Regret can be cast as the reaction to making a decision that produced consequences of less value than another decision that could have been made, or which produce punishment rather than positive outcome. As such, it's fairly easy to implement. In AI systems, I use regret and other failure emotions such as fear, anger, or sadness as metrics of success or failure of goals. They provide feedback into learning and planning functionality, controlling strategies. And yes, one can make an AI that 'feels' sadness upon loss, analogous to how humans experience a reaction to loss.
If only the Navy used fusion reactors like the US Space Command does on its plasma vehicles, they wouldn't have such risky vessels. Ooops. I was not supposed to say that on the Internet. Or that our black triangle craft are powered by them. Ooops again. (slapping self on wrist. Look what happened to Bradley Manning, you idiot!)
Speaking to you from 2075 to let you know their ban was an utter failure. Also. Chinese take-out is still popular in regions where the Tsunami of 2040 didn't wipe out coastal populations. And the Internet has been replaced by the much better GkKLdfv^(0--18X... transmission interrupted by tachyon flux...
Note that many TV soap opera characters are sent birthday cards on their supposed birthdays. Fictional characters given birthday cards? People, especially not very mature ones, often act as if fictional characters are real. This sounds crazy but is true. How many fans talk about Batman or Spider-man as if they were real, and get into deep arguments over them. Look at how people act as if Star Fleet and Star Trek were real or at least a basis upon which to behave in real life. People act as if Sherlock Holmes somehow once existed; as if zombies exist, as if vampires were real. Celebrities are treated as if they were worth being considered as royalty. There is something built into the brain that supports public mass entertainment characters being treated as if they were real. Now consider what that does to shape some kids' beliefs and behavior.
Please send me the Ronco Uranium Enricher/Juicer and the free knives. I already have the Open Source Bomb Plans. Yes, I agree to pay $39,000 a month in six easy monthly payoffs to the rogue technician. I also want my bonus of 6 ounces of cesium 137 and the free dirty bomb blueprints. Praise Allah.
I hereby announce my invention of the fire-fighting Tesla Coil Hat, which is also a terrific chick magnet at parties. Here at the Gizmonic Institute we are two steps closer to the future than you are. Now I have to go and ready my device for the Invention Exchange. Frank? Where's my Electric Jock Strap?
Perhaps a more lucrative way to sell more copies of the printed version would be to make freely available a limited version as an eBook, one that has the table of contents and enough useful chapters to be interesting and to motivate readers to want more after they find the first material useful. It's like what used to be a social norm: a girl who gives it all up right away doesn't always generate the motivation for a guy to marry her, so while some back-seat grappling was okay, some withholding was in order until the ring was on the hand. And there you have the engine that fueled the 1950s drive-in movie industry.
Above poster has not yet run into the deadly Alaskan Micro Shoe-Bear. Only 1 inch tall, it is the most feared mammal of its kind. Not only does it have claws but also a stinger. Once it stings your toe, you will have a toe-erection that lasts for life. Often, it knocks down cabin doors in search of booze and loose women, and if finding none, wreaks havoc on any karaoki equipment you may have in the cabin. I dunno why Wikipedia keeps rejecting my entry on this, it's based on years of scientific research.
Unfortunately, the CIA is ahead of these researchers, having fielded the Osama Bin Laden robotic duplicate years ago. To see how realistic it is, watch any purported Al Qaeda videotape.
Isn't it illegal to frame someone for attacking you? If you do it to engage law enforcement, then you're wasting public money. If you do it to sue, obviously it's illegal set-up. And if you frame someone for defamation, that's defamation. There's a difference between simple outright nutcases, and deliberate criminality. WBC seems to be at the Venn diagram intersection of religious nut and con artist.
Yes, and Eshoo knows it. She's the Representative from Intel, HP, and Cisco, and what they want, she does. So any pretense from her of net neutrality is just a PR pose to win her votes. I loathe her phoniness. She supports extensive use of H1-Bs to replace American labor, because that's what her corporate hands-up-the-ass want. I wrote to her and her office responded with incorrect statistics directly contradicting the Dept of Labor, and explaining why it was so vitally necessary to hire Indian engineers. So anything she says about net neutrality is subject to the same analysis of motives. I believe her colon is green, because it's packed with money.
For all intents and purposes, mechanically separated chicken is exactly like lab-grown cells. It's been pretty much homogenized and nearly emulsified. And the consumer masses already eat it and do not notice the difference.
In the 1950s Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth wrote The Space Merchants, a novel, wherein industry grew synthetic protein meatstuffs in vats.
"Skum-skimming wasn't hard to learn. You got up at dawn. You gulped a breakfast sliced not long ago from Chicken Little and washed it down with Coffiest. You put on your coveralls and took the cargo net up to your tier. In blazing noon from sunrise to sunset you walked your acres of shallow tanks crusted with algae. If you walked slowly, every thirty seconds or so you spotted a patch at maturity, bursting with yummy carbohydrates. You skimmed the patch with your skimmer and slung it down the well, where it would be baled, or processed into glucose to feed Chicken Little, who would be sliced and packed to feed people from Baffinland to Little America. "
We see you like fine dining and quiet evenings at home. We found a great match for you. Her name is Lizzie Borden. She has interests in metal chopping collectibles and is an orphan looking for new friends. Although you live in Milwaukee, Lizzie is not far away, on a small farm. Our information indicates you might be a celebrity. Lizzie could be dying to meet you, please respond soon!"
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My name is Moses. What's all this about tablets?
Gamers, take a lesson from the French, who cannot be conquered because they have two ultimate weapons. Their armpits, and garlic.
In the excitement of the accident, I lost count of the cracks. Was it 5 cracks in the bone, or 6? Go ahead, doc, make my cast.
Okay, those were the good parts. Now tell us the bad parts.
Regret can be cast as the reaction to making a decision that produced consequences of less value than another decision that could have been made, or which produce punishment rather than positive outcome. As such, it's fairly easy to implement. In AI systems, I use regret and other failure emotions such as fear, anger, or sadness as metrics of success or failure of goals. They provide feedback into learning and planning functionality, controlling strategies. And yes, one can make an AI that 'feels' sadness upon loss, analogous to how humans experience a reaction to loss.
If only the Navy used fusion reactors like the US Space Command does on its plasma vehicles, they wouldn't have such risky vessels. Ooops. I was not supposed to say that on the Internet. Or that our black triangle craft are powered by them. Ooops again. (slapping self on wrist. Look what happened to Bradley Manning, you idiot!)
And it will be a nice place for whales.
Well darn - I didn't want to alarm anyone! Pssst - buy beachfront property in Nevada now before the price rises.
Speaking to you from 2075 to let you know their ban was an utter failure. Also. Chinese take-out is still popular in regions where the Tsunami of 2040 didn't wipe out coastal populations. And the Internet has been replaced by the much better GkKLdfv^(0--18X... transmission interrupted by tachyon flux...
Note that many TV soap opera characters are sent birthday cards on their supposed birthdays. Fictional characters given birthday cards? People, especially not very mature ones, often act as if fictional characters are real. This sounds crazy but is true. How many fans talk about Batman or Spider-man as if they were real, and get into deep arguments over them. Look at how people act as if Star Fleet and Star Trek were real or at least a basis upon which to behave in real life. People act as if Sherlock Holmes somehow once existed; as if zombies exist, as if vampires were real. Celebrities are treated as if they were worth being considered as royalty. There is something built into the brain that supports public mass entertainment characters being treated as if they were real. Now consider what that does to shape some kids' beliefs and behavior.
Signed, Not a Muslim
I hereby announce my invention of the fire-fighting Tesla Coil Hat, which is also a terrific chick magnet at parties. Here at the Gizmonic Institute we are two steps closer to the future than you are. Now I have to go and ready my device for the Invention Exchange. Frank? Where's my Electric Jock Strap?
Who needs a PKE meter? I've had great success detecting ghosts with a rectal thermometer.
Agent 0034159 ... license to geek. I prefer my hard drives rotating, not shaken.
Perhaps a more lucrative way to sell more copies of the printed version would be to make freely available a limited version as an eBook, one that has the table of contents and enough useful chapters to be interesting and to motivate readers to want more after they find the first material useful. It's like what used to be a social norm: a girl who gives it all up right away doesn't always generate the motivation for a guy to marry her, so while some back-seat grappling was okay, some withholding was in order until the ring was on the hand. And there you have the engine that fueled the 1950s drive-in movie industry.
Above poster has not yet run into the deadly Alaskan Micro Shoe-Bear. Only 1 inch tall, it is the most feared mammal of its kind. Not only does it have claws but also a stinger. Once it stings your toe, you will have a toe-erection that lasts for life. Often, it knocks down cabin doors in search of booze and loose women, and if finding none, wreaks havoc on any karaoki equipment you may have in the cabin. I dunno why Wikipedia keeps rejecting my entry on this, it's based on years of scientific research.
Unfortunately, the CIA is ahead of these researchers, having fielded the Osama Bin Laden robotic duplicate years ago. To see how realistic it is, watch any purported Al Qaeda videotape.
Isn't it illegal to frame someone for attacking you? If you do it to engage law enforcement, then you're wasting public money. If you do it to sue, obviously it's illegal set-up. And if you frame someone for defamation, that's defamation. There's a difference between simple outright nutcases, and deliberate criminality. WBC seems to be at the Venn diagram intersection of religious nut and con artist.
Q: Deep Thought, what is the ratio of the number of porn files to atoms in the universe?
Yes, and Eshoo knows it. She's the Representative from Intel, HP, and Cisco, and what they want, she does. So any pretense from her of net neutrality is just a PR pose to win her votes. I loathe her phoniness. She supports extensive use of H1-Bs to replace American labor, because that's what her corporate hands-up-the-ass want. I wrote to her and her office responded with incorrect statistics directly contradicting the Dept of Labor, and explaining why it was so vitally necessary to hire Indian engineers. So anything she says about net neutrality is subject to the same analysis of motives. I believe her colon is green, because it's packed with money.
Hungry bears are buying GPS jammers and quietly laughing.
For all intents and purposes, mechanically separated chicken is exactly like lab-grown cells. It's been pretty much homogenized and nearly emulsified. And the consumer masses already eat it and do not notice the difference. In the 1950s Fred Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth wrote The Space Merchants, a novel, wherein industry grew synthetic protein meatstuffs in vats. "Skum-skimming wasn't hard to learn. You got up at dawn. You gulped a breakfast sliced not long ago from Chicken Little and washed it down with Coffiest. You put on your coveralls and took the cargo net up to your tier. In blazing noon from sunrise to sunset you walked your acres of shallow tanks crusted with algae. If you walked slowly, every thirty seconds or so you spotted a patch at maturity, bursting with yummy carbohydrates. You skimmed the patch with your skimmer and slung it down the well, where it would be baled, or processed into glucose to feed Chicken Little, who would be sliced and packed to feed people from Baffinland to Little America. "
I agree with this comment but my closest 14 alternative selves in other universes disagree. Frankly, they're a bunch of dicks.
No, this is SPARTAAAA!
We see you like fine dining and quiet evenings at home. We found a great match for you. Her name is Lizzie Borden. She has interests in metal chopping collectibles and is an orphan looking for new friends. Although you live in Milwaukee, Lizzie is not far away, on a small farm. Our information indicates you might be a celebrity. Lizzie could be dying to meet you, please respond soon!"