It really isn't known how many bits of information comprise your "soul." Neuron topology in some parts of the brain, almost certainly, but not the specific location of each capillary (for example). So, I think giving up now is premature.
I suppose full cloning is silly, since mind-uploading seems both more technically feasible (or rather, somewhat less technically infeasible?) and also more advantageous if "you" are going into a different habitat.
I suppose the bigger issue is that nobody but you cares whether it is you who goes, or another equally qualified individual. And the most qualified individual is sure to be one of our ancestors or creations, not any one of us reading this.
The phrase "social engineering" strikes me as off-key too. Evidently we have so completely bought into the idea that intelligence is fundamentally a technical activity rather than a social one, that we now consider using social means just a trick to accomplish what is fundamentally a technical goal. Which is to say, we are bass-ackwards.
Getting close to important people to learn what they're thinking isn't some clever new thing, it is fundamental intelligence work. Maybe we should get back into that instead of technical dragnets covering everybody.
That limited definition of "clone" has recently been widely adopted simply because it is currently within reach. A full clone would be a full copy of yourself, with every neuron in place. Full cloning seems like the only rationale for "printing" people, since otherwise it would be much easier to send a frozen embryo in an artificial uterus with robot-mom to raise him/her.
Tablets aren't designed to optimize reading, they're designed to funnel your activities into clicking ads and buying apps and goods. That's why nobody is trying to improve tablets optimized for reading books.
Would it sound less weird if they said, Studies Show Glucose and Oxygen Help Brain? Your brain (like the rest of your body) is a chemical reactor and needs fuel - that is glucose + oxygen. You can't just breathe the same air over and over all day.
I doubt anybody (but you) linked it to global warming. Am I right?
Heh. They should just teach Econ 101, Physics 101, and Evolutionary Theory in Kindergarden and then quit while the students are at the peak of explanatory power, with everything seeming so nice and simple.
But if the top 1% changes every generation (and this is exactly what happens), is that as big of a problem as Picketty and other liberals make it out to be?
The question is whether having the logic squirreled away in code or a DB would have made it more correct, which is a big assumption!
I really think Piketty deserves a lot of credit for releasing his "source" spreadsheets on such a substantive and controversial work. Most authors do not. If the critiques turn out to be substantial and extensive, I plan on waiting for a second edition with corrections before investing time in reading it.
"Somehow?" The difference is: Hitler lost the war and Stalin won it. He was very popular with most of the people he was oppressing during his own lifetime. Political prisoners in Siberia would write letters to him asking for help, sincerely believing that if only he knew what was going on... Not sure what to draw from this, except the idea we were given as kids that Chinese and Russians secretly envy us and can't wait to throw off their shackles are mostly baloney. And that people really love leaders that make them feel strong.
Ah... but that's a different kind of study, because you're comparing two things that actually exist. Notice this story is a different type: "90% of wikipedia articles contain errors." OK. But the second part... "your General Practitioner as a more reliable source" is actually entirely outside this study!
If you want to support a conclusion like that, here's what you have to do: have some randomly-selected GP's write wikipedia-like articles, doing no more background research than they would do for a typical patient (i.e. within the space of about 7 minutes). Then do a blinded, comparative quality study between the GP-authored articles and the real wikipedia ones.
That's what all these wikipedia-critiquing studies have in common - implicitly comparing to an ideal that does not exist. (But since everything is flawed, does that mean everything is equally flawed? No!)
Stealth is like making a ground vehicle mine-resistant or amphibious - it's an advantage, all else being equal, but due to design compromises all else cannot be equal.
Sony's offering has a huge advantage in being coupled with the PS3. After all, content is king. And in the same way that 3d has shifted how movies are directed, game design will surely need to be optimized for goggles. That's not to say Sony will manage to leverage their advantage effectively and win the day - but they should.
I see remarkable continuity from the current crop of iPhone clones back to the Sony Clie TH55 I had 10 years ago.
I'm something of a Rip Van Winkle when it comes to smartphones because I had several Palm Pilots and PocketPCs, but I don't like how cell service is sold here in the US and I am normally near a phone at work anyways. So my wife and I just had blackberry clones until I recently got her a standard-issue Android. To me, it feels immediately very familiar to the Palm Pilot, especially that Sony which was the last one I had. (I even used an onscreen keyboard at the time, rather than Grafitti). This contrasts with my first use of the Palm, which was very different to earlier devices I had such as the Psion 3a.
You don't find it notable that just 2 or 3 top schools produce enough PhDs to staff the departments of the top 50? One thing it should tell you is that the top 50 schools graduate about enough PhDs to supply the rest of the nation, and if you think you're headed for a tenured position by getting a PhD anywhere else, forget it. Granted this will not be news to anybody who knows about such things, but I don't think the general public understands how elite the professors at good schools are, with all the whining I hear about them having it too good.
I agree the space race was an ICBM development/demonstrator program, but that means China going to the moon will not re-ignite it, since we have no need to re-develop ICBMs. Even if China beat us to putting a man on Mars, it wouldn't have any direct security implications.
To me this seems fantastic for somebody who travels often for work. You have all your data and applications one compact device, but when you wind up on a full flight without the room to really fold out a laptop, it's also a tablet.
It seems like a great presentation device also, because you could run something like powerpoint, except more interactive, moving around a bit instead of stuck behind the podium, sketching formulae or annotations on the slides. I see there is Keynote for iPad, but with a number of limitations due to the limitations of the iPad itself or the fact that it's a re-write from the OSX version. And surely writing equations etc. on the screen is much more accurate with a pen than a finger.
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I was talking about "printing" a fully-formed brain, not growing one. Yes, there's a lot of non-DNA information in there, that was the point.
It really isn't known how many bits of information comprise your "soul." Neuron topology in some parts of the brain, almost certainly, but not the specific location of each capillary (for example). So, I think giving up now is premature.
I suppose the bigger issue is that nobody but you cares whether it is you who goes, or another equally qualified individual. And the most qualified individual is sure to be one of our ancestors or creations, not any one of us reading this.
Getting close to important people to learn what they're thinking isn't some clever new thing, it is fundamental intelligence work. Maybe we should get back into that instead of technical dragnets covering everybody.
That limited definition of "clone" has recently been widely adopted simply because it is currently within reach. A full clone would be a full copy of yourself, with every neuron in place. Full cloning seems like the only rationale for "printing" people, since otherwise it would be much easier to send a frozen embryo in an artificial uterus with robot-mom to raise him/her.
How about compared to a book?
Or compared to an e-Reader after you pay the extra $20 for them to quit bothering you with ads?
Tablets aren't designed to optimize reading, they're designed to funnel your activities into clicking ads and buying apps and goods. That's why nobody is trying to improve tablets optimized for reading books.
I doubt anybody (but you) linked it to global warming. Am I right?
Basically impossible to audit? This article is about the Financial Times' audit of the spreadsheet.
Heh. They should just teach Econ 101, Physics 101, and Evolutionary Theory in Kindergarden and then quit while the students are at the peak of explanatory power, with everything seeming so nice and simple.
That is a key assertion, especially if broadened to, say, the top 20%. What is your source? All the studies I have seen say It is much harder for a poor child born in America to climb into the rare air of the countryâ(TM)s highest earners than it is for a similar child in, for example, Canada or Denmark.
I really think Piketty deserves a lot of credit for releasing his "source" spreadsheets on such a substantive and controversial work. Most authors do not. If the critiques turn out to be substantial and extensive, I plan on waiting for a second edition with corrections before investing time in reading it.
"Somehow?" The difference is: Hitler lost the war and Stalin won it. He was very popular with most of the people he was oppressing during his own lifetime. Political prisoners in Siberia would write letters to him asking for help, sincerely believing that if only he knew what was going on... Not sure what to draw from this, except the idea we were given as kids that Chinese and Russians secretly envy us and can't wait to throw off their shackles are mostly baloney. And that people really love leaders that make them feel strong.
If you want to support a conclusion like that, here's what you have to do: have some randomly-selected GP's write wikipedia-like articles, doing no more background research than they would do for a typical patient (i.e. within the space of about 7 minutes). Then do a blinded, comparative quality study between the GP-authored articles and the real wikipedia ones.
That's what all these wikipedia-critiquing studies have in common - implicitly comparing to an ideal that does not exist. (But since everything is flawed, does that mean everything is equally flawed? No!)
Stealth is like making a ground vehicle mine-resistant or amphibious - it's an advantage, all else being equal, but due to design compromises all else cannot be equal.
Sony's offering has a huge advantage in being coupled with the PS3. After all, content is king. And in the same way that 3d has shifted how movies are directed, game design will surely need to be optimized for goggles. That's not to say Sony will manage to leverage their advantage effectively and win the day - but they should.
Consumer Reports buys cars right off the lot, that's the right way to do it.
I'm something of a Rip Van Winkle when it comes to smartphones because I had several Palm Pilots and PocketPCs, but I don't like how cell service is sold here in the US and I am normally near a phone at work anyways. So my wife and I just had blackberry clones until I recently got her a standard-issue Android. To me, it feels immediately very familiar to the Palm Pilot, especially that Sony which was the last one I had. (I even used an onscreen keyboard at the time, rather than Grafitti). This contrasts with my first use of the Palm, which was very different to earlier devices I had such as the Psion 3a.
You don't find it notable that just 2 or 3 top schools produce enough PhDs to staff the departments of the top 50? One thing it should tell you is that the top 50 schools graduate about enough PhDs to supply the rest of the nation, and if you think you're headed for a tenured position by getting a PhD anywhere else, forget it. Granted this will not be news to anybody who knows about such things, but I don't think the general public understands how elite the professors at good schools are, with all the whining I hear about them having it too good.
The Nook HD+ is $179.
I agree the space race was an ICBM development/demonstrator program, but that means China going to the moon will not re-ignite it, since we have no need to re-develop ICBMs. Even if China beat us to putting a man on Mars, it wouldn't have any direct security implications.
It seems like a great presentation device also, because you could run something like powerpoint, except more interactive, moving around a bit instead of stuck behind the podium, sketching formulae or annotations on the slides. I see there is Keynote for iPad, but with a number of limitations due to the limitations of the iPad itself or the fact that it's a re-write from the OSX version. And surely writing equations etc. on the screen is much more accurate with a pen than a finger.
Where do you get that? Wikipedia says 262,569 Initial+Renewals+Extensions in 2012, which would make 20K off by a factor of 13.
Fiat is only making enough each year to comply with CAFE, and what I meant was that the 2013 model year sold out in June of 2013.
Actually the 500e sold out by June last year.