Then they use a quarter of the money from the secret life insurance policy to defend themselves in court, and then finally lose the court case and pay out another quarter of the money, then they walk away with half of the money and make the next model of the car, and caste a wider net, aiming it a kids, because due to their age, they can get a higher payout on the insurance policy.
Ah, but see, the trick to reach masses of people beyond that initial group is not to claim you are violating that law, but rather that you're harvesting energy that is permeating the space around you. You aren't violating thermodynamics because you're taking energy from a subspace field that's all around us, continuously replenished as the universe moves. People believe in radio waves and gravity, my ethereal field of energy shouldn't be too hard either?
Wouldn't that depend on the angle of the barrel relative to the earth? If the barrel 90degrees (or other similar angles) to the surface I would agree with you, but say the barrel were pointed tangential to the surface (Aka 0 degrees, aka pointing at the horizon). If you both neglect the atmospheric friction and state that the earth is perfectly spherical, wouldn't any sufficient (enough that it doesn't just trivially hit the ground) amount of thrust hit you in the back?
I think you're making a linguistic/logical wordplay more than an argument about AI intelligence. "Cleverer" needs to be defined here. Intrinsically, you're provided with this magical 1 problem that can be solved by HAL-2 but not HAL-1.
However at any level if you have an AI even remotely interesting to play with, this robot could feasibly solve EVERY solvable problem.
The trick is that the AI may not be able to solve EVERY problem in reasonable time/space. So this is all an efficiency game. At the very worst, HAL could set up a simulation of the universe, wherein it would poll said universe until such a time as the answer results. HAL could set up multiple simulations of the universe using small pebbles in slots on a beach. Infinite tape turing machine. Given enough time the answer will result.
The point is that a more efficient AI will often be equated to a "cleverer" AI. A faster answer is often how we decide one human is more clever than another, no?
It's really unfortunate you chose to use Adobe Photoshop as your shining example of a "bug-free and intuitive" piece of software. Given that I watched it crash 3 times on unrelated files for my coworker over the course of just this afternoon -- and that's only discussing dataloss here, we're not mentioning odd or unexpected behavior -- I have to say I'm skeptical about what you've written.
[I am ignoring the "intuitive" part of my paraphrase of your words for the time being]
You make a good point. I am startled to notice that I was claiming rights as a buyer/consumer that weren't necessarily guaranteed. It seems like in the world market, money talks. Most legal, technically feasible, things are available, and many illegal things are available if you're willing to pay the cost. But because the Apple App store is it's own contained market, there is literally nowhere that I can legally purchase apps that contain the censored characteristics. A market where you can't get something; --no matter what the price-- even though the item in question is technically feasible and available in other markets; seems wrong and broken. Freakishly unnatural even. Hopefully an unstable temporary equilibrium.
Since when should kids be allowed to buy whatever they like in a store. I'm a paying adult, and I don't want the store default filtered why should my rights be impinged?
Couldn't she get a dongle with an artificial fingerprint? I mean it's less secure, sure, but then what's to stop anyone from chopping off a finger to get in?
Seeing this article, made me think of the XKCD post about how the guy won't get back in bed with his girlfriend because "Someone is wrong on the internet!"
I couldn't avoid reading this even though "That's not how it works... GAH!"
The University of Michigan has http://mprint.umich.edu/ which accepts pdfs and plaintext and can print to most of the computer labs across campus and bills your student account.
On a couple occasions I would snag a spare monitor as you described, especially when the labs were crowded, because then I could take the out of order computer, but for the most part I just converted all my homework to PDF, and printed through mprint to the lab closest to my next class. Picked it up on my way in and score! Interesting thing was I was sometimes printing across town.
First time I had seat power jacks was when I flew with continental this past saturday from Cancun to Houston (My flight was booked with Northwest, but they shifted carriers for that leg of my flight). It was great. They however also had touchscreen displays at every seat and had a list of 20 current movies and 20 ish tv shows and a few touchscreen games that you could play for free. The problem was that the flgiht was barely 2.5hrs and what with the periods of time where we couldn't watch (take off and landing and PA announcements) we didn't even have time to watch the whole movie. If I hadn't fiddled with that though I could have watched something on my laptop, which now has a crap battery life, and so the jack would have been well needed.
Ah, but I thought that was the whole point of the anti-discrimination laws... that along with other things, you can't make a contract that really means "any reason". The only way the contract is valid and legal is if you really mean "any legal reason" thus in a court, unless you specified that you don't have to present a reason, you could be in trouble.
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Then they use a quarter of the money from the secret life insurance policy to defend themselves in court, and then finally lose the court case and pay out another quarter of the money, then they walk away with half of the money and make the next model of the car, and caste a wider net, aiming it a kids, because due to their age, they can get a higher payout on the insurance policy.
Dude, this is a classic supply demand problem. If they wait while china uses theirs up, they'll have cornered the market on the supply.
Ah, but see, the trick to reach masses of people beyond that initial group is not to claim you are violating that law, but rather that you're harvesting energy that is permeating the space around you. You aren't violating thermodynamics because you're taking energy from a subspace field that's all around us, continuously replenished as the universe moves. People believe in radio waves and gravity, my ethereal field of energy shouldn't be too hard either?
Want to give me money?
So then the question becomes: do you hit the checkbox so /. knows not to count you as a pair of eyeballs?
Wouldn't that depend on the angle of the barrel relative to the earth? If the barrel 90degrees (or other similar angles) to the surface I would agree with you, but say the barrel were pointed tangential to the surface (Aka 0 degrees, aka pointing at the horizon). If you both neglect the atmospheric friction and state that the earth is perfectly spherical, wouldn't any sufficient (enough that it doesn't just trivially hit the ground) amount of thrust hit you in the back?
Except that that's still wrong. Even if the odds were 1 in 1,000,000 that doesn't stop the real world from creating 10 failures in a row.
Probability of failure only means that over time the amount of incidents should approach that value.
I think you're making a linguistic/logical wordplay more than an argument about AI intelligence. "Cleverer" needs to be defined here. Intrinsically, you're provided with this magical 1 problem that can be solved by HAL-2 but not HAL-1.
However at any level if you have an AI even remotely interesting to play with, this robot could feasibly solve EVERY solvable problem.
The trick is that the AI may not be able to solve EVERY problem in reasonable time/space. So this is all an efficiency game. At the very worst, HAL could set up a simulation of the universe, wherein it would poll said universe until such a time as the answer results. HAL could set up multiple simulations of the universe using small pebbles in slots on a beach. Infinite tape turing machine. Given enough time the answer will result.
The point is that a more efficient AI will often be equated to a "cleverer" AI. A faster answer is often how we decide one human is more clever than another, no?
It's really unfortunate you chose to use Adobe Photoshop as your shining example of a "bug-free and intuitive" piece of software. Given that I watched it crash 3 times on unrelated files for my coworker over the course of just this afternoon -- and that's only discussing dataloss here, we're not mentioning odd or unexpected behavior -- I have to say I'm skeptical about what you've written.
[I am ignoring the "intuitive" part of my paraphrase of your words for the time being]
How can you know? They're lying to you about the domain, how are you supposed to double-check?
Forgive a non-hindi speaker, Is there a concept of prefixes to words? If so can you use pre-suggested?
It would be awkward in English, but it wouldn't be incomprehensible there. Is it the same in hindi?
You make a good point. I am startled to notice that I was claiming rights as a buyer/consumer that weren't necessarily guaranteed. It seems like in the world market, money talks. Most legal, technically feasible, things are available, and many illegal things are available if you're willing to pay the cost. But because the Apple App store is it's own contained market, there is literally nowhere that I can legally purchase apps that contain the censored characteristics. A market where you can't get something; --no matter what the price-- even though the item in question is technically feasible and available in other markets; seems wrong and broken. Freakishly unnatural even. Hopefully an unstable temporary equilibrium.
Since when should kids be allowed to buy whatever they like in a store. I'm a paying adult, and I don't want the store default filtered why should my rights be impinged?
Couldn't she get a dongle with an artificial fingerprint? I mean it's less secure, sure, but then what's to stop anyone from chopping off a finger to get in?
Actually... those can be dealt with too!
Seeing this article, made me think of the XKCD post about how the guy won't get back in bed with his girlfriend because "Someone is wrong on the internet!"
I couldn't avoid reading this even though "That's not how it works... GAH!"
I can have achievements?
Posting to see if I get the "April Fool" achievement
The University of Michigan has http://mprint.umich.edu/ which accepts pdfs and plaintext and can print to most of the computer labs across campus and bills your student account.
On a couple occasions I would snag a spare monitor as you described, especially when the labs were crowded, because then I could take the out of order computer, but for the most part I just converted all my homework to PDF, and printed through mprint to the lab closest to my next class. Picked it up on my way in and score! Interesting thing was I was sometimes printing across town.
link?
First time I had seat power jacks was when I flew with continental this past saturday from Cancun to Houston (My flight was booked with Northwest, but they shifted carriers for that leg of my flight). It was great. They however also had touchscreen displays at every seat and had a list of 20 current movies and 20 ish tv shows and a few touchscreen games that you could play for free. The problem was that the flgiht was barely 2.5hrs and what with the periods of time where we couldn't watch (take off and landing and PA announcements) we didn't even have time to watch the whole movie. If I hadn't fiddled with that though I could have watched something on my laptop, which now has a crap battery life, and so the jack would have been well needed.
Ah, but I thought that was the whole point of the anti-discrimination laws... that along with other things, you can't make a contract that really means "any reason". The only way the contract is valid and legal is if you really mean "any legal reason" thus in a court, unless you specified that you don't have to present a reason, you could be in trouble.
I'm sorry, why should I care about solving the homeless problem?
it's the classic Java != Javascript joke
To be fair, he was a great public speaker, I don't doubt that one could learn from his techniques at that.
What bittorrent client and what RSS feeds do you use? / What do you download?
I totally intend to set myself up the same way, and possibly even get rid of comcast tv service.
Thanks for the script!