Excellent post. Turns out, there has never been any doubt that AI would eventually surpass organic intelligence. I suspect they may be combined synergistically someday.
My curiosity has always been with the human brain's ability to play really well, like top five-in-the-World chess.
Is it likely that a player like Bobby Fischer dedicated so much of his memory to the pursuit that he was forced to sacrifice processing power elsewhere?
It's the one life we know exists, if we find aliens with a totally different physiology or totally different technology that's nice but we have no idea of what to look for. It's unlikely that aliens expect us to tap into their communications, if they are trying to ping us they probably do it using all possible channels. And we know at least one of them, it's unlikely a civilization that can do what he proposes hasn't invented the radio.
Yes yes. Additionally, if there exists a self-aware life form too unlike us, we couldn't understand it, even if it were a bit smarter than us.
Shoot. For all we know? If the dolphins had developed amphibiously, we'd be scattered about the stars by now.
Yes, because ISIS is representative of Muslim states.~
Oh wait, it isn't. And at the risk of Godwinning the discussion, there's at least one Christian country that also killed as many members of what it considered to be an "enemy" religion in the middle of the last Century.
Islamic states are not particularly progressive these days (understatement) but the hate against believers in Islam is absurdly irrational and out of proportion.
It'd be nice if those goddamn Jews could catch a break, right?
Quite right. Individual stresses on early human populations would vary even relatively locally due to the limits of foot travel.
Predation, disease, socialization skills, and even fertility would play a role in diversifying early tribal groups.
It is correctly reported ubiquitously what the invention of mass travel has done for human populations, but from 5000-3000 BC, the domestication of the horse improved man's ability to move all out of previous proportion.
Imposing sanctions on Israel, on the other hand, would be a political disaster, involving a major loss of support for the administration among the Jewish diaspora in the United States, an important political constituency for Carter and the Democratic Party. For all these reasons, the administration was highly motivated to offer some explanation other than a nuclear test for the Vela event and to hide, suppress, or otherwise soft-pedal information and evidence to the contrary—in other words, to engage in a cover-up.
Of course there's no way around it, but how might the World look if elected officials didn't put personal considerations ahead of national or earthly considerations.
One motorcycle that had been reported stolen triggered scanner alerts 59 times over six months, while another plate with lapsed insurance was scanned a total of 97 times in the same span.
We are going to be partially rescued from the data collection efforts; not from conscience or court ruling,
It seems the consortium of Google, Apple, and Microsoft would have little incentive to push back against the governments' surveillance, except perhaps where those acts of surveillance hinder the corporations' operations and profits.
There does not, as yet, appear to be enough (or even any) outrage from the average internet user that might inspire the Big 3 to go to the trouble. The social media crusaders are busy wielding the power of the electronic mob for other inferred social injustices.
Realistically, unless the governments begin selling data that is the bread & butter of these tech giants, I just don't see enough incentive for them to initiate any real reforms.
Twitter, Facebook, et al are incredible marvels for people who want to keep in touch with celebrities or a large group of acquaintances, friends and family with minimal effort.
This contributes to declining Enquirer readership and submarining postal revenue, but those are seemingly consequences most of us can live with.
On the not so fortuitous side of the scales, it seems too easy for an excitable electronic mob to win the day (and the 24 hr news sweeps) . The level of individual sacrifice required for participation is smallish: a smart phone, a tablespoon of outrage and a five minute bathroom break.
Spend everything now, and worry about tomorrow, well, tomorrow...
The most remarkable thing about this story is it represents the conservation of this oil royalty money for many years to come by a governmental decision.
There are a few places I've lived that have legislated a rainy day fund, but keeping the politicians out of the cookie jar is a chore every time there's a budget crisis. Hear hear, Alaska!
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I have always been uncomfortable with the potentially mutually beneficial nature of the roles of security provider and security breach specialist.
That's literally exactly what the page tells you.
Sure you're right, but on a post with less than a hundred comments, it's statistically unlikely two people read the article.
This would typically get an informative mod.. you know, for jumping on the grenade and saving the rest of us the trouble.
My curiosity has always been with the human brain's ability to play really well, like top five-in-the-World chess.
Is it likely that a player like Bobby Fischer dedicated so much of his memory to the pursuit that he was forced to sacrifice processing power elsewhere?
I'm fairly certain these would be installed at birth by big pharma if they could wrangle an ethical argument past legislators.
My Monday is looking up.
But, to the millions in the Indian countryside with no access to the internet,
exploitation that brings connectivity is still preferential to interwebz darkness.
It's the one life we know exists, if we find aliens with a totally different physiology or totally different technology that's nice but we have no idea of what to look for. It's unlikely that aliens expect us to tap into their communications, if they are trying to ping us they probably do it using all possible channels. And we know at least one of them, it's unlikely a civilization that can do what he proposes hasn't invented the radio.
Yes yes. Additionally, if there exists a self-aware life form too unlike us, we couldn't understand it, even if it were a bit smarter than us.
Shoot. For all we know? If the dolphins had developed amphibiously, we'd be scattered about the stars by now.
Yes, because ISIS is representative of Muslim states.~
Oh wait, it isn't. And at the risk of Godwinning the discussion, there's at least one Christian country that also killed as many members of what it considered to be an "enemy" religion in the middle of the last Century.
Islamic states are not particularly progressive these days (understatement) but the hate against believers in Islam is absurdly irrational and out of proportion.
It'd be nice if those goddamn Jews could catch a break, right?
Interesting.^
In the pursuit of convictions, and occasionally an exoneration, law enforcement has really helped advance some of this technology.
Predation, disease, socialization skills, and even fertility would play a role in diversifying early tribal groups.
It is correctly reported ubiquitously what the invention of mass travel has done for human populations, but from 5000-3000 BC, the domestication of the horse improved man's ability to move all out of previous proportion.
Imposing sanctions on Israel, on the other hand, would be a political disaster, involving a major loss of support for the administration among the Jewish diaspora in the United States, an important political constituency for Carter and the Democratic Party. For all these reasons, the administration was highly motivated to offer some explanation other than a nuclear test for the Vela event and to hide, suppress, or otherwise soft-pedal information and evidence to the contrary—in other words, to engage in a cover-up.
Of course there's no way around it, but how might the World look if elected officials didn't put personal considerations ahead of national or earthly considerations.
Do you not agree you need to have the bigger hammer in your quivver,
at least to threaten them with?
Anyone can look up License Plates Online
InterPlanetary File System
There, I did part of Soulskill's job. Where's my check?
You tight bastard.
You're gone to the restroom every time there's a check to be picked up.
One motorcycle that had been reported stolen triggered scanner alerts 59 times over six months, while another plate with lapsed insurance was scanned a total of 97 times in the same span.
We are going to be partially rescued from the data collection efforts; not from conscience or court ruling,
but for the sheer, greedy mass of collections.
There does not, as yet, appear to be enough (or even any) outrage from the average internet user that might inspire the Big 3 to go to the trouble. The social media crusaders are busy wielding the power of the electronic mob for other inferred social injustices.
Realistically, unless the governments begin selling data that is the bread & butter of these tech giants, I just don't see enough incentive for them to initiate any real reforms.
The story makes me want to run out, and buy an Iphone
By design, as it were.
/. ; slow to pick on/up the ripe apples.
be thankful or spiteful for your pitiful hundred million net worth.
Totally up to you, lad...
More drivers.
Hyenas have been identified as cats, but not civets.
This contributes to declining Enquirer readership and submarining postal revenue, but those are seemingly consequences most of us can live with.
On the not so fortuitous side of the scales, it seems too easy for an excitable electronic mob to win the day (and the 24 hr news sweeps) . The level of individual sacrifice required for participation is smallish: a smart phone, a tablespoon of outrage and a five minute bathroom break.
The most remarkable thing about this story is it represents the conservation of this oil royalty money for many years to come by a governmental decision.
There are a few places I've lived that have legislated a rainy day fund, but keeping the politicians out of the cookie jar is a chore every time there's a budget crisis. Hear hear, Alaska!
Of course, there are many military installations within individual states that could be co-opted during a secession or breakup of the Union,
just as happened in member States of the former Soviet Union.
There is no chance this will be abused by those human hunters interested in bagging a large cat.
Patently, you pay freight charges at lunar customs for those who left without permission.