Say what you will. Medicine is as immune to progress as ever. We're beginning to have issues just fighting off bacterial infections thanks to overprescription of antibiotics.
I could develop a genetically engineered super mule for you that would have the strength of a hundred mules and would be so intelligent it wouldn't even follow orders. Any takers?
or 3) Loves education a lot more than you do. What do you mean no easy breaks from you? Who the f*** do you think you are? He didn't do anything except upset your puritan sensibilities you genetic sh*t.
Viagra was discovered serendipitously in 1992 when Pfizer was researching a drug for angina. They noticed that some of their patience were getting hard ons, but the drug wasn't helping their angina. The rest of course, is history.
The drugs you've seen come out since viagra all use the same mechanism to produce an erection. Just in case you thought they hit upon it by anything but dumb luck. You're right about it being profitable, though.
The poor guy hasn't had a jaw in 9 years. He wants to be able to eat like a normal person. I understand that you feel this makes him whining, but the whole point behind medicine is to restore normal function. Its not like he was asking for the doc to grow a laser on his head or something. It is understandable that he would feel this way. I am sure he would agree that what they had done for him was a major improvement in his life, though.
A lot of these guys, like Kurzweil, just ignore Philosophy of Mind completely and work of huge assumptions.
For problems with a physicalist world view please read the following: http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/physicalism/ Sure AI has made a lot of advances, but there's a big jump from NLP and human level intellect. You may want to perfect a bayesian spam filter first.
12.) WILL IT FLY?
The machine is heavier than originally designed... The unknown at the moment is whether the machine will break up prior to lift off.
Whether or not any system will break up becomes all the more relevant when it involves humans and rotating blades.
You missed my point completely. In the end did God pull the trigger, or some nutter? You can take any belief system (or lack of belief system) and warp it. People just use their philosophies to excuse them from what they do, and if they actually believe it they're crazy, and some other philosophy could have replaced it in it's destructive power easily. Religion doesn't rob people of free will. There are no excuses for attrocities. Getting rid of religion won't get rid of evil, or the easily led, it won't even cut their numbers.
Can we please have a -1 "evangelical atheist" option? I'm really getting tired of people ragging on the religious types for our problems. I don't see people here blaming the soviets and their atheist philosophy for the deaths of millions during the cold war. Philosophies/religons don't kill people, humans do. In the end, with or without a particular religion/philosophy there would still be terrible social problems. You just feel the need to look down on religious types as if you were some how superior. Get over it. You'll be comforted to know that if you're right and they're wrong you'll still be annihilated along with them in death. Eventually there won't be any biological or artificial neural networks to remember you with due to the entropy of the universe, so congrats. I hope the smug satisfaction brought you pleasure in the breif time you had.
I don't think it will pose too big a threat to most people's belief systems. Even the neanderthals are believed to have religious persuasions judging from their burial ceremonies. I don't think religion is going to kick the bucket because of some ol' alien. People will always want to believe they're something more than meat-sack automata, and perhaps they're right.
Giraffes' long necks are due to the fact that they fight with them.
http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/gpryor/giraffe.evolution.ht ml
It helps them survive, and live to mate.
It implied one of the scientists believed brain damage from the illness caused her to walk like us bipeds. Figures - Leave it to brain damage to make an animal more human.
It is a shame they're going to spend 4 million on one of the few remaigning relics of the zenith of America's space age. Perhaps you would also be concerned about the 400 billion a year corporate welfare state we created for the defense industry, but the difference is a mere 10^5.
In german they call a PhD promotions or dung? I can see how a life without a PhD could be seen that way by a grad student, but believe me, there are other career options.
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1) That didn't answer my question. 2) That was not an argument. Well done sarcasm, Kagura! Thank you for your input into the discussion!
Out of curiosity, are you a climate scientist?
Say what you will. Medicine is as immune to progress as ever. We're beginning to have issues just fighting off bacterial infections thanks to overprescription of antibiotics.
You have nothing to apologize for. Love lift us up where we belong.
Did you consider the possibility that if they don't release their specs Bill Gates will give them head? Just a thought.
I could develop a genetically engineered super mule for you that would have the strength of a hundred mules and would be so intelligent it wouldn't even follow orders. Any takers?
or 3) Loves education a lot more than you do. What do you mean no easy breaks from you? Who the f*** do you think you are? He didn't do anything except upset your puritan sensibilities you genetic sh*t.
Me love you long time.
"The achievement probably won't result in new disease treatments for five or 10 years or more, he said." - From TFA
Ah medicine, how impervious to progress you are.
I LOVE YOU.
Viagra was discovered serendipitously in 1992 when Pfizer was researching a drug for angina. They noticed that some of their patience were getting hard ons, but the drug wasn't helping their angina. The rest of course, is history.
The drugs you've seen come out since viagra all use the same mechanism to produce an erection. Just in case you thought they hit upon it by anything but dumb luck. You're right about it being profitable, though.
Advanced medical care? Those doctors were essentially stabbing in the dark. This has not successfully been done before.
"has only been wrong twice (1948, and 1960)"
Both democratic wins, mind you. ; )
The poor guy hasn't had a jaw in 9 years. He wants to be able to eat like a normal person. I understand that you feel this makes him whining, but the whole point behind medicine is to restore normal function. Its not like he was asking for the doc to grow a laser on his head or something. It is understandable that he would feel this way. I am sure he would agree that what they had done for him was a major improvement in his life, though.
If only the Selfish Protein knew how much pain it's causing mankind.
Somebody call Dawkins. I smell another book.
How much good can come from a government science program before it will be terminated?
A lot of these guys, like Kurzweil, just ignore Philosophy of Mind completely and work of huge assumptions.
For problems with a physicalist world view please read the following: http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/entries/physicalism/
Sure AI has made a lot of advances, but there's a big jump from NLP and human level intellect. You may want to perfect a bayesian spam filter first.
12.) WILL IT FLY? The machine is heavier than originally designed... The unknown at the moment is whether the machine will break up prior to lift off. Whether or not any system will break up becomes all the more relevant when it involves humans and rotating blades.
You missed my point completely. In the end did God pull the trigger, or some nutter? You can take any belief system (or lack of belief system) and warp it. People just use their philosophies to excuse them from what they do, and if they actually believe it they're crazy, and some other philosophy could have replaced it in it's destructive power easily. Religion doesn't rob people of free will. There are no excuses for attrocities. Getting rid of religion won't get rid of evil, or the easily led, it won't even cut their numbers.
and it would be seen as a threat
Can we please have a -1 "evangelical atheist" option? I'm really getting tired of people ragging on the religious types for our problems. I don't see people here blaming the soviets and their atheist philosophy for the deaths of millions during the cold war. Philosophies/religons don't kill people, humans do. In the end, with or without a particular religion/philosophy there would still be terrible social problems. You just feel the need to look down on religious types as if you were some how superior. Get over it. You'll be comforted to know that if you're right and they're wrong you'll still be annihilated along with them in death. Eventually there won't be any biological or artificial neural networks to remember you with due to the entropy of the universe, so congrats. I hope the smug satisfaction brought you pleasure in the breif time you had.
I don't think it will pose too big a threat to most people's belief systems. Even the neanderthals are believed to have religious persuasions judging from their burial ceremonies. I don't think religion is going to kick the bucket because of some ol' alien. People will always want to believe they're something more than meat-sack automata, and perhaps they're right.
Giraffes' long necks are due to the fact that they fight with them. http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/gpryor/giraffe.evolution.ht ml
It helps them survive, and live to mate.
It implied one of the scientists believed brain damage from the illness caused her to walk like us bipeds. Figures - Leave it to brain damage to make an animal more human.
It is a shame they're going to spend 4 million on one of the few remaigning relics of the zenith of America's space age. Perhaps you would also be concerned about the 400 billion a year corporate welfare state we created for the defense industry, but the difference is a mere 10^5.
In german they call a PhD promotions or dung? I can see how a life without a PhD could be seen that way by a grad student, but believe me, there are other career options.