I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue. I am uglier than an ass-hole stabbing. I went full retard, and never recovered.
That said, thanks for the idea - Though to hell with sigs, make it the start of your SUBJECT for every post.
Well, you can do both!;) The good thing with sigs is that you don't have to write them every time.
I will use it until they listen or make it a moot point - Though from past experience, I fully expect the latter, because they just don't care in the least about what we think.
You can't force people to not comment, or to moderate as you suggested. But you can easily set [FUCK BETA] as your own sig.
The "let no one [do whatever he/she wants to do]" is the authoritarian approach, the one adopted by religious people (do not masturbate / have pre-marital sex / have gay sex / abort / have thoughts of your own).
So I can't agree that your idea is better.
TL;DR: 1 - you can't enforce it, 2 - if you could, it'd still be a dick thing to do (just like forcing this FUCKING BETA on us)
To be fair, it is hard to tell, as you can't experience other people's consciousness. But you yourself isn't exactly the same you of a millisecond ago. So if you could make a copy of your neural pathways, even if roughly accurate, other people wouldn't be able to easily distinguish copy from original... I think that's the point TsuruchiBrian was making, for all practical purposes, you would be alive (from someone else's point of view). If your copies would have the subjective experience of being the actual you, that's probably something that we will never know.
No, it cannot. Once you're dead, you're dead. Game over.
True that. I doubt any software can truly emulate the nuance of human personality based solely on pictures and tweets.
Actually it is worse than that. People should learn to grieve and then go on with their lives. A bot would only hinder this necessary mental healing process.
I would argue that Assange isn't a journalist, but a fame whore.
And I would argue that those who are not able to realize he can be both are idiots.
He did a really good thing [...] Which doesn't diminish his contribution
So what's the matter with him being a fame whore? You can be the worst kind of person... if you do good to society and I don't have to be near you, great!
but makes him a less trustworthy character at this point.
Small correction: Assange is not a whistleblower, he is a journalist. But in Soviet America, foreign journalists have the right to be persecuted for publishing the truth.
Please, stfu already. What I'm tired of is reading these complaints. Bitcoin is an interesting technology, with huge potential (regardless of the drawbacks). If you don't like it, just skip over, you don't have to spend the time complaining.
Easy, because as the AC explained to you, contrary to your assertion, plants don't have a nervous system.
They don't have nerves, therefore they don't a literal nervous system. Do they have something isomorphic to one? Definitely! The whole perception - processing - action loop. So to say they don't have a nervous system (as concept) is just shortsighted.
The AC didn't misinterpret your original post, he answered it quite effectively.
Did I in any moment mention "ability to heal"? Read again my original post, and check if AC's answer was appropriate.
"Yes, they can strike back. Do your research."
Do you have any examples?
I'm not a botanist, so I can't give you the references that I've read long ago (because I only remember having read them). But I'm Ph.D. student on computational neuroscience and I love this stuff. But really, it's not hard to do a google search on "plant information processing" and see the whole lot of research that has been done on the subject.
There's no way I'm eating cheese with a bunch of live worms crawling around in it.
You would be providing company to the live worms already crawling in your guts. With some probability of being the same species of live worms already crawling on the skin of your feet.
I love Roquefort cheese... those are the best "live worms".
While I mostly agree with you, please consider being more open about some concepts, like consciousness. You simply assume that plants are unconscious, because "they have no nervous system". Actually they have, although one very dissimilar to our own [1]. How can you affirm that their subjective interpretation of bodily damage is not similar to e.g. a fish's one?
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I submit stories. I read stories. I add comments. I moderate comments. I am the reason that there is ad revenue. I am uglier than an ass-hole stabbing. I went full retard, and never recovered.
I am Slashdot beta.
FTFY. :)
I see you're enjoying the opportunity to tell us that you're butt-ugly and handicapped.
The beast sucking its own genitals?
The moderators (who modded you troll) and the AC above couldn't see the obvious humor in your post... I wonder if the beta is affecting their minds.
So instead of turning off the lights, they're burning down the house?
<blink>FUCK BETA</blink>
Where's the blink tag when we need it...
For those building slashdot alternatives, I suggest the name "backlashdot".
No slash in the name, but the logo can be \.
I clicked the link, but it is only a picture that is not uglier than slashdot beta.
That said, thanks for the idea - Though to hell with sigs, make it the start of your SUBJECT for every post.
Well, you can do both! ;)
The good thing with sigs is that you don't have to write them every time.
I will use it until they listen or make it a moot point - Though from past experience, I fully expect the latter, because they just don't care in the least about what we think.
Yep, unfortunately that seems to be the trend...
You can't force people to not comment, or to moderate as you suggested. But you can easily set [FUCK BETA] as your own sig.
The "let no one [do whatever he/she wants to do]" is the authoritarian approach, the one adopted by religious people (do not masturbate / have pre-marital sex / have gay sex / abort / have thoughts of your own).
So I can't agree that your idea is better.
TL;DR: 1 - you can't enforce it, 2 - if you could, it'd still be a dick thing to do (just like forcing this FUCKING BETA on us)
Gee, that apostrophe was terrible, sorry. s/your's/yours
Btw, fuck beta.
Let's start a sig campaign, prefix your's with [FUCK BETA]. This way you can stay on-topic and still protest.
now, as how US politicians *use* that construct...well that really *is* off-topic.
As off-topic as health care, isn't it?
To be fair, it is hard to tell, as you can't experience other people's consciousness. But you yourself isn't exactly the same you of a millisecond ago. So if you could make a copy of your neural pathways, even if roughly accurate, other people wouldn't be able to easily distinguish copy from original... I think that's the point TsuruchiBrian was making, for all practical purposes, you would be alive (from someone else's point of view). If your copies would have the subjective experience of being the actual you, that's probably something that we will never know.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=serial+ex...
No, it cannot. Once you're dead, you're dead. Game over.
True that. I doubt any software can truly emulate the nuance of human personality based solely on pictures and tweets.
Actually it is worse than that. People should learn to grieve and then go on with their lives. A bot would only hinder this necessary mental healing process.
I would argue that Assange isn't a journalist, but a fame whore.
And I would argue that those who are not able to realize he can be both are idiots.
He did a really good thing [...] Which doesn't diminish his contribution
So what's the matter with him being a fame whore? You can be the worst kind of person... if you do good to society and I don't have to be near you, great!
but makes him a less trustworthy character at this point.
I disagree... you are mixing things.
Small correction: Assange is not a whistleblower, he is a journalist. But in Soviet America, foreign journalists have the right to be persecuted for publishing the truth.
>you don't have to spend the time complaining.
I'm sorry, could you rephrase that?
Sure. What about "you don't have to waste time complaining", is that better?
I understand the individual words, but as a sentence they make absolutely no sense!
My bad, English is not my native language. But I suspect you need to upgrade your parsing skills.
Please, stfu already. What I'm tired of is reading these complaints. Bitcoin is an interesting technology, with huge potential (regardless of the drawbacks). If you don't like it, just skip over, you don't have to spend the time complaining.
Easy, because as the AC explained to you, contrary to your assertion, plants don't have a nervous system.
They don't have nerves, therefore they don't a literal nervous system. Do they have something isomorphic to one? Definitely! The whole perception - processing - action loop. So to say they don't have a nervous system (as concept) is just shortsighted.
The AC didn't misinterpret your original post, he answered it quite effectively.
Did I in any moment mention "ability to heal"? Read again my original post, and check if AC's answer was appropriate.
"Yes, they can strike back. Do your research."
Do you have any examples?
I'm not a botanist, so I can't give you the references that I've read long ago (because I only remember having read them). But I'm Ph.D. student on computational neuroscience and I love this stuff.
But really, it's not hard to do a google search on "plant information processing" and see the whole lot of research that has been done on the subject.
Why is this post moderated as troll? Cold fjord received mod points?
There's no way I'm eating cheese with a bunch of live worms crawling around in it.
You would be providing company to the live worms already crawling in your guts. With some probability of being the same species of live worms already crawling on the skin of your feet.
I love Roquefort cheese... those are the best "live worms".
Therefore, your argument that plants suffer or feel pain, based on the ability to heal, is fallacious.
That was not my argument at all, you completely misinterpreted.
Plants cannot flee, nor can they strike back,
Yes, they can strike back. Do your research.
While I mostly agree with you, please consider being more open about some concepts, like consciousness. You simply assume that plants are unconscious, because "they have no nervous system". Actually they have, although one very dissimilar to our own [1]. How can you affirm that their subjective interpretation of bodily damage is not similar to e.g. a fish's one?
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_perception_(physiology)
Yes, we should. But we don't have reporters anymore, we have polemicists. Apologies to the few scientific reporters that still have honor.