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Artificial Intelligence and Government

Posted by Carlo - 31/05/05 at 12:05:01 pm

Well,
today I was thinking about some of our Trieste Brilliant Brain, that has decided to fix one of the road that lead to the seaside now, in June!
You have to know that the Trieste inhabitants are like lizards, when the first sun comes to tell us that the summer is coming, they overcrowd the seaside and the ONLY street tath leads there! Yes, we have only ONE seaside (no beach and sand, but rocks with the street 10 meters away) and ONE way to get there!

AND YES, THEY START THEIR JOB NOW!

What a Brilliant Brain, what a perfect sense of timing, what…
what an idiocy!

So (and there it comes the “…What If…”) think about a computer with a sort of Artificial Intelligence, that will help these TBB (Trieste Brilliant Brain) to let us live in peace, without staring at the stupid things they do (the last one in order of time was the one to start a paving in front of the main square, Piazza Unita’, on 30 December!). I can obviously remember 10 Hollywood Movies that show a perfect AI (Artificial Intelligence) that understand that the humans are the main problem for the humanity and decide to wipe them out, but I’m not talking about “Pure” science fiction, I talk about ideas for the future.

Sometimes I get my motorbike and ride through the city: 100 meters and a red traffic light, another 100 meters and another traffic light… Hey, who studied the timing for that traffic light is a real TBB!!!! A computer (not an AI, something like my laptop) with a good application should help the traffic in this chaotic city! No one ever thought about it?
Then my mind fall in one of that dangerous thoughts that lead me in “Nowhereland”, thoughts that help me to get angry with the world, that help me to think that Italy and italian government (local or not) MUST BECAME ADULT!
Yes, my idea is that our democracy are creating a new type of Human Being (even if I think that this kind of humans are the original one…): the ones who “eat” everything they can, just because they can.
Hey, Man, you shoul represent ME, you should represent MY IDEALS and MY NEEDS! Why are you betraying the things you told us? Why are you betraying US!?!?!
Yes, they are betraying the ideals that help them to get where they are, because now thay are on that CHAIR that grant them the possibility to get an incredible amount of money doing nothing!
Who would not act like them? Won’t you take advantage of your position? Neither a litte?

Who would not act like them?

a Computer!

Yes, because we can tell this AI what is right and what is wrong. “He” (”She”, “It”, whatever you like) should learn frome some basic rules, helping us to simplifyour life!
It is not a race for who is the most stupid man in town, even if it a branch of Politic, I am talking about the real life that we are SO EXPERT to make it harder.
Don’t you think that a computer shouldn’t had started some street maintenance job at the beginning of june in the ONLY STREET THAT LEAD TO THE SEASIDE? Ok, neither an intelligent man shouldn’t, but this is rhetoric… Don’t you think that an Artificial Intelligence wouldn’t have been capable of syncronizing the traffric lights on the traffic congestion analysis?
Don’t you think that a computer will never be corrupted?
I like to think something similar to: “Hei, if you want that paper signed, you could support me with a new slot of 1 Gb of RAM…” YEAH! :-))))
Ha Ha Ha!!!!
Ok, this is just kidding, but my real idea is that we have created a machine that can help us to simplify our life (I think that telling that the computer can “Think” is a little bit unrealistic, even if possible) and we are using them only to let us write our thoughts and a little more.
When will we open our mind understanding that our creation can REALLY support our life, every day. Ok, maybe removing the politic is MORE than Science Fiction (it is an Utopia) but we can work on it.

The next election I will wote for IBM ThinkPolitic 2.1, I’m sure he will not create 2 hour queue in the only road that lead to the seaside!!

Think Well, friends, Think Well!

Star Wars III: The Revenge of the Sith

Posted by Carlo - 30/05/05 at 02:05:19 pm

Of course I do not have forgot Episode III. Of course we have seen it on 20th of May, but the strange happenings of these days have let me loose the ideas…
So, easy and fast: AMAZING!
Yes, we loved it, we loved the dark that surrounds every scene, that hit you when Anakin fall in the Dark Side of the Force. Where The Return of the Jedi is a song of hope, in The Revenge of the Sith you can find the dark becoming powerful, using all of its powers, treacheries, and lies.
The fall of the hope, the fall of everything that shine, the fall of the Good Ones.

Yes, I think that Star Wars III can be put aside the first trilogy for the pathos and for the pleasure to be seen!

Of course there should be hundreds of things to report (parallelism between combats and characters, they nedd to be mentioned), but my hint is “Go to see it!”

What makes me sad? Well, it is told it will be the last… Boooo
I’ll just wait for the TV Series!!!!

Ugo and Ilaria’s Wedding!

Posted by Carlo - 28/05/05 at 11:05:56 am

Today we will go to Ugo and Ilaria’s wedding!

We hope all the best for them!

(and we hope not to eat too much… )

Copyright (?)

Posted by Carlo - 27/05/05 at 12:05:43 pm

Well well…
if you are here, probably you are one of the most that understand that we cannot pay 20� for a Music CD. Probably you are one of that people that will never spend 50� for a DVD.
You can find it on internet. Yes, you can.

As you know I’m writing a book and in my dreams I’ll sell it worldwide, getting so much money to buy a suburban residence with a look at the seaside. In my dreams I’ll have no problems feeding my future children…

BUT…

…but I am thinking to release the book in internet, for free, maybe with a little writing “Help me with 1� if you like it!” and…
Do you know why?
Because I do not like the way the Copyright is managed nowadays! It’s not correct! The editors (for books I’m talking now) are closed to the young hopes and they threat you like an annoyance mosquito, but if they publish your writings they kept so much money you cannot immagine! Well, It is true that they take the risks if the book is a flop, but is this the Italian way? Will you be helped only if you are 100% money safe?

BLEAH!!!!!

I do not accept it!

Think well, my firends, Copyright should be right, but nowadays I do not tink it is!

Returning to Normal Life (is this a disrupting country?)

Posted by Carlo - 27/05/05 at 11:05:21 am

Well Well,
after some pearl days it seems that the life is still going on, demanding everything that was demanded every day before.
Back to work I’ve found the same faces and the same problems.
Nothing has changed but some part of me, like I thought. Sooner or later I’ll start again thinking about this “Italian lifestyle” that is becoming worst and worst. Our salaries are more or less the same as yesterday, but you can’t buy the same things.
When I think that the government is smiling, telling us “Hei, don’t worry! Everything is going fine! There is no economical recession and we should be happy!”
I’m Pissed Off! We do not have to look at our small gardens: we have to help each other to create a Better Italy… Am I the only one that thinks in this way?
Come On!
Wake Up and tell your neighbors that WE can change the things! WE will be the future of this country.

Is this a disrupting country?
Well, as long as their inhabitants close their eyes telling “It is so…” I’m afraid the answer is YES!

…no more but shouts in the silence…

Email: where the risk resides

Posted by Carlo - 26/05/05 at 11:05:12 am

Sometimes I stop myself thinking about some things that does not work in this silly world…
Today I was considering the spam problem. This week I have received more than 300 spam messages.
I think Spam is good if you want to:

• Enlarge you Penis (well, I’m happy with mine)
• Enlarge your breast (WHAT BREAST?)
• Buy Viagra (Hey, I think that sexual spam comes first…)
• Buy Rolex that are not Rolex (come on, guys, I want to be myself, not someone else who can afford such an expences)
• … a lot of other shits

But for the rest spam is only 6 Mb a week of shit you have to download. If you’re with ADSL and you don’t pay for what you download it can be simply a waste of time, but thinking about some new futuristic vision of the technology (Always connected through wireless connection to your PocketPc or something similar) this can be a waste of money.
Some days ago I connected to my e-mail account while I was on a bus, trying to made some tricks working on my PocketPc. After some minutes of configurations, in some seconds i get only the headers of 15 new e-mail.I had to say that it worked very well: fast, useful and a good thing to do for a Tech Junkie like me! Obviously I get 15 mail of spam… then I checked the price of that: 60 eurocents!
OUCH!
I usually check my e-mail once every 5 minutes (flat ADSL are a good starting point for me), think about spending 60 eurocent every 5 minutes… Even if GPRS let you pay only for the downloaded bytes and I get 50 spam e-mail a day, it means 3 or 4 euro a day.
Useless!
GPRS is NOT CHEAP in Italy, but returning to the main problem… what is the function of e-mail if your folder is always full of shit?
I like e-mail, I use it every minute and I think it’s something I cannot live without, but with all this SPAM I’m start thinking that a different way of managing it is becoming necessary! Hiding yourself behind fake identities is something that should NOT be available. Does an e-mail comes from “Terence Dick”? Well, I like to think that “Terence” is a real man. But nowadays he is only a fucking idiot that want to gain money sending millions of e-mail…

If you hide yourself behind a fake name you are only a coward, even if the “Net” allows you.

There should be hundreds of thoughts to be put on the paper, but it seems that the ones who can change the things are not interested in changing the rules…

My name is Carlo and when you will receive a mail from me don’t worry, I’ll never send you SPAM!

I HATE SPAM!

Happy Birthday, Mom

Posted by Carlo - 26/05/05 at 09:05:59 am

Even if it will not be the happiest birthday of her life, I’d like to say “Happy Birthday” to my Mother!

Farewell, Dad

Posted by Carlo - 25/05/05 at 08:05:18 pm

Last farewell to my father, buried today in Gorizia.
Tears and Hopes have followed me and Faby in this sad days, but life still goes on: he will live in our thougths.

Farewell, Dad.

Untied Thoughts…

Posted by Carlo - 24/05/05 at 11:05:22 am

Hard Morning this one…
Ten thousands of thoughts are floating into my mind, but I cannot catch any of them. Shit days are always so, full of nothing and empty of anything.
I’m trying to realize the “Questions” of life all by myself, all in one day. I get no real answers from the inner part of me, but I know that it is so.
Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.
You know that, even without medical confirmations or Copyright on it, a Smile is “contagious”. I hope being surrounded by happy people in these days, so I will be “infected” by their smiles.
Even if tomorrow will not be better, the day after will certainly be!

Sad Days!

Posted by Carlo - 24/05/05 at 08:05:06 am

These days will be sad,
I would like to say “GoodBye” to my father, that yesterday left us.
I hope he will feel better, wherever he will be.

Bye, Dad

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Carlo Nicora is at home in London.