hey guys
Artur Kiulian, author of this article here, PLEASE help us if you think you can:
We need:
- Non-technical talent (project managers etc)
- Experienced problem formulators & solvers, we are severely understaffed with people who can take unstructured information and transform it into the actionable task
- People with experience in medical domains (virology, epidemics, biology)
- Cross-discipline operators (people that work on the intersection of different subject domains like technology + medicine)
- Researchers & principal investigators, traditional academic background that are familiar with the process
- Marketers & Communicators (we, as a group, need to more effectively spread our core message and mission to organizations that can help us)
- Data engineers (there is a lot of data and we need to preprocess and enrich it)
- Developers (we still need to build traditional non-AI systems to help ML pipeline)
Damn, don't you think "we" as a society should eliminate the negative effects/activities? since aside of not having any utility it may bring negative outcomes..
The problem is, that "negative effect/activity" is not an objective thing.
To me, drinking(alcohol) is a pointless activity, with literally no upside. It costs money, doesn't feel good, I don't see the social aspect of it, and the danger it poses to people is well documented - it's a "negative" for society in my book. But, at the same time, I am fully happy to acknowledge that there are people who enjoy it, who like to party, and I would never say that drinking should be banned.
I know a few people who treat driving like I treat drinking - they see it as boring, without any benefit, with negative consequences well documented and they clearly think that society would be better off without it. They think that the day that manual drivers are banned can't come soon enough.
As mentioned above - we are not robots. Not everyone enjoys the same things. And that's great.
I don't think comparing drinking to driving is a good idea,
think of drunk driving, it's illegal. Why? Because it kills people it brings negative experiences such a death on a scale, just drinking at the bar doesn't cause this, right?
The same thing with driving in an autonomous environment, if it causes rapid increase in killings - it should be illegal in the same way as drunk driving. Don't you think so?
No, actually I think that long time before autonomous cars are common, or anyone even thinks about banning manual cars, vast majority of cars on the market will be already equipped with systems preventing accidents. There will be no reason to ban manual cars, because manual cars will be nearly impossible to crash, unless you specifically want to crash(and I bet you will be able to do that in an autonomous cars too since I can't imagine it won't have some sort of manual override).
Also, just to address your last point - why would manual driving cause increase in killings? In the worst possible case, it would stay at the same level as now,no? In fact, it's hard to argue that it won't get better, because autonomous cars will avoid dangerous situations caused by manual drivers better than humans would.
In other words - in increasingly autonomous environment, the risk factor of manual drivers will go down, not up.
Please read my comment above, I'm not saying the TOOL or an object should be banned but a COMBINATION of a USE should be banned. And yes, the use large knives in public places where there is a risk of killing people should be banned, is there any objection to this?
Yes, there is objection to that. There's plenty of legitimate reasons to have a large knife in a public place..obviously.
There's only a risk of killing people unless you're ISIS or a psychopath. Do we ban everything because of a few assholes? Yes, we do a lot of the time, and that's pretty sad.
>Or maybe you are doing 70 hours of work in 70 hours.
Or maybe doing 35 hours of work in 70 hours.
I'm not sure how many hours I do, probably around 35. I start at around 8am and work till about 6, but take long breaks during the day.
I find that I'm much more productive if I take a lot of breaks -- long hours don't necessarily result in getting more stuff done. I've never had a problem getting all the stuff done that I need to do, and I tend to be more productive than most other developers I've met. In fact, sometimes doing no work for a day or two is a good way to limber up for a difficult project.
