Monday, May 4, 2015

the Floor Length Hoodie

I'm freezing today. 

Most days, I will freeze a few times.

so, I pull on my white hoodie

and feel like some ancient Druid priestess

and then, it hit me

I need a 

FLOOR LENGTH 

HOODIE

dammit

Cheers

Zora


KNOWBOT 1.0

kadavy.net | The Behavioral Revolution (not the Information Revolution)

kadavy.net | The Behavioral Revolution (not the Information Revolution)





Today I will work/write my robot comedy/drama/thriller/horror/ story, KNOWBOT, which is the working title for HOTBOT, SheBOT, Showbot, BOTbot, and my notion that neuroscience nanobots will usurp our brains and we will become cybernetic robotic humanoids with supernatural powers, and then, of course, there is the robot mutant problem, and the fact that all these android people hate all these ios people, and a war breaks out. Bush starts it.



Thanks to the Information revolution, “the bow tie



problem” has been solved,



along with many other



problems.

info revo is over,



behaviors rev begins

david kadavy



Take “the restaurant



problem.” Wherever you are,



you can find the highest



rated restaurant on Yelp or



Foursquare.



There’s “the long-lost



friend problem.” All of the



people from your past are



on Facebook, for better or



for worse.



There’s also the “when does



the next bus come?”



problem, the “who’s



single?” problem, and the



“why do cabs cost so damn



much?” problem.

Humans vs Robots: Is Your



Job Next?

This entry was posted in



Employment Trends on



September 5, 2014 by Lynn.



Artificial intelligence



going head to head against



the human race has been a



popular science fiction



theme amongst movies and



books, but could reality



share a similar fate with



these fictional stories?



A recent poll was sent to



lead experts in the



technology field



questioning the affect of



artificial intelligence on



the future economy. The



question posed to these



1986 experts was, “Self-



driving cars, intelligent



digital agents that can act



for you, and robots are



advancing rapidly. Will



networked, automated,



artificial intelligence



(AI) applications and



robotic devices have



displaced more jobs than



they have created by 2025?”



Forty-eight percent of the



respondents believed that



robots would displace a



significant amount of jobs



and cause widespread



socio-economic havoc while



52% were more optimistic



about artificial



intelligence, believing



that technology will create



more jobs than displaced



jobs by 2025. There were



several themes that were



shared amongst each



respective group and points



of agreement between the



two parties.



Top arguments for AI



improving the workplace:



1. History has proven that



technology has always



created jobs.



2. Even though



technological advances



displace older jobs, they



always create new



industries and thus new



jobs



3. There are certain jobs



only humans are capable of



completing



4. Technology is not



advancing quick enough to



impact the job market in



the near future



5. Humans have structures



in society that will assist



in minimalizing impact on



employment



    My observation of



advances in automation has



been that they change jobs,



but they don’t reduce them.



A car that can guide itself



on a striped street has



more difficulty with an



unstriped street, for



example, and any automated



system can handle events



that it is designed for,



but not events (such as a



child chasing a ball into a



street) for which it is not



designed. Yes, I expect a



lot of change. I don’t



think the human race can



retire en masse by 2025.



    – Fred Baker, internet



pioneer leader in IEFT and



Cisco Systems Fellow



    



Top arguments that AI will



displace more jobs than



create:



1. Workers are already



being replaced by AI, and



it’s just the beginning of



this revolution



2. Income inequality will



worsen



    An increasing



proportion of the world’s



population will be outside



of the world of work—either



living on the dole, or



benefiting from the



dramatically decreased



costs of goods to eke out a



subsistence lifestyle. The



central question of 2025



will be: What are people



for in a world that does



not need their labor, and



where only a minority are



needed to guide the ‘bot-



based economy – Stewe Boyd,



lead researcher at GigaOM



Research



Though each side had



different takes on whether



or not technology will be



beneficial to future



economies, many agreed that



the current educational



system in place is not



sufficient to prep the



upcoming generation’s



workforce.



    The jobs that the



robots will leave for



humans will be those that



require thought and



knowledge. In other words,



only the best-educated



humans will compete with



machines. And education



systems in the U.S. and



much of the rest of the



world are still sitting



students in rows and



columns, teaching them to



keep quiet and memorize



what is told to them,



preparing them for life in



a 20th century factory. –



Howard Rheingold,



pioneering internet



sociologist and writer



Experts also generally



agreed that the definition



of “work” and a “job” may



actually change



dramatically in the next



decade.



The possibilities amongst



this ideology is that



robots will cut down time



and effort spent on mundane



tasks and in result humans



will have more leisure



time.



    If ‘displace more jobs’



means ‘eliminate dull,



repetitive, and unpleasant



work,’ the answer would be



yes. How unhappy are you



that your dishwasher has



replaced washing dishes by



hand?… The work week has



fallen from 70 hours a week



to about 37 hours now, and



I expect that it will



continue to fall… Robots of



various forms will result



in less work, but the



conventional work week will



decrease… This is what has



been going on for the last



300 years so I see no



reason that it will stop in



the decade. – Hal Varian,



chief economist Google



Another possibility in this



belief is that the



replacement of robots for



white and blue collar jobs



is that it will inspire



society to rethink how we



view the conventional



“job.”



    It seems inevitable to



me that the proportion of



the population that needs



to engage in traditional



full-time employment, in



order to keep us fed,



supplied, healthy, and



safe, will decrease. I hope



this leads to a humane



restructuring of the



general social contract



around employment. – Tim



Bray, an active participant



in the IETF and technology



industry veteran



A substantial amount of



experts believed that with



the increase of



technologically created



goods, a movement of



human-made or human



operated goods will rise in



response.



    I anticipate that there



will be a backlash and



we’ll see a continued



growth of artisanal



products and small-scale



[efforts], done myself or



with a small group of



others, that reject



robotics and digital



technology. – Tony



Siesfeld, director of the



Monitor Institute



Lastly, there was a



consensus that though



technology will inevitably



advance, the future is not



set in stone. Experts



agreed that humans will



have the ability to control



political, social, and



economic systems and thus



dictate the future impact



of technology on the



workforce.



    There’s no economic law



that says the jobs



eliminated by new



technologies will



inevitably be replaced by



new jobs in new markets…



All of this is manageable



by states and economies:



but it will require



wrestling with



ideologically fraught



solutions, such as a



guaranteed minimum income,



and a broadening of our



social sense of what is



valuable work. -Seth



Finkelstein, programmer,



consultant and EFF Pioneer



of the Electronic Frontier



Which group do you side



with? Do you believe that



AI will effectively



displace more jobs than



create? More importantly,



whether you agree or not,



are you equipped to face



the imminent robo-centric



future?



Source: PewResearch 

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Turbo'd my Tax return

intuit turbo tax
dispute
800 446 8848
4/22
incident 412 137 425
'closed"
re new incident number
automated voicemail

address/phone change
finally got thru to NAT
who found the original and unresolved incident where I attempted 11 or 12 times to "pay" Turbo Tax, their filing fee with my bank card (US BANK VISA) and it would not advance the page nor would it accept the payment.  However, the charge did hit my checking account 11 or 12 times, although I gave the first Turbotax service rep my credit card number verbally.


She gave me a 'service' code and offered me a discount, but still the page would not advance and I could not file my tax return on April 14th, 2015.
Since I had a prepaid cell phone, I had to hang up and try to resolve another way, but there was no email or electronic support other than phone and then it was 'after business hours,' and
although I attempted for the next few days to contact, I could not get through to an agent. I contacted my bank and they said the charges would drop off after three business days, but meanwhile, I was now 'bouncing' checks, and being charged successive overdraft fees.
finally, on wed. 4.22 I called "Nat" on Turbo tax and we downloaded and installed turbo tax on my computer, but it would not install the California program, and required a dot net framework update which I then downloaded and installed. Now it is two hours later and since I'm on a prepaid cell, my minutes are running low.




Dear Sir or Madam:
The overdraft charges occurring during the week of April 14th were due to multiple charges by Intuit against my checking account
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
due to a programming error on their part. Their turbo tax site would not register my tax file payment and would not allow me to complete and file my taxes.


the charges hit my account in repeated attempts to resolve this issue and when I called US Bank, they assured me these would be refunded as the duplicate charges dropped off in three business days. This has not happened and the charges remain.


I asked a bank teller and she said I would have to write a letter, and when I called on Wednesday at 10 am, your offices were closed due to some 'weather' condition. And, the other 'advice' I got was to include Turbo Tax in a 'three way' conference call with US bank and I do not have that capability on my phone.
Please refund these overdraft charges as they are in error.
Nora Boyle

Going Homeless

I'm revising that Neil Young song, "Helpless, Helpless, Helpless" into Homeless, etc.
I'm now 23 days into my homelessness.
homeless, homeless on the range.
I'm staying with relatives but they rather I didn't.
I just need their WiFi,
and spacebase or shelter...

I have 3 job opportunities, failed to successfully e-file my Turbo Tax'd 2015 return
and have spent countless hours on the phone with their tech support to resolve the
incident
and there is still no resolution.

And, Job Op number two, is pending offer
and I'm on pins and needles
so I bite the bullet.
Sit tight
think about other things

the Path of Least Resistance
for example
and how I'm going to launch into my next spacebase....
here in Lost Angeles
where the streets have no name.

I thought about my survival skills, instincts, and of course, death, computers, and taxes,
but I'm on a camping trip, I'm okay, I'm clean, I'm washed and in lieu of shampoo, I used baking soda and apple cider vinegar and my hair is soft and silky.

And, my unemployment ran out, so I have been in a panic mode due to the delays in pending job offers,
but again, ...path of LR
and chilling like a villain.

I'm not upset, but in flux like being on a really long airplane ride and there's no way out until you land
I'm jumping off anyway.

Can't get Turbo Tax installed to e-file my return so I'm leaving it alone for now, although Nat from Arizona is supposed to call back.

I feel so much fatigue when things spin out of control, but at least I have medication (metformin) and some food to eat. Gas in the car? Yes, Restored my bank account after Turbo Tax drained my checking account ten or 12 times for the same charge, and the bank gave me back the overdraft fees, and yet,
I'm waiting

I'm waiting for the sun/moon/heart chakra prana meditation and manifestation.

Yesterday I had a vision of an Egyptian Woman, a goddess, perhaps Hathor, but no horns, just the headdress, and the flail, and cross bow poised in tribute or prayer who said, "I am Shaman Ra..." and bowed to me in the temple.

I wonder.

Friday, April 17, 2015

El Dorado

The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek into the rainforests and mountains of South America. But it was all wishful thinking. The "golden one" was actually not a place but a person - as recent archaeological research confirms.
Columbus's arrival in the Americas in AD1492 was the first chapter in a world-changing clash of cultures. It was a brutal confrontation of completely opposing ways of living and systems of beliefs.
The European myth that arose of El Dorado, as a lost city of gold waiting for discovery by an adventurous conqueror, encapsulates the Europeans' endless thirst for gold and their unerring drive to exploit these new lands for their monetary value.
The South American myth of El Dorado, on the other hand, reveals the true nature of the territory and the people who lived there. For them, El Dorado was never a place, but a ruler so rich that he allegedly covered himself in gold from head to toe each morning and washed it off in a sacred lake each evening.
Dr Jago Cooper with Muisca guardian Enrique Gonzalez at Lake Guatavita Jago Cooper (r) f


more...
http://arttechnomarketing.blogspot.com/2013/01/el-dorado.html

Friday, April 10, 2015

homeless, helpless, helpless, hopeless but yknow, Stupid Rich

I have officially 'gone homeless..."
its not a long story,
but lets just say, I got evicted from my luxury Oceanside apartment by the Mission,
and then, when I heard the Mission Bell ring
I knew this was indeed, Hotel California...

Ah, careers...I don't know if I would call it 'that' but let's try.
My resume is rife with plot holes, rabbit holes, and a few runaway robots.
So, in the interest of brevity,
I know that now, I'm done with being poor.


 Day after Day, I see my life rife with opportunity - yet, there is no landscape upon which to paint.
I run this way, then, that way, and then stop
hoping to collect the ether of fortune...and stillness abounds.
silence abounds
in a law of dogs barking, lost angeles has claimed me, and here I sit, overlooking virgin territory
like an outlaw
like a mercenary soldier of fortune,
I see, I await,
and I invoke
$ten million dollars today

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Going homeless

I went homeless the other day after I got evicted from an apartment in Oceanside and landed in Los angeles, in a guest room of a friend who was on vacation in Europe.Always a Bedouin by nature, I was caught off guard by my homeless state of affairs, but decided that better things lie ahead. First, I spent 15 years in San Diego where I worked as an I.T.consultant and technical editor, mostly for defense contracts, and for both small and large companies still weathering the recession storms of the past ten years. So, it is now 2015, and I've collected four full rooms of stuff, and whittled it down to two 5 by 5 storage units at Extraspace storage in Oceanside and I was really proud of myself except I am still not too sure what is in those rubber maid storage boxes and I'm a little tired of living with or out of rubber maid storage boxes, so muchso,
that I plan to contact the rubber maid storage people and suggest they make coffins.

So, in going homeless, I realized I simply did not care where I landed as long as it was somewhere in "L.A."
and so here I am.  Lost Angeles, Hotel California, nowhere. I'm excited!

Firstly, they outlawed plastic bags used in EVERY store for bagging items, so if you don't have your own 'bag' you may get none.

Aghast, since I routinely use these for garbage, I was scrambling for  reusable shopping bags and found two in my possession but I'm just not happy.

Okay, I will cope with this environmental restriction, but it's a conundrum.

but wait!

I watch Al Jazeera
mostly because they give all the subversive news of the world, especially America, and have a more global perspective AND actual footage. Almost like CNN used to be.

So, today, I heard a story out of Illinois
Argonne Labs
http://arttechnomarketing.blogspot.com/2013/02/turn-plastic-bags-into-gold-er-carbon.html




http://arttechnomarketing.blogspot.com/2013/02/turn-plastic-bags-into-gold-er-carbon.html

the next thing that happened to me in Lost Angeles:
And, then, I'm 'lost' all the time since I never invested in a GPS, so I will have to reconfigure that one.

But, otherwise, I'm excited about my new job and my apartment or hollywood bungalow.

Its an attack on Hollywood since the Chinese are taking over, but I'm really not too concerned with the cultural adjustment, but I'm done with being 'poor' and decided to pursue my passion, which is
Show_Bot, another robot comedy starring Suzi Shane, showrunner.
Don't ask.  It is a very involved business plan but $10k would get it up and running, and the script pilot is in development. See Scryptography.blogspot.com.

And, also, there is a drought and so water restrictions will also ensue.

I decided to bring on the downpour, as shamanic wolfwoman and make it rain.  My raindance involves,
some drumming, some chanting, alot of meditation, and mostly prayer.

And, it works.  Today it rains.

I love L.A.
So, it is now April 9, and after an IRS attack on the internet, all is well for me, since I was unable to file.
Everybody thinks that if they don't file (or pay) by April 15th, the IRS will come and sieze your assets on April 16th, but au contraire.
The site cannot handle the traffic, so nobody will get through anyway.
I now, routinely, file my taxes on April 17th, and the IRS never says anything about it.
Just relax...the government is not evil.
but to some people, computers and the Internet, definitely are.
Computers are slow, stupid robots.
And, don't get frustrated.
it is just mentally retarded computers are in control.

And, another thing.
I went on Facebook and discovered an old friend who apparently joined a cult.
I'm not concerned, but I am fascinated.
The cult is a religion based on money
and I have often joked and wrote about this - even to the point of starting my imaginary
CASH COW CONSULTING
practice
but she is for REAL>
its fine.
whatever.
People are finally beginning to realize that money comes from god.
which god, I'm not sure.
oh, by the way - still homeless,
Day 9
and counting
and
yet, staying comfortably with a family member who's head exploded when he tried to pay his taxes today.
Cheers
Nora

Sunday, February 8, 2015

CASH COW

What is your CASH COW?

A cash cow is the goose that lay the GOLDEN EGG

The Get Rich Quick Scheme, whatever you call the prosperity magic that blesses some and not others.  
  • How can I make money?
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  • How can I make money online?
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  • How can I make more money?