I'm pretty sure that being able to hunt, farm, build, and look out for predators for an extra few hours every day would enable you to stay alive long enough to reproduce more than the average cave man.
The Hollywood Singularity will occur when a movie is remade before the previous remake has finished production. I am glad to see this bold step towards the Hollywood Singularity.
You are alone in this view. The accepted source of the creation of oil is organic matter under high heat and pressure. The unaccepted contrary view is it is an abiotic process. Nobody except you claims it is made by microorganisms.
From Wikipedia: crude oil and natural gas are products of heating of ancient organic materials (i.e. kerogen) over geological time. Formation of petroleum occurs from hydrocarbon pyrolysis, in a variety of mostly endothermic reactions at high temperature and/or pressure.[14] Today's oil formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae, which had settled to a sea or lake bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions (the remains of prehistoric terrestrial plants, on the other hand, tended to form coal). Over geological time the organic matter mixed with mud, and was buried under heavy layers of sediment resulting in high levels of heat and pressure (known as diagenesis). This process caused the organic matter to change, first into a waxy material known as kerogen, which is found in various oil shales around the world, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons via a process known as catagenesis.
Javascript is actually an awesome powerful language with features rivaling Ruby. The problem isn't the language, the problem is the development environment. Edit, Upload, and Pray isn't very productive. Get yourself some real Javascript (ECMA-script) debugging tools and enjoy a great language.
Someone want to reply with some suggestions. I'm using the Firefox plugin Javascript Debugger and Profiler, but I don't do much Javascript these days and I'm sure there is much better.
I wonder if '4chan' is considered a social network. Banned from 4chan for being a Sex Offender. That would be a problem because I think that is also one of the requirements for membership in 4chan.
It isn't always a good idea to copy nature exactly.
Think about the 'natural' process for creating oil: Take millions of plants using photosynthesis to create carbon based material. Run for millions of years, accumulating the product. Then put a mountain on top of it, shove it deep under the Earth. Apply tremendous heat and pressure for millions of years more. Remove mountain top and extract.
So even if we are able to copy photosynthesis, what does it get us? We use energy several hundred million times faster than nature collects it.
Err umm, Some of my um CLIENTS need to know if their Palm Pre will record visits to their prostitutes. Ahem... please answer this question before 4pm this afternoon, if possible.
This article is just full of "clever" ideas from people with no idea how forensics work. The forensic investigator will be working off a clone of your hard drive, not the original. Overwriting the encrypted data with random data will show the investigator exactly where your precious data is stored. He will then make a new clone and get to work on the data that was overwritten on the previous attempt.
> the Sun may not be the ideal kind of star to nurture life, and that the Earth may not be the ideal size.
100% of the available evidence claims that the Sun *IS* the ideal kind of star to nurture life, and the Earth *IS* the ideal size for life. Netcraft report notwithstanding.
Thousands of 4channers suddenly stop what they were doing and in unison spit out, 'WHAT just got connected to the Internet?' as smiles spreads across their faces.... maybe this isn't such a good idea...
Some good points (except for somehow thinking my suggestions mean I am "afraid" of big numbers) Keep in mind, however, that the inflection point for "the singularity" is an A.I. than can design a better A.I.. Your examples of a mouse brain or a severely damaged human brain would not be able to design a better A.I.
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From all of the arguments against my initial post, it seems inevitable that in the near or far future we will be able to build an A.I. of at least human intelligence. An interesting extrapolation of this is that one day our legacy will be artificially engineered beings. Beings that have the complete blueprints to their own design and can alter that design to fit their needs, such as space exploration, different resources, etc.
Now you've encoded the existential property for 220000 trillion neurons. They exist, or they don't. Next we may need to encode a little bit more detail for each one.
But what if the brain works by exploiting all of the effects of molecules, proteins, ions, electrical charges, even quantum effects at a molecular level? We have seen that evolution is excellent at finding very clever ways of exploiting whatever resources are available. It is possible that the only way to simulate a brain is to simulate every single atom involved within a brain. For obvious reasons a computer made of 'n' atoms cannot simulate a brain made of 'n' atoms as fast as that brain can work.
I don't know that this is true, but it certainly brings up the possibility that it may be impossible to simulate a brain faster than a brain works, or better than a brain.
Or on a slightly less pessimistic level, perhaps a "synapse" could be encapsulated in a software object, but the number of variables that make each synapse's position, arrangement, and connections unique are staggering and would require a machine to be thousands of times more powerful than a real brain in order to simulate it. That would move our "singularity" out til we have computers that can process as much as 22,000 billion neurons and 220,000 trillion synapses. I wonder if someone better at math and physics could calculate the bare minimum energy required for the negative-entropy to store 220,000 trillion somewhat complex pieces of information. I recall reading a calculation that the ZFS filesystem has the theoretical (but not practical) limit of enough information that the minimum energy required to actual encode that information would be enough to boil the Earth.
> speaking of mind blowing, malda just blew me. Shit was so cash. Literally. He ate out my asshole and offered my $5 if I would shit in his mouth. Given the size of the brown rope I dropped, he sure got his money's worth.
4chan just called, they want their zeitgeist back.
The Terrorism Task Force didn't catch him with their investigation. They caught him because the stupid 20 year old went to the train station and tried to sell the radio back to them. Yes, he should be stopped from doing such a stupid and potentially dangerous prank. Do you really feel this stupid 20 year old deserves to spend 20 years in jail as a terrorist for this? What benefit will that serve? He would come out a 40 year old hardened criminal.
Yeah, the guy was a dumbass. Yeah, his pranks could possible maybe caused some trouble. But 'Terrorism Task Force?'. Really? This is what we have 'Terrorism Task Forces' working on?
"You wouldn't want Farmer Jones to come back, would you?" "No, no, we wouldn't want that. Napolean is always right."
That's a good point. The better our communications technologies get, the closer to noise they look like. Text streaming across a 2400 baud modem had a lot less entropy than a compressed zip file streaming across an encrypted SSL connection.
I'd be much more interested in knowing if any murderers live near me than someone who may or may not have pissed behind a bush.
But we don't track murderers, do we? They don't get votes the way sex offenders do these days.
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I'm pretty sure that being able to hunt, farm, build, and look out for predators for an extra few hours every day would enable you to stay alive long enough to reproduce more than the average cave man.
Or at least *remakes* of black and white silent films:
"High School Nosferatu!"
The Hollywood Singularity will occur when a movie is remade before the previous remake has finished production. I am glad to see this bold step towards the Hollywood Singularity.
> Oil is made by millions of tiny microorganisms.
Citation needed.
You are alone in this view. The accepted source of the creation of oil is organic matter under high heat and pressure. The unaccepted contrary view is it is an abiotic process. Nobody except you claims it is made by microorganisms.
From Wikipedia:
crude oil and natural gas are products of heating of ancient organic materials (i.e. kerogen) over geological time. Formation of petroleum occurs from hydrocarbon pyrolysis, in a variety of mostly endothermic reactions at high temperature and/or pressure.[14] Today's oil formed from the preserved remains of prehistoric zooplankton and algae, which had settled to a sea or lake bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions (the remains of prehistoric terrestrial plants, on the other hand, tended to form coal). Over geological time the organic matter mixed with mud, and was buried under heavy layers of sediment resulting in high levels of heat and pressure (known as diagenesis). This process caused the organic matter to change, first into a waxy material known as kerogen, which is found in various oil shales around the world, and then with more heat into liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons via a process known as catagenesis.
Javascript is actually an awesome powerful language with features rivaling Ruby. The problem isn't the language, the problem is the development environment. Edit, Upload, and Pray isn't very productive. Get yourself some real Javascript (ECMA-script) debugging tools and enjoy a great language.
Someone want to reply with some suggestions. I'm using the Firefox plugin Javascript Debugger and Profiler, but I don't do much Javascript these days and I'm sure there is much better.
I wonder if '4chan' is considered a social network.
Banned from 4chan for being a Sex Offender.
That would be a problem because I think that is also one of the requirements for membership in 4chan.
It isn't always a good idea to copy nature exactly.
Think about the 'natural' process for creating oil: Take millions of plants using photosynthesis to create carbon based material. Run for millions of years, accumulating the product. Then put a mountain on top of it, shove it deep under the Earth. Apply tremendous heat and pressure for millions of years more. Remove mountain top and extract.
So even if we are able to copy photosynthesis, what does it get us? We use energy several hundred million times faster than nature collects it.
> some do. its just hit the lawyer boards.
> http://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1062087&mc=1&forum_id=2
Err umm, Some of my um CLIENTS need to know if their Palm Pre will record visits to their prostitutes.
Ahem... please answer this question before 4pm this afternoon, if possible.
This article is just full of "clever" ideas from people with no idea how forensics work.
The forensic investigator will be working off a clone of your hard drive, not the original.
Overwriting the encrypted data with random data will show the investigator exactly where your precious data is stored.
He will then make a new clone and get to work on the data that was overwritten on the previous attempt.
> the Sun may not be the ideal kind of star to nurture life, and that the Earth may not be the ideal size.
100% of the available evidence claims that the Sun *IS* the ideal kind of star to nurture life, and the Earth *IS* the ideal size for life.
Netcraft report notwithstanding.
> theirs no way a cat can download 1,000s of images by walking on the keyboard
There is if the guy left his browser on the download page of a site with child porn.
I'm totally doing a mashup so the Internet can watch Carol Kasyjanski's heartbeat and music to go with it.
Thousands of 4channers suddenly stop what they were doing and in unison spit out, 'WHAT just got connected to the Internet?' as smiles spreads across their faces. ... maybe this isn't such a good idea...
Exactly what I was thinking!
Why should I pay taxes to give $465 million dollars to a company that GROSSES $20 million a year?!
I guess my big mistake is not having a company that knows how to play the government game and get people to fund my pet projects.
Some good points (except for somehow thinking my suggestions mean I am "afraid" of big numbers)
Keep in mind, however, that the inflection point for "the singularity" is an A.I. than can design a better A.I.. Your examples of a mouse brain or a severely damaged human brain would not be able to design a better A.I.
===
From all of the arguments against my initial post, it seems inevitable that in the near or far future we will be able to build an A.I. of at least human intelligence. An interesting extrapolation of this is that one day our legacy will be artificially engineered beings. Beings that have the complete blueprints to their own design and can alter that design to fit their needs, such as space exploration, different resources, etc.
> 220000 trillion *BITS*
(emphasis mine)
Now you've encoded the existential property for 220000 trillion neurons. They exist, or they don't.
Next we may need to encode a little bit more detail for each one.
But what if the brain works by exploiting all of the effects of molecules, proteins, ions, electrical charges, even quantum effects at a molecular level? We have seen that evolution is excellent at finding very clever ways of exploiting whatever resources are available. It is possible that the only way to simulate a brain is to simulate every single atom involved within a brain. For obvious reasons a computer made of 'n' atoms cannot simulate a brain made of 'n' atoms as fast as that brain can work.
I don't know that this is true, but it certainly brings up the possibility that it may be impossible to simulate a brain faster than a brain works, or better than a brain.
Or on a slightly less pessimistic level, perhaps a "synapse" could be encapsulated in a software object, but the number of variables that make each synapse's position, arrangement, and connections unique are staggering and would require a machine to be thousands of times more powerful than a real brain in order to simulate it. That would move our "singularity" out til we have computers that can process as much as 22,000 billion neurons and 220,000 trillion synapses. I wonder if someone better at math and physics could calculate the bare minimum energy required for the negative-entropy to store 220,000 trillion somewhat complex pieces of information. I recall reading a calculation that the ZFS filesystem has the theoretical (but not practical) limit of enough information that the minimum energy required to actual encode that information would be enough to boil the Earth.
> speaking of mind blowing, malda just blew me. Shit was so cash. Literally. He ate out my asshole and offered my $5 if I would shit in his mouth. Given the size of the brown rope I dropped, he sure got his money's worth.
4chan just called, they want their zeitgeist back.
As soon as I get my hands on an API.
The Terrorism Task Force didn't catch him with their investigation. They caught him because the stupid 20 year old went to the train station and tried to sell the radio back to them.
Yes, he should be stopped from doing such a stupid and potentially dangerous prank. Do you really feel this stupid 20 year old deserves to spend 20 years in jail as a terrorist for this? What benefit will that serve? He would come out a 40 year old hardened criminal.
Yeah, the guy was a dumbass. Yeah, his pranks could possible maybe caused some trouble. But 'Terrorism Task Force?'. Really? This is what we have 'Terrorism Task Forces' working on?
"You wouldn't want Farmer Jones to come back, would you?"
"No, no, we wouldn't want that. Napolean is always right."
Not just clever cheaters. If money is involved you can be sure there will be legions of third world players being PAID to play, bet, and cheat.
That's a good point. The better our communications technologies get, the closer to noise they look like.
Text streaming across a 2400 baud modem had a lot less entropy than a compressed zip file streaming across an encrypted SSL connection.
I'd be much more interested in knowing if any murderers live near me than someone who may or may not have pissed behind a bush.
But we don't track murderers, do we? They don't get votes the way sex offenders do these days.
Viktor, Sputnik, and Tor, is that you?