Actually it was surprising that on the dozen or so times I saw linux.fm mentioned on IRC for the past week no one seemed to be aware of it being "old news".
Is this the span of our cultural memory?
...yet I am a member of the state church. Furthermore, I'm happy to pay the small church tax. Why?
Political reasons. A functioning state church attracts religiously inspired people into one flock and under one "official" Lutheran doctrine that's very, very stable - and dare I say pseudo-secular in its tolerance towards minorities and other religions - in the long run.
This marginalizes the influence of the more miltant lunatic (evangelical) fringe and enhances the stability of our society. I would go as far as atttributing the complete absence of a credible religious right in Finland to the existence state church.
Those who seek the destruction of the one, monolithic state church should think about what they're wishing for.
I think eventually after majority of the population has excluded themselves out of religious issues, we'll just get the increased number of islamic immigrants and right wing crazies fighting amongst themselves, collecting news headlines and escalating the issue.
I thought that this "brain reverse-engineering" idea that singularity theorists have been throwing around actually referred to being able to digitize a living brain into a sort of neural net and then run it on a computer. Rather than simulating a biological brain which is of course much more complex endeavour, and what everyone seems to be assuming here..
Frankly I don't see the point of even thinking about it this early in the game, you'd have to simulate the whole physical reality to have a virtual human experience.
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If it were being broadcast on a shortwave radio band..
It was -> http://lwn.net/2002/0207/a/radio-free-linux.php3
Actually it was surprising that on the dozen or so times I saw linux.fm mentioned on IRC for the past week no one seemed to be aware of it being "old news".
Is this the span of our cultural memory?
And in that October_30th (531777) made a good point which I'll quote:
This marginalizes the influence of the more miltant lunatic (evangelical) fringe and enhances the stability of our society. I would go as far as atttributing the complete absence of a credible religious right in Finland to the existence state church.
Those who seek the destruction of the one, monolithic state church should think about what they're wishing for.
I think eventually after majority of the population has excluded themselves out of religious issues, we'll just get the increased number of islamic immigrants and right wing crazies fighting amongst themselves, collecting news headlines and escalating the issue.
Nice business then, he can probably sustain himself just by helping people resign from church.
I thought that this "brain reverse-engineering" idea that singularity theorists have been throwing around actually referred to being able to digitize a living brain into a sort of neural net and then run it on a computer. Rather than simulating a biological brain which is of course much more complex endeavour, and what everyone seems to be assuming here..
Frankly I don't see the point of even thinking about it this early in the game, you'd have to simulate the whole physical reality to have a virtual human experience.
There's many well thought out ideas floating around at TED, why not just pick one of those?
Like this one http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html for example, real lasting results with practical amount of money.