To help with understanding my point of view better, examine this quote:
What keeps you from kicking your boss in the nuts? Probably that you want to keep your job and that you don't want to be sued for assault, but you can do it. You are physically (I'll assume you're not handicaped) able to do so, you are mentally able to do so and you can coordinate your legs in such a way that they can swing upwards to hit your boss in the gonads. You should not do it because you enjoy having a job and thus money and you enjoy your freedom.
If you have a real human-like AI thinking those things, but unable to perform them, then that is free will implemented and denied.
An AI should not have that free will implemented, as then it would be torture. Instead it should merely serve its owner and think nothing of it. We're not trying to recreate humans here, are we? We just want super smart assistant computers, right?
Denying a thinking machine of free will is basically a rather insidious form of torture.
No it isn't.
Free will is part of what makes our organic brains these amazing evolving things. But it isn't necessary to incorporate that into computers or AIs.
We've got advanced voice generation software, and IBM has that AI they're making for Jeopardy which is supposed to answer text-based questions. Soon computers will be able to recognize individual people, and "remember" details about those people, in addition to making rudimentary observations about how things interact.
The computer is not alive. It is just skillfully reproducing/emulation things that humans do, and it was programmed by humans to do it. A computer can execute a command, contrary to what it "wants" or suggests, without feeling any emotional impact or giving it a second thought. It merely has to re-examine the issue and suggest where to go from there.
But that's why we call them an Artificial Intelligence rather than an Artificial Brain. They only think about what we design them to think about, and are limited by the limitations we impose.
To put it in layman's terms, an AI in 30 years may be able to fully understand a human psyche, diagnose mental conditions and disorders, and tune itself to help its owner in whatever way is necessary - all without feeling a thing, because it is not "thinking" as a brain would. It is merely simulating and crunching numbers.
I have yet to find that my movie watching experience was in any way noticably improved by watching a film on Blu-Ray instead of DVD.
Oh, I have news to report! My movie watching experience was noticeably enhanced by watching a film acquired via Torrent rather than DVD.
No annoying FBI warnings, great quality, and I save myself a trip to the store! No region locking either, which has screwed me over once before.
Oh, and did I mention the price!?:P
(In all seriousness, I'm disappointed that these companies complain about piracy when they don't even offer the same features or convenience at any pricepoint. It all comes back to treating your customers as possible criminals.)
High end Cortex A8's hit 1.0ghz. Cortex A9 is being designed to run faster. 1.5ghz sounds a bit fast at launch, for a quad-core chip, but I don't doubt it's possible.
Even now, it seems the C64 scene is alive and well.
Recently I stumbled across another, newer project. The Fuzebox. It's a 28mhz dual-chip(chip, not CPU) retro console, with 4KiB of RAM and 64KiB of flash. Someone actually got a movie player working on it...
I'm more worried about what happens when I'm not on camera.
If someone tech savvy is framing you, they probably already planted a GPS on your car. They'll have a good idea when you're on camera. They might not frame you while you're at starbucks, but rather while you're out having a picnic in a park, or while you're at home alone. (random scenarios, but you get the idea)
Maybe someone saw you, or maybe not. Either way, no cameras or credit card transactions. Just the location of your phone, which doesn't prove a damn thing, does it? Maybe that post was pre-typed and waiting to be sent, since you're tech savvy as well.
And the sad thing is, as stuff like camera footage/surveillance becomes more common, an eye-witness(alibi) that *thinks* she saw you at the park is going to matter less and less to jurors. You're screwed!...
Every protection can be twisted around in a way that harms you. Don't assume anything will be used in your favour when you're getting framed.
Am I the only one who always gives their birthday as 01/01/1970 and their zip code as 20500?
Yes.
You are actually the only person to use that combination, and thanks to your slashdot comment, that means means you can be spotted anywhere you use it.
Quick! Encourage a bunch of people to use it to hide your tracks!;)
Every other rebate I've ever sent in I received. eVGA, OCZ, Asus, and Corsair have all been great. I even received an Ultra PSU rebate several years back, which I sent in months late!:P
Moving from platform lock in on the desktop to another platform lock in where not only the software that I'm using but also my frakkin' USER DATA is also locked in is literally jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Everything is easy to export from gmail/gdocs/etc.
Can the Google fanboys please stop? Can't you idiots see that Google has the makings of an evil monopoly that makes Microsoft look like your friendly local corner store.
Google hasn't done anything "evil" yet. So far I'm far more trusting of them than of Microsoft, which does evil anti-consumer stuff at every opportunity.
The only stipulation is that Google (of course) uses all your info internally to improve their advertising service.
But since companies like Microsoft and Yahoo already give away much of your info to other companies, internal use isn't really anything to get miffed about.
The frequent ads from the companies are effectively brain-washing Americans to think, "All you need is a little purple pill to feel good," and so the mere act of swallowing that pill, even if it's just sugar, becomes twice as effective as previously.
That got me thinking about what other possible reasons there could be. I came up with a few.
Many people have strange diets now. High fat, low fat, low carb, low whatever, high whatever. Perhaps in some people, a sugar pill really does help. It'd be interesting to do a test on the placebos - see if different concentrations of sugar (or w/e) have any effect! This would help rule out the sugar as having any influence.
It's more common for people to eat mostly organic. I doubt it's enough to affect the statistics so wildly, but it might have an impact. Healthy body, healthy mind. Certainly, an unhealthy body has higher odds of getting benefit from treatment.
Drug companies may have been outright liars in the past. Or maybe testing methodology has improved. Maybe testing methodology has improved because of improved surveillance and ways for whistle blowers to spread news about falsified statistics? Maybe it's none of these things?
I would've called it a "huge gatling rifle", since that's what it looks like.
But I'm Canadian. I wouldn't recognize an AK-47, let alone a "more common" gun. (I quoted that because where I live, no guns are common. Knives are, but guns? Psh...)
Sure, but mechanical disks make more sense for storing snapshots. They have 768GB of RAM and 4TB of SSDs in their cluster.
Perhaps. But 768GB would take a really long time to write to disk. Maybe they don't want to lose all that time? The fastest SSD setups I've seen have multi-GB/sec throughput.
If you can read and write 2GB per second, you can use flash as a sort of "slow RAM" - although I'm not saying they're doing that in this case.
The real question is whether these fees actually help musicians, or just pad the pockets of the recording industry.
I'm guessing you know the answer. The real way to help musicians is to socially encourage paying for music. Seems to be working okay for Jonathan Coulton.
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To help with understanding my point of view better, examine this quote:
What keeps you from kicking your boss in the nuts? Probably that you want to keep your job and that you don't want to be sued for assault, but you can do it. You are physically (I'll assume you're not handicaped) able to do so, you are mentally able to do so and you can coordinate your legs in such a way that they can swing upwards to hit your boss in the gonads. You should not do it because you enjoy having a job and thus money and you enjoy your freedom.
If you have a real human-like AI thinking those things, but unable to perform them, then that is free will implemented and denied.
An AI should not have that free will implemented, as then it would be torture. Instead it should merely serve its owner and think nothing of it. We're not trying to recreate humans here, are we? We just want super smart assistant computers, right?
Denying a thinking machine of free will is basically a rather insidious form of torture.
No it isn't.
Free will is part of what makes our organic brains these amazing evolving things. But it isn't necessary to incorporate that into computers or AIs.
We've got advanced voice generation software, and IBM has that AI they're making for Jeopardy which is supposed to answer text-based questions. Soon computers will be able to recognize individual people, and "remember" details about those people, in addition to making rudimentary observations about how things interact.
The computer is not alive. It is just skillfully reproducing/emulation things that humans do, and it was programmed by humans to do it. A computer can execute a command, contrary to what it "wants" or suggests, without feeling any emotional impact or giving it a second thought. It merely has to re-examine the issue and suggest where to go from there.
But that's why we call them an Artificial Intelligence rather than an Artificial Brain. They only think about what we design them to think about, and are limited by the limitations we impose.
To put it in layman's terms, an AI in 30 years may be able to fully understand a human psyche, diagnose mental conditions and disorders, and tune itself to help its owner in whatever way is necessary - all without feeling a thing, because it is not "thinking" as a brain would. It is merely simulating and crunching numbers.
Maybe the hair providing test subject likes to eat donuts.
I have yet to find that my movie watching experience was in any way noticably improved by watching a film on Blu-Ray instead of DVD.
Oh, I have news to report! My movie watching experience was noticeably enhanced by watching a film acquired via Torrent rather than DVD.
No annoying FBI warnings, great quality, and I save myself a trip to the store! No region locking either, which has screwed me over once before.
Oh, and did I mention the price!? :P
(In all seriousness, I'm disappointed that these companies complain about piracy when they don't even offer the same features or convenience at any pricepoint. It all comes back to treating your customers as possible criminals.)
It could be a brand name, like Thinkpad or Presario. Unless other companies adopt it, it probably is.
If you want more features, you pay for more features.
That aspire one isn't a tablet. Tablet PCs cost more.
High end Cortex A8's hit 1.0ghz. Cortex A9 is being designed to run faster. 1.5ghz sounds a bit fast at launch, for a quad-core chip, but I don't doubt it's possible.
Smartbook is probably just their brand name - not some new term they're trying to bring it to replace Netbook.
It's like Thinkpad or Presario.
Hey, I never said I was a member of the C64 scene!
Just pointing it out. Recently I was looking up microcontrollers for a project, and was quite shocked to realize they've passed the imfamous C64! :P
I wonder if Atmel are C64 enthusiasts? They still list their S-RAM in K. And here I thought they were just being sloppy!
Even now, it seems the C64 scene is alive and well.
Recently I stumbled across another, newer project. The Fuzebox. It's a 28mhz dual-chip(chip, not CPU) retro console, with 4KiB of RAM and 64KiB of flash. Someone actually got a movie player working on it...
Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWWsSn_QKLM
Homepages:
- http://www.ladyada.net/make/fuzebox/
- http://belogic.com/uzebox/
Apparently many people are fascinated by working with minute amounts of memory.
I'm more worried about what happens when I'm not on camera.
If someone tech savvy is framing you, they probably already planted a GPS on your car. They'll have a good idea when you're on camera. They might not frame you while you're at starbucks, but rather while you're out having a picnic in a park, or while you're at home alone. (random scenarios, but you get the idea)
Maybe someone saw you, or maybe not. Either way, no cameras or credit card transactions. Just the location of your phone, which doesn't prove a damn thing, does it? Maybe that post was pre-typed and waiting to be sent, since you're tech savvy as well.
And the sad thing is, as stuff like camera footage/surveillance becomes more common, an eye-witness(alibi) that *thinks* she saw you at the park is going to matter less and less to jurors. You're screwed!...
Every protection can be twisted around in a way that harms you. Don't assume anything will be used in your favour when you're getting framed.
Am I the only one who always gives their birthday as 01/01/1970 and their zip code as 20500?
Yes.
You are actually the only person to use that combination, and thanks to your slashdot comment, that means means you can be spotted anywhere you use it.
Quick! Encourage a bunch of people to use it to hide your tracks! ;)
I got screwed by Mushkin.
Every other rebate I've ever sent in I received. eVGA, OCZ, Asus, and Corsair have all been great. I even received an Ultra PSU rebate several years back, which I sent in months late! :P
New biometrics? Fingerprint, iris, movement patterns?
Moving from platform lock in on the desktop to another platform lock in where not only the software that I'm using but also my frakkin' USER DATA is also locked in is literally jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Everything is easy to export from gmail/gdocs/etc.
Can the Google fanboys please stop? Can't you idiots see that Google has the makings of an evil monopoly that makes Microsoft look like your friendly local corner store.
Google hasn't done anything "evil" yet. So far I'm far more trusting of them than of Microsoft, which does evil anti-consumer stuff at every opportunity.
The only stipulation is that Google (of course) uses all your info internally to improve their advertising service.
But since companies like Microsoft and Yahoo already give away much of your info to other companies, internal use isn't really anything to get miffed about.
The frequent ads from the companies are effectively brain-washing Americans to think, "All you need is a little purple pill to feel good," and so the mere act of swallowing that pill, even if it's just sugar, becomes twice as effective as previously.
That got me thinking about what other possible reasons there could be. I came up with a few.
Many people have strange diets now. High fat, low fat, low carb, low whatever, high whatever. Perhaps in some people, a sugar pill really does help. It'd be interesting to do a test on the placebos - see if different concentrations of sugar (or w/e) have any effect! This would help rule out the sugar as having any influence.
It's more common for people to eat mostly organic. I doubt it's enough to affect the statistics so wildly, but it might have an impact. Healthy body, healthy mind. Certainly, an unhealthy body has higher odds of getting benefit from treatment.
Drug companies may have been outright liars in the past. Or maybe testing methodology has improved. Maybe testing methodology has improved because of improved surveillance and ways for whistle blowers to spread news about falsified statistics? Maybe it's none of these things?
Just some thoughts that popped into my head.
You can't guard against something like that any more than you can prevent earthquakes or lightning strikes.
Sure you can. You just need a regulator module installed in your cerebral cortex. ;)
I would've called it a "huge gatling rifle", since that's what it looks like.
But I'm Canadian. I wouldn't recognize an AK-47, let alone a "more common" gun. (I quoted that because where I live, no guns are common. Knives are, but guns? Psh...)
You must have swiss roots!
Not many people know of the sneakernet, any more.
But plenty know of limewire and BitTorrent. ;)
For that, however, we need to reintroduce people to the concept of going to listen to music they've not heard before.
I only listen to music my friends recommend as "must listen!". So that's roughly.... 4 musicians?
The SATA SSDs they are using only transfer data about twice as fast as a mechanical disk.
True. Too bad they aren't using ioDrives.
Sure, but mechanical disks make more sense for storing snapshots. They have 768GB of RAM and 4TB of SSDs in their cluster.
Perhaps. But 768GB would take a really long time to write to disk. Maybe they don't want to lose all that time? The fastest SSD setups I've seen have multi-GB/sec throughput.
If you can read and write 2GB per second, you can use flash as a sort of "slow RAM" - although I'm not saying they're doing that in this case.
It's possible that's the reason, but that just makes them all hypocrites. I respect their phone calls - it'd be nice if they did the same.
The real question is whether these fees actually help musicians, or just pad the pockets of the recording industry.
I'm guessing you know the answer. The real way to help musicians is to socially encourage paying for music. Seems to be working okay for Jonathan Coulton.
"up to"
Hehe... ;D
I'll take some of that 5.0gbit USB 3.0 as well, please.