It starts out obvious, but then factors like conduction speed, receptor sensitivity, calcium channel recharge rates, etc. etc. all factor in to make a "wet" neural network quite a bit more complex and nuanced than an electronic network of NAND gates.
One of the open questions in "brain replication" is: can you get the same end result without the delays, varying sensitivity, numbing from multiple firing, etc.?
OP seems to be saying that they think the hierarchy is using binary structures, but not that the firing/not firing is a simple 0 or 1 condition.
I watched an old Twilight Zone episode on Netflix the other day (1966) which was about a factory where all the workers were being replaced by a computer and robotic system. They have been saying the same thing for 50 years. How many jobs today were not even imagined in 1966?
There are lots of new jobs, most of which are either beyond the capabilities of the people being displaced or which require several (5 or more) years of retraining during which time the displaced worker is starting over, earning nowhere near a sustainable income.
One view says that the intelligent will get their retraining before they lose their old jobs and be rewarded for their foresight. That view probably doesn't take into consideration how difficult it really is to make informed decisions about such things while working 50+ hours a week.
Another view might say that the industries that are automating and displacing all these workers should in some measure bear the burden of retraining... but that would require corporations to actually pay taxes, and we all have heard how that might spell the end of civilization.
How many jobs today are simple "made up work" - little companies that try to innovate, and fail - consuming speculative investment money, big companies that are so heavily regulated that most of their personnel cost is absorbed in generating documentation to C their As, keep the regulators from shutting them down, and prevent successful lawsuits from being brought. Oh, and then we can talk about the entire legal system, and the insurance industry medical industry black hole of man hours.
Anything that gives you enough income to purchase your own home seems to qualify as "middle income" these days.
If your household annual income exceeds 40% of the cost of a basic home in your area, congratulations, you've joined the middle class.
Until your household annual income exceeds 100% of the median home cost in your area, don't even think you're approaching "upper middle class" - like John Lennon (and later David Bowie) sang: "You're all fucking Peasants, as far as I can see."
Most of my work lately is writing code that writes code.
Compilers are software that writes software.
Siri/Cortana/et.al. are lowering the bar for input to the point where they can take it from people who don't even know they are interacting with "a computer." When you describe to your phone that you want to go to the theater, and it provides you driving directions based on current traffic conditions, down to the level of detail of lanes to take, turns to make, and guides you to available parking, who will be programming who at that point?
The old school ones communicated via air-core transformers, like wireless toothbrush chargers. There is a newer generation of higher frequency communications, but its still very range limited - it's quite hard to transmit out of a meat-bag.
Now I'll have to eat nearly twice as much to maintain my obesity.
You laugh...but that's exactly what some people will do if this goes to market.
Sometimes chocolate and other candy isn't eaten for the taste, or the texture, or anything else but what it does to the blood chemistry. Nerfing out the sugar content will probably cause some people to binge harder, until they get the desired level of sugar rush... but in the new variety, they'll be getting twice as much cocoa butter and cacao, which is healthy in some ways, but still very calorie dense.
No, what they're really saying is that the firmware is updateable, which means that a determined attacker could push an update to a victim while they sleep with any kind of malicious functionality they choose Muahahahaha. But, seriously, why bother?
Most implant telemetry is very limited range - it's far easier to kill someone by any number of more common methods, and probably easier to get away with it via the more common methods, too.
The medical profession also kills millions a year via medical mistakes, mostly unrelated to software.
They help more than they hurt, by a wide margin, but it's like investing in the stock market: past performance is no guarantee of future returns, positive returns are NOT guaranteed.
I sorely miss my Moto810 feature phone. It had a camera, it did e-mail, it lasted a week on a charge.
When I say "I want Linux" - what I want is a desktop (can be LXDE or similar, but at least a task launch menu and multiple windows), I want a functional terminal on that desktop, and I want a package manager that can install a reasonable subset of the stuff you can get from Debian, or similar. I also want to be able to write custom software on a reasonably standard desktop system, with access to a reasonable subset of the existing libraries, and deploy it to the phone. Access to all the phone gadgets (touchscreen, network, camera, speaker, mic, IMU, etc.) can be through custom API, but needs to be reasonable to integrate with existing tools and libraries.
And a pretty pony, you're just a bad company if you can't provide all that and a pretty pony for my birthday.
Jolla is a Nokia spinoff that's trying to meld Linux/Android functionality into a single platform, I lost track of them after they failed to deliver my tablet - not interested in their phones that don't work in my country.
The interesting numbers are: $150M to actually deliver 2400kg to geostationary.
People throw around $100M+ for a launch vehicle, mass is very limited/expensive, Geostationary is even MORE costly... this puts you at a clear picture of $100/gram for payload delivered to Geostationary, including presumed costs of red tape.
If you could deploy a 5000lb reflector sail with peoples' names etched on it, you could charge three easy payments of $29.95 each to have your name on the new brightest star in the evening sky - if even 1% of US residents went for that pitch, you've got a profitable business proposition (though the red tape might be challenging.)
I sincerely hope so... the cost of a "Linux capable" platform is so low today as are the power requirements. Would you rather carry a bulletproof cellular telephone that costs $30, or a bulletproof cellular telephone with a fully functional computer embedded for $35?
2400kg to GEO for $151M (includes $65M of ULA "services").
So, where's the business plan that makes $63K/kg by being in geostationary orbit? Something involving a network of 240 10kg mini-sats would be interesting.
Unfortunately, if you're splashing out $151M on the launch vehicle, and probably at least another $20M building the payloads, the political red tape will likely run another $80M or so to "get permission" for your plan - unless you are providing a tax revenue stream of $100M or more... so, we're really talking about needing to deliver $100K/kg, or $1M per mini-sat in revenue.
Still, a $250M revenue generator isn't wildly unrealistic, if you can identify an under-served need, less than $0.04 per capita if you're serving the global market, or $1 per capita if you're US market only.
There's something about ULA added value that's supposed to bring the "Cost" down $65M below the "Purchase Price" - I don't know if this is "money in your pocket" discount, or just things that ULA is doing "for you" that some customers do for themselves and an approximate cost.
There are plenty of ways to silence Amber alerts to your phone.
I managed to get rid of the Ambers while still keeping major emergencies like approaching Hurricanes (not that you don't know a Hurricane is coming, but it's damn boring in the final hours waiting for it to arrive, hearing the EAS work was at least some novel amusement, unlike Amber alerts at 2am on a Tuesday.)
I think mine was an Android system option - most phones also have a power button, global volume controls, etc.
If you take Windows Phone, where we are differentiated on Windows Phone is on manageability. It's security, it's Continuum capability -- that is, the ability to have a phone that can act like a PC. So we're going to double-down on those points of differentiation."
Seems to me that the primary point of differentiation is that Windows phones have far fewer apps available than the big two, and jamming the store onto PCs hasn't fixed that.
Sounds like Microsoft shareholder Dana Vance is f-ing clueless and needs to move on, get a new phone and let his company focus on something they might make money on, instead of pouring resources into something that has been shown to be a reliable way to lose money.
The varying of c could change the energy content of matter in the affected space, preventing the creation of "Free Energy" - or, there may be layers of the Universe of which we are not fully aware, and when the first successful perpetual motion machine is demonstrated, its "apparent free energy" may be being drawn from there.
Without Einstein's theories, a nuclear explosion certainly would look like the magical creation of large quantities of free energy.
And, we also have solid scientific evidence about the harmful and addictive nature of ethanol... coupled with a relatively recent social experiment showing what happens when you ban its distribution, sale and consumption nationwide.
The marijuana ban has been longer term, and the repeal of the ban is more phased, and not yet complete, but it will be very interesting to see how history views the repeal of the marijuana ban 20 years after it happened, assuming current trends continue.
On a different tack, some people can benefit from a blunting of the dopamine response, so while this may not be an effect that's "good for everyone," it may actually point out another therapeutic application.
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It starts out obvious, but then factors like conduction speed, receptor sensitivity, calcium channel recharge rates, etc. etc. all factor in to make a "wet" neural network quite a bit more complex and nuanced than an electronic network of NAND gates.
One of the open questions in "brain replication" is: can you get the same end result without the delays, varying sensitivity, numbing from multiple firing, etc.?
OP seems to be saying that they think the hierarchy is using binary structures, but not that the firing/not firing is a simple 0 or 1 condition.
I watched an old Twilight Zone episode on Netflix the other day (1966) which was about a factory where all the workers were being replaced by a computer and robotic system. They have been saying the same thing for 50 years. How many jobs today were not even imagined in 1966?
There are lots of new jobs, most of which are either beyond the capabilities of the people being displaced or which require several (5 or more) years of retraining during which time the displaced worker is starting over, earning nowhere near a sustainable income.
One view says that the intelligent will get their retraining before they lose their old jobs and be rewarded for their foresight. That view probably doesn't take into consideration how difficult it really is to make informed decisions about such things while working 50+ hours a week.
Another view might say that the industries that are automating and displacing all these workers should in some measure bear the burden of retraining... but that would require corporations to actually pay taxes, and we all have heard how that might spell the end of civilization.
How many jobs today are simple "made up work" - little companies that try to innovate, and fail - consuming speculative investment money, big companies that are so heavily regulated that most of their personnel cost is absorbed in generating documentation to C their As, keep the regulators from shutting them down, and prevent successful lawsuits from being brought. Oh, and then we can talk about the entire legal system, and the insurance industry medical industry black hole of man hours.
Anything that gives you enough income to purchase your own home seems to qualify as "middle income" these days.
If your household annual income exceeds 40% of the cost of a basic home in your area, congratulations, you've joined the middle class.
Until your household annual income exceeds 100% of the median home cost in your area, don't even think you're approaching "upper middle class" - like John Lennon (and later David Bowie) sang: "You're all fucking Peasants, as far as I can see."
Most of my work lately is writing code that writes code.
Compilers are software that writes software.
Siri/Cortana/et.al. are lowering the bar for input to the point where they can take it from people who don't even know they are interacting with "a computer." When you describe to your phone that you want to go to the theater, and it provides you driving directions based on current traffic conditions, down to the level of detail of lanes to take, turns to make, and guides you to available parking, who will be programming who at that point?
Automation is killing lower class jobs... starting with the cotton gin.
The old school ones communicated via air-core transformers, like wireless toothbrush chargers. There is a newer generation of higher frequency communications, but its still very range limited - it's quite hard to transmit out of a meat-bag.
Implants don't use bluetooth - though some of their external accessories do.
Now I'll have to eat nearly twice as much to maintain my obesity.
You laugh...but that's exactly what some people will do if this goes to market.
Sometimes chocolate and other candy isn't eaten for the taste, or the texture, or anything else but what it does to the blood chemistry. Nerfing out the sugar content will probably cause some people to binge harder, until they get the desired level of sugar rush... but in the new variety, they'll be getting twice as much cocoa butter and cacao, which is healthy in some ways, but still very calorie dense.
No, what they're really saying is that the firmware is updateable, which means that a determined attacker could push an update to a victim while they sleep with any kind of malicious functionality they choose Muahahahaha. But, seriously, why bother?
Most implant telemetry is very limited range - it's far easier to kill someone by any number of more common methods, and probably easier to get away with it via the more common methods, too.
The medical profession also kills millions a year via medical mistakes, mostly unrelated to software.
They help more than they hurt, by a wide margin, but it's like investing in the stock market: past performance is no guarantee of future returns, positive returns are NOT guaranteed.
I sorely miss my Moto810 feature phone. It had a camera, it did e-mail, it lasted a week on a charge.
When I say "I want Linux" - what I want is a desktop (can be LXDE or similar, but at least a task launch menu and multiple windows), I want a functional terminal on that desktop, and I want a package manager that can install a reasonable subset of the stuff you can get from Debian, or similar. I also want to be able to write custom software on a reasonably standard desktop system, with access to a reasonable subset of the existing libraries, and deploy it to the phone. Access to all the phone gadgets (touchscreen, network, camera, speaker, mic, IMU, etc.) can be through custom API, but needs to be reasonable to integrate with existing tools and libraries.
And a pretty pony, you're just a bad company if you can't provide all that and a pretty pony for my birthday.
Kind of like the two party political system, eh?
Jolla is a Nokia spinoff that's trying to meld Linux/Android functionality into a single platform, I lost track of them after they failed to deliver my tablet - not interested in their phones that don't work in my country.
The interesting numbers are: $150M to actually deliver 2400kg to geostationary.
People throw around $100M+ for a launch vehicle, mass is very limited/expensive, Geostationary is even MORE costly... this puts you at a clear picture of $100/gram for payload delivered to Geostationary, including presumed costs of red tape.
If you could deploy a 5000lb reflector sail with peoples' names etched on it, you could charge three easy payments of $29.95 each to have your name on the new brightest star in the evening sky - if even 1% of US residents went for that pitch, you've got a profitable business proposition (though the red tape might be challenging.)
I sincerely hope so... the cost of a "Linux capable" platform is so low today as are the power requirements. Would you rather carry a bulletproof cellular telephone that costs $30, or a bulletproof cellular telephone with a fully functional computer embedded for $35?
2400kg to GEO for $151M (includes $65M of ULA "services").
So, where's the business plan that makes $63K/kg by being in geostationary orbit? Something involving a network of 240 10kg mini-sats would be interesting.
Unfortunately, if you're splashing out $151M on the launch vehicle, and probably at least another $20M building the payloads, the political red tape will likely run another $80M or so to "get permission" for your plan - unless you are providing a tax revenue stream of $100M or more... so, we're really talking about needing to deliver $100K/kg, or $1M per mini-sat in revenue.
Still, a $250M revenue generator isn't wildly unrealistic, if you can identify an under-served need, less than $0.04 per capita if you're serving the global market, or $1 per capita if you're US market only.
There's something about ULA added value that's supposed to bring the "Cost" down $65M below the "Purchase Price" - I don't know if this is "money in your pocket" discount, or just things that ULA is doing "for you" that some customers do for themselves and an approximate cost.
FARK died, there is hope...
There are plenty of ways to silence Amber alerts to your phone.
I managed to get rid of the Ambers while still keeping major emergencies like approaching Hurricanes (not that you don't know a Hurricane is coming, but it's damn boring in the final hours waiting for it to arrive, hearing the EAS work was at least some novel amusement, unlike Amber alerts at 2am on a Tuesday.)
I think mine was an Android system option - most phones also have a power button, global volume controls, etc.
If you take Windows Phone, where we are differentiated on Windows Phone is on manageability. It's security, it's Continuum capability -- that is, the ability to have a phone that can act like a PC. So we're going to double-down on those points of differentiation."
Seems to me that the primary point of differentiation is that Windows phones have far fewer apps available than the big two, and jamming the store onto PCs hasn't fixed that.
It worked for the Blackberry - oh, wait...
Sounds like Microsoft shareholder Dana Vance is f-ing clueless and needs to move on, get a new phone and let his company focus on something they might make money on, instead of pouring resources into something that has been shown to be a reliable way to lose money.
The varying of c could change the energy content of matter in the affected space, preventing the creation of "Free Energy" - or, there may be layers of the Universe of which we are not fully aware, and when the first successful perpetual motion machine is demonstrated, its "apparent free energy" may be being drawn from there.
Without Einstein's theories, a nuclear explosion certainly would look like the magical creation of large quantities of free energy.
Dihydrogen Monoxide kills! Beware! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
And, we also have solid scientific evidence about the harmful and addictive nature of ethanol... coupled with a relatively recent social experiment showing what happens when you ban its distribution, sale and consumption nationwide.
The marijuana ban has been longer term, and the repeal of the ban is more phased, and not yet complete, but it will be very interesting to see how history views the repeal of the marijuana ban 20 years after it happened, assuming current trends continue.
On a different tack, some people can benefit from a blunting of the dopamine response, so while this may not be an effect that's "good for everyone," it may actually point out another therapeutic application.