Author: Joel Gross

Joel Gross is the CEO of Coalition Technologies.

F22 Ripoff

http://gizmodo.com/5868405/buyers-remorse-how-much-has-the-f-22-really-cost

By comparison, it costs me $2 million a year to run a company with 73 full time employees. Each single plane cost the USA $678 million!!! I could run Coalition for three and a half centuries for the cost of one plane.

Does this protect us? Of course not. This is why we need no standing army.… read more “F22 Ripoff”

Another example of doctors pricing power

An acquaintance had late stage cancer. Her family had been wealthy (her grandfather actually built and sat on the board of the hospital she was going to) but that was past. The cancer made it very difficult for her to earn money, and she fell way behind on her bills. A lawyer friend came to town to review the bills with the hospital and work out an arrangement.… read more “Another example of doctors pricing power”

Superintelligence

I am reading a book right now titled “Superintelligence” that analyzes the prospects of artificial intelligence reaching human or higher levels in the near future.

We are getting very, very close to what is called the “intelligence explosion”. Computer hardware and software and biological- machine interfaces are improving at an exponential rate right now.  We now have robotic arms and hands that can be entirely controlled with the mind for disabled people, remote controlled (and sometimes autonomous) warfare, machine learning software, genetic / evolution based software, self driving transportation, and tens of millions of working industrial robots.… read more “Superintelligence”