But if 'you' are the information and it is divorce-able from the substrate, you're essentially already just a software program ready to be copied ad-infinitum.
I've been trying to find reasons for why that might not be the case, but it seems that it really could be...
Considering we lose consciousness every day and wake up in an altered mental and physical state, it is hard to argue that any kind of continuity is necessary unless you accept that we die every time we sleep.
With level 4 you could potentially have someone unqualified to drive take a pre-planned trip, as long as the whole trip was on roads that the car can handle. That could be most roads, in fact, with a few exceptions for things like driving on to ferries, unpaved roads, certain types of car park etc.
With level 3 you would always need a qualified driver behind the wheel. Say Audi did their system properly, it would never disengage suddenly in traffic but you would have to be prepared to take over when traffic cleared or a change of lane was required (for navigation), or when roadworks were coming up etc. A limit of 37 MPH is probably a bit high for that and it would need to alert you the moment the traffic started to flow again, to give sufficient time.
Google is actually responding to customer demand. They get attacked for not providing updates to Android, so they make Google Play Services able to apply updates and keep them flowing. But that means also specifying some minimum requirements for Play Services, to prevent patches bricking weird devices with strange custom OSs.
Of course, if you are an enthusiast who installed Lineage or whatever, you can self-certify and take on that risk yourself. If it goes wrong, you complain on xdadevelopers, not to Google.
But now that they have actually taken steps to keep everyone updated and safe, it's evil.
New nuclear isn't much better. The old stuff was supposed to be meltdown-proof and totally safe. And even if we believe the new claims, the really safe and low waste reactors are all theoretical at this point. Thorium? Get back to us when you have spent several billion building and proving one without any major issues, and come up with a way to dismantle it at reasonable cost.
That's how most ray-tracing works these days. Ray-tracing plus the same kind of hacks for things like sub-surface scattering, radiosity, motion blur, air/heat effects, material simulation without having to simulate every fibre of clothing etc.
On top of all that you have artistic considerations. Few games want to look like reality, they want to look stylized and hyper-real. They want to use tricks that focus the player's attention, just like films and TV shows do.
Level 3 is fine if there is plenty of warning to take over, say a minimum of 30 seconds. Time to put away your phone, pack away the sandwich and slip your shoes back on.
Immigration has become a lot like the war on drugs. Rather than fight it so hard, it would be better to offer more legal options and provide more support for immigrants and communities with a lot of immigration.
Say your arm became detached in some kind of accident. Doctors re-attached it, good as new. Is it still your arm? Are you still you?
So how about if somehow medical science could repair a bisected brain? Is the person that wakes up still you?
Even today brain surgery is not that uncommon and is often designed to have significant effects on a person's mind and personality.
I'm not really sure myself, but I think your observation that you are inseparable from your substrate is correct. But in that case it seems to make disassembly and reassembly into the same person possible.
The Obama campaign had their own app. It was up front about what it was, it didn't pretend to be some stupid quiz or game while quietly harvesting your data, and your friend's data. It followed the Facebook rules, and it didn't break the law.
The CA app, the data it collected and what they did with the data afterwards was likely illegal in the UK and possibly the US.
In a few decades even the US will have a vast fleet of battery electric vehicles, and I expect vehicle-to-grid will become a popular feature due to being able to store solar power and get some feed in tariffs.
Or the ones who cling to science, the existentialists, while deliberately misinterpreting it to suit their views. Biological essentialists are the most obvious example, but the so-called Rational movement makes extensive use of it with history, statistics and social sciences too.
It's a relatively new tactic designed to create moral panic and outrage. Hay, look what these people over here are saying, this is just another example of how group X is taking over and oppressing us!
There is usually some little disclaimer telling people not to attack the subjects. The main goal is to make people feel like they are under attack, or that there is a conspiracy/movement against them. Certain low quality news and blog sites are full of stories like this, with headlines like "Reddit Xers think stupid thing" or "Tumbler Yers want to take away your Z".
But what TFA fails to mention is that the Attorney General appears to have withheld information that could have helped Dotcom, putting him in contempt and potentially blowing up the whole extradition case.
Of course Dotcom is still screwed, because even if he avoids extradition it will be difficult for him to travel outside New Zealand, and the US won't unfreeze any of his assets, and his business has still be destroyed with no compensation. At least he might avoid a US jail though.
If you want your data to only be readable by you, that's called end-to-end encryption
No, that just means the data is encrypted when travelling from your computer to the cloud computer. Once it arrives at the other end it isn't encrypted any more. Google, OneDrive and Dropbox all support that via HTTPS.
What you want is client side encryption. Everything is encrypted/decrypted on the client (your computer), and that's it. It's just a bunch of random numbers to the cloud server. The down side is that you can't use cloud services to operate on the data (e.g. Google Photos to view/edit/enhance) but your privacy is assured.
You pay the minimum possible fee when you get on. Aside from anything else that ensures you have at least some credit and a working card. There is no way you will pay less than that amount anyway.
Then when you get off it charges you the balance of the fare, if any.
Putin's goal has been to destabilize the west and weaken it. Regardless of his involvement or not, it's hard to argue that Trump and Brexit have not done that. And it appears Russia was involved in trying to get the far right elected in France too, which would have had a similar effect.
Doesn't matter if you think Trump and/or Brexit are good things, what is undeniable is that they have created great turmoil and weakened relations between former allies. Brexit drove an even bigger wedge between the UK and EU, Trump has been starting new trade wars and the discourse in the US is now incredibly divisive and angry, far more so than before.
Because the left _Must_ push the russia narrative. it's all they have.
Apart from
- Sexual assault claims / treatment of women - Tax records - Treatment of immigrants - Cops murdering black people - Gun control and NRA campaign donations - Transgender ban in the military - Adultery and illegal campaign contributions to cover it up
we're ignoring the saud spending hundreds of millions, or the chinese spending hundreds of millions
Spending hundreds of millions on what specifically? And more to the point was it illegal and have to forwarded your evidence to Mueller?
This is like asking how Trump's Twitter account can have any influence or power at all when it's just one single account out of 330 million active users.
These accounts are just entry points for fake news, memes and propaganda. What matters is not how many there are, but how far their messages spread and the influence they had. The number of accounts tells you nothing.
That's why social media is such a powerful tool. That's why Russia uses it. That's why western governments use it too - don't forget that the original leak about this stuff was from GCHQ. If you think it has no effect you are just opening yourself and your country up to manipulation by anyone who understands it.
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But if 'you' are the information and it is divorce-able from the substrate, you're essentially already just a software program ready to be copied ad-infinitum.
I've been trying to find reasons for why that might not be the case, but it seems that it really could be...
Considering we lose consciousness every day and wake up in an altered mental and physical state, it is hard to argue that any kind of continuity is necessary unless you accept that we die every time we sleep.
With level 4 you could potentially have someone unqualified to drive take a pre-planned trip, as long as the whole trip was on roads that the car can handle. That could be most roads, in fact, with a few exceptions for things like driving on to ferries, unpaved roads, certain types of car park etc.
With level 3 you would always need a qualified driver behind the wheel. Say Audi did their system properly, it would never disengage suddenly in traffic but you would have to be prepared to take over when traffic cleared or a change of lane was required (for navigation), or when roadworks were coming up etc. A limit of 37 MPH is probably a bit high for that and it would need to alert you the moment the traffic started to flow again, to give sufficient time.
Google is actually responding to customer demand. They get attacked for not providing updates to Android, so they make Google Play Services able to apply updates and keep them flowing. But that means also specifying some minimum requirements for Play Services, to prevent patches bricking weird devices with strange custom OSs.
Of course, if you are an enthusiast who installed Lineage or whatever, you can self-certify and take on that risk yourself. If it goes wrong, you complain on xdadevelopers, not to Google.
But now that they have actually taken steps to keep everyone updated and safe, it's evil.
New nuclear isn't much better. The old stuff was supposed to be meltdown-proof and totally safe. And even if we believe the new claims, the really safe and low waste reactors are all theoretical at this point. Thorium? Get back to us when you have spent several billion building and proving one without any major issues, and come up with a way to dismantle it at reasonable cost.
That's how most ray-tracing works these days. Ray-tracing plus the same kind of hacks for things like sub-surface scattering, radiosity, motion blur, air/heat effects, material simulation without having to simulate every fibre of clothing etc.
On top of all that you have artistic considerations. Few games want to look like reality, they want to look stylized and hyper-real. They want to use tricks that focus the player's attention, just like films and TV shows do.
Level 3 is fine if there is plenty of warning to take over, say a minimum of 30 seconds. Time to put away your phone, pack away the sandwich and slip your shoes back on.
Unfortunately what we have is crap like this from Audi: https://youtu.be/WsiUwq_M8lE
Note the way it disengages suddenly and the guy has to instantly take over. That's dangerous and unacceptable.
Immigration has become a lot like the war on drugs. Rather than fight it so hard, it would be better to offer more legal options and provide more support for immigrants and communities with a lot of immigration.
Say your arm became detached in some kind of accident. Doctors re-attached it, good as new. Is it still your arm? Are you still you?
So how about if somehow medical science could repair a bisected brain? Is the person that wakes up still you?
Even today brain surgery is not that uncommon and is often designed to have significant effects on a person's mind and personality.
I'm not really sure myself, but I think your observation that you are inseparable from your substrate is correct. But in that case it seems to make disassembly and reassembly into the same person possible.
the same exact way
It was not the same at all.
The Obama campaign had their own app. It was up front about what it was, it didn't pretend to be some stupid quiz or game while quietly harvesting your data, and your friend's data. It followed the Facebook rules, and it didn't break the law.
The CA app, the data it collected and what they did with the data afterwards was likely illegal in the UK and possibly the US.
The two are not comparable or the same.
In a few decades even the US will have a vast fleet of battery electric vehicles, and I expect vehicle-to-grid will become a popular feature due to being able to store solar power and get some feed in tariffs.
I actually didn't read the article, I read the paper the article is based on. The one I linked to. No need to get it second hand.
In the EU it would fall under privacy rules. Even dead people have privacy rights, and of course their surviving family members do.
It depends on the circumstances but there could be issues there.
Or the ones who cling to science, the existentialists, while deliberately misinterpreting it to suit their views. Biological essentialists are the most obvious example, but the so-called Rational movement makes extensive use of it with history, statistics and social sciences too.
It's a relatively new tactic designed to create moral panic and outrage. Hay, look what these people over here are saying, this is just another example of how group X is taking over and oppressing us!
There is usually some little disclaimer telling people not to attack the subjects. The main goal is to make people feel like they are under attack, or that there is a conspiracy/movement against them. Certain low quality news and blog sites are full of stories like this, with headlines like "Reddit Xers think stupid thing" or "Tumbler Yers want to take away your Z".
Probably because you didn't read TFP.
But what TFA fails to mention is that the Attorney General appears to have withheld information that could have helped Dotcom, putting him in contempt and potentially blowing up the whole extradition case.
Of course Dotcom is still screwed, because even if he avoids extradition it will be difficult for him to travel outside New Zealand, and the US won't unfreeze any of his assets, and his business has still be destroyed with no compensation. At least he might avoid a US jail though.
I really hope Facebook isn't the prelude to an alien invasion and the downfall of the human race.
Does it randomize the position of the numbers on the screen, to prevent finger smudge attacks?
That's certainly a major goal, but it is also a lot faster for the customer.
If you want your data to only be readable by you, that's called end-to-end encryption
No, that just means the data is encrypted when travelling from your computer to the cloud computer. Once it arrives at the other end it isn't encrypted any more. Google, OneDrive and Dropbox all support that via HTTPS.
What you want is client side encryption. Everything is encrypted/decrypted on the client (your computer), and that's it. It's just a bunch of random numbers to the cloud server. The down side is that you can't use cloud services to operate on the data (e.g. Google Photos to view/edit/enhance) but your privacy is assured.
That's how many of these systems work.
You pay the minimum possible fee when you get on. Aside from anything else that ensures you have at least some credit and a working card. There is no way you will pay less than that amount anyway.
Then when you get off it charges you the balance of the fare, if any.
Putin's goal has been to destabilize the west and weaken it. Regardless of his involvement or not, it's hard to argue that Trump and Brexit have not done that. And it appears Russia was involved in trying to get the far right elected in France too, which would have had a similar effect.
Doesn't matter if you think Trump and/or Brexit are good things, what is undeniable is that they have created great turmoil and weakened relations between former allies. Brexit drove an even bigger wedge between the UK and EU, Trump has been starting new trade wars and the discourse in the US is now incredibly divisive and angry, far more so than before.
Because the left _Must_ push the russia narrative. it's all they have.
Apart from
- Sexual assault claims / treatment of women
- Tax records
- Treatment of immigrants
- Cops murdering black people
- Gun control and NRA campaign donations
- Transgender ban in the military
- Adultery and illegal campaign contributions to cover it up
we're ignoring the saud spending hundreds of millions, or the chinese spending hundreds of millions
Spending hundreds of millions on what specifically? And more to the point was it illegal and have to forwarded your evidence to Mueller?
The stories might stop when Mueller's investigation ends, depending on what he finds. I wouldn't count on it though.
And like it or not, technology is now an important part of politics. If that bothers you then try tweeting @DonaldTrump and asking him to stop.
This is like asking how Trump's Twitter account can have any influence or power at all when it's just one single account out of 330 million active users.
These accounts are just entry points for fake news, memes and propaganda. What matters is not how many there are, but how far their messages spread and the influence they had. The number of accounts tells you nothing.
That's why social media is such a powerful tool. That's why Russia uses it. That's why western governments use it too - don't forget that the original leak about this stuff was from GCHQ. If you think it has no effect you are just opening yourself and your country up to manipulation by anyone who understands it.