Teiwaz Storm
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Donald Trump comparison.. Completely unnecessary. Makes him look bad.
That comparison makes who look bad? ;p
Donald Trump comparison.. Completely unnecessary. Makes him look bad.
I'm looking forward to employment progress updates.
I think u taking off in the wrong direction there. It's not meant as a specific recipe that you can simply follow through, step by step and then u have the end result. If it was that simple somebody would already have done it, and we won't be discussing here if it's possible or not.My calculator struggled with that many zeros, but that's 684,931 jobs a day.
Maybe you should have said one Million?
I'm afraid you are right there.im starting to think that the problem is not the game but the player
Last I checked, he was visionary enough to buy CND.Great quotes lads. Unfortunately, Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs is not a visionary of any sort, he's a plain liar / advertiser and nothing more.
Last I checked, he was visionary enough to buy CND.
Obviously that wasn't because he understood the potential of the game. When Deathifier invested, now that was the direct opposite, it was because he understood the potential of the game. Right, got it.
Anyway, it's good to know we have people in here who specialize in QA of the visionaries. Would u go over the New Testament Books for me someday? There's a few passages in the last one that I'm interested in.
Martin Luther said I have a dream! Most ppl at the time said well that's impossible. The society wont work that way, it has been proven through out centuries, what we have today is how it has to be.
http://www.entropiaplanets.com/threads/neverdie-is-dead-long-live-tutankhamun.9232/Regardless, I can't believe anyone would be so misguided as to actually compare ND to either of those two. I guess we should just be thankful that you left out Ghandi, The Prophet Muhammad, Moses, and Jesus Christ.
NEVERDIE is DEAD. Long Live Tutankhamen!
Well, we have a reason to believe even the notorious P.T. Barnum pretty often actually believed what he said and his actions promoted the vision of a better future for all human beings. The real world is never as black and white as we're often led to believe it is:The very best comparison has got to be P.T. Barnum. The problem is, Barnum realized that he was essentially a conman, but ND seems to actually believe his own bullshit.
What about Martin Luther King, I expected for most ppl just the famous sentence "I have a dream!" would be enough to know who was the person I was referring to.With the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution over slavery and African-American suffrage, Barnum spoke before the legislature and said, "A human soul, ‘that God has created and Christ died for,’ is not to be trifled with. It may tenant the body of a Chinaman, a Turk, an Arab or a Hottentot – it is still an immortal spirit"
Yes. I absolutely agree with you there.There are literally millions upon millions of people out there with a "vision", and each one of those turdheads actually believes that their "vision" will change the world. Sadly, they are mistaken. A vision without intelligence is just another stupid idea that some moron truly believes in.
There was a TV series called "The Brain" presented by David Eagleman which discussed this and a lot of our decisions are based on our emotional state rather than cold hard logic. Without emotions people can become over whelmed and unable to make even the simplest choices.
AI will certainly aid in many things but what ND is saying that we should use our gaming skills to earn cash but wouldn't an AI be able to do that as well
As it happens, my work is closely related to these problems. Nowadays strategic business decisions and all decisions related to funding scientific research are based on estimations about technological trends, possible breakthroughs etc. There's specialized software that takes available info about the current trends and then interpolates all those trends into the future. On those models we can see the future (with ever decreasing degrees of reliability as we go further into future).
Well, we have a reason to believe even the notorious P.T. Barnum pretty often actually believed what he said and his actions promoted the vision of a better future for all human beings. The real world is never as black and white as we're often led to believe it is:
What about Martin Luther King, I expected for most ppl just the famous sentence "I have a dream!" would be enough to know who was the person I was referring to.
Yes. I absolutely agree with you there.
See, the thing is, although we can't directly prove or disprove any visions, there's methods to evaluate the probability of visions being true or untrue. Those methods are commonly known as Futurology (the most commonly used example is the Moore's law). For some predictions (usually placed in the relatively close future) we can have pretty good estimations that they are most likely true or most likely false. For others (usually placed in a very distant future or having all their premises based outside rational thinking) we are unable to evaluate them either way.
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As it happens, my work is closely related to these problems. Nowadays strategic business decisions and all decisions related to funding scientific research are based on estimations about technological trends, possible breakthroughs etc. There's specialized software that takes available info about the current trends and then interpolates all those trends into the future. On those models we can see the future (with ever decreasing degrees of reliability as we go further into future).
The problem with those models is, we know for a fact there's always these "rogue factors" that "jump in" somewhere halfway through and can sometimes grow so powerful that they can reverse the whole outcome to it's direct opposite. It seems human brain is so far still a more reliable tool for evaluating the probable outcomes of those very complex developments than the computers and software we have today.
I can tell from my own experience, when you are trying to see this huge matrix where different trends are in a constant flux: joining up, branching out, influencing each other... Your conscious mind simply doesn't have enough computing power and short term memory capability to solve the problem.
Luckily human brain has huge additional resource, subconscious (or simply, not conscious) information processing. You can use this, but there's a price to pay - you can have very accurate results but you will have hard time trying to explain the process used to reach those conclusions.
For the same reason visionaries, if u ask them for the details often can't tell you how they know the things they know or what should we do exactly to get from "here" to "there". They can't describe the exact process. Not to themselves, not even speaking about other people.
What about improved AI, automation of mass production and mass unemployment, those are so obvious trends today that nobody in their right mind would doubt these processes will collide in the predictable future. It's just that today we can't say with any certainty how bad will be the impact and how far into the future we should place it.
This election stuff has to be the biggest fail of EU history. Did really anyone in game take this seriously?
Some people like ND, some don't. That will never change.
What this does is give him the opportunity to advertise the game we all love. Notice how every time the virtual reality thing is mentioned he is eventually talking about and advertising Entropia.
Who on these forums has spent there own time to advertise Entropia in the way ND has continued to do for years. Who here brought one of the biggest influx of players into the game through their in-game actions(ie. sale of asteroid and RT).
I know I have not, have you?
Considering MA pay him and they do not me, I think it's fairly obvious why he promotes EU and I do not.
ND's job is effectively entropia - a) he makes money off players at Rocktropia and b) he's more in-bed with MA than any other participant.
and the absolutely WORST thing about this entire matter is that they didn't partner up with Second Life!
in that case they would actually represent the real-money-economy side of "virtual reality games"! it's so baffling they didn't even think that far...
(btw, why did I join Entropia - cause I read an article about the biggest virtual item sale...)
Whatever his interests are. His still the only one doing it and its the only real form of advertising the game gets. Do you see any other PP in the headlines?
Good observation there. Then again, has anyone achieved that?To get "in the headlines" you have to do more than sending out a press release that no-one reads. You need to get the story picked up by the media. I can't think of any occasion on which ND has achieved that since around 2006.
Good observation there. Then again, has anyone achieved that?
To get "in the headlines" you have to do more than sending out a press release that no-one reads. You need to get the story picked up by the media. I can't think of any occasion on which ND has achieved that since around 2006.
wasn't there a link to a newsfeed which had used the press release? It may have only been yahoo 'news', with news being a very loose term there I think , but still..... just saying as a point of fairness....
Do you mean for one of the ones related to the "election"?