientists need to do more about research fraud – Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2018/jan/04/science-fraud-research-misconduct

    Canadian researchers who commit scientific fraud are protected by privacy laws – The Toronto Star

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2018/jan/04/science-fraud-research-misconduct

    China cracks down after investigation finds massive peer-review fraud – science mag

    http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/china-cracks-down-after-investigation-finds-massive-peer-review-fraud

    The Bottom of the Barrel of Science Fraud – Neuroskeptic

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/11/30/worst-science-fraud/

    Chinese courts call for death penalty for research fraud – PBS

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/column-chinese-courts-call-death-penalty-researchers-commit-fraud

    Peer-Review Fraud — Hacking the Scientific Publication Process | NEJM

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1512330

    Scientific Fraud – EuroScientist journal

    https://www.euroscientist.com/theme/scientific-fraud/

    5 Common Types of Pharmaceutical Frauds You Should Know About!

    https://community.intelex.com/explore/posts/5-common-types-pharmaceutical-frauds-you-should-know-about

    Campus Rape Culture: The Real Story

    https://medium.com/@LoriHandrahan2/professors-staff-arrested-for-trading-in-child-rape-6c39fcf62a9e

  3. But before I try to watch this, I have this to say, The Real News did a wake-up call about the WTO and the ITC on this a few-several months ago, which is likely why their numbers went down, along with all the commies, socialists and nationalists. Great work TRNN!

  4. If and when artificial intelligence happens (and those who apply the term to present day tech are misusing the term) it will most definitely not be controlled by billionaires, or anyone else.

  5. I completely agree with him. I've thought about patent system the same way as he does. It actually blocks progress. And it only caters to the greedy rich people. Getting patent is so expensive.

  6. Lester is very inspiring personality. Will try to find more of his achievemnts and thoughts. Yes, quality of life as the main goal should be supported.

  7. What a different world we would live in if everyone thought like Lester. "I don't see the pleasure in being a multi billionaire." "The goal should be improving quality of life, not making big bucks." Great quotes from a great man.

  8. A way to make the system work better would be to make IP self assessed, and then charge a rising % until the property expires.
    The IP can then be bought out at any time at the set price either by the state or competitors and returned to the public domain.

    That way the filer of the IP has an incentive to try to set the price at a value near to it's actual accrued benefits.
    If they set the price too high, they risk paying more tax than it is worth. If they set it too low, they risk being bought out at any point.

  9. Here's the deal: corporations controll the globalised economy, national states can't regulate them, solution: a global state from which nobody can taxdodge, however it must be converted to a direct democracy to prevent a totalitarian society. How? With the internet a website can be created where everyone gets to vote and make suggestions for laws, whenever a law reaches 50% support, everybody votes on it. Nation states are subordinated in a subsidiarity fashion.

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