You know, my car stopped working during a rain storm. I had to use my phone to call for help, and got out of the car first because the place where it stopped was likely to get me killed faster than the lightning if I stayed inside. But with this new information, now at least I get to choose how I get it.
If it were Firefox, you'd be praising them for releasing a patch so fast. And you'd be downloading 16 megabytes just to patch one little obscure feature. I know Microsoft is the devil but they do get some things right.
RSS feeds just show up as a list of bookmarks in Firefox. For Slashdot and Digg.com, it seems easier, to look at the list of titles and pick which ones don't seem like crap, than to actually go to the homepage of the websites and wait for them to load. So it seems faster to me than the old way. I think the problem is the sites you go to, not RSS. You know, implementing RSS badly doesn't mean RSS is bad. Just like HTML isn't bad just because a lot of people make pitiful websites.
In a surprising twist, it turns out an unchecked buffer in the software actually makes the microwaves more vulnerable than those without the software...
As long as we’re being cheerleaders for Google and Open
Source, I think
Copernic does
a good job of indexing email. I don’t have any trouble
finding old mail or anything else in the context I’m looking for. Maybe
the NARA guys could develop a large-scale version of
that and add some mechanism to associate certain messages with certain events
or situations.
I think I'd rather have one controlled by a state machine, but I don't know hardware or automotive engineering. I just feel like something much less complex is less likely to have some obscure bug in it that will show up at the worst possible time. And the first time we got a Windows CE device is the first time I saw a handheld organizer lock up. I had seen Microsoft wreck desktops but I didn't think they'd do the same with a PDA. I started to think maybe Microsoft isn't the way to go for anything that absolutely must not lock up. For what it's worth, I think being able to play a racing game in a real car could be fun. It just needs to have the whole windshield turn into a display, and needs heavily tinted windows so people passing by don't see you looking like you're aggressively driving while your car isn't going anywhere.
I know what I'm talking about. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about. The question was, how can a computer react to a sudden change as well as a human? I'm thinking this is a situation in which the computer will excel because fast response times are one of their strong points as opposed to humans. The problem would be recognizing the change for what it is. Not being able to respond to it fast enough. But you don't know what I'm talking about, right?
The computer should be able to react to a sudden unexpected situation as well as a human because it is capable of responding faster. The challenge seems to be identifying the situations in the first place moreso than being surprised by them.
It seemed like they were trying to say the accomplishment is proving the superfluid state exists, creating hope for finding a liquid in this state at room temperature.
The soul can be completely and trivially implemented with a null device. It
places no real barrier on the notion of artificial self awareness.
“Soul” is my word for “mind” or “conscious state”.
That is implied by the quote, “soul (or mind, or conscious state)” from
my text. If you would stop trying to turn this into another argument against
intelligent design, you would realize a soul is exactly what they are trying
to implement. As you said, it is not verifiable. Therefore, there is no algorithm
to implement it. Not knowing how something works is not the same as not existing,
so implementing it with a null device will not be sufficient. That would just
be unnecessary overhead in the system.
If you disagree, I'd love to know how you can discriminate between a soul
filled being and an "empty shell" in the real world. Supernatural
evaluation after death aren't in the problem's domain, as it's not verifiable.
As you can see, I do disagree with the claim that self-awareness can be implemented
with a null device. However, what you “would love to see me do” is
not in the domain of the problem. Proving we are all nothing more than physical
creatures has nothing to do with implementing artificial self-awareness until
you can prove self-awareness is completely physical. That is in the domain
of this problem.
Figuring out you exist because you determined there is a reflection of you might be something. But this thing's self awareness is just a function returning true because all of the conditions evaluate to true.
I personally think just being aware is enough, even if the creature never becomes aware that it is aware. People know they are somebody even if they never think about the fact that they know they're somebody. Even if the recursive function wouldn't run the robot out of stack space, I don't think this would be self-awareness. This would be a bunch of logic gates outputting true when their inputs line up right. So the robot would be as aware as a light switch with an array of sensors that can detect a light and then turn on a new light. The problem with trying to program a soul is the soul (or mind, or conscious state) is a metaphysical thing, or at least a thing that is not physically defined. It doesn't have an algorithm, so programming and logic gates would be useless. Unless the scientists can come up with a physical composition of a soul, I think this is an impossible goal.
They're not so bad. I think the problem is Bush gave all the good CS jobs to India and the women have enough sense to bail out and find something they can live on... except me.
For a few years, my daughter put a microphone in front of the radio to record
the songs she liked.
Well you've really done it now. The next big Slashdot story will be about
how a court order forces Slashdot to release information leading back to your
email provider, and forcing them to release information about your isp, and
forcing them to release information about you, so they can sue your daughter
for stealing their music.
Slashdot Mirror
You know, my car stopped working during a rain storm. I had to use my phone to call for help, and got out of the car first because the place where it stopped was likely to get me killed faster than the lightning if I stayed inside. But with this new information, now at least I get to choose how I get it.
Replace "expectation" with "assumption" and it all makes sense.
If it were Firefox, you'd be praising them for releasing a patch so fast. And you'd be downloading 16 megabytes just to patch one little obscure feature. I know Microsoft is the devil but they do get some things right.
RSS feeds just show up as a list of bookmarks in Firefox. For Slashdot and Digg.com, it seems easier, to look at the list of titles and pick which ones don't seem like crap, than to actually go to the homepage of the websites and wait for them to load. So it seems faster to me than the old way. I think the problem is the sites you go to, not RSS. You know, implementing RSS badly doesn't mean RSS is bad. Just like HTML isn't bad just because a lot of people make pitiful websites.
In a surprising twist, it turns out an unchecked buffer in the software actually makes the microwaves more vulnerable than those without the software...
By making their software check the host file every time it loads?
As long as we’re being cheerleaders for Google and Open Source, I think Copernic does a good job of indexing email. I don’t have any trouble finding old mail or anything else in the context I’m looking for. Maybe the NARA guys could develop a large-scale version of that and add some mechanism to associate certain messages with certain events or situations.
I think I'd rather have one controlled by a state machine, but I don't know hardware or automotive engineering. I just feel like something much less complex is less likely to have some obscure bug in it that will show up at the worst possible time. And the first time we got a Windows CE device is the first time I saw a handheld organizer lock up. I had seen Microsoft wreck desktops but I didn't think they'd do the same with a PDA. I started to think maybe Microsoft isn't the way to go for anything that absolutely must not lock up. For what it's worth, I think being able to play a racing game in a real car could be fun. It just needs to have the whole windshield turn into a display, and needs heavily tinted windows so people passing by don't see you looking like you're aggressively driving while your car isn't going anywhere.
I know what I'm talking about. Maybe you don't know what I'm talking about. The question was, how can a computer react to a sudden change as well as a human? I'm thinking this is a situation in which the computer will excel because fast response times are one of their strong points as opposed to humans. The problem would be recognizing the change for what it is. Not being able to respond to it fast enough. But you don't know what I'm talking about, right?
I still wouldn't feel comfortable driving a car running Windows.
I would think if uniting means they'll make better processors than the American ones then they've got a chance.
The computer should be able to react to a sudden unexpected situation as well as a human because it is capable of responding faster. The challenge seems to be identifying the situations in the first place moreso than being surprised by them.
I would think only the maker of the extension can be sued, unless the extension is available from the Firefox website.
Until they say it about you.
It seemed like they were trying to say the accomplishment is proving the superfluid state exists, creating hope for finding a liquid in this state at room temperature.
Everybody I know wants both companies to get hit much harder.
That's enough money to teach some people how to use Linux, or hire some people to make Linux easier to use.
“Soul” is my word for “mind” or “conscious state”. That is implied by the quote, “soul (or mind, or conscious state)” from my text. If you would stop trying to turn this into another argument against intelligent design, you would realize a soul is exactly what they are trying to implement. As you said, it is not verifiable. Therefore, there is no algorithm to implement it. Not knowing how something works is not the same as not existing, so implementing it with a null device will not be sufficient. That would just be unnecessary overhead in the system.
As you can see, I do disagree with the claim that self-awareness can be implemented with a null device. However, what you “would love to see me do” is not in the domain of the problem. Proving we are all nothing more than physical creatures has nothing to do with implementing artificial self-awareness until you can prove self-awareness is completely physical. That is in the domain of this problem.
Figuring out you exist because you determined there is a reflection of you might be something. But this thing's self awareness is just a function returning true because all of the conditions evaluate to true.
I personally think just being aware is enough, even if the creature never becomes aware that it is aware. People know they are somebody even if they never think about the fact that they know they're somebody. Even if the recursive function wouldn't run the robot out of stack space, I don't think this would be self-awareness. This would be a bunch of logic gates outputting true when their inputs line up right. So the robot would be as aware as a light switch with an array of sensors that can detect a light and then turn on a new light. The problem with trying to program a soul is the soul (or mind, or conscious state) is a metaphysical thing, or at least a thing that is not physically defined. It doesn't have an algorithm, so programming and logic gates would be useless. Unless the scientists can come up with a physical composition of a soul, I think this is an impossible goal.
They're not so bad. I think the problem is Bush gave all the good CS jobs to India and the women have enough sense to bail out and find something they can live on... except me.
Well you've really done it now. The next big Slashdot story will be about how a court order forces Slashdot to release information leading back to your email provider, and forcing them to release information about your isp, and forcing them to release information about you, so they can sue your daughter for stealing their music.
If they start collecting credit card information, it will be just like Passport.
It was still a fucked up joke.
Hell no. Anyway, if they start indexing all AOL e-mail, I hope they get a class action suit.