Is the natural intelligence of the human brain a simulation?
no.
If so, a simulation of what?
Of reality. What you see isn't a chair, it is the light bouncing off the chair.
Why would strong AI be any different?
Why would it be in any way the same? You can model a fusion bomb blast in a computer, but nothing blows up. You can fly your MS Flight Simulator all day and never move two inches.
Thanks, I didn't do research as to which movie. The point was, though, that instead of antique glasses, McCoy could have beamed an artificial lens in Kirk's eye (today they have to stick a needle in it to replace the lens).
You're right; my dad won't even cet cataract surgery. What I had done wasn't LASIC though, they stuck a needle in my eye, used ultrasound to turn the lens to mush, sucked it out, and inserted teh artificial lens.
It cured my very bad nearsightedness (20/>400), my farsightedness, and my cataract. I can't wait to get the other one fixed, but the cataract has to get worse before insurance will help pay for it and the operation is expensive as hell.
The abacus is base 10, the computer is base 2. That is the only difference between a computer and an abacus. How many more beads must I add to my abacus before it becomes self-aware?
Yes, but 2020 is only 14 years away. They've had the cruise control that lets you follow someone for at least that long, but it still isn't in production. They had seat belts in the late 50s but it was 1965 before I ever saw one, and the seventies before they were in every car.
In the movie, the 23rd century has eyedrops that cure age related farsightedness and Kirk was allergic. But in 2003 the FDA approved a new cataract implant that can actually focus.
I don't wear glasses any more. Three months ago I wore contacts AND reading glasses.
Intraocular device (or more properly IOL). It is a replacement for the focusing lens in your eye. The new multifocal implants cure nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts.
I used to wear coke-bottle glasses but I don't have to wear glasses any more at all. Click the link in my sig for the whole story.
The wiki article on cataracts has more info. You're wrong about them not being common, though. The multifocal IOL isn't in common use yet, but it was only approved in 2003. However, the single focus IOL has been in use since 1949; this surgery is performed more than any other surgery.
The traditional IOL (not a device) is used only for cataract surgery, but the new ones (which are devices) not only cures cataracts but nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism as well. I went from contacts AND reading glasses to a single contact in the eye that wasn't operated on.
Click my sig for the story of how I became a cyborg. There is more info there, too.
America isn't even in America any more, and wasn't long before I was born. I'm reading a history of the 1920s, the Wilson and Harding administrations were amazingly like the Bush administration - rights trampled, incompetent cronies hired, etc.
Yes, but in America you're innocent until convicted. In a Facio-Republican administration with a Republican House and Senate, every company is innocent of everything.
Asimov thought the internet would be in a single computer called "multivac" and that robots would be a hell of a lot safer, and that the self-driving car "Sally" would be in production long before 2020.
In 1955 Heinlein, in Revolt in 2100, had the protagonist heading to "the Republic of Hawaii", not able to forsee that fpur years later it would become a state.
Roddenberry had automatic doors, cell phones, and flat screen monitors 200 years in the future rather than 30 years later (now). His writers had McCoy give Kirk a pair of reading glasses in Star Trek IV, not forseeing that twenty years later the multifocus IOD would be developed.
This guy says we'll have six hundred million androids in ten years. He doesn't understand computers, or that AI is just simulation. "I'm in the 30-40% camp that believes that there's really not anything magical about the human brain." But he doesn't see that it is analog, and that thoughts, memories, and emotions are chemical reactions while digital computers are complex abacuses working exactly like an abacus (except it ises base 2 instead of base 10).
He talks of that Warwick guy - "Kevin isn't really the first human cyborg". Nope, he isn't. Vice President Cheney is a cyborg, as he has a device in his heart. I'm one, as I have a device in my left eye (the aformentioned IOD). People have artificial hips and knees. "Captain Cyborg" isn't really a real cyborg, he's a moron like the writer of TFA.
Nothing to see here - at least, nothing for anyone intelligent to see here.
Actually, Wal-mart does engage in anti-competitive practices,
So does every other businessperson. Some of them are noble (cutting prices, making workers happy and more productive by improving working conditions, etc) and some are underhanded (like this action by walmart)....and does have a monopoly position.
No they don't. There are targets, kmarts, all sorts of competetion. How can you say they "have a monopoly position?"
it will just make it harder for Apple to offer their DRM downloads
As I think anyone who uises DRM should lose their copyright, I think killing DRMed downloads is a GOOD thing.
We hate Microsoft for their closed-source software
I don't hate them because their software is closed source. I hate them because their software is crap and I'm forced to use it. If it wasn't crap, or I wasn't forced to use it, Microsoft wouldn't matter to me at all.
Yes, I can be identified; But the post itself is proof of nothing. The most that could be done would be for someone to launch an investigation. That's not in the least likely, especially considering that I didn't say I was among the 75%. BUt as I was in my twenties in the seventies, I saw that in the seventies (way past the statute of limitations for any misdemeanor) far more than 75% of my age group got high. Most of us don't any more.
Makes you wonder about the boomer politicians who are too pussy to try and change a law they themselves likely broke; they would know of pot's lack of danger, yet they insist on letting the myths continue. It's pathetic.
Also keep in mind that the vast majority of corporations are small businesses
In the 70s, my late uncle ran a landscaping business in Colorado, maybe 5 employees. When there was a drought and his business suffered, he tried to get a small business loan and was turned down because there were 2 other landscapers his size in town.
The same year, AMC motors got a multimillion dollar small business loan. Take any statistic, especially government statistic, with a truckload of salt. What they mean by "small business" probably isn't what you would consider a small business.
I'd say more like 75%, but since pot's illegal there's absolutely no way whatever of counting the potsmokers. Any statistics about any victimless crime is utter bullshit pulled from someone's ass, usually a government official's ass.
100% of the boomers in my household smoke pot. Don't tell anybody...
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Is the natural intelligence of the human brain a simulation?
no.
If so, a simulation of what?
Of reality. What you see isn't a chair, it is the light bouncing off the chair.
Why would strong AI be any different?
Why would it be in any way the same? You can model a fusion bomb blast in a computer, but nothing blows up. You can fly your MS Flight Simulator all day and never move two inches.
A model is not reality.
Thanks, I didn't do research as to which movie. The point was, though, that instead of antique glasses, McCoy could have beamed an artificial lens in Kirk's eye (today they have to stick a needle in it to replace the lens).
You're right; my dad won't even cet cataract surgery. What I had done wasn't LASIC though, they stuck a needle in my eye, used ultrasound to turn the lens to mush, sucked it out, and inserted teh artificial lens.
It cured my very bad nearsightedness (20/>400), my farsightedness, and my cataract. I can't wait to get the other one fixed, but the cataract has to get worse before insurance will help pay for it and the operation is expensive as hell.
The abacus is base 10, the computer is base 2. That is the only difference between a computer and an abacus. How many more beads must I add to my abacus before it becomes self-aware?
Yes, but 2020 is only 14 years away. They've had the cruise control that lets you follow someone for at least that long, but it still isn't in production. They had seat belts in the late 50s but it was 1965 before I ever saw one, and the seventies before they were in every car.
I don't think you'll see Sally in the real 2020.
In the movie, the 23rd century has eyedrops that cure age related farsightedness and Kirk was allergic. But in 2003 the FDA approved a new cataract implant that can actually focus.
I don't wear glasses any more. Three months ago I wore contacts AND reading glasses.
Click my sig for more info.
Intraocular device (or more properly IOL). It is a replacement for the focusing lens in your eye. The new multifocal implants cure nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts.
I used to wear coke-bottle glasses but I don't have to wear glasses any more at all. Click the link in my sig for the whole story.
The wiki article on cataracts has more info. You're wrong about them not being common, though. The multifocal IOL isn't in common use yet, but it was only approved in 2003. However, the single focus IOL has been in use since 1949; this surgery is performed more than any other surgery.
The traditional IOL (not a device) is used only for cataract surgery, but the new ones (which are devices) not only cures cataracts but nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism as well. I went from contacts AND reading glasses to a single contact in the eye that wasn't operated on.
Click my sig for the story of how I became a cyborg. There is more info there, too.
America isn't even in America any more, and wasn't long before I was born. I'm reading a history of the 1920s, the Wilson and Harding administrations were amazingly like the Bush administration - rights trampled, incompetent cronies hired, etc.
Yes, but in America you're innocent until convicted. In a Facio-Republican administration with a Republican House and Senate, every company is innocent of everything.
They're a monopoly when a judge says they are.
Asimov thought the internet would be in a single computer called "multivac" and that robots would be a hell of a lot safer, and that the self-driving car "Sally" would be in production long before 2020.
In 1955 Heinlein, in Revolt in 2100, had the protagonist heading to "the Republic of Hawaii", not able to forsee that fpur years later it would become a state.
Roddenberry had automatic doors, cell phones, and flat screen monitors 200 years in the future rather than 30 years later (now). His writers had McCoy give Kirk a pair of reading glasses in Star Trek IV, not forseeing that twenty years later the multifocus IOD would be developed.
This guy says we'll have six hundred million androids in ten years. He doesn't understand computers, or that AI is just simulation. "I'm in the 30-40% camp that believes that there's really not anything magical about the human brain." But he doesn't see that it is analog, and that thoughts, memories, and emotions are chemical reactions while digital computers are complex abacuses working exactly like an abacus (except it ises base 2 instead of base 10).
He talks of that Warwick guy - "Kevin isn't really the first human cyborg". Nope, he isn't. Vice President Cheney is a cyborg, as he has a device in his heart. I'm one, as I have a device in my left eye (the aformentioned IOD). People have artificial hips and knees. "Captain Cyborg" isn't really a real cyborg, he's a moron like the writer of TFA.
Nothing to see here - at least, nothing for anyone intelligent to see here.
It sounds like a laser to me. Basically he's using a laser for propulsion, one that uses microwaves rather than visible light.
Nope, since 1903.
No reason to put "evil" in quotes; they ARE evil by any definition of the word you can come up with. If you own walmart stock, you're evil, too.
Actually, Wal-mart does engage in anti-competitive practices,
...and does have a monopoly position.
So does every other businessperson. Some of them are noble (cutting prices, making workers happy and more productive by improving working conditions, etc) and some are underhanded (like this action by walmart).
No they don't. There are targets, kmarts, all sorts of competetion. How can you say they "have a monopoly position?"
it will just make it harder for Apple to offer their DRM downloads
As I think anyone who uises DRM should lose their copyright, I think killing DRMed downloads is a GOOD thing.
Good job, Brownie. Would it be too much to ask that we get someone who knows something about security to run homeland security? I guess it would...
While 3500 people died in terrorist attacks on US soil in your lifetime, 40,000 people die on the highways every single year.
Homeland Security is about keeping you terrified so you'll continue to let the corporate-owned US government keep taking your rights away.
We hate Microsoft for their closed-source software
I don't hate them because their software is closed source. I hate them because their software is crap and I'm forced to use it. If it wasn't crap, or I wasn't forced to use it, Microsoft wouldn't matter to me at all.
Yes, I can be identified; But the post itself is proof of nothing. The most that could be done would be for someone to launch an investigation. That's not in the least likely, especially considering that I didn't say I was among the 75%. BUt as I was in my twenties in the seventies, I saw that in the seventies (way past the statute of limitations for any misdemeanor) far more than 75% of my age group got high. Most of us don't any more.
Makes you wonder about the boomer politicians who are too pussy to try and change a law they themselves likely broke; they would know of pot's lack of danger, yet they insist on letting the myths continue. It's pathetic.
The RIAA is not a law enforcement group
Quoth The Who: "...owns a gun that fires cops". The man who owns the cop is more powerful than any cop.
Slashdot is replacing its miniature-scale models used in an earlier story with digitally created near-dupes!
What I don't understand is why all the major TV players are signing on with Microsoft.
It's the mantra. In the 1980s it was "nobody evet got fired for buying IBM", today it's "nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft".
Also keep in mind that the vast majority of corporations are small businesses
In the 70s, my late uncle ran a landscaping business in Colorado, maybe 5 employees. When there was a drought and his business suffered, he tried to get a small business loan and was turned down because there were 2 other landscapers his size in town.
The same year, AMC motors got a multimillion dollar small business loan. Take any statistic, especially government statistic, with a truckload of salt. What they mean by "small business" probably isn't what you would consider a small business.
4.7 % of boomers are doing pot these days
I'd say more like 75%, but since pot's illegal there's absolutely no way whatever of counting the potsmokers. Any statistics about any victimless crime is utter bullshit pulled from someone's ass, usually a government official's ass.
100% of the boomers in my household smoke pot. Don't tell anybody...
Sorry, I misspoke; the last two times the governing party lost the Governor's race the previous governor went to jail.
The west coast? Home of the RIAA, the MPAA, and the DMCA? LOL!