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  1. Re:So how does this affect the Drake Equation? on The Universe Has 20 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Except all alien life that would be spacefaring would be the most energy-efficient and would be turning the universe into more of itself. In fact most life may simply be/or even simply be thought of the best way to get to that state where we are part of a collective universal consciousness where we shall know fully even as we are fully known.

  2. But that long way to go does not specify a specific timeframe.

  3. You must be using a different definition of contemplate than I am familiar with, because we already do contemplate such things. But to further address your question, I believe we are Turing complete, and there is a proof that such a thing can handle any operation.

  4. There's no reason not to consider the possibility that any reality can open any other reality or even the same reality in eternity mode and access any point in any reality's spacetime with a pointer.

  5. Re: I also find the term simulation unhelpful on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets say there is some code that allows some other reality to interface with ours. Lets say there are several realities with this sort of beholdeness to each other and add to varying degrees. None of them are any more or less a simulation to any other. You can't break out to a "higher" level, but you can break across. People have essentially built Portal cores in the real world. That is all "breaking out" amounts to at it's most simulation consistent. The real world cores are still running on processors that are indifferent to whether they are running programs that control servos in the real world, or a 3d shell inside a Portal game. The programs are different, but that just means the rules for operating servos are different. Brute forcing a break out may be possible. It all depends if a feedback loop can be established between the here and the not here.

  6. I find it not extremely unlikely that the core units of intelligence are scattered across the universe to make new core units that interact with each other for the purposes of entertaining the whole. Everyone who ever was will be encoded in it to be entertained and entertainig to everyone else. Find something someone did funny? Copy the routines into yourself or some other quasi-being of your choosing. Spacetime only exists to keep everything from happening at the same place and time.

  7. Re: The word simulation is ill defined on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I believe that we will reach the point where we will technologically be able to transcribe our thoughts into reality and there will be no seams where we start and our technology ends. One potential outcome of this may be the ability to scan throughout time and scoop bits and pieces of it into our own thus rendering everything eternal.

  8. Her voice is a lot more annoying and a lot less cool/sci-fi now that I am older. My sensitivity to sounds have changed, but there's also the fact that she sounds worse than vocaloids now and of all the things to get wrong, her voice stands out as something that would be a lot easier compared to other things, though the show's existence was built around all the contrived things they "got wrong". It all just seems so surreal in a bad way now.

  9. The ability/necessity to reap financial benefits does not begin at the 9 digit mark. Sure, not all are as successful, but that doesn't mean it isn't happening to various degrees. If it wasn't, that might be a news story.

  10. Except the behavior of everyone else changing is even more unlikely.

  11. Except the complaints still went down when there was no camera. Also, the police officer would be the one most aware there was a camera at any given time.

  12. How does that suggest a shift away from the officers when the officers are the ones most cognizant of the change in the state of affairs?

  13. No presidential material, indeed was meant in the sense that it was contemptuous to think that he wasn't presidential material simply because he might be bad with names.

  14. Re: How do you say ... on Toyota's Kirobo Mini Companion Robot To Sell For $400 (digitaltrends.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that may be the joke or prank. How long would it be til he catches on? Kind of like the ID 10 T button.

  15. Re:And now, Trump and mistakes. on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, I don't see Trump attempting to launch a second airline or steak company or university, so it's not like he's repeating his mistakes. Whereas, Clinton only acknowledges "mistakes" that are mistakes in the public eye, but continues the evasive behavior that were the hallmarks of the embassy and server mistakes. Her evasiveness is the most egregious mistake I think she continues to make.

  16. I rate ethics on a multivariable scale. Hillary's personal enrichment is a necessary evil in the evil of government as outlined by Thomas Hobbes, who was unaware of the necessary consequences of what he was describing. He tried to include elements into one governing entity that couldn't possibly coexist. Hillary's fault that matters to me is that she avoids any attempt to provide a narrative for her actions. I don't believe her strategy is the best way forward and she absolutely fails to account for her tactics.

  17. I don't know much about the names of places in the Middle East region, but they really aren't necessary to know the issues involved. Not presidential material, indeed!

  18. Ethics is not a scalar value you can put people's ethics on. I have several different ethical principles that all of the candidates score differently on. When my family votes they use all of them with which to weigh their decisions.

  19. I wrote a statement agreeing with you for the most part, but nations are nations of people first and foremost and that little fact gets cast by the wayside when people want to trot out the nation of laws line.

  20. It's actually worse to destroy the laptop than to slaughter thousands of puppies, because puppies are cute meat-sacks while laptops are a record of government undertakings that people can go to to a limited extent to confirm or deny the reality of what people acting as the government actually did.

  21. Re:And now, Trump and mistakes. on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Trump doesn't publicly admit to mistakes. I don't go out of my way to make my faults known. I learn about why mistakes are mistakes and move on. Actually I do too much revealing to others when I made a mistake that had nothing to do with them and see others doing it that I've coined a saying: "Just because you've done something stupid, doesn't mean that you have to tell everyone about it." Trump just doesn't let his mistakes affect his public image.

  22. Re:Learning from mistakes, vs. acceding to public on FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say (foxnews.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    opinion...

    No, Clinton isn't learning from her mistakes. She looks at the polls and says the public says this is a mistake, so I'll say it is a mistake to win their approval. She has shown zero interest in understanding why any of her so-called mistakes were mistakes.

  23. What matters is not which candidate actually makes it in. What matters is to what degree the individual voter is a hypocrite. The perfect candidate for everyone is never going to come. The question people need to ask themseves is if they compromise their values to a great extent to vote for someone who actually has a chance to get in, how much are they going to compromise their values in the other parts of their lives. At least that is the philosophy of my family.

  24. Everything someone puts into the Google keyboard on their phone is stuff that goes into an AI same as the baby stuff you are talking about and I am making good use of it.

  25. people should check out the fictional AI Penultimate from Graham Watkins' Virus. No more secrets. Want to give everyone in the world with a bank account a million dollars? Done. Want to zero out those bank accounts? Done. Want anyone's medical records? Done. Want to tamper with any control system with even the tenuous connection to the internet? Done. Want access to all the source code of Microsoft's, Oracle's, SAP, any business you can think of? Done.