Even if it drops 20% that still leaves a range of ~180 miles. And just like a mobile phone, you can change your lifestyle habits ever so slightly to accomodate more frequent charging. After a while, you wouldn't even notice. Plus the majority of people 180miles is more than sufficient to get them through to a nightly charge.
the vegetables on special don't keep. When you're working poor you usually have two jobs and pull 60/hr a week. Getting to the store every day isn't happening.
So buy them once a week, do a bulk cookup and freeze it. That's what I do.
Bananas are just sugar. That's why they're cheap.
So the fact they are an awesome source of vitamins and minerals (particularly potassium) means nothing? Diet is about more than fat/carb/protein.
Whole Chickens aren't cheap when you count the calories in them. They seem cheap because the weight of the skin and bones is part of the cost. Cheap cuts of beef aren't. They don't really exist anymore. Even 80/20 pink slime is $3/lb in a lot of places. Onions aren't food. They're a garnish. Like lettuce they're cheap because their complete lack of nutritional value means they're cheap to grow.
High protein tends to be slightly lower calorie compared to complex carbs per weight. Again what's your point? It is a cheap PROTEIN source (relative to other protein sources.
As per onions, they are good for fibre and cholesterol. Again diet is about more than fat/carb/protein. They have other benefits too: http://www.nutrition-and-you.c...
Eggs are up to $3/dozen for the off brand. They also don't keep long if you're not buying the fancy ones. Those are $4.39/dozen. Flour and butter are basically junk food. Flour especially. Why do you think they make donuts and cheap bread with it?
I will take your argument on off brand eggs on board (even though I have seen no evidence personally of it). Flour and butter are not junk food. Just because they are used to make donuts... They also are used to make fresh pasta, GOOD bread (no preservatives), and it and similar grains have been the basis for many cultures go to foods for hundreds of years. They are also showing saturated fat is good for you, and butter can provide this along with some cheap calories (as that was your argument against chicken).
That leaves bulk rice and beans. For beans you better know what to buy and how to cook them or you're going to get sick. I forget why. I suppose I'll give you rice though.
rice... a staple food for about 20% of the planet's population. It's a pretty good option with endless ways to use it.
beans... they are a very safe food if they are cooked. They can be cooked in any way, but baking and boiling are the two easiest (and most intuitive) ways. They are also really good nutritionally. Canned baked beans are always a staple everyone should have in their cupboard. A cheap healthy option that doesn't go off, and can be pulled out when you haven't managed to get to the shops.
So you have picked one easily worked around bad point about some cheap foods, and have thrown in the towel.
But the article is about the external validation of self.
There is a correlation (not causation) between depressed people and social media. There are several theories as to why, including: Those already depressed cannot deal with real social interaction, but still want attention. Social media allows a certain escapism/fantasy where people can live as the version of themselves they wish to be. Generally social media casts a wider net than real life, so people are more likely to have some feedback directed at them.
I would argue that some of these angles are present in other communities like this. Yes the focus might be on your post, but a conversation with others started by your point of view is still attention focused on you. Having others agree with your viewpoint gives an ego boost. Traditionally people will also seek online communities with views similar to their own.
accidently stumbling on a bug and exploiting it doesn't necessarily make you a hacker
Usually it is deliberate searching, but otherwise it is kind of the definition of hacker! (although to be true to the term, the exploitation would only be in pursuit of further knowledge of how the system worked)
Most of your basic consumers in India and China will not care if the car cannot do 0-100 in 5 seconds. They also won't be put off by range being 100 miles. As long as they can get to/from neighboring villages and cities in a reasonable time for work. Then there is also the bonus of it requiring far less maintenance etc.
I'm sure that the auto industry could knock up a super cheap EV for these situations.
We have been looking at it for only a few decades. Building intelligence in nature took millions of years. One could argue we are well on our way up the evolutionary ladder of AI.
In response to your question:
Would this technique be used to bring it closer to making a human-like mind, or simply a better mind?
I would say a more interesting question is:
How will we know when we have created something with a human-like mind? Our first one will likely be much simpler, but it gets complicated, because all our inputs come filtered through biological inputs. The first human like AI will not be received through filters like pain, taste, etc. These form the basis for instincts like danger etc. Emotions would seem to be a layer on top of this. Our intelligence is built on these foundations.
Our first human-like mind would likely still think nothing like us (unless we impart all our biological weaknesses and irrationalities into its input systems), so how will we actually know when we create it if we don't understand the process?
define those terms, learning and comprehension for me please.
As far as I am concerned, comprehension (of a situation) could be defined as: extracting facts about the current situation, combining those with previously known facts, selecting which are relevant, and then applying rules when working out how to respond or making new inferences.
Please tell me how your comprehension differs to this process that the machines are already doing. Just because they are not self aware, does not mean they don't comprehend their domain of knowledge incredibly well.
We don't understand how our brains work. So continually denying that these machines are intelligent is in danger of "no true scotsman" if we can't precisely pin down what intelligence is.
The third, most critical, is that the % population that have leisure time to spend learning and mastering board game instead of worrying about how to survive (actual survival - food/water/shelter) or about stability of life (political coups, local wars, terrorists).
Now you are down to a very small number in global terms.
If the rumors were true, they didn't use windows 9 because some a lot of software was written to do OS version checks as Windows 9*, which would pick up 95 and 97.
Here I was thinking I had endured every major windows version, now you are telling me I must go back and look for a 97 to complete the set?...sigh... ok. Where is that old pentium II laptop again?
Anonymous didn't do this.... read the Gawker story... it was just some 4Chan users
The thing about Anonymous is they don't have an "official" head. Anyone that wants to use the banner can. That was always the biggest strength and weakness of the group. You cannot shut it down if you can't define it. But it cannot stand for anything either.
Yes it might be some 4Chan users, but what stops them being classified as being part of Anonymous?
You forget one important difference... We can price (almost) all meatbag drivers off the road because the pieces are already there.
Want to drive on public roads? You need compulsory 3rd party insurance and pay government special levies. Every year insurance companies and government double the price for human drivers as their comparative risk keeps going up compared to autonomous vehicles that will only keep improving.
We can also inconvenience them off the road...
Want to use that new expressway? Sorry autonomous vehicles only because only they can safely follow with only 6 inch gap.
For the gun analogy, if it cost 100K a year to own a gun, there would be very few NRAA members
The audiophiles would love that... they could be videophiles too! I'm off to patent "sending video display signals via a coathanger (on a computer)" right now.
Of course, most humans would have the common sense to avoid iffy maneuvers around a bus, and the bus driver may have been expecting that as well.
That's a big assumption, and the collision rate of vehicles driven by irrational bags of meat begs to differ.
I have seen many drivers with "they will yield to me because their car is more expensive and I don't care about mine" or "I can make that" or "f**k them I'm in a rush" or any other number of ego driven bad choices.
Yes a rational thoughtful person might act as you said, but they are a rare specimen nowadays.
Many more people attempt to climb the various 10,000 m peaks
Doubt anyone is climbing those peaks - they don't exist. Everest is 8,848m. Doubtful anyone would get to 10k even if a peak did exist given how risky it is being above 8k and that wouldn't even be the last camp for a 10k peak.
Many people attempt to climb the 7,000/+m peaks though.
Contrast it with music. Is there really a problem with music piracy anymore?
RIAA would have you believe otherwise.
There will always be "piracy" because that is the vehicle used to justify them deliberately inconveniencing the customer, (and offering to remove the inconvenience for even more money).
"While there remain hurdles to overcome, such as sustaining the fusion reaction long enough to achieve a net power return, "
So apparently actually generating power is just a small final detail with building a new power station.
Next up... the new perpetual motion machine. Designs are done which sustain motion for a while, now we just need to work out how to get around the laws of physics.
Note: not trying to say fusion power is impossible, but it is a pet hate hearing how something is almost done, when they still have the biggest challenges in front of them.
And personally I find streaming off Plex a lot more convenient than fiddling about the SD cards.
Wow, what an enlightened young tech guru. Please can you tell me where you live so I can move there immediately?
You obviously have truly unlimited data plans with absolutely flawless coverage even indoors and underground and a really brilliant streaming service that offers every possible show (including rare movies from decades ago and all my videos of family vacations etc), so I will be able to watch whatever I want whenever I want.
The only reason to want an SD card is because I'm not with the times...
Micro SD has been superflous for some time now with the most basic of phones coming with no less than 4GB of usable storage space. Its more of a pain to deal with as you have to use FAT file systems for it.
My last to Nexus phones (Nexus 5 and Nexus 5x) have supported USB host mode for a while now, so you've got plenty of options for expanded storage.
4GB...Yep, 640K should be enough blah blah.
4GB - put your favourite 10 albums on there, and 2 games and suddenly there is no swap space for the phone to run, let alone your photos or videos. Not everyone uses their phone as just a browser/ calling device. For some it is their gameboy, walkman, portable dvd player,...
And plugging in a usb device is not practical for most uses (especially if you have to charge at the same time).
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As others pointed out, more like 10%.
Even if it drops 20% that still leaves a range of ~180 miles. And just like a mobile phone, you can change your lifestyle habits ever so slightly to accomodate more frequent charging. After a while, you wouldn't even notice. Plus the majority of people 180miles is more than sufficient to get them through to a nightly charge.
And tap water is free.
The real problem is that poor people are too stupid to take care of themselves.
Tell that to the people of Flint.
Sometimes the poor get screwed by the system
Methinks he doth protest too much...
the vegetables on special don't keep. When you're working poor you usually have two jobs and pull 60/hr a week. Getting to the store every day isn't happening.
So buy them once a week, do a bulk cookup and freeze it. That's what I do.
Bananas are just sugar. That's why they're cheap.
So the fact they are an awesome source of vitamins and minerals (particularly potassium) means nothing? Diet is about more than fat/carb/protein.
Whole Chickens aren't cheap when you count the calories in them. They seem cheap because the weight of the skin and bones is part of the cost. Cheap cuts of beef aren't. They don't really exist anymore. Even 80/20 pink slime is $3/lb in a lot of places. Onions aren't food. They're a garnish. Like lettuce they're cheap because their complete lack of nutritional value means they're cheap to grow.
High protein tends to be slightly lower calorie compared to complex carbs per weight. Again what's your point? It is a cheap PROTEIN source (relative to other protein sources.
As per onions, they are good for fibre and cholesterol. Again diet is about more than fat/carb/protein. They have other benefits too: http://www.nutrition-and-you.c...
Eggs are up to $3/dozen for the off brand. They also don't keep long if you're not buying the fancy ones. Those are $4.39/dozen. Flour and butter are basically junk food. Flour especially. Why do you think they make donuts and cheap bread with it?
I will take your argument on off brand eggs on board (even though I have seen no evidence personally of it).
Flour and butter are not junk food. Just because they are used to make donuts... They also are used to make fresh pasta, GOOD bread (no preservatives), and it and similar grains have been the basis for many cultures go to foods for hundreds of years.
They are also showing saturated fat is good for you, and butter can provide this along with some cheap calories (as that was your argument against chicken).
That leaves bulk rice and beans. For beans you better know what to buy and how to cook them or you're going to get sick. I forget why. I suppose I'll give you rice though.
rice... a staple food for about 20% of the planet's population. It's a pretty good option with endless ways to use it.
beans... they are a very safe food if they are cooked. They can be cooked in any way, but baking and boiling are the two easiest (and most intuitive) ways. They are also really good nutritionally.
Canned baked beans are always a staple everyone should have in their cupboard. A cheap healthy option that doesn't go off, and can be pulled out when you haven't managed to get to the shops.
So you have picked one easily worked around bad point about some cheap foods, and have thrown in the towel.
But the article is about the external validation of self.
There is a correlation (not causation) between depressed people and social media. There are several theories as to why, including:
Those already depressed cannot deal with real social interaction, but still want attention.
Social media allows a certain escapism/fantasy where people can live as the version of themselves they wish to be.
Generally social media casts a wider net than real life, so people are more likely to have some feedback directed at them.
I would argue that some of these angles are present in other communities like this. Yes the focus might be on your post, but a conversation with others started by your point of view is still attention focused on you. Having others agree with your viewpoint gives an ego boost. Traditionally people will also seek online communities with views similar to their own.
accidently stumbling on a bug and exploiting it doesn't necessarily make you a hacker
Usually it is deliberate searching, but otherwise it is kind of the definition of hacker!
(although to be true to the term, the exploitation would only be in pursuit of further knowledge of how the system worked)
Electric vehicles do not need to be expensive.
Most of your basic consumers in India and China will not care if the car cannot do 0-100 in 5 seconds. They also won't be put off by range being 100 miles.
As long as they can get to/from neighboring villages and cities in a reasonable time for work. Then there is also the bonus of it requiring far less maintenance etc.
I'm sure that the auto industry could knock up a super cheap EV for these situations.
We have been looking at it for only a few decades. Building intelligence in nature took millions of years. One could argue we are well on our way up the evolutionary ladder of AI.
In response to your question:
Would this technique be used to bring it closer to making a human-like mind, or simply a better mind?
I would say a more interesting question is:
How will we know when we have created something with a human-like mind?
Our first one will likely be much simpler, but it gets complicated, because all our inputs come filtered through biological inputs. The first human like AI will not be received through filters like pain, taste, etc. These form the basis for instincts like danger etc. Emotions would seem to be a layer on top of this. Our intelligence is built on these foundations.
Our first human-like mind would likely still think nothing like us (unless we impart all our biological weaknesses and irrationalities into its input systems), so how will we actually know when we create it if we don't understand the process?
define those terms, learning and comprehension for me please.
As far as I am concerned, comprehension (of a situation) could be defined as: extracting facts about the current situation, combining those with previously known facts, selecting which are relevant, and then applying rules when working out how to respond or making new inferences.
Please tell me how your comprehension differs to this process that the machines are already doing. Just because they are not self aware, does not mean they don't comprehend their domain of knowledge incredibly well.
We don't understand how our brains work. So continually denying that these machines are intelligent is in danger of "no true scotsman" if we can't precisely pin down what intelligence is.
The third, most critical, is that the % population that have leisure time to spend learning and mastering board game instead of worrying about how to survive (actual survival - food /water /shelter) or about stability of life (political coups, local wars, terrorists).
Now you are down to a very small number in global terms.
congratulations, you just created a municipal Ma Bell model
If there is one thing a government does well, it is try to solve problems of too much bureaucracy with more bureaucracy.
If the rumors were true, they didn't use windows 9 because some a lot of software was written to do OS version checks as Windows 9*, which would pick up 95 and 97.
Here I was thinking I had endured every major windows version, now you are telling me I must go back and look for a 97 to complete the set? ...sigh... ok. Where is that old pentium II laptop again?
Anonymous didn't do this.... read the Gawker story... it was just some 4Chan users
The thing about Anonymous is they don't have an "official" head. Anyone that wants to use the banner can. That was always the biggest strength and weakness of the group. You cannot shut it down if you can't define it. But it cannot stand for anything either.
Yes it might be some 4Chan users, but what stops them being classified as being part of Anonymous?
(blinks)...
Hey get away from me!!! I didn't do anything!!!!!!
You forget one important difference... We can price (almost) all meatbag drivers off the road because the pieces are already there.
Want to drive on public roads? You need compulsory 3rd party insurance and pay government special levies. Every year insurance companies and government double the price for human drivers as their comparative risk keeps going up compared to autonomous vehicles that will only keep improving.
We can also inconvenience them off the road...
Want to use that new expressway? Sorry autonomous vehicles only because only they can safely follow with only 6 inch gap.
For the gun analogy, if it cost 100K a year to own a gun, there would be very few NRAA members
If the bus is also driven by a computer it probably will when there is doubt. Only humans act (over)confident when there is uncertainty.
analogue computers while we're at it.
The audiophiles would love that... they could be videophiles too! I'm off to patent "sending video display signals via a coathanger (on a computer)" right now.
Of course, most humans would have the common sense to avoid iffy maneuvers around a bus, and the bus driver may have been expecting that as well.
That's a big assumption, and the collision rate of vehicles driven by irrational bags of meat begs to differ.
I have seen many drivers with "they will yield to me because their car is more expensive and I don't care about mine" or "I can make that" or "f**k them I'm in a rush" or any other number of ego driven bad choices.
Yes a rational thoughtful person might act as you said, but they are a rare specimen nowadays.
Many more people attempt to climb the various 10,000 m peaks
Doubt anyone is climbing those peaks - they don't exist. Everest is 8,848m. Doubtful anyone would get to 10k even if a peak did exist given how risky it is being above 8k and that wouldn't even be the last camp for a 10k peak.
Many people attempt to climb the 7,000/+m peaks though.
1500 torrent shares = 1 album sale in their "lost profit" calculations?
Contrast it with music. Is there really a problem with music piracy anymore?
RIAA would have you believe otherwise.
There will always be "piracy" because that is the vehicle used to justify them deliberately inconveniencing the customer, (and offering to remove the inconvenience for even more money).
"While there remain hurdles to overcome, such as sustaining the fusion reaction long enough to achieve a net power return, "
So apparently actually generating power is just a small final detail with building a new power station.
Next up... the new perpetual motion machine. Designs are done which sustain motion for a while, now we just need to work out how to get around the laws of physics.
Note: not trying to say fusion power is impossible, but it is a pet hate hearing how something is almost done, when they still have the biggest challenges in front of them.
Hey grandpa: use a streaming service!
And personally I find streaming off Plex a lot more convenient than fiddling about the SD cards.
Wow, what an enlightened young tech guru. Please can you tell me where you live so I can move there immediately?
You obviously have truly unlimited data plans with absolutely flawless coverage even indoors and underground and a really brilliant streaming service that offers every possible show (including rare movies from decades ago and all my videos of family vacations etc), so I will be able to watch whatever I want whenever I want.
The only reason to want an SD card is because I'm not with the times...
Micro SD has been superflous for some time now with the most basic of phones coming with no less than 4GB of usable storage space. Its more of a pain to deal with as you have to use FAT file systems for it.
My last to Nexus phones (Nexus 5 and Nexus 5x) have supported USB host mode for a while now, so you've got plenty of options for expanded storage.
4GB...Yep, 640K should be enough blah blah.
4GB - put your favourite 10 albums on there, and 2 games and suddenly there is no swap space for the phone to run, let alone your photos or videos. Not everyone uses their phone as just a browser/ calling device. For some it is their gameboy, walkman, portable dvd player, ...
And plugging in a usb device is not practical for most uses (especially if you have to charge at the same time).
easy... "Radio Emergency Associated Communication Teams React"
is react the acronym or the verb? (assuming a forced "Title Case" heading).
Done. Imagined. Now is it realistic...