but God created the universe the way he/she did *specifically* so you would make those choices. Doesn't sound much like free will to me...
That is not clear at all. Presumably God created universe and saw all consequences of creation, but that does not imply that he created the universe
so that those consequences would happen.
One has to notice that half of the world will be protected by the bulk of Earth. Only 50% of the Earth's surface will be exposed. THerefore it is very unlikely that the civilization will be wiped out entirely.
It's not at all obvious that having a powerful, technologically advanced military prevents us from helping people in the future. I would hope that the reverse is true, in fact.
The US already has the most advanced military and by far the largest military spending. Why is such an increase in military research nececessary at this point in time?
Second, do you think there's a compelling reason to believe that in the absence of military research, people would stop killing one another?
Who said anything about the absense of military research. The question is about the purpose of redirecting funds from long term CS research into short-term military spending.
Their opinion is that schools were designed to make kids good factory workers, and they are obsolete because kids no longer grow up to work in factories.
Some people believe that one of the primary purpose of schools is to indoctrinate children. Why is the anthem played every day, for example?
Kurzweil is clearly crazy (or, rather, a pure showman, who just says things for the sake of publicity).
The game is not about processing speed - we still do not know the fundamentals of natural intelligence.
If we are given a computer with 10^15 FLOPS today, we still would not know what to do with it.
I am well aware of the fact that Gaussian and normal distributions are the same thing.
The wikipedia writer is clueless - how can IQ scores can be normal for the majority of the population, either it is normal or not.
The notion of normality ofr a majority of the sample makes little statistical sense.
No real-life distributions are actually normal
(although some are close to normal). However the IQ scores are normalized as if the distribution were normal and that approximation may or may not be good.
That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.
The score is calibrated using the Gaussian distribution. However you cannot make the distribution of scores normal by just assuming. Either it is actually normals (which it is not, of course) or there is no particular reason why the median should be equal to the mean.
I'm sure they could work on a system that could eventually shoot down bullets in mid air, and then finally make it small enough so that soldiers can carry it. Virtually invincible soldiers.
Actually it would be easier to engineer soldiers invincible to bullet fire.
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Often it is...
Microsoft has a large group, which has been working on machine translation since early 90's.
Exactly. They should be grateful for a practical lesson like that.
That is not clear at all. Presumably God created universe and saw all consequences of creation, but that does not imply that he created the universe so that those consequences would happen.
Presumably the robot would be smart enough to know it had no ammo.
And don't forget about Dick Cheney.
Hot wives and lots of money are available. The rest is technical detail. Same with science.
One has to notice that half of the world will be protected by the bulk of Earth. Only 50% of the Earth's surface will be exposed. THerefore it is very unlikely that the civilization will be wiped out entirely.
It's not at all obvious that having a powerful, technologically advanced military prevents us from helping people in the future. I would hope that the reverse is true, in fact.
The US already has the most advanced military and by far the largest military spending. Why is such an increase in military research nececessary at this point in time?
Second, do you think there's a compelling reason to believe that in the absence of military research, people would stop killing one another?
Who said anything about the absense of military research. The question is about the purpose of redirecting funds from long term CS research into short-term military spending.
Some people believe that one of the primary purpose of schools is to indoctrinate children. Why is the anthem played every day, for example?
Good loyal workers is what the state needs.
So what is your opinion about this differential from your position as a prosecutor?
Can you copyright a list of e-mail addresses though?
Violation of privacy and company policies, for sure, but not theft.
The game is not about processing speed - we still do not know the fundamentals of natural intelligence. If we are given a computer with 10^15 FLOPS today, we still would not know what to do with it.
>... to a shitty version of Dell ...
Tautology?
The wikipedia writer is clueless - how can IQ scores can be normal for the majority of the population, either it is normal or not. The notion of normality ofr a majority of the sample makes little statistical sense.
No real-life distributions are actually normal (although some are close to normal). However the IQ scores are normalized as if the distribution were normal and that approximation may or may not be good.
As far as language before writing is concerned any number seems as good as any other.
Well, you have to agree that the number of speakers of esperanto is miniscule compared to the number of speakers of English.
Are you sure it is not 165,000 years of human history?
Esperanto - the language nobody speaks and nobody reads. What a great alternative to English!
Why would anyone call a mode "the average"?
Makes no sense to me. For example, a distribution can have several modes.
That's true, but IQ assumes intelligence is normally distributed over the population. So in any large population, both the mean and median IQ should be 100.
The score is calibrated using the Gaussian distribution. However you cannot make the distribution of scores normal by just assuming. Either it is actually normals (which it is not, of course) or there is no particular reason why the median should be equal to the mean.
I must be behind the times. Since when bone-headeadness is a problem with this administration?
Ah, seems my network connection has been disconnected.
How do you monitor a country with tens of million people and huge area for terrorists?
Most terrorists do not carry a "bomb here" sign attached to the top of their head.
Actually it would be easier to engineer soldiers invincible to bullet fire.