No, a flat is basically a living space with bedrooms, much like an apartment except it's not limited to a multi-storey building and could just as easily be a house, or part of a house.
No, if it's a whole house, it's called a house. A flat would never be the whole building.
The moment you enter the Game of Lawyers, you have already lost. The only sensible way to deal with lawyers and their aberrations is to kill them, bury a stake through the heart of them and bury their heads separated from the body, just for good measure.
If there's a choice between an imperfect legal system and total dog-eat-dog anarchy, I know which I'd choose.
I guess I'm just not enough of an internet tough guy libertarian.
For better or worse, the placebo effect of homeopathic medicine is as real as that of praying to God, taking "multivitamins" or sticking energised crystals up your arse in a yurt.
Corbyn is also anti-nuclear and anti-GMO. Homeopathy couldn't have been far behind.
He's anti nuclear weapons, certainly. Nuclear energy in the UK still suffers from the historical association with the production of material for nuclear weapons, which was vehemently denied at the time, and thus causes suspicions on the left. And GMO is not popular with anyone much in the UK, right or left wing.
He doesn't exactly seem like a believer in homeopathy to me, he's probably trying not to annoy people over trivialities at this stage (he has bigger fish to fry). People waste a lot of their own money on herbal "remedies", crystal healing, etc. The main reason that homeopathy is a political hot potato is that the NHS have apparently been paying for it.
On my first trip to the UK, I was excited and looking forward to good beer (and Guinness). What was everyone drinking, including the foreigners? Budweiser. But that was 20 years ago, so things might have changed.
Even then, anywhere serving Budweiser would also have served Guinness and at least a couple of proper beers. If people choose shit lager over beer, that's not the pubs' fault.
It's not the amounts, it's the principle. If India can afford a space program and nuclear weapons, they can afford to provide clean water and shelter for their population.
I pity you for your lack of imagination. It must be a dreary world knowing what is possible and impossible. It is a good thing that physicists aren't as closed minded as you, as they have come up with ways to accomplish it when we have the will and investment.
Without wishing to be on the Space Nutter Troll's side too much, I think it is true that interstellar travel is pretty much impossible barring some FTL method of travel. Not everything is a matter of money and will power.
The only vaguely plausible suggestion is generation ships, and that would simply result in a lot of completely isolated human colonies.
Shannon calculated the number of chess positions as 10 to the power 50.
At that rate, it would take longer than the expected life of our galaxy to compute one move, even if every molecule of the earth were turned into a supercomputer.
Talking about the phrase "Teach itself" is a mere semantic dispute. I would rather discuss what the AI actually does.
The more important semantic dispute is whether you should throw ever use the unqualified phrases "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence" about a limited computer program.
I can see that "weak AI" is acceptable as a technical term, as it is clearly differentiated from anything to do with intelligence as generally understood.
Something tells me your friend is full of shit. Considering how hard they try to make it seem as if they're not spying on most citizens, I find it very hard to believe they would have an response like that when asked about it. That would amount to an admission that they're spying on citizens for no good reason, which they've been denying. How did your post get modded up? It is obvious bullshit.
Even if true, it sounds more like a bored FBI guy having a laugh.
If you're doing something wrong, you'll probably want to know if the authorities are on to you.
Yes, probably. But if I were doing something wrong, I wouldn't be so stupid as to ask the authorities if they are watching me or not. That would be more than just a little daft.
Ha! So if you DON'T ask whether you're being watched, then you definitely have something to hide, so they'll start watching you.
That's the thing - even if it was written by God, it's completely undiscernible from what people would have written at the time, so I don't know what he's attempting to bring to the table with regards to knowledge, which for an omniscient being is a strange position to take.
if the christian or jewish bible had any real meat to it, it would have told us things that could not possibly be known 'way back then' but are found to be true, today.
is there any single thing in any of those bibles that indicates there was true knowlege communicated to man that man could not have known on his own (or just made shit up)?
sure, there is no vocabulary for atoms and black holes and such, but there is also no real attempt - that I'm aware of - to say anything other than 'it was magic!' in any of those bibles. in fact, any of the world's bibles or religious papers.
Absolutely. But the Believers get round that by saying that, because the Bible was presented by God to a bunch of nomadic goat herders with little scientific knowledge, it had to be presented as a simplified story they could understand. Obviously, God knew all about Evolution, the Big Bang, String Theory and Kanye Westr, but he didn't see the point in confusing the poor little shepherds.
Your wife/girlfriend was forced to wear a veil? She wasn't allowed to pick you up at the airport?
GP was making a perfectly rational point about evangelism, which does not exist in most religions. Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs do not have any interest in converting you. Only (some) Christians appear to want to do this.
I'm STILL waiting for a rational explanation for how destructive scanning isn't death.
Here's a thought experiment. Imagine a single one of your neurons were replaced by an artificial construct that replicated the interface of that neuron in every way. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference despite the fact that 1/100,000,000,000 of your brain was now "uploaded". Now do another, then another and so on. In due course, you are 10 percent, 25 percent, 80 percent until eventually your mind is completely hosted, uploaded, on the artificial substrate.
You are assuming that you can precisely copy the state of individual neurons. Also, you are ignoring the active electrical connections between them.
Oh look someone else who thinks that all employer-employee relations are on a level playing field. I assume you're a highly paid niche consultant, and are therefore selfish and unaware of reality. If not, you're just stupid.
If they walk into a Lowe's with a gun, they can assume that other citizens also have a gun, and hence if they start shooting, they will themselves be shot in short order. That is exactly why mass shootings are done in places full of unarmed people...there's nobody to shoot back. Did you know that the shootists always off themselves the moment they see a cop with a gun enter the scene?
If someone is basically suicidal, then they are not going to care about whether they're killed by their own gun or someone else's.
They get their chance to kill a few people anyway, it's psychosis not logic that's driving them.
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No, a flat is basically a living space with bedrooms, much like an apartment except it's not limited to a multi-storey building and could just as easily be a house, or part of a house.
No, if it's a whole house, it's called a house. A flat would never be the whole building.
The moment you enter the Game of Lawyers, you have already lost. The only sensible way to deal with lawyers and their aberrations is to kill them, bury a stake through the heart of them and bury their heads separated from the body, just for good measure.
If there's a choice between an imperfect legal system and total dog-eat-dog anarchy, I know which I'd choose.
I guess I'm just not enough of an internet tough guy libertarian.
For better or worse, the placebo effect of homeopathic medicine is as real as that of praying to God, taking "multivitamins" or sticking energised crystals up your arse in a yurt.
If you need any more explanation, you're probably not a close follower of British political life.
Corbyn is also anti-nuclear and anti-GMO. Homeopathy couldn't have been far behind.
He's anti nuclear weapons, certainly. Nuclear energy in the UK still suffers from the historical association with the production of material for nuclear weapons, which was vehemently denied at the time, and thus causes suspicions on the left. And GMO is not popular with anyone much in the UK, right or left wing.
He doesn't exactly seem like a believer in homeopathy to me, he's probably trying not to annoy people over trivialities at this stage (he has bigger fish to fry). People waste a lot of their own money on herbal "remedies", crystal healing, etc. The main reason that homeopathy is a political hot potato is that the NHS have apparently been paying for it.
On my first trip to the UK, I was excited and looking forward to good beer (and Guinness). What was everyone drinking, including the foreigners? Budweiser. But that was 20 years ago, so things might have changed.
Even then, anywhere serving Budweiser would also have served Guinness and at least a couple of proper beers. If people choose shit lager over beer, that's not the pubs' fault.
It's not the amounts, it's the principle. If India can afford a space program and nuclear weapons, they can afford to provide clean water and shelter for their population.
I pity you for your lack of imagination. It must be a dreary world knowing what is possible and impossible. It is a good thing that physicists aren't as closed minded as you, as they have come up with ways to accomplish it when we have the will and investment.
Without wishing to be on the Space Nutter Troll's side too much, I think it is true that interstellar travel is pretty much impossible barring some FTL method of travel. Not everything is a matter of money and will power.
The only vaguely plausible suggestion is generation ships, and that would simply result in a lot of completely isolated human colonies.
One could pre-calculate all possible positions
Shannon calculated the number of chess positions as 10 to the power 50. At that rate, it would take longer than the expected life of our galaxy to compute one move, even if every molecule of the earth were turned into a supercomputer.
So, just another engineering problem then?
Surely it's self evident that we lose stuff, or else we'd remember everything perfectly back to when we were born.
Excellent post.
Thankyou, good sir. I hope you have an excellent day.
Jesus, I've fallen into a parallel universe.
Talking about the phrase "Teach itself" is a mere semantic dispute. I would rather discuss what the AI actually does.
The more important semantic dispute is whether you should throw ever use the unqualified phrases "AI" or "Artificial Intelligence" about a limited computer program.
I can see that "weak AI" is acceptable as a technical term, as it is clearly differentiated from anything to do with intelligence as generally understood.
Something tells me your friend is full of shit. Considering how hard they try to make it seem as if they're not spying on most citizens, I find it very hard to believe they would have an response like that when asked about it. That would amount to an admission that they're spying on citizens for no good reason, which they've been denying. How did your post get modded up? It is obvious bullshit.
Even if true, it sounds more like a bored FBI guy having a laugh.
If they confirm they have spied on you, does this give you legal standing to sue? If so, expect them to neither confirm nor deny anything.
They're not exactly going to admit they illegally spied on you, surely? So what are you going to sue them for?
If you're doing something wrong, you'll probably want to know if the authorities are on to you.
Yes, probably. But if I were doing something wrong, I wouldn't be so stupid as to ask the authorities if they are watching me or not. That would be more than just a little daft.
Ha! So if you DON'T ask whether you're being watched, then you definitely have something to hide, so they'll start watching you.
The people who want to know if they've been spied on likely have something to hide. This is a easy way to figure out who to concentrate on.
A new twist on "if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to worry about".
If God was so fucking great, people like Mr Carson wouldn't have to be performing neurosurgery in the first place.
GWB and his Trotskyist crew
Are you just using "Trotskyist" as a general term of abuse?
Or are you seriously suggesting that George W Bush's war in Iraq was really part of some attempt at a worldwide workers' revolution?
That's the thing - even if it was written by God, it's completely undiscernible from what people would have written at the time, so I don't know what he's attempting to bring to the table with regards to knowledge, which for an omniscient being is a strange position to take.
SUCH KNOWLEDGE IS DANGEROUS!
if the christian or jewish bible had any real meat to it, it would have told us things that could not possibly be known 'way back then' but are found to be true, today.
is there any single thing in any of those bibles that indicates there was true knowlege communicated to man that man could not have known on his own (or just made shit up)?
sure, there is no vocabulary for atoms and black holes and such, but there is also no real attempt - that I'm aware of - to say anything other than 'it was magic!' in any of those bibles. in fact, any of the world's bibles or religious papers.
Absolutely. But the Believers get round that by saying that, because the Bible was presented by God to a bunch of nomadic goat herders with little scientific knowledge, it had to be presented as a simplified story they could understand. Obviously, God knew all about Evolution, the Big Bang, String Theory and Kanye Westr, but he didn't see the point in confusing the poor little shepherds.
You say they forced you to take a bible?
Your wife/girlfriend was forced to wear a veil? She wasn't allowed to pick you up at the airport?
GP was making a perfectly rational point about evangelism, which does not exist in most religions. Jews, Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs do not have any interest in converting you. Only (some) Christians appear to want to do this.
Are you old enough to remember the fighting between the Catholics and Protestants in Ireland?
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"The Troubles", as folks in Ireland like to call it, was never about Catholics and Protestants . . . it was about Loyalists and Republicans . . .
They were all still nominally Christians, and had no problem murdering other Christians.
I'm STILL waiting for a rational explanation for how destructive scanning isn't death.
Here's a thought experiment. Imagine a single one of your neurons were replaced by an artificial construct that replicated the interface of that neuron in every way. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference despite the fact that 1/100,000,000,000 of your brain was now "uploaded". Now do another, then another and so on. In due course, you are 10 percent, 25 percent, 80 percent until eventually your mind is completely hosted, uploaded, on the artificial substrate.
You are assuming that you can precisely copy the state of individual neurons. Also, you are ignoring the active electrical connections between them.
Oh look someone else who thinks that all employer-employee relations are on a level playing field. I assume you're a highly paid niche consultant, and are therefore selfish and unaware of reality. If not, you're just stupid.
If they walk into a Lowe's with a gun, they can assume that other citizens also have a gun, and hence if they start shooting, they will themselves be shot in short order. That is exactly why mass shootings are done in places full of unarmed people...there's nobody to shoot back. Did you know that the shootists always off themselves the moment they see a cop with a gun enter the scene?
If someone is basically suicidal, then they are not going to care about whether they're killed by their own gun or someone else's.
They get their chance to kill a few people anyway, it's psychosis not logic that's driving them.