You've completely misunderstood Zeno's paradox. You've merely stated one of his premises. The question at hand was whether an infinite count of events can be packed into a finite time. The answer is still unclear.
Unless you've taken calculus and have been show that the limit of a sum of an infinite count of events as the time each one takes goes to zero, equals a constant.
Lol nobody claims the singularity will save us all, if anything on the balance people expect a less than ideal outcome, where humanity takes a back seat. As misguided as you feel the idea is, it's not one borne out of optimism for many. It merely acknowledges the possibility humanity may not always be the pinnacle of existence.
Surely if we reached a "singularity" humans would be eliminated. Not as a malicious action by AI; but simply, because, maintaining humans as imperfect as we are, would be a drain on progress....
Naw, I suspect we're pretty easy to maintain. The real difference in how we will survive will be determined if we are seen by the AIs as being like pigeons and rats or cats and dogs.
Would that actually look intelligent though, or just like a star was emitting particularly strange radio signals?
Something simple would do. -- --- ----- -------, repeat.
It wouldn't be a star, it would be a planet as the signal would change and disappear when behind the star. Not an expert myself, but I assume that such EM radiation on such wavelengths would not be that natural. It would be high energy on narrow bands for which I assume there are no known natural causes for it to resemble. These narrow bands have obvious unnatural uses as radar and would thus be used by any civilization for similar purposes. This would be even greater when speaking of astonautical radar due to the powers involved in using it to map objects in space for a civilization actually going into space.
Maybe we should just build a gigantic transmitter and start sending. Not because we want a reply, but for all the other civilizations who are desperately searching for a signature. Do it for them.
Don't worry, we already are. The combined total of all our aeronautical radars is such that it could be detected with our own tech up to 150 light years or so away. Do so was one of the more reasonable suggestions by Stephan Hawking for looking for aliens before he died.
Actually no. Free will is directly related to physics. Your thoughts are chemical reactions. They are defined by chemistry and how your brain grew and learned when you where a child. If I could restart your existence and you would have identical life to the molacular level you would write the above comment exactly as before. I know that it sounds maybe depressing that you actually don't have free will, but it really doesn't make any difference because having free will or not would not actually change anything about how we are because for us the chemical reactions are complex enough that we all have the illusion of having free will.
I think you've got that exactly backwards. As far as physics is concerned, it's pretty well shown that if you restart life, you end up with different results. Chaos theory, buttterfly wings, etc etc via quantum effects. You're living in the 19th century and a deterministic universe has been disproven.
So the right wing generally wants to improve things for the middle classes and try to life people into the middle classes.
Citation sorely fucking needed.
It seems it's more akin to:
left: you have yours, we're going to take it from you and give to someone else.
right: i have mine, fuck you.
The way I see it is:
Left: We'll educate the embetter the poor and we'll have a better economy with worker that will make more and spend it and a rising river lifts everybody
Right: If we give more money to the rich, they'll buy more stuff, which will require more workers and lift the economy
From there, it's just a matter of which one you think will work.
Flip over your iPhone. It says "made in china, designed in cupernico". Their goal is to get rid of the second half. And to have "made in china" on the bottom of most websites (not literally, cause that would turn people off.)
This is not an "own manufacturing facilities" push. This is an "own the IP" push.
It should read: "Designed in Cupertino. Parts manufactured in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Assembled in China."
Admit it. The original purpose behind the electoral college is no longer relevant in this century.
If the electoral college never existed and was ONLY NOW proposed, let's say by Democrats, they would be *ridiculed* by Republicans to no end. It's so sad everything has become this divisive between two political labels.
Nope. If you were trying to get all the states to join into a constitutional agreement today, you'd still need something like the electoral college to get the small states to join in and agree to it just like then. Doubtful the Democrats would be proposing it because they do not currently benefit from it; it would be the Republicans.
I'm not sure how much a lifestyle improvement a $200,000 a year salary would be when you're losing half of that to taxes and paying $4,000 a month for a friggin one bedroom apartment.
Even if there is some lifestyle cuts between location and payroll, the main takeaway is that the amount you save for retirement will probably be a similar percentage of salary. So after retirement, those with lower saleries in lower cost areas can essentially stay where they are. Those with hire salaries could stay where they are or retire to the lowercost areas in style.
I'm pretty sure my cats, who are indoor only and have never been outside the house (except to the vet) have their DNA all over the city at the places I visit by now.
It's a good way to make sure nobody makes a polyjuice potion out of your hair
If he just keeps doing it for a couple of more years, then hopefully, Blue Origin in 2020 will be where SpaceX was earlier this year. Of course, he's also got the ULA to fall back on if the New Glenn doesn't work out as they may need his rocket engine to stay in the game.
Korean and Japanese characters differ greatly from the Chinese ones, at least in modern day. I can always spot the Korean ones because they use a lot of circles.
Because at one point, Korea had a king that decided they needed their own phonetic language and had people create Hangul. This was done to make the written language easier and increase literacy of his people.
A couple off decades ago we briefly had the Yugo show up in the US. Went about as well as expected. Although that was TWICE the HP!!!!!
Last time I went car shopping, '94, I looked at a used Yugo. Not only was it on the Consumer Reports Lemon List, but the window handle came off of the door while trying to roll down the window. In fact, every used car I looked at was a make, model and year on the Consumer Reports Lemon List. In the end, I bought a brand new Toyota Tercel which is still running without issue.
If there was a global industrialized civilization like ours 1,000,000 years ago, we would know. Even if all their foundations had long been covered by eons and crushed to dust, we would still see the impact of the civilization in our geology. Humans in the last 100 years have permanently changed millions of square miles of millions of centuries of geologic record. If a species before us had that kind of impact, we would know.
Now, if there was some species of dinosaur at some time that lived in small mud-hut villiages, I can't see that we would ever be lucky enough to find evidence of that.
Even in the case of a stone age culture, we would most likely see signs in the geological record. Namely, an extinction event as the species grows and claims more of the resources. Similar to arrival of humans to the Americas, large land mammals were killed off fairly quickly. This was both because they are good sources of lots of meat as well as killing of predators, so even if dinosaur species were herbavore, we'd most likely see an effect in the fossil record. even worked stone would show up for a stone age civilization. Worked flint and obsidian or even ground stone would survive, as would quarries, and in such numbers that normal weathering and other natural forces wouldn't explain them. Not to mention, if they were meat eaters, we'd end up finding butcher marks on the bones of other dinosaurs if they were preserved. Still, while cases of preservation are rare and only happened in certain conditions, we'd find things like quarries, mines, fire pits, graves, and other geological distrubances like we find areas where dinosuars dug their nests.
The sound BTW comes from the release of the gas, not some alarm. In both cases, the pressure was set too high. It was basically a - very loud - over 130db - hissing sound!
Ya, but if you don't pay for calibration and extra nozzles, you get a fire extinguishing system AND an alarm for less cost!
You had one job! (Directed at both the system itself and whoever was supposed to be in charge of calibrating it.)...actually, that person may have zero job now.
They were probably a contractor that offered to calibrate the system but some manager decided he didn't want it coming out of their budget.
Except the obvious rule that voters have to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship.
Sadly, there's nothing in the Constitution restricting voting in federal elections to U.S. citizens only. It's a major flaw, one that liberal states are taking advantage of. There is no way to fix this problem, as Dems obviously care more about illegal aliens than U.S. citizens.
I'd argue such is working as intended just like the electoral college.
Err...what in the world is racist about asking ID to prove who you are?
Because they want to charge money for the IDs, even more money than they already do, making it a poll tax when required for voting. This is normally proposed in states that used poll taxes to prevent minorities from voting, make getting such IDs harder in minority areas, and are generally racist. If they really were just worried about identifying voters in their states, they could not charge for their IDs, but they don't because that's not really what they're after.
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How do you complete an infinite number of action in finite time? That's the question. Zeno started with the premise that the sum converged to 1.
He should have talked to Leibnitz
You've completely misunderstood Zeno's paradox. You've merely stated one of his premises. The question at hand was whether an infinite count of events can be packed into a finite time. The answer is still unclear.
Unless you've taken calculus and have been show that the limit of a sum of an infinite count of events as the time each one takes goes to zero, equals a constant.
The most obvious solution is voiceprints, which I'm shocked aren't already widely in use, the technology is decades old at this point.
Don't you know that "There's nothing more useless than a lock with a voiceprint."
Lol nobody claims the singularity will save us all, if anything on the balance people expect a less than ideal outcome, where humanity takes a back seat. As misguided as you feel the idea is, it's not one borne out of optimism for many. It merely acknowledges the possibility humanity may not always be the pinnacle of existence.
Surely if we reached a "singularity" humans would be eliminated. Not as a malicious action by AI; but simply, because, maintaining humans as imperfect as we are, would be a drain on progress. ...
Naw, I suspect we're pretty easy to maintain. The real difference in how we will survive will be determined if we are seen by the AIs as being like pigeons and rats or cats and dogs.
Would that actually look intelligent though, or just like a star was emitting particularly strange radio signals?
Something simple would do. -- --- ----- -------, repeat.
It wouldn't be a star, it would be a planet as the signal would change and disappear when behind the star. Not an expert myself, but I assume that such EM radiation on such wavelengths would not be that natural. It would be high energy on narrow bands for which I assume there are no known natural causes for it to resemble. These narrow bands have obvious unnatural uses as radar and would thus be used by any civilization for similar purposes. This would be even greater when speaking of astonautical radar due to the powers involved in using it to map objects in space for a civilization actually going into space.
Wow, you much be human. Everyone knows 28573782909827352 is really 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 197 x 4391 x 1376343499
Hey everybody, I found the AI running on Intel!
Maybe we should just build a gigantic transmitter and start sending. Not because we want a reply, but for all the other civilizations who are desperately searching for a signature. Do it for them.
Don't worry, we already are. The combined total of all our aeronautical radars is such that it could be detected with our own tech up to 150 light years or so away. Do so was one of the more reasonable suggestions by Stephan Hawking for looking for aliens before he died.
There is a huge group of computer-using professionals that live and breathe Excel.
You have had too much of that white powder - those are not computer professionals - they are either zombies or aliens.
Worse. They're MBAs.
If the left's idea is to embetter the poor through education, why have the left AND the right made education so much more difficult?
Well, let's be honest. There's essentially no politically active left in the US, just center right and far right.
Actually no. Free will is directly related to physics. Your thoughts are chemical reactions. They are defined by chemistry and how your brain grew and learned when you where a child. If I could restart your existence and you would have identical life to the molacular level you would write the above comment exactly as before. I know that it sounds maybe depressing that you actually don't have free will, but it really doesn't make any difference because having free will or not would not actually change anything about how we are because for us the chemical reactions are complex enough that we all have the illusion of having free will.
I think you've got that exactly backwards. As far as physics is concerned, it's pretty well shown that if you restart life, you end up with different results. Chaos theory, buttterfly wings, etc etc via quantum effects. You're living in the 19th century and a deterministic universe has been disproven.
So the right wing generally wants to improve things for the middle classes and try to life people into the middle classes.
Citation sorely fucking needed.
It seems it's more akin to:
left: you have yours, we're going to take it from you and give to someone else. right: i have mine, fuck you.
The way I see it is:
Left: We'll educate the embetter the poor and we'll have a better economy with worker that will make more and spend it and a rising river lifts everybody
Right: If we give more money to the rich, they'll buy more stuff, which will require more workers and lift the economy
From there, it's just a matter of which one you think will work.
Flip over your iPhone. It says "made in china, designed in cupernico". Their goal is to get rid of the second half. And to have "made in china" on the bottom of most websites (not literally, cause that would turn people off.)
This is not an "own manufacturing facilities" push. This is an "own the IP" push.
It should read: "Designed in Cupertino. Parts manufactured in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. Assembled in China."
Admit it. The original purpose behind the electoral college is no longer relevant in this century. If the electoral college never existed and was ONLY NOW proposed, let's say by Democrats, they would be *ridiculed* by Republicans to no end. It's so sad everything has become this divisive between two political labels.
Nope. If you were trying to get all the states to join into a constitutional agreement today, you'd still need something like the electoral college to get the small states to join in and agree to it just like then. Doubtful the Democrats would be proposing it because they do not currently benefit from it; it would be the Republicans.
I'm not sure how much a lifestyle improvement a $200,000 a year salary would be when you're losing half of that to taxes and paying $4,000 a month for a friggin one bedroom apartment.
Even if there is some lifestyle cuts between location and payroll, the main takeaway is that the amount you save for retirement will probably be a similar percentage of salary. So after retirement, those with lower saleries in lower cost areas can essentially stay where they are. Those with hire salaries could stay where they are or retire to the lowercost areas in style.
I'm pretty sure my cats, who are indoor only and have never been outside the house (except to the vet) have their DNA all over the city at the places I visit by now.
It's a good way to make sure nobody makes a polyjuice potion out of your hair
If he just keeps doing it for a couple of more years, then hopefully, Blue Origin in 2020 will be where SpaceX was earlier this year. Of course, he's also got the ULA to fall back on if the New Glenn doesn't work out as they may need his rocket engine to stay in the game.
Korean and Japanese characters differ greatly from the Chinese ones, at least in modern day. I can always spot the Korean ones because they use a lot of circles.
Because at one point, Korea had a king that decided they needed their own phonetic language and had people create Hangul. This was done to make the written language easier and increase literacy of his people.
A couple off decades ago we briefly had the Yugo show up in the US. Went about as well as expected. Although that was TWICE the HP!!!!!
Last time I went car shopping, '94, I looked at a used Yugo. Not only was it on the Consumer Reports Lemon List, but the window handle came off of the door while trying to roll down the window. In fact, every used car I looked at was a make, model and year on the Consumer Reports Lemon List. In the end, I bought a brand new Toyota Tercel which is still running without issue.
If there was a global industrialized civilization like ours 1,000,000 years ago, we would know. Even if all their foundations had long been covered by eons and crushed to dust, we would still see the impact of the civilization in our geology. Humans in the last 100 years have permanently changed millions of square miles of millions of centuries of geologic record. If a species before us had that kind of impact, we would know.
Now, if there was some species of dinosaur at some time that lived in small mud-hut villiages, I can't see that we would ever be lucky enough to find evidence of that.
Even in the case of a stone age culture, we would most likely see signs in the geological record. Namely, an extinction event as the species grows and claims more of the resources. Similar to arrival of humans to the Americas, large land mammals were killed off fairly quickly. This was both because they are good sources of lots of meat as well as killing of predators, so even if dinosaur species were herbavore, we'd most likely see an effect in the fossil record. even worked stone would show up for a stone age civilization. Worked flint and obsidian or even ground stone would survive, as would quarries, and in such numbers that normal weathering and other natural forces wouldn't explain them. Not to mention, if they were meat eaters, we'd end up finding butcher marks on the bones of other dinosaurs if they were preserved. Still, while cases of preservation are rare and only happened in certain conditions, we'd find things like quarries, mines, fire pits, graves, and other geological distrubances like we find areas where dinosuars dug their nests.
Madness
Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
The sound BTW comes from the release of the gas, not some alarm. In both cases, the pressure was set too high. It was basically a - very loud - over 130db - hissing sound!
Ya, but if you don't pay for calibration and extra nozzles, you get a fire extinguishing system AND an alarm for less cost!
You had one job! (Directed at both the system itself and whoever was supposed to be in charge of calibrating it.) ...actually, that person may have zero job now.
They were probably a contractor that offered to calibrate the system but some manager decided he didn't want it coming out of their budget.
Except the obvious rule that voters have to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. Sadly, there's nothing in the Constitution restricting voting in federal elections to U.S. citizens only. It's a major flaw, one that liberal states are taking advantage of. There is no way to fix this problem, as Dems obviously care more about illegal aliens than U.S. citizens.
I'd argue such is working as intended just like the electoral college.
Err...what in the world is racist about asking ID to prove who you are?
Because they want to charge money for the IDs, even more money than they already do, making it a poll tax when required for voting. This is normally proposed in states that used poll taxes to prevent minorities from voting, make getting such IDs harder in minority areas, and are generally racist. If they really were just worried about identifying voters in their states, they could not charge for their IDs, but they don't because that's not really what they're after.
postmarked, you know the way it works now.
Possibly not. They're an AC and they probably don't know how American taxes work in Russia.