No. America's health system is not capitalist. I don't even have words for what it is. I live in Australia, and while the government does offer health insurance, pretty much everyone is on private health insurance because (shock, horror) capitalism actually works. The health care is great, and private health insurance is not much more expensive than the government option. The American system is a clusterfuck of regulatory capture and perverse incentives. It's a miracle that monstrosity ever worked.
Hitler is a rather bad example. The CIA had several opportunities to assassinate him, but chose not to because his possible replacements were all more competent than he was.
If you simulate a neural network, there is no need to know, how it really works.
That is NOT a good thing. If we ever want to actually get any sort of efficient AGI, we need to figure out how intelligence actually works. The vast majority of current AGI attempts are based upon reasoning like "The human brain is a neural network. The human brain is intelligent. Therefore, all I need to do is use a sufficiently large/fast neural network, and my AI will magically become intelligent."
If you cannot explain why your AI will be intelligent without resorting to comparing it to a human brain, you are effectively trying to fly by gluing feathers to your arms. Aeroplanes do not need feathers; if you actually understand how something works, you can change its superficial structure without losing the key attributes that make it work.
Neural networks, in the context of AGI, are a waste of time, computing power, and are a convenient distraction from the damn hard problems we need to solve to actually get working AGI.
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You can't turn heat into electricity without violating the second law of thermodynamics. You can get some electricity from a heat differential, but not enough to be worth it outside of data centers.
Wealth is virtue; there can be nothing wrong with how the wealthy acquire or use their wealth; there is nothing to repent, and thus there is no possibility that the robber baron will change.
"Ayn Rand style Objectivism" holds that acquiring wealth from anything other than voluntary trade is evil. Ayn Rand wouldn't like the current collusion between corporations and governments any more than you do.
So, the highly regulated telecommunications industries of Australia and Europe are in better shape and a lot more competitive then the poorly regulated US industry and this tells you regulation is a bad thing. I know I can go into any major Australian city and get coverage on any telco yet US telco's consider the line "fewest dropouts" to be a sign of a good network.
There is *zero* competition in ISP infrastrucure in AU. With the exception of two suburbs in Sydney, the entire internet infrastructure in this country is owned and operated by Telstra. ISPs occasionally own the "last mile" connection, but to provide internet access they have to buy it from Telstra. Hence Telstra being pissed at the National Broadband Network.
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Actually, /dev/random will never pull from network hardware. It was decided that the risk of a timing attack was too high relative to entropy gains.
Gentoo doesn't *have* releases. At all.
No. America's health system is not capitalist. I don't even have words for what it is. I live in Australia, and while the government does offer health insurance, pretty much everyone is on private health insurance because (shock, horror) capitalism actually works. The health care is great, and private health insurance is not much more expensive than the government option. The American system is a clusterfuck of regulatory capture and perverse incentives. It's a miracle that monstrosity ever worked.
I'm an Aussie. "Codswallop" is roughly synonymous with "bullshit" here.
Hitler is a rather bad example. The CIA had several opportunities to assassinate him, but chose not to because his possible replacements were all more competent than he was.
"Astronomical" is a bit of an exaggeration, no? NASA's funding is a minuscule fraction of the government's revenue.
We are. All major cryonics organizations use vitrification where possible.
Minor nitpick: The fact that the Earth is not flat was well known since ~300BC.
Yes, because the Emancipation Proclamation was *totally* a result of implementing an income tax. [/sarcasm]
AMD contributed ~165,000 lines of code to coreboot.
If you simulate a neural network, there is no need to know, how it really works.
That is NOT a good thing. If we ever want to actually get any sort of efficient AGI, we need to figure out how intelligence actually works. The vast majority of current AGI attempts are based upon reasoning like "The human brain is a neural network. The human brain is intelligent. Therefore, all I need to do is use a sufficiently large/fast neural network, and my AI will magically become intelligent."
If you cannot explain why your AI will be intelligent without resorting to comparing it to a human brain, you are effectively trying to fly by gluing feathers to your arms. Aeroplanes do not need feathers; if you actually understand how something works, you can change its superficial structure without losing the key attributes that make it work.
Neural networks, in the context of AGI, are a waste of time, computing power, and are a convenient distraction from the damn hard problems we need to solve to actually get working AGI.
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"Simpler" in the case of Occam's razor refers to mathematical simplicity, *not* number of predictions.
Actually, the unit of length is based on the speed of light.
You can't turn heat into electricity without violating the second law of thermodynamics. You can get some electricity from a heat differential, but not enough to be worth it outside of data centers.
So if you can get the energy to cause the reaction in one direction, it's exothermic; if you can do it in the other direction, it's also exothermic.
Not quite correct. Fusion is only exothermic for elements below iron, fission is only exothermic for elements above iron.
Like the Methuselah Foundation?
Sorry, Occam's Razor says absolutely nothing about what's most likely, in this case or any other.
The original formulation of Occam's Razor may not, but the modern probability-theoretic formulation does. See Minimum Message Length.
Wealth is virtue; there can be nothing wrong with how the wealthy acquire or use their wealth; there is nothing to repent, and thus there is no possibility that the robber baron will change.
"Ayn Rand style Objectivism" holds that acquiring wealth from anything other than voluntary trade is evil. Ayn Rand wouldn't like the current collusion between corporations and governments any more than you do.
So, the highly regulated telecommunications industries of Australia and Europe are in better shape and a lot more competitive then the poorly regulated US industry and this tells you regulation is a bad thing. I know I can go into any major Australian city and get coverage on any telco yet US telco's consider the line "fewest dropouts" to be a sign of a good network.
There is *zero* competition in ISP infrastrucure in AU. With the exception of two suburbs in Sydney, the entire internet infrastructure in this country is owned and operated by Telstra. ISPs occasionally own the "last mile" connection, but to provide internet access they have to buy it from Telstra. Hence Telstra being pissed at the National Broadband Network.