![]() ![]() A few decades after that though the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. That should be positive if we manage it well. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be super intelligent. “I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence. “If you study programming and biology and see how the programming can help biology you will stay out on front!” It will take a few years of software applications being built to realize the full promise of this. Making the device so you don’t get dizzy or nauseous is really hard – the speed of the alignment has to be super super fast. Microsoft has put a lot into the chips and the software. “Overall financial transactions will get cheaper using the work we do and Bitcoin related approaches. Making sure that it doesn’t help terrorists is a challenge for all new technology.” Second is that if a mistake is made in who you pay then you need to be able to reverse it so anonymity wouldn’t work. One is that the poor shouldn’t have a currency whose value goes up and down a lot compared to their local currency. We don’t use bitcoin specifically for two reasons. For our Foundation work we are doing digital currency to help the poor get banking services. There are a lot of innovations but the key one is that it is far far safer than anything today – not relying on human operators.” It doesn’t use Thorium – it uses the 97% of Uranium that normally can’t be used for a reactor by breeding and burning. I am supporting Terrapower which has a 4th generation design that looks good. “Right now there isn’t enough R&D going into safe and cheap nuclear energy. There is a prospect for change in this area for the next generation but that is true for most fields and understanding how to program will always be useful.” “It is safe for now! It is also a lot of fun and helps shape your thinking on all issues to be more logical. ![]() On whether pursuing a job in programming in 2015 is still a good idea… Getting rid of sewage helps a lot to reduce disease and improve living conditions.” “One team, Janicki, which was written up in Wired, is sending a prototype machine to Senegal later this year. I challenged engineers to create a processor of sewage where the costs could be covered by the energy and water (clean water) that it outputs. The system the rich world uses of pumping in clean water and pumping it to a processing plant is too expensive. Since it costs money to process it just gets dumped in slums in poor countries. On the problems faced by his poop water machine a.k.a. They have killed women going to vaccinate kids many times.” They need to do the same things that were done in Nigeria. “Pakistan is starting to take this seriously including the army and the government. Until we get rid of it there it can spread back to other countries. We still have cases in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Our last case in Africa was 6 months ago and we are hoping no more show up. “Polio eradication is a big focus for me. It would be nice to live longer though I admit.” “It seems pretty egocentric while we still have malaria and TB for rich people to fund things so they can live longer. On life-extending and immortality research… ![]()
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