Gamers who would give it the time of day won't be relying on reviewers. They may see what other players are saying about it but not professional reviewers.
I don't know about your town but everyone here is jogging or walking around with headphones or earbuds bolted to their head. Unless the plan is to make these cars sound like some POS ricer or a Harley, it won't make a difference.
Drivers certainly don't help matters either. The morons here tend to read STOP as Hey, cruise through without turn signals at 10-15 MPH.
So, yeah, it would be good if people weren't idiots who only focused on themselves but you can legislate or require commonsense. It's the same crap as when iPods started having settings to limit the volume.
Maybe it's just me but I try to keep my eyes and ears open. If I'm walking along a road without sidewalks, I'm looking back every now and then. Not good visibility? I'm keeping a close eye at the corner obscured by parked van.
What's next? Warnings on bags to not put them over your head and on buckets about not putting small children upside-down in them with water?
Ah, well, I guess I was looking at it the wrong way. Not so much about teaching a machine to swim but making an approximation (assuming I'm reading your chatbot example correctly).
You jest but we have affected the Earth's rotation by damming so much water. The effect is small but akin to an iceskater pulling in her arms to spin faster.
Different neutrinos might cause different effects. Yes, the Earth's rotation means there would be another variation but that effect might not be as noticeable as a prolonged shift that the seasons show.
There are people starving around the world. Are you trying to save them? Would you donate that $0.50 a day or whatever it is they usually ask for on TV?
As for the embryos, what about them? They won't be growing up without a woman unless we can make an artificial uterus. Can you say, with a straight face, that you or your mother or wife or daughter would take these bits of cells and carry them to term?
What about children without parents? Children that need to be adopted or fostered? Have you taken them in?
Does this sanctity of life exist beyond the uterus? Do you vote to improve the quality of life of those born or is that up to the free market? Do you think a privately run, for profit penal system is just? That having the highest incarceration rate in the world isn't a sign of a very sick system? Are you for or against the death penalty?
I know, I know. I'm just being an ass now. Yes, killer bees are a problem and that outcome is a possibility with other organisms. On the other hand, it could be like my failed supervillain plans to introduce the top predators to new places: great white sharks in the Great Lakes, lions in the Sahara, polar bears in Japan, and humans on Mars....
Are you saying you're not assuming Martian bacteria would thrive and spread they way African Honey Bees did when introduced to South America as per your example?
Bigger schools means teachers and students are seen less as humans and just another tally mark to the administration. I could see the benefit if they have some good technical classes so they would have good and up to date tools to work with but other than that, it's just not good.
They might grow slowly and expend quite a bit more energy focusing on DNA repair than reproduction.
I'd liken the difference between potential Mars bacteria and Earth to the differences in creatures in deep ocean trenches and those at the surface. It's all water but the temps, pressure, and available energy varies widely not to mention differences of the type of available energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
Only according to other meat machines from similar origins. An organism with silicon in place of carbon or one that lives in an atmosphere of ammonia would surely be unpleasant if not downright toxic to eat.
That said, there is work on robots that "eat". I think that from the robot PoV, it's not a matter of eat and incorporating the substance into its body but merely deriving energy so I would call it inefficient.
Using my tiny human brain, I imagine a robot "civilization" to be an organism in whole. Our oil rigs would be their lips, teeth, mouths. Our oil tankers and pipelines would be their throat and esophagus. Our refineries would be their stomach.
Assuming energy is energy, plant-like behavior would be used, too. Geothermal, solar, wind, and tidal would attract more permanent facilities than oil rigs. It may view the sun as the utmost important source of power and strive to utilize it as much as possible. Would it view the sun as a lifesource or merely a source of power? Would it calculate the potential lifespan and plan to move to new stars? Would it realize that merely getting into space was just the start and that it would now have to efficiently find sources of materials now that it has unimpeded solar energy?
I know, it probably wasn't the word you were looking for but duplicating the mechanical movements of lifeforms isn't nearly as hard as duplicating the thought processes. We understand movement and can record it, play it back, and create objects with the same types of joints and bones. We're getting closer to duplicating their movements (the kick and the later ice slipping part amazes me and creeps me out from how natural it looks) but we're still far away from learning the world as other organisms view it.
Constant recording would be used against him too. Just set up a sufficiently high powered EM generator and way to direct it and suddenly, he has to explain missing minutes of video/audio.
Assuming super paranoid and he used film, a quick flash of cobalt 60 ought to blank any chemical film....
Well, I guess a radiation badge and a geiger counter would be useful as evidence of a grand conspiracy but then he'd just be labeled a kook.
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Gamers who would give it the time of day won't be relying on reviewers. They may see what other players are saying about it but not professional reviewers.
Assuming they can still speak, I'd bet the first words would be something to the effect of "The car came out of nowhere!"
Animal sounds? Cruise around at night bumping annoying jungle bird noise and chattering monkeys.
Oooh, ooh! Roars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwlDW8qFGFA
Maybe the predator clicking noise or the weird imp child aliens from Galaxy Quest.
Why don't we just have John McCrea record a few lines and put them on repeat?
Warning. I am a car. A car is approaching.
Once all the slow, stupid, sightless, and deaf are weaned, we would have neither problem.
Also, it would create temp jobs for the clean up AND lower unemployment.
Can we outlaw headphones and ear buds too? I see far too many people using them.
How about cellphones? If they're just staring down at the screen, they won't see the cars.
(Optionally, could we get flashing lights and flashbang grenade launchers?!)
But what if they were going down a hill? We should outlaw acceleration by gravity!
I don't know about your town but everyone here is jogging or walking around with headphones or earbuds bolted to their head. Unless the plan is to make these cars sound like some POS ricer or a Harley, it won't make a difference.
Drivers certainly don't help matters either. The morons here tend to read STOP as Hey, cruise through without turn signals at 10-15 MPH.
So, yeah, it would be good if people weren't idiots who only focused on themselves but you can legislate or require commonsense. It's the same crap as when iPods started having settings to limit the volume.
Maybe it's just me but I try to keep my eyes and ears open. If I'm walking along a road without sidewalks, I'm looking back every now and then. Not good visibility? I'm keeping a close eye at the corner obscured by parked van.
What's next? Warnings on bags to not put them over your head and on buckets about not putting small children upside-down in them with water?
Great. Cue the simple minded Congressman to hold up all sorts of legislation until Siemens is specifically legally shielded.
Ah, well, I guess I was looking at it the wrong way. Not so much about teaching a machine to swim but making an approximation (assuming I'm reading your chatbot example correctly).
Don't forget Poland!
You jest but we have affected the Earth's rotation by damming so much water. The effect is small but akin to an iceskater pulling in her arms to spin faster.
But there is a theory in which neutrinos change: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_oscillation
Different neutrinos might cause different effects. Yes, the Earth's rotation means there would be another variation but that effect might not be as noticeable as a prolonged shift that the seasons show.
There are people starving around the world. Are you trying to save them? Would you donate that $0.50 a day or whatever it is they usually ask for on TV?
As for the embryos, what about them? They won't be growing up without a woman unless we can make an artificial uterus. Can you say, with a straight face, that you or your mother or wife or daughter would take these bits of cells and carry them to term?
What about children without parents? Children that need to be adopted or fostered? Have you taken them in?
Does this sanctity of life exist beyond the uterus? Do you vote to improve the quality of life of those born or is that up to the free market? Do you think a privately run, for profit penal system is just? That having the highest incarceration rate in the world isn't a sign of a very sick system? Are you for or against the death penalty?
I know, I know. I'm just being an ass now. Yes, killer bees are a problem and that outcome is a possibility with other organisms. On the other hand, it could be like my failed supervillain plans to introduce the top predators to new places: great white sharks in the Great Lakes, lions in the Sahara, polar bears in Japan, and humans on Mars....
Are you saying you're not assuming Martian bacteria would thrive and spread they way African Honey Bees did when introduced to South America as per your example?
Hmm. You know, I've never thought about swimming in magnetic fluids until now. I wonder what it would feel like as you move through the field lines.
Bigger schools means teachers and students are seen less as humans and just another tally mark to the administration. I could see the benefit if they have some good technical classes so they would have good and up to date tools to work with but other than that, it's just not good.
They might grow slowly and expend quite a bit more energy focusing on DNA repair than reproduction.
I'd liken the difference between potential Mars bacteria and Earth to the differences in creatures in deep ocean trenches and those at the surface. It's all water but the temps, pressure, and available energy varies widely not to mention differences of the type of available energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemosynthesis
Only according to other meat machines from similar origins. An organism with silicon in place of carbon or one that lives in an atmosphere of ammonia would surely be unpleasant if not downright toxic to eat.
That said, there is work on robots that "eat". I think that from the robot PoV, it's not a matter of eat and incorporating the substance into its body but merely deriving energy so I would call it inefficient.
Using my tiny human brain, I imagine a robot "civilization" to be an organism in whole. Our oil rigs would be their lips, teeth, mouths. Our oil tankers and pipelines would be their throat and esophagus. Our refineries would be their stomach.
Assuming energy is energy, plant-like behavior would be used, too. Geothermal, solar, wind, and tidal would attract more permanent facilities than oil rigs. It may view the sun as the utmost important source of power and strive to utilize it as much as possible. Would it view the sun as a lifesource or merely a source of power? Would it calculate the potential lifespan and plan to move to new stars? Would it realize that merely getting into space was just the start and that it would now have to efficiently find sources of materials now that it has unimpeded solar energy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9oseiCTdk
Sorta looks like swimming, huh?
I know, it probably wasn't the word you were looking for but duplicating the mechanical movements of lifeforms isn't nearly as hard as duplicating the thought processes. We understand movement and can record it, play it back, and create objects with the same types of joints and bones. We're getting closer to duplicating their movements (the kick and the later ice slipping part amazes me and creeps me out from how natural it looks) but we're still far away from learning the world as other organisms view it.
Didn't that happen with the Olympics and the hi-tech swimsuits?
They should just allow spandex and duct tape, IMHO.
Constant recording would be used against him too. Just set up a sufficiently high powered EM generator and way to direct it and suddenly, he has to explain missing minutes of video/audio.
Assuming super paranoid and he used film, a quick flash of cobalt 60 ought to blank any chemical film....
Well, I guess a radiation badge and a geiger counter would be useful as evidence of a grand conspiracy but then he'd just be labeled a kook.
I'm paranoid but am I paranoid enough?
...in a galaxy far, far away in the retro future!
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