Besides, it seems to me if you build an electronic brain that works like a human brain, it is going to have all the problems a human brain has (years of teaching, distraction, mental illness, and a propensity for error).
I wholeheartedly agree. I even wrote a blog post on this a couple of years ago, that true AgIs will be forgetful, flawed machines. Might eventually grow to be brilliant and superhuman, but certainly emotional and forgetful.
I disagree, the problem with 3D is that you are not allowed to focus your eyes anywhere you want in the 3D landscape presented to you. If the depth of field in a scene is substantial, the director will have decided for you what is in focus and what is out of focus. This is not how our eyes are used to work; they appreciate their autonomy in focusing.
But I assume that technology-wise, it would be much more difficult to implement such a thing. You would need Lytro-type cameras, sensors on screen to track your retina to understand where you are focusing your attention, and... good luck adjusting the focus individually for each viewer, on the same screen.
Thank God, we now have a new weapon to use against a zombie apocalypse!
I sure hope they can scale it up for mass production, so that we can keep up with the demand from the hordes:)
I would say it is even more similar to Adobe giving away PDF.
Sure, the standard is out there and not capitalizable per se... but what is the majority using to view PDFs?
And what is the platform of preference to author PDFs?
Very smart move instead.
If you control the information, you can exert significant influence in the decision-making process of the individuals that use your service. You should not need a big research to figure this out.
Actually that happens also to be the most major "design gap" in Democracy (and I say that, even though I'm Greek). The fact that you will increase the decision makers in a topic does not mean that you will get a better & more objective decision, simply because they might lack the proper, accurate information to make an informed judgment. In other words, by increasing N, you average out the localized/special interests, but you also reduce the average amount of information each "unit" has on the topic (because you sum and divide by N).
So, coming back to the topic, accurate information is a key contributing factor for good decision making, especially for important topics like who will be your head of state for the next ~4 years. That is why diversification is beneficial even in your personal "information channels".
In my opinion, the fact that our thoughts feed back into our incoming stimuli processing areas (so we can experience our thoughts, and thus remember them) along with the fact that as humans we sport a very advanced pattern matching capability on incoming stimuli compose the two critical factors needed for self-consciousness to arise.
It's just a matter of adding the dots; realizing that all the stimuli that you experience have a common denominator (a common pattern), you.
All the living beings with similar pattern matching capabilities in their brain should have developed a type of consciousness. You could say consciousness is like... critical mass. Above a certain point and the reaction is totally different. If you don't have enough mass, you might never experience the chain reaction. But that doesn't mean it's not there... Once you go above it, a new world of capabilities unfolds.
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V. Toulias
You can buy one or more Synology NAS and sync your files with all devices. Even access them on the go, from mobile/tablet.
http://www.synology.com/en-glo...
The cost is quite small, you reuse what HDDs you have sitting around, and you only need to do parameterization.
Am I the only one seeing a war on information soon descending upon us?
Governments, once they realize the full breadth & capability of the US surveillance, and the fact that they themselves are vulnerable, and not only their citizen... they will soon decide to take action! And of course the US, having the confrontation with China in mind (and that it cannot weaken its position in such a critical time), will not back down easily.
Net neutrality is the first that could go, but I'm not sure it will be the last.
Do you think that Snowden will prove to be the trigger to the 3rd WW? (but an information/electronic one this time)
My feeling is that this is a swipe at Siebel/Oracle/SAP/whoever so Microsoft can add a feather to their cap and say that they are relevant in the enterprise space because they have a one-size-fits-all BI solution.
Slashdot Mirror
Especially for fans of Lead Zeppelin.
Besides, it seems to me if you build an electronic brain that works like a human brain, it is going to have all the problems a human brain has (years of teaching, distraction, mental illness, and a propensity for error). I wholeheartedly agree. I even wrote a blog post on this a couple of years ago, that true AgIs will be forgetful, flawed machines. Might eventually grow to be brilliant and superhuman, but certainly emotional and forgetful.
I disagree, the problem with 3D is that you are not allowed to focus your eyes anywhere you want in the 3D landscape presented to you. If the depth of field in a scene is substantial, the director will have decided for you what is in focus and what is out of focus. This is not how our eyes are used to work; they appreciate their autonomy in focusing. But I assume that technology-wise, it would be much more difficult to implement such a thing. You would need Lytro-type cameras, sensors on screen to track your retina to understand where you are focusing your attention, and... good luck adjusting the focus individually for each viewer, on the same screen.
Thank God, we now have a new weapon to use against a zombie apocalypse! I sure hope they can scale it up for mass production, so that we can keep up with the demand from the hordes :)
She talks, I move.
I would say it is even more similar to Adobe giving away PDF. Sure, the standard is out there and not capitalizable per se... but what is the majority using to view PDFs? And what is the platform of preference to author PDFs? Very smart move instead.
If you control the information, you can exert significant influence in the decision-making process of the individuals that use your service. You should not need a big research to figure this out.
Actually that happens also to be the most major "design gap" in Democracy (and I say that, even though I'm Greek). The fact that you will increase the decision makers in a topic does not mean that you will get a better & more objective decision, simply because they might lack the proper, accurate information to make an informed judgment. In other words, by increasing N, you average out the localized/special interests, but you also reduce the average amount of information each "unit" has on the topic (because you sum and divide by N).
So, coming back to the topic, accurate information is a key contributing factor for good decision making, especially for important topics like who will be your head of state for the next ~4 years. That is why diversification is beneficial even in your personal "information channels".
In my opinion, the fact that our thoughts feed back into our incoming stimuli processing areas (so we can experience our thoughts, and thus remember them) along with the fact that as humans we sport a very advanced pattern matching capability on incoming stimuli compose the two critical factors needed for self-consciousness to arise. It's just a matter of adding the dots; realizing that all the stimuli that you experience have a common denominator (a common pattern), you. All the living beings with similar pattern matching capabilities in their brain should have developed a type of consciousness. You could say consciousness is like... critical mass. Above a certain point and the reaction is totally different. If you don't have enough mass, you might never experience the chain reaction. But that doesn't mean it's not there... Once you go above it, a new world of capabilities unfolds. -------- V. Toulias
For a moment there, I thought they discovered Unobtainium and thought... wtf, we'll be drilling for the core of the earth soon... :)
I bet it would smooth a lot the learning curve if we started them first coding in GoldMine.
You can buy one or more Synology NAS and sync your files with all devices. Even access them on the go, from mobile/tablet. http://www.synology.com/en-glo... The cost is quite small, you reuse what HDDs you have sitting around, and you only need to do parameterization.
Am I the only one seeing a war on information soon descending upon us?
Governments, once they realize the full breadth & capability of the US surveillance, and the fact that they themselves are vulnerable, and not only their citizen... they will soon decide to take action! And of course the US, having the confrontation with China in mind (and that it cannot weaken its position in such a critical time), will not back down easily.
Net neutrality is the first that could go, but I'm not sure it will be the last.
Do you think that Snowden will prove to be the trigger to the 3rd WW? (but an information/electronic one this time)