I wish everyone who is so smugly sanctimonious on this topic also supported travel bans and enforceable quarantines when it comes to, oh, I don't know, deadly hemorrhagic fever.
again, you see what you want to see. Your misapplying statistics. a few points of order:
I didn't say anything about what I want to see. I asked if what you said negated the possibility of average differences, since you seemed to think it did, from the context.
...and home of the lifetime sentence for nearly every crime. Best of luck to you.
If it's legit to ask about your past work experience, then it should also be legit to ask about your past episodes of harming or stealing from people.
It's relevant. Unless you are applying for the job of "chain gang member", every job involves some degree of trust and responsibility, and some degree of opportunity to harm or steal from others.
Except for when it isn't treatable, or is only potentially treatable with great risk (ECT?). As in "treatment resistant depression."
Yes, that is tough:( I do feel for anyone who suffers that.
Someone very close to me suffered from treatment resistant depression, and did need ECT. Yes, the memory loss and side effects were awful, but were honestly better than what she was experiencing. Not to mention if something didn't pull her out of it she was going to be dead. (She's actually doing much better now, thank God.)
I can't understand why schools are in such a massive rush to buy iPads before they've even figured out how to use them, and where they fit into the curriculum.
Because it's easier than thinking.
And because more kids can be taught to use iPads than can be taught to appreciate literature or mathematics. More "fair" that way, you see.
As someone for whom the precipice of middle age is steps away, it doesn't bother me if something I create becomes smarter than me, surpasses me and even sidelines me in the future. I will toil away the rest of my life working for The Man doing trivial things on a game I never wanted to play, for people I wouldn't piss on should they catch fire, to further goals I don't agree with.
I would find it something of a pyrrhic victory if I created, or helped create, a child or an AI that eventually managed to escape the cycle of stupid that our so called "civilization" has constructed.
Also, I would like to point out that an AI is the least of our concerns. It may be more attainable, and more destructive to the above, should we find ways of being truly self sufficient and independent on a significant scale. The tools are around us, but for obvious reasons no one is investing in them.
There are plenty of directions to move other than just "up" (and honestly, I'm not always sure that management is "up").
Are you an in-house programmer now? Move to a company that services clients. Or if you currently provide services to clients, move the other direction.
Currently doing web programming? Move to systems programming, or mobile apps, or something else.
Or move at an angle, to business analysis. Or technical sales. Or new development. Or maintenance. Or a different language/platform.
I've never been in management, but I've always found new challenges and my salary has only gone up. And I'm well on the north side of your 35.
One of my favourite interview questions is "What's your favourite data structure, and why?", and when they answer, I ask "How would you implement it?"
"Favorite"?
Data structures are tools. I don't really have affection for any particular one. It depends on what I need them for.
And does the job require implementing one (assuming you are using that word the way I think that you are)? Or does it involve using them, in service of business goals?
If, on the other hand, we expand our definition of a "machine" to encompass every conceivable kind, for the materialistic pragmatic it becomes easy to answer whether machines can ever think - yes of course, the brain is a machine that can think.
But here, you smuggle your answer in inside of your assumption. You are assuming what you are trying to prove.
"I remember my parents and some other adults talking about profanity to some kid," Haselton says.[8] "I just thought, 'Why not declare on midnight, January 1, that all swear words are not swear words anymore? Then there will be no such thing as foul language.'"
What the hell kind of idiot thinks things like this? He obviously does not understand human expression or language
Exactly. He's an idiot.
By that reasoning, all words are arbitrary in meaning. Yes, in a sense they "are", but it's a trivial, meaningless sense.
Words carry agreed upon, shared meanings and connotations, which is what makes them useful. Whether he knows it or not, he wanted to use profanity as a kid because it was profanity. If it magically wasn't anymore, it would lose its allure.
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Calling them a terrorist gives them more credit than all but a tiny fraction of such scum remotely deserve.
Er, only if you think "terrorist" means anything other than "asshole".
... don't forget Keeping Up Appearances!
I for one want to meet Mrs. Bucket, ulp, sorry Bouquet ...
Nobody has the "right" to be a government official; officials accused of abusing their authority should be considered guilty until proven innocent!
Hmm, OK. I accuse Obama of abusing his authority. I await news of his summary dismissal.
I wish everyone who is so smugly sanctimonious on this topic also supported travel bans and enforceable quarantines when it comes to, oh, I don't know, deadly hemorrhagic fever.
Yet it's generally the opposite.
If real fascists took over the United States tomorrow,
You mean, like politicians who took over large sectors of the economy while pretending to leave private companies in charge of it?
Good thing that hasn't happened yet!
... "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you start the vehicle."
If you fail the visual test, the car makes you take a breathalizer.
The purpose of war is to shatter a social system that is harming our species and make space for something better.
Said every genocidal dictator ever.
again, you see what you want to see. Your misapplying statistics. a few points of order:
I didn't say anything about what I want to see. I asked if what you said negated the possibility of average differences, since you seemed to think it did, from the context.
...and home of the lifetime sentence for nearly every crime. Best of luck to you.
If it's legit to ask about your past work experience, then it should also be legit to ask about your past episodes of harming or stealing from people.
It's relevant. Unless you are applying for the job of "chain gang member", every job involves some degree of trust and responsibility, and some degree of opportunity to harm or steal from others.
I've personally met some very smart people of all sorts of races, and I've met idiots from all sorts of races too.
And that ... is supposed to negate the possibility of average differences? How?
You don't have to have a dog in this hunt to think that something's lacking in that thinking.
... you keep the Twitter ninjas, and let the rest of us have a president who doesn't screw up everything he touches.
Iran was oddly absent from most lists, even.
I look forward to hearing about how your business plan of storing all of your data in Iran works out for you.
Except for when it isn't treatable, or is only potentially treatable with great risk (ECT?). As in "treatment resistant depression."
Yes, that is tough :( I do feel for anyone who suffers that.
Someone very close to me suffered from treatment resistant depression, and did need ECT. Yes, the memory loss and side effects were awful, but were honestly better than what she was experiencing. Not to mention if something didn't pull her out of it she was going to be dead. (She's actually doing much better now, thank God.)
I can't understand why schools are in such a massive rush to buy iPads before they've even figured out how to use them, and where they fit into the curriculum.
Because it's easier than thinking.
And because more kids can be taught to use iPads than can be taught to appreciate literature or mathematics. More "fair" that way, you see.
... I shake my head at public schools fundraising to buy chromebooks.
As someone for whom the precipice of middle age is steps away, it doesn't bother me if something I create becomes smarter than me, surpasses me and even sidelines me in the future. I will toil away the rest of my life working for The Man doing trivial things on a game I never wanted to play, for people I wouldn't piss on should they catch fire, to further goals I don't agree with.
I would find it something of a pyrrhic victory if I created, or helped create, a child or an AI that eventually managed to escape the cycle of stupid that our so called "civilization" has constructed.
Also, I would like to point out that an AI is the least of our concerns. It may be more attainable, and more destructive to the above, should we find ways of being truly self sufficient and independent on a significant scale. The tools are around us, but for obvious reasons no one is investing in them.
Depression is treatable.
If only he'd made the threats while dancing naked, he would clearly be protected by the first amendment.
There are plenty of directions to move other than just "up" (and honestly, I'm not always sure that management is "up").
Are you an in-house programmer now? Move to a company that services clients. Or if you currently provide services to clients, move the other direction.
Currently doing web programming? Move to systems programming, or mobile apps, or something else.
Or move at an angle, to business analysis. Or technical sales. Or new development. Or maintenance. Or a different language/platform.
I've never been in management, but I've always found new challenges and my salary has only gone up. And I'm well on the north side of your 35.
Whee, another chance to beat our chests and gloat about how superior we feel to those rubes.
One of my favourite interview questions is "What's your favourite data structure, and why?", and when they answer, I ask "How would you implement it?"
"Favorite"?
Data structures are tools. I don't really have affection for any particular one. It depends on what I need them for.
And does the job require implementing one (assuming you are using that word the way I think that you are)? Or does it involve using them, in service of business goals?
... doesn't want educated, highly skilled migrants. He wants millions more of uneducated, unskilled migrants.
At least, that's what the proverbial man from Mars would conclude.
... yes, whatever, Euros good, Americans bad. And nobody loves chanting that more than a certain type of neighbor-hating American.
On the topic itself: maybe we don't want to be obsessed with politics all the time, and don't want to politicize everything. That's bad?
Yeah, I get it! Girls can freak out and, you know, freeze all the code a few days before release.
OK, fine. I got nothin'. I'll keep my day job ...
If, on the other hand, we expand our definition of a "machine" to encompass every conceivable kind, for the materialistic pragmatic it becomes easy to answer whether machines can ever think - yes of course, the brain is a machine that can think.
But here, you smuggle your answer in inside of your assumption. You are assuming what you are trying to prove.
What the hell kind of idiot thinks things like this? He obviously does not understand human expression or language
Exactly. He's an idiot.
By that reasoning, all words are arbitrary in meaning. Yes, in a sense they "are", but it's a trivial, meaningless sense.
Words carry agreed upon, shared meanings and connotations, which is what makes them useful. Whether he knows it or not, he wanted to use profanity as a kid because it was profanity. If it magically wasn't anymore, it would lose its allure.