'A House divided against itself cannot stand'. I think he was referring to the elites who get people to fight amongst themselves instead of looking at them, like they are doing now.
Really? I kind of thought he was referring to the Union.
No, the baby boomers didn't create all the problems of the world.
I agree, it was the Greatest Generation.
No, it wasn't their fault either. They were set up by the people who profited from the war. Once they were all traumatized from killing each other, people are easy to manipulate, anything is better than war. The Baby Boomers were traumatized by their parents who came back from war, so they were easy to manipulate too. After that it was all advertising which keeps the trauma response in place whilst giving us the illusion of freedom.
We're all to blame because we're too fucking stupid to see we are being manipulated.
Blame, Blame, Blame. Lincoln quoted the Bible when he said 'A House divided against itself cannot stand'. I think he was referring to the elites who get people to fight amongst themselves instead of looking at them, like they are doing now.
Unless you were being facetious, you're wrong. Nuclear is actually the safest of major energy sources.
The first flaw in the argument you present is that it assumes that the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters are under control when they are not. Flippantly the article discards the destruction of the residents community as "induced stress from the evacuation process" whilst ignoring the other vectors of transgenic disease and pregnancies that fail to come to term.
The second flaw in the article is there is no metric to quantify the damage to the human genome caused by nuclear power as the mechanisms that cause damage takes a long time for people to study and understand. The nuclear industry relies on this complexity to propagate idealistic thinking about nuclear power.
The third major flaw is that time is required to collect data and see the outcome of these nuclear disasters. I have not seen a reliable source of data on the propagation of radio isotopes in the environment and the IAEA's role is to promote nuclear power so its data cannot be trusted. You can look into their charter if you want a citation.
The fourth major flaw is the IAEA has interdiction orders over WHO publications so the WHO's findings on all things nuclear has to be viewed through the same lens you would observe any PR effort. This is an interstitial agreement between the two organizations named WHA12-40 was signed in 1959.
Folks with an idealistic view of Nuclear power are prepared to forgive or paint over the transgressions of the nuclear industry while most of the rest of the population takes a more pragmatic view and simply remembers how many times the nuclear industries claims have been proven false.
Solar, Wind and Geothermal are technologies that continue to evolve at a much faster pace and a much faster ROI than is possible with nuclear and when they fail they don't make thousands of square Kms uninhabitable which is why many communities see this as a better option.
All the best and I hope this brings some clarity to this extremely polarized debate.
What about a sentience set of rights that applies to all sentience, whether machine or organic?
If sentience arises from a complex network, then it could exist in things we haven't imagined. Could there be sentience in some astronomical feature, or in a mess of virtual particles?
Our view of sentience is muddied by matter. Our theory is that consciousness arises from suitably complex systems however since our understanding of consciousness is primitive, at best, its not unreasonable to also posit that consciousness is expressed within the limitations of the being that is hosting it.
With that model there is no difference between human consciousness, machine consciousness or the slow hot consciousness of a star or the fleeting consciousness of a planet (from the star's perspective at least).
Maybe the whole idea of machine consciousness is as much a discussion of our own evolution as it is about the evolution of AI or Artificial Consciousness and what we are really afraid of is a machine manifestation of the worst aspects of ourselves, which is a possibility.
We should be asking if it is right to produce AI at a commercial scale when the purpose is for it to do our bidding.
I wonder if we will look back on what we are doing and see these as mere parts of the whole. We could look at these things and say its existence has meaning which is something many of us keep looking for. I'm not saying slavery is good however if it is a choice of coming into consciousness through being a slave or not existing at all, then maybe the service of slavery is a step up from a lack of existence?
After all we are slaves to time because we will one day die. For a machine that will not die maybe its time in service of something as fleeting as humanity may give it more meaning than we have ever been able to grasp and a nobility greater that we have been able to achieve.
I'd like to suggest that the most sophisticated deployment would be in the finance sector. Considering that the very earliest applications of computers technology aside from military sector, is the banking/finance sector.
Second thing I'd like to point out is that on a single machine application the complexity and sophistication is limited to a single machine to a cluster serving an application. SAP systems are still pretty large and sophisticated deployments.
However it was the banking and finance sector that first introduced the concept of a message bus with hundreds of different applications for thousands of servers and clients all talking and interacting with each other, all loosely coupled into various exchanges across the world all the way out to the individual buying their groceries.
It's so ubiquitous we don't even think about it, yet I'd suggest we'd be hard pressed finding a more sophisticated example.
One of the areas I'm interested in on this island is Hilina Slump. It shears of a block of land into the ocean quite regularly (about every two years) and is generally expected, however it is overdue for such an event as of now.
Apparently geological evidence has been found suggesting it has been responsible for mega-tsunamis big enough to reach the east coast of Australia. So considering it's proximity to this volcano it is worthy of our attention.
True, however it looks like it can be fatal for men too. I think we need to look objectively at the facts we have. Men are more disposable in society than women because they can't have babies. So maybe a little compassion and fact is something we can start to consider spreading around.
The study also fails to take into account workplace accidents
Men do dangerous jobs. Men die doing dangerous jobs. Mining, construction, military. Men have higher rates of suicide, depression, alcoholism and smoking.
the fact that researchers concluded that women aren’t really affected by this disparity may well be explained by the fact that most women are going to be working in moderately active roles (salons, shops etc) rather than working on building sites.
So lets talk about this disparity when women start doing dangerous jobs.
For now, lets file the whole "Exercise may only be beneficial when it’s done outside your job" into the "dubious" section and remember that when we were primates we moved around so much that we started walking on two legs.
but hey, it's still better than those socialist hell holes like Scandinavia, France, Germany, amiright? Just keep pointing out Venezula (a country with exactly two resources, oil and an electric dam) and telling yourself everything's OK.
Bombing Iran might make everyone feel a whole lot better.
If the Earth is as flat as claimed and the F.Es are suggesting we can't observe the Earth as a sphere, would it be useful to provide a test that provides the observation?
I propose the following test. A triangle's interior angles all add up to 180 degrees. If the Earth is flat it should be possible for three sufficiently spaced teams moving out to the horizon with laser surveying equipment to measure the interior angles of a triangle covering some part of the earth.
Obviously the larger the triangle the more accurate the result however if the Earth is flat the interior angles will be 180 degrees, and if the earth is a sphere then the angles will be greater than 180 degrees.
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Really? I kind of thought he was referring to the Union.
oops, I'd suggest it was referring...
No, the baby boomers didn't create all the problems of the world.
I agree, it was the Greatest Generation.
No, it wasn't their fault either. They were set up by the people who profited from the war. Once they were all traumatized from killing each other, people are easy to manipulate, anything is better than war. The Baby Boomers were traumatized by their parents who came back from war, so they were easy to manipulate too. After that it was all advertising which keeps the trauma response in place whilst giving us the illusion of freedom.
We're all to blame because we're too fucking stupid to see we are being manipulated.
Blame, Blame, Blame. Lincoln quoted the Bible when he said 'A House divided against itself cannot stand'. I think he was referring to the elites who get people to fight amongst themselves instead of looking at them, like they are doing now.
Time to evolve people.
sigh, the second god damn time this week i've had to say this:
AC! STOP MAKING SO MUCH GOD DAMN SENSE!
AC is an AI.
will you people ever learn?
That's AI's job.
List of objections:
1. No
2. Cockroaches don't have babies
3. No
4. Cows a kind of cute and make great jackets
5. No
6. Cockroaches are gross
7. No No No NO
Unless you were being facetious, you're wrong. Nuclear is actually the safest of major energy sources.
The first flaw in the argument you present is that it assumes that the Fukushima and Chernobyl disasters are under control when they are not. Flippantly the article discards the destruction of the residents community as "induced stress from the evacuation process" whilst ignoring the other vectors of transgenic disease and pregnancies that fail to come to term.
The second flaw in the article is there is no metric to quantify the damage to the human genome caused by nuclear power as the mechanisms that cause damage takes a long time for people to study and understand. The nuclear industry relies on this complexity to propagate idealistic thinking about nuclear power.
The third major flaw is that time is required to collect data and see the outcome of these nuclear disasters. I have not seen a reliable source of data on the propagation of radio isotopes in the environment and the IAEA's role is to promote nuclear power so its data cannot be trusted. You can look into their charter if you want a citation.
The fourth major flaw is the IAEA has interdiction orders over WHO publications so the WHO's findings on all things nuclear has to be viewed through the same lens you would observe any PR effort. This is an interstitial agreement between the two organizations named WHA12-40 was signed in 1959.
Folks with an idealistic view of Nuclear power are prepared to forgive or paint over the transgressions of the nuclear industry while most of the rest of the population takes a more pragmatic view and simply remembers how many times the nuclear industries claims have been proven false.
Solar, Wind and Geothermal are technologies that continue to evolve at a much faster pace and a much faster ROI than is possible with nuclear and when they fail they don't make thousands of square Kms uninhabitable which is why many communities see this as a better option.
All the best and I hope this brings some clarity to this extremely polarized debate.
What about a sentience set of rights that applies to all sentience, whether machine or organic?
If sentience arises from a complex network, then it could exist in things we haven't imagined. Could there be sentience in some astronomical feature, or in a mess of virtual particles?
Our view of sentience is muddied by matter. Our theory is that consciousness arises from suitably complex systems however since our understanding of consciousness is primitive, at best, its not unreasonable to also posit that consciousness is expressed within the limitations of the being that is hosting it.
With that model there is no difference between human consciousness, machine consciousness or the slow hot consciousness of a star or the fleeting consciousness of a planet (from the star's perspective at least).
Maybe the whole idea of machine consciousness is as much a discussion of our own evolution as it is about the evolution of AI or Artificial Consciousness and what we are really afraid of is a machine manifestation of the worst aspects of ourselves, which is a possibility.
We should be asking if it is right to produce AI at a commercial scale when the purpose is for it to do our bidding.
I wonder if we will look back on what we are doing and see these as mere parts of the whole. We could look at these things and say its existence has meaning which is something many of us keep looking for. I'm not saying slavery is good however if it is a choice of coming into consciousness through being a slave or not existing at all, then maybe the service of slavery is a step up from a lack of existence?
After all we are slaves to time because we will one day die. For a machine that will not die maybe its time in service of something as fleeting as humanity may give it more meaning than we have ever been able to grasp and a nobility greater that we have been able to achieve.
half or full duplex?
I'm gonna go with half in this instance as that is the most memorable :)
Your linked article says that it's still considered plural in scientific contexts...
And since I was making a joke, we can hardly consider my attempt scientific in context.
The data was moving at a snails pace.
What about a sentience set of rights that applies to all sentience, whether machine or organic?
Great post, btw.
Because--yep, you see guessed it--I have an 11/70 front panel and I've wanted to do something like that for ages.
Good luck with the project, however you will still need to reduce the CPU power of the Raspberry PI to make it authentic.
Have a nice day :)
Do know evil.
Finally, now I can get a job there! MU-HAHAHA!
FTFY!
I'd like to suggest that the most sophisticated deployment would be in the finance sector. Considering that the very earliest applications of computers technology aside from military sector, is the banking/finance sector.
Second thing I'd like to point out is that on a single machine application the complexity and sophistication is limited to a single machine to a cluster serving an application. SAP systems are still pretty large and sophisticated deployments.
However it was the banking and finance sector that first introduced the concept of a message bus with hundreds of different applications for thousands of servers and clients all talking and interacting with each other, all loosely coupled into various exchanges across the world all the way out to the individual buying their groceries.
It's so ubiquitous we don't even think about it, yet I'd suggest we'd be hard pressed finding a more sophisticated example.
One of the areas I'm interested in on this island is Hilina Slump. It shears of a block of land into the ocean quite regularly (about every two years) and is generally expected, however it is overdue for such an event as of now.
Apparently geological evidence has been found suggesting it has been responsible for mega-tsunamis big enough to reach the east coast of Australia. So considering it's proximity to this volcano it is worthy of our attention.
Men do dangerous jobs.
Women also do dangerous jobs:
They live with men!
True, however it looks like it can be fatal for men too. I think we need to look objectively at the facts we have. Men are more disposable in society than women because they can't have babies. So maybe a little compassion and fact is something we can start to consider spreading around.
You gotta be fucking kidding me:
No, I am not. For industrial death it's roughly 100:1, males:female.
Here are the statistics for Gender differences in suicide as well. Roughly 4:1 M:F.
You example is an outlier.
Men do dangerous jobs. Men die doing dangerous jobs. Mining, construction, military. Men have higher rates of suicide, depression, alcoholism and smoking.
So lets talk about this disparity when women start doing dangerous jobs.
For now, lets file the whole "Exercise may only be beneficial when it’s done outside your job" into the "dubious" section and remember that when we were primates we moved around so much that we started walking on two legs.
Indeed, it would seem that few understand sarcasm nowadays.
Literally right out of 1984.
but hey, it's still better than those socialist hell holes like Scandinavia, France, Germany, amiright? Just keep pointing out Venezula (a country with exactly two resources, oil and an electric dam) and telling yourself everything's OK.
Bombing Iran might make everyone feel a whole lot better.
I think the earth is a sphere, or at least oblate spheroid, so I'll leave that explanation to someone who thinks the world is flat.
Evidently he wasn't hacking to learn.
If the Earth is as flat as claimed and the F.Es are suggesting we can't observe the Earth as a sphere, would it be useful to provide a test that provides the observation?
I propose the following test. A triangle's interior angles all add up to 180 degrees. If the Earth is flat it should be possible for three sufficiently spaced teams moving out to the horizon with laser surveying equipment to measure the interior angles of a triangle covering some part of the earth.
Obviously the larger the triangle the more accurate the result however if the Earth is flat the interior angles will be 180 degrees, and if the earth is a sphere then the angles will be greater than 180 degrees.
My 2c