I don't know folding clothes is necessarily harder, but it is much more expensive, simply because of all the extra mechanical parts. And the work output of a clothes folding machine is much less valuable than the output of an expert system that looks at medical scans.
Whatever test is created to have an AI legally qualify itself
Unlikely though. Legal rights come with legal responsibilities. And legal responsibilities require some form of sanction to work. It's possible to make an AI that's immune to sanctions so this means you cannot give it legal rights without running into serious problems.
Example: suppose I create an AI agent that becomes a legal individual. It gets a credit card, and then buys me a gift. I then terminate the AI. I now have a free gift,
Blockchain refers specifically to the distributed nature of the beast where there is no possibility of a central trusted authority.
The essence of a blockchain is just a set of transactions, combined in blocks, where each block contains a secure hash of the previous one, hence they form a chain. It is typically used in a distributed fashion, but that doesn't mean that this is the only possible way to apply the technology.
(if the data is in one place then there is only one place to change it)
No, because if all the blocks are published, and stored in multiple places, then it's impossible to change any of them without people noticing.
(if there is only one place the calculation has happened then how can you verify it is correct).
You can verify the correctness by means of the public key that's also published.
So I should have my power prices raised because some asshole neighbour with a twenty gpu rig is busy calculating hashes?
Yes. The other solution requires defining what is wasteful/rightful use of electricity, and setting up a special police force to check on everybody's private life to see whether they are compliant. Oh, you're watching foreign cartoons on a big plasma TV ? Sorry buddy, can't tolerate that.
It's not the blockchain technology itself that requires a lot of power. What requires the power is the distributed trust model (which bitcoin uses).
You could make a public blockchain where a central trusted agent just signs all the blocks with their private key. This would take no effort at all, and would be suitable for most private companies. The rest of the world can verify all the transactions, but cannot add to them directly.
If you live in a city where you have to park on the street, well you better hope someone wants to invest in curbside charging stations and wants to deal with the hassle of vandals screwing with the cables.
It'll happen. Cities like clean air, and the investments are modest. Vandals screwing with the cables is not a bigger problem than vandals breaking your windows is right now.
At the bottom line, there will be an up-front charge for the investments, but over time, the higher efficiency and simpler design of the EV will save all of us money. And of course, supply of oil is limited, so we don't have a choice, really.
A problem with that is a steam thermal plant needs to stay hot, and therefore burn fuel, if you expect to get energy from it in short order. Using gas turbines allows for a speedy spin up but they are only half as efficient as a steam plant, it burns twice the fuel for the same electrical energy. That's not saving any fuel.
Charging at night would help a lot to make the demand curve flatter, allowing more efficient plants that can run at constant power. You could even improve it by adopting a smart grid where price of electricity is adjusted dynamically and allow consumers to pick the best times to charge.
The rules of Go are far simpler than the rules of Chess, but Go requires a lot more thought. So Go suits using a neural net better than Chess.
Both games can be done by neural net. The biggest difference is that chess can also be done very well with a brute search, whereas Go can't. This means that the bar for chess is much higher.
I don't worry about saturated fats. You can't really avoid them, especially not if you're already avoiding carbs, and picking mainly natural whole foods. Our ancestors have eaten saturated fats for millions of years, and our own body makes saturated fat to store excess energy.
Stuff like peanut oil should not be a major part of your calorie intake. Also, you can't trust that oils are really clean and pure and not oxidized. For example, Italian police claims that half of the Italian "extra virgin" olive oil has been mixed with cheap oil.
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Which one what? The hockey stick data is a long discussed set, which you're not doubt fully aware of.
There have been several 'hockey stick' graphs published, by various people, using different kinds of data sets.
Show us the link to the raw 'hockey stick data'.
Which one ? Can you provide a direct link to the paper ?
I don't know folding clothes is necessarily harder, but it is much more expensive, simply because of all the extra mechanical parts. And the work output of a clothes folding machine is much less valuable than the output of an expert system that looks at medical scans.
Whatever test is created to have an AI legally qualify itself
Unlikely though. Legal rights come with legal responsibilities. And legal responsibilities require some form of sanction to work. It's possible to make an AI that's immune to sanctions so this means you cannot give it legal rights without running into serious problems.
Example: suppose I create an AI agent that becomes a legal individual. It gets a credit card, and then buys me a gift. I then terminate the AI. I now have a free gift,
Blockchain refers specifically to the distributed nature of the beast where there is no possibility of a central trusted authority.
The essence of a blockchain is just a set of transactions, combined in blocks, where each block contains a secure hash of the previous one, hence they form a chain. It is typically used in a distributed fashion, but that doesn't mean that this is the only possible way to apply the technology.
(if the data is in one place then there is only one place to change it)
No, because if all the blocks are published, and stored in multiple places, then it's impossible to change any of them without people noticing.
(if there is only one place the calculation has happened then how can you verify it is correct).
You can verify the correctness by means of the public key that's also published.
So I should have my power prices raised because some asshole neighbour with a twenty gpu rig is busy calculating hashes?
Yes. The other solution requires defining what is wasteful/rightful use of electricity, and setting up a special police force to check on everybody's private life to see whether they are compliant. Oh, you're watching foreign cartoons on a big plasma TV ? Sorry buddy, can't tolerate that.
Miners should be fined for every kilowatt they wasted on mining.
Yes, they already do that. It's called the electricity bill. Is that not enough ? Then raise the price of electricity.
It's not the blockchain technology itself that requires a lot of power. What requires the power is the distributed trust model (which bitcoin uses).
You could make a public blockchain where a central trusted agent just signs all the blocks with their private key. This would take no effort at all, and would be suitable for most private companies. The rest of the world can verify all the transactions, but cannot add to them directly.
but google et al dont seem to care since they have plenty of transit they control and CDN like features...
good luck getting the telco's to use this and support it (they will just drop your packets)
So you think the telcos are going to compete with Google's long haul links by offering a worse service ?
The fundamental rule has always been that facts are universal, opinion is personal.
Great start. Now how do we figure out whether something posted as fact was truthful ?
If you live in a city where you have to park on the street, well you better hope someone wants to invest in curbside charging stations and wants to deal with the hassle of vandals screwing with the cables.
It'll happen. Cities like clean air, and the investments are modest. Vandals screwing with the cables is not a bigger problem than vandals breaking your windows is right now.
At the bottom line, there will be an up-front charge for the investments, but over time, the higher efficiency and simpler design of the EV will save all of us money. And of course, supply of oil is limited, so we don't have a choice, really.
Sounds like you need a firmware update that disables the low oil warning.
A problem with that is a steam thermal plant needs to stay hot, and therefore burn fuel, if you expect to get energy from it in short order. Using gas turbines allows for a speedy spin up but they are only half as efficient as a steam plant, it burns twice the fuel for the same electrical energy. That's not saving any fuel.
Charging at night would help a lot to make the demand curve flatter, allowing more efficient plants that can run at constant power. You could even improve it by adopting a smart grid where price of electricity is adjusted dynamically and allow consumers to pick the best times to charge.
The rules of Go are far simpler than the rules of Chess, but Go requires a lot more thought. So Go suits using a neural net better than Chess.
Both games can be done by neural net. The biggest difference is that chess can also be done very well with a brute search, whereas Go can't. This means that the bar for chess is much higher.
I don't worry about saturated fats. You can't really avoid them, especially not if you're already avoiding carbs, and picking mainly natural whole foods. Our ancestors have eaten saturated fats for millions of years, and our own body makes saturated fat to store excess energy.
Stuff like peanut oil should not be a major part of your calorie intake. Also, you can't trust that oils are really clean and pure and not oxidized. For example, Italian police claims that half of the Italian "extra virgin" olive oil has been mixed with cheap oil.
Changes in the diet
In particular, a low-carb diet.
Go ahead: http://play.lczero.org/
Start with easy mode (computer looks at 1 node before playing a move). If all 4 modes are too easy, download the binary yourself, and play on GPU.
Subscribe to one of them. Watch everything that interests you. Cancel . Subscribe to another.
I don't think they would get human news readers that were noticeably uncomfortable, so shouldn't make a difference anyway.
I often think about work projects during a commute in public transport. When I drive myself, I prefer to keep my full attention on the traffic.
HFT in the energy markets is about as useful as HFT in stock markets- not very much.
HFT is useful as arbitrage. It provides better prices for the rest of the market.
Except that they're not trying random things. Search is directed by neural network.
Once you have AI killer bots to defend the homeland, it's only a small step to use them to keep your own population in check.
The ozone layer does warm the stratosphere some since it it capturing UV energy up there and that has repercussions all the way down to the surface
If the ozone layer didn't capture the UV, the surface would have, and less of it would be radiated back into space.
I have a hard time imagining the mindset of someone who thinks interstellar civilizations will be like Vikings, but with space ships.
Do you also have a hard time imaging the mindset of Vikings ?