Clearly, depends on the cat and the child - I've often thought that the line between human and animal consciousness/intelligence/etc. is much fuzzier than is traditionally taught.
I can make a cat chase a laser dot around the room endlessly.
When I waggled a laser dot infront of my infant, he identified me as the source of the phenomenon after about 2 seconds, gave up on the dot and came for the emitter itself.
Ask a Medical Doctor in 1820 what would happen if a steam locomotive crashed... all manner of mayhem, injury and likely death - that's what the experts all said. Falling off a running horse is bad enough, but the speeds that are possible with rail transportation are far worse.
Who is going to validate the block chain? What is their incentive? How are we going to trust it any better than we currently trust the state department of records? What exactly are we gaining by this?
What the researchers did not uncover was the pattern of nut burying that the squirrels use to both store food and propagate the trees that bear the nuts. Over the course of millions of years, the squirrels and various species of trees have co-evolved to achieve an optimal re-seeding pattern by squirrel which protects the trees from both disease and wind damage.
If you move the pickup point close enough to suburban American bedrooms that they can (and do) walk to it instead of getting in the car, you've made a major cultural shift.
It _could_ work well, if it stocked things that you normally drive to the market often for like milk, juice, eggs, etc.
It could also work well as a sort of community mailbox for commonly purchased items - if you wanted a particular brand of bacon or yogurt, you could order it on an app in your phone and go to the refrigerated mailbox to pick it up. If you're a good faithful customer they'll keep stocking your stuff, if you never show to pick it up you might become lower priority compared to their more reliable customers.
Specialty vending machines, like Twice the Ice, and most gas stations these days, are awesome. Small drive-thru convenience stores like Farm Stores are becoming more automated, and could potentially go "operator free" for most of the 24 hour cycle.
Personally, I'd rather have one of these automated stores within 1km throughout the residential neighborhoods, instead of the junk-marts that currently accompany basically every gas station in the US. If you got the auto-mart density up to 0.3km, people could walk to the store for a liter of milk or juice instead of having to get in the car.
Back in the late 90s I was working with a bunch of guys who were promoting a new product idea that ran on Palm Pilots - it took a while to convince them that they really should own, carry and use Palm Pilots themselves if they wanted to make the most effective pitches to the VCs. They finally did, and just after they did they hooked up with a VC that gave them actual funding.
Apathy, lack of caring about political posture - not willing to eat his own dog food.
People in positions like that should be more sensitive to appearances, I'm sure in his mind it's not a big deal, which is why his mind should be in another line of work.
Every 10 years or so, we revisit the definition of what we expect from "Strong AI" - thus ensuring that the goalposts will remain firmly 5 years in the future.
When "I Robot" robots are fetching your drycleaning for you, growing vegetables in your home garden and cooking your meals, they still won't be "Strong AI" because their imaginative abilities are limited to preprogrammed fusions of existing narratives.
Proving that: the authors of Lyonesse (and so many other gamers, including Mt. Gox), don't have a clue when it comes to cryptography and secure transactions, or simply don't care enough to do it right.
Blockchain technology, as implemented in Bitcoin, seems appropriate for things that people are willing to pay upwards of $5 per transaction to verify. Maybe you could reduce the complexity of the problem to solve and reduce the pool of people attempting to solve it, but as it stands in Bitcoin, its own popularity means that the true cost of the transactions (which will eventually start to be paid when the hobbyists funding it from their own pockets, or illicit sources of free electricity, run out) is ridiculously high.
Any scheme built into music to try to force payment is doomed to failure, since the audio can be copied to a free medium and re-broadcast with trivial technology - starting with wax phonographs from 100 years ago, and increasing in efficiency and fidelity ever since.
Uber could be construed to encompass their drivers as well as corporate leadership / landlord rent-seekers of the website and app.
Would be nice if the landlord did something for the drivers, but the drivers doing something for the public is just the same, from the public's point of view.
Sandy hit Manhattan, which is a feat in and of itself remarkable - did major, unprecedented damage. Go all semantic pedantic if you wish, Sandy was unusual by all accounts, regardless of where you draw the boundaries of the discussion.
Those who study this in detail have found opposing forces: warmer temperatures do make bigger, stronger storms and a longer season, but there is also some pushback in upper level air current patterns that offsets this somewhat... it's a chaotic system and a simple change of one input can push things like landfalls of major storms in either direction.
However: more energy (heat) in the system does make more energetic storms. Are we seeing a result of that this year? Too soon to really call it, either way.
You know, for a mere 20% increase in the cost of construction, houses in Florida could be made to withstand these storms... it's what's done in the islands, but that would be bad for the construction industry, so we build with sticks and paper instead.
Comparing Atlantic and Pacific storms is a little unfair - much less space for an Atlantic storm to develop in.
Yes, Irma is just an outlier, and storms like the 1935 labor day storm were probably even worse. Nothing to see in this one particular storm, move along, take your CO2 emissions with you.
What is certain, however, is that there is a Hurricane season, and it comes when the waters are warmer. So, anyone who is thinking in the back of their mind: "So what if we get global warming, won't that make things better in some places?" Sure, especially if you love extended hurricane seasons, more bigger storms on average, and things like the death of the Great Barrier Reef (yes, basically all of it), then, yeah, go for some more climate change, open the northwest passage - maybe pump up some of that sweet arctic crude and see just how far we can push this warming trend.
Cruel and unusual is in the eye of the beholder... this is the essential question before the magistrate: will he prevent extradition due to the disparity of penalties?
If you post a picture of a pork BBQ to Facebook and it gets displayed in the UAE, should you be extradited to the UAE to face punishment for your crime?
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Clearly, depends on the cat and the child - I've often thought that the line between human and animal consciousness/intelligence/etc. is much fuzzier than is traditionally taught.
Are cats conscious?
I can make a cat chase a laser dot around the room endlessly.
When I waggled a laser dot infront of my infant, he identified me as the source of the phenomenon after about 2 seconds, gave up on the dot and came for the emitter itself.
Anything that senses, decides, and reacts is conscious. The more complex the decision step, the more conscious it is.
Like commercial airliners, then. But still safer than the highway that we all take to and from work, school and the store every day.
Ask a Medical Doctor in 1820 what would happen if a steam locomotive crashed... all manner of mayhem, injury and likely death - that's what the experts all said. Falling off a running horse is bad enough, but the speeds that are possible with rail transportation are far worse.
Issue a patch - just like software, you're not _supposed_ to need to change it once you've released it.
Wow, what an incredibly boring application.
Who is going to validate the block chain? What is their incentive? How are we going to trust it any better than we currently trust the state department of records? What exactly are we gaining by this?
What the researchers did not uncover was the pattern of nut burying that the squirrels use to both store food and propagate the trees that bear the nuts. Over the course of millions of years, the squirrels and various species of trees have co-evolved to achieve an optimal re-seeding pattern by squirrel which protects the trees from both disease and wind damage.
If you move the pickup point close enough to suburban American bedrooms that they can (and do) walk to it instead of getting in the car, you've made a major cultural shift.
The real challenge will be breaking into the current stores' hegemony on business licenses, permits, zoning restricitons, etc.
It _could_ work well, if it stocked things that you normally drive to the market often for like milk, juice, eggs, etc.
It could also work well as a sort of community mailbox for commonly purchased items - if you wanted a particular brand of bacon or yogurt, you could order it on an app in your phone and go to the refrigerated mailbox to pick it up. If you're a good faithful customer they'll keep stocking your stuff, if you never show to pick it up you might become lower priority compared to their more reliable customers.
Specialty vending machines, like Twice the Ice, and most gas stations these days, are awesome. Small drive-thru convenience stores like Farm Stores are becoming more automated, and could potentially go "operator free" for most of the 24 hour cycle.
Personally, I'd rather have one of these automated stores within 1km throughout the residential neighborhoods, instead of the junk-marts that currently accompany basically every gas station in the US. If you got the auto-mart density up to 0.3km, people could walk to the store for a liter of milk or juice instead of having to get in the car.
Back in the late 90s I was working with a bunch of guys who were promoting a new product idea that ran on Palm Pilots - it took a while to convince them that they really should own, carry and use Palm Pilots themselves if they wanted to make the most effective pitches to the VCs. They finally did, and just after they did they hooked up with a VC that gave them actual funding.
Apathy, lack of caring about political posture - not willing to eat his own dog food.
People in positions like that should be more sensitive to appearances, I'm sure in his mind it's not a big deal, which is why his mind should be in another line of work.
Agreed - too bad she didn't have her LinkedIn profile sufficiently updated to reflect her current skillset BEFORE the big breach happened.
"Strong AI" is always 5 years off.
Every 10 years or so, we revisit the definition of what we expect from "Strong AI" - thus ensuring that the goalposts will remain firmly 5 years in the future.
When "I Robot" robots are fetching your drycleaning for you, growing vegetables in your home garden and cooking your meals, they still won't be "Strong AI" because their imaginative abilities are limited to preprogrammed fusions of existing narratives.
Proving that: the authors of Lyonesse (and so many other gamers, including Mt. Gox), don't have a clue when it comes to cryptography and secure transactions, or simply don't care enough to do it right.
Blockchain technology, as implemented in Bitcoin, seems appropriate for things that people are willing to pay upwards of $5 per transaction to verify. Maybe you could reduce the complexity of the problem to solve and reduce the pool of people attempting to solve it, but as it stands in Bitcoin, its own popularity means that the true cost of the transactions (which will eventually start to be paid when the hobbyists funding it from their own pockets, or illicit sources of free electricity, run out) is ridiculously high.
Any scheme built into music to try to force payment is doomed to failure, since the audio can be copied to a free medium and re-broadcast with trivial technology - starting with wax phonographs from 100 years ago, and increasing in efficiency and fidelity ever since.
Uber could be construed to encompass their drivers as well as corporate leadership / landlord rent-seekers of the website and app.
Would be nice if the landlord did something for the drivers, but the drivers doing something for the public is just the same, from the public's point of view.
Sandy hit Manhattan, which is a feat in and of itself remarkable - did major, unprecedented damage. Go all semantic pedantic if you wish, Sandy was unusual by all accounts, regardless of where you draw the boundaries of the discussion.
Those who study this in detail have found opposing forces: warmer temperatures do make bigger, stronger storms and a longer season, but there is also some pushback in upper level air current patterns that offsets this somewhat... it's a chaotic system and a simple change of one input can push things like landfalls of major storms in either direction.
However: more energy (heat) in the system does make more energetic storms. Are we seeing a result of that this year? Too soon to really call it, either way.
You know, for a mere 20% increase in the cost of construction, houses in Florida could be made to withstand these storms... it's what's done in the islands, but that would be bad for the construction industry, so we build with sticks and paper instead.
The sample size for hurricane numbers is just too small to win any statistical arguments, either way, both sides can dig in and call "fluke."
Comparing Atlantic and Pacific storms is a little unfair - much less space for an Atlantic storm to develop in.
Yes, Irma is just an outlier, and storms like the 1935 labor day storm were probably even worse. Nothing to see in this one particular storm, move along, take your CO2 emissions with you.
What is certain, however, is that there is a Hurricane season, and it comes when the waters are warmer. So, anyone who is thinking in the back of their mind: "So what if we get global warming, won't that make things better in some places?" Sure, especially if you love extended hurricane seasons, more bigger storms on average, and things like the death of the Great Barrier Reef (yes, basically all of it), then, yeah, go for some more climate change, open the northwest passage - maybe pump up some of that sweet arctic crude and see just how far we can push this warming trend.
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Cruel and unusual is in the eye of the beholder... this is the essential question before the magistrate: will he prevent extradition due to the disparity of penalties?
If you post a picture of a pork BBQ to Facebook and it gets displayed in the UAE, should you be extradited to the UAE to face punishment for your crime?