I think you're right that the hardware capabilities will progress fast enough to match or beat the human brain in the next few decades. I doubt, though, that our sophistication of software design will keep pace. Although I think AI is completely possible, it will be a lot further into the future than that. I also think that any attempts to 'program' it will invariably fail; it needs to be evolved, somehow. It's too complex of a system to design.
Why does a human have rights, as opposed to a rock?
If the attributes that give humans rights also exist in another object, that object should have recognized rights as well. I think most people would agree that it's self-awareness, perception, and reasoning that are the basis of rights (with some exceptions), not heredity or species.
Upscaling by a fractional amount, like 1.5, would distort any bitmaps the app could be using.
True at low resolutions, but as the resolution and DPI increase, the distortions this causes are much less noticeable. This may not be a problem scaling from, say, 1024 to 1536. Individual pixels aren't as noticeable.
Yeah. Anybody paying attention over the last few decades should realize we don't have disasters any more. We've completely eliminated the problem of cars breaking down, and there is no political turmoil of any relevance.
I wrote a few-hundred page book with lots of tables... started in Word, but the formatting was just breaking. Pagination was inconsistent, tables were drifting, styles would glitch. I moved to OO and all the problems vanished.
Now, I agree that OO (and now, LO) has problems. It has most of the functionality it needs, but the interface is clunky, ugly, and it seems slow. In terms of accuracy and reliability, though, it certainly beats Word; I'd consider it a viable alternative.
Their spreadsheet needs a lot of work, though, before it can compete with Excel.
You're one of the foul-smelling "Occupy" retards, aren't you?
So, I take it some kind of stereotyping and group affiliation is your substitute for explaining why you disagree?
God damn, do you have any idea how pathetic that is? Try forming your own position based on truth as you perceive it. See if that doesn't work out better for you than assuming I am a member of some group I never even mentioned.
Sounds like when I asked "or do you just emotionally knee-jerk like most idiots do" your honest answer would be "fuck yeah I do, that's SO MUCH EASIER than actually putting forth my own ideas and explaining why I think they're better!" You are everything that is wrong with public discourse. Congratulations, you fucking lemming.
Now go wet your finger so you can hold it up and determine which way the wind blows, you soul-less ball-less piece of follower shit.
Why do you call out Texas, when California has more citizens in poverty? Or, if you're going per-capita, Mississippi has a higher percentage of people in poverty.
The numbers are a bit suspect, in that a certain income level can mean a far different standard of living in different states. Still, though, I guess we can all agree it's too high however you measure it.
Strange. Life generally gets better and better as you age. You get smarter, wiser, and more experienced; you stop making the mistakes that cause so much trouble.
It sounds like you're depressed, and that is rubbing off on your child.
I wonder if FORTH would be particularly efficient on today's processors, for that reason? It is incredibly compact, with generally tiny functions nestled deeply. An entire FORTH system could sit in a modern cache.
Java's terrible, but I don't want to get into that here.
C is nearly a great, elegant language. It's core is terrific; a simple syntax that lets you have nearly the efficiency and versatility of assembly, while providing enough abstraction to allow you to address problems in as high a level as you could desire.
There's a few clunky parts; like you mention, it would have been better if you could, for instance, rely on a short int being 16 bits while an int was 32. The worst part, though, is the header structure and preprocessor. If not for the crazy and confusing web of declarations, definitions, and conditional includes, C could have been the language for everyman.
I wish for a traditional, declarative, compiled language, as close to the metal as C, but which had sensible package management and had one more pass to clean up all the weird little quirks... and a more modern standardized API.
But just like "corporations" are purported to have no souls, neither can "the system" be racist unless it's laws actually contain racist things.
That is correct. If the system contains no racist laws or policies, the system isn't racist. Some individuals in the system may still be. That is the fault of the individuals, not the system.
Affirmative action has been used and found to have positive results when applied to other walks of life.
It's also been found to have detrimental effects when applied to other walks of life. The cure for racism is not to enshrine it into law, as affirmative action does. The important thing is to make race an irrelevant factor in success in a field... and I believe it is, in the tech industry.
I think it's very rare in Silicon Valley that an otherwise deserving businessman loses out because they're black. Rather, the deficiency is in the lack of deserving minority businessman in the first place. That's a social and cultural issue, and may not even be a problem. Not every culture needs to have equal representation in all fields; that's one of the ways in which cultures are different.
Our whole society is biased against black people. They are denied education, and the people in power prefer their own kind. Most people who make more than maybe $60,000 a year aren't used to interacting with black people, are afraid of them, and assume they are stupid and shouldn't be trusted.
None of that is true, or only true in very exceptional cases. There's absolutely no discriminatory laws in place (except perhaps to advantage minorities, and very few racist individuals. Of those who are racist, the majority would never admit it.
The under-representation of particular races in particular fields have little to do with racism, and nothing to do with innate capability. It is purely a social artifact of history.
Just consider that he built the computer during some of those minutes that he wasn't 'potentially sacrificing' an hourly income.
'Do you read books? Spendy. You're probably losing $15-$30 in opportunity cost per hour reading.' When you try applying that logic to other situations, its flaw is obvious.
You're using hindsight, while decisions need to be made real-time.
If you recall back to 9/11, it was not at all obvious that the attacks would be limited to one small area. We knew about the towers, then we found out about the Pentagon, then about the fourth, diverted attempt... As far as we knew, there could have been imminent attacks about to break out anywhere in the country. Why else ground the entire airfleet for days? A general alert was certainly called for.
Plus, we may be immature longer (as in playing games, being imaginative and flighty, etc.). That may extend our creative juices longer into old age... our relatively long adolescence compared to other mammals (particularly apes) is thought to be one component of our much greater intelligence.
I've mentioned this before, but I think one minor law could drastically reform our election process: Make it illegal to indicate party affiliation of a candidate on a ballot.
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I think you're right that the hardware capabilities will progress fast enough to match or beat the human brain in the next few decades. I doubt, though, that our sophistication of software design will keep pace. Although I think AI is completely possible, it will be a lot further into the future than that. I also think that any attempts to 'program' it will invariably fail; it needs to be evolved, somehow. It's too complex of a system to design.
An 'obvious answer' that's only believed by fringe psychopaths.
Why does a human have rights, as opposed to a rock?
If the attributes that give humans rights also exist in another object, that object should have recognized rights as well. I think most people would agree that it's self-awareness, perception, and reasoning that are the basis of rights (with some exceptions), not heredity or species.
It is your creation, why should you not have the right to wipe it?
Think through that a little more.
Upscaling by a fractional amount, like 1.5, would distort any bitmaps the app could be using.
True at low resolutions, but as the resolution and DPI increase, the distortions this causes are much less noticeable. This may not be a problem scaling from, say, 1024 to 1536. Individual pixels aren't as noticeable.
Absolutely he is the only one; we outvoted him 3-2.
Yeah. Anybody paying attention over the last few decades should realize we don't have disasters any more. We've completely eliminated the problem of cars breaking down, and there is no political turmoil of any relevance.
I wrote a few-hundred page book with lots of tables... started in Word, but the formatting was just breaking. Pagination was inconsistent, tables were drifting, styles would glitch. I moved to OO and all the problems vanished.
Now, I agree that OO (and now, LO) has problems. It has most of the functionality it needs, but the interface is clunky, ugly, and it seems slow. In terms of accuracy and reliability, though, it certainly beats Word; I'd consider it a viable alternative.
Their spreadsheet needs a lot of work, though, before it can compete with Excel.
Thereby improving the quality of Slashdot. It at least guarantees an occasional techie story.
You're one of the foul-smelling "Occupy" retards, aren't you?
So, I take it some kind of stereotyping and group affiliation is your substitute for explaining why you disagree?
God damn, do you have any idea how pathetic that is? Try forming your own position based on truth as you perceive it. See if that doesn't work out better for you than assuming I am a member of some group I never even mentioned.
Sounds like when I asked "or do you just emotionally knee-jerk like most idiots do" your honest answer would be "fuck yeah I do, that's SO MUCH EASIER than actually putting forth my own ideas and explaining why I think they're better!" You are everything that is wrong with public discourse. Congratulations, you fucking lemming.
Now go wet your finger so you can hold it up and determine which way the wind blows, you soul-less ball-less piece of follower shit.
Yeah, sounds like the OP pegged you.
No, it doesn't. They're supposed to release it. They had an excuse for Honeycomb, but that's all it was: An excuse.
Yes, but it was a sufficient excuse. They didn't want to, and were under no obligation to do so.
Having an excuse isn't a bad thing. It's a lot better than not having one.
Why do you call out Texas, when California has more citizens in poverty? Or, if you're going per-capita, Mississippi has a higher percentage of people in poverty.
The numbers are a bit suspect, in that a certain income level can mean a far different standard of living in different states. Still, though, I guess we can all agree it's too high however you measure it.
Strange. Life generally gets better and better as you age. You get smarter, wiser, and more experienced; you stop making the mistakes that cause so much trouble.
It sounds like you're depressed, and that is rubbing off on your child.
And uint16_t is ugly. It's as ugly as all the other fixes that have been applied post-facto to C. C really needed a redesign, not an expansion.
I wonder if FORTH would be particularly efficient on today's processors, for that reason? It is incredibly compact, with generally tiny functions nestled deeply. An entire FORTH system could sit in a modern cache.
Java's terrible, but I don't want to get into that here.
C is nearly a great, elegant language. It's core is terrific; a simple syntax that lets you have nearly the efficiency and versatility of assembly, while providing enough abstraction to allow you to address problems in as high a level as you could desire.
There's a few clunky parts; like you mention, it would have been better if you could, for instance, rely on a short int being 16 bits while an int was 32. The worst part, though, is the header structure and preprocessor. If not for the crazy and confusing web of declarations, definitions, and conditional includes, C could have been the language for everyman.
I wish for a traditional, declarative, compiled language, as close to the metal as C, but which had sensible package management and had one more pass to clean up all the weird little quirks... and a more modern standardized API.
But just like "corporations" are purported to have no souls, neither can "the system" be racist unless it's laws actually contain racist things.
That is correct. If the system contains no racist laws or policies, the system isn't racist. Some individuals in the system may still be. That is the fault of the individuals, not the system.
Affirmative action has been used and found to have positive results when applied to other walks of life.
It's also been found to have detrimental effects when applied to other walks of life. The cure for racism is not to enshrine it into law, as affirmative action does. The important thing is to make race an irrelevant factor in success in a field... and I believe it is, in the tech industry.
I think it's very rare in Silicon Valley that an otherwise deserving businessman loses out because they're black. Rather, the deficiency is in the lack of deserving minority businessman in the first place. That's a social and cultural issue, and may not even be a problem. Not every culture needs to have equal representation in all fields; that's one of the ways in which cultures are different.
Our whole society is biased against black people. They are denied education, and the people in power prefer their own kind. Most people who make more than maybe $60,000 a year aren't used to interacting with black people, are afraid of them, and assume they are stupid and shouldn't be trusted.
None of that is true, or only true in very exceptional cases. There's absolutely no discriminatory laws in place (except perhaps to advantage minorities, and very few racist individuals. Of those who are racist, the majority would never admit it.
The under-representation of particular races in particular fields have little to do with racism, and nothing to do with innate capability. It is purely a social artifact of history.
Yes, having a drug addict parent is a disadvantage. That's not a bias against blacks, though; that's a bias against losers.
you're given advantages simply because you look like rich white men.
That's an assumption, and may not be true.
every minute you do it
Never claimed that. Nice strawman though.
Just consider that he built the computer during some of those minutes that he wasn't 'potentially sacrificing' an hourly income. 'Do you read books? Spendy. You're probably losing $15-$30 in opportunity cost per hour reading.' When you try applying that logic to other situations, its flaw is obvious.
You're using hindsight, while decisions need to be made real-time.
If you recall back to 9/11, it was not at all obvious that the attacks would be limited to one small area. We knew about the towers, then we found out about the Pentagon, then about the fourth, diverted attempt... As far as we knew, there could have been imminent attacks about to break out anywhere in the country. Why else ground the entire airfleet for days? A general alert was certainly called for.
Plus, we may be immature longer (as in playing games, being imaginative and flighty, etc.). That may extend our creative juices longer into old age... our relatively long adolescence compared to other mammals (particularly apes) is thought to be one component of our much greater intelligence.
I've mentioned this before, but I think one minor law could drastically reform our election process: Make it illegal to indicate party affiliation of a candidate on a ballot.