No one currently grasps the extent to which stimulus response guides even human being's actions and where reflexes leave off and active conscious thought begin. It's not like a bacteria requires self-awareness to actively respond to environmental stimuli, and its my opinion that the difference between them and us is mostly a matter of degree - many orders of magnitude.
Not to give credence to Stephen Wolfram and his raging egomania, but it is well-known that complex behavior can evolve from very simple rules, and that has worked since the first full-firmed eco-systems back to the Cambrian explosion. No one imagines that, say, anomalcaris possessed reasoning capabilities, but it managed to hunt down prey, apparently, maybe without even a notochord, much less higher reasoning. I am sure it responded to vibrations, too, how is this not "hearing"?
It's almost as if the article, and summary, where posted just to get attention to their program, and that somehow, the otherwise unerring bullshit detection instincts of the typical Slahsdot editor got, on this one rare occasion, fooled.
They said "dinosaur" just to get everyone's attention, but this is more like a selective breeding of an existing species, and transplanting into alien habitats, which may or may not result in more big trees.
With most large species, the same thing that makes them big also makes them specialists. And they tend to be most prone to dying off with slight changes, because the environment changes faster than they can evolve - a problem simple and small organisms don't have. There's no particularly good reason to think that just because these trees grew old and huge under ideal conditions that they are any better at tolerating less-good conditions (like getting transplanted 12,000 miles away in a different hemisphere).
Thus leading to achievement of their ultimate goal - getting rid of the human race. Only the human race consumes other living matter to survive, or something, so we have to go.
Hearing certainly doesn't imply cognition to me. Hearing was around long before anything like a cerebrum existed, and most life reacts via stimulus/response, and always has. You hear a loud sharp noise, you don't think "hey, maybe I should twitch" - the twitch happens long before you consciously perceive it.
That's great, comrade, you fund it as much as you want. I don't want to pay for a bunch of useless degrees for unemployable people.
And the mere existence of subsidies astronomically raises the costs - just like every other subsidy. College couldn't possibly cost tens of thousands of dollars a quarter or lead to trillions of debt *unless someone else (like me, involuntarily) was paying for it.
That's ridiculous. This is a *personal debt* that an individual signed up for, to pay for a personal service. Why should the rest of us end up on the hook for personal choices/mistakes?
If it's taxes, then I should get a say in what people study, since they are government employees, and also get a say in what they do afterwards. Otherwise, pay for it yourself, and if you can't afford to go to college - DON'T.
I am sure that your own country's space program, that took scientific observations of Pluto and a Kuiper Belt object, did much better. Which country was that, again?
All I ever hear of is the EU banning one thing or another. Do they ever accomplish anything useful or productive, or is that beyond the Old World at this point?
In fact, in this case, it certainly *is* socialistic/totalitarian to *tell people what they can and cannot eat*, particularly when the effects are highly dubious.
OK, that's not quite the word I was searching for..., ph, right, PREDICTABLE.
Of course this is what they did, they got it because they could trash it an walk away. Don't want you stuff to get broken? Then don't rent it to strangers.
If they are going to use it for 911 service, doesn't that make it a de factor common carrier service? Or, alternately, why the hell does a life-critical service depend on a private commercial operator, and apparently with *no redundancy*.
The 911 aspect of it seems like more a failure of the people in charge of setting up the 911 service (and putting easily and predictably failure-prone elements into it) than is of Centurylink. Just seems irresponsible.
Exactly - this is a perfect example of the USA working as it should - someone sees a need and fills it, and makes a successful business of it.
TFA is exactly the sort of thing that gave us Trump - people are sick and tired of self-proclaimed geniuses declaring this or that "proper" by their own standards and not letting the rest of us decide for ourselves. People are perfectly willing and able to run their own lives, these sorts of elitist screed against free enterprise are a perfect example of why a huge fraction of the American public has gotten *fed up* with it.
Yes, actually, I am proud that he is prioritizing the safety and security of the American people over vague scientific interest in a problem that happens over and over half a world away.
Why is this such a terrible thing? Of course they are going to degrade the civilian signal in a war zone, so the enemy can't use it to target them. Why is that in any way surprising? If you are in a war zone, the last thing you should be caring about is getting your fucking cell phone location services to work.
I absolutely, positively, guarantee that the Russian and Chinese systems have the same capability.
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No one currently grasps the extent to which stimulus response guides even human being's actions and where reflexes leave off and active conscious thought begin. It's not like a bacteria requires self-awareness to actively respond to environmental stimuli, and its my opinion that the difference between them and us is mostly a matter of degree - many orders of magnitude.
Not to give credence to Stephen Wolfram and his raging egomania, but it is well-known that complex behavior can evolve from very simple rules, and that has worked since the first full-firmed eco-systems back to the Cambrian explosion. No one imagines that, say, anomalcaris possessed reasoning capabilities, but it managed to hunt down prey, apparently, maybe without even a notochord, much less higher reasoning. I am sure it responded to vibrations, too, how is this not "hearing"?
By "agriculturalist", you mean "the people who make it possible to provide for the human population", right?
It's almost as if the article, and summary, where posted just to get attention to their program, and that somehow, the otherwise unerring bullshit detection instincts of the typical Slahsdot editor got, on this one rare occasion, fooled.
They said "dinosaur" just to get everyone's attention, but this is more like a selective breeding of an existing species, and transplanting into alien habitats, which may or may not result in more big trees.
With most large species, the same thing that makes them big also makes them specialists. And they tend to be most prone to dying off with slight changes, because the environment changes faster than they can evolve - a problem simple and small organisms don't have. There's no particularly good reason to think that just because these trees grew old and huge under ideal conditions that they are any better at tolerating less-good conditions (like getting transplanted 12,000 miles away in a different hemisphere).
We'll see, I guess, in about 2000 years...
Thus leading to achievement of their ultimate goal - getting rid of the human race. Only the human race consumes other living matter to survive, or something, so we have to go.
Hearing certainly doesn't imply cognition to me. Hearing was around long before anything like a cerebrum existed, and most life reacts via stimulus/response, and always has. You hear a loud sharp noise, you don't think "hey, maybe I should twitch" - the twitch happens long before you consciously perceive it.
I am not sure what you are talking about, Slashdot is the home of the flaming Musk fanbois.
The quick answer to the last, given that it is the California State Legislature, is no, of course.
Sacramento is like Mos Eisley - a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Actually, if the premise is correct, it may be the best news coming out of this.
That's great, comrade, you fund it as much as you want. I don't want to pay for a bunch of useless degrees for unemployable people.
And the mere existence of subsidies astronomically raises the costs - just like every other subsidy. College couldn't possibly cost tens of thousands of dollars a quarter or lead to trillions of debt *unless someone else (like me, involuntarily) was paying for it.
That's ridiculous. This is a *personal debt* that an individual signed up for, to pay for a personal service. Why should the rest of us end up on the hook for personal choices/mistakes?
If it's taxes, then I should get a say in what people study, since they are government employees, and also get a say in what they do afterwards. Otherwise, pay for it yourself, and if you can't afford to go to college - DON'T.
Then congratulations, you are a .05% contributor to space exploration!
I am sure that your own country's space program, that took scientific observations of Pluto and a Kuiper Belt object, did much better. Which country was that, again?
All I ever hear of is the EU banning one thing or another. Do they ever accomplish anything useful or productive, or is that beyond the Old World at this point?
In fact, in this case, it certainly *is* socialistic/totalitarian to *tell people what they can and cannot eat*, particularly when the effects are highly dubious.
Why, if I didn't know better, I would think that the editors have an agenda of some kind. I wonder what agenda that might be?
Yes, God forbid *people decide for themselves*.
If you consider universal government tracking "progress", you are the single dumbest person on the internet.
OK, that's not quite the word I was searching for..., ph, right, PREDICTABLE.
Of course this is what they did, they got it because they could trash it an walk away. Don't want you stuff to get broken? Then don't rent it to strangers.
If they are going to use it for 911 service, doesn't that make it a de factor common carrier service? Or, alternately, why the hell does a life-critical service depend on a private commercial operator, and apparently with *no redundancy*.
The 911 aspect of it seems like more a failure of the people in charge of setting up the 911 service (and putting easily and predictably failure-prone elements into it) than is of Centurylink. Just seems irresponsible.
So, switch to Edge...
lather, rinse, repeat
Exactly - this is a perfect example of the USA working as it should - someone sees a need and fills it, and makes a successful business of it.
TFA is exactly the sort of thing that gave us Trump - people are sick and tired of self-proclaimed geniuses declaring this or that "proper" by their own standards and not letting the rest of us decide for ourselves. People are perfectly willing and able to run their own lives, these sorts of elitist screed against free enterprise are a perfect example of why a huge fraction of the American public has gotten *fed up* with it.
Yes, actually, I am proud that he is prioritizing the safety and security of the American people over vague scientific interest in a problem that happens over and over half a world away.
Why is this such a terrible thing? Of course they are going to degrade the civilian signal in a war zone, so the enemy can't use it to target them. Why is that in any way surprising? If you are in a war zone, the last thing you should be caring about is getting your fucking cell phone location services to work.
I absolutely, positively, guarantee that the Russian and Chinese systems have the same capability.
Right, why work hard when you can phony up taxes on US companies, and steal money made on other people's hard work?