Actually, choosing some things at random is thought to be used by the human brain. And is also useful in AI, in certain places. See "dithering" in servo controls and video processing.
But even if a "robot pilot" is in control, the human driver is still responsable. After all, you don't think the car manufacturer could be "responsible" without going broke, do you?;-)
... Consider the thought experiment of having to select one of two options, where in one you die and in the other you kill somebody else,...
This is like the "halting problem" in computer science, interesting theoretically but having nothing at all to do with anything real.
The answer is that it is up to the person who would be in control, and it is up to them to find a third choice. Which people do rather regularly. Two-valued logic is the source of much evil...
Why is this marked Insightful? Processes doing nothing consume no CPU time and thus no battery power. Having Edge "running" in the background thus has no saying whatsoever. This is pretty basic OS knowledge! Hand in your geek cards immediately!
If the processes that are "doing nothing" are actually running timer ticks to check for events and conditions, then they are using CPU cycles and battery power.
And way too many application programs do this, as though the programmers never did understand event-driven operation. Even the M$ app writers. (Or maybe it is the driver writers. But the drivers allow both, usually.)
It's as though the app writers could not stand to lose the "spotlight"!
If you give someone else control of your stuff, so that they can "take care of you", then you are effectivly a slave to that person. And with "the cloud", you don't even know who that person -is-.
A great many of the older people, that we know, have discovered that email and chat is a lot easier than paper and stamps. Particularly for international correspondence. They have recently been using computers for many things and learning a lot. And for them, "recently" is longer than the millenials have been alive!
A lot of people still don't use the poplular tech, but a lot of them do. And not just the tech folks.
I have see "little old ladies" teaching kids how to use their cellphones, and about things like backing up data!
Glorify the experts - that's the first thing you do. With experts that people trust, you can spread pretty much whatever BS you want. So you Glorify them. You laud their intelligence, of being beyond reproach, whatever works.
Interesting how that was so interchangeable.
Both ways have been used many times, now and in the past...
Congratulations, you're a destructive nitwit who pretends that opposing lunatics is just a disagreement.
People who think persecuting minorities makes the country a better place are objectively bad people. People who think spreading a backward version of Christianity makes the country better are objectively stupid people. People who would vote for a candidate who's running an openly-fascist campaign are objectively fascists.
Modern people and Conservatives don't just disagree like we used to. The Conservatives drifted off into a hate-driven alternate reality, and can't even engage with the real world anymore.
You are quite right. However, you accidentily wrote "Conservatives" instead of "Democrats" !! 8-P
Logic can actually solve for more than one variable at a time. But two-valued true-false logic is not going to work. You need algebra and calculus and matrices of simultanious equations.
But that still leaves the evaluation of what is desirable.
It might be easier, though, when you know a bit more about the side-effects and possible outcomes.
There remains, the question of "who decides" what is desirable. That is power, and power attracts evil...
It sounds like he has a compulsion to have the very max best available. In captive brands that is easy because it can't be upgraded much. But in PCs and some other types, you can upgrade way beyond the original setup. He is complaining about having freedom...
Just because something can be upgraded does not mean you have to. Unless you just have to be ahead of everyone else... whoever that is...
Sorry, but it is a bad adea. And I say that as one who would be part of the elite.
Too much concentration of power. Power attracts evil, and power breeds evil in those who were good before.
To be happy and free, power must be divided up until it is controllable. Without the "separation of powers", things soon turn bad.
Other things have been tried many times, and always brought fear and sorrow. For at least 5000 years, maybe longer...
We will have government through science and engineering when the population understands the tech. We really are getting there, but we are not there yet.
P.S., Don't worry about the politics, it is natures way of building immunity to such things in the people! 8-P
Reading the news and opinion sites, it seems that liberal American columnists are, by-and-large, incensed by the result of Brexit vote. Why is that? They seem to act like it is really a threat to them.
Because the "liberal" columnists are elitists, who think that they themselves will always be part of any power structure.
They are probably wrong... In history, the liberal columnists are the first to be "purged", after the democracy falls.
In those day, -most- computers had zero security features. Big computers had locked doors. Micro-computers, no one seemed to care. Microsoft grew up in those days, thats why they don't really understand security or multi-thread stuff.
In fact, tech people working on "micro-computers" hated big IBM and DEC so much that a lot of things were left out because it was "big computer trash, we don't need that" !
Except that the "micro-computers" that we are working on, now, are much bigger and more powerful than the "big" computers were back then. A change in mindset is needed...
The problem is that there are not really any "binary words". The universe does not have anything like that, it is fractal.
So the poplular usage, in this case, is actually more accurate. Words like "unique" can not accuratly be used to describe anything real, they are imaginary states. Except to mathematicians...
They should never have called this function an autopilot!
While this is consistant with the usage in aircraft, where a "wing leveler and turn controller" is called an autopilot, it is not what the public hears.
To most of the drivers it makes them think this is a robot driver, which it is not. 8-{
.... Similarly, if we humans understand the aging mechanisms of solar panels well enough, including knowledge that there are no threshold events that cause the decay to change to a newer, faster model, then it's reasonable to look at the start of the curve, fit it to the known methods, and advance it to extrapolate a useful life.
Unfortunatly, we don't understand -anything- all that well.
However, our current statistical quesses are better than nothing... 8-)
P.S., you want me to define "all that well"? For some things it is several orders of magnitude, and we feel lucky to get that. In others it is one part in 10^17, but is still considered "approximate".
It's funny how the first people on make an obvious mistake in taking the headline at face value, then others get on and explain the actual situation, then a bit further more get on and post the same mistaken words. And it sort of cycles back and forth, down the thread list... 8-P
In the military, people's personal information has a security level assigned. It's the lowest level, but it is under the security laws. Just copying a database that has names and other personal info can be a Federal offense, just like stealing ship sailing schedules or troop movements.
Clinton had plenty of stuff like that, that they have not even mentioned.
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Actually, choosing some things at random is thought to be used by the human brain. And is also useful in AI, in certain places. See "dithering" in servo controls and video processing.
But even if a "robot pilot" is in control, the human driver is still responsable. After all, you don't think the car manufacturer could be "responsible" without going broke, do you? ;-)
Slamming on the brakes can be as dangerous as not hitting the brakes, and the cases tend to split about even.
Just because some government safety instruction said that, is no reason to believe that brakes are always the best lifesaver. Often they are not.
On the other hand, even a very rudimentary auto-pilot should be able to figure it a lot better than that.
... Consider the thought experiment of having to select one of two options, where in one you die and in the other you kill somebody else, ...
This is like the "halting problem" in computer science, interesting theoretically but having nothing at all to do with anything real.
The answer is that it is up to the person who would be in control, and it is up to them to find a third choice. Which people do rather regularly. Two-valued logic is the source of much evil...
Why is this marked Insightful? Processes doing nothing consume no CPU time and thus no battery power. Having Edge "running" in the background thus has no saying whatsoever. This is pretty basic OS knowledge! Hand in your geek cards immediately!
If the processes that are "doing nothing" are actually running timer ticks to check for events and conditions, then they are using CPU cycles and battery power.
And way too many application programs do this, as though the programmers never did understand event-driven operation. Even the M$ app writers. (Or maybe it is the driver writers. But the drivers allow both, usually.)
It's as though the app writers could not stand to lose the "spotlight"!
If you look at Microsoft's campaign donations pre and post monopoly conviction you'll see what happened. ...
My slashdot is set to show messages rate one and above. This message shows fully expanded, at 2 troll.
Does that mean that on SlashDot, the rating "Troll" is a -positive- rating? ... but I'm sure it is just a bug... ;-)
(p.s., the message is correct, from what I remember.)
Certificates, or degrees for that matter, are over-rated and doesn't hint at all at a person's deductive reasoning.
That is often true. But if they pick up anything from the course it is not wasted.
And it does prove that they actually finished -something- ! 8-)
If you give someone else control of your stuff, so that they can "take care of you", then you are effectivly a slave to that person.
And with "the cloud", you don't even know who that person -is-.
A great many of the older people, that we know, have discovered that email and chat is a lot easier than paper and stamps. Particularly for international correspondence. They have recently been using computers for many things and learning a lot. And for them, "recently" is longer than the millenials have been alive!
A lot of people still don't use the poplular tech, but a lot of them do. And not just the tech folks.
I have see "little old ladies" teaching kids how to use their cellphones, and about things like backing up data!
Glorify the experts - that's the first thing you do. With experts that people trust, you can spread pretty much whatever BS you want. So you Glorify them. You laud their intelligence, of being beyond reproach, whatever works.
Interesting how that was so interchangeable.
Both ways have been used many times, now and in the past...
Congratulations, you're a destructive nitwit who pretends that opposing lunatics is just a disagreement.
People who think persecuting minorities makes the country a better place are objectively bad people. People who think spreading a backward version of Christianity makes the country better are objectively stupid people. People who would vote for a candidate who's running an openly-fascist campaign are objectively fascists.
Modern people and Conservatives don't just disagree like we used to. The Conservatives drifted off into a hate-driven alternate reality, and can't even engage with the real world anymore.
You are quite right. However, you accidentily wrote "Conservatives" instead of "Democrats" !! 8-P
A "pace" is from one left footprint to the next left footprint. Or it will work with the right.
Mechanical pedometers click when the foot hits the ground, so they measure paces. And it is easier to count when hiking.
If you are reading hiking guides or old maps, don't get them confused with steps. It could be a pain... 8-)
A mile was a unit of linear measure. It was used until the early 21st century. It was equal to 5,280 feet, or 1,760 yards.
The only "real" mile is the nautical mile, which is 6000 feet. 8-}
Spoken as a sailor...
What? Your post is the height of racism. "Go back to collecting their government checks?"
Of course, your reply is also the height of racism, in assuming that most people that collect government checks are of one particular race! 8-}
Logic can actually solve for more than one variable at a time. But two-valued true-false logic is not going to work. You need algebra and calculus and matrices of simultanious equations.
But that still leaves the evaluation of what is desirable.
It might be easier, though, when you know a bit more about the side-effects and possible outcomes.
There remains, the question of "who decides" what is desirable. That is power, and power attracts evil...
It sounds like he has a compulsion to have the very max best available. In captive brands that is easy because it can't be upgraded much.
But in PCs and some other types, you can upgrade way beyond the original setup. He is complaining about having freedom...
Just because something can be upgraded does not mean you have to. Unless you just have to be ahead of everyone else ... whoever that is...
... it seems entirely reasonable to assert that there is only one universe. ...
Only if all humans are constrained to never say the words "I don't know".
Of course humans avoid saying that whenever possible, and scientists are punished for saying it, but it is often the only correct answer. 8-)
General physics is more or less solved. It makes sense. ...
I think that was the attitude that they were complaining about !! 8-}
Sorry, but it is a bad adea. And I say that as one who would be part of the elite.
Too much concentration of power. Power attracts evil, and power breeds evil in those who were good before.
To be happy and free, power must be divided up until it is controllable. Without the "separation of powers", things soon turn bad.
Other things have been tried many times, and always brought fear and sorrow. For at least 5000 years, maybe longer...
We will have government through science and engineering when the population understands the tech. We really are getting there, but we are not there yet.
P.S., Don't worry about the politics, it is natures way of building immunity to such things in the people! 8-P
Reading the news and opinion sites, it seems that liberal American columnists are, by-and-large, incensed by the result of Brexit vote. Why is that? They seem to act like it is really a threat to them.
Because the "liberal" columnists are elitists, who think that they themselves will always be part of any power structure.
They are probably wrong ... In history, the liberal columnists are the first to be "purged", after the democracy falls.
... The Amiga had *zero* security features. ...
In those day, -most- computers had zero security features. Big computers had locked doors. Micro-computers, no one seemed to care.
Microsoft grew up in those days, thats why they don't really understand security or multi-thread stuff.
In fact, tech people working on "micro-computers" hated big IBM and DEC so much that a lot of things were left out because it was "big computer trash, we don't need that" !
Except that the "micro-computers" that we are working on, now, are much bigger and more powerful than the "big" computers were back then. A change in mindset is needed...
The problem is that there are not really any "binary words". The universe does not have anything like that, it is fractal.
So the poplular usage, in this case, is actually more accurate. Words like "unique" can not accuratly be used to describe anything real, they are imaginary states.
Except to mathematicians...
They should never have called this function an autopilot!
While this is consistant with the usage in aircraft, where a "wing leveler and turn controller" is called an autopilot, it is not what the public hears.
To most of the drivers it makes them think this is a robot driver, which it is not. 8-{
.... Similarly, if we humans understand the aging mechanisms of solar panels well enough, including knowledge that there are no threshold events that cause the decay to change to a newer, faster model, then it's reasonable to look at the start of the curve, fit it to the known methods, and advance it to extrapolate a useful life.
Unfortunatly, we don't understand -anything- all that well.
However, our current statistical quesses are better than nothing... 8-)
P.S., you want me to define "all that well"? For some things it is several orders of magnitude, and we feel lucky to get that. In others it is one part in 10^17, but is still considered "approximate".
It's funny how the first people on make an obvious mistake in taking the headline at face value, then others get on and explain the actual situation, then a bit further more get on and post the same mistaken words. And it sort of cycles back and forth, down the thread list... 8-P
In the military, people's personal information has a security level assigned. It's the lowest level, but it is under the security laws. Just copying a database that has names and other personal info can be a Federal offense, just like stealing ship sailing schedules or troop movements.
Clinton had plenty of stuff like that, that they have not even mentioned.