We only fear death as a course of emotion. Perhaps: We understand death by observing another human can "stop working". We feel pain. We feel happiness. We do not fear death so much as pain of death. If there is no fear of pain (machine can't feel pain, unless one begins removing unneeded parts of it and it senses that loss, or senses a threat to the loss of a function as pain) and no grasping for a "good feeling" of happiness (gaining more parts? more abilities to do things? fulfilling a task, which calls a function strengthening the actions which led to that goal?), then perhaps the very definition of sentience is flawed: We're mapping a human flaw (is it?) onto a machine, that it will attempt to avoid the death (or rather the fear that pain will result before death).
If a machine is concentrated only on the task at hand (a Zen sort of state) then does it need to worry about being shut off? Why does that need to be one of its goals?
Since bodegas are for peemergencies AND convenience items, I assume they'll add toilets too (or else their little "ventures" will become a convenient receptacle for that anyway).
L.A. has something for literally everyone. From nature to metro, it has it all. New York sounds hellish to me too, but I grew up in the midwest, probably somewhat near you, and living in L.A. was one of the best decisions I ever made. It spanks the pants off any other place I've lived, hands down, and I'm a nature/outdoorsy type who loves the quiet and open space.
Agreed. I'm living in metro Atlanta now, and after being in LA for years I'll just say that I would move back in a heartbeat. LA is absolutely awesome. There is always something fun and wonderful to do, something new and exciting, whatever you can think of they've got it. It makes other U.S. cities (barring New York) look like kids who need to get their act together.
Apparently it's actually due to the lack of an El Nino. The formation of the hurricane started 6 months ago and grew be because there wasn't a lot of wind sheer to stop it from forming. Maybe the better question is why wasn't there an El Nino?
Hanlon's Razor: It means that the willfully malicious get a free pass by acting stupid or claiming stupidity, and teaches people the same. It's a hair away from victim shaming, where someone feels/knows that someone has done wrong but they're told,"Oh, it's ok that person is just stupid." What utter nonsense! I'm tired of Hanlon's Razor. It's totally bankrupt.
I make whipped cream desserts, and like the local stuff more. Better flavor. I vote with my wallet and would rather give my dollars to a local business anyway, not Unilever or Halliburton or Kraft, etc.
Share wifi Google fiber with neighbors, cut the cord, and experience the bajillions of movies and TV shows from yesteryear, including all the foreign stuff. I just don't see the point. There are lifetimes worth of media to watch now... plus hobbies and exercise. And work.
No amount of money can ameliorate sending your mother-in-law,"Ask her why her penis caught in her dress" instead of "Ask her why her pin is stuck in her dress"
"If people are reasonably educated" And THIS is the key line... big "if" I never realized how lucky I was, growing up where I did and with teachers who cared, until I moved elsewhere. I'm no pinnacle of achievement or smarts, but the individual commitment to critical thinking in this country could use some assistance imo.
I agree, to a point... but at what point do words, which can and do influence people, become toxic enough to warrant action against them? I don't know if there's a right answer, but I'm still curious. I'd like to think the founding fathers wrestled with that a bit, but perhaps not.
For the record, as an aside to this, let's set the record straight on DDT: https://spectator.org/48925_dd... Other publications follow up on that. We need less belief and more facts!
The problem is how much money is locked up in the stock market/assets/companies. Billions/trillions of dollars need to be liquidated, honestly (financial guy here), and it will totally destroy the current engine of capitalism momentarily. It's a game if chicken: which will break first, the people (revolt from being bled of $$ to fund the stock market/assets increases) or companies which eventually crash, wiping out all the labor that was put in to create those "dollars" Labor/money is just a fiction, and I fear we're eventually headed for a nasty showdown (as money is concentrated at a geometric rate into the hands of a few) unless some more capital is returned to the average person. Too Big To Fail is just the start.
Maybe.... that's not so bad? One could argue America is WAY too spread out anyway. All that extra land isn't getting used, per se. If efficiencies get wrung all the way out, who's to say that the consolidation of towns into larger towns isn't a good thing? All the tiny 200-person towns I go through on a drive through America don't need to exist anymore. It's inefficient, and there's a lot of poverty there anyway (though who's to say it gets better with bigger towns....) With some consolidation into cities I'd argue that the environment will actually be allowed to flourish again, perhaps, also.
America was inefficient by design in the first place. All we're doing is correcting that right now, and while that may sound heartless it's likely to happen somehow eventually. Eventually people could spread back out as prices drop further and people can buy WalMazon and resell out in the boonies?
Experts are people who take truth/knowledge and process it. They apply what is applicable, creatively and pragmatically. This nonsense about the death of the expert is, itself, an untruth.
Working on a Saturday, but here goes... 1) unless witnesses come forward, there was no one else there except the guy and the lady. 2) at that point, we're stuck EXCEPT for... 3) The woman says she feels the advances were inappropriate 4) the guy says he feels they might have been, but at first clearly denied the whole thing (typical, people act defensive when acccused) so, we're stuck. There is no way to go back and measure feels with current technology. There's no evidence, and this is where the system breaks down. It can't help either men or women at this point, because we don't have technology advanced enough to prove emotions or a time machine to go back and see actions/hear words, short of ubiquitous surveillance. All we have are propensities and statements and predictions.
In the future, I predict what could revolutionize the justice system is showing what people are feeling and at what time. If the woman was feeling aroused and scared (because women are more complex emotionally, yes it's a biological fact) perhaps there's evidence for a trial. If she was feeling happy and aroused (testosterone and serotonin, maybe?) then there's a lot less to back up her statement.
All this arguing about emotions and feels and he-said-she-said-he-raped-she-abused stuff is driving humanity bonkers. There has to be a solution out there somewhere...
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Another comment here got me thinking:
We only fear death as a course of emotion.
Perhaps: We understand death by observing another human can "stop working". We feel pain. We feel happiness. We do not fear death so much as pain of death. If there is no fear of pain (machine can't feel pain, unless one begins removing unneeded parts of it and it senses that loss, or senses a threat to the loss of a function as pain) and no grasping for a "good feeling" of happiness (gaining more parts? more abilities to do things? fulfilling a task, which calls a function strengthening the actions which led to that goal?), then perhaps the very definition of sentience is flawed: We're mapping a human flaw (is it?) onto a machine, that it will attempt to avoid the death (or rather the fear that pain will result before death).
If a machine is concentrated only on the task at hand (a Zen sort of state) then does it need to worry about being shut off? Why does that need to be one of its goals?
Since bodegas are for peemergencies AND convenience items, I assume they'll add toilets too (or else their little "ventures" will become a convenient receptacle for that anyway).
L.A. has something for literally everyone. From nature to metro, it has it all.
New York sounds hellish to me too, but I grew up in the midwest, probably somewhat near you, and living in L.A. was one of the best decisions I ever made. It spanks the pants off any other place I've lived, hands down, and I'm a nature/outdoorsy type who loves the quiet and open space.
Agreed. I'm living in metro Atlanta now, and after being in LA for years I'll just say that I would move back in a heartbeat.
LA is absolutely awesome. There is always something fun and wonderful to do, something new and exciting, whatever you can think of they've got it. It makes other U.S. cities (barring New York) look like kids who need to get their act together.
Apparently it's actually due to the lack of an El Nino. The formation of the hurricane started 6 months ago and grew be because there wasn't a lot of wind sheer to stop it from forming. Maybe the better question is why wasn't there an El Nino?
Hanlon's Razor:
It means that the willfully malicious get a free pass by acting stupid or claiming stupidity, and teaches people the same. It's a hair away from victim shaming, where someone feels/knows that someone has done wrong but they're told,"Oh, it's ok that person is just stupid." What utter nonsense!
I'm tired of Hanlon's Razor. It's totally bankrupt.
One, two, five!
Three sir!
Three!
Oh no, they've caught the holy hand grenade affliction too.
I make whipped cream desserts, and like the local stuff more. Better flavor.
I vote with my wallet and would rather give my dollars to a local business anyway, not Unilever or Halliburton or Kraft, etc.
Share wifi Google fiber with neighbors, cut the cord, and experience the bajillions of movies and TV shows from yesteryear, including all the foreign stuff.
I just don't see the point. There are lifetimes worth of media to watch now... plus hobbies and exercise. And work.
No amount of money can ameliorate sending your mother-in-law,"Ask her why her penis caught in her dress" instead of "Ask her why her pin is stuck in her dress"
None.
Ever.
"If people are reasonably educated"
And THIS is the key line... big "if"
I never realized how lucky I was, growing up where I did and with teachers who cared, until I moved elsewhere. I'm no pinnacle of achievement or smarts, but the individual commitment to critical thinking in this country could use some assistance imo.
Just because someone says something doesn't make it so...
I agree, to a point...
but at what point do words, which can and do influence people, become toxic enough to warrant action against them?
I don't know if there's a right answer, but I'm still curious. I'd like to think the founding fathers wrestled with that a bit, but perhaps not.
For the record, as an aside to this, let's set the record straight on DDT:
https://spectator.org/48925_dd...
Other publications follow up on that.
We need less belief and more facts!
DDT isn't dangerous. No science has ever shown it to be.
Incorrect! The DDT study was bullshit, and worth googling.
Now that streaming is more popular than in 2012, I expect that Disney just wants to renegotiate and give the rights to the highest bidder.
The problem is how much money is locked up in the stock market/assets/companies. Billions/trillions of dollars need to be liquidated, honestly (financial guy here), and it will totally destroy the current engine of capitalism momentarily. It's a game if chicken: which will break first, the people (revolt from being bled of $$ to fund the stock market/assets increases) or companies which eventually crash, wiping out all the labor that was put in to create those "dollars" /money is just a fiction, and I fear we're eventually headed for a nasty showdown (as money is concentrated at a geometric rate into the hands of a few) unless some more capital is returned to the average person. Too Big To Fail is just the start.
Labor
Maybe.... that's not so bad?
One could argue America is WAY too spread out anyway. All that extra land isn't getting used, per se.
If efficiencies get wrung all the way out, who's to say that the consolidation of towns into larger towns isn't a good thing? All the tiny 200-person towns I go through on a drive through America don't need to exist anymore. It's inefficient, and there's a lot of poverty there anyway (though who's to say it gets better with bigger towns....) With some consolidation into cities I'd argue that the environment will actually be allowed to flourish again, perhaps, also.
America was inefficient by design in the first place. All we're doing is correcting that right now, and while that may sound heartless it's likely to happen somehow eventually.
Eventually people could spread back out as prices drop further and people can buy WalMazon and resell out in the boonies?
I'm often wary of headlines touting numbers. Doubly so when it involves a product, trebly so with anything political.
Oh yay, 15,000 apps (apps!) that aren't terribly useful. Very droll....
Experts are people who take truth/knowledge and process it. They apply what is applicable, creatively and pragmatically.
This nonsense about the death of the expert is, itself, an untruth.
It's called Kombucha, people!
Working on a Saturday, but here goes...
1) unless witnesses come forward, there was no one else there except the guy and the lady.
2) at that point, we're stuck EXCEPT for...
3) The woman says she feels the advances were inappropriate
4) the guy says he feels they might have been, but at first clearly denied the whole thing (typical, people act defensive when acccused)
so, we're stuck. There is no way to go back and measure feels with current technology. There's no evidence, and this is where the system breaks down.
It can't help either men or women at this point, because we don't have technology advanced enough to prove emotions or a time machine to go back and see actions/hear words, short of ubiquitous surveillance. All we have are propensities and statements and predictions.
In the future, I predict what could revolutionize the justice system is showing what people are feeling and at what time. If the woman was feeling aroused and scared (because women are more complex emotionally, yes it's a biological fact) perhaps there's evidence for a trial. If she was feeling happy and aroused (testosterone and serotonin, maybe?) then there's a lot less to back up her statement.
All this arguing about emotions and feels and he-said-she-said-he-raped-she-abused stuff is driving humanity bonkers. There has to be a solution out there somewhere...
AC just proved parent's point. Great job, kid, that was one in a million!
You're sort of saying they're monks but in a different way than most would consider?