oooor.... we can maintain our intelligence, be educated (as in learn how to think rationally, not be indoctrinated), be reasonable, and use these tools to augment our natural intelligence do things that weren't possible 50 or 100 years ago.
it's up to each person to do this for themselves. complaining that "people can't think for themselves" doesn't really get you anywhere.
heroin addiction is mostly mental.
hey after you were in jail and finished withdrawing, why did you start using again, once the worst was over?
you were an addict for 15 years? did you realize, say 2 years in, that if you just stopped cold-turkey for 2 weeks you would then have no more physical dependence on it? was it worth doing it another 13 years in exchange for those 2 weeks of pain? (especially if you already had been through a few days of the worst in prison).
true there are terrible physical withdrawal symptoms. but the biggest part of that addiction is a mental one. a much more powerful one than cell phone use, true, since it feels a heck of a lot better than texting does, but still mostly mental.
disclaimer: i aint never done heroin.
I don't know about you but her comments are pretty funny. True though, it's probably not the best thing to blog about as a teacher. The students' comments were pretty great.
This reminds me of the scene in minority report where everyone carried around a digital screen instead of a newspaper. When an arrest warrant went out for the main character, seconds later all their screens were updated with a News Flash saying to look out for the guy. It's, like, the future, today!
A) it is assuming that we will always have a technological breakthrough at the right moment to allow the doubling of computing power every 18 months. Maybe this is the case, but it's still a big assumption.
B) He assumes if we put enough cyber neurons together in a neural net you will develop intelligence and conscience. This may be the case, and it will be interesting to see, but I don't think you can take it for granted. He also spent about 2 pages in his book about this from a philosophical perspective, basically a: "Here is what three people thought about consciousness. Anyway, moving on..." Seems like it should be a central point.
C) I think he also assumes that having such massive massive amounts of computing power will solve all our problems. Has he heard of exponential-time problems, or NP-Completeness? Doubling computing power every 18 months equates to adding one city to a traveling salesman problem every 18 months.
Hahaha. "kittens/liberal" first hit: "PETA Wants To Rename Fish Sea Kittens." "kittens/conservative" first hit: "Power Line - Let's Fry Up Some Sea Kittens."
By matching genetic information with maps of the subjects' social networks, the researchers were able to show that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults, but only if they had an active social life in adolescence.
So... people with this variant are more likely to enjoy drugs, and of those who do ("active social life"... I'm including alcohol) tend to be liberal?
I find it funny that people making the jokes about 100x chain reaction bonuses are better at separating video game fiction from reality than the people complaining to them about it. Clearly he was joking.
We don't know how our minds work well enough to say that we don't use brute force. Obviously, consciously, we're not thinking about it that way, but who knows what kind of processing the brain does to produce those conscious thoughts? When you get a knack of intuition like "ah that move would win" - is that just a brute force algorithm in the subconscious signalling termination with a result?
Is it just me or is this summary terrible? Every sentence says the same thing, just slightly reworded. In the summary, it's as if each new sentence doesn't give any additional information, but it's worded as if it does. Researchers have found that this summary is repetitive. Some say this can indicate the repetitiveness of a summary.
Hmm I can't tell if you were trying to make fun of the Canadians for having bad currency and got it wrong, since that'd mean that their currency is incredibly powerful, or if you were making a striking commentary on how the us dollar is screwed. In any case I wanted to reply saying that 1 CAD is worth more than 1 USD nowadays, but it seems to be 1 USD to 1.0159 CAD atm.
Maybe some cops see it that way... but videos such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik would have me believe that it's always a good idea to plead the 5th and refuse to say anything. It's related to the idea that refusing to consent to a search without a warrant shouldn't be allowed as evidence that a warrant is necessary ("If he has nothing to hide, then he wouldn't mind us looking around..."). What's the precedent where pleading the 5th has been considered a crime? I can see how refusing to talk would get cops to find something to charge you with and arrest you, since it's annoying for them, but when has it been used as the actual charge for an arrest?
I think they purposefully made more lines criss-cross than necessary, just to make it look more complicated. For example, if you move Oracle down to where Toshiba is, then move Toshiba to above Google, that bottom-left corner would be pretty simple.
I think that's a bit reductionist. Human beings have great potential to change the way their minds work - just look at spiritual traditions that emphasize meditation like Buddhism. Say you have an impulse, like a desire to curse when something bad happens. If you aren't mindful, then you'll just curse when something bad happens and think no more about it. It's like you have no control over it. If you instead start paying attention to what you do, you can notice the impulse, and then choose whether to follow it. Eventually you can get rid of it. That's how you can form and unform habits. This is where the robot analogy breaks down - we can reprogram ourselves, to some degree.
That being said... yeah, you do need inputs to motivate you to do anything. If our bodies didn't need nutrition, causing them to trigger a hunger sensation, we wouldn't eat. But you can choose how to respond to those inputs. This goes for positive 'instincts' too - you can cultivate them so you react more positively to the same inputs.
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oooor.... we can maintain our intelligence, be educated (as in learn how to think rationally, not be indoctrinated), be reasonable, and use these tools to augment our natural intelligence do things that weren't possible 50 or 100 years ago.
it's up to each person to do this for themselves. complaining that "people can't think for themselves" doesn't really get you anywhere.
heroin addiction is mostly mental. hey after you were in jail and finished withdrawing, why did you start using again, once the worst was over? you were an addict for 15 years? did you realize, say 2 years in, that if you just stopped cold-turkey for 2 weeks you would then have no more physical dependence on it? was it worth doing it another 13 years in exchange for those 2 weeks of pain? (especially if you already had been through a few days of the worst in prison). true there are terrible physical withdrawal symptoms. but the biggest part of that addiction is a mental one. a much more powerful one than cell phone use, true, since it feels a heck of a lot better than texting does, but still mostly mental. disclaimer: i aint never done heroin.
Yea just watching him... it seems too over the top. He's probably having a blast.
Link! .
I don't know about you but her comments are pretty funny. True though, it's probably not the best thing to blog about as a teacher. The students' comments were pretty great.
religion-ist, not racist.
This reminds me of the scene in minority report where everyone carried around a digital screen instead of a newspaper. When an arrest warrant went out for the main character, seconds later all their screens were updated with a News Flash saying to look out for the guy. It's, like, the future, today!
They had to figure out what the numbers meant.
I don't agree with his predictions.
A) it is assuming that we will always have a technological breakthrough at the right moment to allow the doubling of computing power every 18 months. Maybe this is the case, but it's still a big assumption.
B) He assumes if we put enough cyber neurons together in a neural net you will develop intelligence and conscience. This may be the case, and it will be interesting to see, but I don't think you can take it for granted. He also spent about 2 pages in his book about this from a philosophical perspective, basically a: "Here is what three people thought about consciousness. Anyway, moving on..." Seems like it should be a central point.
C) I think he also assumes that having such massive massive amounts of computing power will solve all our problems. Has he heard of exponential-time problems, or NP-Completeness? Doubling computing power every 18 months equates to adding one city to a traveling salesman problem every 18 months.
Hahaha. "kittens /liberal" first hit: "PETA Wants To Rename Fish Sea Kittens." "kittens /conservative" first hit: "Power Line - Let's Fry Up Some Sea Kittens."
By matching genetic information with maps of the subjects' social networks, the researchers were able to show that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults, but only if they had an active social life in adolescence.
So... people with this variant are more likely to enjoy drugs, and of those who do ("active social life"... I'm including alcohol) tend to be liberal?
Googling "buy fake iPhone" got me this link. Seems to be a pretty good look-alike for only $40.
An iPad is an awfully expensive toy.
Fixed that for you.
I find it funny that people making the jokes about 100x chain reaction bonuses are better at separating video game fiction from reality than the people complaining to them about it. Clearly he was joking.
Seriously... read the article. In the sentence where they introduce State Farm they say whose it is. I'd copy and paste it but that doesn't work.
What do you need besides nethack?
I, for one, am glad Opera is a very supporter. Just being a supporter won't do!
One inverse femtobarn of data? Is that the euphemism they're using nowadays for "one shitload of data"?
We don't know how our minds work well enough to say that we don't use brute force. Obviously, consciously, we're not thinking about it that way, but who knows what kind of processing the brain does to produce those conscious thoughts? When you get a knack of intuition like "ah that move would win" - is that just a brute force algorithm in the subconscious signalling termination with a result?
You begin to eat the fox corpse. This fox corpse tastes terrible!
Is it just me or is this summary terrible? Every sentence says the same thing, just slightly reworded. In the summary, it's as if each new sentence doesn't give any additional information, but it's worded as if it does. Researchers have found that this summary is repetitive. Some say this can indicate the repetitiveness of a summary.
Hmm I can't tell if you were trying to make fun of the Canadians for having bad currency and got it wrong, since that'd mean that their currency is incredibly powerful, or if you were making a striking commentary on how the us dollar is screwed. In any case I wanted to reply saying that 1 CAD is worth more than 1 USD nowadays, but it seems to be 1 USD to 1.0159 CAD atm.
Maybe some cops see it that way... but videos such as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik would have me believe that it's always a good idea to plead the 5th and refuse to say anything. It's related to the idea that refusing to consent to a search without a warrant shouldn't be allowed as evidence that a warrant is necessary ("If he has nothing to hide, then he wouldn't mind us looking around..."). What's the precedent where pleading the 5th has been considered a crime? I can see how refusing to talk would get cops to find something to charge you with and arrest you, since it's annoying for them, but when has it been used as the actual charge for an arrest?
I think they purposefully made more lines criss-cross than necessary, just to make it look more complicated. For example, if you move Oracle down to where Toshiba is, then move Toshiba to above Google, that bottom-left corner would be pretty simple.
Don't you have the right to remain silent, so as to not incriminate yourself? We have it here in the US.
I think that's a bit reductionist. Human beings have great potential to change the way their minds work - just look at spiritual traditions that emphasize meditation like Buddhism. Say you have an impulse, like a desire to curse when something bad happens. If you aren't mindful, then you'll just curse when something bad happens and think no more about it. It's like you have no control over it. If you instead start paying attention to what you do, you can notice the impulse, and then choose whether to follow it. Eventually you can get rid of it. That's how you can form and unform habits. This is where the robot analogy breaks down - we can reprogram ourselves, to some degree.
That being said... yeah, you do need inputs to motivate you to do anything. If our bodies didn't need nutrition, causing them to trigger a hunger sensation, we wouldn't eat. But you can choose how to respond to those inputs. This goes for positive 'instincts' too - you can cultivate them so you react more positively to the same inputs.
Don't take my word for it - try meditating.