If you want to know whether this sort of design is acceptable, ask whether CDs and DVDs are acceptable. They are founded in coding theory, and are designed to have many bad bits, and yet still contain perfect information.
"We know further that the kind of intelligence we have has evolved exactly once. This suggests that intelligence is not just improbable, but vastly improbable"
Lets replace 'intelligence' with 'legs' and see how that logic sounds.
"We know further that the kind of legs we have evolved exactly once. This suggests that legs are not just improbable, but vastly improbable."
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It's also in our nature to kill rivals. Does that also make murder correct?
I eat meat, but the 'its natural' argument is not an argument.
You are denying a correlation between tank size and mileage?
You can spin it that way if you like, but I think making jokes IMMEDIATELY after people died simply makes you an a##hole.
you guys are slack.
"This isn't the end of the study of cosmology. That's all I'm trying to say."
Whoever said it was?
Paying tax doesn't make you charitable.
Do you spend all your free time doing charitable works?
So population has been increasing at a faster rate than technology. So what?
What if everything was here of its own accord, and God didn't actually exist? Would you be fine with that too?
If you don't need meaning, why are you a Christian?
"Log Off, That Cookie shit makes me nervous!"
Oh I'm creative, I have numerical-analytic creativity ;)
As for IQ scores, yes they are numerical representations, and yes they do focus on problem solving ability. That's the point.
...found an even higher correlation between increasing head size, and whether or not the subject believed the prior study.
The 'other types of intelligence' theory is BS. Being able to dance or paint does not make you intelligent.
"I just don't think we have a right to put our nose in China's internal affairs and tell them that they're wrong."
So long as they insist upon an authoritarian one-party system, we sure as hell have the right.
I would worry about any engineer who was detached enough not to get at all upset.
If you want to know whether this sort of design is acceptable, ask whether CDs and DVDs are acceptable. They are founded in coding theory, and are designed to have many bad bits, and yet still contain perfect information.
I much prefer the old yoda, he doesnt have that icky CGI skin.
I am impressed that David X Cohen made a little C program to generate the supposed Fermat theorem counterexamples!
It looks more like one of those $15 'build a robot' kits.
Yeah mate whatever. Im sure you use the king size condoms as well...
This is good
"We know further that the kind of intelligence we have has evolved exactly once. This suggests that intelligence is not just improbable, but vastly improbable"
Lets replace 'intelligence' with 'legs' and see how that logic sounds.
"We know further that the kind of legs we have evolved exactly once. This suggests that legs are not just improbable, but vastly improbable."
Of the animals he electrocuted, one was an elephant.