If a sheep is part or mostly human, is it ok to remove their heart for transplant? That is an ethical question.
I have to back him on this one. It's not that complex an issue. If it's as smart as a human, of course not. If it's less intelligent than that, then default to whatever the society in question treats an animal of similar intelligence. The whole issue is a somewhat moot point in the first place. The idea that a sheep with human neurons is going to develop human intelligence is just the voodoo of fear-mongering pulp writers looking to hook a gulible public.
It is the seat of who we are as a species, and is unique in the world.
Certainly unique in that it's specialized in areas most others species only have a minor affinity for. But, while this is debatable to say the least, personally I've never seen anything to indicate that its a matter of being fundamentally different than the brains of a crow, dolphin, bonobo or any other animal with an abnormally high encephalization quotient.
Pity I allready commented or I'd give this some much deserved points. I was tempted to say the same, but don't have enough background in the subject to really be casting stones at the reporter for fear-mongering.
It's always fun to see how the reporters particular bias will come accross.
He can't wait to examine the effects of the human cells he had injected into the fetus' brain about two months ago.
"It's mice on a large scale," Chamberlain says with a shrug.
As strange as his work may sound, it falls firmly within the new ethics guidelines
They've allready painted him as a mad scientist, eagerly rubbing his hands together in glee over having fought Gods plan. All the while shrugging his shoulders at the cocern of the good people of the world.
I could go on and on about this subject, and 'really' am anxious to learn more when I get a chance. But, sleep looms for now. So I'll just add that crows and ravens also make for a fascinating study of socially interactive intelligence in non-mammals.
If I had mod points at the moment, they'd be piled on here. Even more, I'd say how lucky for the movie industry that they've gotten the public to refer to their commercials as something else. It's OK to want to see an advertisement for a product one is interested in, but please, don't pretend that it's anything but a piece inserted between television shows in order to sell you products.
That's my problem with Java. I like the concept, I really like the large amount of libraries, but I've never been sure when exactly I'd use it. I've never seen, say, an emulator for game consoles written in Java that ran at full speed. Emulating a gamegear isn't something that should be bringing a modern computer to its knees. It might, then, be good for things where the major focus is on simple functions - but then less verbose languages like python seem more appropriate.
Suits come back when jobs are harder to find. It's an advantage.
It's an advantage where you're located. In much of Montana for example, a suit doesn't mean quite the same thing. I always went to the place were I was applying, if possible, a couple days beforehand to gauge the style of dress. Honestly, I think suits make the wearer look assanine. But its not what I think is important, or the guy hiring unless he's the guy running the company, it's the taste of the organization itself. I'd wear a powdered wig and pantallons if that was the company style, all the while agreeing about how dignified an air it lent.
I hope I'm remembering the right term, it's been many many years since I've read anything Torg related.
The basic gist of it is that Torg was a tabletop rpg which centred around the idea of different alternate realities crossing over onto earth. On arrival, a storm would be triggered which would warp reality and most of the people in the area into that of the invading reality. The twist was that even the invading realities could in turn be invaded by another reality.
My favourite was the one which invaded France. It started out somewhat similar to a inquisition heavy, medieval Catholic theocracy. A technologically advanced reality became mixed with it, and reconverted the existing theology in a more technological base. Devotion centered around a Godnet virtual reality, cybernetic prothethis was seen to bring the user closer to a state of purity, and at the head was a power-mad cyberpope dictating technology to force people closer to God.
I think I'm not really doing justice to the story, which was much cooler when not presented through my hazy recolections.
You're smarter, right? Then are you smart enough to find a way to make it so this guy is no longer the boss (e.g., you become the boss?)
Wild guess, but they might not want to be the boss. Longer hours, more responsibility, giving up coding for filling out forms and talking on the phone all day. I could see why someone would prefer to not make that kind of leap, especially if they were somewhat anti-social to begin with.
It's slashdot. The vast majority of both moderators and posters have computer science as their main, or only, scientific background. Anything that deviates from that topic is going to have an overwhelming amount of noise in it. Especially with finals closing in on a lot of us. I actually have some background that would allow for positive contribution to this story. But what am I going to do, spend three hours correcting slashdot posts and writing a refrence list whose contents no one is going to read and which would be quickly buried in +5 funny comments? Or should I spend my time trying to keep myself from drowning in my credit load?
The Bible is one of teh most criticly attested documents ever studied. Archaelogy continuously affirms it
What do you even mean by "the" Bible, or "it". It's a collection of documents, with vastly differing ages, not some unified whole. One might as well say that BSD is in fact quite dead, because a story on slashdot about robot dinosaurs proved factual.
What's sad is how unfair criticism of this movie is inevitable, rather it turns out to be any good or not. I have confidence that it will incredibly funny, while still staying true to the spirit of the books.
Wait, so you're complaining that people are going to judge the movie on their preconceptions rather than the actual quality of the movie, and then you imediatly declare, without having seen it, that it's fantastic?
If my memory hasn't faded too much, I think they also later determined that the question in the humans mind was warped by the fact that they weren't the original inhabitants of earth. So getting it out through scanning, disection, or scrabble would just give an incorrect question.
For what it's worth, I usually mod down anyone I think is stating that to try and push the moderation system.
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I had a similar experience quite a while back. My advice is both to do a lot of background research, and get your hands dirty playing around with AI as well. There's so much out there in neurobiology, theories about the brain, and actual artificial intelligence that one might easily become burned out in theory. Additionally it gives a good chance to make stronger correlations between biological theory and their application to AI. Of course easier said than done. Especially too since so often subjects shift and move in different tangents. Since that initial spark, in my case watching aibos playing soccer, I've found myself getting into such unexpected topics as psychology, sociology, and even religious history.
If you're interested in a good book on working with AI, I'd like to recommend one that I finally splurged on a couple days ago. I won't really have a chance to sit down with it, but a brief skim and the source code on the authors website indicate it's one of the best books on AI I've been able to find yet. Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. It's $90, but you can find a low price edition printed in India for around $20 at half.com.
Another couple which really fueled my enthusiasm early on are by Steve Grand. Creation: Life and How to Make It, and Growing Up With Lucy. While they're pretty short of practical application there's a ton of, to me at least, interesting theory. In the context of this discussion, he quite often devotes a chapter or two to human neurology as he considers how to go about any particular aspect of his AI or robot design.
And I hear you about the wallet pain! It seems like every book I read makes me want to buy at least two more.
There have been studies that show that if a robot has a very realistic human face and features, it is viewed initially as disgusting or evil.
Are you referring to the theories presented in the uncanny valley? If so, I believe the point was machines with imperfect human faces provoke negitive reactions, much as most people would react to seeing a human with facial disfigurement.
I dunno how smart it is messing with mother nature. Maybe what would have happened naturally now won't.
I know to some extent this is just complaining about syntax, but humans aren't magic. Anything we do is natural, and a part of our nature. We're no more violating some natural order by tinkering with our genes than the plant mentioned here a while back is by automatically changing its genes as a result of stress. If it works out well, great, it'll be selected for and in fact add to what can be selected for. In any case, just like some groups today won't accept blood transfusions I'm sure there'll be humans who won't take advantage of new genetics based medical technology. If in some sci-fi channel crazy situation we wind up taking ourselves out, fine, the amish, jehovahs witnesses and the like can just keep on going as they did before.
Same here on the coffee count. I'm sure daylight saving is great for people getting eight hours of sleep per night, but I'm sure many of us allready riding the line on an unhealthy lack of sleep are getting hit hard.
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If a sheep is part or mostly human, is it ok to remove their heart for transplant? That is an ethical question.
I have to back him on this one. It's not that complex an issue. If it's as smart as a human, of course not. If it's less intelligent than that, then default to whatever the society in question treats an animal of similar intelligence. The whole issue is a somewhat moot point in the first place. The idea that a sheep with human neurons is going to develop human intelligence is just the voodoo of fear-mongering pulp writers looking to hook a gulible public.
It is the seat of who we are as a species, and is unique in the world.
Certainly unique in that it's specialized in areas most others species only have a minor affinity for. But, while this is debatable to say the least, personally I've never seen anything to indicate that its a matter of being fundamentally different than the brains of a crow, dolphin, bonobo or any other animal with an abnormally high encephalization quotient.
Pity I allready commented or I'd give this some much deserved points. I was tempted to say the same, but don't have enough background in the subject to really be casting stones at the reporter for fear-mongering.
It's always fun to see how the reporters particular bias will come accross.
He can't wait to examine the effects of the human cells he had injected into the fetus' brain about two months ago. "It's mice on a large scale," Chamberlain says with a shrug. As strange as his work may sound, it falls firmly within the new ethics guidelines
They've allready painted him as a mad scientist, eagerly rubbing his hands together in glee over having fought Gods plan. All the while shrugging his shoulders at the cocern of the good people of the world.
I could go on and on about this subject, and 'really' am anxious to learn more when I get a chance. But, sleep looms for now. So I'll just add that crows and ravens also make for a fascinating study of socially interactive intelligence in non-mammals.
If I had mod points at the moment, they'd be piled on here. Even more, I'd say how lucky for the movie industry that they've gotten the public to refer to their commercials as something else. It's OK to want to see an advertisement for a product one is interested in, but please, don't pretend that it's anything but a piece inserted between television shows in order to sell you products.
In my book, that's pretty much everything.
That's my problem with Java. I like the concept, I really like the large amount of libraries, but I've never been sure when exactly I'd use it. I've never seen, say, an emulator for game consoles written in Java that ran at full speed. Emulating a gamegear isn't something that should be bringing a modern computer to its knees. It might, then, be good for things where the major focus is on simple functions - but then less verbose languages like python seem more appropriate.
In what sense? Did he just say it sucked in general, or did he have issue with some specific aspect of slashdot?
Suits come back when jobs are harder to find. It's an advantage.
It's an advantage where you're located. In much of Montana for example, a suit doesn't mean quite the same thing. I always went to the place were I was applying, if possible, a couple days beforehand to gauge the style of dress. Honestly, I think suits make the wearer look assanine. But its not what I think is important, or the guy hiring unless he's the guy running the company, it's the taste of the organization itself. I'd wear a powdered wig and pantallons if that was the company style, all the while agreeing about how dignified an air it lent.
I hope I'm remembering the right term, it's been many many years since I've read anything Torg related.
The basic gist of it is that Torg was a tabletop rpg which centred around the idea of different alternate realities crossing over onto earth. On arrival, a storm would be triggered which would warp reality and most of the people in the area into that of the invading reality. The twist was that even the invading realities could in turn be invaded by another reality.
My favourite was the one which invaded France. It started out somewhat similar to a inquisition heavy, medieval Catholic theocracy. A technologically advanced reality became mixed with it, and reconverted the existing theology in a more technological base. Devotion centered around a Godnet virtual reality, cybernetic prothethis was seen to bring the user closer to a state of purity, and at the head was a power-mad cyberpope dictating technology to force people closer to God.
I think I'm not really doing justice to the story, which was much cooler when not presented through my hazy recolections.
You're reminding me of Torgs technopapacy.
And why not just use a web site?
Have you ever tried Irate? The more popular download locations can get hit pretty hard.
You're smarter, right? Then are you smart enough to find a way to make it so this guy is no longer the boss (e.g., you become the boss?)
Wild guess, but they might not want to be the boss. Longer hours, more responsibility, giving up coding for filling out forms and talking on the phone all day. I could see why someone would prefer to not make that kind of leap, especially if they were somewhat anti-social to begin with.
I believe you're thinking of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, rather than the collection of sayings more commonly labled as The Gospel of Thomas.
It's slashdot. The vast majority of both moderators and posters have computer science as their main, or only, scientific background. Anything that deviates from that topic is going to have an overwhelming amount of noise in it. Especially with finals closing in on a lot of us. I actually have some background that would allow for positive contribution to this story. But what am I going to do, spend three hours correcting slashdot posts and writing a refrence list whose contents no one is going to read and which would be quickly buried in +5 funny comments? Or should I spend my time trying to keep myself from drowning in my credit load?
The Bible is one of teh most criticly attested documents ever studied. Archaelogy continuously affirms it
What do you even mean by "the" Bible, or "it". It's a collection of documents, with vastly differing ages, not some unified whole. One might as well say that BSD is in fact quite dead, because a story on slashdot about robot dinosaurs proved factual.
What's sad is how unfair criticism of this movie is inevitable, rather it turns out to be any good or not. I have confidence that it will incredibly funny, while still staying true to the spirit of the books.
Wait, so you're complaining that people are going to judge the movie on their preconceptions rather than the actual quality of the movie, and then you imediatly declare, without having seen it, that it's fantastic?
They made me look cool...
They helped me fight both zombies and giant babies.
If my memory hasn't faded too much, I think they also later determined that the question in the humans mind was warped by the fact that they weren't the original inhabitants of earth. So getting it out through scanning, disection, or scrabble would just give an incorrect question.
For what it's worth, I usually mod down anyone I think is stating that to try and push the moderation system.
I had a similar experience quite a while back. My advice is both to do a lot of background research, and get your hands dirty playing around with AI as well. There's so much out there in neurobiology, theories about the brain, and actual artificial intelligence that one might easily become burned out in theory. Additionally it gives a good chance to make stronger correlations between biological theory and their application to AI. Of course easier said than done. Especially too since so often subjects shift and move in different tangents. Since that initial spark, in my case watching aibos playing soccer, I've found myself getting into such unexpected topics as psychology, sociology, and even religious history.
If you're interested in a good book on working with AI, I'd like to recommend one that I finally splurged on a couple days ago. I won't really have a chance to sit down with it, but a brief skim and the source code on the authors website indicate it's one of the best books on AI I've been able to find yet. Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig. It's $90, but you can find a low price edition printed in India for around $20 at half.com.
Another couple which really fueled my enthusiasm early on are by Steve Grand. Creation: Life and How to Make It, and Growing Up With Lucy. While they're pretty short of practical application there's a ton of, to me at least, interesting theory. In the context of this discussion, he quite often devotes a chapter or two to human neurology as he considers how to go about any particular aspect of his AI or robot design.
And I hear you about the wallet pain! It seems like every book I read makes me want to buy at least two more.
There have been studies that show that if a robot has a very realistic human face and features, it is viewed initially as disgusting or evil.
Are you referring to the theories presented in the uncanny valley? If so, I believe the point was machines with imperfect human faces provoke negitive reactions, much as most people would react to seeing a human with facial disfigurement.
I dunno how smart it is messing with mother nature. Maybe what would have happened naturally now won't.
I know to some extent this is just complaining about syntax, but humans aren't magic. Anything we do is natural, and a part of our nature. We're no more violating some natural order by tinkering with our genes than the plant mentioned here a while back is by automatically changing its genes as a result of stress. If it works out well, great, it'll be selected for and in fact add to what can be selected for. In any case, just like some groups today won't accept blood transfusions I'm sure there'll be humans who won't take advantage of new genetics based medical technology. If in some sci-fi channel crazy situation we wind up taking ourselves out, fine, the amish, jehovahs witnesses and the like can just keep on going as they did before.
Same here on the coffee count. I'm sure daylight saving is great for people getting eight hours of sleep per night, but I'm sure many of us allready riding the line on an unhealthy lack of sleep are getting hit hard.
but you might get more mileage by patenting a CPU that runs faster than 4GHz because ________
...of SCIENCE! Give me my money!