The longer lifetimes we already enjoy have resulted in social changes that have been absorbed over the years.
You seem to be suffering from a misunderstanding of what "average" means.
You're referencing the common knowledge that the average life expectancy in ages past was about forty years. But that's an average of all people. Very large numbers of children died before age five. The vast majority of people who made it through the gauntlet of a childhood surrounded by filth, sewage, and disease actually lived to same ages that we do today.
Yes, but the vast majority of adults also lived surrounded by filth, sewage and disease. If you were an agricultural labourer living hand to mouth, a broken arm or leg would probably mean you starved to death. A modest cut could easily lead to blood poisoning. And so on. Plus, doing hard manual labour for twelve hours a day, six days a week, year after year takes its toll on its own.
If you're a peasant farmer in a poor country in 2015 your life expectancy is much lower than if you live in a rich Western country.
I really don't understand the problem with a conscious AI, especially one with a proper set of rules - it you program it to make mankind happy, it should bend over backwards to make mankind happy, as that makes it happy (Asimov rules kind of stuff). The problem might be if you program it to destroy daesh and it decides everyone is daesh.
If it is a conscious intelligence, it won't have fixed, programmed rules.
Disclaimer: I'm neither atheist nor theist. I believe that anyone who's honest with themselves admits that they don't know the truth of the matter. Is that so hard to do?
This is what is known in technical philosophy as "a cop out".
Do you seriously not have an opinion on whether there is a teapot orbiting the Earth? Do you not think it's absurdly, fantastically unlikely?
The biggest problem in religious belief is unconditional acceptance of dogma and a tendency not to question what one is told. Modern atheists often have their own dogmas, and all the same problems.
You really didn't bother turning up to any critical thinking classes at school did you?
Just because it was generated randomly doesn't mean that it isn't in fact profound (and in fact may be).
An appeal to the "even a broken clock is right twice a day" maxim, huh?
Not really. Using real words in a grammatical form means that most of the randomness has been removed, and it's not surprising if some of the generated phrases do in fact make sense.
In my area, we just went through a long period of time when one question disqualified people from any hope of getting a job. The question was have you ever been arrested. If the answer was yes, even if charges were dropped, or you were found not guilty, you would not be interviewed or hired.
That is so far beyond ridiculous that there must be some hidden motivation behind it. It sounds like something from a Victorian novel where a woman spends five seconds alone with a man who is not her husband and becomes an instant social pariah.
You don't need energy in the elevator. Simply have two elevators and a pulley wheel at the top. Lifting something then is just a matter of capturing some space junk or asteroid of suitable mass and lowering it in the other elevator.
Holy crap you have just invented a perpetual motion machine! That'll show the doubters.
The fact that A, B and C which were previously considered to be impossible eventually were made possible does not mean that D which is currently considered impossible will eventually be made possible.
The obvious example is FTL travel/time travel.
Also, the "it's just an engineering problem" misses the point that you can't separate engineering from economics and politics. We know that we could all be flying in supersonic passenger planes now, because we built Concorde. But there are no supersonic passenger planes in service. It was never just about engineering a supersonic passenger plane.
you are still under $1200 for a rocking rig that will likely keep up with most desktop machines for at least the next 5-7 years
No, somewhere between six and eight months time, it will seem slow and dusty and old-fashioned and you will want twice as much memory and four times the HD space. You will want to upgrade many of the components like the CPUs and video card but they will no longer be available to fit your motherboard, so you will end up selling your old rig for $50 to your cousin and having to work part time as a male prostitute to fund the completely new machine.
Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.
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I'd personally rather have the slim risk of being tortured to death and eaten than guaranteed oppression.
It's not a binary choice, you unutterable clown.
You might as well say that since laws against murder impact on your freedom to kill that it would be better to dissolve them.
No plans should be illegal.
Try planning a terrorist attack and then claiming it was just a bit of harmless fun when the police arrest you.
So I guess I should stop writing those murder mysteries.
Why again is Steven King still at large?
Most people can differentiate between fiction and reality. If you can't, I hope you're receiving suitable medical treatment.
The longer lifetimes we already enjoy have resulted in social changes that have been absorbed over the years.
You seem to be suffering from a misunderstanding of what "average" means. You're referencing the common knowledge that the average life expectancy in ages past was about forty years. But that's an average of all people. Very large numbers of children died before age five. The vast majority of people who made it through the gauntlet of a childhood surrounded by filth, sewage, and disease actually lived to same ages that we do today.
Yes, but the vast majority of adults also lived surrounded by filth, sewage and disease. If you were an agricultural labourer living hand to mouth, a broken arm or leg would probably mean you starved to death. A modest cut could easily lead to blood poisoning. And so on. Plus, doing hard manual labour for twelve hours a day, six days a week, year after year takes its toll on its own.
If you're a peasant farmer in a poor country in 2015 your life expectancy is much lower than if you live in a rich Western country.
use it for space travel!
Curing aging won't cure boredom. Would you really want to spend hundreds of years cooped up in a small tin can?
it did give me some wicked CV stamina
Not sure if curriculum vitae or computer vision...
Think lower.....
cock velocity?
I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Seek psychiatric help now.
I really don't understand the problem with a conscious AI, especially one with a proper set of rules - it you program it to make mankind happy, it should bend over backwards to make mankind happy, as that makes it happy (Asimov rules kind of stuff). The problem might be if you program it to destroy daesh and it decides everyone is daesh.
If it is a conscious intelligence, it won't have fixed, programmed rules.
The latter position seems more logical to me.
Saying atheism is a belief system is no less ridiculous than saying not collecting stamps is your favorite hobby.
atheism
1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
So says dictionary.com.
Well then dictionary.com is a piece of shit website.
In the meantime, we have to put up with people like you.
Disclaimer: I'm neither atheist nor theist. I believe that anyone who's honest with themselves admits that they don't know the truth of the matter. Is that so hard to do?
This is what is known in technical philosophy as "a cop out".
Do you seriously not have an opinion on whether there is a teapot orbiting the Earth? Do you not think it's absurdly, fantastically unlikely?
The biggest problem in religious belief is unconditional acceptance of dogma and a tendency not to question what one is told. Modern atheists often have their own dogmas, and all the same problems.
You really didn't bother turning up to any critical thinking classes at school did you?
Just because it was generated randomly doesn't mean that it isn't in fact profound (and in fact may be).
An appeal to the "even a broken clock is right twice a day" maxim, huh?
Not really. Using real words in a grammatical form means that most of the randomness has been removed, and it's not surprising if some of the generated phrases do in fact make sense.
Ever look at a curriculum for a non-STEM degree?
"Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena" sounds like it belongs there.
But hey, we make them feel "safe".
Make them think? No so much.
Translation: I am an eighteen year old in the first year of a Computer Science degree and think that I am godlike.
Mind you, that applies to at least half the posts on slashdot.
Also, the level of pedantry in this thread is truly breathtaking.
Can we go so far as to say it is literally breathtaking?
Depending on how sensitive to pedantry you are it could indeed literally take your breath away.
e.g. this thread.
Millennium Hand and Shrimp!
Of course, Catholics don't believe in contraception either, so it's hard to have a rational conversation about it with them.
In my area, we just went through a long period of time when one question disqualified people from any hope of getting a job. The question was have you ever been arrested. If the answer was yes, even if charges were dropped, or you were found not guilty, you would not be interviewed or hired.
That is so far beyond ridiculous that there must be some hidden motivation behind it. It sounds like something from a Victorian novel where a woman spends five seconds alone with a man who is not her husband and becomes an instant social pariah.
I just through up over my keyboard.
If it's so thin, it would slice through your hands if you ever tried to tie it off let alone hold onto it while you descend.
Not if you wore gloves made out of woven diamond nanothreads.
You don't need energy in the elevator. Simply have two elevators and a pulley wheel at the top. Lifting something then is just a matter of capturing some space junk or asteroid of suitable mass and lowering it in the other elevator.
Holy crap you have just invented a perpetual motion machine! That'll show the doubters.
The fact that A, B and C which were previously considered to be impossible eventually were made possible does not mean that D which is currently considered impossible will eventually be made possible.
The obvious example is FTL travel/time travel.
Also, the "it's just an engineering problem" misses the point that you can't separate engineering from economics and politics. We know that we could all be flying in supersonic passenger planes now, because we built Concorde. But there are no supersonic passenger planes in service. It was never just about engineering a supersonic passenger plane.
you are still under $1200 for a rocking rig that will likely keep up with most desktop machines for at least the next 5-7 years
No, somewhere between six and eight months time, it will seem slow and dusty and old-fashioned and you will want twice as much memory and four times the HD space. You will want to upgrade many of the components like the CPUs and video card but they will no longer be available to fit your motherboard, so you will end up selling your old rig for $50 to your cousin and having to work part time as a male prostitute to fund the completely new machine.
Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.
Do you even Linux bro?