Yeah, and "they" have also said that about alot of other stuff and bad stuff has yet to happen for it.
Yes, but look at the risks. You're releasing a self replicating life form into our food supply. If it's proven to be harmful, too fucking bad, it's not possible to contain. Do the risks outweigh the benefits?
Remember these are the same super-geniuses that think you need a desktop interface and a mouse/monitor/keyboard to run a server. Now you'll need a touchscreen too.
I don't think the adjective you're using is quite right. The word to use here is exceptional. The whole industry is plagued by this idea that only the superstars are any good, while the people who do the bulk of the grunt work are mediocre. Well, among those mediocre people are good, mediocre, and bad developers....and nobody seems to acknowledge that.
I think he was referring to the way the sentence was phrased. Saying the roaches developed an aversion to glucose implies that individual roaches liked glucose, then stopped liking it for some reason. When what happened is the roaches that liked it, all died, and the ones that didn't like it survived and reproduced.
Can't think of any reason a spy satellite would be designed to have such a wide field of view...or even be in a geostationary orbit. They need to look at human infrastructure, not whole oceans and continents.
You seem to be making the tired old argument that morality comes from religion. It does not. I don't see religion imposing morals on me. I see religion--specifically American Christian religions--imposing an interpretation of an old book of fairy tales on me and my countrymen. I'm not sure why you keep alluding to the ten commandments, because the only two that are actually illegal are killing and theft. However, we have had laws in the past based on Christianity. Blue laws, sodomy laws, adultery laws. How is not selling liquor on Sunday moral? Or having anal sex? Or having sex for pleasure? Or getting a divorce. Or eating pork. Religion...organized religion that is...is not nice. Keep it to yourself please. And leave it out of politics.
And absolutely the right supports freedom FROM religion, if you properly include in "religion" all things that are faith-based -- like science that claims to know for a fact the origin of life, and atheism.
Bullshit. Most religious people simply cannot grasp the concept that their religion should not permeate all things. They would impose their religion on everyone even if there wasn't some ridiculous argument about evolution...which has nothing to do with the origin of life by the way.
Just don't consume anything "unusual" and you'll be fine. If you accidentally do, we'll just kick in your door and confiscate all your stuff and hold it a warehouse for a few years...then auction it off. We may or may not detain you for a few days depending on how much you swear at us.
Using what? We have no manned space vehicles. Russia and China certainly have no vehicles designed for such a journey. And at 6 millions miles, that's 25 times the distance between earth and the moon. But I think that 6 million is wrong, I've seen other sources quoting it at 40 million. We could *manufacture* a ship to get there....but that would take some time...and be kind of pointless since the telescope could simply be replaced for a fraction of the cost.
Simulating how the neurons and connections function won't be enough. You also need an initial state for each of them. Get even a tiny precentage of them wrong, and the result would probably be a virtual seizure.
And what about the moral implications of subjecting a sentient artificial entity to this kind of torment over and over until you get it right.
I've always wondered, why not just 0%? Why allow someone to knowingly decrease their ability to drive?
Because it's dumb. I drive better after a beer midday than I do totally sober after missing my bed time a few hours. Even have a bad cold impairs me worse.
Well, I've been nothing but happy with Qwest/Century Link. Have very fast DSL through them. My experience with Comcast has been: promised speeds that were never achieved (although, still generally faster than DSL), frequent service distruptions, and I feel like I'm talking to a car salesman whenever I talk to them. I recently had to go back to Comcast after moving. It took me 10 seconds to tell them exactly what I wanted, then it took another 10 minutes to tell them I didn't want all the extra stuff the kept trying to push on me. I'm not happy about being back with Comcast.
he wont be doing anything but collecting other peoples money for doing very little work personally.
And how is this is different from how things have always been? The rich put in the money, then expect a return on that investment. Not an awesome system, but it more or less, is the way things work and have gotten us this far.
And when an upstanding rich American citizen puts his money in a tax haven, he's merely investing overseas...putting his hard earned money to work for me. When the not so rich people do it, it's tax evasion. Gotta love this country.
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Yeah, and "they" have also said that about alot of other stuff and bad stuff has yet to happen for it.
Yes, but look at the risks. You're releasing a self replicating life form into our food supply. If it's proven to be harmful, too fucking bad, it's not possible to contain. Do the risks outweigh the benefits?
Bush never performed "extrajudicial killings" on US citizens.
I suppose we don't really know....because the Patriot Act enacted under Bush, made it legal to disappear US citizens in secrecy.
Remember these are the same super-geniuses that think you need a desktop interface and a mouse/monitor/keyboard to run a server. Now you'll need a touchscreen too.
And a Kinect maybe.
And thank you for perpetuating the myth that on superstars are good programmers. You're exactly the kind of person I was addressing.
Your links to Kryten and Rimmer are pointed to the wrong places.
Software is the only system that gets better with time and use.
Are you sure you're a real e developer? This statement is totally wrong.
I don't think the adjective you're using is quite right. The word to use here is exceptional. The whole industry is plagued by this idea that only the superstars are any good, while the people who do the bulk of the grunt work are mediocre. Well, among those mediocre people are good, mediocre, and bad developers....and nobody seems to acknowledge that.
How many Navajo speakers don't speak English? A few thousand at best? Most of them elderly.
I think you just proved my point that Christians can't understand a world or people without religion...that or you're a troll.
I think he was referring to the way the sentence was phrased. Saying the roaches developed an aversion to glucose implies that individual roaches liked glucose, then stopped liking it for some reason. When what happened is the roaches that liked it, all died, and the ones that didn't like it survived and reproduced.
Like: What is the question to the answer 42?
Can't think of any reason a spy satellite would be designed to have such a wide field of view...or even be in a geostationary orbit. They need to look at human infrastructure, not whole oceans and continents.
You seem to be making the tired old argument that morality comes from religion. It does not. I don't see religion imposing morals on me. I see religion--specifically American Christian religions--imposing an interpretation of an old book of fairy tales on me and my countrymen. I'm not sure why you keep alluding to the ten commandments, because the only two that are actually illegal are killing and theft. However, we have had laws in the past based on Christianity. Blue laws, sodomy laws, adultery laws. How is not selling liquor on Sunday moral? Or having anal sex? Or having sex for pleasure? Or getting a divorce. Or eating pork. Religion...organized religion that is...is not nice. Keep it to yourself please. And leave it out of politics.
And absolutely the right supports freedom FROM religion, if you properly include in "religion" all things that are faith-based -- like science that claims to know for a fact the origin of life, and atheism.
Bullshit. Most religious people simply cannot grasp the concept that their religion should not permeate all things. They would impose their religion on everyone even if there wasn't some ridiculous argument about evolution...which has nothing to do with the origin of life by the way.
Just don't consume anything "unusual" and you'll be fine. If you accidentally do, we'll just kick in your door and confiscate all your stuff and hold it a warehouse for a few years...then auction it off. We may or may not detain you for a few days depending on how much you swear at us.
Using what? We have no manned space vehicles. Russia and China certainly have no vehicles designed for such a journey. And at 6 millions miles, that's 25 times the distance between earth and the moon. But I think that 6 million is wrong, I've seen other sources quoting it at 40 million. We could *manufacture* a ship to get there....but that would take some time...and be kind of pointless since the telescope could simply be replaced for a fraction of the cost.
Well, considering that Hubble is in Earth orbit and Kepler is not, that would be pretty difficult.
Simulating how the neurons and connections function won't be enough. You also need an initial state for each of them. Get even a tiny precentage of them wrong, and the result would probably be a virtual seizure.
And what about the moral implications of subjecting a sentient artificial entity to this kind of torment over and over until you get it right.
I've always wondered, why not just 0%? Why allow someone to knowingly decrease their ability to drive?
Because it's dumb. I drive better after a beer midday than I do totally sober after missing my bed time a few hours. Even have a bad cold impairs me worse.
Not me. I'm having my head cryogenically frozen. I'll be relived when they perfect immortality.
Well, I've been nothing but happy with Qwest/Century Link. Have very fast DSL through them. My experience with Comcast has been: promised speeds that were never achieved (although, still generally faster than DSL), frequent service distruptions, and I feel like I'm talking to a car salesman whenever I talk to them. I recently had to go back to Comcast after moving. It took me 10 seconds to tell them exactly what I wanted, then it took another 10 minutes to tell them I didn't want all the extra stuff the kept trying to push on me. I'm not happy about being back with Comcast.
he wont be doing anything but collecting other peoples money for doing very little work personally.
And how is this is different from how things have always been? The rich put in the money, then expect a return on that investment. Not an awesome system, but it more or less, is the way things work and have gotten us this far.
I dunno if that's a good alternative. Oral sex sucks.
And when an upstanding rich American citizen puts his money in a tax haven, he's merely investing overseas...putting his hard earned money to work for me. When the not so rich people do it, it's tax evasion. Gotta love this country.
I don't think my compass would agree with you.