One calculation I saw was that if a single space faring race spread out ward slower than the speed of light, only to nearby stars, with a 200 year growth period for new colonies before they started new colonies, that species would colonize every habitable planet in the galaxy in 1 Billion years. So your idea doesn't really solve the problem.
We weren't always so successful. I'm guessing the problem with intelligence is a long childhood with a necessary period of making a lot of bonehead mistakes, because each generation has to learn everything over again.
Now if you manage that, try expressing it outside of a language so it can be evaluated. Now imagine building computer to be "artificially" "intellegent" without a language. Even if there was some form that was not based in language (by the way, not just talking human language), how would you test that? How would that computer be "correct" or "mistaken"?
Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is an imaginative take on a similar problem.
Ask a human which seven letter word is the hardest to read? What kind of fruit have they seen the most? The algorithmic solution to problems that at one point were clearly in the domain of intelligence is starting to become a pattern. Yeah, each solution on it's own is extremely limited, but human intelligence is starting to seem limited, too.
The trend feels like science versus religion. By the 19th century, science had made huge strides in explaining how the universe works, but there was a huge, overwhelming issue that made God still dominant as an idea. The vast, beautiful, complex and and endlessly varied sea of life was inexplicable. Then Darwin came along with an idea that was dead simple, and all of a sudden there was nothing left. God receded back to before the beginning of time.
Some one compared the current versions of the Turing test to a hypothetical flying competition in the days of Da Vinci. To make things simple, the prize goes to the machine that gets the furthest off the ground. Some joker wins the competition with a pair of springs tied to his feet (Eliza). The next year, all the entries are bigger, better springs.
Snowden has already helped. All of the fascists who think the spying is ok and that Snowden should be hanged used to be telling us there was no way the NSA spying could be as bad as we thought.
+5 insightful for this garbage. I love slashdot. The guy sees the same sickness in his culture that showed up in the Santa Barbara murderer and he's calling it out. The reaction here, ultra defensive, delusions of being personally attacked, and all of it moderated to the limit, speak volumes about Slashdot, and not in a good way.
RTFA. There is nothing in the article attacking anyone on Slashdot. It's not calling every nerd a rapist, a misogynist, or a killer. It's saying wake up and starting thinking about other people for a change.
The point is, don't rape. If you aren't a rapist, *you're already not doing what you're supposed to not do*. Not everything is about you. Nobody accused you of anything. You are being delusional.
Nobody accused K3vlar of a crime. Nothing in the article was trying to paint all men with any sort of brush. That's why it's weird that he got defensive about it.
Only a couple of people I know are the sort of dirtbags talked about in the article, but every nerdly forum I read is a cesspool full of these guys. That's a problem even if the vast majority of nerds are good guys.
" I find it impossible to believe that most of us chose to blame women for not making themselves available to us in our every moment of need"
Why the hell do people keep posting crap like this? Does the percentage of men who get to full-blown women hating have to be 50% before you think it's a problem?
This is all true, but you're really just saying that the current state of spreadsheet interface is poor. A spreadsheet ought to be easier to trace input and outputs than code. And there's no reason there shouldn't be views of spreadsheets that lay the programming out for you. If these problems were solved, then spreadsheets would blow away code for readability in a large class of applications.
Who has the right-of-way on a property is arbitrary. The very concept is a government one. Without the government, you'd have to shoot at them to stop them from burying the cable for free.
That doesn't make any sense. The server has a right to speak and you have a right to listen. Why is the ISP obligated to facilitate any given speech? You want to hear that particular speech, go to a different ISP.
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One calculation I saw was that if a single space faring race spread out ward slower than the speed of light, only to nearby stars, with a 200 year growth period for new colonies before they started new colonies, that species would colonize every habitable planet in the galaxy in 1 Billion years. So your idea doesn't really solve the problem.
We weren't always so successful. I'm guessing the problem with intelligence is a long childhood with a necessary period of making a lot of bonehead mistakes, because each generation has to learn everything over again.
Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is an imaginative take on a similar problem.
Ask a human which seven letter word is the hardest to read? What kind of fruit have they seen the most? The algorithmic solution to problems that at one point were clearly in the domain of intelligence is starting to become a pattern. Yeah, each solution on it's own is extremely limited, but human intelligence is starting to seem limited, too.
The trend feels like science versus religion. By the 19th century, science had made huge strides in explaining how the universe works, but there was a huge, overwhelming issue that made God still dominant as an idea. The vast, beautiful, complex and and endlessly varied sea of life was inexplicable. Then Darwin came along with an idea that was dead simple, and all of a sudden there was nothing left. God receded back to before the beginning of time.
Some one compared the current versions of the Turing test to a hypothetical flying competition in the days of Da Vinci. To make things simple, the prize goes to the machine that gets the furthest off the ground. Some joker wins the competition with a pair of springs tied to his feet (Eliza). The next year, all the entries are bigger, better springs.
Look at Ukraine now and one year ago. Who is who's bitch again?
Snowden has already helped. All of the fascists who think the spying is ok and that Snowden should be hanged used to be telling us there was no way the NSA spying could be as bad as we thought.
+5 insightful for this garbage. I love slashdot. The guy sees the same sickness in his culture that showed up in the Santa Barbara murderer and he's calling it out. The reaction here, ultra defensive, delusions of being personally attacked, and all of it moderated to the limit, speak volumes about Slashdot, and not in a good way.
RTFA. There is nothing in the article attacking anyone on Slashdot. It's not calling every nerd a rapist, a misogynist, or a killer. It's saying wake up and starting thinking about other people for a change.
Mod parent up.
The point is, don't rape. If you aren't a rapist, *you're already not doing what you're supposed to not do*. Not everything is about you. Nobody accused you of anything. You are being delusional.
What does it say about you that you read that into the article?
Nobody accused K3vlar of a crime. Nothing in the article was trying to paint all men with any sort of brush. That's why it's weird that he got defensive about it.
Only a couple of people I know are the sort of dirtbags talked about in the article, but every nerdly forum I read is a cesspool full of these guys. That's a problem even if the vast majority of nerds are good guys.
Jesus Christ, it's not all about you.
Holy fucking shit. Nobody is accusing you, personally, of rape or murder.
Only on slashdot would a "So's your old man!" comeback get moderated up.
only kinda.
Only if you blame others for your awfulness.
" I find it impossible to believe that most of us chose to blame women for not making themselves available to us in our every moment of need"
Why the hell do people keep posting crap like this? Does the percentage of men who get to full-blown women hating have to be 50% before you think it's a problem?
"Stop raping" on the other hand is just wrong. I have never raped anyone and "
Not everything is about you. As a man, you should not be offended when those who do rape get called on it, just because they are also men.
"... have no intention to ever rape anyone."
I'm not saying you will, but it's possible you may surprise yourself one day.
Spread sheets are such awesome tools that they allow non-programmers to create the same problems that noob programmers do while writing code.
This is all true, but you're really just saying that the current state of spreadsheet interface is poor. A spreadsheet ought to be easier to trace input and outputs than code. And there's no reason there shouldn't be views of spreadsheets that lay the programming out for you. If these problems were solved, then spreadsheets would blow away code for readability in a large class of applications.
We'll see.
Who has the right-of-way on a property is arbitrary. The very concept is a government one. Without the government, you'd have to shoot at them to stop them from burying the cable for free.
That doesn't make any sense. The server has a right to speak and you have a right to listen. Why is the ISP obligated to facilitate any given speech? You want to hear that particular speech, go to a different ISP.
How do you know this?