Dune had a machine uprising in its backstory that is the reason people aren't allowed to make intelligent computers anymore and have to hire genetically boosted humans as calculators instead.
I look at the PC version and determine it's inferior so I won't buy it, I look at the console version and determine it's more expensive than the PC version so I won't buy it. Outcome: I don't buy it at all.
Yeah, now put this against a neurologist (the titular Dr. Kawashima who apparently wrote a book about brain exercises and their effect) who measured the brain activity when playing the games...
Also it should be mentioned that these games are NOT sold as homework helpers, they're aimed at adults, probably to keep the fluid intelligence fluid for longer.
Yes but it seems like they're talking about war theory, twitch elements wouldn't really fit into that. SC is very focussed on direct control skill which doesn't translate to real wars at all.
We could but we won't because it requires large areas of what could be farmland otherwise to get used for anti-CO2 trees that can't even be used for the industry because that'd release their CO2 again, the trees would have to be cut and burrowed underground. That costs money to do and uses up a lot of space that people would rather spend on farming or city building or whatever.
A similar issue is websites that have dummy pages for all kind of things. E.g. when you enter the name of any videogame into google you'll find tons of entries for the likes of IGN, Gamespot, etc with each entry saying they have reviews, previews, etc, even if they have NOTHING on the game. There's no way to tell whether they have anything without clicking it because the excerpt Google shows is just the generic header for all pages.
So what does technology have to do with this? You mean we'll develop something that removes the CO2 in the future? It's not going to be very energy efficient though, getting the stuff back down will cost a lot more than we gained by releasing it in first place.
Starvation could be avoided with more efficient food growing but merely increasing efficiency won't undo the CO2 we emitted, merely prevent us from releasing more. What is being predicted here is the behaviour of the atmosphere and this researcher claims that we've reached the point where human interaction no longer matters and the planet has gone into a self-reinforcing cycle. You can't extrapolate human action but the planet itself behaves a lot more predictably than humans.
Well, there IS a problem with putting stuff on Wikipedia as fact before it's been reviewed, an encyclopedia is better off being behind the times than dashing ahead in the wrong direction. Wouldn't be good if everyone just entered any new idea he has into WP as a fact and then other people get confused on how thoroughly these claims have actually been tested (especially mysticists would be likely to change WP to reflect their crackpottery as fact).
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Sounds like a very chunky grey goo scenario.
But that is assuming that being in each of the universes (real and simulated) is equally likely.
I suppose we can't put these 36 bit electrons into a superposition to get 36 qubits?
People use demos these days, pretty much the same thing except you no longer see people selling disks full of demos in stores.
And fail when the known valid source is unreachable?
Considering all the other cases in which the system fails that wouldn't be out of place...
Maybe graphing will help?
So it's kinda like playing Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney?
Dune had a machine uprising in its backstory that is the reason people aren't allowed to make intelligent computers anymore and have to hire genetically boosted humans as calculators instead.
I look at the PC version and determine it's inferior so I won't buy it, I look at the console version and determine it's more expensive than the PC version so I won't buy it. Outcome: I don't buy it at all.
Yeah, now put this against a neurologist (the titular Dr. Kawashima who apparently wrote a book about brain exercises and their effect) who measured the brain activity when playing the games...
Also it should be mentioned that these games are NOT sold as homework helpers, they're aimed at adults, probably to keep the fluid intelligence fluid for longer.
But is it right to force someone to buy something?
Yes but it seems like they're talking about war theory, twitch elements wouldn't really fit into that. SC is very focussed on direct control skill which doesn't translate to real wars at all.
Because it's sorted by scores and "can't run it" gives an n/a score instead of 0?
I remember getting a version of that from HOTU ages ago, I guess it got expanded and made retail or something like that?
I found the game too hard BTW, having to worry about your health AND the health of the mothership AND the time limit was too much for me.
We could but we won't because it requires large areas of what could be farmland otherwise to get used for anti-CO2 trees that can't even be used for the industry because that'd release their CO2 again, the trees would have to be cut and burrowed underground. That costs money to do and uses up a lot of space that people would rather spend on farming or city building or whatever.
A similar issue is websites that have dummy pages for all kind of things. E.g. when you enter the name of any videogame into google you'll find tons of entries for the likes of IGN, Gamespot, etc with each entry saying they have reviews, previews, etc, even if they have NOTHING on the game. There's no way to tell whether they have anything without clicking it because the excerpt Google shows is just the generic header for all pages.
There's a difference between weather and climate.
So what does technology have to do with this? You mean we'll develop something that removes the CO2 in the future? It's not going to be very energy efficient though, getting the stuff back down will cost a lot more than we gained by releasing it in first place.
Starvation could be avoided with more efficient food growing but merely increasing efficiency won't undo the CO2 we emitted, merely prevent us from releasing more. What is being predicted here is the behaviour of the atmosphere and this researcher claims that we've reached the point where human interaction no longer matters and the planet has gone into a self-reinforcing cycle. You can't extrapolate human action but the planet itself behaves a lot more predictably than humans.
I never said that was wrong in any way.
But you're missing the really important part: Are they the Judean People's Front?
You can't just ignore the differences between the UK and US in that respect, the US doesn't have laws against that.
EU data protection laws. Personal information can't just be copied freely.
The rules work until you get Rules Nazis.
In real life we call them lawyers.
Well, there IS a problem with putting stuff on Wikipedia as fact before it's been reviewed, an encyclopedia is better off being behind the times than dashing ahead in the wrong direction. Wouldn't be good if everyone just entered any new idea he has into WP as a fact and then other people get confused on how thoroughly these claims have actually been tested (especially mysticists would be likely to change WP to reflect their crackpottery as fact).
It was a move to intercept the consoles' advance on the Windows gaming stronghold and make sure MS remains a player in the gaming platform market.