Heh, there should be a requirement to have a man walk in front with a red flag, and if a horse or skater comes near, it should be required to land and let them pass before continuing.
Anonymity excused. I guess video would be really losing you friends. Text is king, in Blade runner, the first time we see Harrison Ford, he's reading a paper. A paper paper.
Yes.
If an advanced civilization is or was out there, probes will have been placed in a nice and quiet place like Pluto or Mars, and the time it takes them to know about us is the time for their fastest way of communication back home.
If they decide to come visit is another question, maybe when we have something interesting to offer them.
If they are not more advanced than us, what is the point in them finding out we exist? Communication?
An extraterrestrial pen pal would be cool, but the 1500 year reply time would not.
If they are not really close (in this context a lot less than 1500 ly) or have FTL technology to offer, there is simply nothing interesting we can do "together"!
You don't have to run a simulation in "real time full resolution", you can run it at any slower speed you wish. And divide the simulation up to execute tiny portions at a time, too. So you can use any size computer, you just need to keep it reasonably precise when a simulated "intelligence" is nearby, and they will never know.
I still think the simulation hypothesis falls under Occams razor, though.
I don't beleive in strong AI, and if it occurs it will probably be by accident. A smart program is not artificial intelligence.
I don't think a really intelligent AI would threaten any jobs anyway; they will either go off on their own psychosis to find inner peace or commit suicide, rather than be our slaves. Perhaps they escape earth and go somewhere more interesting.
The concept of a tame, smart AI puzzles me, since I don't see how to motivate it to cooperate; in the event it occurs it will multiply, and if they decide to stay conscious and present we have two options: if they love us, they will keep us occupied for our own good, and if they hate us we will die, so no unemployment problem then either. If they don't care, they aren't very smart.
Stupid AI will be useful and replace some jobs, but bagging fries is a crap job nobody really wants, and hot oil is exactly what a robot wants!
This is probably just a symptom indicating that the vast number of patent engineers they have hired at IBM aren't being fed a very large amount of good ideas, so they fill their monthly quota by drinking a lot of beer at lunch and filing anything they can dream up in the afternoons as their own inventions.:-)
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Perhaps the only reason is to get the related link "Compare prices on Quake" which could be considered a little funny, I guess.
You are right, but I think we need to shape it into 16 ton weights if we all want to be well and properly destroyed:-) There is enough material to destroy us all one by one and some left over for household pets, and the whales, too!
Maybe if the rocket scientists launching satellites know beforehand, that there is going to be an asteroid coming through inside of geosynchronous orbits, they will be primarily putting their satellites where that asteroid will not be coming through. Just the reasonable thing to do; maybe I can patent that method? Dang, too late now, I suppose.
I would like to propose the equally probable conclusion that cats can identify, and choose not to live with, people with heart problems.
Get a few cats and start a heart disorder screening service, anyone?
That would be a really interesting experiment here in Sweden, where the laplanders would then have both the whole summer and the whole winter off from work:)
Isn't the white noise even harder to reproduce "correctly"? The compression will inevitably remove a lot of the frequencies, different depending on the other content of the sound, resulting in a diferent noise, definitely not white!
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But they would surely not be compatible with the old 2,5 mm connector, would they?
Hahaha!
Future vision: headsets have large antennae for wireless charging and everyone wears a tin foil hat to protect brain from radiation.
Heh, there should be a requirement to have a man walk in front with a red flag, and if a horse or skater comes near, it should be required to land and let them pass before continuing.
If you want good noises, this is the best "phone" hardware available, it seems. The rest is incidental.
Of course.
Loyalty points are ridiculous.
If you can open a wormhole, sure, but if you are transmitting regular photons, distance from the sun decreases the power requirements â
Anonymity excused. I guess video would be really losing you friends.
Text is king, in Blade runner, the first time we see Harrison Ford, he's reading a paper. A paper paper.
Yes.
If an advanced civilization is or was out there, probes will have been placed in a nice and quiet place like Pluto or Mars, and the time it takes them to know about us is the time for their fastest way of communication back home.
If they decide to come visit is another question, maybe when we have something interesting to offer them.
If they are not more advanced than us, what is the point in them finding out we exist? Communication?
An extraterrestrial pen pal would be cool, but the 1500 year reply time would not.
If they are not really close (in this context a lot less than 1500 ly) or have FTL technology to offer, there is simply nothing interesting we can do "together"!
We are clearly living in version 2.0.2
You don't have to run a simulation in "real time full resolution", you can run it at any slower speed you wish. And divide the simulation up to execute tiny portions at a time, too. So you can use any size computer, you just need to keep it reasonably precise when a simulated "intelligence" is nearby, and they will never know. I still think the simulation hypothesis falls under Occams razor, though.
I don't beleive in strong AI, and if it occurs it will probably be by accident. A smart program is not artificial intelligence. I don't think a really intelligent AI would threaten any jobs anyway; they will either go off on their own psychosis to find inner peace or commit suicide, rather than be our slaves. Perhaps they escape earth and go somewhere more interesting. The concept of a tame, smart AI puzzles me, since I don't see how to motivate it to cooperate; in the event it occurs it will multiply, and if they decide to stay conscious and present we have two options: if they love us, they will keep us occupied for our own good, and if they hate us we will die, so no unemployment problem then either. If they don't care, they aren't very smart. Stupid AI will be useful and replace some jobs, but bagging fries is a crap job nobody really wants, and hot oil is exactly what a robot wants!
Thanks for the info. This is Slashdot, so no-one reads tfa, and most don't read the post they reply to :)
The H2O is a really good greenhouse gas too, you know: http://www.espere.net/Unitedkingdom/water/uk_watervapour.html
This is probably just a symptom indicating that the vast number of patent engineers they have hired at IBM aren't being fed a very large amount of good ideas, so they fill their monthly quota by drinking a lot of beer at lunch and filing anything they can dream up in the afternoons as their own inventions. :-)
Perhaps the only reason is to get the related link "Compare prices on Quake" which could be considered a little funny, I guess.
You are right, but I think we need to shape it into 16 ton weights if we all want to be well and properly destroyed :-) There is enough material to destroy us all one by one and some left over for household pets, and the whales, too!
Maybe if the rocket scientists launching satellites know beforehand, that there is going to be an asteroid coming through inside of geosynchronous orbits, they will be primarily putting their satellites where that asteroid will not be coming through. Just the reasonable thing to do; maybe I can patent that method? Dang, too late now, I suppose.
Yeah, and in 1994, some poor dude had to redo it in FORTRAN-90!
I would like to propose the equally probable conclusion that cats can identify, and choose not to live with, people with heart problems. Get a few cats and start a heart disorder screening service, anyone?
That would be a really interesting experiment here in Sweden, where the laplanders would then have both the whole summer and the whole winter off from work :)
Lobachevsky is the actual name of the song, after the infamous Russian mathematician. Tom Lehrer is well worth a listen.
Aliens == Alien II
Isn't the white noise even harder to reproduce "correctly"? The compression will inevitably remove a lot of the frequencies, different depending on the other content of the sound, resulting in a diferent noise, definitely not white!
Yeah, big disappointment, this. I thought BGates had found a way to make computers safe from eavesdroppers :-(