"It's an interesting observation that there is more circumstantial evidence to suggest all Christians are paedophiles than there is to suggest all Muslims are terrorists."
- daani
An engineer's model may well be close enough "to get the job done." This I agree with. But I don't believe that real consiousness is located in my "mind" or "brain" - any more than I think that George W. Bush is located "in" my television.
We are beyond our own understanding. So cargo-cults like Christianity and Strong AI are constructed.
I must confess myself to be an Idealist - in the Platonic sense of the term. I suspect that human existance in the world more resembles a model like "The Matrix" - a shadowy projection from unseen sources - than it does a fascinating watchworks.
Searle - much of what he proposes can be summed up in his "Chinese Room" simulation.
He's pretty good at this. He's on to something - but if you need maths to prove that a pile of dictionaries don't posess consoiusness, let alone a spirit....
There! That just feels better, to get off my chest. And by the way - there is no such thing as AI. Combining an infinite series of light-switches will never produce conciousness. Eliza is a game that can fool you, but it could never fool itself.
Intel's real mistake is that they are essential to the industries involved in t=he false "war-on-terror". I like to call them the "Media-Terror-Industrial-Complex".
This is the covert effort to get Intel in thier game, not as a side-player, but instead a wholly-owned subsidiary. LaGrande will be making all of us shoot the Alcoa stock through the roof, before this is done playing out.
If the Biosphere of the Earth can be likened to a giant cell, then within it, humans function as a lysosome. If this is likened, instead, to a giant organism - then humans function as a metastatic cancer.
Not dissimilarly to the analogous functions of the United States in world politics, Wal*Mart in retaul economics or Microsoft in the world of software sales.
I always had 3rd party package and compilation problems on SuSE. If you wanted to select from their recipie, it was the best thing going. Try and "roll your own", then you wondered why it was made so non-obvious.
I hope this has changed in a year as Novell - but I'm guessing prolly not.
Don't forget the middle-class families in downtown Baghdad, who used to have running water, electricity and police protection, but now exchanged these for "freedom", along with the lives of their aunties and and baby sisters.
Virtual Desktop paging is always crappy in Win. Why this is so hard to get right (30 different developers can't ALL be wrong...) I just don't knoe.
Remember HP Dashboard on Win3.xx? It was a CDE-ish panel for Win and OS/2. They included alot of the HP NewWave object goodies, and WORKING desktop pagers. Borland/Starfish bought this, and now 'tis gone.
I have been trying out "True Launch Bar", which threatens to turn XP's Explorer into Kicker. The nag banner is enough for me to reject it, though.
Also, how about a TASKBAR that can be repositioned INDEPENDANT of the menu/tray? I want this in a band across the top, with Start/systray/clock at the bottom. Longhorn builds are still nowhere in this dept.
Longhorn is now NVidiahorn. All it really offers is candy, with little configuration option.
MS can add a Google-sized company every year, and, at that rate, experience less than 6% annual growth. In terms of assets and market, this is a BIG company. MS is not GM. More like GE.
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"It's an interesting observation that there is more circumstantial evidence to suggest all Christians are paedophiles than there is to suggest all Muslims are terrorists."
- daani
Simulation is never duplication - only modelling.
An engineer's model may well be close enough "to get the job done." This I agree with. But I don't believe that real consiousness is located in my "mind" or "brain" - any more than I think that George W. Bush is located "in" my television.
We are beyond our own understanding. So cargo-cults like Christianity and Strong AI are constructed.
So do rats.
If you don't believe or have awareness of some trancendant, creative divinity...
I must confess myself to be an Idealist - in the Platonic sense of the term. I suspect that human existance in the world more resembles a model like "The Matrix" - a shadowy projection from unseen sources - than it does a fascinating watchworks.
He's pretty good at this. He's on to something - but if you need maths to prove that a pile of dictionaries don't posess consoiusness, let alone a spirit....
That's if the fundamentalist materialists are even correct.
Culture is for bacteria.
There! That just feels better, to get off my chest. And by the way - there is no such thing as AI. Combining an infinite series of light-switches will never produce conciousness. Eliza is a game that can fool you, but it could never fool itself.
This just in, all shit doesn't stink so bad that you are forced to evacuate the vicinity for at least fourty second!
[ ] Create confusion by referring to Intel's CPU isolation and privilege strategy as LaGrange
[ ] Suggest renaming these imaginary, 3D coordinates the "Delarge" points - in honor of Alex from "A Clockwork Orange"
[ ] Mmmmmmm! Tasty fairy-cake!
[ ] Bend over, and kiss your asteroid goodbye.
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.bubba
.ghost
.cracker
.peckerwood
.honkey
.unapersonabianca
This is the covert effort to get Intel in thier game, not as a side-player, but instead a wholly-owned subsidiary. LaGrande will be making all of us shoot the Alcoa stock through the roof, before this is done playing out.
Sony will drop features until the PS3 specs are identical with those of Windows Codename Longhorn.
Not dissimilarly to the analogous functions of the United States in world politics, Wal*Mart in retaul economics or Microsoft in the world of software sales.
I wish I kew who you were, to "friend" you.
Gee. I want ALL my software vendors to inject spyware into my browser as a component!
I hope this has changed in a year as Novell - but I'm guessing prolly not.
Here is your knife, and there is the baby. Protect our National Interest!
You are either against the killing of innocents, or you are against us.
Don't forget the middle-class families in downtown Baghdad, who used to have running water, electricity and police protection, but now exchanged these for "freedom", along with the lives of their aunties and and baby sisters.
Remember HP Dashboard on Win3.xx? It was a CDE-ish panel for Win and OS/2. They included alot of the HP NewWave object goodies, and WORKING desktop pagers. Borland/Starfish bought this, and now 'tis gone.
I have been trying out "True Launch Bar", which threatens to turn XP's Explorer into Kicker. The nag banner is enough for me to reject it, though.
Also, how about a TASKBAR that can be repositioned INDEPENDANT of the menu/tray? I want this in a band across the top, with Start/systray/clock at the bottom. Longhorn builds are still nowhere in this dept.
Longhorn is now NVidiahorn. All it really offers is candy, with little configuration option.
Uhhhh... They had wheels in 1964!
MS can add a Google-sized company every year, and, at that rate, experience less than 6% annual growth. In terms of assets and market, this is a BIG company. MS is not GM. More like GE.
Everybody's log data - ever?
They are looking for needles?
Make BIGGER haystacks.
Tor, now than ever.