Only if compared to "no reserve" banking. The previous state, before fractional reserve, was full reserve, in which cash had to be available on hand to pay back all deposits. Fractional reserve allows one to get rich off of other peoples money, and permits bank runs which would otherwise be impossible.
A little honest research will turn up simple scientific answers to each and every one of those questions. Unless of course your faith is stronger than your mind. Here's a good place to start: http://www.evolutionofdna.com/
Interesting idea. So when we can make full simulations of human minds, we'll create some with deist beliefs to study them. But then we will unwittingly have proven them right by assuming the role of the creator.
Whoosh. AC is talking about the minute of effort to get the song, not a minute of entertainment. In answer to your question: those who are passionate about making music. There are plenty of people making music and giving it away, they just don't get advertised by the big media companies so you probably haven't heard of them.
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Among other problems, you run into definitional issues, like "What do you mean by 'understand'?"
Exactly. There are different degrees of understanding. You and I may be able to discuss etymology and other abstract facets of language, which is a step above simply understanding the words. The robots in the article have only the most basic level of understanding; knowing that a word indicates a location, direction, or approximate amount of time. If put to a binary test of understand vs not understand, I'd say they understand. But they don't understand their understanding as we do; that's a higher level function.
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Nice. Categorical denial without even reading the article. Way to have an intelligent debate.
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Your reply would seem to indicate that you did not fully read and understand the article I referenced. While not directly addressing the Chinese Room, it is an empirical example of robots understanding a language. They are not programmed with knowledge of the language, they invent it and figure it out on their own. If you argue that they do not truly understand the language, then we also do not truly understand the language that we are currently using.
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It can be done, but it only makes sense in a production (quantity) environment. Bobcat's plant in Gwinner ND barely has any humans touch the work, but they're making the exact same thing over and over. For short runs it would take longer to program and debug the robots than to do the work manually.
BTW, standard CNC machines have had automatic toolchangers for decades. Some have hundreds of tool stations, and what's called a "pallet changer" which automatically exchanges one pre-set-up workpiece for another. When properly configured and attended a machining center like this can keep running parts 24/7/365 (in theory). Robotic forklifts can pick-and-place the pallets that are about to be worked on, and people can take off the finished work, put on the new stock, replace any worn cutters in the machine while they're not in use (they tend to have duplicates in the toolchanger), and write up new programs for new parts to put in the cue. This is old tech.
No, it's more like if you want to make a tank part you load the file, tools, and stock for the tank part. CNC machines are general purpose by nature. I've programmed and run parts for medical, military and aerospace all on the same machines one right after another. To a job shop (machine shop that will take work from anyone) a part is a part no matter what it's for. Would you change operating systems on your computer because you want to visit a different website?
What is actually more likely is the versatility of cnc equipment is being glamorized.
Indeed. I'm a CNC programmer in a shop currently making components for die casting. If management told us to we could just as easily be making tank, helicopter, or rifle parts tomorrow. CNC machines are general purpose by nature.
There is nothing any reasonable person can do to change it, unless you have a miracle plan that you'd care to share. At his point, one cannot attain significant public office without "playing the game". The media is controlled, the voting machines are controlled, and the lawmakers are controlled. The time for working within the system has passed.
The government cannot create jobs, period. They can take a job from one person and give it to another, thereby creating the illusion of creating jobs. Follow the money: It comes from customers buying things, as you seem to have figured out. But what happens if the government is going to "create jobs"? They have to either raise taxes, which decreases everyone's disposable income (so the buy less and put people out of work), or borrow, which creates debt. They've been opting for the latter lately, and in order to pay off that debt, either taxes would need to be raised to impossible levels, or 90% of government employees would have to be let go. By trying to get something for nothing they've dug a pretty big hole, and it might well be this economy's grave.
Somehow I think that Wal-Mart considers the paychecks received by government workers and spent on their Everyday Low Priced goods from China to be "wealth". Insofar as any ordinary person can possess wealth these days.
Or is it less "wealth" because the US government billed for their services in the form of taxes instead of something like the monthly statement from your one and only local cable service provider?
Government cannot give something without first taking it away. Sure you can phrase that as "billing for services", but most of that is for services that I do not want and at exorbitant rates, and therefore cannot be considered fair pay for services rendered. If I deem my monthly cable service to be not worth the price, I have the option of unsubscribing; not so with government services: "Hi, yes, I'd like to cancel my subscription to the TSA please? Yes, I don't think I'm getting my money's worth out of them."
Also you are under the misconception that money is wealth; it is not. Money is paper. When the government prints more fiat notes, do you think they're creating wealth out of thin air? No, they're stealing wealth from everyone else by devaluing the money we have.
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Indeed. I carry a Leatherman plus a cheap lockback.
I got a handy tool called a pocket knife. In the old days it was rare to not have one on you at all times.
Main culprit here is CADCAM software. Some functions can be multithreaded, others can't. I spend hours per day waiting for single threaded operations.
Only if compared to "no reserve" banking. The previous state, before fractional reserve, was full reserve, in which cash had to be available on hand to pay back all deposits. Fractional reserve allows one to get rich off of other peoples money, and permits bank runs which would otherwise be impossible.
App idea: stream your camera to a remote storage device.
Now that's absurd. Actually.
A little honest research will turn up simple scientific answers to each and every one of those questions. Unless of course your faith is stronger than your mind. Here's a good place to start: http://www.evolutionofdna.com/
Interesting idea. So when we can make full simulations of human minds, we'll create some with deist beliefs to study them. But then we will unwittingly have proven them right by assuming the role of the creator.
Indeed. I have encountered people who have asserted that it's "against God" to even ask questions about the Bible or our origins.
Certainly, again, there are nuts who take the Bible waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too literally. But really... how many of them actually read Slashdot again?
Not nearly as many as write legislation.
Whoosh. AC is talking about the minute of effort to get the song, not a minute of entertainment. In answer to your question: those who are passionate about making music. There are plenty of people making music and giving it away, they just don't get advertised by the big media companies so you probably haven't heard of them.
Among other problems, you run into definitional issues, like "What do you mean by 'understand'?"
Exactly. There are different degrees of understanding. You and I may be able to discuss etymology and other abstract facets of language, which is a step above simply understanding the words. The robots in the article have only the most basic level of understanding; knowing that a word indicates a location, direction, or approximate amount of time. If put to a binary test of understand vs not understand, I'd say they understand. But they don't understand their understanding as we do; that's a higher level function.
Nice. Categorical denial without even reading the article. Way to have an intelligent debate.
Your reply would seem to indicate that you did not fully read and understand the article I referenced. While not directly addressing the Chinese Room, it is an empirical example of robots understanding a language. They are not programmed with knowledge of the language, they invent it and figure it out on their own. If you argue that they do not truly understand the language, then we also do not truly understand the language that we are currently using.
Counter: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/lingodroid-robots-invent-new-words-for-time
It can be done, but it only makes sense in a production (quantity) environment. Bobcat's plant in Gwinner ND barely has any humans touch the work, but they're making the exact same thing over and over. For short runs it would take longer to program and debug the robots than to do the work manually. BTW, standard CNC machines have had automatic toolchangers for decades. Some have hundreds of tool stations, and what's called a "pallet changer" which automatically exchanges one pre-set-up workpiece for another. When properly configured and attended a machining center like this can keep running parts 24/7/365 (in theory). Robotic forklifts can pick-and-place the pallets that are about to be worked on, and people can take off the finished work, put on the new stock, replace any worn cutters in the machine while they're not in use (they tend to have duplicates in the toolchanger), and write up new programs for new parts to put in the cue. This is old tech.
No, it's more like if you want to make a tank part you load the file, tools, and stock for the tank part. CNC machines are general purpose by nature. I've programmed and run parts for medical, military and aerospace all on the same machines one right after another. To a job shop (machine shop that will take work from anyone) a part is a part no matter what it's for. Would you change operating systems on your computer because you want to visit a different website?
What is actually more likely is the versatility of cnc equipment is being glamorized.
Indeed. I'm a CNC programmer in a shop currently making components for die casting. If management told us to we could just as easily be making tank, helicopter, or rifle parts tomorrow. CNC machines are general purpose by nature.
China uses people because people are cheaper than automation there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhdH1ezM7To
You'd have to add at least a booster stage; this one will only get you to the ocean.
Saw the pic in TFA years ago. Reminds me of the cyborg missiles in Gunnm.
There is nothing any reasonable person can do to change it, unless you have a miracle plan that you'd care to share. At his point, one cannot attain significant public office without "playing the game". The media is controlled, the voting machines are controlled, and the lawmakers are controlled. The time for working within the system has passed.
In the manufacturing industry this is called the "race to the bottom". It's a price war in which everyone looses.
Maybe you should research your points before posting. Here, I'll help: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=government+job+fallacy
The government cannot create jobs, period. They can take a job from one person and give it to another, thereby creating the illusion of creating jobs. Follow the money: It comes from customers buying things, as you seem to have figured out. But what happens if the government is going to "create jobs"? They have to either raise taxes, which decreases everyone's disposable income (so the buy less and put people out of work), or borrow, which creates debt. They've been opting for the latter lately, and in order to pay off that debt, either taxes would need to be raised to impossible levels, or 90% of government employees would have to be let go. By trying to get something for nothing they've dug a pretty big hole, and it might well be this economy's grave.
Somehow I think that Wal-Mart considers the paychecks received by government workers and spent on their Everyday Low Priced goods from China to be "wealth". Insofar as any ordinary person can possess wealth these days.
Or is it less "wealth" because the US government billed for their services in the form of taxes instead of something like the monthly statement from your one and only local cable service provider?
Government cannot give something without first taking it away. Sure you can phrase that as "billing for services", but most of that is for services that I do not want and at exorbitant rates, and therefore cannot be considered fair pay for services rendered. If I deem my monthly cable service to be not worth the price, I have the option of unsubscribing; not so with government services: "Hi, yes, I'd like to cancel my subscription to the TSA please? Yes, I don't think I'm getting my money's worth out of them."
Also you are under the misconception that money is wealth; it is not. Money is paper. When the government prints more fiat notes, do you think they're creating wealth out of thin air? No, they're stealing wealth from everyone else by devaluing the money we have.