The simulation argument is based on the idea that the scope of the simulation would be to create sentient life and fool that life into thinking its not being simulated. All sorts of optimizations would be in place to streamline the simulation towards sentient life and everyday sentient experiences.
It seems to me that one of the most important optimizations would be that an individual's brain would not be a complete representation of that individual's brain. Simple Minecraft analogy: the brain would not be a huge redstone circuit or anything like that, it would be bunch of Java code that would occasionally make calls to the routines that render the brain in order to make it look to a casual observer (for some value of "casual") like the brain is doing the thinking.
Angela Merkel: "Screw Obama. I'm going to build my own internet, with blackjack and hookers. And privacy."
Actual plausible quote: "Damn it, the Americans are good at this snooping business. We need to close the snooping gap ASAP! Communicator, spin this so that it sounds like we care about the privacy of the common guy."
The last comment on that article claims that the Swedish police basically got a new CIO who felt he had to prove his worth by making some sort grand decision. He decided to switch tracks and use Siebel as the basis of their new system.
TFA goes into exactly that aspect. Apparently they found species at this site that are also present in a 10 million years older site in China, so unless these critters had access to time travel they could not exactly have been evolving at an explosive rate.
Ah, but the scientists actually found that the group likely consisted of one adult male and several children and most of the footprints were pointing in the same direction...
So clearly this man must have been engaging in all sorts of unthinkable sinful behavior with his young victims right before they all heard the flood approaching and began to run away from it in a vain attempt to escape God's wrath.
You're over-exaggerating the out-of-placedness of these footprints.
Do you know what multiple ice ages does to the surface? Britain and especially southern Britain is just southern enough that some fossils could have survived. It seems fairly likely that there were humans, either Homo Erectus or some closely related species, all the way up in northern Scandinavia between the several ice ages over the last million years, but we will probably never find evidence that they were there.
Maybe schools should be places where there are enough resources that kids are mostly done learning at the end of the school day. Homework is a nice exercise in and of itself that kids could benefit from doing maybe once a week or so.
I always thought the question "'Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" was flawed. In my case the answer is Yes, I am better off than I was four years ago but it has nothing to do with the current president. In my case it was a lot of hard work, an advanced degree (which I paid for myself), and a lovely new wife that got me ahead over the last four years. We could have elected Donald Trump, Don King, or Kang and Kodos and I would more than likely be in the exact same position I am now.
Statistically speaking that doesn't matter, because there are outliers both ways who are listening.
The problem is that if Reagan had been fair he would have said "Many of you are better off now than when I entered office mainly because that was early in this boom cycle, a cycle that I have little to no control over."
Copying your work to give away for free or to sell should have a much much shorter leash, as should the privilege to restrict others from creating new things based on your work. 5 years seems more than enough to me in this digital age.
Why? Why the hell should that be the case? If I pour loads of MY time and MY effort and MY resources into creating something, then it's MY creation and I want to keep it then I can, because it's MINE.
Sorry, but it just boils my p**s that everyone these days just thinks they have a God*-given right for unfettered access to anything they like for free,
* other deities may be available
You are free to keep your creations to yourself. I suggest a drawer, or a good safe if your stuff is likely to be valuable to others.
Now, it might be nice for society if it were possible to release your creations publicly and still have them be "yours". This would have to be described as a service that the government would provide for you. I think it is reasonable that such a service would have certain limits, otherwise you're asking the government to spend money (for example on maintaining courts and archives and what not) in order to provide an unlimited service for you.
TFA doesn't say... my guess: "something that has roughly the same interface metaphors as win9x".
Yup, or System 7 / OS 8 / OS 9. These interfaces did rule the personal computing world back when the personal computer was an easily definable device that sat on your desk, so I think it makes sense to call them classic if we're talking about personal computing.
Yes, realize that you essentially already have 15 years experience with mobile if you've been doing embedded C on Linux for that long. If you learn the basics of Android/Java/JNI you'll be able to be productive on many modern mobile or wearable devices with your Linux and C knowledge.
Yeah, I know that's how it's suppose to work, ideally. The profit belongs to the owners.
I have seen a couple of studies that indicate money paid as dividends is about 7% more economically productive than money retained as cash holdings or expended on investments (either capital improvements or acquisitions). I know there was a slightly informal study by Arnott & Asness with this conclusion, and there was a much more rigorous study by a guy whose name I can't remember right now (something Llosa something?) which said the same thing.
That sounds plausible at least.
I suppose the problem is that it's going to take a long time for Google's and Apple's and other large tech companies failures to pay fair dividends to come back and hurt them.
If huge companies that are highly profitable don't spend and invest their money, how is that money ever going to get back into the economy? It seems to me that if giant companies like Google don't expand into other sectors of the economy then the only other alternative is for them to hoard immense piles of cash, which would keep that money from circulating in the economy, which would be a bad thing for the average person.
Messing with keyboard layouts is not something to be taken lightly. Just like you wouldn't reverse the break and gas pedals on a car, moving keys around on the keyboard should not be done trivially. That said, the caps lock key is in one of the most easily accessible locations on the keyboard, and its one of the keys we use the least. It should be moved, and replaced with one we use more often. Personally, I'd like to see a new modifier key here. One thing I have done in the past, is to re-map my caps lock key to alt, which can be done with a Windows registry setting. This makes using key combinations much easier, which is nice when you're playing WoW and need as many keyboard shortcuts as you can get.
Sure, the actual physical layout shouldn't change since it forces us to retrain our muscle memory at great expense, but now that displays are cheap we could easily have a small display across each key allowing for instant change of key mappings. There are even products like that available (the execution and marketing of those products leaves a lot to be desired) and it would probably be possible to refine that idea into designs that work beautifully, but the laptop manufacturers are (I assume) waiting for Apple to do it so that customers will demand it.
The world is full of monkeys with precious little comprehension about the things they write let alone their theory of application
Fixed that for you. Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Off topic, but it is more interesting than that...
When are you the most excited about some new idea or concept? When is your impulse to share technical ideas the greatest? Well, usually right after you've learned it, or rather when you think you've learned it but in reality you've only got a half-decent grasp of the idea and you still have have a number of the details completely wrong. The exception to this rule is that some highly skilled and knowledgeable people take pleasure in beating less knowledgeable people in the head with their knowledge. So there you have it: the virtual world of teachers consists of a lot of well-meaning people who don't know what they're talking about and one or two jerks who do.
Obvious question: What does this tell us about people who like to give sex advice on the internet?
Not only that, it says "can be compiled for Linux, Mac, and Android". What about Windows? I'm all for using free software, but putting out a product like this and then ignoring the most popular operating system in the world by a long shot seems to be like they're asking for it to fail. It's like like they're only targeting free operating systems, as Mac somehow made the list.
You have a good point, but I think it is important to understand that Windows is probably only the third most popular OS after Android and iOS at this point if we count installations where the end user has the right and ability to install new software.
I think that is mostly just another example of the sad state of science reporting in the media. There aren't enough journalists on large mainstream media payrolls who know how to ask the right questions, like questions about numbers and statistics.
According to Google they had driven 0.005 billion kilometers by 2012, and since the US has about 9 fatalities per billion vehicle kilometers you can do the math yourself. Google was nowhere near in 2012 to having driven enough distance to be able to make any claims about safety and as far as I know, they haven't actually made any statistical claims. What Google engineers have said is essentially that the computer that drives the car thinks that it is better than expert drivers at driving. Who knows, maybe it is, but you have to cringe a at the circular logic in that statement. Let's see what the numbers say when they've driven 10 billion kilometers.
Apparently you are so young you were never forced to do research for a high school or College paper without the internet. You know those books and Encyclopedias 'older than 3 years are noise and rot that nobody has any use for' yet they were available and useful for a century before the internet appeared.
This does not address anything I wrote. Work on your reading comprehension!
Not true at all! Very often I'm looking for the answer to something and it was discussed in a forum back in 2007 or 2000 even... and now that human knowledge is forever passable to whoever needs it, when they need it. Humanities greatest achievement is inventing something that remembers for us. We're terrible at it.
But more commonly you end up wasting an hour trying to follow some outdated or obsolete advice.
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Yes, but 105 x 68 meters is an informal standard nowadays for newly constructed arenas.
All this data fed into the cloud in real time and analyzed for problems? What's not to like?
False positives? Imagine how much money doctors would make off of all those unnecessary visits.
Uh, sorry. That should be: "an individual's brain would not be a complete representation of that individual's mind."
The simulation argument is based on the idea that the scope of the simulation would be to create sentient life and fool that life into thinking its not being simulated. All sorts of optimizations would be in place to streamline the simulation towards sentient life and everyday sentient experiences.
It seems to me that one of the most important optimizations would be that an individual's brain would not be a complete representation of that individual's brain. Simple Minecraft analogy: the brain would not be a huge redstone circuit or anything like that, it would be bunch of Java code that would occasionally make calls to the routines that render the brain in order to make it look to a casual observer (for some value of "casual") like the brain is doing the thinking.
Angela Merkel: "Screw Obama. I'm going to build my own internet, with blackjack and hookers. And privacy."
Actual plausible quote: "Damn it, the Americans are good at this snooping business. We need to close the snooping gap ASAP! Communicator, spin this so that it sounds like we care about the privacy of the common guy."
Yes. They use Oracle. It has gone about as well as you would expect. Seriously (in Swedish, sorry).
The last comment on that article claims that the Swedish police basically got a new CIO who felt he had to prove his worth by making some sort grand decision. He decided to switch tracks and use Siebel as the basis of their new system.
Sounds plausible enough.
TFA goes into exactly that aspect. Apparently they found species at this site that are also present in a 10 million years older site in China, so unless these critters had access to time travel they could not exactly have been evolving at an explosive rate.
Ah, but the scientists actually found that the group likely consisted of one adult male and several children and most of the footprints were pointing in the same direction...
So clearly this man must have been engaging in all sorts of unthinkable sinful behavior with his young victims right before they all heard the flood approaching and began to run away from it in a vain attempt to escape God's wrath.
You're over-exaggerating the out-of-placedness of these footprints.
Do you know what multiple ice ages does to the surface? Britain and especially southern Britain is just southern enough that some fossils could have survived. It seems fairly likely that there were humans, either Homo Erectus or some closely related species, all the way up in northern Scandinavia between the several ice ages over the last million years, but we will probably never find evidence that they were there.
Maybe schools should be places where there are enough resources that kids are mostly done learning at the end of the school day. Homework is a nice exercise in and of itself that kids could benefit from doing maybe once a week or so.
I always thought the question "'Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?" was flawed. In my case the answer is Yes, I am better off than I was four years ago but it has nothing to do with the current president. In my case it was a lot of hard work, an advanced degree (which I paid for myself), and a lovely new wife that got me ahead over the last four years. We could have elected Donald Trump, Don King, or Kang and Kodos and I would more than likely be in the exact same position I am now.
Statistically speaking that doesn't matter, because there are outliers both ways who are listening.
The problem is that if Reagan had been fair he would have said "Many of you are better off now than when I entered office mainly because that was early in this boom cycle, a cycle that I have little to no control over."
Copying your work to give away for free or to sell should have a much much shorter leash, as should the privilege to restrict others from creating new things based on your work. 5 years seems more than enough to me in this digital age.
Why? Why the hell should that be the case? If I pour loads of MY time and MY effort and MY resources into creating something, then it's MY creation and I want to keep it then I can, because it's MINE.
Sorry, but it just boils my p**s that everyone these days just thinks they have a God*-given right for unfettered access to anything they like for free,
* other deities may be available
You are free to keep your creations to yourself. I suggest a drawer, or a good safe if your stuff is likely to be valuable to others.
Now, it might be nice for society if it were possible to release your creations publicly and still have them be "yours". This would have to be described as a service that the government would provide for you. I think it is reasonable that such a service would have certain limits, otherwise you're asking the government to spend money (for example on maintaining courts and archives and what not) in order to provide an unlimited service for you.
Whoooosh.
I think so at least. "Bleeding edge..."
TFA doesn't say... my guess: "something that has roughly the same interface metaphors as win9x".
Yup, or System 7 / OS 8 / OS 9. These interfaces did rule the personal computing world back when the personal computer was an easily definable device that sat on your desk, so I think it makes sense to call them classic if we're talking about personal computing.
IIRC there is no universally agreed convention for which direction of delta Q you set as positive, so that's not necessarily any sign of incompetence.
Yes, realize that you essentially already have 15 years experience with mobile if you've been doing embedded C on Linux for that long. If you learn the basics of Android/Java/JNI you'll be able to be productive on many modern mobile or wearable devices with your Linux and C knowledge.
Yeah, I know that's how it's suppose to work, ideally. The profit belongs to the owners.
I have seen a couple of studies that indicate money paid as dividends is about 7% more economically productive than money retained as cash holdings or expended on investments (either capital improvements or acquisitions). I know there was a slightly informal study by Arnott & Asness with this conclusion, and there was a much more rigorous study by a guy whose name I can't remember right now (something Llosa something?) which said the same thing.
That sounds plausible at least.
I suppose the problem is that it's going to take a long time for Google's and Apple's and other large tech companies failures to pay fair dividends to come back and hurt them.
If huge companies that are highly profitable don't spend and invest their money, how is that money ever going to get back into the economy? It seems to me that if giant companies like Google don't expand into other sectors of the economy then the only other alternative is for them to hoard immense piles of cash, which would keep that money from circulating in the economy, which would be a bad thing for the average person.
Messing with keyboard layouts is not something to be taken lightly. Just like you wouldn't reverse the break and gas pedals on a car, moving keys around on the keyboard should not be done trivially. That said, the caps lock key is in one of the most easily accessible locations on the keyboard, and its one of the keys we use the least. It should be moved, and replaced with one we use more often. Personally, I'd like to see a new modifier key here. One thing I have done in the past, is to re-map my caps lock key to alt, which can be done with a Windows registry setting. This makes using key combinations much easier, which is nice when you're playing WoW and need as many keyboard shortcuts as you can get.
Sure, the actual physical layout shouldn't change since it forces us to retrain our muscle memory at great expense, but now that displays are cheap we could easily have a small display across each key allowing for instant change of key mappings. There are even products like that available (the execution and marketing of those products leaves a lot to be desired) and it would probably be possible to refine that idea into designs that work beautifully, but the laptop manufacturers are (I assume) waiting for Apple to do it so that customers will demand it.
The world is full of monkeys with precious little comprehension about the things they write let alone their theory of application
Fixed that for you. Ninety percent of everything is crud.
Off topic, but it is more interesting than that...
When are you the most excited about some new idea or concept? When is your impulse to share technical ideas the greatest? Well, usually right after you've learned it, or rather when you think you've learned it but in reality you've only got a half-decent grasp of the idea and you still have have a number of the details completely wrong. The exception to this rule is that some highly skilled and knowledgeable people take pleasure in beating less knowledgeable people in the head with their knowledge. So there you have it: the virtual world of teachers consists of a lot of well-meaning people who don't know what they're talking about and one or two jerks who do.
Obvious question: What does this tell us about people who like to give sex advice on the internet?
Not only that, it says "can be compiled for Linux, Mac, and Android". What about Windows? I'm all for using free software, but putting out a product like this and then ignoring the most popular operating system in the world by a long shot seems to be like they're asking for it to fail. It's like like they're only targeting free operating systems, as Mac somehow made the list.
You have a good point, but I think it is important to understand that Windows is probably only the third most popular OS after Android and iOS at this point if we count installations where the end user has the right and ability to install new software.
I think that is mostly just another example of the sad state of science reporting in the media. There aren't enough journalists on large mainstream media payrolls who know how to ask the right questions, like questions about numbers and statistics.
According to Google they had driven 0.005 billion kilometers by 2012, and since the US has about 9 fatalities per billion vehicle kilometers you can do the math yourself. Google was nowhere near in 2012 to having driven enough distance to be able to make any claims about safety and as far as I know, they haven't actually made any statistical claims. What Google engineers have said is essentially that the computer that drives the car thinks that it is better than expert drivers at driving. Who knows, maybe it is, but you have to cringe a at the circular logic in that statement. Let's see what the numbers say when they've driven 10 billion kilometers.
Apparently you are so young you were never forced to do research for a high school or College paper without the internet. You know those books and Encyclopedias 'older than 3 years are noise and rot that nobody has any use for' yet they were available and useful for a century before the internet appeared.
This does not address anything I wrote. Work on your reading comprehension!
Of course not, but the wast majority of information on the internet older then 3 years is essentially old and worthless.
Work on your reading comprehension. It will help a lot when you seek and process information.
Not true at all! Very often I'm looking for the answer to something and it was discussed in a forum back in 2007 or 2000 even... and now that human knowledge is forever passable to whoever needs it, when they need it. Humanities greatest achievement is inventing something that remembers for us. We're terrible at it.
But more commonly you end up wasting an hour trying to follow some outdated or obsolete advice.