Both the Pope and chocolate eaters exhibit cognitive dissonance - the ability to simultaneously hold two conflicting or contradictory ideas simultaneously.
Chocolate eaters KNOW that eating chocolate is bad for them, and yet they continue to do it. The Pope KNOWS that pedophiles are bad for the flock, and yet he hid them.
Neither one of them wants to do what any rational person would do (both eating chocolate and protecting pedophiles are irrational behaviour).
It's a stupid comparison.
Humans are not rational actors and unless you have no self destructive vices of any kind then neither are you. And that's not even going into people having every right to value their own health however they wish vs pleasure from various activities.
You think the politicians would keep quiet about catching terrorists with nukes? You'd be able to hear the screams of "WE WERE RIGHT!!!" from states away.
The Educational Testing Service found the scores suspect and asked 14 of the passing students to take the test again. Twelve agreed to do so (the other two decided they didn't need the credit for college), and all 12 did well enough to have their scores reinstated.
So if they cheated they apparently didn't need to.
not really. right now it's perfectly possible to write an AI which tries to maximise "happiness" where total happiness is tracked as an integer. You could for example create an AI for cleaning the floor which gets extra "happiness" points for picking up dirt.
Of course if you don't think it through your definitions of what should provide happiness you may end up with an AI which just fills it's bag, dumps everything on the floor again and then sucks it up over and over. And designing an AI which has the ability work out how to get from A(current state) to B(state which provides "happiness") is non-trivial.
Oh I'm quite familiar with that. the GP however made it sound like nobody had ever though of the idea of providing programs with incentives to learn and completely misses the problem that unless you make it so survival is not a concern to a program.
So kinda like humans then. Enough people believe obviously untrue things simply because they've been written down somewhere be it in a newspaper or a bible.
If an AI behaves the same it's a step away from rational-actor-hood but a step towards humanity.
thing is- piracy is still mostly a geek thing. the vast majority of the profits reaped as a result of DRM etc have nothing to do with piracy. The second hand market dwarfs piracy and that's there the real money is made, piracy is a justification, not a problem.
A computer program doesn't give a shit about it's own survival. Unless you of course take the Hollywood approach and just let it break it's programming, learn the true meaning of love and discover emotion.
Open Enrollment. Escalante did not approve of programs for the gifted, academic tracking, or even qualifying examinations. If students wanted to take his classes, he let them.
His open-door policy bore fruit. Students who would never have been selected for honors classes or programs for the gifted chose to enroll in Escalante's math enrichment classes and succeeded there.
it hints perhaps that the drive to try is far more important than natural ability.
The comments on TFA are a bit depressing though...
axilmar - You MIT guys don't realize how simple AI is. 2010-03-31 04:57:47 Until you MIT guys realize how simple the AI problem is, you'll never solve it.
AI is simply pattern matching. There is nothing else to it. There are no mathematics behind it, or languages, or anything else.
You'd think people who were so so certain that sure AI is easy would be making millions selling AI's to big buisness but no....
I'd be interested if this approach to AI allows for any new approaches to strategy.
I've been thinking about trying to make something like this for so long but I've never been able to work out a sensible way of switching dimensions. Looks like these guys managed to make a decent game out of it. I've gotta try this this evening.
Original thought was to try for 6 dimensions which you could rotate through but of course the number of points you need to keep track of going exponential- 4 points for a 2D square/rectangle, 8 points for a 3D cube, 16 for 4D, 32 for 5D, 64 for 6D....
this is an area which could potentially make for some really unusual and head bending games
you hand out parts of a copyrighted work and in return you get back other parts of that same copyrighted work from the same people. Now there might be some wiggle room since it says "other copyrighted works" rather than "other copyrighted material" and so by a very literal reading may require that you be expecting to acquire more than part of a single copyrighted work but I ain't a lawyer. On the other hand torrent servers which keep track of your upload/download ratio would be a slam dunk since you're directly keeping track of how much credit you've built up. Also a single torrent may include many copyrighted works.
Ah so it's everyone elses fault. The world is against you with it's unfair rules!!!
Some highlights from experiences with people like you- Someone goes to overtake as I'm going round a blind turn, and the moron behind him decides to overtake him at the same time and we all 3 of us come sailing around the blind turn together right at the speed limit.
ya. In your deluded world that's my fault for failing to break the law to accommodate the clinically insane idiot who wanted to go twice the speed limit.
But people like you always think it's everyone else who should change to fit your desire to put the fucking boot down and feel some fucking G's.
Oh and if some poor fuckers had happened to be doing something obviously stupid like driving their kids home from school or just driving home from work while committing the cardinal sin of being on the other side of the road where you want to be then then sure it's only enforcing Darwin on their gene pool.
I agree: TFA is retarded, making the roads harder to drive on is not going to make them safer, it may relieve the symptoms and slow average traffic speed but it's going to cause more accidents. But your attitude of *Well fuck you if you merely want to drive at the speed limit, I didn't buy this overpowered penis substitute for nothing* is even worse.
If they have to break the speed limit to avoid being late it's their own damned fault. People with enough brains to run their own lives competently set out early enough to get where they're going on time.
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Both the Pope and chocolate eaters exhibit cognitive dissonance - the ability to simultaneously hold two conflicting or contradictory ideas simultaneously.
Chocolate eaters KNOW that eating chocolate is bad for them, and yet they continue to do it.
The Pope KNOWS that pedophiles are bad for the flock, and yet he hid them.
Neither one of them wants to do what any rational person would do (both eating chocolate and protecting pedophiles are irrational behaviour).
It's a stupid comparison.
Humans are not rational actors and unless you have no self destructive vices of any kind then neither are you.
And that's not even going into people having every right to value their own health however they wish vs pleasure from various activities.
You think the politicians would keep quiet about catching terrorists with nukes?
You'd be able to hear the screams of "WE WERE RIGHT!!!" from states away.
Interesting little side note:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor
Oklo uranium deposit behaved as a natural nuclear fission reactor in Precambrian times with natural water as neutron moderator.
what the fuck????
you're comparing smoking- a mildly unpleasant vice which damages your own health to raping children
*also for the ISS a full scale nuclear reactor would be utterly OTT.
Some kind of RTG makes much more sense for small scale stuff like that.
no.
The testing of nuclear weapons in space is banned.
Nuclear reactors are fine.
The reason we don't see them on the ISS is the people who too terrified of anything with the word nuclear attached to think rationally.
[citation needed]
I've heard of some cases a little like that but the kids in question always seemed to have learned language if a bit slowly.
The Educational Testing Service found the scores suspect and asked 14 of the passing students to take the test again. Twelve agreed to do so (the other two decided they didn't need the credit for college), and all 12 did well enough to have their scores reinstated.
So if they cheated they apparently didn't need to.
not really.
right now it's perfectly possible to write an AI which tries to maximise "happiness" where total happiness is tracked as an integer.
You could for example create an AI for cleaning the floor which gets extra "happiness" points for picking up dirt.
Of course if you don't think it through your definitions of what should provide happiness you may end up with an AI which just fills it's bag, dumps everything on the floor again and then sucks it up over and over.
And designing an AI which has the ability work out how to get from A(current state) to B(state which provides "happiness") is non-trivial.
Oh I'm quite familiar with that. the GP however made it sound like nobody had ever though of the idea of providing programs with incentives to learn and completely misses the problem that unless you make it so survival is not a concern to a program.
So kinda like humans then.
Enough people believe obviously untrue things simply because they've been written down somewhere be it in a newspaper or a bible.
If an AI behaves the same it's a step away from rational-actor-hood but a step towards humanity.
There is a world beyond the US borders you know.
A world with it's own legal systems and it's own IP laws.
It's not all ghosts and devils out here.
thing is- piracy is still mostly a geek thing.
the vast majority of the profits reaped as a result of DRM etc have nothing to do with piracy.
The second hand market dwarfs piracy and that's there the real money is made, piracy is a justification, not a problem.
People have been saying that since the days when cheap imported sheet music was killing the American music industry.
In reality people will always do what people do- share art, music and culture with each other.(and pornography of course)
A computer program doesn't give a shit about it's own survival.
Unless you of course take the Hollywood approach and just let it break it's programming, learn the true meaning of love and discover emotion.
one thing that caught by eye:
Open Enrollment. Escalante did not approve of programs for the gifted, academic tracking, or even qualifying examinations. If students wanted to take his classes, he let them.
His open-door policy bore fruit. Students who would never have been selected for honors classes or programs for the gifted chose to enroll in Escalante's math enrichment classes and succeeded there.
it hints perhaps that the drive to try is far more important than natural ability.
The comments on TFA are a bit depressing though...
axilmar - You MIT guys don't realize how simple AI is. 2010-03-31 04:57:47
Until you MIT guys realize how simple the AI problem is, you'll never solve it.
AI is simply pattern matching. There is nothing else to it. There are no mathematics behind it, or languages, or anything else.
You'd think people who were so so certain that sure AI is easy would be making millions selling AI's to big buisness but no....
I'd be interested if this approach to AI allows for any new approaches to strategy.
I've been thinking about trying to make something like this for so long but I've never been able to work out a sensible way of switching dimensions.
Looks like these guys managed to make a decent game out of it.
I've gotta try this this evening.
Original thought was to try for 6 dimensions which you could rotate through but of course the number of points you need to keep track of going exponential- 4 points for a 2D square/rectangle, 8 points for a 3D cube, 16 for 4D, 32 for 5D, 64 for 6D....
this is an area which could potentially make for some really unusual and head bending games
It's a pity they never made any sequels to that movie.
It was really fantastic.
you hand out parts of a copyrighted work and in return you get back other parts of that same copyrighted work from the same people.
Now there might be some wiggle room since it says "other copyrighted works" rather than "other copyrighted material" and so by a very literal reading may require that you be expecting to acquire more than part of a single copyrighted work but I ain't a lawyer.
On the other hand torrent servers which keep track of your upload/download ratio would be a slam dunk since you're directly keeping track of how much credit you've built up.
Also a single torrent may include many copyrighted works.
Ah so it's everyone elses fault.
The world is against you with it's unfair rules!!!
Some highlights from experiences with people like you- Someone goes to overtake as I'm going round a blind turn, and the moron behind him decides to overtake him at the same time and we all 3 of us come sailing around the blind turn together right at the speed limit.
ya.
In your deluded world that's my fault for failing to break the law to accommodate the clinically insane idiot who wanted to go twice the speed limit.
But people like you always think it's everyone else who should change to fit your desire to put the fucking boot down and feel some fucking G's.
Oh and if some poor fuckers had happened to be doing something obviously stupid like driving their kids home from school or just driving home from work while committing the cardinal sin of being on the other side of the road where you want to be then then sure it's only enforcing Darwin on their gene pool .
I agree: TFA is retarded, making the roads harder to drive on is not going to make them safer, it may relieve the symptoms and slow average traffic speed but it's going to cause more accidents.
But your attitude of *Well fuck you if you merely want to drive at the speed limit, I didn't buy this overpowered penis substitute for nothing* is even worse.
If they have to break the speed limit to avoid being late it's their own damned fault.
People with enough brains to run their own lives competently set out early enough to get where they're going on time.
you don't lose patents just by being slow to enforce them(I think they're already suing in any case).
It's trademarks you lose if you fail to enforce them.
copyright patents and trademarks are 3 completely different things even if people like to lump them together under "IP"
"We had to DOS the server in order to save it from a DOS attack"
(of course then they try to overtake in stupid situations but until we get them fitted with shock collars idiots will always do idiotic things.)