I could mod you up, but I think posting a "heck yeah" is better.
Heck yeah!
My daughter loves minecraft. I love that she loves minecraft. She's learning to memorize and mentally navigate a 3d environment. She's learning how to deconstruct tasks into subtasks and gather the resources necessary to accomplish those subtasks. She's constructing virtual houses. She just turned five.
So we've been playing minecraft on ipads. The PC version is more complex, and she just discovered that, so now she wants a laptop. I told her that I'd buy her one if she can 1) create a 2000 square meter house in survival mode, using at least five different building materials, and one chest full of tools for each tool making material available. (Wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond.) She was intimidated a bit at first, and even stopped playing for a while, but today she started back again. She's motivated to accomplish a long and complex task, and the game itself has been a way to teach her how that can be done.
If you sufficiently weaken government you enable others to manipulate it. In the case of fascism the others are corporations. The combination of "weakened" government plus corporations is more than enough to crush individual liberty.
Yes, but libertarians can be fascists. As long as it is fascism brought to us by the free market, right? If the free market brings it to us it can't be wrong.
This is the kind of management style that results when there isn't constant pressure to keep headcount low to avoid paying for health benefits. Nice,ya?
Yes, he really is being locked up for violating his probation, which he no doubt was violating long before the kerfuffle over the video. The video simply made him more noticeable to the system. Sorry to deny your outrage, but it's as simple as that.
How can one have common sense without experiencing the common?
And we certainly don't have the software. What I'm saying is that even if we did we couldn't run it. But maybe once our computers are power stingy enough we will be able to.
When people think of the limits of strong AI (if they do at all) they generally focus on how complex it must be to create.
Complexity, however, is not the limiting factor. It is the fact that existing computers, compared to the brain, are energy hogs of epic proportions. The brain's energy use is on the order of millions of times more efficient than even the most power stingy CPU. Even of we knew how to accomplish strong AI we couldn't power the computer capable of supporting it.
That is, however, unless Intel reaches it's goals.
I am totally with you on this. My daughter has been actively using an iPad since she was 2. (just turned 5 last week). She had similar skills as your daughter when she started kindergarten last week. And she just asked me to buy her a laptop so she can play the full version of minecraft.:) I'm considering it. If I had a PC laptop with a working screen it'd be hers in a heartbeat.
It's trans-partisan. Obama, supposedly the most liberal human being since the big bang, has reformed The space race to rely more on the private sector. This isn't mentioned in the Democratic platform because the hard core lefties don't like it. It isn't mentioned in the Republican platform because it made the hard core righties' heads assplode.
Meanwhile a middle of the road solution was found that is working fine. Mission accomplished.
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I could mod you up, but I think posting a "heck yeah" is better.
Heck yeah!
My daughter loves minecraft. I love that she loves minecraft. She's learning to memorize and mentally navigate a 3d environment. She's learning how to deconstruct tasks into subtasks and gather the resources necessary to accomplish those subtasks. She's constructing virtual houses. She just turned five.
So we've been playing minecraft on ipads. The PC version is more complex, and she just discovered that, so now she wants a laptop. I told her that I'd buy her one if she can 1) create a 2000 square meter house in survival mode, using at least five different building materials, and one chest full of tools for each tool making material available. (Wood, stone, iron, gold, and diamond.) She was intimidated a bit at first, and even stopped playing for a while, but today she started back again. She's motivated to accomplish a long and complex task, and the game itself has been a way to teach her how that can be done.
A square house made of sticks does not stand up to high winds. For that you need a concrete dome made by the folks at Monolithic.
So you think corporations ar evil?
Yep.
My sarcasm tags were eaten by the post reformatter.
Srsly.
Absolutely.
It hasn't. /. editors have had an anti-nuke bias for years.
So when the storm has passed, if nothing happens, will the fear mongering anti-nuke folks admit that nuclear power is safe?
*crickets*
These plants have NEVER been hit by a storm before! Whatever will we do??
d00d, far easier to GPS tag their cars and set up a proximity warning...
Instead, you should develop an artificially intelligent system to defeat would-be attackers and malicious software.
Yes, you should.
(Disclaimer: I work for Skynet.)
A wise man once said, "If you're good at something, never do it for free."
If you sufficiently weaken government you enable others to manipulate it. In the case of fascism the others are corporations. The combination of "weakened" government plus corporations is more than enough to crush individual liberty.
Yes, but libertarians can be fascists. As long as it is fascism brought to us by the free market, right? If the free market brings it to us it can't be wrong.
This is the kind of management style that results when there isn't constant pressure to keep headcount low to avoid paying for health benefits. Nice,ya?
HOW DO YOU KNOW MY PASSWORD??
Yes, he really is being locked up for violating his probation, which he no doubt was violating long before the kerfuffle over the video. The video simply made him more noticeable to the system. Sorry to deny your outrage, but it's as simple as that.
There is a barrier surrounding the galaxy!
Amen, brother. We may not agree on much, but this, absolutely.
How can one have common sense without experiencing the common?
And we certainly don't have the software. What I'm saying is that even if we did we couldn't run it. But maybe once our computers are power stingy enough we will be able to.
When people think of the limits of strong AI (if they do at all) they generally focus on how complex it must be to create.
Complexity, however, is not the limiting factor. It is the fact that existing computers, compared to the brain, are energy hogs of epic proportions. The brain's energy use is on the order of millions of times more efficient than even the most power stingy CPU. Even of we knew how to accomplish strong AI we couldn't power the computer capable of supporting it.
That is, however, unless Intel reaches it's goals.
I am totally with you on this. My daughter has been actively using an iPad since she was 2. (just turned 5 last week). She had similar skills as your daughter when she started kindergarten last week. And she just asked me to buy her a laptop so she can play the full version of minecraft. :) I'm considering it. If I had a PC laptop with a working screen it'd be hers in a heartbeat.
It's trans-partisan. Obama, supposedly the most liberal human being since the big bang, has reformed The space race to rely more on the private sector. This isn't mentioned in the Democratic platform because the hard core lefties don't like it. It isn't mentioned in the Republican platform because it made the hard core righties' heads assplode.
Meanwhile a middle of the road solution was found that is working fine. Mission accomplished.
I'm totally with you. People who are afraid of boredom in perpetual life are free to die. Personally I'd like as much time as I can get.
Here is a better rebuttal than I could ever write.