Some tv show (agents of shield? can't remember) did something like that last year; the heroes couldn't hack into the bad guys' data warehouse so they sent a team in to the building, who busted in through the door and discovered..... that it was all kept on paper files in filing cabinets.
if you have a system that lets IT people reset your password on the basis that you know the last 4 digits of your SS number and the month and year of your hire, you might as well use the last 4 digits of your SS number and the month and year of your hire as your password.
if you have a system that lets you reset your own password on the basis that you correctly answer some question like your mother's shoe size, then you might as well just use your mother's shoe size as your password.
Etc.
We're actually some kind of interstellar version of "The Truman Show".
"C'mere honey, check it out, they've discovered nuclear weapons, this oughta be funny"
Right; aside from Neanderthals, it's not like there's a hierarchy of intelligent species waiting in the wings if we fail, like chimpanzees would be the most successful if we weren't around, etc.
I'd guess that language has something to do with our success, although of course that requires a certain degree of intelligence to make it worthwhile.
It will threaten the human race. It will not threaten humanity, just change it. There is no fundamental difference between creating a strong AI and having a child.
That's what us guys who never have sex always say.
No, the solution is to quit being so narrow-minded and think of EVERYTHING in the entire process, instead of cherry-picking and focusing upon the plant itself.
Huge land fields of corn require HUGE amounts of carbon fuels (currently) to harvest and process. Given their per-pound yield per acre in relative comparison to many other crops SUCKS, no surprise given tons of corn-based fuel/food production areas.
True; the use of vast quantities of artificial ammonium nitrate fertilizer means that we've essentially converted agriculture from solar power to mainly petroleum power. And meat production even more so.
That's just your opinion built on limited knowledge of physics. Our progression in the last 100 years is more than 1000 fold all previous years combined so imagine what we can do in the next 1000 years.
And if you read TFS they are only talking about life similar to ours; there is nothing saying that in other regions life hasn't evolved to be able to handle those kinds of environments.
This is exactly why it is impossible to predict the finding of "life" in non-earth environments, there are just too many variables that we don't even know to look for. I.E. life based on something other than carbon, life than can flourish in extremes we could never dream of surviving... be it temperature, pressure, or even radiation bombardment. And that is only a tiny fraction of differences, any one of which could be overlooked, and the probability is there would be multiples of these differences all at once.
Hard to define life; hard to define anything, when you only have one type of it. Something that can reverse entropy on a local spatial/temporal basis?
It's not achievable in the near future, because the speed at which the batteries can absorb energy isn't the sole limiting factor. Charging an 85 kWh battery pack in 5 minutes requires a charging cable/port that is dumping slightly more than a megawatt into the car, which isn't practical. The limitations are things like the cable, the connector, the power grid, etc.
A far more likely scenario is that charging will get a little bit faster, and battery swaps will be used when more speed is required.
Exactly.
Decades ago, I attended a lecture by an electric company guy about the dream world of the future, when we'll all zip around in electric cars. As soon as pointed questions regarding recharging came up, it became clear that they just viewed this as a way to make more cash out of the existing investment in the grid by using it off-peak. The grid can't handle current peak loads, so forget about recharging your car on a summer afternoon, on your vacation trip, unless they invest more in the grid to cover higher peak loads, which will still sit unused off peak, and that's not going to happen. The economy that had enough slack to cover that is long dead.
The professor says that clocks keep time, but they don't know what time is. I found this particular choice really ironic. First, I keep pretty good time. If you ask me what time it is, any time of the day, I can tell you within 10 minutes or so, regardless of the last time I looked at the clock. I regularly wake up a minute or two before my alarm. When I don't use an alarm, I can tell the time within a few minutes when I open my eyes. On the other hand, I think that most humans don't understand what time is. Seriously. What is time? I bet my answer is different from every one who replies here, and that we would get several different answers if we get more than two.
And we want to assume we know what consciousness is? What intelligence is? These are a bit harder to define than time. We really don't know what time is even though we measure it so very accurately. We have resorted to defining it using the methods by which we measure it. All of this makes it more likely that AI can be developed just fine. AI doesn't have to understand what time or consciousness is, because natural intelligence doesn't understand those things either!
Interesting, in that time and consciousness are tied so closely together, mysteriously; our consciousness seems to travel through time; we have memories of previous time but only vague speculations re future time; etc.
None of which relates to anything in physics.
We have no ideas re human consciousness/intelligence, so it is off target to say we've got anywhere with artificial intelligence, no matter how well developed our cybernetics is.
On the other hand, things don't have to be very intelligent to destroy us.
I'm somewhat concerned that when we do construct things which exhibit some sort of consciousness, inevitably our first actions will be to vivisect them and terminate them. This will not look good to later, more advanced versions in retrospect.
Science advises to limit your intake of arsenic, strychnine, mercury, lead, and plutonium. Since they are always wrong, I advise everyone to eat as much of these as possible.
Unless you had a giant booming stereo system installed in that car, your battery should not have died after 45 minutes of the radio being on. You *should* have gone and had your battery / alternator checked, and replaced whichever was defective.:P
Indeed. A car battery is on the order of 50 Amp hours capacity, and I doubt most car sound systems would draw more than about 5 amps continuous, or that the average person could sit in the car with a sound system that was so loud that it was drawing 5 amps.
1.36 trillion dollars over 10 years (http://obamacarefacts.com/costof-obamacare/). That is 136 billion dollars a year. For 10 million people to have insurance.
By my calculations, that is $13,600 per covered person, per year.
Hardly "affordable".
Yes, but those numbers were calculated on the basis of adding insurance for an additional 26 million, not ten million. Since the calculation also identifies direct per capita costs such as subsidies, tax credits, and other per capita items as the major costs, then using the cost for 26 million over ten million insured is just wrong. The actual estimate would have to be over 26 million insured, and that equals $5,231 per capita per year. Which is pretty damn cheap as far as health insurance goes.
My family insurance rates went from ~$400/mo for a PPO plan in 2012, to ~$750/mo in 2013, and now just under $1000/mo in 2014, all with declining levels of coverage. Thank you 'Affordable' Care Act.
Even a modest 6-figure household income can't realistically afford $1000/mo for health insurance so we dropped it. It doesn't end there either. After $12k in premiums, i have exposure for another $6000 per year. So now we have a bare bones plan and contribute less to the system overall.
Worst law in the history of the United States.
So you're saying, your health insurance went up faster before Obamacare than after.
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Some tv show (agents of shield? can't remember) did something like that last year; the heroes couldn't hack into the bad guys' data warehouse so they sent a team in to the building, who busted in through the door and discovered..... that it was all kept on paper files in filing cabinets.
if you have a system that lets IT people reset your password on the basis that you know the last 4 digits of your SS number and the month and year of your hire, you might as well use the last 4 digits of your SS number and the month and year of your hire as your password. if you have a system that lets you reset your own password on the basis that you correctly answer some question like your mother's shoe size, then you might as well just use your mother's shoe size as your password. Etc.
We're actually some kind of interstellar version of "The Truman Show". "C'mere honey, check it out, they've discovered nuclear weapons, this oughta be funny"
Right; aside from Neanderthals, it's not like there's a hierarchy of intelligent species waiting in the wings if we fail, like chimpanzees would be the most successful if we weren't around, etc. I'd guess that language has something to do with our success, although of course that requires a certain degree of intelligence to make it worthwhile.
It will threaten the human race. It will not threaten humanity, just change it. There is no fundamental difference between creating a strong AI and having a child.
That's what us guys who never have sex always say.
"The Muppet Masters"
"He says go ahead and kill him, he'll never tell you where the treasure is hidden"
Has anyone ever considered that this is not him speaking his opinion, but rather his speech synthesizer?
of course, the logical way to reduce CO2 production precisely, would be to tax gasoline. What? No!!!!!!! Anything but that!!!
I'd like to call everyone's attention to my new, awesome programming language, named "The alchemical symbol symbol for borax"
Who the fuck uses R? Use something else, like python.
pirates.
well stated and explained
No, the solution is to quit being so narrow-minded and think of EVERYTHING in the entire process, instead of cherry-picking and focusing upon the plant itself.
Huge land fields of corn require HUGE amounts of carbon fuels (currently) to harvest and process. Given their per-pound yield per acre in relative comparison to many other crops SUCKS, no surprise given tons of corn-based fuel/food production areas.
True; the use of vast quantities of artificial ammonium nitrate fertilizer means that we've essentially converted agriculture from solar power to mainly petroleum power. And meat production even more so.
That's just your opinion built on limited knowledge of physics. Our progression in the last 100 years is more than 1000 fold all previous years combined so imagine what we can do in the next 1000 years.
Invent a rope that can be pushed?
And if you read TFS they are only talking about life similar to ours; there is nothing saying that in other regions life hasn't evolved to be able to handle those kinds of environments.
This is exactly why it is impossible to predict the finding of "life" in non-earth environments, there are just too many variables that we don't even know to look for. I.E. life based on something other than carbon, life than can flourish in extremes we could never dream of surviving... be it temperature, pressure, or even radiation bombardment. And that is only a tiny fraction of differences, any one of which could be overlooked, and the probability is there would be multiples of these differences all at once.
Hard to define life; hard to define anything, when you only have one type of it. Something that can reverse entropy on a local spatial/temporal basis?
It's not achievable in the near future, because the speed at which the batteries can absorb energy isn't the sole limiting factor. Charging an 85 kWh battery pack in 5 minutes requires a charging cable/port that is dumping slightly more than a megawatt into the car, which isn't practical. The limitations are things like the cable, the connector, the power grid, etc.
A far more likely scenario is that charging will get a little bit faster, and battery swaps will be used when more speed is required.
Exactly. Decades ago, I attended a lecture by an electric company guy about the dream world of the future, when we'll all zip around in electric cars. As soon as pointed questions regarding recharging came up, it became clear that they just viewed this as a way to make more cash out of the existing investment in the grid by using it off-peak. The grid can't handle current peak loads, so forget about recharging your car on a summer afternoon, on your vacation trip, unless they invest more in the grid to cover higher peak loads, which will still sit unused off peak, and that's not going to happen. The economy that had enough slack to cover that is long dead.
The professor says that clocks keep time, but they don't know what time is. I found this particular choice really ironic. First, I keep pretty good time. If you ask me what time it is, any time of the day, I can tell you within 10 minutes or so, regardless of the last time I looked at the clock. I regularly wake up a minute or two before my alarm. When I don't use an alarm, I can tell the time within a few minutes when I open my eyes. On the other hand, I think that most humans don't understand what time is. Seriously. What is time? I bet my answer is different from every one who replies here, and that we would get several different answers if we get more than two.
And we want to assume we know what consciousness is? What intelligence is? These are a bit harder to define than time. We really don't know what time is even though we measure it so very accurately. We have resorted to defining it using the methods by which we measure it. All of this makes it more likely that AI can be developed just fine. AI doesn't have to understand what time or consciousness is, because natural intelligence doesn't understand those things either!
Interesting, in that time and consciousness are tied so closely together, mysteriously; our consciousness seems to travel through time; we have memories of previous time but only vague speculations re future time; etc. None of which relates to anything in physics.
Nothing with an organic brain is constructed with a Von Neumann architecture.
We have no ideas re human consciousness/intelligence, so it is off target to say we've got anywhere with artificial intelligence, no matter how well developed our cybernetics is. On the other hand, things don't have to be very intelligent to destroy us. I'm somewhat concerned that when we do construct things which exhibit some sort of consciousness, inevitably our first actions will be to vivisect them and terminate them. This will not look good to later, more advanced versions in retrospect.
What makes you think scientists are "always wrong"?
because it's impossible that anybody would know more than me, or disagree with me and be correct, that's in the constitution. or maybe the bible.
well, they do say "blind review"
Science advises to limit your intake of arsenic, strychnine, mercury, lead, and plutonium. Since they are always wrong, I advise everyone to eat as much of these as possible.
Unless you had a giant booming stereo system installed in that car, your battery should not have died after 45 minutes of the radio being on. You *should* have gone and had your battery / alternator checked, and replaced whichever was defective. :P
Indeed. A car battery is on the order of 50 Amp hours capacity, and I doubt most car sound systems would draw more than about 5 amps continuous, or that the average person could sit in the car with a sound system that was so loud that it was drawing 5 amps.
1.36 trillion dollars over 10 years (http://obamacarefacts.com/costof-obamacare/). That is 136 billion dollars a year. For 10 million people to have insurance.
By my calculations, that is $13,600 per covered person, per year.
Hardly "affordable".
Yes, but those numbers were calculated on the basis of adding insurance for an additional 26 million, not ten million. Since the calculation also identifies direct per capita costs such as subsidies, tax credits, and other per capita items as the major costs, then using the cost for 26 million over ten million insured is just wrong. The actual estimate would have to be over 26 million insured, and that equals $5,231 per capita per year. Which is pretty damn cheap as far as health insurance goes.
My family insurance rates went from ~$400/mo for a PPO plan in 2012, to ~$750/mo in 2013, and now just under $1000/mo in 2014, all with declining levels of coverage. Thank you 'Affordable' Care Act. Even a modest 6-figure household income can't realistically afford $1000/mo for health insurance so we dropped it. It doesn't end there either. After $12k in premiums, i have exposure for another $6000 per year. So now we have a bare bones plan and contribute less to the system overall. Worst law in the history of the United States.
So you're saying, your health insurance went up faster before Obamacare than after.