Omniscience implies infinite knowledge of the known and unknown possessed in the present mental frame of reference. I think you're thinking of omnipotence. And, you're thinking of a special kind of omnipotence that operates without repercussions, reactions, or secondary interactions.
He has been attacking trade deals viciously, highlighting the issue and canvassing where people are hardest hit by jobs sent overseas from trade agreements. These agreements are the darling babies of both Democrats and Republicans alike, as they are the bought-and-paid-for results of the corporate financed political system we have allowed to fester in Washington.
Same with illegal immigration. Companies like it: lower wages, zero medical costs, higher profits. Prisons love it: they are, after all, publicly traded for-profit organizations that ensure their survival by creating repeat offenders. Many Americans hate it: loss of jobs for citizens, unfairly low wages due to competition with illegals, stigma creep that results in discrimination of citizens. Trump points this out to people who are affected and gets votes.
In both cases, Trump places government and business interests in last place after the concerns of working Americans. Obviously this will generate a huge backlash from both business owners and threatened politicians who have become comfortable (and comfortably rich) with the large amount of monetary support, grift, and chummy backroom favors from corporations that make our political parties sock puppets of the corporations.
I see commonalities between Bernie and Trump when it comes to standing up for the American people, and between Clinton and all of the republicans when it comes to pure bullshit. Happy election cycle everyone!
If the ratio of women to men at your university is so low, aren't you interested to know why?
You should know better. This question is currently unanswerable in academia. Unassailable even, without detonating your career. Any attempt to honestly discuss the issue by people who work in academia is tantamount to walking blindfolded into a minefield.
Funny that some people are all up in arms about why women aren't joining certain fields. They rail against the patriarchy, blame men for making a field unattractive to women, etc. The unspoken operating assumption is that little ol' women can't make decisions for themselves and are constantly at the effect of everything around them, powerless in the extreme until the entire landscape is redesigned around their delicate sensibilities. Its fucking insulting. The same people are the ones stifling accurate and appropriate discussions of the issues. They shut down discussion and fill the vacuum with propaganda, politics, and dis-empowering rhetoric.
It was anti-climactic for me to learn what those words were. The television of my youth was not the best and the combination of the pulsing colors and the blocky font made them completely unrecognizable as English text. I thought them to be some sort of clue to another puzzle, the beginning of another Adventure (forgive the pun!), that my young brain was unable to fathom at that age.
To learn they were merely a writer's mark, rather than an access to further fun, was pretty sad. Maybe this is why the book Ready Player One was so fulfilling. It recaptured some of the mystery and magic I felt not knowing fully what the little dot had given me access to.
I watched the video. This guy is so wrong its downright silly.
There is only one column. Its the column where the Earth's magnetic poles reverse, where super-calderas blow, and 2km wide asteroids intersect the orbit of our planet. The same column has catastrophic coronal mass ejections hit the Earth dead on, and the Earth again experiences some of the extremes of temperature that is has endured before mankind was even a possible factor. It's also where oceans once again rise (and fall) to previous levels known from the fossil record.
It's the column where extinction events occur, with inexorable certainty.
This is the only issue. Nothing else matters. Any other discussion of climate or AGW that doesn't take into consideration the vulnerability of humanity in the face of these unavoidable occurrences is totally irredeemable. It is so much pissing in the wind. In our current state of unpreparedness, any one of these events will certainly terminate our ascendency as a species, and would have a very great chance of exterminating us completely.
Our politicians and their supporters are talking about money changing as the solution. Fully 44% of our population lives in coastal areas near sea-level. Do you think any carbon-taxation will protect their lives in a tsunami? What idiocy! What a failure of leadership. What a self-made catastrophe.
My level of frustration with humanity on the issue of our survival as a species is overwhelming. The writing is on the wall. Our mother Earth bears the scars and tells all the tales of woe. These events were so intense they are indelibly written in the crust, still observable millions of years later. They prove we are living in a cradle-soft lull in the history of our planet. There are events that will annihilate us that have occurred on this planet many times before, that we know happened, and know will happen again. And you poor simple bastards are worried about a few degrees C? The worst of the worst dire predictions of the AGW proselytes, if proven to be true, would be a soft pitch warm up to an extinction event.
None of you are even acknowledging the real issue. At this point it doesn't matter what mankind does to the Earth, what matters is what the Earth will do to us. On a long enough timeline, without preparation, we will become extinct, guaranteed. The Earth will kill us just by doing what it has been doing for billions of years. You want to do something about it, or do you want to fight about how much money we should be sending to our governments representatives in the new carbon-based economy? Here's a hint, undercutting our industrial power and enriching and validating these power and money grabs by our politicians won't lead to our survival.
Well put. I think this is more proof for the validity of Reverse Panspermia. Namely, if life is mathematically improbable, and we possess it, and we have never observed it elsewhere, and it is preferable the non-life, we have an obligation to intentionally distribute it throughout the universe.
How awesome would it be to create the aliens that we all wish we could meet? Just start sending off packets of Achaea, bacteria, fungus, lichens, and anything else we can imagine that would gain a foothold on another planet. Bombard Mars into a petri dish. Bore a hole in the frozen crust of Europa and dump in tons of microbes. Piggyback comets with terraforming starter-kits and boost them towards nearby stars on the off chance they have planets around them. Pump out DNA from out solar system like some vast reverse-playback of sperm attacking an egg.
I personally feel this should be the one and only goal of mankind, the dissemination of DNA based life throughout the universe. We have a unique persective, we're the universe's lens through which to view itself. It would be a shame for it to disappear.
Some people will say, "what if there's already life there?" Well, if its not as strong as DNA based life it probably wouldn't survive long, on a cosmic scale, as it is. Better to bolster its chances by giving it some competition. And who knows, if there is other life out there, the introduction of DNA based life could be beneficial for both.
Very good points. You will find that the Bible agrees with your points. Worship, tithing, and giving are (like most concepts described in detail in the Bible) rigidly defined and almost universally misinterpreted and misused.
For instance, if you were so inclined to check the text (not English mind you) you would learn that the words transliterated as worship, and the concepts they represent, specifically describe learning about the motivations and ideas of God.
Tribute, or tithing as it is actually called, was a system of government taxation separate from religious observation. Pretty much an income tax system. It had nothing to do with believing in God or not. Money was taken into the storehouses, a government building, not the churches.
Terminology is hard to pin down when you are reading a translation. Suffice it to say, if you were ever inclined to actually learn what the Bible says in the original languages you could very well be surprised. Not that I expect anyone to actually do it, as its much easier to dismiss and attack something that is misrepresented from the get go.
They've even told Apple that they can do it in-house so there's no chance the method will be used on anyone else's phone.
Until they ask again. Only next time, its a secret court order from a secret court, who is using a secret interpretation of the law and the constitution that "allows" them to do it legally, only in complete secrecy.
It appears you are convinced our law enforcement and government have a squeaky clean, principled, and restrained approach to the sanctity and privacy of Americans and their persons, houses, papers, and effects. What sources of information have led you to this unsupported belief? What line have they not already crossed that you think they will uphold now? What part of this insane power grab by the US government leads you to think they will only use it once, and then once they have established an iron-clad legal precedent, set it aside and never use it again, much less abuse it like they have every other tool and circumstance available to them?
It appears we have reached the precipitous drop of the slippery slope that is the Google moral compass. From "Don't be evil" to "Do the right thing" we have descended to "Aww, fuck it!" in predictable fashion.
Based on many past and recent revelations of their activities I think we can safely say these would be better said as commands and with the subtext revealed: "Don't be evil (That's our job!)" "Do the right thing (It's easier for us to manipulate you when you do!)"
And while were on the subject, Why the hell is the FBI even concerned about what is in the iPhone of the shooters? They already legally have access to and possession of: 1) A list of everyone they talked to on the phone, how long they talked, and the exact location of all of these people. 2) Every subsequent person that those people talked to, and for how long, and their exact location; to whatever degree they want to take it. 3) The complete contents of every email and text that passed through their provider. 4) The complete recordings of every phone call that passed outside of the US to foreign recipients. 5) Their complete browsing history. Also, their usage telemetry to the degree that it was recorded. 6) Varied personal details from the apps they had installed on their phones.
All of the above data (and possibly more that I am unaware of) is legally captured and available to law enforcement from various sources, none of which are in the phone. If that doesn't give them everything they need I can scarcely imagine what helpful items they might find, short of an auto-documentary video naming a list of co-conspirators. And lets face it, that's supremely unlikely.
Scenarios keep playing out in my head: 1) US law enforcement doesn't have the ability to decrypt the phone, wants to make Apple help them do it. (too obvious, not enough intrigue) 2) US law enforcement has the ability, but is looking for some parallel construction through Apple's compliance so that no one knows they have rooted every encrypted device in the US. 3) Is apple just putting up a front to save face (and $$$!), all the while participating with US intelligence and law enforcement to subvert encryption technology? 4) If the FBI wins the case, could this be a good thing in the long run? It could bring personal security, 4th amendment issues, and government/corporate overreaching to the conversations of many Americans that just don't give a damn. 5) As a citizen, would an alliance between the tech giants and the US government be foreshadowing of fascism to come? And, would they make the best of oppressive bedfellows, with the force of law exerted through the person-hood of a corporation? 6) I like making lists.
Lastly, the biggest problem I have with this is that this case appears contrived to make sure that the discussion of the rights of "the people" are decided in a case where "the people" have no standing. I wouldn't be surprised if this case was chosen specifically by law enforcement to make sure "the people's" interests were being represented by dead terrorists, and the only other parties with standing are the FBI and a company who has already been caught in bed with secret government information gathering programs. Yes you read that right, our future rights to search and seizure are being determined in a case where the government can say "if you believe in privacy and encryption, you are supporting terrorists."
So yeah, basically were fucked, and there's not a bunch that Google and Apple can do about it. Maybe the EFF and ACLU can combine forces? The EFF AL-U?
You just "whooshed" on the meaning of life. Hard too. It's pretty pathetic.
This guy just explained to you that the point of fishing isn't fishing, it's about the art of extracting enjoyment from life regardless of circumstances. Your reply showed you don't get it. At all.
Efficiency is not enjoyment. It doesn't enrich. It doesn't produce. It is the antithesis of richness of experience. It is insectile, robotic, and inhuman. Trawlers that drag immense nets, indiscriminately scouring aquatic life from the water, are efficient. That's already been done, and the results are hideous and unsustainable. Explosives are very efficient for fishing. So is poison.
Why catch fish efficiently when you can do it with joy and pleasure, or flair and gusto? Sorry to rant, but I get the feeling you are modeling life so much that you are missing out on what it is to live it.
Transhumanism is inevitable. Shortly after prosthetic performance exceeds human performance early adopters and those willing to push boundaries will opt-in to the technology. Acceptance is then just a few short generations away, all the while the state-of-the-art will continue to improve.
Can you imagine a future baseball league with a F1 style technology homologation committee to normalize the performance of the athletes' augmentations? I can't wait! Unfortunately I probably won't live another 80-130 years to see it.
From the description in the article it would seem that consciousness is an emergent phenomena based on the interactions of multiple networks in the brain. Turn off the interactions (as they did with propofol) and the emergent phenomena (consciousness) dissipates. Or better stated, consciousness is not inherent in a part of the brain, but a result of the interactions of the different systems of the brain.
If there are drugs that can inhibit or change the operation of some of these networks individually it would be interesting to see how the other networks are affected, and also to explore how consciousness is affected. The resiliency of consciousness, coupled with its plasticity speaks to a complex system where multiple, simple, and similar components interact chaotically. Tinkering with those networks individually could lead to some profound insights about the nature of consciousness, both objectively and subjectively.
Would they? Or could they have swapped out? Say, at 00:00:00 Person 1 is in the screening room. At 01:00:00, Person 2 comes in Person 1. At 02:00:00, Person 1 leaves and Person 3 enters Person 2. At 03:00:00, Person 2 leaves and Person 4 enters Person 3.
FTFY. More fun for everyone now, and just the kind of thing the regulators are supposed to be looking for.
The only people that lose their jobs or are prosecuted are the whistle blowers who let the American people know the government is breaking the law.
Jesus, typing that really brought home just how fucked our country is. What kind of bizarro world am I living in? How much longer can our government continue to operate with a complete lack of accountability and integrity?
Time to pack up the patriotism, and pass the popcorn. This shithole is going down in flames, and probably sooner rather than later.
But we're as far as I know the only species that hunts and kills each other for no other reason than for fun. With every other species you can point to a logical reason to kill another member of your own species, be it competition for food, mating rights, territory or even to eat the competitor.
We need no such petty reasons. We just do it.
Citation needed. Also, define "fun."
My experience and research says "fun" is an inadequate descriptor of the motivations that lead to violence, murder, and even rape. "Curiosity" would be the closest to "fun" I have heard, but most violent acts (especially murder) have a reason far removed from mere entertainment.
Interesting fact: The greatest common factor of those on death row in the US? Blackouts. Not "propensity to hunt for fun", but blackouts. Also associated with traumatic brain injury, noted by a history of concussions or other head injuries.
Even worse, the human female seems to have been eugenically bred to possess increased sexual response and increased fertility in a prolonged multi-partner sex event like gang rape. Just read the research on time to orgasm (longer than single male partner's time to ejaculate), orgasm response increasing fertility, female sexual response to violence, involuntary orgasm during rape, etc.
Scary when you start to think about how our early, violent evolution is represented in our phenotype today. Frank talk about this is probably a thoughtcrime in the US though.
Thank goodness there hasn't always been the option of abortion for rape, otherwise none of us would exist. Every human on earth is, I am quite certain, descended from rape at one time or another.
A newborn will also learn the humans that take care of it in root fashion and develop a deconstructed model of their parent' interface at an intuitive level.
In short, newborns eventually teach parents more about themselves than the parents can learn without them.
Kind of like science. Each new scientific discovery teaches us more about ourselves. We learn what we do with novel ideas. Mostly exploit, dominate, and divert ourselves and each other, but hey, we're only human.
But its a government project, so they would want it to run at least as slow as the original mainframe, possibly slower. Also, the retrofit/emulation project should preferably be at least 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than the original mainframe. Your tax dollars at work.
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Omniscience implies infinite knowledge of the known and unknown possessed in the present mental frame of reference. I think you're thinking of omnipotence. And, you're thinking of a special kind of omnipotence that operates without repercussions, reactions, or secondary interactions.
just build a small one, send it to space, turn the power on and see if it moves.
If it works? What the surface of Europa looks like when viewed from approximately 71 inches...
He has been attacking trade deals viciously, highlighting the issue and canvassing where people are hardest hit by jobs sent overseas from trade agreements. These agreements are the darling babies of both Democrats and Republicans alike, as they are the bought-and-paid-for results of the corporate financed political system we have allowed to fester in Washington.
Same with illegal immigration. Companies like it: lower wages, zero medical costs, higher profits. Prisons love it: they are, after all, publicly traded for-profit organizations that ensure their survival by creating repeat offenders. Many Americans hate it: loss of jobs for citizens, unfairly low wages due to competition with illegals, stigma creep that results in discrimination of citizens. Trump points this out to people who are affected and gets votes.
In both cases, Trump places government and business interests in last place after the concerns of working Americans. Obviously this will generate a huge backlash from both business owners and threatened politicians who have become comfortable (and comfortably rich) with the large amount of monetary support, grift, and chummy backroom favors from corporations that make our political parties sock puppets of the corporations.
I see commonalities between Bernie and Trump when it comes to standing up for the American people, and between Clinton and all of the republicans when it comes to pure bullshit. Happy election cycle everyone!
If the ratio of women to men at your university is so low, aren't you interested to know why?
You should know better. This question is currently unanswerable in academia. Unassailable even, without detonating your career. Any attempt to honestly discuss the issue by people who work in academia is tantamount to walking blindfolded into a minefield.
Funny that some people are all up in arms about why women aren't joining certain fields. They rail against the patriarchy, blame men for making a field unattractive to women, etc. The unspoken operating assumption is that little ol' women can't make decisions for themselves and are constantly at the effect of everything around them, powerless in the extreme until the entire landscape is redesigned around their delicate sensibilities. Its fucking insulting. The same people are the ones stifling accurate and appropriate discussions of the issues. They shut down discussion and fill the vacuum with propaganda, politics, and dis-empowering rhetoric.
It was anti-climactic for me to learn what those words were. The television of my youth was not the best and the combination of the pulsing colors and the blocky font made them completely unrecognizable as English text. I thought them to be some sort of clue to another puzzle, the beginning of another Adventure (forgive the pun!), that my young brain was unable to fathom at that age.
To learn they were merely a writer's mark, rather than an access to further fun, was pretty sad. Maybe this is why the book Ready Player One was so fulfilling. It recaptured some of the mystery and magic I felt not knowing fully what the little dot had given me access to.
I watched the video. This guy is so wrong its downright silly.
There is only one column. Its the column where the Earth's magnetic poles reverse, where super-calderas blow, and 2km wide asteroids intersect the orbit of our planet. The same column has catastrophic coronal mass ejections hit the Earth dead on, and the Earth again experiences some of the extremes of temperature that is has endured before mankind was even a possible factor. It's also where oceans once again rise (and fall) to previous levels known from the fossil record.
It's the column where extinction events occur, with inexorable certainty.
This is the only issue. Nothing else matters. Any other discussion of climate or AGW that doesn't take into consideration the vulnerability of humanity in the face of these unavoidable occurrences is totally irredeemable. It is so much pissing in the wind. In our current state of unpreparedness, any one of these events will certainly terminate our ascendency as a species, and would have a very great chance of exterminating us completely.
Our politicians and their supporters are talking about money changing as the solution. Fully 44% of our population lives in coastal areas near sea-level. Do you think any carbon-taxation will protect their lives in a tsunami? What idiocy! What a failure of leadership. What a self-made catastrophe.
My level of frustration with humanity on the issue of our survival as a species is overwhelming. The writing is on the wall. Our mother Earth bears the scars and tells all the tales of woe. These events were so intense they are indelibly written in the crust, still observable millions of years later. They prove we are living in a cradle-soft lull in the history of our planet. There are events that will annihilate us that have occurred on this planet many times before, that we know happened, and know will happen again. And you poor simple bastards are worried about a few degrees C? The worst of the worst dire predictions of the AGW proselytes, if proven to be true, would be a soft pitch warm up to an extinction event.
None of you are even acknowledging the real issue. At this point it doesn't matter what mankind does to the Earth, what matters is what the Earth will do to us. On a long enough timeline, without preparation, we will become extinct, guaranteed. The Earth will kill us just by doing what it has been doing for billions of years. You want to do something about it, or do you want to fight about how much money we should be sending to our governments representatives in the new carbon-based economy? Here's a hint, undercutting our industrial power and enriching and validating these power and money grabs by our politicians won't lead to our survival.
Well put. I think this is more proof for the validity of Reverse Panspermia. Namely, if life is mathematically improbable, and we possess it, and we have never observed it elsewhere, and it is preferable the non-life, we have an obligation to intentionally distribute it throughout the universe.
How awesome would it be to create the aliens that we all wish we could meet? Just start sending off packets of Achaea, bacteria, fungus, lichens, and anything else we can imagine that would gain a foothold on another planet. Bombard Mars into a petri dish. Bore a hole in the frozen crust of Europa and dump in tons of microbes. Piggyback comets with terraforming starter-kits and boost them towards nearby stars on the off chance they have planets around them. Pump out DNA from out solar system like some vast reverse-playback of sperm attacking an egg.
I personally feel this should be the one and only goal of mankind, the dissemination of DNA based life throughout the universe. We have a unique persective, we're the universe's lens through which to view itself. It would be a shame for it to disappear.
Some people will say, "what if there's already life there?" Well, if its not as strong as DNA based life it probably wouldn't survive long, on a cosmic scale, as it is. Better to bolster its chances by giving it some competition. And who knows, if there is other life out there, the introduction of DNA based life could be beneficial for both.
Very well said. Wish I had mod points. In the place of mod points please take my respect. Cheers.
Very good points. You will find that the Bible agrees with your points. Worship, tithing, and giving are (like most concepts described in detail in the Bible) rigidly defined and almost universally misinterpreted and misused.
For instance, if you were so inclined to check the text (not English mind you) you would learn that the words transliterated as worship, and the concepts they represent, specifically describe learning about the motivations and ideas of God.
Tribute, or tithing as it is actually called, was a system of government taxation separate from religious observation. Pretty much an income tax system. It had nothing to do with believing in God or not. Money was taken into the storehouses, a government building, not the churches.
Terminology is hard to pin down when you are reading a translation. Suffice it to say, if you were ever inclined to actually learn what the Bible says in the original languages you could very well be surprised. Not that I expect anyone to actually do it, as its much easier to dismiss and attack something that is misrepresented from the get go.
They've even told Apple that they can do it in-house so there's no chance the method will be used on anyone else's phone.
Until they ask again. Only next time, its a secret court order from a secret court, who is using a secret interpretation of the law and the constitution that "allows" them to do it legally, only in complete secrecy.
It appears you are convinced our law enforcement and government have a squeaky clean, principled, and restrained approach to the sanctity and privacy of Americans and their persons, houses, papers, and effects. What sources of information have led you to this unsupported belief? What line have they not already crossed that you think they will uphold now? What part of this insane power grab by the US government leads you to think they will only use it once, and then once they have established an iron-clad legal precedent, set it aside and never use it again, much less abuse it like they have every other tool and circumstance available to them?
It appears we have reached the precipitous drop of the slippery slope that is the Google moral compass. From "Don't be evil" to "Do the right thing" we have descended to "Aww, fuck it!" in predictable fashion.
Based on many past and recent revelations of their activities I think we can safely say these would be better said as commands and with the subtext revealed:
"Don't be evil (That's our job!)"
"Do the right thing (It's easier for us to manipulate you when you do!)"
And while were on the subject, Why the hell is the FBI even concerned about what is in the iPhone of the shooters? They already legally have access to and possession of:
1) A list of everyone they talked to on the phone, how long they talked, and the exact location of all of these people.
2) Every subsequent person that those people talked to, and for how long, and their exact location; to whatever degree they want to take it.
3) The complete contents of every email and text that passed through their provider.
4) The complete recordings of every phone call that passed outside of the US to foreign recipients.
5) Their complete browsing history. Also, their usage telemetry to the degree that it was recorded.
6) Varied personal details from the apps they had installed on their phones.
All of the above data (and possibly more that I am unaware of) is legally captured and available to law enforcement from various sources, none of which are in the phone. If that doesn't give them everything they need I can scarcely imagine what helpful items they might find, short of an auto-documentary video naming a list of co-conspirators. And lets face it, that's supremely unlikely.
Scenarios keep playing out in my head:
1) US law enforcement doesn't have the ability to decrypt the phone, wants to make Apple help them do it. (too obvious, not enough intrigue)
2) US law enforcement has the ability, but is looking for some parallel construction through Apple's compliance so that no one knows they have rooted every encrypted device in the US.
3) Is apple just putting up a front to save face (and $$$!), all the while participating with US intelligence and law enforcement to subvert encryption technology?
4) If the FBI wins the case, could this be a good thing in the long run? It could bring personal security, 4th amendment issues, and government/corporate overreaching to the conversations of many Americans that just don't give a damn.
5) As a citizen, would an alliance between the tech giants and the US government be foreshadowing of fascism to come? And, would they make the best of oppressive bedfellows, with the force of law exerted through the person-hood of a corporation?
6) I like making lists.
Lastly, the biggest problem I have with this is that this case appears contrived to make sure that the discussion of the rights of "the people" are decided in a case where "the people" have no standing. I wouldn't be surprised if this case was chosen specifically by law enforcement to make sure "the people's" interests were being represented by dead terrorists, and the only other parties with standing are the FBI and a company who has already been caught in bed with secret government information gathering programs. Yes you read that right, our future rights to search and seizure are being determined in a case where the government can say "if you believe in privacy and encryption, you are supporting terrorists."
So yeah, basically were fucked, and there's not a bunch that Google and Apple can do about it. Maybe the EFF and ACLU can combine forces? The EFF AL-U?
You just "whooshed" on the meaning of life. Hard too. It's pretty pathetic.
This guy just explained to you that the point of fishing isn't fishing, it's about the art of extracting enjoyment from life regardless of circumstances. Your reply showed you don't get it. At all.
Efficiency is not enjoyment. It doesn't enrich. It doesn't produce. It is the antithesis of richness of experience. It is insectile, robotic, and inhuman. Trawlers that drag immense nets, indiscriminately scouring aquatic life from the water, are efficient. That's already been done, and the results are hideous and unsustainable. Explosives are very efficient for fishing. So is poison.
Why catch fish efficiently when you can do it with joy and pleasure, or flair and gusto? Sorry to rant, but I get the feeling you are modeling life so much that you are missing out on what it is to live it.
Transhumanism is inevitable. Shortly after prosthetic performance exceeds human performance early adopters and those willing to push boundaries will opt-in to the technology. Acceptance is then just a few short generations away, all the while the state-of-the-art will continue to improve.
Can you imagine a future baseball league with a F1 style technology homologation committee to normalize the performance of the athletes' augmentations? I can't wait! Unfortunately I probably won't live another 80-130 years to see it.
From the description in the article it would seem that consciousness is an emergent phenomena based on the interactions of multiple networks in the brain. Turn off the interactions (as they did with propofol) and the emergent phenomena (consciousness) dissipates. Or better stated, consciousness is not inherent in a part of the brain, but a result of the interactions of the different systems of the brain.
If there are drugs that can inhibit or change the operation of some of these networks individually it would be interesting to see how the other networks are affected, and also to explore how consciousness is affected. The resiliency of consciousness, coupled with its plasticity speaks to a complex system where multiple, simple, and similar components interact chaotically. Tinkering with those networks individually could lead to some profound insights about the nature of consciousness, both objectively and subjectively.
You mentioned "Force Awakens" as a possible Academy Award winner when discussing race?
Are you mental? I loved that movie, but there were 0....ZERO...Academy worthy performances in that film, with maybe the exception of BB-8.
Raises an important question: are robots considered minorities? What about Wookies?
Would they? Or could they have swapped out? Say, at 00:00:00 Person 1 is in the screening room. At 01:00:00, Person 2 comes in Person 1. At 02:00:00, Person 1 leaves and Person 3 enters Person 2. At 03:00:00, Person 2 leaves and Person 4 enters Person 3.
FTFY. More fun for everyone now, and just the kind of thing the regulators are supposed to be looking for.
The only people that lose their jobs or are prosecuted are the whistle blowers who let the American people know the government is breaking the law.
Jesus, typing that really brought home just how fucked our country is. What kind of bizarro world am I living in? How much longer can our government continue to operate with a complete lack of accountability and integrity?
Time to pack up the patriotism, and pass the popcorn. This shithole is going down in flames, and probably sooner rather than later.
If the IRS, EPA, State, and Justice departments are any indication, they can destroy whatever they want and the repercussions will be zero.
But we're as far as I know the only species that hunts and kills each other for no other reason than for fun. With every other species you can point to a logical reason to kill another member of your own species, be it competition for food, mating rights, territory or even to eat the competitor.
We need no such petty reasons. We just do it.
Citation needed. Also, define "fun."
My experience and research says "fun" is an inadequate descriptor of the motivations that lead to violence, murder, and even rape. "Curiosity" would be the closest to "fun" I have heard, but most violent acts (especially murder) have a reason far removed from mere entertainment.
Interesting fact: The greatest common factor of those on death row in the US? Blackouts. Not "propensity to hunt for fun", but blackouts. Also associated with traumatic brain injury, noted by a history of concussions or other head injuries.
Even worse, the human female seems to have been eugenically bred to possess increased sexual response and increased fertility in a prolonged multi-partner sex event like gang rape. Just read the research on time to orgasm (longer than single male partner's time to ejaculate), orgasm response increasing fertility, female sexual response to violence, involuntary orgasm during rape, etc.
Scary when you start to think about how our early, violent evolution is represented in our phenotype today. Frank talk about this is probably a thoughtcrime in the US though.
Thank goodness there hasn't always been the option of abortion for rape, otherwise none of us would exist. Every human on earth is, I am quite certain, descended from rape at one time or another.
A newborn will also learn the humans that take care of it in root fashion and develop a deconstructed model of their parent' interface at an intuitive level.
In short, newborns eventually teach parents more about themselves than the parents can learn without them.
Kind of like science. Each new scientific discovery teaches us more about ourselves. We learn what we do with novel ideas. Mostly exploit, dominate, and divert ourselves and each other, but hey, we're only human.
Would love to give you mod points for this.
Reboots every night, takes about 8 friggin hours!
But its a government project, so they would want it to run at least as slow as the original mainframe, possibly slower. Also, the retrofit/emulation project should preferably be at least 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than the original mainframe. Your tax dollars at work.
I just saw this as an attempt to make sure all of our emails are as secure as the previous Secretary of State's...
Badum-tish! I'll be here all week, try the veal.