I think of it as a unconscious vestige of a belief in a soul. Such people can't really see themselves as a collection of cells which are a collection of molecules, even if consciously they affirm that belief. They probably still lay awake at night wondering what happens to us when we're dead.
What we have that Watson does not is a survival instinct that's been bred into us over a few billion years.
This could be programmed in, but there's not much reason to at the moment. NASA looked into self-repairing unmanned bases on the moon and other planets. Such an AI would have a survival instinct and would behave as more than a tool.
Game journalism will always need the support of the industry, because gamers want game porn far more than they want hard hitting investigative journalism on games.
That's not strong enough: *nobody* wants hard hitting investigative journalism on games. If gamergate really got what they say the wanted, what they would find out is how stupid, lost and uncivilized people in the game industry think gamergate types are.
Gamergate suffers from a problem common among those who take an entertainment medium too seriously: they think they are something that they are not.
There's no lists of people Obama murdered floating around. There's no special prosecutor trolling through Intern's panty drawers, there's no national press salivating over every leaked detail. There's no impeachment proceedings. Obama derangement is crazy, but not 1998 crazy.
"Clinton did lie. A lot."
They all lie, it's their job. Obama is one of the best at it.
The same could be said of Clinton and he was even more loathed by Republicans that Obama is. (Hard to believe, but those of us old enough to remember the '90s know how crazy the Clinton hate was.)
"government never thought that land mines would pose any sort of problem for future generations, and never thought that randomly bombing terrorist organizations would increase their number"
There's a difference between "never thought" and "did not care". Speaking of entities way more powerful and intelligent than a human that act amorally, governments don't care about dead kids from land mines very much, nor about terrorist acts except in how they affect poll numbers.
Interesting. I've had the opposite result with mice. I can get the young ones easy, but the old wily ones I got to trick some how. The last infestation I had to deal with was 11 mice. The very last mouse I killed was this big fat misshapen guy who ran slowly and in a straight line. No dodging, no attempt to hide. I literally dropped a trap right in front of him and he walked into it.
My interpretation is that that mouse family was taking care of their disabled relative.
The arbitrariness of species is one of the realizations that lead to Darwin's book. It forms a key part of his argument. Divergence time means "time to last common ancestor". If we take these arbitrary groupings, and say these are mice, and these are rats, then we can take a rat and a mouse and use genetic tests to guess how long it has been since they shared an ancestor.
What we'll probably find, even though our initial grouping was arbitrary, that for the most part a given mouse and a given rat's common ancestor will be about as far in the past as any other pair of rat and mice.
This is just you growing up and realizing video games pre-order has no value and is just a way of getting money from suckers. This has always been true. A couple of times a year this happens and each time a whole new batch of gamers is rudely awoken to this fact.
Never make a deal with a prosecutor without a judge approved plea bargain.
A coworker was in a car accident with her sister driving. The prosecutor told her sister: "We're charing you with reckless driving. Just plead guilty and you'll get off with a small fine. I'll ask the judge to be lenient."
They charged her with assault on her own sister. Confused, she pled guilty anyway, like she said she would. The prosecutor asked for the maximum penalty which includes jail time, and got it.
Saddam did not violate any ceasefire agreements in anyway that mattered to US interests.
Yeah, the US hates dictators. You have to got to be fucking kidding.
"The fault, however, is not in invading in the first place,"
Killing thousands upon thousands of people using a bunch of lies as the justification pretty much dooms the operation to failure from the beginning. Nobody is going to like that, and if nobody likes an invasion, it's going to fail. Also, killing innocent people is wrong all by itself. There's a reason starting wars is considered a criminal act.
"Reagan's economic changes doomed Bush Sr due to debt but helped Clinton with a the good economy."
Thanks for the chuckle.
"But his support of a puppet in Iran led to a overthrow by an extremist regime that will be in power for decades more."
The revolution happened while Carter was president.
"Clinton's economic decisions are affecting us now through joblessness (Perot had it right - a big sucking sound as jobs leave)."
Perot was right, but it was Clinton's financial deregulation and capture of the remaining regulation that tanked the economy, and that's what caused the spike in unemployment. What NAFTA did was suck away *good* jobs.
"Bush Jr decisions will take at least another 10 years to pay off."
You ever hear of ISIS? The national debt? Massive wealth inequality?
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--Djikstra
I think of it as a unconscious vestige of a belief in a soul. Such people can't really see themselves as a collection of cells which are a collection of molecules, even if consciously they affirm that belief. They probably still lay awake at night wondering what happens to us when we're dead.
What we have that Watson does not is a survival instinct that's been bred into us over a few billion years.
This could be programmed in, but there's not much reason to at the moment. NASA looked into self-repairing unmanned bases on the moon and other planets. Such an AI would have a survival instinct and would behave as more than a tool.
Game journalism will always need the support of the industry, because gamers want game porn far more than they want hard hitting investigative journalism on games.
That's not strong enough: *nobody* wants hard hitting investigative journalism on games. If gamergate really got what they say the wanted, what they would find out is how stupid, lost and uncivilized people in the game industry think gamergate types are.
Gamergate suffers from a problem common among those who take an entertainment medium too seriously: they think they are something that they are not.
This is insightful? How about waiting to see if a game is good before you buy it.
There's no lists of people Obama murdered floating around. There's no special prosecutor trolling through Intern's panty drawers, there's no national press salivating over every leaked detail. There's no impeachment proceedings. Obama derangement is crazy, but not 1998 crazy.
"Clinton did lie. A lot."
They all lie, it's their job. Obama is one of the best at it.
Few mathematicians know how to create Mathematica from scratch.
The same could be said of Clinton and he was even more loathed by Republicans that Obama is. (Hard to believe, but those of us old enough to remember the '90s know how crazy the Clinton hate was.)
If data shows a possible advantage, we should not dismiss it out of hand.
"Most people stumble upon the truth, but usually they pick themselves up and move on as if nothing had happened."
This describes how much of slashdot handles new scientific information.
You must be new here. To the world, I mean.
You should read the paper. Conservative brains light up in areas associated with blaming immigrants, unions and Obama for the mess.
"government never thought that land mines would pose any sort of problem for future generations, and never thought that randomly bombing terrorist organizations would increase their number"
There's a difference between "never thought" and "did not care". Speaking of entities way more powerful and intelligent than a human that act amorally, governments don't care about dead kids from land mines very much, nor about terrorist acts except in how they affect poll numbers.
Hey, you're right. Time to excise the Boston Tea Party out of the history books.
Interesting. I've had the opposite result with mice. I can get the young ones easy, but the old wily ones I got to trick some how. The last infestation I had to deal with was 11 mice. The very last mouse I killed was this big fat misshapen guy who ran slowly and in a straight line. No dodging, no attempt to hide. I literally dropped a trap right in front of him and he walked into it.
My interpretation is that that mouse family was taking care of their disabled relative.
The arbitrariness of species is one of the realizations that lead to Darwin's book. It forms a key part of his argument. Divergence time means "time to last common ancestor". If we take these arbitrary groupings, and say these are mice, and these are rats, then we can take a rat and a mouse and use genetic tests to guess how long it has been since they shared an ancestor.
What we'll probably find, even though our initial grouping was arbitrary, that for the most part a given mouse and a given rat's common ancestor will be about as far in the past as any other pair of rat and mice.
Provide low-cost federal insurance for colonization and asteroid mining missions, like we do for nuclear power plants.
This is just you growing up and realizing video games pre-order has no value and is just a way of getting money from suckers. This has always been true. A couple of times a year this happens and each time a whole new batch of gamers is rudely awoken to this fact.
If your concern in life is ethics in video game journalism, you got serious problems.
There's a difference between a written plea deal and the prosecutor bamboozling you in person.
Undoubtedly somebody much smarter than the low-rent cryptologists they hire at the NSA.
Never make a deal with a prosecutor without a judge approved plea bargain.
A coworker was in a car accident with her sister driving. The prosecutor told her sister: "We're charing you with reckless driving. Just plead guilty and you'll get off with a small fine. I'll ask the judge to be lenient."
They charged her with assault on her own sister. Confused, she pled guilty anyway, like she said she would. The prosecutor asked for the maximum penalty which includes jail time, and got it.
All meaningless crap.
Saddam did not violate any ceasefire agreements in anyway that mattered to US interests.
Yeah, the US hates dictators. You have to got to be fucking kidding.
"The fault, however, is not in invading in the first place,"
Killing thousands upon thousands of people using a bunch of lies as the justification pretty much dooms the operation to failure from the beginning. Nobody is going to like that, and if nobody likes an invasion, it's going to fail. Also, killing innocent people is wrong all by itself. There's a reason starting wars is considered a criminal act.
Bullshit and you know it.
"Reagan's economic changes doomed Bush Sr due to debt but helped Clinton with a the good economy."
Thanks for the chuckle.
"But his support of a puppet in Iran led to a overthrow by an extremist regime that will be in power for decades more."
The revolution happened while Carter was president.
"Clinton's economic decisions are affecting us now through joblessness (Perot had it right - a big sucking sound as jobs leave)."
Perot was right, but it was Clinton's financial deregulation and capture of the remaining regulation that tanked the economy, and that's what caused the spike in unemployment. What NAFTA did was suck away *good* jobs.
"Bush Jr decisions will take at least another 10 years to pay off."
You ever hear of ISIS? The national debt? Massive wealth inequality?
The Colonel is dead, yet we still eat his chicken.