Yes, I played tibia for years also (see username). It was a truly great game, because when you died you lost a ton of experience, and killing people meant taking their loot. This sounds annoying (and can be) but it adds that realistic aspect to the game which makes it feel like your work in the game is worth more. Although if I remade tibia I would do it differently now (although they've made some good changes over the years) it was still an epic game. Just for the record, I was a pking king who never lost a looting war and had a pimped house to show for it, despite being involved in several 'gang wars' (people get really emotional when they die and become bent on revenge).
Want to know why medpacks are the same in every game? Because man is more creative when it comes to destruction. Or at least men who play video games are.
I don't know a whole lot about programming, but I've already got some game ideas on the horizon, and maybe I'll contribute to some open source projects along the way. Just find something that interests you and you'll be coding in no time.
So, you can easily say that evolution applies to our species as a whole, and I say we are evolving exponentially. I also say that the process of natural selection will take its toll on us in the years to come.
Everyone keeps talking about how people won't be able to understand our own brains, and that 'since we haven't come "very far" in the past 50 years in AI, we're doomed to wait an extremely long time'.
People forget what we've already created. Targeted 'narrow' AI that can learn (currently at the basic level) and produce data that help humans draw conclusions. Conclusions that couldn't have been drawn without narrow AI applications.
I believe that when the brain scanning technology becomes advanced enough (extremely high resolution and high quality modelling of the brain), we will use narrow AI (that learns by itself how to examine the scans we've produced), and the data that AI produces will lead to our understanding of how the brain really works and how to replicate in in a machine. This subject is highly debatable at this stage in the game, but I think that even 20 years is a long time before we'll have the brain scans needed to preform in depth analysis on what makes us so smart.
Many people simply reject the idea that we'll ever be capable of producing a machine more intelligent than us. The only thing that could stop us from that is our own destruction in these years to come where civilization is so utterly fragile.
There's no sense in trying to visualize our 'relationship' with AI. By the time AI becomes strong, we will already be upgrading our brains (although it will be heavily debated, the temptation for power will overcome us.)
Therefore, it is not AI we should be worried about, but ourselves. So although there are still many potential dangers and threats surrounding strong AI, we will make ourselves equally smart and therefore avoid extinction upon the emergence of strong AI.
Although I've already read about this concept, I'm glad to see that there is progress being made. It's been said that we can make the most efficient computer in the universe by utilizing every process inside a black hole, and it's been theorized that we can send in quantum entangled atoms, and leave the other half out of the black hole to keep the result of the computation available. This means we can utilize the power a black hole can deliver without having to enter it at all. The atoms will keep the same spin as their entangled partners and therefore we can computations and energy back out.
If you read the posts here, everyone has been bullied and hates bullies. We're also looking at a decently academic group here. That's because when a child is bullied, they are more secluded from the 'cool' group, and cast aside from the mainstream to worry about abstract thinking and being 'geeky and smart'. By grade 12, the bullies are all dropouts and these once bullied kids are now the normal kids with ambitions, because they became smart.
Seclusion is a great tool to nurture academic success.
Why are so worried about finding aliens right now? Its like a child trying to throw a paper plane to the top of a mountain. We need better technology and it will be here soon. Best not worry where we're pointing our signals at the moment.
People are almost forced to comply with the decisions that major corporations like apple and google make while developing their products. Of course no one needs to go buy an IPad, but millions will anyway even if it was a horrible decision. I thought we lived in a democracy, and people had a say in the elements that surrond their everyday life and freedoms, even in the IStore.
Monkey see monkey do? I'd imagine someone has already written this.
Individuals learn from surrounding individuals. If you observe a baby you can understand this, as I'm sure pre-language humans did.
As a defensive procedure, the drones will be equipped with rocket launchers to eliminate attackers and keep the population, err, I mean crime, under control.
While the few thousand left faced extinction, they all simultaneously realized it and said 'lets build a spear and a roof.' Ah, the birth of technology.
Any other intelligent civilization that is even 100 years further than us in the evolution of A.I. would have already became so dense with supermatter that it had created a black hole and swallowed them. This will happen to us too, if we don't destroy ourselves sooner.
I don't know anything about html5 and whether it will be good or not, but why is it that all the videos I watch in "high quality" still look like shit. Is there an option I forgot to check?
When you consider manufacturing nanotechnology, what is required? Nanotechnology is already used today to make very efficient energy
nanopanels to produce the energy needed for these plants.
Then, with the end product of manufacturing(one of many examples: nanorobots designed to extract carbon from our atmosphere filled with it) and voila: you have the resource(carbon) and energy needed to power the manufacturing. The energy is created by panels, and used to manufacture more panels/nanobots, and also create nanopanels on nanobots to allow the nanobots to operate and break bonds such as carbon and oxygen.
These plants are already very efficient, and breakthroughs like this are catapulting us into a new age of technology.
I've been saying this on slashdot for a while now. Nanobots will be able to remove all we don't want in our atmosphere, fixing global warming and also giving us another resource to use, possibly to make more nanobots. Of course we don't have the software for making useful nanobots yet, but we have the hardware now, and we will get there. We have just removed a massive barrier in the physical fight (which I knew would be overcome any time now), and now we need to move to integration. For the first time, Anything is possible.
If our society becomes saturated with wealth, no real 'trade' will take place. They are all providing their services in trade for the collective wealth of the society. It sounds like communism, but if we avoid an apocalypse in the next 20 years we will have enough wealth for this system to make sense.
As virtual environments evolve and the workplace is eventually made completely virtual to eliminate transportation, the distinction between work and play will fade. People will be enjoying their jobs more, and they will be rewarded more for their efforts, as new technology (for example, the ability to manufacture super computers or robots for pennies) will provide greater wealth for everyone in society.
While the vacuum cleaner is a good tool, man has made many good electron tools each associated with man's different epiphanies. But in terms of the robot that will have the biggest implications on society in the near future, I would have to say something more like a functional humanoid robot that we are getting close to, which will first allow people to replace their body, and eventually their brain.
Although if me means in the immediate future, then I still believe 100 robots in production will be more society changing.
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Agreed. I'm going to have so much fun telling all the skeptics I told you so. Technology is exploding faster than anyone realizes.
Yes, I played tibia for years also (see username). It was a truly great game, because when you died you lost a ton of experience, and killing people meant taking their loot. This sounds annoying (and can be) but it adds that realistic aspect to the game which makes it feel like your work in the game is worth more. Although if I remade tibia I would do it differently now (although they've made some good changes over the years) it was still an epic game. Just for the record, I was a pking king who never lost a looting war and had a pimped house to show for it, despite being involved in several 'gang wars' (people get really emotional when they die and become bent on revenge).
Want to know why medpacks are the same in every game? Because man is more creative when it comes to destruction. Or at least men who play video games are.
I don't know a whole lot about programming, but I've already got some game ideas on the horizon, and maybe I'll contribute to some open source projects along the way. Just find something that interests you and you'll be coding in no time.
So, you can easily say that evolution applies to our species as a whole, and I say we are evolving exponentially. I also say that the process of natural selection will take its toll on us in the years to come.
Everyone keeps talking about how people won't be able to understand our own brains, and that 'since we haven't come "very far" in the past 50 years in AI, we're doomed to wait an extremely long time'.
People forget what we've already created. Targeted 'narrow' AI that can learn (currently at the basic level) and produce data that help humans draw conclusions. Conclusions that couldn't have been drawn without narrow AI applications.
I believe that when the brain scanning technology becomes advanced enough (extremely high resolution and high quality modelling of the brain), we will use narrow AI (that learns by itself how to examine the scans we've produced), and the data that AI produces will lead to our understanding of how the brain really works and how to replicate in in a machine. This subject is highly debatable at this stage in the game, but I think that even 20 years is a long time before we'll have the brain scans needed to preform in depth analysis on what makes us so smart.
Many people simply reject the idea that we'll ever be capable of producing a machine more intelligent than us. The only thing that could stop us from that is our own destruction in these years to come where civilization is so utterly fragile.
There's no sense in trying to visualize our 'relationship' with AI. By the time AI becomes strong, we will already be upgrading our brains (although it will be heavily debated, the temptation for power will overcome us.)
Therefore, it is not AI we should be worried about, but ourselves. So although there are still many potential dangers and threats surrounding strong AI, we will make ourselves equally smart and therefore avoid extinction upon the emergence of strong AI.
Although I've already read about this concept, I'm glad to see that there is progress being made. It's been said that we can make the most efficient computer in the universe by utilizing every process inside a black hole, and it's been theorized that we can send in quantum entangled atoms, and leave the other half out of the black hole to keep the result of the computation available. This means we can utilize the power a black hole can deliver without having to enter it at all. The atoms will keep the same spin as their entangled partners and therefore we can computations and energy back out.
If you read the posts here, everyone has been bullied and hates bullies. We're also looking at a decently academic group here. That's because when a child is bullied, they are more secluded from the 'cool' group, and cast aside from the mainstream to worry about abstract thinking and being 'geeky and smart'. By grade 12, the bullies are all dropouts and these once bullied kids are now the normal kids with ambitions, because they became smart. Seclusion is a great tool to nurture academic success.
Good point. In fact, it's starting to sound like a fun idea. With the right wind current...
Why are so worried about finding aliens right now? Its like a child trying to throw a paper plane to the top of a mountain. We need better technology and it will be here soon. Best not worry where we're pointing our signals at the moment.
People are almost forced to comply with the decisions that major corporations like apple and google make while developing their products. Of course no one needs to go buy an IPad, but millions will anyway even if it was a horrible decision. I thought we lived in a democracy, and people had a say in the elements that surrond their everyday life and freedoms, even in the IStore.
Monkey see monkey do? I'd imagine someone has already written this.
Individuals learn from surrounding individuals. If you observe a baby you can understand this, as I'm sure pre-language humans did.
As a defensive procedure, the drones will be equipped with rocket launchers to eliminate attackers and keep the population, err, I mean crime, under control.
While the few thousand left faced extinction, they all simultaneously realized it and said 'lets build a spear and a roof.' Ah, the birth of technology.
Any other intelligent civilization that is even 100 years further than us in the evolution of A.I. would have already became so dense with supermatter that it had created a black hole and swallowed them. This will happen to us too, if we don't destroy ourselves sooner.
I don't know anything about html5 and whether it will be good or not, but why is it that all the videos I watch in "high quality" still look like shit. Is there an option I forgot to check?
The Italians are creating weapons of mass destruction. Send in the troops.
When you consider manufacturing nanotechnology, what is required? Nanotechnology is already used today to make very efficient energy nanopanels to produce the energy needed for these plants.
Then, with the end product of manufacturing(one of many examples: nanorobots designed to extract carbon from our atmosphere filled with it) and voila: you have the resource(carbon) and energy needed to power the manufacturing. The energy is created by panels, and used to manufacture more panels/nanobots, and also create nanopanels on nanobots to allow the nanobots to operate and break bonds such as carbon and oxygen.
These plants are already very efficient, and breakthroughs like this are catapulting us into a new age of technology.
I've been saying this on slashdot for a while now. Nanobots will be able to remove all we don't want in our atmosphere, fixing global warming and also giving us another resource to use, possibly to make more nanobots. Of course we don't have the software for making useful nanobots yet, but we have the hardware now, and we will get there. We have just removed a massive barrier in the physical fight (which I knew would be overcome any time now), and now we need to move to integration. For the first time, Anything is possible.
If our society becomes saturated with wealth, no real 'trade' will take place. They are all providing their services in trade for the collective wealth of the society. It sounds like communism, but if we avoid an apocalypse in the next 20 years we will have enough wealth for this system to make sense.
Super efficient tiny cheap robots.
As virtual environments evolve and the workplace is eventually made completely virtual to eliminate transportation, the distinction between work and play will fade. People will be enjoying their jobs more, and they will be rewarded more for their efforts, as new technology (for example, the ability to manufacture super computers or robots for pennies) will provide greater wealth for everyone in society.
While the vacuum cleaner is a good tool, man has made many good electron tools each associated with man's different epiphanies. But in terms of the robot that will have the biggest implications on society in the near future, I would have to say something more like a functional humanoid robot that we are getting close to, which will first allow people to replace their body, and eventually their brain.
Although if me means in the immediate future, then I still believe 100 robots in production will be more society changing.
The most society changing robot on the rise is the... vacuum cleaner? Was that a joke?