I just recently got dualhead running, without a matrox card I might add, just a AGP creative TNT 16MB and a PCI Voodoo3 2000 16MB. Didn't take much, a RedHat 6.2 install, installed XFree86 4.0.1... done, XF86setup takes care of the whole thing.
Xinerama takes care of the rest, updated to the latest version of Xinerama aware Enlightenment, and it's fantastic. Read the Xinerama HOWTO for more info, and multiple layouts are possible for starting X with or without dualhead/xinerama, take one evening and you're set. Your milage may vary, but you'll never go back to single head.
Why presume that it would want to replicate? Assuming that intelligence is a prerequisite for the desire to reproduce is flawed. This is applying human evolved instinct to machines, the only reason we feel the need to reproduce and spread is self-preservation and the need to pass our genes to the next generation. I fail to see why the machine would feel similarily, considering it would possess no instinct or 'need' to pass on genes or compete for evolutionary purposes.
Besides, if intelligence/self-conciousness as we know it is a prerequisite for the need to reproduce, what about all the unintelligence/non-self-aware creatures out there 'breeding like rabbits' as it is.
> Any truly perfect AI should then in turn be able to produce AI of its own, as we have. So what good is it? It's just a dog chasing its own >extremely, extremely long tail. Why bother.
I love questions like these, here's one for you. You are able to reproduce, and are self-aware/conscious, so what good are you? You're just a smarter dog chasing it's own tail.:)
I hate to be right, but when people would talk about the risks of using credit cards online, I would tell them that no h/c(racker) is going to intercept a communication and break the encryption for one credit card number when they can simply steal the entire database after breaking into one server, guess this guy proved me right.
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I just recently got dualhead running, without a matrox card I might add, just a AGP creative TNT 16MB and a PCI Voodoo3 2000 16MB. Didn't take much, a RedHat 6.2 install, installed XFree86 4.0.1... done, XF86setup takes care of the whole thing. Xinerama takes care of the rest, updated to the latest version of Xinerama aware Enlightenment, and it's fantastic. Read the Xinerama HOWTO for more info, and multiple layouts are possible for starting X with or without dualhead/xinerama, take one evening and you're set. Your milage may vary, but you'll never go back to single head.
Why presume that it would want to replicate? Assuming that intelligence is a prerequisite for the desire to reproduce is flawed. This is applying human evolved instinct to machines, the only reason we feel the need to reproduce and spread is self-preservation and the need to pass our genes to the next generation. I fail to see why the machine would feel similarily, considering it would possess no instinct or 'need' to pass on genes or compete for evolutionary purposes.
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Besides, if intelligence/self-conciousness as we know it is a prerequisite for the need to reproduce, what about all the unintelligence/non-self-aware creatures out there 'breeding like rabbits' as it is.
> Any truly perfect AI should then in turn be able to produce AI of its own, as we have. So what good is it? It's just a dog chasing its own >extremely, extremely long tail. Why bother.
I love questions like these, here's one for you.
You are able to reproduce, and are self-aware/conscious, so what good are you? You're just a smarter dog chasing it's own tail.
I hate to be right, but when people would talk about the risks of using credit cards online, I would tell them that no h/c(racker) is going to intercept a communication and break the encryption for one credit card number when they can simply steal the entire database after breaking into one server, guess this guy proved me right.