Among other things it explains the heartbeats of birds vs "finite number of heartbeats". We all have mechanisms for DNA damage repair. In humans, if I remember correctly, there are 3 such mechanisms, but in birds there are 4. This explains why birds live longer, even though they have more heartbeats pr. minute (i.e. oxygen consumption and DNA damage).
The problem I often encountered in school was that when you had finished problems given by the teacher you were awarded with nothing to do.
Another thing is that teachers rarely encourage kids to really test their knowledge, rather it is just completing the subject that is the main goal, for both parts (students and teachers) not gain a wide understanding of the subject.
School should be a place where you evolve to discover what you can do very well, and a place to get help with things you have problems with grasping. Nowadays it is much more "help with problems" than "discovery of skills".
Don't leave your wife and your kids when your kids are three and one year old. It messes up your wife and the kids.
Sometimes it is better that the parents split up. It is much better for kids to have parents living separately if they argue with eachother all the time together.
But every kid should have contact with both parents though, at least when theres no good reason not to.
Have anyone thought about the possibility that Valve will give you a patch that makes Half-Life 2 playable without Steam servers sometime in the future?
With som many people whining about "what if Valve goes away", it is still possible for Valve to to this right?
The US wasn't the deciding factor, it was simply a factor. IT hedged how much terrortory the germans could take. Withouth the US in WWII Russia woudl have taken more land, and nothign more. The germans never had a chance. Same in WWI, The US helped shorten the wars but Russia won them.
Well, if it were not for the US sending supplies over the Atlantic for the British I very much doubt Great Britain would have lasted that long. And if Germany had gotten their hands on the British Isles they could have focused almost all their forces onto Russia, and therefore maybe could have taken Moskow not stopped 1,5 km short of it.
Of course this is all ifs but I do not think Russia could have made it all alone
I am wondering if this ever could be done, because feeding information directly to your brain is not the same as recieving it from your senses.
What makes you think that information that flows into your brain ever get past the unconsious?
But I totally agree that you would not let anybody get access to your brain, then Big Brother would really be watching you!
Connecting your brain to machines sounds interesting enough, but what about connecting your brain to another brain? That would really produce some interesting results, and all in all, for the first time oneself could really know what another person thinks.
I keep thinking that it's because wavefront (or any new technology for that matter) is so new that data on problems haven't been gathered yet, and therefore they say it have not had so many problems.
I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as the "University of Finland". At least, I've been living in Finland for the past two years and I've never heard of it.
If you read the post once more you may notice that little detail that states: Universities of Finland. And I'm sure that Finland have several universities.
7. Go to space. With my wife. Close the hatch for some privacy. Get our space freak on to the music of "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" (the 2001 music) for our own "docking manuevers".
Speaking of which; it's incredibly difficult to have sex in zero gravity, you would just bounce off each other. (No, not from experience =)
In other words, you would look like two fish trying to copulate on land, or in space.
Hey, Bill! Wanna go space fishing tonight? Now that would have been real cool.
I'm so tired of people saying that the odds are unbeliavably small, how can we even start betting on how alien civilization evolve? We have not the slightest idea.
And besides, people win the lottery even though the odds are small.
I don't quite agree with you there. Even though computers have been around for a while for young people to learn them, I continue to see people my age (around 20) that don't bother learning what all the things in a computer are. One must remember that for most users; the most important thing is not how it works, but that it works.
Just like when you go to your doctor and get some pills for something, even though there are those who really check up why their medicine works; the wast majority just swallows them and wait for them to work as their doctor said it would.
And the schools will find it more efficent if they just learn the pupils/students how the tool on the computer work, and not that the tool works because of computer language i.e.
I remember when all the newspapers began to publish their work on the internet. Everyone said that none would buy the paper version anymore and that the newspapers would have to charge money for viewing their news on the net.
I think this is these "doomsday" warnings all over again
Isn't it in human nature to paint things black?
Anyways, I think it's a healthy sign to consider the worst case scenario too.
But I totally agree with you that the first AI probably will be human friendly and live in a kind of symbiosis with us.
And in any case we can't really do much more than wait and see. Evolution always finds a way
"PS On the other hand, maybe we should build a manual kill switch into every candidate computer that isn't part of the blueprints or any electronically accessible record... "
One thing that always strikes me when people say that "A kill switch will solve any unpredictability" is that; what if the machine learns a way to omit this?
What guarantee do we have that the self-conscious machine will not learn other uses of the equipment it has been given than it was originally intended to do?
I'm no electronic engineer, and I don't know if people have done this already, but maybe the machine finds a way to send signals through the power unit. Or it may not be that hard either, we do have the Internet connection. The machine could gather information it finds useable through it when it is powered on. Maybe even copy a "conscious" version of itself and send it to any happy reciever.
Then you might say "We would of course not connect the computer to the internet (given that it is a computer of course), we would keep it locked out of any network"
Question: What prohibits the computer from sending signals through other means? Is it that far fetched that it will find other means of communication?
I may be a bit doomsday-ish in my view, but caution, when self-conscious machines becomes reality (if they ever do) may be more than a "kill switch"
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I recommend reading the book Oxygen: The molecule that made the world for a thorough understanding of ageing.
Among other things it explains the heartbeats of birds vs "finite number of heartbeats". We all have mechanisms for DNA damage repair. In humans, if I remember correctly, there are 3 such mechanisms, but in birds there are 4. This explains why birds live longer, even though they have more heartbeats pr. minute (i.e. oxygen consumption and DNA damage).
I think you are looking for the word 'Envy', but you should also look up The Jante Law http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law
"A peaceful and civilized nation"? Is there any nation fitting that description anywhere?"
Iceland, maybe. 0% spendage on military, and on top of the rankings (at least before the banks there took a trip under the permafrost)
The problem I often encountered in school was that when you had finished problems given by the teacher you were awarded with nothing to do.
Another thing is that teachers rarely encourage kids to really test their knowledge, rather it is just completing the subject that is the main goal, for both parts (students and teachers) not gain a wide understanding of the subject.
School should be a place where you evolve to discover what you can do very well, and a place to get help with things you have problems with grasping.
Nowadays it is much more "help with problems" than "discovery of skills".
Don't leave your wife and your kids when your kids are three and one year old. It messes up your wife and the kids.
Sometimes it is better that the parents split up.
It is much better for kids to have parents living separately if they argue with eachother all the time together.
But every kid should have contact with both parents though, at least when theres no good reason not to.
-M
I like the word "of coursely"
It's so self explaining
Have anyone thought about the possibility that Valve will give you a patch that makes Half-Life 2 playable without Steam servers sometime in the future?
With som many people whining about "what if Valve goes away", it is still possible for Valve to to this right?
The US wasn't the deciding factor, it was simply a factor. IT hedged how much terrortory the germans could take. Withouth the US in WWII Russia woudl have taken more land, and nothign more. The germans never had a chance. Same in WWI, The US helped shorten the wars but Russia won them.
Well, if it were not for the US sending supplies over the Atlantic for the British I very much doubt Great Britain would have lasted that long. And if Germany had gotten their hands on the British Isles they could have focused almost all their forces onto Russia, and therefore maybe could have taken Moskow not stopped 1,5 km short of it.
Of course this is all ifs but I do not think Russia could have made it all alone
I am wondering if this ever could be done, because feeding information directly to your brain is not the same as recieving it from your senses.
What makes you think that information that flows into your brain ever get past the unconsious?
But I totally agree that you would not let anybody get access to your brain, then Big Brother would really be watching you!
Connecting your brain to machines sounds interesting enough, but what about connecting your brain to another brain?
That would really produce some interesting results, and all in all, for the first time oneself could really know what another person thinks.
I keep thinking that it's because wavefront (or any new technology for that matter) is so new that data on problems haven't been gathered yet, and therefore they say it have not had so many problems.
I'm pretty sure there's no such thing as the "University of Finland". At least, I've been living in Finland for the past two years and I've never heard of it.
If you read the post once more you may notice that little detail that states:
Universities of Finland. And I'm sure that Finland have several universities.
When you take your clothes to the laundry
We must prevent this from ever happening again, rage the observatory!!
Besides, my GF has enough trouble staying awake in a 1.5 hour long movie.
Leave her home!
When you talk about GF and "trouble staying awake" I read that as:
Besides my GrandFather has enough trouble staying awake....
GirlFriend, yeah sure
7. Go to space. With my wife. Close the hatch for some privacy. Get our space freak on to the music of "Thus Spoke Zarathrusta" (the 2001 music) for our own "docking manuevers".
Speaking of which; it's incredibly difficult to have sex in zero gravity, you would just bounce off each other. (No, not from experience =)
In other words, you would look like two fish trying to copulate on land, or in space.
Hey, Bill! Wanna go space fishing tonight? Now that would have been real cool.
Let's hope they make it ambidextrous!
New mouse design usually mean perfect fit for the right hand. You don't know how frustrating this is for left-handers.
I'm so tired of people saying that the odds are unbeliavably small, how can we even start betting on how alien civilization evolve? We have not the slightest idea.
And besides, people win the lottery even though the odds are small.
I don't quite agree with you there. Even though computers have been around for a while for young people to learn them, I continue to see people my age (around 20) that don't bother learning what all the things in a computer are. One must remember that for most users; the most important thing is not how it works, but that it works.
Just like when you go to your doctor and get some pills for something, even though there are those who really check up why their medicine works; the wast majority just swallows them and wait for them to work as their doctor said it would.
And the schools will find it more efficent if they just learn the pupils/students how the tool on the computer work, and not that the tool works because of computer language i.e.
I remember when all the newspapers began to publish their work on the internet. Everyone said that none would buy the paper version anymore and that the newspapers would have to charge money for viewing their news on the net.
I think this is these "doomsday" warnings all over again
Actually, other than the magician himself, who the hell else is named Mandrake?
Haven't you seen Dexters Laboratory?
Directions: Unwrap muffin, place in mouth, chew.
And then, do I spit or swallow?
For any religion that believes that we are placed here by a higher being, we essentially are living in a simulation.
For me, the scary thing is if we are NOT living in a simulation.
Isn't it in human nature to paint things black?
Anyways, I think it's a healthy sign to consider the worst case scenario too. But I totally agree with you that the first AI probably will be human friendly and live in a kind of symbiosis with us. And in any case we can't really do much more than wait and see. Evolution always finds a way
"PS On the other hand, maybe we should build a manual kill switch into every candidate computer that isn't part of the blueprints or any electronically accessible record... "
One thing that always strikes me when people say that "A kill switch will solve any unpredictability" is that; what if the machine learns a way to omit this?
What guarantee do we have that the self-conscious machine will not learn other uses of the equipment it has been given than it was originally intended to do?
I'm no electronic engineer, and I don't know if people have done this already, but maybe the machine finds a way to send signals through the power unit. Or it may not be that hard either, we do have the Internet connection. The machine could gather information it finds useable through it when it is powered on. Maybe even copy a "conscious" version of itself and send it to any happy reciever.
Then you might say "We would of course not connect the computer to the internet (given that it is a computer of course), we would keep it locked out of any network"
Question: What prohibits the computer from sending signals through other means?
Is it that far fetched that it will find other means of communication?
I may be a bit doomsday-ish in my view, but caution, when self-conscious machines becomes reality (if they ever do) may be more than a "kill switch"
Just my 1 krone