There is only so much you can do with make-up and FX.
But why would you need to do anything? A terminator has a fleshy shell; why wouldn't it get fat and wrinkly? Heck, having a Geriator that's been around for a long time and seen it all could even allow a new take on the character.
Say, the Terminator from Judgement Day survived. A century has passed and Skynet has retreated off-planet to outer Solar System. The T is sent for one last mission to a military space station where the local AI has gone rogue and threatens to rain apocalypse down on Earth... Terminator 5: System Shock:).
And the result of that was that we got *so* cautious that we essentially stopped going to space entirely.
I think it has more to do with the expense and long-term commitment required for large projects, such as the Moon missions. You don't require astronauts to deploy weather satellites or unmanned probes, so why pay for sending them? Especially when NASA already has a shoestring budget.
Look at the numbers willing to go to Mars, one way, and die before they would on earth.
Lots of people loudly talk about their willingness to die when the only consequence is making them look badass, at least in their own eyes. How many will duck away from a real suicide mission at the last moment? And of those who do get in, how many did so because they're mentally unstable people who'll go nuts once the truth hits, or because they have to live for years in cramped quarters with strangers while waiting to die, or because they want to die and figured they'll sabotage the mission as a form of revenge against the world?
If you have to pay interns like regular employees, what's the point of hiring interns?
Nothing whatsoever. And that means that people just starting their career aren't competing against unpaid slave labour, nor do they have to be unpaid slaves to earn the right to work for a living later. Everyone wins, except the would-be robber barons.
When you're poor, stop spending money on non-essentials.
Which means that shops get less business, which means that more will go bankrupt, which means that more people fall into poverty, etc.
The main problem with austerity is that it creates a death spiral. A government can't save its way out of debt, because every time it cuts spending the economy shrinks even more, cutting income and sending people into poverty. Either Greece stops austerity measures, or there's going to be an open rebellion at some point.
At least if the station is privately owned, there are several of them with somewhat different owners.
And they're all called Rubert Murdoch.
And you can turn them off without being forced to pay for them.
No, you can't. Apart from direct subsidies there's the whole licensing system that allocates spectrum to those stations, and requires enforcement - can't have unlicensed pirate stations, after all. And as a completely unintended side effect means that stations only operate as long as they get the government's blessing.
Or just don't drink alcohol ever. Sorry, just had to throw that option out there. It's been working great for me so far.
And yet you felt the need to - in fact, "had to" - participate on a discussion about a subject that presumably doesn't interest you at all, to throw in a comment with no substance beyond self-congratulation aimed at complete strangers. That's a peculiar definition of "working great".
If there is one thing that needs more objectivity its wine tasting.
But taste is by definition completely subjective. It's like trying to make an algorithm to detect good art: at the absolute best you can simply predict how a given test person will judge, since there is no objective quality to measure.
Besides, wine is an excellent luxury item: a $1000 bottle doesn't really take any more resources to make than a $0.99 bottle, despite resulting in great perceived difference in lifestyle, so from society's point of view, it's a much more preferable "money sink" than luxury cars, yachts or mansions.
If you read enough anthropology you find that civilization is cyclical -- it starts with anarchy, advances to a golden age, and then dies of increasing bureaucratic, legal, and political complexity, and the cycle repeats.
Can you give an example of a civilization that collapsed for these reasons, rather than some combination of ecological catastrophe, foreign invasion and/or plague? Because I can't think of any.
People are not logical in their communications. They're fragmented and riddled with assumptions about culture, phrasing, and slang.
Which is very logical, as it allows for shorter messages and thus more efficient communication. Indeed, it's impossible to communicate without making any kind of assumptions about the receiver.
Getting a voice recognition system to deal with accents is far from trivial, but even that is trivial compared to getting a system to grasp concepts from around the world.
True. It's probably necessary to build a learning simulation system (imagination) first. Once it can construct virtual worlds that mimic real-life situations and their likely outcomes with reasonable accuracy, and can distinguish between different outcomes using a value system of some kind, there's some hope of parsing at least simple sentences.
Voice input with contextual awareness, understanding of the world, and personalization will blow away anything else in terms of input speed, accuracy and effectiveness.
Temporal neural copy? The computer takes a snapshot of your mind, then evolves it in time while feeding input from the game, and when it's done it gets folded back into your neurons, thus effectively having you perform two things at the same time. Or 20. Or read every page of Wikipedia at the same time, for that matter. And the real fun becomes when you add robotic bodies into the mix.
Mind uploading is going to be the real killer tech, possibly in more ways than one.
There are lots of people with neural networks and about all they have learned in life is how to wipe their ass.
Which, all joking aside, is actually a computationally difficult task - you have to simultaneously maintain balance, map coordinates from skin surface to join positions, control pressure, recognize paper tearing, and recognize when the task is done or, alternatively, get more paper (which requires visual object recognition, mapping from retina to 3D space to joint positions, rudimentary understanding of physics to get the paper to tear where you want, etc).
Of course they can, and do. Where the government is strong, the corporations wield power through it. Where it is weak, they hire their own private armies a la Pinkerton, because who'll stop them?
I'd say this applies to government more than private corporations.
It applies to both. However, citizens are the nominal shareholder-equivalents of the country, so the government tends to pay at least lip service to serving their interests.
When are you going to stop being delusional that an unregulated currency is viable?
Dunno what unregulated currency you're talking bout - Bitcoin is regulated algorithmically by the transaction and block validation rules, so that can't be it. Are you referring to centralized currencies, where "regulation" apparently means you can lose access to your money at any time.
As for Bitcoin being viable, Bitcoin economy is alive and growing, so claims of non-viability are extraordinary and require extraordinary evidence. Calling people "delusional" doesn't quite cut it.
If you have a patented drug that treats condition X and the patent still has some years of life in it. It absolutely makes sense to keep drug Y a secret; especially if drug Y treats condition X better(be it in effectiveness, fewer side effects, etc) and you know that everyone will want to switch from X to Y when you make Y available.
This will give remaining life of your patent on X and the full life of the patent on Y years of being able to sell a drug for the condition at high margins, as you won't have competitors.
Hmm.
Suppose you are a corporate executive corrupt enough to not care about people dying from a treatable condition, and you encounter this situation. You have two options:
Keep the new drug a secret. It won't do you any good, but 15 years from now the shareholders might get more profits, assuming the whole thing stays secret and no one invents an even better drug.
OR
Reveal the new premium drug with higher price. Lower the price of the old drug and segment the market - maybe sell it to the developing world. You'll make more money, since people who can are paying a premium for the new drug while the old one can be safely sold in poorer areas since richer people don't want it so there's no profit in smugling, 15 years from now when the patent on the new drug runs out you're long gone with your bonuses and if the shareholders didn't invest any of their profits into researching an even better drug that's their problem, and you're rightly hailed as a hero for bringing a better medicine to the market and lowering the price of the old one.
Actually, at some point, it is. Even water will kill you if you overdose on it badly enough. So either you draw the limit at some nonezero level, or accept that every substance is poison, thus making the term meaningless.
and last I checked, which was admittedly a long time ago, the receptor molecules it binds to aren't a perfect fit, which does lead to the receptor molecules being damaged from time to time. That's not going to result in permanent damage, but it's unpredictable how long that will last.
Well, Tetanus permanently destroys certain receptors and takes a few months to recover from, so that would seem like a reasonable upper bound.
What's more the "repressed" memories that LSD was allegedly to help unblock don't exist
According to Wikipedia, it was used to unblock repressed subconscious material, not memories. It was also used to help anxiety, alcoholism, pain and cluster headaches. Also, the potential for increased insight inherent in psychedelics shouldn't be ignored.
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But why would you need to do anything? A terminator has a fleshy shell; why wouldn't it get fat and wrinkly? Heck, having a Geriator that's been around for a long time and seen it all could even allow a new take on the character.
Say, the Terminator from Judgement Day survived. A century has passed and Skynet has retreated off-planet to outer Solar System. The T is sent for one last mission to a military space station where the local AI has gone rogue and threatens to rain apocalypse down on Earth... Terminator 5: System Shock :).
But it is still a political party, which means that associating with it tells something about your character, unlike your race or gender.
I think it has more to do with the expense and long-term commitment required for large projects, such as the Moon missions. You don't require astronauts to deploy weather satellites or unmanned probes, so why pay for sending them? Especially when NASA already has a shoestring budget.
Lots of people loudly talk about their willingness to die when the only consequence is making them look badass, at least in their own eyes. How many will duck away from a real suicide mission at the last moment? And of those who do get in, how many did so because they're mentally unstable people who'll go nuts once the truth hits, or because they have to live for years in cramped quarters with strangers while waiting to die, or because they want to die and figured they'll sabotage the mission as a form of revenge against the world?
No part. Simply indoctrinating people into thinking that life is competition and success is extremely important is more than enough.
You shouldn't be amazed that people stuck on a red queen's race would use desperate tactics.
Personally, I think that being happy about your own mortality is the most triumphant example of Stockholm Syndrome.
The same reason people accept minimum wage jobs - it's that or nothing.
Choice is for the wealthy, the rest take whatever table scraps they can, and thank their masters for them.
Nothing whatsoever. And that means that people just starting their career aren't competing against unpaid slave labour, nor do they have to be unpaid slaves to earn the right to work for a living later. Everyone wins, except the would-be robber barons.
Which means that shops get less business, which means that more will go bankrupt, which means that more people fall into poverty, etc.
The main problem with austerity is that it creates a death spiral. A government can't save its way out of debt, because every time it cuts spending the economy shrinks even more, cutting income and sending people into poverty. Either Greece stops austerity measures, or there's going to be an open rebellion at some point.
And they're all called Rubert Murdoch.
No, you can't. Apart from direct subsidies there's the whole licensing system that allocates spectrum to those stations, and requires enforcement - can't have unlicensed pirate stations, after all. And as a completely unintended side effect means that stations only operate as long as they get the government's blessing.
Because obviously the same people who can't be bothered to anonymously vote for third parties will risk their lives for them.
Unless, of course, you were talking about a coup instead?
Well, it has a Kim rather than a King...
Adding an item to a work queue should automatically notify an idle executor, if one exists.
And yet you felt the need to - in fact, "had to" - participate on a discussion about a subject that presumably doesn't interest you at all, to throw in a comment with no substance beyond self-congratulation aimed at complete strangers. That's a peculiar definition of "working great".
But taste is by definition completely subjective. It's like trying to make an algorithm to detect good art: at the absolute best you can simply predict how a given test person will judge, since there is no objective quality to measure.
Besides, wine is an excellent luxury item: a $1000 bottle doesn't really take any more resources to make than a $0.99 bottle, despite resulting in great perceived difference in lifestyle, so from society's point of view, it's a much more preferable "money sink" than luxury cars, yachts or mansions.
Can you give an example of a civilization that collapsed for these reasons, rather than some combination of ecological catastrophe, foreign invasion and/or plague? Because I can't think of any.
You're modded redundant, quite unjustly; after all, Dune serves as an excellent warning about the kind of endless dark age ludditism leads to.
Which is very logical, as it allows for shorter messages and thus more efficient communication. Indeed, it's impossible to communicate without making any kind of assumptions about the receiver.
True. It's probably necessary to build a learning simulation system (imagination) first. Once it can construct virtual worlds that mimic real-life situations and their likely outcomes with reasonable accuracy, and can distinguish between different outcomes using a value system of some kind, there's some hope of parsing at least simple sentences.
Temporal neural copy? The computer takes a snapshot of your mind, then evolves it in time while feeding input from the game, and when it's done it gets folded back into your neurons, thus effectively having you perform two things at the same time. Or 20. Or read every page of Wikipedia at the same time, for that matter. And the real fun becomes when you add robotic bodies into the mix.
Mind uploading is going to be the real killer tech, possibly in more ways than one.
Which, all joking aside, is actually a computationally difficult task - you have to simultaneously maintain balance, map coordinates from skin surface to join positions, control pressure, recognize paper tearing, and recognize when the task is done or, alternatively, get more paper (which requires visual object recognition, mapping from retina to 3D space to joint positions, rudimentary understanding of physics to get the paper to tear where you want, etc).
What other system?
When measuring what quality? And since you capitalized Mind, are we talking about some specific entity or minds (human minds?) in general?
Of course they can, and do. Where the government is strong, the corporations wield power through it. Where it is weak, they hire their own private armies a la Pinkerton, because who'll stop them?
It applies to both. However, citizens are the nominal shareholder-equivalents of the country, so the government tends to pay at least lip service to serving their interests.
Dunno what unregulated currency you're talking bout - Bitcoin is regulated algorithmically by the transaction and block validation rules, so that can't be it. Are you referring to centralized currencies, where "regulation" apparently means you can lose access to your money at any time.
As for Bitcoin being viable, Bitcoin economy is alive and growing, so claims of non-viability are extraordinary and require extraordinary evidence. Calling people "delusional" doesn't quite cut it.
Hmm.
Suppose you are a corporate executive corrupt enough to not care about people dying from a treatable condition, and you encounter this situation. You have two options:
Keep the new drug a secret. It won't do you any good, but 15 years from now the shareholders might get more profits, assuming the whole thing stays secret and no one invents an even better drug.
OR
Reveal the new premium drug with higher price. Lower the price of the old drug and segment the market - maybe sell it to the developing world. You'll make more money, since people who can are paying a premium for the new drug while the old one can be safely sold in poorer areas since richer people don't want it so there's no profit in smugling, 15 years from now when the patent on the new drug runs out you're long gone with your bonuses and if the shareholders didn't invest any of their profits into researching an even better drug that's their problem, and you're rightly hailed as a hero for bringing a better medicine to the market and lowering the price of the old one.
Choices, choices...
Actually, at some point, it is. Even water will kill you if you overdose on it badly enough. So either you draw the limit at some nonezero level, or accept that every substance is poison, thus making the term meaningless.
Well, Tetanus permanently destroys certain receptors and takes a few months to recover from, so that would seem like a reasonable upper bound.
According to Wikipedia, it was used to unblock repressed subconscious material, not memories. It was also used to help anxiety, alcoholism, pain and cluster headaches. Also, the potential for increased insight inherent in psychedelics shouldn't be ignored.