The trick to taking most high-school or college tests is the realization that the Prof has formulated any given question in order to get you to regurgitate one fact you heard in lecture or read from the book. All you need to do to answer any question is merely identify which fact that is and give it up.
For blue book tests, the situation is not much different. Only each question is keyed to a set of facts all related and most likely related in the course work, and you have to write pretty.
[A] misguided, lost and carnal individual... filled with vexation and ignorance of God [who will] gladly cheer the anti-christ."
and Bush voters to a "T".
Trash pickup is good. Social Security works. My electricity is from the goverment, and it works. I've got good ambulance, fire and police protection. They fix potholes in front of my house and on the way to work, etc.
Oh, and they're constantly working deals to try to get better broadband throughout town, but the telcos are developing slower than molasses. I ought to bring this idea up with city council.
Bull. If doing so improves the business climate in your city, and it would, it would *increase* competition, just not for obsolete telcos.
The same goes for single-payer healthcare. It would destroy competition between insurance companies. Heck, it would destroy the insurance companies. But right now the number one strike against creating jobs in the US compared to other developed countries is providing health care for your employees.
will I be locked up as insanse and delusional if I disagree with you
No, but I won't be surprised if people will be locked up for playing a MMORPG at some point.
On a side note: Can you do what every scientist, thinker and philosopher failed to do for the last 5000 years? Can you find proove that reality is an objective thing outside your subjective mind?
Well, there's the famous "kicking the table over" proof, but that may not be proof enough for some. Anyway, it's not a serious question. You're basically wondering if you are really God and you just don't know it. There's two possibilities: the self-evident one that you're not, or that you are, in which case who cares what I think?
In other words, does it, outside a discussion of features, truly matter if I prefer one fictional life over another fictional life?
Does anything in the universe matter except to us? What meaning is there except that generated by a perceiving mind? (That's a different question than whether anything exists except in the perceptions of the mind) BTW, the only thing fictional about WoW is the story line and the stories people tell themeselves in their own heads while they're playing, the game and consequences of it are very real.
Hideous invective is spewed by both sides.
To be sure, but I'm talking about the way that even mild mannered rightwingers will foam at the mouth these days, and just blame anything and everything on liberals, etc.
And the support that is provided for their irrational hatred is incredible, with an all day lineup of Limbaughs and Bill O'Reilly's to steer them back into the fold should they happen across a reasonable lesbian in their day to day business.
There are loud mouthed lefties in the public sphere, but the undending stream of hatred for their fellow Americans that the right wing in this country consumes is unique and quite extraordinary in the civilized world.
Talk to your average right winger about politics and he will turn into a psychotic, with all sorts of scurrilous things to say about liberals, Democrats, Canuckians, Hillary Clinton, the French, anyone that the propaganda box in their house tells them to hate.
But they are very nice at a personal level, which may be why we haven't turned into Rwanda.
I think if Canadians and Brits heard the full brunt of AM talk radio and cable news (CNN America is very different, BTW, than CNN international), things would change very fast.
Note that "determination" is not a property of machines in general, in fact, given what we know of physics, it's not a property of any machine.
Other than that, the outlook you describe will be the "Evolution" of the 21st century. Insights granted those who face it's obvious validity will drive incredible new advances in cognitive science (they already are, it just isn't main stream yet).
The only horror that will come from this is the pain inflicted by the rest of us as the usual suspects confront yet another failure of the common sense interpretation of the universe in a loud, extroverted, violent, kneejerk and regressive manner.
I'm not MMORPG player, but I'd guess that option 3 would draw more people to the riot since it would likely be the most exciting thing happening on the server.
Video Game companies *WANT* you to be trapped in their world, forever playing.. its their profit, and *YOUR LOSS*. Yes, damn right, they *WANT YOU TO WASTE YOUR LIFE AWAY WITH THEIR PRODUCT*.
Yes, of course. The companies will never admit it unless you force them to, but they bear some responsibility for the millions of souls trapped in their seemingly pointless, well-tuned-to-human-perception product. While I tend to agree that the "Million Gnome March" is ridiculous, I don't think it's as plainly so as many posting here would have it.
And that's why the protests happen, and why they fail.
Why would someone protests a frickin game? Because their life is the game. Why do the protests fail? Because they garner no sympathy. Not many whose life isn't wrapped up in an online game look on those whose life *is* so committed with anything better than disapproval.
I don't play WoW or any other such game, but I have many friends that do. I used to think as you do, but over the last few months I see my views changing. Blizzard and Sony and other companies are profiting off of young people that are giving their lives over to the game. The libertarian bullshit that this is just another business transaction does not even come close to cutting it.
These companies have a moral obligation to their players that extends beyond what's set out in the written service agreement.
I suppose it would depend on whether you lived in Salad number 6. If that is where you spend you free-time, imagination and emotion, then you might choose differently.
It may not protect you, but it's better than nothing to have these actions documented and at least minimal oversight and a mechanism for more oversight.
Not much sense in pointing this out anymore, but Iraq wasn't a threat to US security and didn't have ties to terrorists targeting Americans.
Bush had plenty of warning about 9/11, more than enough to start kicking some asses around. The lower levels of our intelligence agencies had more than enough info to unravel the plot of only someone had done some ass kicking.
Bush blew it. Then he tried to cover it up by first opposing, then stonewalling every investigation. Then he cynically used the tragedy, reinforcing unwarranted and destructive fears, to start an illegal war that's resulted in the death and injury of more than 10,000 Americans and killed tens of thousands of innocents.
No, Bush is no Palpatine. He's a clever fool, but not too foolish for America, it seems.
I think the problem is not that we have an inadequate physical model of synapse formation. The problem is that the human brain is not a blank neural network. It is pre-trained by genetics, which gives us instincts and motivations and fears. Simulating instincts and also early childhood is likely to be the stumbling block in modern AI.
You are probably right. Part of the brute force method may entail the growing of a simulated human brain from a simulated undifferentiated stem cell.
But much of our neurons *do* self organize. You can see it in anyone that recovers from a stroke. I don't believe, but may be wrong, that this is fully understood, though there are many theories about how it happens. It would be a very useful tool, and may even be a sufficient addition to our current knowledge to allow us to create intelligences, even if it's not sufficient to simulate a human brain.
Quite a few people don't finish. If you've got a lung infection, for instance, an antibiotic will have you out of bed in a day, and running around in two or three days. By the time the tent day of treatment rolls around, you've likely completely forgotten about it.
Obviously, that's not true unless the problem is software-based.
I think it *is* software based. We don't really all of the mechanisms that cause synapse formation or alteration, and I saw some research last year that suggested that synapses and neurons may not be the entire answer to the brains computational power. There were some cells thought to be support cells that have shown indications of communication with eachother and neurons.
When someone says brute force, I take it to mean a simulation at near molecular level, so that we don't necessarily have to know *how* it works, as long as we have all of the right components, it will just work. Careful tracing of the operation would then lead to insights about how real brains work. This, of course, would require a great deal of computing power.
Here's the two advantages as i see it. Most important, it allows users to serve large popular files without buying a lot of bandwidth. You're downloading and not serving, so that's not what's important to you.
As a downloader myself, I see the critical benefit here being reliability of large downloads compared to other p2p software. If you're downloading a one gig file, it's still going to take several hours, but if hundreds of other people are downloading it, it's likely actually the file you want and not broken in some fashion.
It's reliable in another sense. Set up a torrent before you go to bed, and it's there in the morning. A server outage won't make you have to resume a download, or make the file disappear completely.
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For blue book tests, the situation is not much different. Only each question is keyed to a set of facts all related and most likely related in the course work, and you have to write pretty.
Excuse me for knowing how to type.
[A] misguided, lost and carnal individual... filled with vexation and ignorance of God [who will] gladly cheer the anti-christ." and Bush voters to a "T".
Oh, and they're constantly working deals to try to get better broadband throughout town, but the telcos are developing slower than molasses. I ought to bring this idea up with city council.
The same goes for single-payer healthcare. It would destroy competition between insurance companies. Heck, it would destroy the insurance companies. But right now the number one strike against creating jobs in the US compared to other developed countries is providing health care for your employees.
Why is that a problem? It sounds good.
No, but I won't be surprised if people will be locked up for playing a MMORPG at some point.
On a side note: Can you do what every scientist, thinker and philosopher failed to do for the last 5000 years? Can you find proove that reality is an objective thing outside your subjective mind?
Well, there's the famous "kicking the table over" proof, but that may not be proof enough for some. Anyway, it's not a serious question. You're basically wondering if you are really God and you just don't know it. There's two possibilities: the self-evident one that you're not, or that you are, in which case who cares what I think?
In other words, does it, outside a discussion of features, truly matter if I prefer one fictional life over another fictional life?
Does anything in the universe matter except to us? What meaning is there except that generated by a perceiving mind? (That's a different question than whether anything exists except in the perceptions of the mind) BTW, the only thing fictional about WoW is the story line and the stories people tell themeselves in their own heads while they're playing, the game and consequences of it are very real.
Hideous invective is spewed by both sides. To be sure, but I'm talking about the way that even mild mannered rightwingers will foam at the mouth these days, and just blame anything and everything on liberals, etc. And the support that is provided for their irrational hatred is incredible, with an all day lineup of Limbaughs and Bill O'Reilly's to steer them back into the fold should they happen across a reasonable lesbian in their day to day business. There are loud mouthed lefties in the public sphere, but the undending stream of hatred for their fellow Americans that the right wing in this country consumes is unique and quite extraordinary in the civilized world.
But they are very nice at a personal level, which may be why we haven't turned into Rwanda.
I think if Canadians and Brits heard the full brunt of AM talk radio and cable news (CNN America is very different, BTW, than CNN international), things would change very fast.
Other than that, the outlook you describe will be the "Evolution" of the 21st century. Insights granted those who face it's obvious validity will drive incredible new advances in cognitive science (they already are, it just isn't main stream yet).
The only horror that will come from this is the pain inflicted by the rest of us as the usual suspects confront yet another failure of the common sense interpretation of the universe in a loud, extroverted, violent, kneejerk and regressive manner.
And the games are engineered to create these obsessions, so Blizzard is not as blameless as a salad chef might be.
I agree with you, but in the future, you and I will be viewed as bigots for saying it out loud.
I'm not MMORPG player, but I'd guess that option 3 would draw more people to the riot since it would likely be the most exciting thing happening on the server.
Video Game companies *WANT* you to be trapped in their world, forever playing.. its their profit, and *YOUR LOSS*. Yes, damn right, they *WANT YOU TO WASTE YOUR LIFE AWAY WITH THEIR PRODUCT*.
Yes, of course. The companies will never admit it unless you force them to, but they bear some responsibility for the millions of souls trapped in their seemingly pointless, well-tuned-to-human-perception product. While I tend to agree that the "Million Gnome March" is ridiculous, I don't think it's as plainly so as many posting here would have it.
Why would someone protests a frickin game? Because their life is the game. Why do the protests fail? Because they garner no sympathy. Not many whose life isn't wrapped up in an online game look on those whose life *is* so committed with anything better than disapproval.
I don't play WoW or any other such game, but I have many friends that do. I used to think as you do, but over the last few months I see my views changing. Blizzard and Sony and other companies are profiting off of young people that are giving their lives over to the game. The libertarian bullshit that this is just another business transaction does not even come close to cutting it.
These companies have a moral obligation to their players that extends beyond what's set out in the written service agreement.
I suppose it would depend on whether you lived in Salad number 6. If that is where you spend you free-time, imagination and emotion, then you might choose differently.
DARPAbot's favorite book?
It may not protect you, but it's better than nothing to have these actions documented and at least minimal oversight and a mechanism for more oversight.
Bush had plenty of warning about 9/11, more than enough to start kicking some asses around. The lower levels of our intelligence agencies had more than enough info to unravel the plot of only someone had done some ass kicking.
Bush blew it. Then he tried to cover it up by first opposing, then stonewalling every investigation. Then he cynically used the tragedy, reinforcing unwarranted and destructive fears, to start an illegal war that's resulted in the death and injury of more than 10,000 Americans and killed tens of thousands of innocents.
No, Bush is no Palpatine. He's a clever fool, but not too foolish for America, it seems.
But much of our neurons *do* self organize. You can see it in anyone that recovers from a stroke. I don't believe, but may be wrong, that this is fully understood, though there are many theories about how it happens. It would be a very useful tool, and may even be a sufficient addition to our current knowledge to allow us to create intelligences, even if it's not sufficient to simulate a human brain.
Quite a few people don't finish. If you've got a lung infection, for instance, an antibiotic will have you out of bed in a day, and running around in two or three days. By the time the tent day of treatment rolls around, you've likely completely forgotten about it.
I think it *is* software based. We don't really all of the mechanisms that cause synapse formation or alteration, and I saw some research last year that suggested that synapses and neurons may not be the entire answer to the brains computational power. There were some cells thought to be support cells that have shown indications of communication with eachother and neurons.
When someone says brute force, I take it to mean a simulation at near molecular level, so that we don't necessarily have to know *how* it works, as long as we have all of the right components, it will just work. Careful tracing of the operation would then lead to insights about how real brains work. This, of course, would require a great deal of computing power.
You must not live in Bush's America.
However, a random strategy may be the only one impervious to a counter strategy.
Here's the two advantages as i see it. Most important, it allows users to serve large popular files without buying a lot of bandwidth. You're downloading and not serving, so that's not what's important to you. As a downloader myself, I see the critical benefit here being reliability of large downloads compared to other p2p software. If you're downloading a one gig file, it's still going to take several hours, but if hundreds of other people are downloading it, it's likely actually the file you want and not broken in some fashion. It's reliable in another sense. Set up a torrent before you go to bed, and it's there in the morning. A server outage won't make you have to resume a download, or make the file disappear completely.