I think you're making a pretty bold statement saying that there is no possible way to create true human level AI. Who's to say that 25, 50, 100 years from today someone doesn't figure out a way of programing a computer/entity/whatever-sort-of-electronic-device -you-like with the ability to actually learn, process information, and even re-write its own programming in such a way that it achieves a level of I/O processes that perfectly emulate human intelligence and conciousness (which would be the definition of Artificial Intelligence)?
Frankly, making broad statements like that sound an awful lot like insisting 640kb of RAM ought to be enough for anyone, or that a computer will never be smaller than a gymnasium, or that man will never fly or travel to the moon.
Have you looked into pneumatics instead? It's the same concept as hydraulics really, but you can probably get the components cheaper and of course, if your system develops a leak, there's no mess to clean up. They also scale down quite small, with 1inch diameter cylinders quite common.
Many of the assumptions made in the article are not valid for many people. For example, I know that the gas station two blocks from my house, in the center of town, is at least 25 cents more expensive per gallon (and has been as high as 32!) than the one 2 miles outside of town. This is enough of a price disparity that I will always go to the cheaper station. Additionally, since I know that the other station is always going to be cheaper, I don't really spend any time searching for it; I know its there, and exactly how long and how much gas it will take to get there. Unless my car runs out of gas in my driveway, it's just not worth it for me to go to the closer station with its premium price (for convenience, I suppose).
pluto is thought to be a captured kuiper belt object,, meaning that some collision or gravitational interaction with a massive body brought it in towards the inner solar system, which explains its eccentric orbit which is also at a very high inclination to the plane of the ecliptic.
If this drug was in fact tested on mice at one point during its development, it is outrageously irresponsible that a few thousand dollars were not spent to procure knockout mice containing human immune systems, which have been around for two years now. Sure they're quite expensive, I believe around a grand or so a piece, but seeing as they contain entirely human immune systems (and thus T-cells) a trial with these mice might have saved quite a bit of human suffering.
actually, each desk space in the building has a 4 port rj-45 box underneath it, with 4 cables snugged together in heavy gauge wrap which run to one of the closets on each floor which contain the routers, which are connected to the fiber network for the building, and then the corporate fiber WAN. Trust me, I know what I'm fucking talking about, and exactly what I did.
As a super special thank you, the higher ups decided to tell us at 3 pm that we had about 35 installations that had to be completed by 4:30 pm, and we had a grand total of 4 people (including interns) to do this in. It was so much fun, I crushed a few network port boxes in my unbridled joy, and didn't even give two shits that every single desk was missing a vital piece of equipment needed for logins!/sacasm
Not really, but I have experienced even creepier things where I'm in a situation where I don't feel any deja vu, but I know that in a second I will, and then a few moments later I do get the deja vu feeling. What the hell is up with that?
Mod parent up. As odd as it sounds, the poster is pretty much correct. I've tried to do normal sonoluminescence in a lab, and mostly it just doesn't work. Everything needs to be precisely perfect to create the standing waves that cause the bubbles to "implode" and release light, so god only knows how much harder it is to actually cause fusion. Of course, when you do get it perfect and working, it's pretty damned cool. I wouldn't write this one off just yet.
Humanity has shown itself capable of adapting to an incredible variety of situations, conditions, and hardships. One way or another, I am quite confident that humanity will endure through the next one hundred years.
That being said, the circumstances of this continued survival may be quite different or unpleasant compared to what many people experience today. I believe that humanity needs to come together in a constructive manner and really address some of the many problems we as a species face, from global climate change to the vast poverty, hunger, and disease suffered by much of the world. Until a truly unified approach is taken by all the world's nations, any progress will be piecemeal and incremental.
Alternatively, as you yourself suggested, human colonization of extra-terrestrial worlds by a subset of humanity is an option, however under today's socio-political climate, such an endeavor would likely be limited to a few of the world's more wealthy nations.
One could also argue the case that the root is "cent" in both cases, and that you'd have to know idiomatically and contextually which is which.
Besides, the indo-european root is "kent," as per dictionary.com.
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Bungie.
I'm still pissed at microsoft for having the insight/monopolistic impulse to buy them. They put out some great titles, Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, and of course Halo, originally demoed in the late 90s on a powermac.
Yeah, my suitemate freshman year came back shitfaced, and proceeded to vomit into his laptop keyboard, then his box full of N64 carts, his desk drawer, and finally his bed. Funny at the time, not so much 3 days later when he still hadn't cleaned it up.
I hate to feed the troll, but Terri Schiavo's brain was destroyed. She was blind, brain dead, and for all intents and purposes, a shell. There's a huge difference between her case, and this one.
I'm sorry, but that one made me just laugh out loud. Oh, the terrible, hilariously inapropriate places one can go with that one. But even without any innuendo, it's still a ridiculous name. Say it with me: "Milk and Nuts" I mean whats it supposed to make you think?
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I think you're making a pretty bold statement saying that there is no possible way to create true human level AI. Who's to say that 25, 50, 100 years from today someone doesn't figure out a way of programing a computer/entity/whatever-sort-of-electronic-device -you-like with the ability to actually learn, process information, and even re-write its own programming in such a way that it achieves a level of I/O processes that perfectly emulate human intelligence and conciousness (which would be the definition of Artificial Intelligence)?
Frankly, making broad statements like that sound an awful lot like insisting 640kb of RAM ought to be enough for anyone, or that a computer will never be smaller than a gymnasium, or that man will never fly or travel to the moon.
Have you looked into pneumatics instead? It's the same concept as hydraulics really, but you can probably get the components cheaper and of course, if your system develops a leak, there's no mess to clean up. They also scale down quite small, with 1inch diameter cylinders quite common.
Many of the assumptions made in the article are not valid for many people. For example, I know that the gas station two blocks from my house, in the center of town, is at least 25 cents more expensive per gallon (and has been as high as 32!) than the one 2 miles outside of town. This is enough of a price disparity that I will always go to the cheaper station. Additionally, since I know that the other station is always going to be cheaper, I don't really spend any time searching for it; I know its there, and exactly how long and how much gas it will take to get there. Unless my car runs out of gas in my driveway, it's just not worth it for me to go to the closer station with its premium price (for convenience, I suppose).
Or at least '48, for the first H-bomb, because I can't think of anything of any particular import tested for the first time in '46.
Actually, it's back to the way it started. The first os 8 versions of itunes used blue notes.
Uh, yay?
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pluto is thought to be a captured kuiper belt object,, meaning that some collision or gravitational interaction with a massive body brought it in towards the inner solar system, which explains its eccentric orbit which is also at a very high inclination to the plane of the ecliptic.
Actually, I was talking about the Rag2-gamma(c) mice, which are actually very similar to the human immune system. http://www.annalsnyas.org/cgi/content/abstract/104 4/1/236
If this drug was in fact tested on mice at one point during its development, it is outrageously irresponsible that a few thousand dollars were not spent to procure knockout mice containing human immune systems, which have been around for two years now. Sure they're quite expensive, I believe around a grand or so a piece, but seeing as they contain entirely human immune systems (and thus T-cells) a trial with these mice might have saved quite a bit of human suffering.
actually, each desk space in the building has a 4 port rj-45 box underneath it, with 4 cables snugged together in heavy gauge wrap which run to one of the closets on each floor which contain the routers, which are connected to the fiber network for the building, and then the corporate fiber WAN. Trust me, I know what I'm fucking talking about, and exactly what I did.
Happy Systems Admin Day!
As a super special thank you, the higher ups decided to tell us at 3 pm that we had about 35 installations that had to be completed by 4:30 pm, and we had a grand total of 4 people (including interns) to do this in. It was so much fun, I crushed a few network port boxes in my unbridled joy, and didn't even give two shits that every single desk was missing a vital piece of equipment needed for logins! /sacasm
Wow, that might be the first actually funny article I've read on the onion in three years.
And I see someone has wasted no time in actually renaming the first section to "Some famous guys in wigs and three-cornered hats"
Not really, but I have experienced even creepier things where I'm in a situation where I don't feel any deja vu, but I know that in a second I will, and then a few moments later I do get the deja vu feeling. What the hell is up with that?
Mod parent up. As odd as it sounds, the poster is pretty much correct. I've tried to do normal sonoluminescence in a lab, and mostly it just doesn't work. Everything needs to be precisely perfect to create the standing waves that cause the bubbles to "implode" and release light, so god only knows how much harder it is to actually cause fusion. Of course, when you do get it perfect and working, it's pretty damned cool. I wouldn't write this one off just yet.
AMD: Down nearly 10% already today
ATI: Up over 20% already today
It'll always be cool to watch
From Yahoo answers, my personal answer:
Humanity has shown itself capable of adapting to an incredible variety of situations, conditions, and hardships. One way or another, I am quite confident that humanity will endure through the next one hundred years.
That being said, the circumstances of this continued survival may be quite different or unpleasant compared to what many people experience today. I believe that humanity needs to come together in a constructive manner and really address some of the many problems we as a species face, from global climate change to the vast poverty, hunger, and disease suffered by much of the world. Until a truly unified approach is taken by all the world's nations, any progress will be piecemeal and incremental.
Alternatively, as you yourself suggested, human colonization of extra-terrestrial worlds by a subset of humanity is an option, however under today's socio-political climate, such an endeavor would likely be limited to a few of the world's more wealthy nations.
An ugly little monkey-looking device that throws chairs (it's a feature!) and only plays songs involving the phrase "fucking kill the ipod"
One could also argue the case that the root is "cent" in both cases, and that you'd have to know idiomatically and contextually which is which. Besides, the indo-european root is "kent," as per dictionary.com.
Bungie.
I'm still pissed at microsoft for having the insight/monopolistic impulse to buy them. They put out some great titles, Pathways into Darkness, Marathon, and of course Halo, originally demoed in the late 90s on a powermac.
Yeah, my suitemate freshman year came back shitfaced, and proceeded to vomit into his laptop keyboard, then his box full of N64 carts, his desk drawer, and finally his bed. Funny at the time, not so much 3 days later when he still hadn't cleaned it up.
Among college aged kids, Facebook already is a lot more popular, at least from my experience, having just graduated from college.
I hate to feed the troll, but Terri Schiavo's brain was destroyed. She was blind, brain dead, and for all intents and purposes, a shell. There's a huge difference between her case, and this one.
I'm sorry, but that one made me just laugh out loud. Oh, the terrible, hilariously inapropriate places one can go with that one. But even without any innuendo, it's still a ridiculous name. Say it with me: "Milk and Nuts" I mean whats it supposed to make you think?