1. So what is your prediction as to when we'll have AI that reaches the level of chimps? 2. Do you agree with me that after we've reached chimp-level, human-level is very swiftly attained and if not, why not?
Pretty much anyone who goes on about the Singularity is a loon. Not because it's necessarily a fundamentally loony concept, but because it attracts loons like moths to a flame.
Great way to start a post. Really shows a lack of bias.
For now it looks like we're going to get mindless but very complex systems that can do most things better than humans
You make the mistake of believing that human brains are leaps and bounds more advanced than (say) chimp brains. They're not. The difference is very very significant yet very very slight (in an evolutionary sense). Reevaluate when you expect us to create AI that reaches chimp levels. Then add ten years. Maybe twenty. In any case be sure to evaluate your arguments against the 'loony' Singularity concept for a primate life form of choice, such as chimps. That approach takes away a lot of the self-preservation instincts that lead you to the irrational rhetoric that puts humans on an unbreakable pedestal.
You will still experience the same constantly nagging distraction urging you to take care of it
You're contradicting yourself by first stating that the pill fundamentally changes the experience, then stating that the experience will be similar (whilst using terms such as 'nagging' and 'distraction' that imply consciousness, I might add).
What makes experiences experiences is that you (consciously) experience them. At least, that seems to me to be the only sensible definition of 'experience'. 'Subconsciously experiencing' is an oxymoron to me.
They did not let him, according to TFA: "More importantly, travelers are not legally required to unlock their devices, although agents can detain them for significant periods of time if they do not. “In each incident that I’ve seen, the subjects have been shown a Blue Paper that says CBP has legal authority to search phones at the border, which gives them the impression that they’re obligated to unlock the phone, which isn’t true,” Hassan Shibly, chief executive director of CAIR Florida, told The Verge. “They’re not obligated to unlock the phone.”
Nevertheless, Bikkannavar was not allowed to leave until he gave CBP his PIN."
It's not as if that 'extra' money suddenly leaves the economy. Given the subsistence levels of cash we're talking about, it is pretty much guaranteed that all of it will be spent quickly.
This is a point that is often lost on a lot of people. People who have little money are fantastic at spending it. From an economics point of view they are the ideal consumers: if they happen to save money it is almost guaranteed to be for a specific larger purchase in the near future. Otherwise they are going to spend all their money locally (no fancy imported Russian caviar or trips to remote countries) and soon.
There have been and are projects in Africa that specifically just give money to poor families and it seems to be working very well. See for instance: https://www.givedirectly.org/r...
Barring emotional arguments such as 'but Western poor people are different' the fear for giving poor people (marginally) too much money is simply unfounded.
Indeed. The storage space argument is absolute nonsense. Technically, 64GB of mobile storage isn't that much nowadays: https://www.newegg.com/Product...
No, storage space on average mobiles is gobbled up by (UHD) self shot videos and years of videos received with Whatsapp (and the like) stored on the device.
Excuse the caps but this is terrible misinformation. As usually in EU legislation, such obvious issues have been discussed at length and provisions have been put in place to deal with them. It basically boils down to having to buy your phone subscription in the country you live in: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-r...
Excerpt: "Mobile operators should offer their roaming services at domestic prices to consumers who either normally reside in or have stable links to the Member State of the operator, while those customers are periodically travelling in the EU. If necessary, operators can ask their customers to provide proof of residence or of such stable links to the Member State in question."
The provisions may turn out to be inadequate, but the related issues are very prominently on the agenda.
Agreed. The problem is simply due to bugs in the update client.
I had to resort to WSUS offline update to fix the issue (after trying all the official methods at length). I did not really want to use unofficial tools, but given that nothing else worked and WSUS offline update was recommended in several places (and because I was in fuck it-mode), I chose to use it anyway.
It worked flawlessly and after that, the Windows Update client functioned as it should again.
I can't remember where, but I think I saw a hands-on review that said that it actually works really well. I found it slightly hard to believe, given that raising the detail after you've moved focus to another place (especially with saccades) is going to have some delay.
No, you are an asshole by immediately starting to attack me personally, accusing me of things I never did and denying me the right to speak my opinion.
Think about that and how that makes me feel. Yeah, it's hard to look in that mirror, isn't it?
The Libreboot page is filled with shitloads of rancor concerning the GNU project and the FSF (which, by its victimized tone, I'm afraid to say doesn't make the maintainer's side of the story more trustworthy). I can easily see why the FSF isn't sorry to see her go. They're probably cutting all ties with the project just to minimize the amount of further drama.
the sea level rises for everybody equally, no matter which country is at fault.
This is not true, interestingly.
The large ice masses have a gravitational pull that influences the sea level around them, which leads to quite wildly varying effects on sea levels when they melt; in some places the sea level actually drops as a result of the ice masses melting: - http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-c... - http://harvardmagazine.com/201...
1. What the DNC 'was up to' pales in comparison to what the NSA was up to. Actually, the DNC didn't do that much at all. That part of it was and is a tempest in a teapot.
2. Besides that, Russia's hacking is malicious, whereas Snowden's revelations are clearly well-intended. So yes, you can be against Russia's hacking and for Edward Snowden.
The biggest mistake of the past decades was validating the opinion of 'the man in the street' as if it was authorative or equivalent to that of experts in the field. Everybody and his dog now somehow thinks that just because they can open their mouth and breathe they should be listened to in everything.
I highly recommend DNS based blocking in your router. All smartphones and tablets using your network will also be rid of 99% of all that crap.
There's a package in OpenWRT (not in the main repository, though) that updates blocklists on a schedule (the scripts are very straightforward and DIYable, but it's nice to have a click and go solution): https://github.com/openwrt/pac...
The only downside is that making (temporary) exceptions is not really an option.
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1. So what is your prediction as to when we'll have AI that reaches the level of chimps?
2. Do you agree with me that after we've reached chimp-level, human-level is very swiftly attained and if not, why not?
Pretty much anyone who goes on about the Singularity is a loon. Not because it's necessarily a fundamentally loony concept, but because it attracts loons like moths to a flame.
Great way to start a post. Really shows a lack of bias.
For now it looks like we're going to get mindless but very complex systems that can do most things better than humans
You make the mistake of believing that human brains are leaps and bounds more advanced than (say) chimp brains. They're not. The difference is very very significant yet very very slight (in an evolutionary sense). Reevaluate when you expect us to create AI that reaches chimp levels. Then add ten years. Maybe twenty.
In any case be sure to evaluate your arguments against the 'loony' Singularity concept for a primate life form of choice, such as chimps. That approach takes away a lot of the self-preservation instincts that lead you to the irrational rhetoric that puts humans on an unbreakable pedestal.
This (long) read is actually insightful:
http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/...
I'm going to guess this is from a movie or otherwise fictional, but otherwise:
I [...] pick up the knife and try and stab him.
he claims in court that I attacked him with a knife
Seems about right.
LMGTFY:
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/...
AI isn't going to want to destroy humanity unless we program it to.
True, it will keep some of us in reservations for entertainment as it gradually repurposes our habitats.
This is why /. should allow some comments to become 'top comment'.
Yours is more valuable than the submission, TFA and all other comments combined.
Neither is "Ãoeber".
Title quote: 'We Won't Block Pirate Bay,'
Actual quote: 'No, we will not block if we are not forced to do so by a court,'
Yes, I did that on purpose. It's "reductio ad absurdum"
My apologies, I misread your comment. It seems we are and were in agreement.
You will still experience the same constantly nagging distraction urging you to take care of it
You're contradicting yourself by first stating that the pill fundamentally changes the experience, then stating that the experience will be similar (whilst using terms such as 'nagging' and 'distraction' that imply consciousness, I might add).
What makes experiences experiences is that you (consciously) experience them. At least, that seems to me to be the only sensible definition of 'experience'. 'Subconsciously experiencing' is an oxymoron to me.
Leave the phone and keep walking.
They did not let him, according to TFA:
"More importantly, travelers are not legally required to unlock their devices, although agents can detain them for significant periods of time if they do not. “In each incident that I’ve seen, the subjects have been shown a Blue Paper that says CBP has legal authority to search phones at the border, which gives them the impression that they’re obligated to unlock the phone, which isn’t true,” Hassan Shibly, chief executive director of CAIR Florida, told The Verge. “They’re not obligated to unlock the phone.”
Nevertheless, Bikkannavar was not allowed to leave until he gave CBP his PIN."
It's not as if that 'extra' money suddenly leaves the economy. Given the subsistence levels of cash we're talking about, it is pretty much guaranteed that all of it will be spent quickly.
This is a point that is often lost on a lot of people. People who have little money are fantastic at spending it. From an economics point of view they are the ideal consumers: if they happen to save money it is almost guaranteed to be for a specific larger purchase in the near future. Otherwise they are going to spend all their money locally (no fancy imported Russian caviar or trips to remote countries) and soon.
There have been and are projects in Africa that specifically just give money to poor families and it seems to be working very well. See for instance:
https://www.givedirectly.org/r...
Barring emotional arguments such as 'but Western poor people are different' the fear for giving poor people (marginally) too much money is simply unfounded.
If the benchmarks leaked today turn out to be legit, it is looking very good indeed for Ryzen:
http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-...
Indeed. The storage space argument is absolute nonsense. Technically, 64GB of mobile storage isn't that much nowadays: https://www.newegg.com/Product...
"Apps clocking in at 40+MB" equates to 1600 apps. I did not do an extensive search, but users have rougly 30 to 100 apps installed according to these sources:
- https://www.quora.com/How-many...
- https://thenextweb.com/apps/20...
No, storage space on average mobiles is gobbled up by (UHD) self shot videos and years of videos received with Whatsapp (and the like) stored on the device.
WRONG.
Excuse the caps but this is terrible misinformation. As usually in EU legislation, such obvious issues have been discussed at length and provisions have been put in place to deal with them. It basically boils down to having to buy your phone subscription in the country you live in:
http://europa.eu/rapid/press-r...
Excerpt: "Mobile operators should offer their roaming services at domestic prices to consumers who either normally reside in or have stable links to the Member State of the operator, while those customers are periodically travelling in the EU. If necessary, operators can ask their customers to provide proof of residence or of such stable links to the Member State in question."
The provisions may turn out to be inadequate, but the related issues are very prominently on the agenda.
Agreed. The problem is simply due to bugs in the update client.
I had to resort to WSUS offline update to fix the issue (after trying all the official methods at length). I did not really want to use unofficial tools, but given that nothing else worked and WSUS offline update was recommended in several places (and because I was in fuck it-mode), I chose to use it anyway.
It worked flawlessly and after that, the Windows Update client functioned as it should again.
There's a company working on exactly that.
http://www.theverge.com/circui...
https://www.getfove.com/
I can't remember where, but I think I saw a hands-on review that said that it actually works really well.
I found it slightly hard to believe, given that raising the detail after you've moved focus to another place (especially with saccades) is going to have some delay.
No, you are an asshole by immediately starting to attack me personally, accusing me of things I never did and denying me the right to speak my opinion.
Think about that and how that makes me feel.
Yeah, it's hard to look in that mirror, isn't it?
The Libreboot page is filled with shitloads of rancor concerning the GNU project and the FSF (which, by its victimized tone, I'm afraid to say doesn't make the maintainer's side of the story more trustworthy).
I can easily see why the FSF isn't sorry to see her go. They're probably cutting all ties with the project just to minimize the amount of further drama.
Read it and cringe:
- https://libreboot.org/why-not-...
- https://libreboot.org/gnu-insu...
She even talks about herself in the third person, even though it's obvious to everybody that she is the one writing it.
the sea level rises for everybody equally, no matter which country is at fault.
This is not true, interestingly.
The large ice masses have a gravitational pull that influences the sea level around them, which leads to quite wildly varying effects on sea levels when they melt; in some places the sea level actually drops as a result of the ice masses melting:
- http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-c...
- http://harvardmagazine.com/201...
Come on, man. You could have at least tried to write “designers”.
1. What the DNC 'was up to' pales in comparison to what the NSA was up to.
Actually, the DNC didn't do that much at all. That part of it was and is a tempest in a teapot.
2. Besides that, Russia's hacking is malicious, whereas Snowden's revelations are clearly well-intended. So yes, you can be against Russia's hacking and for Edward Snowden.
Exactly.
The biggest mistake of the past decades was validating the opinion of 'the man in the street' as if it was authorative or equivalent to that of experts in the field. Everybody and his dog now somehow thinks that just because they can open their mouth and breathe they should be listened to in everything.
I highly recommend DNS based blocking in your router. All smartphones and tablets using your network will also be rid of 99% of all that crap.
There's a package in OpenWRT (not in the main repository, though) that updates blocklists on a schedule (the scripts are very straightforward and DIYable, but it's nice to have a click and go solution):
https://github.com/openwrt/pac...
The only downside is that making (temporary) exceptions is not really an option.
From TFA:
"Who are Turkers? [...] About 75% are Americans, roughly 15-20% are from India, and the remaining 10% are from other countries."