He's making a living in Iraq. That is, he's making a living out of either destruction of a country, or reconstruction of that country after it was destroyed with bombs made/used probably by his same empoloyer. And he's worrying about his computer being vulnerable? Why didn't he worried about the thousands who've been vulnerable after loosing their homes and jobs when a bomb hit them?
And some people talk about US soldiers protecting Americans! It's allways very amusing how Americans belive the 5h17 fed to them by their goverment. Protecting Americans could be done, for example, by promt evacuation of risk areas in case of a hurracaine warning. I don't see how killing thousands, putting a country on it's knees, and then taking away all it's oil has anything to do with protecting Americans.
Indeed, we couldn't care less about your pc. And those out there who lost their homes and families agree with me.
Your view is defenetly that of liberalism.. whish, I'm sorry to disapoint you, is not the only, nor the best, of modern idiologies.
The set of values in whish you base your assertions are totally originated in culture. For example, you belive that your personal benefit, progress and well-being are above that of your country, and therefore you vote (if you do) in accordance to your personal interests.. and I can bet that the politicians of your country take that very well into acount and offer you personal beneffits in exchange for your vote, and everyone (?) is happy about that.
But in China, and other places of the world, that is not the general view... personal beneffits and personal growth are less important that those of the whole society, and therefore chineese (not all of them, of course) are willing to sacrifice some benefits and well-being so their country can become grater. This, of course, should not be blamed on communism. This phenomena has been present not only on communist states, but also in others like post-war Japan. Pre-USSR Russia also had a set of values like this one, mostly among the peasantry(90+% of the population).
AS of whish "benefits and well-being" can be sacrificed is also completly deppendant on values; freedom of expression, as valued as it is here on/., is an invention of the liberal french bourgeoise in order to be have the same oportunities of power and buissnes as the aristrocracy. This value has survived (and expanded) to our days, and now many consider it "a basic liberty of all humans". It has indeed proven to be beneffical to the development of western countries. But so has the opposite, many countries have made great progress and have aided them selves by supressing freedom of information, and their people have recived great benefits of this progress, like first-grade free medical atention, supperior education for all, security, a car for every one (if waiting for your Lada 20 years was not a problem for you), etc.
So as you can see, every one has the choise as to whish liberties they can sacrifice. Of course if you sacrifice your freedom of information in a capitalist state, you will rapidly end up in missery, and only a very tight elite would controll the whole of production. (ooooopsss. that is all ready happening). The point is, righs and liberties are valued diferently depending of the set of values of the concerned individuals.
Of course USA, and USSR had the military and propaganda power to positively impose their value systems in other countries... but it is clear that the reason theese countries adopted those values is not beacause they tought of them as universal, but because they had a gun pointed at their heads.
And democracy! democracy is the great phalacy that has costed millions of lives in the XIX & XX centuries, and has served no one but the guys with the tick wallets. let us not talk about democracy.
It might sound at first crazy.. but what are the chances that this was an attack by U.S. on N.K.?
I belive it is a mistake to think that the only country headed by a madman is North Korea, mr Bush him self doesn't seem to be quite a bright person, not to mention that his "war on terror" geopardizes global equilibrium quite a lot.
On the exact nature of the atacck, youre guess is as good as mine, but we all know that US developed tactical nukes, which could be deployed in a varaiety of ways, including special operations. We've all heard rummors of USSR agents being able to transport small nukes on briefcases.
A US-performed or backed attack could very well provide an explanation for the international official and media silence on the issue.
they are the company running GAC.
In the ABOUT section, we can see a brief explanation of the system. Perhaps the MMPI is not such a bad idea for this system, but it certainly does not messure any level of AI. The system is just a collection of facts, something like CYC, and i belive the algorithms used to answer the test are not that complex, not as complex as AI.
Also taking a look at the site, one doubts of how serious mindpixel really is.
Any way... this ain't no HAL, and my personal opinion is that the word "Consciousness" must not be included in the name of this system.
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60% is just slightly better than tossing a coin.
It is most interesing.
He's making a living in Iraq. That is, he's making a living out of either destruction of a country, or reconstruction of that country after it was destroyed with bombs made/used probably by his same empoloyer. And he's worrying about his computer being vulnerable? Why didn't he worried about the thousands who've been vulnerable after loosing their homes and jobs when a bomb hit them?
And some people talk about US soldiers protecting Americans! It's allways very amusing how Americans belive the 5h17 fed to them by their goverment. Protecting Americans could be done, for example, by promt evacuation of risk areas in case of a hurracaine warning. I don't see how killing thousands, putting a country on it's knees, and then taking away all it's oil has anything to do with protecting Americans.
Indeed, we couldn't care less about your pc. And those out there who lost their homes and families agree with me.
Shame on you.
Your view is defenetly that of liberalism.. whish, I'm sorry to disapoint you, is not the only, nor the best, of modern idiologies.
/., is an invention of the liberal french bourgeoise in order to be have the same oportunities of power and buissnes as the aristrocracy. This value has survived (and expanded) to our days, and now many consider it "a basic liberty of all humans". It has indeed proven to be beneffical to the development of western countries. But so has the opposite, many countries have made great progress and have aided them selves by supressing freedom of information, and their people have recived great benefits of this progress, like first-grade free medical atention, supperior education for all, security, a car for every one (if waiting for your Lada 20 years was not a problem for you), etc.
The set of values in whish you base your assertions are totally originated in culture.
For example, you belive that your personal benefit, progress and well-being are above that of your country, and therefore you vote (if you do) in accordance to your personal interests.. and I can bet that the politicians of your country take that very well into acount and offer you personal beneffits in exchange for your vote, and everyone (?) is happy about that.
But in China, and other places of the world, that is not the general view... personal beneffits and personal growth are less important that those of the whole society, and therefore chineese (not all of them, of course) are willing to sacrifice some benefits and well-being so their country can become grater.
This, of course, should not be blamed on communism. This phenomena has been present not only on communist states, but also in others like post-war Japan. Pre-USSR Russia also had a set of values like this one, mostly among the peasantry(90+% of the population).
AS of whish "benefits and well-being" can be sacrificed is also completly deppendant on values; freedom of expression, as valued as it is here on
So as you can see, every one has the choise as to whish liberties they can sacrifice. Of course if you sacrifice your freedom of information in a capitalist state, you will rapidly end up in missery, and only a very tight elite would controll the whole of production. (ooooopsss. that is all ready happening).
The point is, righs and liberties are valued diferently depending of the set of values of the concerned individuals.
Of course USA, and USSR had the military and propaganda power to positively impose their value systems in other countries... but it is clear that the reason theese countries adopted those values is not beacause they tought of them as universal, but because they had a gun pointed at their heads.
And democracy!
democracy is the great phalacy that has costed millions of lives in the XIX & XX centuries, and has served no one but the guys with the tick wallets. let us not talk about democracy.
It might sound at first crazy.. but what are the chances that this was an attack by U.S. on N.K.?
I belive it is a mistake to think that the only country headed by a madman is North Korea, mr Bush him self doesn't seem to be quite a bright person, not to mention that his "war on terror" geopardizes global equilibrium quite a lot.
On the exact nature of the atacck, youre guess is as good as mine, but we all know that US developed tactical nukes, which could be deployed in a varaiety of ways, including special operations. We've all heard rummors of USSR agents being able to transport small nukes on briefcases.
A US-performed or backed attack could very well provide an explanation for the international official and media silence on the issue.
Id be a nice idea to chek:
http://www.mindpixel.com/
they are the company running GAC.
In the ABOUT section, we can see a brief explanation of the system. Perhaps the MMPI is not such a bad idea for this system, but it certainly does not messure any level of AI. The system is just a collection of facts, something like CYC, and i belive the algorithms used to answer the test are not that complex, not as complex as AI.
Also taking a look at the site, one doubts of how serious mindpixel really is.
Any way... this ain't no HAL, and my personal opinion is that the word "Consciousness" must not be included in the name of this system.