Thanks. But I figured the english spelling of Japanese script wasn't that important as long as it sounds right. Even your corrections aren't that helpful since I wouldn't know the right way to pronounce it without little carets and bars and such over the vowels. That, and there's no way to spell out how asians "hock a loogey" while talking.:)
Even Pros should be given the freedom to experiment with language when the rules aren't set in stone. I'm not saying a NYTime columnist should start spelling 'and' as 'ahnd' just to go against the grain, but when there is no defacto RIGHT WAY to spell something, a person should just go with whatever feels right to him.
Sometimes I go to the theatre, and sometimes I go to the theater.:)
I would suggest that AI go under an "Emergence" topic instead (since AI must be evolved bottom-up, not designed top-down:), along with ALife, GA, GP, NN's, etc.
Maybe use an anthill for an icon to depict complexity naturally emerging from simplicity? Or maybe a few cells from conways game of life?
That's a new one. Usually people try and argue that it's powering the tiny machines themselves that is the problem, not getting the power in the first place.:)
Anyway, see that big yellow disk up in the sky? Most of that vast supply of energy will be lost to space until we capture it with solar power satellites (and microwave it back to the Earth's surface).
Your post just about sums up my entire line of thinking as well.
Certain groups of people necessarily want to make information artificially scarce in order to give it an inflated value (per item in the current system) that they can then trade for other things that are really scarce, like food and clothing.
But what happens a few decades down the road when cheap molecular manufacturing enables anyone to make perfect 'copies' of food & clothing & shelter, etc., using free sunlight, freely available molecules, and no labor? Hmm... it's Napster all over again, except this time nobody starves (not that were before either).
(though there's still the problem of landlords... and I'm libertarian, so I'm for property rights in meatspace... so hopefully diamondoid space elevators will be in place by that time such that we can manufacture our own offworld habitats for new realestate (until we ditch meatspace for virtualspace a few decades later that is))
Yeah... but the good news is that it's easy to convert from Sorenson to DivX (or XVid, or whatever), at least in windows. You just export from QuickTime to Cinepak AVI (remembering to set HQ output). Then you just re-encode to Divx+mp3(or ogg) in VirtualDub.
I'm sure the new encode will pop on p2p networks sometime soon. The same thing happens with other (popular) sorenson only clips.
The last great Hollywood movie's I've seen in the past few years (that I can remember off the top of my head... hence are memorable TO ME): In The Bedroom, Matrix, Dark City, Magnolia, Crouching Tiger, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Requiem for a Dream,...and a few I've seen on the Sundance channel... like Bagdad Cafe.
What do many of these movies have in common with good Anime? Really good stories married to really great visuals. Even when 90% of everything is crap (some universal law:), anime's 90% manages to stink less for some reason.
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I don't see anything in the rules that says your code has to be human readable. This means you could use GA to breed a good algorithm (even though no human will be able to understand how it works).
You know... one day in the not too distant future, all hardware (not just tech-related) will be open source too (you can stop laughing), and it'll be almost as cheap and easy to replicate these bits of matter as bits of information. I often wonder what all those titans of industry (like Cisco) will end up doing when they don't even own the means of manufacturing anymore... they'll probably just end up like RIAA/MPAA: writhing in prehistoric pain whilst bribing govt for artificial life extension law.
It was an arbitrary example, but to answer why my mutant gecko might have ended up with wings: Maybe because my fitness function gave higher scores to the organism that could get from point A to B over impassible terrain as fast a possible (hence flight optimization), in addition to giving a higher score to organisms that could spy while sticking to dry ceilings in extremely windy conditions (hence taking advantage of simulated molecular properties by trial and error). So the winner is the "gecko" that can fly from my homebase to the enemy compound in X minutes, stick to the ceiling, spy, then fly back ASAP.
A lot of natures creatures don't make a lot of sense until you look a little harder... e.g. there's a snail with a giant foot. Why? because it also uses this foot as a sail to ride the tide onto the beach to feed.
Slowly.:) There's even more amazing adaptations in nature than this though.
Think of the even more amazingly optimized 'designs' that will emerge when we've got sufficient processing power to evolve solutions in fine-grained simulated environments. Feed in a long list of design constraints and a few fitness functions (hardpart), and wait for your flying-gecko-spy to emerge.:)
Independent offworld colonies (in ~50+ years when nanotech makes it easy), followed shortly thereafter by 'mythical lands' in the virtual space of the society of mind.
...and what color is the sky there?
Depends. If you're a planetary chauvinist, the sky will be red (on Mars), otherwise it'll be black or blue depending on the size of the space habitat (4 miles of atmosphere is enough to produce a blue sky overhead, along with clouds, and weird weather).
Libertarians have been aware of this problem for a long time; one of the main goals is to drastically reduce government bloat (and hence taxes). There's a reason government jobs are called CUSHY government jobs.:)
The other issue is the population.
As Verner Vinge said: "The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. In the coming of the Singularity, we are seeing the predictions of _true_ technological unemployment finally come true."
What are people (who still have a strongly ingrained work ethic) to do with their time when they're not able to do anything truly productive? Become and U.S. Prison guard? Corporate middle-manager? Paper-pushing civil servant?
Braaaaaziiiil...:-)
(I hope 'busy-work' isn't the future. I'd rather have the unemployed 'working' on enjoying their lives and entertaining others (for "free") until the Singularity arrives.)
It frankly amazes me that no one on slashdot, where we've seen all the pieces of this puzzle presented to us time and time again vis-a-vis the lobbying of Hollywood, Microsoft, and the Recording industry to restrict our digital rights, can see this coming.
No one eh? You're the only person who "get's it" eh? Come on. Much of slashdot is aware of the mental engineering going on around us.
The only problem is how to make such a power grab into our personal lives palitable to the majority of Americans.
You scream: "Communists!", Terrorists!", "Columbine!", "Pirates!", "The Economy!", "For The Children!", etc. Then you offer to "do something" (i.e. put on a magic show) to make the sheeple feel safe and cozy minus some freedom.
There's not much you can do in the face of a masterful propaganda campaign. Most frogs will happily be boiled slowly (Brave New World), but the few frogs who have learned from history are doomed to watch it repeat as the temperature is increased by the puppetmasters. (love to mix my metaphors).
Politically Incorrect was one of those shows. It had GREAT ratings, but it got canned by Disney (owns ABC) because Bill Maher was a "bad man" who didn't kiss corporate butt, and his demographic wasn't composed of the more profitable young sheeple audience.
Pity... it was one of the very few shows I used to watch. I liked being able to see stupid celebs squirm when they attempted to engage their brain to talk about current events, and I liked the anything goes style of the show. Ah well... there's always watered-down network news...
Here: edonkey + ShareReactor's Adult DVD rips. Now you're up to date (unless you're a masochist and prefer the old festering pits of IRC/usenet/FTP).
Gnutella and FastTrack are more suited for small & medium-sized files. eDonkey -- specifically its Forced Partial File Sharing feature -- excels at distributing large files.
Oh yeah... buy the DVD if you like it... and if you don't mind the 'nonsescript' charge showing up on your card (because there's no fucking anonymous digital cash alternative, and there'll probably never will be because "the terrorists could use it to kill your children"). Pornstars need to eat too(!)... at least until such a point in the future where tech allows you to direct your own virtual pr0n stars.:)
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Sometimes I go to the theatre, and sometimes I go to the theater. :)
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Maybe use an anthill for an icon to depict complexity naturally emerging from simplicity? Or maybe a few cells from conways game of life?
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Anyway, see that big yellow disk up in the sky? Most of that vast supply of energy will be lost to space until we capture it with solar power satellites (and microwave it back to the Earth's surface).
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Narrow minded people think this is typical of all drug users.
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Certain groups of people necessarily want to make information artificially scarce in order to give it an inflated value (per item in the current system) that they can then trade for other things that are really scarce, like food and clothing.
But what happens a few decades down the road when cheap molecular manufacturing enables anyone to make perfect 'copies' of food & clothing & shelter, etc., using free sunlight, freely available molecules, and no labor? Hmm... it's Napster all over again, except this time nobody starves (not that were before either).
(though there's still the problem of landlords... and I'm libertarian, so I'm for property rights in meatspace... so hopefully diamondoid space elevators will be in place by that time such that we can manufacture our own offworld habitats for new realestate (until we ditch meatspace for virtualspace a few decades later that is))
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I'd suggest that unconventional twists of language are a good thing. Gotta keep the mutation rate up d00d.
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- Watashi = I
- Nani? = what?
- Nanda? = same as 'what' I think.
- Nano? = where am I?
- Daymo = but
- mushi mushi = hello
- Un-o = excuse me
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You deny the inevitability of the Singularity?! And the world is flat until we sail around it too (vs looking at the shadow cast on the moon). :)
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I'm sure the new encode will pop on p2p networks sometime soon. The same thing happens with other (popular) sorenson only clips.
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What do many of these movies have in common with good Anime? Really good stories married to really great visuals. Even when 90% of everything is crap (some universal law :), anime's 90% manages to stink less for some reason.
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A lot of natures creatures don't make a lot of sense until you look a little harder... e.g. there's a snail with a giant foot. Why? because it also uses this foot as a sail to ride the tide onto the beach to feed.
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Slowly. :) There's even more amazing adaptations in nature than this though.
Think of the even more amazingly optimized 'designs' that will emerge when we've got sufficient processing power to evolve solutions in fine-grained simulated environments. Feed in a long list of design constraints and a few fitness functions (hardpart), and wait for your flying-gecko-spy to emerge. :)
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Independent offworld colonies (in ~50+ years when nanotech makes it easy), followed shortly thereafter by 'mythical lands' in the virtual space of the society of mind.
Depends. If you're a planetary chauvinist, the sky will be red (on Mars), otherwise it'll be black or blue depending on the size of the space habitat (4 miles of atmosphere is enough to produce a blue sky overhead, along with clouds, and weird weather).
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The other issue is the population.
As Verner Vinge said: "The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. In the coming of the Singularity, we are seeing the predictions of _true_ technological unemployment finally come true."
What are people (who still have a strongly ingrained work ethic) to do with their time when they're not able to do anything truly productive? Become and U.S. Prison guard? Corporate middle-manager? Paper-pushing civil servant?
Braaaaaziiiil... :-)
(I hope 'busy-work' isn't the future. I'd rather have the unemployed 'working' on enjoying their lives and entertaining others (for "free") until the Singularity arrives.)
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No one eh? You're the only person who "get's it" eh? Come on. Much of slashdot is aware of the mental engineering going on around us.
The only problem is how to make such a power grab into our personal lives palitable to the majority of Americans.
You scream: "Communists!", Terrorists!", "Columbine!", "Pirates!", "The Economy!", "For The Children!", etc. Then you offer to "do something" (i.e. put on a magic show) to make the sheeple feel safe and cozy minus some freedom.
There's not much you can do in the face of a masterful propaganda campaign. Most frogs will happily be boiled slowly (Brave New World), but the few frogs who have learned from history are doomed to watch it repeat as the temperature is increased by the puppetmasters. (love to mix my metaphors).
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Pity... it was one of the very few shows I used to watch. I liked being able to see stupid celebs squirm when they attempted to engage their brain to talk about current events, and I liked the anything goes style of the show. Ah well... there's always watered-down network news...
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Here: edonkey + ShareReactor's Adult DVD rips. Now you're up to date (unless you're a masochist and prefer the old festering pits of IRC/usenet/FTP).
Gnutella and FastTrack are more suited for small & medium-sized files. eDonkey -- specifically its Forced Partial File Sharing feature -- excels at distributing large files.
Oh yeah... buy the DVD if you like it... and if you don't mind the 'nonsescript' charge showing up on your card (because there's no fucking anonymous digital cash alternative, and there'll probably never will be because "the terrorists could use it to kill your children"). Pornstars need to eat too(!)... at least until such a point in the future where tech allows you to direct your own virtual pr0n stars. :)
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