Intelligence
Kyle Sandilands is a genius. An absolute, out and out Einstein.
The 40 year old broadcaster has no talent, no decorum, no personality, no looks, no style, no charm and no knowledge of anything outside the vast universe that is his ego. Yet the guy is hugely successful.
I have rarely listened to Kyle Sandilands on the radio, nor indeed watched the talent shows on which he is a judge. That’s not snobbery. It’s just how it is. But just as you didn’t need to read Eat Pray Love to know it was bag of fertiliser-grade horse manure, you don’t need to listen to Kyle to know his shows are rubbish. And that, right there, is the proof that he’s so damn clever.
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For a smart guy, Steve Wozniak — the man who, with Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple — has some pretty dumb ideas. Speaking at a business meeting on the Gold Coast recently, Wozniak claimed that machines are becoming more intelligent than humans.
Wozniak was reported to have said ‘We’re already creating the superior beings, I think we lost the battle to the machines long ago. We’re going to become the pets, the dogs of the house.”
In Wozniak’s eyes, humans are going to become mere spectators to the doings of machines. ‘Every time we create new technology we’re creating stuff to do the work we used to do and we’re making ourselves less meaningful, less relevant’, he said.
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OnlyOneWayOut says:
And the benefits of human intelligence have been what? A continued acceptance and misplaced reliance on of a multitude of unprovable beliefs (i.e. religion), endless war, environmental vandalism and rape, the inability to accept the far-reaching effects of the concentration of power and wealth. The list goes on. Ah, but… Read more »
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acotrel says:
@Bilby I worked as a scientist for 40 years. It is a discipline where you must divorce yourself from test results and maintain an unbiassed, and particularly apolitical approach. If you don’t, you are simply wasting your time. You wouldn’t be a scientist, you’d just be your typical sycophant, prostituting… Read more »
The CIA, the Pentagon, the British Government and presumably the Taliban are all looking for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Well, I found him. And had I been paying more attention I could have saved the entire US military-industrial complex from disgrace.
Around four or five years ago Julian Assange came to my house for dinner.
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Joyce says:
“He didn’t seem to have natural reactions to people or pick up on things like humour and sarcasm, the latter of which was very abundant that night.” - Maybe your dinner party guests weren’t as funny as you thought they were. Read more »
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DD Ball says:
Joe, I don’t think you believed me that first time too. Lol, that is all right. I hope you kept the information pack .. because now it might be relevant. If you didn’t, my autobiography is now for sale from Amazon.com as a wikibook. It is called Thief! Read more »
One of the most disturbing things about this morning’s counter-terrorism raids in Melbourne is the profile of the suspects, who were allegedly planning a Mumbai-style machine-gun attack on Australian Army barracks.
They were, The Australian reports, construction workers and taxi drivers of Somali and Lebanese descent, living in suburban Melbourne.
Combine this with the admission of Anglo-Australian terrorist Shane Kent that he was part of a terrorist organisation and it’s clear terrorists don’t look like anything in particular and could be living in your street.
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johnv_au says:
The profile is they will be muslim they will be residents in the country they are going to attack and young and ready to kill non muslims and the authorities and law abiding muslims will probably already know them and they will be driven by what is happening to muslims… Read more »
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Paul says:
Paul Colgan your politcally correct views in this case are absolute nonsense. how many innocent people will have to die before fools like you admit that our biggest terrorist threats are from EXTREMIST MUSLIMS primarily of ARAB AND AFRICAN DESCENT. how on earth do you get away with publishing drivel… Read more »
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