The "bio containment" hood would be sufficient. It doesn't have to be 100% air tight. A small canister of compressed gas exhausted into the hood would be all the mechanicals needed. The criminal would only needed to be restrained to a chair or bed as is the current practice.
Gotta love taking a static picture of a dynamic system, and convincing yourself that you have an answer. Why would a state that had a low murder rate implement the death penalty? Why would a state with a prison system busting at the seems not seek a more ?permanent? solution?
Pretty sure the person put down won't be committing those crimes again.
and expensive to boot
and how much did it cost to keep Charles Manson caged all those years? Do you really think, that if set loose, he wouldn't commit equally atrocious crimes.
I'm generally opposed to the death penalty, for the last reason you stated, but there is no need to go all Polyannish on it either.
A large portion of the Southern US population. That's because each vegetable has to be individually dipped in ranch dressing for some strange reason. I get the strangest looks at restaurants when I ask for a salad with NO dressing. It's as if they don't recognize that vegetable actually have a flavor of their own.
FTS: "It's not just a big organism close to humans. It's something people will pay for, and the FDA process is much faster. We'll do dog trials, and that'll be a product, and that'll pay for scaling up in human trials."
I'm not going to claim that all regulation is bad, but there is a common theme out there that regulation is NEVER bad. This sentence can be read to say that they could alleviate pain and suffering faster, but the FDA is in the way.
From my own experience, I've seen the same thing with the FAA in my non-professional life. Just about anything that can be considered innovative in the GA aviation market occurs in Experimental Aviation. It is just too hard to get anything through the FAA blockade.
Good thing this company isn't talking about immortality. They are talking about pushing life to the limits that our bodies will support, without having individual parts breaking down and making the latter half of what we have so miserable.
Read carefully. The guy is saying he'd live to 130, but his body would be like a 22yr old. I've listened to other scientist who are working on aging, and as I understood it, the emphasis has moved from quantity to quality.
To over simplify, there are some inescapable realities in biology that means the fuel tank will eventually run dry. 120 was quoted as the limit, but it was a vague limit. 130 is within reason. But, what they were discovering is that there are things could be done to make the years after 70 something more than an inexorable decent into increasing arthritis, wasting muscles, and ever more brittle bone structure.
If someone was to tell me that my days will be cut off on my 70th birthday, but my body would be as virulent as it was in my 20s till that point, I'd jump on the chance.
I remember gumball machines full of small toys from when I was a kid. You'd drop your hard earned quarter in the slot and turn the dial with great anticipation that you'd get the cool x-ray ring or reflective sticker featured on the front of the machine. When the sort of egg shaped container dropped, you were generally disappointed to find a gummy artificial worm or a plastic spider ring that you had to remove the flashing from yourself. But, I once lucked out and got one of those flower shaped rings that would squirt water in the face of your friends when you got them to look at it (which got almost immediately taken from me when I used it on my aunt's boyfriend.:-(
I didn't realize at the time that I was such a high roller! I shoulda taken my game to Vegas.
I realize this is sarcasm (and well done at that), but the FAA has a clear definition of "flying". To be flying, one must rise out of ground effect. Generally, that will be at around one wingspan, or about 20 ft, for a vehicle of this size.
That video is kind of disconcerting to me... the takeoff and landing point is the same spot.
Well, given that the FAA requires a pilot to flight plan with 30 minutes of extra fuel at the end of a flight, and these things generally have advertised flight times of around 45, this is not suprising.
I'm sure it's not hard to fix, but using the same takeoff and landing point is sort of encouraging mid-air collisions. It clearly assumes all vehicles communicating their position with each other, which breaks when multiple competitors enter the space.
Do a search for ADS-B. This problem is actually not hard to solve.
I watched a documentary on building skyscrapers. The concept that stuck with me was that building one higher was not like stacking another floor on top. It was like jacking up the entire structure and sliding another floor underneath.
In Dunn, NC, this wouldn't make any sense, but consider downtown New York. Chicago. Tokyo. Hong Kong. Adding a floor could mean millions more in revenue. If you cut the weight of all the structure in half, it becomes much easier to slide another floor underneath.
This technology *may* have some interesting applications.
Because you must know more about reality than the thing you are creating.
I know nothing about building skyscrapers, super colliders, or lipstick. Yet, all those things exist. What you miss is that no single human has to know everything about an AI for human*S* to build one.
Emotions are the state indicators that evolution made for us to interact in groups. Groups are not possible without them. We perceive the internal states of others and react to those states by modifying our own behaviors - and we are motivated to do that if our motivation array is "normal." The HMA will never be replicated in a machine for this reason, we can't see it in detail.
Until recently, I was very bad at "reading" people. Then I read some books on how people express emotions, and what was going on in their heads when it happens. I now find it trivially easy to manipulate people without even speaking, and reading body language is boringly obvious. You may find reading and expressing emotions difficult, but I can almost guarantee the reason is that you've done it "instinctively" and just never really spent time studying the subject. Hell, we even have an entire INDUSTRY centered in LA and New York that is based on little more that faking emotions. Do you really think it would be that hard to codify an acting coach's instructions?
First post I read on this thread that made any sense. Free will and physics are orthogonal. Physics is the playing board upon which will operates. You have choices, but they are constrained.
Seriously. Before they told us they were influential, they would have been better off to tell us who the fuck they are. I've never even heard of this conference.
This is so obviously and completely wrong, it is ridiculous. If you've not seen how fat our homeless are, you've not been paying attention. The biggest health problem we have among our poor is OBESITY!! Stop being willfully ignorant.
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Doesn't seem to be cruel to me at all. You don't need to pump a room full of gas. Put a hood over their head and pump it full for 15 minutes.
The "bio containment" hood would be sufficient. It doesn't have to be 100% air tight. A small canister of compressed gas exhausted into the hood would be all the mechanicals needed. The criminal would only needed to be restrained to a chair or bed as is the current practice.
Gotta love taking a static picture of a dynamic system, and convincing yourself that you have an answer. Why would a state that had a low murder rate implement the death penalty? Why would a state with a prison system busting at the seems not seek a more ?permanent? solution?
Or, the death penalty was enacted after years of high murder rates?
And yet, did he not lay hands on the money changers at the entrance of the temple?
it does not prevent crime
Pretty sure the person put down won't be committing those crimes again.
and expensive to boot
and how much did it cost to keep Charles Manson caged all those years? Do you really think, that if set loose, he wouldn't commit equally atrocious crimes.
I'm generally opposed to the death penalty, for the last reason you stated, but there is no need to go all Polyannish on it either.
It does not mean sending money to governments. You're thinking of foreign aid.
So a plane full of pallets of cash flying to Iran in the middle of the night is "foreign aid"?
Just because John Henry was a steel driving man?
Realistically, who eats 1000 calories of veggies?
A large portion of the Southern US population. That's because each vegetable has to be individually dipped in ranch dressing for some strange reason. I get the strangest looks at restaurants when I ask for a salad with NO dressing. It's as if they don't recognize that vegetable actually have a flavor of their own.
FTS:
"It's not just a big organism close to humans. It's something people will pay for, and the FDA process is much faster. We'll do dog trials, and that'll be a product, and that'll pay for scaling up in human trials."
I'm not going to claim that all regulation is bad, but there is a common theme out there that regulation is NEVER bad. This sentence can be read to say that they could alleviate pain and suffering faster, but the FDA is in the way.
From my own experience, I've seen the same thing with the FAA in my non-professional life. Just about anything that can be considered innovative in the GA aviation market occurs in Experimental Aviation. It is just too hard to get anything through the FAA blockade.
Good thing this company isn't talking about immortality. They are talking about pushing life to the limits that our bodies will support, without having individual parts breaking down and making the latter half of what we have so miserable.
Read carefully. The guy is saying he'd live to 130, but his body would be like a 22yr old. I've listened to other scientist who are working on aging, and as I understood it, the emphasis has moved from quantity to quality.
To over simplify, there are some inescapable realities in biology that means the fuel tank will eventually run dry. 120 was quoted as the limit, but it was a vague limit. 130 is within reason. But, what they were discovering is that there are things could be done to make the years after 70 something more than an inexorable decent into increasing arthritis, wasting muscles, and ever more brittle bone structure.
If someone was to tell me that my days will be cut off on my 70th birthday, but my body would be as virulent as it was in my 20s till that point, I'd jump on the chance.
Haven't been to a Bernie rally have you?
I remember gumball machines full of small toys from when I was a kid. You'd drop your hard earned quarter in the slot and turn the dial with great anticipation that you'd get the cool x-ray ring or reflective sticker featured on the front of the machine. When the sort of egg shaped container dropped, you were generally disappointed to find a gummy artificial worm or a plastic spider ring that you had to remove the flashing from yourself. But, I once lucked out and got one of those flower shaped rings that would squirt water in the face of your friends when you got them to look at it (which got almost immediately taken from me when I used it on my aunt's boyfriend. :-(
I didn't realize at the time that I was such a high roller! I shoulda taken my game to Vegas.
I realize this is sarcasm (and well done at that), but the FAA has a clear definition of "flying". To be flying, one must rise out of ground effect. Generally, that will be at around one wingspan, or about 20 ft, for a vehicle of this size.
That video is kind of disconcerting to me... the takeoff and landing point is the same spot.
Well, given that the FAA requires a pilot to flight plan with 30 minutes of extra fuel at the end of a flight, and these things generally have advertised flight times of around 45, this is not suprising.
I'm sure it's not hard to fix, but using the same takeoff and landing point is sort of encouraging mid-air collisions. It clearly assumes all vehicles communicating their position with each other, which breaks when multiple competitors enter the space.
Do a search for ADS-B. This problem is actually not hard to solve.
You can make it automated enough that learning it would be something like getting a different class driver's license
My engine quit when I was alone at 7,500ft. I just wish there were words that could express how wrong you are.
Is it worth it?
I watched a documentary on building skyscrapers. The concept that stuck with me was that building one higher was not like stacking another floor on top. It was like jacking up the entire structure and sliding another floor underneath.
In Dunn, NC, this wouldn't make any sense, but consider downtown New York. Chicago. Tokyo. Hong Kong. Adding a floor could mean millions more in revenue. If you cut the weight of all the structure in half, it becomes much easier to slide another floor underneath.
This technology *may* have some interesting applications.
Because you must know more about reality than the thing you are creating.
I know nothing about building skyscrapers, super colliders, or lipstick. Yet, all those things exist. What you miss is that no single human has to know everything about an AI for human*S* to build one.
Emotions are the state indicators that evolution made for us to interact in groups. Groups are not possible without them. We perceive the internal states of others and react to those states by modifying our own behaviors - and we are motivated to do that if our motivation array is "normal." The HMA will never be replicated in a machine for this reason, we can't see it in detail.
Until recently, I was very bad at "reading" people. Then I read some books on how people express emotions, and what was going on in their heads when it happens. I now find it trivially easy to manipulate people without even speaking, and reading body language is boringly obvious. You may find reading and expressing emotions difficult, but I can almost guarantee the reason is that you've done it "instinctively" and just never really spent time studying the subject. Hell, we even have an entire INDUSTRY centered in LA and New York that is based on little more that faking emotions. Do you really think it would be that hard to codify an acting coach's instructions?
First post I read on this thread that made any sense. Free will and physics are orthogonal. Physics is the playing board upon which will operates. You have choices, but they are constrained.
Seriously. Before they told us they were influential, they would have been better off to tell us who the fuck they are. I've never even heard of this conference.
How am I supposed to signal virtue if people think I'm a dog?
Were they not able to find all the employees that help Barack Obama scrape data to help his campaign?
In America if you don't work, you don't eat.
This is so obviously and completely wrong, it is ridiculous. If you've not seen how fat our homeless are, you've not been paying attention. The biggest health problem we have among our poor is OBESITY!! Stop being willfully ignorant.
Also lots of braking, but I see everyone leaving out the biggest plus....
Diesel busses are LOUD. Anything to reduce the cacophony that is a big city is a plus.