No longer being able to see the nasty huge pixels that result when some terrible person smears 1920x1080 over a 27 inch screen is nice
I, and many others, "smear" HD over a 10' diagonal projector screen. The result from a good bluray is gorgeous and sharp. You clearly know nothing about this.
permitting individual M,M,R vaccinations as opposed to one big cocktail (right now people can't, even if they're willing to foot the bill for it).
This is because there is no difference between getting the vaccines one at a time, or all at once.
It was the crazy-ass antivaxers that made that up as an excuse to avoid protecting their children.
We already have "basic income". It's called welfare.
Will that prevent the wholesale destruction of society, when 99% of us are living hand to mouth on welfare, and the 1% live in sybaritic luxury?
Can we just all agree that "intelligence" is an ambiguous word, having numerous inconsistent definitions?
Just because you define intelligence one way, and a whole bunch of your buddies agree with you, doesn't make you right. That also applies to everyone who is disagreeing with you.
programs that have come closest to passing the Turing Test (the real one) are not intelligent at all. They're just programmed to create the illusion of intelligence
Only if by "closest" you mean in the sense that, of the two of us, I am the "closest" to Alpha Centauri. Nothing even remotely approaching the original Turing Test has ever been attempted, and likely won't be until you and I are long in the grave.
the distances are so vast that it would take decades to get anywhere good
That is all assuming a human-like lifespan.
What if an alien creature could live 1000 years, possibly using some kind of suspended animation? 10,000 years? 100,000 years?
100,000 years at 0.5c is 50,000 lightyears which will take you anywhere in the Milky Way galaxy.
A much more likely scenario is that we will return to the most stable form of economy ever devised: feudalism. In feudalism, the elite 1% of the 1% own everything while the rest of us struggle to survive one day to the next.
And that is exactly how the elite want it. The poorer the plebs are, the less likely they are to make trouble. It's been this way over most of the last 10,000 years, and it is probably on its way back.
That's because these "AI Box" systems are so hilariously far from any kind of weak AI, let along Strong AI, that no conclusions can be drawn. Truth is, we just don't know what future systems will be capable of.
If the government mandates that everyone purchase a product (such as health insurance), then there is no incentive for those selling that product not to fix prices.Such a mandate gets rid of most rules of an open market.
But, they don't mandate who provides the product, thus encouraging competition.
Which is the whole point of an open market.
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Yeah? I gotta get one of them things.
No longer being able to see the nasty huge pixels that result when some terrible person smears 1920x1080 over a 27 inch screen is nice
I, and many others, "smear" HD over a 10' diagonal projector screen. The result from a good bluray is gorgeous and sharp.
You clearly know nothing about this.
It's hard to even comprehend the power of the police unions.
There is no slippery slope, apart from the one on your forehead.
Don't say have adverse affects, say a low percentage DIE because of them.
Then the kid can get a note from his/her doctor to use an alternative form of vaccination. It shouldn't be up to the kid's halfwit parents.
permitting individual M,M,R vaccinations as opposed to one big cocktail (right now people can't, even if they're willing to foot the bill for it).
This is because there is no difference between getting the vaccines one at a time, or all at once.
It was the crazy-ass antivaxers that made that up as an excuse to avoid protecting their children.
Don't fear AIs. Fear AIs in the hands of humans.
Which is ridiculous, since AI's will always be in the hands of humans. Including bad humans, which is exactly why we should fear them.
We already have "basic income". It's called welfare.
Will that prevent the wholesale destruction of society, when 99% of us are living hand to mouth on welfare, and the 1% live in sybaritic luxury?
Same reason we don't have nuclear fusion power plants.
Some problems are really hard.
Can we just all agree that "intelligence" is an ambiguous word, having numerous inconsistent definitions?
Just because you define intelligence one way, and a whole bunch of your buddies agree with you, doesn't make you right.
That also applies to everyone who is disagreeing with you.
programs that have come closest to passing the Turing Test (the real one) are not intelligent at all. They're just programmed to create the illusion of intelligence
Only if by "closest" you mean in the sense that, of the two of us, I am the "closest" to Alpha Centauri.
Nothing even remotely approaching the original Turing Test has ever been attempted, and likely won't be until you and I are long in the grave.
1. See human.
2. Human may switch off AI.
3. Human bad for AI.
4. Kill human.
How much "free will" does that require?
None.
You're going to kill yourself tomorrow?
the distances are so vast that it would take decades to get anywhere good
That is all assuming a human-like lifespan.
What if an alien creature could live 1000 years, possibly using some kind of suspended animation? 10,000 years? 100,000 years?
100,000 years at 0.5c is 50,000 lightyears which will take you anywhere in the Milky Way galaxy.
Of course this cannot be proven. It is true nonetheless.
That has to be the most unintentionally hilarious statement from a philosopher who thinks of himself as a rational being.
If by "physicality" you mean "prove it or shut the fuck up" then every sane person is a physicalist.
What kind of "prof" was that? My guess: philosophy.
Not CS, for sure.
OK, apart from that, what has AI ever done for us?
A much more likely scenario is that we will return to the most stable form of economy ever devised: feudalism.
In feudalism, the elite 1% of the 1% own everything while the rest of us struggle to survive one day to the next.
And that is exactly how the elite want it.
The poorer the plebs are, the less likely they are to make trouble.
It's been this way over most of the last 10,000 years, and it is probably on its way back.
That's because these "AI Box" systems are so hilariously far from any kind of weak AI, let along Strong AI, that no conclusions can be drawn.
Truth is, we just don't know what future systems will be capable of.
Because otherwise it would have long since gone extinct (having made no effort to prevent that) so we would never hear about it.
ViewSonic and BenQ both make excellent projectors in the $500 to $1000 range.
I'd torture Haselton for free!
Yes, but they have to do pledge drives in order to stay solvent.
If the government mandates that everyone purchase a product (such as health insurance), then there is no incentive for those selling that product not to fix prices.Such a mandate gets rid of most rules of an open market.
But, they don't mandate who provides the product, thus encouraging competition.
Which is the whole point of an open market.