Nope, it's easy enough to prove. Suppose the AI can match the pattern of neural connections in a person who understands a concept -- then that pattern matching is at the very least understanding and perhaps more. Of course, I expect the pattern matching required to be considered understanding is much simpler than this.
I'm just saying, it's almost impossible not to be able to afford $10 per month. Just as an example, replace a few meals with one of these, dry corn for 18 cents per pound, 8000 calories per dollar. Not necessarily that you'd want to, but that you could -- or you could get food stamps. You also could get a roommate, even if the landlord thinks otherwise, even if there's no dignity in sharing a 1 bedroom apartment -- or get government assistance for housing. And yes, you can get necessary assistance even if you have a job, at least in any sane country. People usually overpay on a car (and almost always overpay badly when financing the car), and can usually save money by shopping around for insurance. Surely somewhere in all that there's $10 per month that can be squeezed.
Perhaps he could hire one of his minions... er, students, to do basic tech support. Either for pride/helpfulness, extra credit (for educational tech support and helping a fellow student), or even for money.
Earth sample: "The sample had a woody aroma, reminiscent of an aged Ardbeg style, with hints of cedar, sweet smoke and aged balsamic vinegar, as well as raisins, treacle toffee, vanilla and burnt oranges.
"On the palate, its woody, balsamic flavours shone through, along with a distant fruitiness, some charcoal and antiseptic notes, leading to a long, lingering aftertaste, with flavours of gentle smoke, tar and creamy fudge."
Space sample: "Its intense aroma had hints of antiseptic smoke, rubber and smoked fish, along with a curious, perfumed note, like violet or cassis, and powerful woody tones, leading to a meaty aroma.
"The taste was very focused, with smoked fruits such as prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries, earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke."
From the given descriptions, I can make no prediction as to how the flavor of one would differ from the other. The description contains only differences that I would expect from two booze tasters tasting the same booze, or from one booze taster tasting the same booze twice but thinking it's different. Or perhaps someone could translate it to English for me?
Here's an idea: get rid of almost every all-way stop signs, replace most traffic lights with green plus stop sign (blinking red), put speed limits at a reasonable level and then enforce them 100%, replace several stop signs with yield signs, allow rolling stops. Basically, make the traffic signals as a bicyclist sees them. We could have all this if people driving tons of metal weren't stupid dangerous assholes who have to be kept in line by making traffic laws more extreme than necessary.
It's still way less than half. Care to guess what proportion of motor vehicles drivers violate traffic laws (eg, speeding by 1 mph or more, not coming to a complete 3 second stop at a stop sign)?
Since when does visiting a site give the site-owner anyrights at all? Jesus Christ, the sense of entitlement of some people!
Since you signed away those rights when agreeing to the EULA of that website's browser. Don't like it, get a browser that wasn't designed by an advertising agency. Jesus Christ, the sense of entitlement of some people!
Nope, keep making shows. Even though the marginal cost of production is nearly zero, video is under copyright and only minimally fungible and therefore we need tons and tons of video to drive the price down.
Anti-competitive behavior, as long as it's called a "union", is allowed and even protected in an attempt to protect people from rich greedy bastards.
That's the double-standard that he was referring to. And you even provided a rationalization for why the double-standard is a good idea.
Denying it makes you look dishonest. Owning it makes you look principled.
Because the standard is not to prevent cooperation, it is to protect people. Thus, cooperation among workers to negotiate better terms and conditions is a good thing as it protects them from being exploited. Whereas cooperation among businesses would allow them to exploit their employees or customers and thus is a bad thing.
In theory, things could go too far and union members could destroy a business if they refuse their demands -- however, if this happens it means both the union members and the business lose their source of income. On the other hand, if a business fires an employee that employee is in very bad shape while the business can just hire a replacement.
Imagine for an instant that if you didn't like the pay and conditions offered by the CEO, you could instead negotiate with Bob the janitor who could then hire you on behalf of the company. If that were the case, then there would be no need for unions and in fact businesses would need protection from employees.
No double standard. Unions are allowed and even protected in an attempt to protect people from rich greedy bastards. And anti-competitive behavior is forbidden in an attempt to protect people from rich greedy bastards.
At least he didn't harm the kids. Not like those boring teachers who manage to get their whole class to permanently hate the subject. Wish someone would arrest some of those.
Just compare the deaths per terawatt compared to more stable energy sources, even coal, and you will find that there is a HUGE separation between nuclear and the next runner up, even wind. Just this fact along gives credence to the people who rather live without power than deal with nuclear.
I'm pretty sure that there is as you said a HUGE separation between per terawatt for nuclear vs other power sources -- just not in the direction you think. For coal, death and poisoning are considered standard operation, rather than a catastrophe -- and that's not even counting global warming.
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Nope, it's easy enough to prove. Suppose the AI can match the pattern of neural connections in a person who understands a concept -- then that pattern matching is at the very least understanding and perhaps more. Of course, I expect the pattern matching required to be considered understanding is much simpler than this.
Hm, no attribution. If only there was an algorithm to detect whether this joke were plagiarized.
Sufficiently advanced pattern matching is understanding.
I'm just saying, it's almost impossible not to be able to afford $10 per month. Just as an example, replace a few meals with one of these, dry corn for 18 cents per pound, 8000 calories per dollar. Not necessarily that you'd want to, but that you could -- or you could get food stamps. You also could get a roommate, even if the landlord thinks otherwise, even if there's no dignity in sharing a 1 bedroom apartment -- or get government assistance for housing. And yes, you can get necessary assistance even if you have a job, at least in any sane country. People usually overpay on a car (and almost always overpay badly when financing the car), and can usually save money by shopping around for insurance. Surely somewhere in all that there's $10 per month that can be squeezed.
Where do you live that people can't afford to spend $10 (aka 1-2 hours of work) per month on something as indispensable as an internet connection?
Perhaps he could hire one of his minions ... er, students, to do basic tech support. Either for pride/helpfulness, extra credit (for educational tech support and helping a fellow student), or even for money.
Yeah, it's almost as if this site is being run by someone who wants everyone to think there's a tech boom.
If you artifically mess with genetics of an organism, it no longer is that organism. There will be unintended consequences.
Oh, does that mean that if you catch a virus you're no longer human?
How much do you pay for your air? Or do you just not consume it?
Trying to lure me with a carrot, eh? I'm not falling for that.
he was a salesperson, the kind who could sell ice to eskimos by dressing it up somehow.
The kind who runs a convenience store in Alaska, and sells your standard bag of ice cubes?
Earth sample: "The sample had a woody aroma, reminiscent of an aged Ardbeg style, with hints of cedar, sweet smoke and aged balsamic vinegar, as well as raisins, treacle toffee, vanilla and burnt oranges.
"On the palate, its woody, balsamic flavours shone through, along with a distant fruitiness, some charcoal and antiseptic notes, leading to a long, lingering aftertaste, with flavours of gentle smoke, tar and creamy fudge."
Space sample: "Its intense aroma had hints of antiseptic smoke, rubber and smoked fish, along with a curious, perfumed note, like violet or cassis, and powerful woody tones, leading to a meaty aroma.
"The taste was very focused, with smoked fruits such as prunes, raisins, sugared plums and cherries, earthy peat smoke, peppermint, aniseed, cinnamon and smoked bacon or hickory-smoked ham. The aftertaste is intense and long, with hints of wood, antiseptic lozenges and rubbery smoke."
From the given descriptions, I can make no prediction as to how the flavor of one would differ from the other. The description contains only differences that I would expect from two booze tasters tasting the same booze, or from one booze taster tasting the same booze twice but thinking it's different. Or perhaps someone could translate it to English for me?
Here's an idea: get rid of almost every all-way stop signs, replace most traffic lights with green plus stop sign (blinking red), put speed limits at a reasonable level and then enforce them 100%, replace several stop signs with yield signs, allow rolling stops. Basically, make the traffic signals as a bicyclist sees them. We could have all this if people driving tons of metal weren't stupid dangerous assholes who have to be kept in line by making traffic laws more extreme than necessary.
Front break is for doing cartwheels ;-)
It's still way less than half. Care to guess what proportion of motor vehicles drivers violate traffic laws (eg, speeding by 1 mph or more, not coming to a complete 3 second stop at a stop sign)?
Since when does visiting a site give the site-owner any rights at all? Jesus Christ, the sense of entitlement of some people!
Since you signed away those rights when agreeing to the EULA of that website's browser. Don't like it, get a browser that wasn't designed by an advertising agency. Jesus Christ, the sense of entitlement of some people!
If Chrome is doing it now Chrome-wannabe-fox will be doing it soon enough.
I dunno, it all seems like a bunch of hot air to me.
Nope, keep making shows. Even though the marginal cost of production is nearly zero, video is under copyright and only minimally fungible and therefore we need tons and tons of video to drive the price down.
"I'm stupid, not malicious."
That's the double-standard that he was referring to. And you even provided a rationalization for why the double-standard is a good idea.
Denying it makes you look dishonest. Owning it makes you look principled.
Because the standard is not to prevent cooperation, it is to protect people. Thus, cooperation among workers to negotiate better terms and conditions is a good thing as it protects them from being exploited. Whereas cooperation among businesses would allow them to exploit their employees or customers and thus is a bad thing.
In theory, things could go too far and union members could destroy a business if they refuse their demands -- however, if this happens it means both the union members and the business lose their source of income. On the other hand, if a business fires an employee that employee is in very bad shape while the business can just hire a replacement.
Imagine for an instant that if you didn't like the pay and conditions offered by the CEO, you could instead negotiate with Bob the janitor who could then hire you on behalf of the company. If that were the case, then there would be no need for unions and in fact businesses would need protection from employees.
No double standard. Unions are allowed and even protected in an attempt to protect people from rich greedy bastards. And anti-competitive behavior is forbidden in an attempt to protect people from rich greedy bastards.
At least he didn't harm the kids. Not like those boring teachers who manage to get their whole class to permanently hate the subject. Wish someone would arrest some of those.
Just compare the deaths per terawatt compared to more stable energy sources, even coal, and you will find that there is a HUGE separation between nuclear and the next runner up, even wind. Just this fact along gives credence to the people who rather live without power than deal with nuclear.
I'm pretty sure that there is as you said a HUGE separation between per terawatt for nuclear vs other power sources -- just not in the direction you think. For coal, death and poisoning are considered standard operation, rather than a catastrophe -- and that's not even counting global warming.
For ocean communications coverage, they attached a laser communications system to some sharks.