Who says that robots will be only killing each other? -Point is to kill humans when and as needed without exposing your population. Of course things go wrong and if their robots win this will e your population that gets killed . So dont worry -there was never been a problem with human killing.
hard sci-fi, with bigass guns and technology and, you know, Outer Space Uhmm hard sci-fi is mostly philosophical and scientific aspects (e.g. Space Odyssey), not "bigass" guns. What you want is "fantasy-fi" aka humans in pretty suits (e.g. Star Wars)
I think you also have to take into account that google needs to expand in different market.Being number#1 online search engine and advertiser is great,but as soon as better search engine comes out thye might lose all this pretty fast. Unlike m$,for example , whose revenue stream is guranteed and even if they start lose some market share (highly unlikely) it will be happening a lot slower than it takes to change your default search engine.
Well you said it yourself - instead of bit diff on a a file level - do it on a frame level . (first pass -remove all duplicates,2nd pass do diff between both copies) .
besides watermarking consumer copies? How the heck you supposed track every copy sold? Even if they do you can always just "borrow" copies from your buddies working at bestbuy/blockbuster/whatever. I totally miss the point could understand in the case of sending preview DVDs to critics (so there is no embarrassment of pirated copy appearing earlier than official release),but after official release all bets are off.
-.50 cal rifle in addition to sensors so it can shoot back. Callin' in for air strike is a bit of delay dont ya think? Skynet is closer than many people think;)
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Well encryption technically should take care of filtering at protocol level. Now in theory they may allow ONLY trusted connection -e.g. your ISP will not let you connect to anything outside of "trusted" ip addresses , -for that a lot of legislation has to happen but lobbyists have an excellent track record for that. Heck check out "perform" act -just a beginning of that approach.
Abolishment of net neutrality is important part of this process as well. And,sadly, it is bound to happen -for technical reasons -QoS is an excellent and necessary idea in , - just lobbyists will give it necessary twist to server their masters interests.
No that you who didn't quite understand - microprocessors are already flexible enough by their nature (hence my reference to turing machine emulation on another turing machine). The need to actually have flexibility in hardware is narrow and specific (specialized) - as in majority doing "flexible" part in software makes a lot more sense .
I am not sure what you mean by "generic " processing -as a standard CPU is pretty generic , now if you talk about microcontrollers , DSPs,ASICs etc -FPGA make sense in those.But those are specialized uses.
Exactly.Also FPGA have a rather specialized use, as for majority of applications such flexibility is not really needed. As in the end they do essentially same thing (turing machines can emulate another turing machine remember) - and the tradeoffs needed to make hardware flexible imho are just not worth it for general computing. - Better to make faster,more densely packed chip than reconfigurable one.
Steam actually allows you to play offline.Forced updates -yeah that's suck ( well would never think updates are bad , but last 2 pretty much destroyed CS:S).
I do not buy movies,music or games at all . The only exception I make is for games which are distributed online - that would be stardock's galciv and games on steam. As I see the only way to break the back of MAFIAA is to push them out of the market and the only way to do that is to have competitive market,and online distribution is exactly such market - so I promote it and support it in any way I can.
If all people followed my practice riaa/mpaa cartels would be dead and we would have a market where creators would be the one getting majority of payment, which would drive prices down,and more importantly,more innovation and more space for creativity.
Hear, hear . Former exchange admin here . GP is BS all over - Exchange (current version -2003) is quite capable to be a full blown SMTP server. Is just some admins do not quite read documentation and if they cant find the setting in GUI they assume it does not exist.
There is esmtpverbs control parameter in AD which by default does not play very nice with some other smtp servers(its arguable whose fault is that - every party claims its other party to blame) . -Anyways with a few things adjusted Exchange is excellent smtp server.
"No Virtual machine"... -that is a HUUGE downside not upside.Net is fairly well performing for example,and is language independent (for language freaks there is boo# which is basically dynamically typed.net language ).I fail to see how this one is better. Virtual machine gives so many advantages , the only disadvantage is theortiecla performance issues,but.net in this aspect is top notch and often performs better than its pure c++ counterparts.
I walk around in snowstorms in a t-shirt, and I have less colds than the ones who dress extra-warm but fail to take hygienic countermeasures. It has nothing to do with the temperature to which you are exposed, and everything to do with hygiene.
Oh yes it has. temperature has a lot to do with many viral/bacterial infection. For one exposure to low temperature alters many functions of organism -like more resources to just support temperature are spent,and as a results other systems weaken (such as immune one),some mechanisms plainly do not work well in low temperature either ("runny nose" - cilia stops moving in the cold). Infections are more like to occur to an organism weakened by cold .
expense of its subjects (viz. by preferential treatment of aliens);
What the fuck have you been smoking.... I swear to god fucking rednecks whining about "aliens" have never ever tried to read their own immigration laws, let alone understand through how much deep shit and "preferential treatment" immigrant has to go trough in US.
Because it will be constrained by constant page file swap due to minuscule amount of memory!
Seriously I can't get why "latest generation' consoles have so little memory -512 Mb shared between system and video is nothing. Typical gaming rig PC had 1 gb onboard and 256 video 5 years ago, and 2 GB/512 Mb today. I mean wouldn't mind , but most of the games ported from consoles look and play like shit , not in the last because of console memory limitation (crappy textures,small environment, loading cells) . Couple of glaring examples of games ruined by memory constraints : thief 3 , Morrowind and Oblivion. Thief1-2 had huge seamless areas, thief 3 had loading screen after every tiny cell and maps were scaled down in order to fit it on xbox. Oblivion has lots of loading screens and textures absolutely blow - there are user made textures for Oblivion which put Bethesda to shame.
There is no way around it; you make money, save it up, maybe grow a nice business, leave a ton of money to your kids, and they pay tax on it. How is that fair?
It is fair in the way that kids did not really earn it . You do have rights to enjoy it(assume you built a successful business) , but what your kids did?
By the way both Gates and Buffet (self-made men) support it . -In fact many people are for close to 100% death tax,to promote redistribution of wealth and entrepreneurship (I know it is highly improbable to happen due to easy move of capital across boundaries).
Many examples such as Paris Hilton shows that it serves no good to proliferate modern day hereditary rule and and aristocratic class which blesses many on the sole merit of their birth to right parents and not on their personal qualities and achievements.
Yeah, and as soon as it is converted into currency, it becomes income. Then it's taxed as income. The capital gains tax is a tax above the income tax.
Problem is they don't have to do it,they trade it for another security/property, invest in businesses with profit and do not pay squat of that (say you invest 10 mill into next Google , when it goes public your share is now worth 10 bill , how much tax did you pay on that??? ).And there I didn't even touch the tax breaks for the rich - multitude of tax evasion schemes with moving capital across borders for tax shelters
That's a goal of every single person I know. Who wants to pay more than they have to? Why should the rich (who already pay the lion's share of the tax) be forced to pay even more?
Not more -same . Rich people do not pay taxes on majority of their worth,while average person pays around 1/3 of what they are worth.And this is due to fact that salary is taxable fair and square but securities and property not nearly in the same way so. And I am not for 1/3d either -if rich paid their share as well everyone would have to pay a lot less (5-10% wild ass guess) ) .
Any tax cut will affect the rich more than the poor. Look at the rates here, though. The richest pay 35% of their income in taxes, and the poorest pay 10%. The progressive tax is still there, but the rich got a 4.6 percent cut in overall rates rather than the 3% everyone else got. Big whoop.
Oh please do not confuse "richest" with hardworking upper middle class making six figures . "Rich" are not those who do not make majority of their income from salaries (and this is 35% you stated comes from).Rich income consists of dividends on various assets and from returns on investment.This is totally different game and for tax evasion Bush "tax cuts " made a lot easier for those people to pay as little as possible (such as reduced tax on capital gains,increased expenditure brackets for corporations, death tax elimination )
Still... CP is a horribly thing, but I'd prefer if our law have better priorities such as dealing with the gun and drug violence in our cities. I still can't believe their our crack drug dealers on our streets who are out in force with impunity without the police doing anything
Wow and thats straight after reference to children in Africa negatively affected by diamond trade. Can you for start at least set your priorites right? Like look at the leading death causes index.And by the way cancer there is in many ways caused by air pollution so making people convert to clean energy would save many more millions of lives than anything you would ever do fighting "war on drugs" , "war on guns" or any other hypocritical bullshit. Afert curing cancer,you know go down by stat sheet table and cure heart disease etc .
Oh those are "natural causes"? -Well you can still start with such things as world hunger for example,which kills many more children than cp/drug dealing and gun trade activity. etc etc...
They are enough of a threat to wipe out between 50 and 100 million people, 2.5 - 5% of the human population, in one year. That is quite a sufficient danger that we ought to have some concern about "primitive" organisms.
And that is precisely absolutely NOTHING. Complex organisms were living with such "threat" for hundreds of millions of years and were not dented in any significant way. -Au contraire were striving and expanding their sphere of domination and influence at each turn of evolutionary spiral.
What are you talking about? Bacteria are found in more varied environment and conditions than any other form of life. They've been here for three and a half billion years. About 10% of your own body weight is bacteria. One good-sized rock hitting the Earth could wipe out Homo sapiens and most other "higher" animals, but anything short of the death of the Sun is not going to eliminate bacteria (and maybe not even that, since some live thousands of feet deep in the rock, living off geothermal heat).
And so what? Primitive chemical reactions been around since universe born. Bacteria are very little above what you may call "dumb matter". -It is practically incapable to transform environment to its own willing (both because it has no "will" and no instruments to do that).Its "resiliency" is just another side of the coin that it just a byproduct of elementary natural laws
And also capable of far more advanced and dangerous fuck-ups.
No pain - no gain.I prefer a bright flash with potential of supernovae, than slow meaningless fade away. Potential of making meaningful change is with complex lifeforms,not with primitive automata. We already can do a lot (for start we can wipe life on such a large scale,which no bacteria/virus can dream about (say with heavy cobalt pollution ),we can also extract energy from sources unavailable to other lifeforms ( nuclear fission) -and no photosynthesis is not it (we can do it too BTW) .
They're going to be vastly different, and you can count on that, I think. Speed does not matter to prove the point. Results matter, and not all situations remain unsolved if the results are slow in coming. That's just not how the world works
It does lol,and that's precisely how the world works. If you get "results" beyond acceptable time frame -they are not results,they are what is called "failure" . If you don't arrive to benchmark result in finite time - its not AI, its a halting function.
Speed is intrinsic characteristic of what intelligence is. Intelligence is ultimately control function,and control functions are all time bound .
Precisely because of how real world works you HAVE to take time constraint into account, else its just abstract math or, worse, philosophy.
The day that someone comes up with an algorithm that produces answers of a nature that we can begin to argue about how well they compare - or exceed - the human capacity, will be the same day that the hardware companies begin to examine the software and build hardware optimized to make those algorithms faster, compile better, etc. Though this will in no way make anything more intelligent, it will make the intelligence easier to converse with for us, right up until the point when the computer is faster than we are. At that point, again, it will be important for us to remember that speed isn't the issue, and never was. Otherwise, there are going to be some very depressed humans running around, I think.
Let me disagree with that statement. Speed is an issue and always was. If you think about what the function of intelligence is in the broadest level? - it is the ability to produce control signals in response to sensor information .
In the very primitive form you have a single cell responding to favor ability of environmental conditions (light/food/chemicals etc) . In more complex situation this is not signals per see,but control schemas , decision and classifications patterns , governing a lot more complex behaviour. Such for example is hunter/prey behaviour. On higher levels you see it controlling social behaviour.
Thing is for those control mechanisms to work they have to come at adequate speed, its no use if by the time you make a decisions it becomes obsolete. And such one of the most important mechanisms are reflexes, - primitive response mechanism,aimed at highest speed of execution. Naturally though fast decision are not always the better ones -they are taken in time constrained situation and fail to take into account most of the factors and properly analyze them. But in many situation ability to do some pre-programmed action fast is more important than making calculated decision a few seconds later . When you reflexively dodge strike of a snake , pounce of an animal, close eyes when something flies into it etc.
But for more complex task those simple mechanisms do not fly. When you need to plan ahead,solve complex problems,ability to understand and take into account more factors is advantageous.It might be not apparent that saving seeds from harvest is beneficial, since you loose immediate nutritional values , but humans were able to understand that. Or take military tactics - ability to analyze situation and plan sufficiently fast to take advantage of a situation is what separate good commander from bad (that is simplified, I know ).
Ever wondered why IQ test is time based? -there is a good correlations between ability to think fast and ability to solve complex problems. For one human brain tend to loose concentration,and if we do not arrive to some conclusion in some time , we gradually lose focus. If you are able to make more informed conclusions , you are able to advance your thoughts farther.
So speed matters.And always will. Inherent advantage of AI is that because we can engineer it, and not randomly evolve from available scraps, we can overcome many shortcomings of biological intelligence such as lack of willpower to continue, lack of focus,boredom,other distractions (food/sleep/ , or even other pointless endorphin inducing activities such as casual sex/entertainment/drugs), poor cooperation between themselves. -In this case it might look like speed does not matter that much in some scenarios, because we can just let it run 24/7 and/or make AI into a grid, combining resources.
They don't realize what evolution is. They have come to the problem from artificial intelligence, or systems analysis, or mathematics, or astronomy, or aerospace engineering. Folks like Ray Kurzweil, Bill Joy and Eric Drexler have raised some alarms, but they are too dazzled by the complexity and power of human cybersystems, devices and networks to see it coming. They think the power of our tools lies in their ever-increasing complexity -- but they are wrong.
The biotech folks just don't get it either. People like Craig Venter and Leroy Hood are too enthralled with the possibilities inherent in engineering biology to get it
Failing to understand himself the very basics of evolutionary biology - little primitive nano -organisms (viruses, bacteria, single cell organisms) (even artificially created ones) are not as grave dangers as he paints precisely because they are primitive. Those primitive forms of life dominated earth and more complex organisms took over because there are inherent evolutionary benefits of being complex -if it wasn't so more complex forms of life would never evolve.
Complex lifeforms such dominated all primitive lifeforms over the course of millions years, due to their inherent capability to adapt better to more varied environment and conditions,due to multitude of specialized mechanisms and systems which allow them to get better access to resources,better combat external treats , etc.And now this guy says just because we make one artificial new life form it will dominate instantly? -having to fight with all the existing lifeforms,which became better adapted to current environment over the course of hundreds of millions of years?
That the simple cellular automata (forgive me the pun;) ) driven by chemistry can overcome combined intelligence of super beings/creators (from this lifeform' point of view) such as the scientists which created it? Everybody remembers from school that bacteria/virus/whatever primitive organisms can potentially cover whole earth in thick layers in record time, this guys seems missed the part why it never happens - conditions around it are never favorable for that to happen , and more primitive organism is - less tools it has to change its conditions to its own liking
This was true for "blind "evolution and will be even more true for human governed one -as we have and advantage over all other lifeforms - we can change its course the way we want with our tools and technologies,and we become even more proficient at this,not less so.
He dismisses ave of prominent futurologists for complex human created systems,failing to understand that this is the most powerful engine on earth. Not the microorganism , note the insects, nor reptiles, nor mammals, nor anything else out of living realms has comparable power on earth to what our civilization has. Human civilization in the sheer ability to manipulate environment far exceeds anything " natural evolution" created so far.The ultimate power of life is the power to change environment around itself,power to manipulate matter and energy to its own liking.
Primitive life forms can only manipulate what exist around them: at the level of molecular biology everything is simple chemistry -dependent on presence of particular elements:,higher level you go you see organisms being able to create those necessary elements out of other elements,and when you go even higher you start seeing more advance of its kind.Till you come to this bright flash of light ( from evolutionary scale of time point of view ) marking the time when evolution of technology started,driven by first intelligence capable of doing so (hum
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Who says that robots will be only killing each other? -Point is to kill humans when and as needed without exposing your population. Of course things go wrong and if their robots win this will e your population that gets killed . So dont worry -there was never been a problem with human killing.
Wow. Would be the only day I get laid !
I think you also have to take into account that google needs to expand in different market.Being number#1 online search engine and advertiser is great ,but as soon as better search engine comes out thye might lose all this pretty fast. Unlike m$ ,for example , whose revenue stream is guranteed and even if they start lose some market share (highly unlikely) it will be happening a lot slower than it takes to change your default search engine.
Well you said it yourself - instead of bit diff on a a file level - do it on a frame level . (first pass -remove all duplicates ,2nd pass do diff between both copies) .
besides watermarking consumer copies? How the heck you supposed track every copy sold? Even if they do you can always just "borrow" copies from your buddies working at bestbuy/blockbuster/whatever. I totally miss the point could understand in the case of sending preview DVDs to critics (so there is no embarrassment of pirated copy appearing earlier than official release),but after official release all bets are off.
- .50 cal rifle in addition to sensors so it can shoot back. Callin' in for air strike is a bit of delay dont ya think? ;)
Skynet is closer than many people think
Well encryption technically should take care of filtering at protocol level. Now in theory they may allow ONLY trusted connection -e.g. your ISP will not let you connect to anything outside of "trusted" ip addresses , -for that a lot of legislation has to happen but lobbyists have an excellent track record for that. Heck check out "perform" act -just a beginning of that approach.
,sadly, it is bound to happen -for technical reasons -QoS is an excellent and necessary idea in , - just lobbyists will give it necessary twist to server their masters interests.
Abolishment of net neutrality is important part of this process as well. And
No that you who didn't quite understand - microprocessors are already flexible enough by their nature (hence my reference to turing machine emulation on another turing machine). The need to actually have flexibility in hardware is narrow and specific (specialized) - as in majority doing "flexible" part in software makes a lot more sense .
,ASICs etc -FPGA make sense in those .But those are specialized uses.
I am not sure what you mean by "generic " processing -as a standard CPU is pretty generic , now if you talk about microcontrollers , DSPs
Exactly .Also FPGA have a rather specialized use, as for majority of applications such flexibility is not really needed. As in the end they do essentially same thing (turing machines can emulate another turing machine remember) - and the tradeoffs needed to make hardware flexible imho are just not worth it for general computing. - Better to make faster ,more densely packed chip than reconfigurable one.
Typical non-widescreen 19" LCD is 5:4 - "ze only one" with such "unique" aspect ratio.
Steam actually allows you to play offline .Forced updates -yeah that's suck ( well would never think updates are bad , but last 2 pretty much destroyed CS:S).
,music or games at all . The only exception I make is for games which are distributed online - that would be stardock's galciv and games on steam. As I see the only way to break the back of MAFIAA is to push them out of the market and the only way to do that is to have competitive market ,and online distribution is exactly such market - so I promote it and support it in any way I can.
,and more importantly ,more innovation and more space for creativity.
I do not buy movies
If all people followed my practice riaa/mpaa cartels would be dead and we would have a market where creators would be the one getting majority of payment, which would drive prices down
He claims that " select * from users where clue > 0 " is not funny!
Well it has helluva lot of math :) I know its not a scientific criteria , but for a commoner it is all the same
Hear, hear . Former exchange admin here . GP is BS all over - Exchange (current version -2003) is quite capable to be a full blown SMTP server. Is just some admins do not quite read documentation and if they cant find the setting in GUI they assume it does not exist.
There is esmtpverbs control parameter in AD which by default does not play very nice with some other smtp servers(its arguable whose fault is that - every party claims its other party to blame) . -Anyways with a few things adjusted Exchange is excellent smtp server.
"No Virtual machine"... -that is a HUUGE downside not upside .Net is fairly well performing for example ,and is language independent (for language freaks there is boo# which is basically dynamically typed .net language ) .I fail to see how this one is better. Virtual machine gives so many advantages , the only disadvantage is theortiecla performance issues ,but .net in this aspect is top notch and often performs better than its pure c++ counterparts.
I walk around in snowstorms in a t-shirt, and I have less colds than the ones who dress extra-warm but fail to take hygienic countermeasures. It has nothing to do with the temperature to which you are exposed, and everything to do with hygiene.
Oh yes it has. temperature has a lot to do with many viral/bacterial infection. For one exposure to low temperature alters many functions of organism -like more resources to just support temperature are spent
expense of its subjects (viz. by preferential treatment of aliens);
What the fuck have you been smoking.... I swear to god fucking rednecks whining about "aliens" have never ever tried to read their own immigration laws, let alone understand through how much deep shit and "preferential treatment" immigrant has to go trough in US.
Because it will be constrained by constant page file swap due to minuscule amount of memory!
/512 Mb today. I mean wouldn't mind , but most of the games ported from consoles look and play like shit , not in the last because of console memory limitation (crappy textures ,small environment, loading cells) . Couple of glaring examples of games ruined by memory constraints : thief 3 , Morrowind and Oblivion. Thief1-2 had huge seamless areas, thief 3 had loading screen after every tiny cell and maps were scaled down in order to fit it on xbox. Oblivion has lots of loading screens and textures absolutely blow - there are user made textures for Oblivion which put Bethesda to shame.
Seriously I can't get why "latest generation' consoles have so little memory -512 Mb shared between system and video is nothing. Typical gaming rig PC had 1 gb onboard and 256 video 5 years ago, and 2 GB
There is no way around it; you make money, save it up, maybe grow a nice business, leave a ton of money to your kids, and they pay tax on it. How is that fair?
It is fair in the way that kids did not really earn it . You do have rights to enjoy it(assume you built a successful business) , but what your kids did?
By the way both Gates and Buffet (self-made men) support it . -In fact many people are for close to 100% death tax
Many examples such as Paris Hilton shows that it serves no good to proliferate modern day hereditary rule and and aristocratic class which blesses many on the sole merit of their birth to right parents and not on their personal qualities and achievements.
Yeah, and as soon as it is converted into currency, it becomes income. Then it's taxed as income. The capital gains tax is a tax above the income tax.
Problem is they don't have to do it
That's a goal of every single person I know. Who wants to pay more than they have to? Why should the rich (who already pay the lion's share of the tax) be forced to pay even more?
Not more -same . Rich people do not pay taxes on majority of their worth
Any tax cut will affect the rich more than the poor. Look at the rates here, though. The richest pay 35% of their income in taxes, and the poorest pay 10%. The progressive tax is still there, but the rich got a 4.6 percent cut in overall rates rather than the 3% everyone else got. Big whoop.
Oh please do not confuse "richest" with hardworking upper middle class making six figures . "Rich" are not those who do not make majority of their income from salaries (and this is 35% you stated comes from)
Still... CP is a horribly thing, but I'd prefer if our law have better priorities such as dealing with the gun and drug violence in our cities. I still can't believe their our crack drug dealers on our streets who are out in force with impunity without the police doing anything
.And by the way cancer there is in many ways caused by air pollution so making people convert to clean energy would save many more millions of lives than anything you would ever do fighting "war on drugs" , "war on guns" or any other hypocritical bullshit. ,you know go down by stat sheet table and cure heart disease etc .
,which kills many more children than cp/drug dealing and gun trade activity. etc etc...
Wow and thats straight after reference to children in Africa negatively affected by diamond trade. Can you for start at least set your priorites right? Like look at the leading death causes index
Afert curing cancer
Oh those are "natural causes"? -Well you can still start with such things as world hunger for example
And that is precisely absolutely NOTHING. Complex organisms were living with such "threat" for hundreds of millions of years and were not dented in any significant way. -Au contraire were striving and expanding their sphere of domination and influence at each turn of evolutionary spiral.
And so what? Primitive chemical reactions been around since universe born. Bacteria are very little above what you may call "dumb matter". -It is practically incapable to transform environment to its own willing (both because it has no "will" and no instruments to do that).Its "resiliency" is just another side of the coin that it just a byproduct of elementary natural laws
No pain - no gain.I prefer a bright flash with potential of supernovae, than slow meaningless fade away. Potential of making meaningful change is with complex lifeforms
They're going to be vastly different, and you can count on that, I think. Speed does not matter to prove the point. Results matter, and not all situations remain unsolved if the results are slow in coming. That's just not how the world works
It does lol
Speed is intrinsic characteristic of what intelligence is. Intelligence is ultimately control function
Precisely because of how real world works you HAVE to take time constraint into account, else its just abstract math or, worse, philosophy.
The day that someone comes up with an algorithm that produces answers of a nature that we can begin to argue about how well they compare - or exceed - the human capacity, will be the same day that the hardware companies begin to examine the software and build hardware optimized to make those algorithms faster, compile better, etc. Though this will in no way make anything more intelligent, it will make the intelligence easier to converse with for us, right up until the point when the computer is faster than we are. At that point, again, it will be important for us to remember that speed isn't the issue, and never was. Otherwise, there are going to be some very depressed humans running around, I think.
Let me disagree with that statement. Speed is an issue and always was. If you think about what the function of intelligence is in the broadest level? - it is the ability to produce control signals in response to sensor information .
In the very primitive form you have a single cell responding to favor ability of environmental conditions (light/food/chemicals etc) . In more complex situation this is not signals per see
Thing is for those control mechanisms to work they have to come at adequate speed, its no use if by the time you make a decisions it becomes obsolete. And such one of the most important mechanisms are reflexes, - primitive response mechanism
But for more complex task those simple mechanisms do not fly. When you need to plan ahead
Ever wondered why IQ test is time based? -there is a good correlations between ability to think fast and ability to solve complex problems. For one human brain tend to loose concentration
So speed matters
He dismisses rather pompously very smart people :
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,due to multitude of specialized mechanisms and systems which allow them to get better access to resources ,better combat external treats , etc .And now this guy says just because we make one artificial new life form it will dominate instantly? -having to fight with all the existing lifeforms ,which became better adapted to current environment over the course of hundreds of millions of years?
;) ) driven by chemistry can overcome combined intelligence of super beings/creators (from this lifeform' point of view) such as the scientists which created it? Everybody remembers from school that bacteria/virus/whatever primitive organisms can potentially cover whole earth in thick layers in record time, this guys seems missed the part why it never happens - conditions around it are never favorable for that to happen , and more primitive organism is - less tools it has to change its conditions to its own liking
,and we become even more proficient at this ,not less so.
,failing to understand that this is the most powerful engine on earth. Not the microorganism , note the insects, nor reptiles, nor mammals, nor anything else out of living realms has comparable power on earth to what our civilization has. Human civilization in the sheer ability to manipulate environment far exceeds anything " natural evolution" created so far .The ultimate power of life is the power to change environment around itself ,power to manipulate matter and energy to its own liking.
,higher level you go you see organisms being able to create those necessary elements out of other elements ,and when you go even higher you start seeing more advance of its kind .Till you come to this bright flash of light ( from evolutionary scale of time point of view ) marking the time when evolution of technology started ,driven by first intelligence capable of doing so (hum
They don't realize what evolution is. They have come to the problem from artificial intelligence, or systems analysis, or mathematics, or astronomy, or aerospace engineering. Folks like Ray Kurzweil, Bill Joy and Eric Drexler have raised some alarms, but they are too dazzled by the complexity and power of human cybersystems, devices and networks to see it coming. They think the power of our tools lies in their ever-increasing complexity -- but they are wrong.
The biotech folks just don't get it either. People like Craig Venter and Leroy Hood are too enthralled with the possibilities inherent in engineering biology to get it
Failing to understand himself the very basics of evolutionary biology - little primitive nano -organisms (viruses, bacteria, single cell organisms) (even artificially created ones) are not as grave dangers as he paints precisely because they are primitive. Those primitive forms of life dominated earth and more complex organisms took over because there are inherent evolutionary benefits of being complex -if it wasn't so more complex forms of life would never evolve
Complex lifeforms such dominated all primitive lifeforms over the course of millions years, due to their inherent capability to adapt better to more varied environment and conditions
That the simple cellular automata (forgive me the pun
This was true for "blind "evolution and will be even more true for human governed one -as we have and advantage over all other lifeforms - we can change its course the way we want with our tools and technologies
He dismisses ave of prominent futurologists for complex human created systems
Primitive life forms can only manipulate what exist around them: at the level of molecular biology everything is simple chemistry -dependent on presence of particular elements: