Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say
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Chapter 12
YOUNG SOCIALISTS
Why Our Kids Think They Hate Capitalism
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PAGE 242: “‘government-run cartel education system.’” Kevin Williamson, “Jobs Agenda,” nationalreview.com, October 5, 2011, http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279321/jobs-agenda-kevin-d-williamson.
PAGE 244: “‘the state-run shops are so barren. . .black market’” David Remnick, “‘Soviet Union’s Shadow Economy’ – Bribery, Barter, Black-Marker Deals Are the Facts of Life,” Seattle Times, September 22, 1990, http://bit.ly/Ij3swn. • “‘owned the only private broadcast media’” U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, “2010 Human Rights Report: Equatorial Guinea,” report, April 8, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/af/154344.htm. • “‘or access to the Internet,’” U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, “2010 Human Rights Report: Turkmenistan,” report, April 8, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/sca/154488.htm. • “inches shorter than South Koreans.” Carl Bialik, “The Korean Height Gap,” wsj.com, October 15, 2008, http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/the-korean-height-gap-431.
PAGE 245: “‘and we have our revolution.’” Buck Sexton, Occupy: American Spring (New York: Mercury Ink, 2012).” • “Socialism was viewed negatively by 59 percent. . .” Pew Research Center, “‘Socialism’ Not So Negative, ‘Capitalism’ Not So Positive,” pewresearch.org, May 4, 2010, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1583/political-rhetoric-capitalism-socialism-militia-family-values-states-rights. • “Only 45 percent think capitalism is a good idea” Frank Newport, “Socialism Viewed Positively by 36% of Americans,”gallup.com, February 4, 2010, http://www.gallup.com/poll/125645/Socialism-Viewed-Positively-Americans.aspx.
PAGE 246: “‘and then lost it have never known it again.’” Ronald Reagan, “First Inaugural Address 33rd Governor, Republican 1967-1975,” governors.library.ca.gov, January 5, 1967, http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/33-Reagan01.html. • “‘Center-Left or actually majoritarian socialist.’” Charles Derber, “Capitalism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls,” commondreams.org, May 18, 2010, http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/18-3.
PAGE 247: “Great for the young communist and socialist.” Greg Mankiw, “The Rainbow Fish, Revised,” gregmankiw.blogspot.com, July 27, 2011, http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2011/07/rainbow-fish-revised.html.
PAGE 248: “as one critic wondered” “Oil Baron Tex Richman,” futureofcapitalism.com, December 3, 2011, http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2011/12/oil-baron-tex-richman. • “errors abound” Lawrence Reed, “Are High School Economics Textbooks Reliable?,” times-herald.com, December 08, 2011, http://bit.ly/Ij315q.
PAGE 249: “Here are the results” Ray Franke, Sylvia Ruiz, et al., Higher Education Research Institute, “Findings from the 2009 Administration of the College Senior Survey (CSS): National Aggregates,” report, February 2010, http://www.heri.ucla.edu/PDFs/pubs/Reports/2009_CSS_Report.pdf.
PAGE 251: “‘sharing equally in the world’s wealth.’” Rose Kennedy, Times to Remember (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 172–73. • “got to ring the closing bell on the NASDAQ. . .” NASDAQ OMX Education Foundation, Junior Achievement of New York, “Junior Achievement of New York Announces the Top Three Winning High School teams of the 2011 Business Plan Competition,” press release, June 5, 2011, http://bit.ly/Ij2Kzc. • “‘sales of things you have made or grow.’” Boy Scouts of America, “American Business,” scouting.org, 2010, http://bit.ly/Ij2PTA. • “put pinball machines in barbershops.” Alice Schroeder, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (New York: Bantam Books, 2008).
PAGE 252: “dropped out of Harvard” Joel Dreyfuss, “Gates Meets Gates: Our Editor-in-Chief Quizzes the Microsoft Founder on His Passion About Education,” theroot.com, July 28, 2011, http://www.theroot.com/views/gates-meets-gates.
PAGE 253: “Success in every sort of business.” Adam Smith, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Part III: Of the Foundation of our Judgments concerning our own Sentiments and Conduct, and of the Sense of Duty Consisting of One Section Chap. IV: Of the Nature of Self-deceit, and of the Origin and Use of general Rules,” in The Theory of Moral Sentiments,6th ed. (London, A. Millar, 1790, 6th Edition), http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/smith-adam/works/moral/part03/part3c.htm.
PAGE 254: “worth more than $20 billion.” Matthew G. Miller and Peter Newcomb, “Slim Beats Gates in Global Daily Ranking of Billionaires,” bloomberg.com, Mar 5, 2012, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-05/slim-beats-gates-in-global-daily-ranking-of-billionaires.html.
PAGE 255: “she sold 1.5 million.” Ed Pilkington, “Amanda Hocking, the Writer Who Made Millions by Self-Publishing Online,” guardian.co.uk, January 12, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/12/amanda-hocking-self-publishing.
Chapter 13
ADAPT OR DIE
The Coming Intelligence Explosion
PAGE 258: “‘one percent about anything’” Inez N. McFee, Famous Americans For Young Readers: The Story of Thomas A. Edison (New York: Barse & Hopkins, 1922), 6.
PAGE 260: “another 8 percent were roughly correct” Ray Kurzweil, “How My Predictions are Faring,” e426.org, October 1, 2010, http://www.e426.org/pdf/kurzweilai.pdf.
PAGE 261: “criticized Kurzweil’s forecasting methods” Robert U. Ayres, review of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 (February 2006): 95-100, doi:10.1016/j.techfore.205.12.002; Theodore Modis, “The Singularity Myth,” Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 (February 2006): 104-112; Tesseleno C. Devezas, discussion of The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil, Technological Forecasting and Social Change 73 (February 2006): 112-121. • “(or even faster than exponential), not linear” Bela Nagy, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika E. Trancik, Quan Minh Bui, “Testing Laws of Technological Progress” (working paper, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, September 2, 2010), http://tuvalu.santafe.edu/~bn/workingpapers/NagyFarmerTrancikBui.pdf; Bela Nagy, J. Doyne Farmer, Jessika E. Trancik, John Paul Gonzales, “Superexponential Long-term Trends in Information Technology,” Technical Forecasting and Social Change 78 (October 2011): 1356-1364. • “will take decades to get to 400” Michael Kanellos, “Moore’s Law to Roll On for Another Decade,” news.cnet.com, February 10, 2003, http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html. • “not ‘straight line’ progress” Michael Kanellos, “Moore’s Law to Roll On for Another Decade,” news.cnet.com, February 10, 2003, http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-984051.html. • “2.6 billion transistors onto a single chip” “Computing Power and Stockmarkets: Moore and More,” Graphic Detail blog at economist.com, November 29, 2011, http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/computing-power-and-stockmarkets. • “basically an information-processing system” Jose Luis Bermudez, “The Prehistory of Cognitive Science,” chapter 1 in Cognitive Science: An Introduction (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
PAGE 264: “human life will be irreversibly transformed” Raymond Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (New York: Penguin, 2005), 7. • “called an intelligence explosion” Irving John Good, “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine,” Advances in Computers, 6 (1965), 31-88; David J. Chalmers, “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17 (2010), 7-65; Luke Muelhauser, Anna Salamon, “In Intelligence Explosion: Evidence and Import,” in The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, ed. Amnon Eden, Johnny Soraker, Jim Moor, and Eric Steinhart. • “predicts some kind of Singularity by 2048” Janet Harris, “Intel Predicts Singularity by 2048,” Tech News in techwatch.com, August 22, 2008, http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2008/08/22/intel-predicts-singularity-by-2048/; Justin Rattner, “The Future of Moore’s Law and Intel’s Methods of Microchip Design,” Singularity I
nstitute video, singinst.org, October 2008, http://singinst.org/media/singularitysummit2008/justinrattner. • “chance of an intelligence explosion by 2100” Michael Nielsen, “What should a reasonable person believe about the Singularity?” michaelnielsen.org, January 12, 2011, http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/what-should-a-reasonable-person-believe-about-the-singularity. • “near the middle of the century” Shane Legg, “Sutton on Human Level AI,” Vetta Project, May 9, 2011, http://www.vetta.org/2011/05/sutton-on-human-level-ai. • “an intelligence explosion will occur by 2100” David J. Chalmers, “The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 17 (2010), 7-65. • “would occur by 2045” Seth D. Baum, Ben Goertzel, Ted G. Goertzel, “How Long Until Human-Level AI? Results from an Expert Assessment,” Technological Forecasting and Social Changes, 78 (January 2011): 185-195. • “‘last invention that man need ever make,’” I. J. Good, “Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine” (Academic Press, 1965), http://www.stat.vt.edu/tech_reports/2005/GoodTechReport.pdf.
PAGE 265: “would not want the same things we do” Daniel Dewey, “Learning What to Value,” in Artificial General Intelligence: 4th International Conference, AGI 2011, Mountain View, CA, USA, August 3-6, 2011, Proceedings, ed. Jurgen Schmidhuber, Kristinn R. Thorisson, Moshe Looks (Springer, 2011), 309-314. • See also: Eliezer Yudkowsky, “Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk,” in Global Catastrophic Risks, ed. Nick Bostrom, Milan M. ´irkovi´ (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 308-345; See also: Luke Muehlhauser, Louie Helm, “The Singularity and Machine Ethics,” in The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment, ed. Amnon Eden, Johnny Soraker, Jim Moor, Eric Steinhart. • “making sense of human preferences” Luke Muehlhauser, “So You Want to Save the World,” lukeprog.com, March 2, 2012, http://lukeprog.com/SaveTheWorld.html. • For more on the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, see: http://singinst.org. • For more on the Future of Humanity Institute, see: http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk. • “ever happened on this fragile planet” Michael Anissimov, “The Benefits of a Successful Singularity,” acceleratingfuture.com, July 6, 2011, http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/michael/blog/2011/07/the-benefits-of-a-successful-singularity-2.
PAGE 267: “instead of checking in at the gate” “Obama Blames ATMs for High Unemployment,” fox nation at foxnews.com, June 14, 2011, http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/06/14/obama-blames-atms-high-unemployment.
PAGE 268: “somewhere from a week to a month” Robin Hanson, “Economics of the Singularity,” in IEEE Spectrum Special Report: The Singularity, spectrum.ieee.org, June 2008, http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/robotics-software/economics-of-the-singularity.
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