>> Defense Labs and National Labs: the political forces are too strong for blue-sky research to happen there.
Definately take the politics out - I once worked in defence research lab, specialising in weapons technology. My pet area is killing groups of people as quickly as possible (outdoor specialist). My team came up with some breakthrough ideas, but the g-men said it was too abstract, too blue sky, too arty-farty.
It pretty much came down to "it can kill lots of people, but unless it can start production in my state next quarter and be killing brown people within the year, it's a no-go.", my favourite excuse (shot down because the office favourite's conventional design had a cool looking model): "Your laser is great, the people are out of the way, but now the oil fields on fire.".
Last weekend, by friend phoned me up and wondered if I wanted to go camping with him. I said "sure" and jacked up my 2000lb truck camper, parked the truck under it, fired up the propane-powered fridge, hauled some food out, hooked up my 14' boat, buckled in my kid and wife, stopped at a gas station on the way out of town and was headed out after about an hour and a half of preperation. I drove for four hours non-stop and arrived at the park where we had non-electical sites. Stayed there saturday night, loaded everything back up and drove another four hours home. That's eight hours of driving hauling around about 4000 lbs of "stuff" on 1.5 hours preparation. Currently, switching to some electric truck would definately not allow me to do that with todays resources, technology, and brains.
People have slept outdoors before without requiring 4000lbs to be moved for 8 hours with an internal combustion engine.
It is not just your religion that forbits murder, raping and stealing, but every human society on earth (At least among members within each society). Killing, raping and stealing from outside of the societies inner circle is different, we are humans, they are non humans - Philistines - and don't count. Another external motivation on you to stop killing is the law.
Since we are all here we know that before religion and laws humans survived in small groups for millions of years. Those people survived together by developing behavioral rules, rules that since they are universal among every known human tribe, of every age and every God, must come from be inside our minds.
Later more evolved minds made art, sang songs and told stories to explain these rules and instincts, developing into social rules and religion. The error is thinking the stories have the power, not the original message.
What I'm looking forward to is the fun of watching US law adapt to the slowly-growing Muslim population. I can see a couple going off to Morrocco or Indonesia on vacation and coming home with a new wife in the family. I wouldn't be surprised if this has happened already, but they kept it quiet and didn't try to get official papers changed. But it's just a matter of time, and it'll be fun to follow the outrage and consternation from the bigot crowd, while the lawyers calmly ask what laws have been broken...
The trouble is, they use BSP trees for spatial data structures, which rules out deforming the terrain. Thus the destruction of the battle field (as mentioned by the GP poster) will not be possible in that project.
For simple animals living in water, the digestive system already provides a path out the body into the world, providing a free ride for reproductive cells. At each generation since we evolved from those simple animals, it was less advantageous to start again and re-develop a new way to do it, so we end up with our current situation, even though if you were going to design it intelligently, you wouldn't put it there.
California (and most of the rest of the SW of the USA) used to belong to Mexicans before it was siezed for American territorial expansion during the Mexican-American war. The current "illegals" are just taking back slowly, through migration, what was stolen from them by war.
The Japanese were nationalistic and loyal to their emperor, who surrended. Totally different.
And by the way, since no WMD were found, the official line is now that we went in to help people (and that has always been the reason). It's hard to keep saying that if you attack with unrestrained force.
to which the proper response is a neutron nuke over a predominantly Muslim city
If a pro-lifer bombs an abortion clinic, should Kansas be burnt to the ground?
It is easy to prove that your proposal of escalating violence would not eradicate enemies, as I myself would take up arms against any government that behaved in such a way.
That sounds good, but it all relies on the people who control the robots being compassionate, intelligent and only waging war when it is necessary. Think about that, then consider who currently runs the US government.
PS the word is "coup" as in "coup d'état" (unless there was a change of spelling for the reasons behind freedom fries & freedom kisses)
Vietnam, which ended due to unpopularity at home due to the large number of deaths. Not the 3+ million vietnamese civilians, but rather 58,000 US soldiers.
If robots had fought that war instead of US soldiers, you would have saved 58,000 people but at the cost of a few million more civilians.
there will always be people who are willing to throw others' lives away, and sometimes the only way to stop such people is to wage war.
Sometimes. But more often there are people who are willing to throw others' lives away while waging war.
The dark side of human nature says that when one side suffers prolonged civilian casualties, they begin to demand payback, eg WW2 bombers over Germany in retaliation for the Blitz.
If the west can wage war with no or lopsided casualties then this will cause resentment in those countries. People will see their homes and families killed and wish to take the war back to the homes and families of their attackers, inflicting civilian casualties of their own. This is how aeroplanes end up flying into the sides of skyscrapers.
It would depend on how the eyes were removed. If it was the equivalent of/* createEye() */ then it wouldn't take much to evolve back. If it was a gradual reduction in power until the eye was effectively useless, then it would have to re-evolve all the way back again.
The government of the day makes the laws, but they must also stick to guidelines in the constitution set to stop corruption. Governments want these pesky restraints on their exercise of power to go away, and if they try, the people are supposed to protest and chuck them out of government.
Sometimes those in power ask for releasing the restraints during times of war. Sometimes you need to go to war, but I think before going to war you have to ask:
-Will this war ever end? -Are the reasons we are entering this war legitimate?
Otherwise, you may be being tricked into going to war for other purposes, such as to enrich and empower those behind the decision. This is a responsibility for being a member of a democractic society.
The narrator in Fight club was led down a path of escalating violence which led to terrorist acts, yes. This was because he found no meaning in his cultures philosophy (consumerism) and thus he lashed out and tried to tear down the world (nihilsm).
At the end of the movie, symbolised by the murder of Tyler Durden, the narrator realised he had to find and create his own meaning in life (possibly with Marla), thus adopting an existential world view. I think his terrorist acts stop there.
An intelligent reader wouldn't make the same mistakes as the guy in the book. These guys do.
Instead of Communist, I think you mean totalitarian. Back during the cold war it suited the US govt for people to think of the two as the same, so it's not suprising you are confused.
Communism is an economic theory, the people currently running the US have opposite beliefs.
If you got "the solution to our problems is kicking each other" from Fight Club the movie, then you must have only watched the 1st 1/2 of the movie.
Extremists misinterpreting literature for ideology is hardly new, though. These people are hitting each other with heavy metal objects, they are probably addicted to the body's painkillers or the feeling their brain makes while it is being made retarded.
I have also heard about this tool and wanted to try it out but didn't have Solaris. From reading about it, it appears to be very system specific for speed reasons, I think you could get it to work with porting effort, or perhaps adding a virtualization layer. A hack would be a VM w/no cost Solaris.
A better comparison is to consider where the media is played. For movies this is a cinema and DVD, for games this is on a PC or console.
Not many Indie titles are released on consoles as those platforms are expensive, dedicated platforms with slick marketing and tightly controlled distribution channels.
This is very similar to the mega-cinemas with massive screens and surround sound. Those big mega-screens show mostly blockbusters with expensive special effects, not indie titles. Instead, the indie films make their money from small independent theatres and cult DVD sales.
The analogue for games is the PC, however, for whatever reason there doesn't seem to be a large enough market to support a thriving alternative distribution channel.
You can go into a movie store and if it isn't on the shelf, at least order Eraserhead. There is probably no ability for you as a consumer to exchange money for 99% of independent games over 2 years old.
Different world religions share ideas that seem intrinsic to our very essense.
I think this is because certain things reverberate in our minds. I think these are incredible and awe inspiring hardware artefacts, that these images and ideas are present in our heads means we will generate stories that since they fit - will reverberate and nestle into those grooves into other minds. They're stories that run really well in our brains.
These ideas and models of right ways to live make successful societies. That those with better models would become prevailant also seems natural. Benefits could have come from healing spreaders of wisdom to the death loyal assasins. People pray for bombs to hit as well as to miss.
What makes American culture so great that every other one must be wiped out and replaced by it? Is everyone liking Mickey Mouse and drinking coke the kind of world you want to live in?
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Terrorists and politicians trying to get bills passed also likely have a saying:
It doesn't matter how many times you fail; you only have to succeed once.
It does if you're a suicide bomber.
The sooner the better, then we can go back to fighting wars for the good old reasons like religion or wanting the other guys things.
>> Defense Labs and National Labs: the political forces are too strong for blue-sky research to happen there.
Definately take the politics out - I once worked in defence research lab, specialising in weapons technology. My pet area is killing groups of people as quickly as possible (outdoor specialist). My team came up with some breakthrough ideas, but the g-men said it was too abstract, too blue sky, too arty-farty.
It pretty much came down to "it can kill lots of people, but unless it can start production in my state next quarter and be killing brown people within the year, it's a no-go.", my favourite excuse (shot down because the office favourite's conventional design had a cool looking model): "Your laser is great, the people are out of the way, but now the oil fields on fire.".
Get politics out of war!
Last weekend, by friend phoned me up and wondered if I wanted to go camping with him. I said "sure" and jacked up my 2000lb truck camper, parked the truck under it, fired up the propane-powered fridge, hauled some food out, hooked up my 14' boat, buckled in my kid and wife, stopped at a gas station on the way out of town and was headed out after about an hour and a half of preperation. I drove for four hours non-stop and arrived at the park where we had non-electical sites. Stayed there saturday night, loaded everything back up and drove another four hours home. That's eight hours of driving hauling around about 4000 lbs of "stuff" on 1.5 hours preparation. Currently, switching to some electric truck would definately not allow me to do that with todays resources, technology, and brains.
People have slept outdoors before without requiring 4000lbs to be moved for 8 hours with an internal combustion engine.
If procedural generation is the solution to all our problems ... why wasn't it discovered earlier?
You mean like in 1984.
It is not just your religion that forbits murder, raping and stealing, but every human society on earth (At least among members within each society). Killing, raping and stealing from outside of the societies inner circle is different, we are humans, they are non humans - Philistines - and don't count. Another external motivation on you to stop killing is the law.
Since we are all here we know that before religion and laws humans survived in small groups for millions of years. Those people survived together by developing behavioral rules, rules that since they are universal among every known human tribe, of every age and every God, must come from be inside our minds.
The list is here: http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/universals.html
Later more evolved minds made art, sang songs and told stories to explain these rules and instincts, developing into social rules and religion. The error is thinking the stories have the power, not the original message.
What I'm looking forward to is the fun of watching US law adapt to the slowly-growing Muslim population. I can see a couple going off to Morrocco or Indonesia on vacation and coming home with a new wife in the family. I wouldn't be surprised if this has happened already, but they kept it quiet and didn't try to get official papers changed. But it's just a matter of time, and it'll be fun to follow the outrage and consternation from the bigot crowd, while the lawyers calmly ask what laws have been broken
The USA had bigamous Mormons for years.
The trouble is, they use BSP trees for spatial data structures, which rules out deforming the terrain. Thus the destruction of the battle field (as mentioned by the GP poster) will not be possible in that project.
For simple animals living in water, the digestive system already provides a path out the body into the world, providing a free ride for reproductive cells. At each generation since we evolved from those simple animals, it was less advantageous to start again and re-develop a new way to do it, so we end up with our current situation, even though if you were going to design it intelligently, you wouldn't put it there.
California (and most of the rest of the SW of the USA) used to belong to Mexicans before it was siezed for American territorial expansion during the Mexican-American war. The current "illegals" are just taking back slowly, through migration, what was stolen from them by war.
The Japanese were nationalistic and loyal to their emperor, who surrended. Totally different.
And by the way, since no WMD were found, the official line is now that we went in to help people (and that has always been the reason). It's hard to keep saying that if you attack with unrestrained force.
to which the proper response is a neutron nuke over a predominantly Muslim city
If a pro-lifer bombs an abortion clinic, should Kansas be burnt to the ground?
It is easy to prove that your proposal of escalating violence would not eradicate enemies, as I myself would take up arms against any government that behaved in such a way.
The entry must be able to run on Microsoft Windows != Windows Only
That sounds good, but it all relies on the people who control the robots being compassionate, intelligent and only waging war when it is necessary. Think about that, then consider who currently runs the US government.
PS the word is "coup" as in "coup d'état" (unless there was a change of spelling for the reasons behind freedom fries & freedom kisses)
Since when do disincentives for war ever work?
Vietnam, which ended due to unpopularity at home due to the large number of deaths. Not the 3+ million vietnamese civilians, but rather 58,000 US soldiers.
If robots had fought that war instead of US soldiers, you would have saved 58,000 people but at the cost of a few million more civilians.
there will always be people who are willing to throw others' lives away, and sometimes the only way to stop such people is to wage war.
Sometimes. But more often there are people who are willing to throw others' lives away while waging war.
The dark side of human nature says that when one side suffers prolonged civilian casualties, they begin to demand payback, eg WW2 bombers over Germany in retaliation for the Blitz.
If the west can wage war with no or lopsided casualties then this will cause resentment in those countries. People will see their homes and families killed and wish to take the war back to the homes and families of their attackers, inflicting civilian casualties of their own. This is how aeroplanes end up flying into the sides of skyscrapers.
It would depend on how the eyes were removed. If it was the equivalent of /* createEye() */ then it wouldn't take much to evolve back. If it was a gradual reduction in power until the eye was effectively useless, then it would have to re-evolve all the way back again.
I think you mean:
template void foo(std::string a, std::string * b, std::string & c, std::string *& d, T e);
The government of the day makes the laws, but they must also stick to guidelines in the constitution set to stop corruption. Governments want these pesky restraints on their exercise of power to go away, and if they try, the people are supposed to protest and chuck them out of government.
Sometimes those in power ask for releasing the restraints during times of war. Sometimes you need to go to war, but I think before going to war you have to ask:
-Will this war ever end?
-Are the reasons we are entering this war legitimate?
Otherwise, you may be being tricked into going to war for other purposes, such as to enrich and empower those behind the decision. This is a responsibility for being a member of a democractic society.
The narrator in Fight club was led down a path of escalating violence which led to terrorist acts, yes. This was because he found no meaning in his cultures philosophy (consumerism) and thus he lashed out and tried to tear down the world (nihilsm).
At the end of the movie, symbolised by the murder of Tyler Durden, the narrator realised he had to find and create his own meaning in life (possibly with Marla), thus adopting an existential world view. I think his terrorist acts stop there.
An intelligent reader wouldn't make the same mistakes as the guy in the book. These guys do.
Instead of Communist, I think you mean totalitarian. Back during the cold war it suited the US govt for people to think of the two as the same, so it's not suprising you are confused.
Communism is an economic theory, the people currently running the US have opposite beliefs.
If you got "the solution to our problems is kicking each other" from Fight Club the movie, then you must have only watched the 1st 1/2 of the movie.
Extremists misinterpreting literature for ideology is hardly new, though. These people are hitting each other with heavy metal objects, they are probably addicted to the body's painkillers or the feeling their brain makes while it is being made retarded.
I have also heard about this tool and wanted to try it out but didn't have Solaris. From reading about it, it appears to be very system specific for speed reasons, I think you could get it to work with porting effort, or perhaps adding a virtualization layer. A hack would be a VM w/no cost Solaris.
A better comparison is to consider where the media is played. For movies this is a cinema and DVD, for games this is on a PC or console.
Not many Indie titles are released on consoles as those platforms are expensive, dedicated platforms with slick marketing and tightly controlled distribution channels.
This is very similar to the mega-cinemas with massive screens and surround sound. Those big mega-screens show mostly blockbusters with expensive special effects, not indie titles. Instead, the indie films make their money from small independent theatres and cult DVD sales.
The analogue for games is the PC, however, for whatever reason there doesn't seem to be a large enough market to support a thriving alternative distribution channel.
You can go into a movie store and if it isn't on the shelf, at least order Eraserhead. There is probably no ability for you as a consumer to exchange money for 99% of independent games over 2 years old.
Different world religions share ideas that seem intrinsic to our very essense.
I think this is because certain things reverberate in our minds. I think these are incredible and awe inspiring hardware artefacts, that these images and ideas are present in our heads means we will generate stories that since they fit - will reverberate and nestle into those grooves into other minds. They're stories that run really well in our brains.
These ideas and models of right ways to live make successful societies. That those with better models would become prevailant also seems natural. Benefits could have come from healing spreaders of wisdom to the death loyal assasins. People pray for bombs to hit as well as to miss.
What makes American culture so great that every other one must be wiped out and replaced by it? Is everyone liking Mickey Mouse and drinking coke the kind of world you want to live in?