It's not a turing test, and it's specified not to be. It's the idea that a perfect emulation is indistinguishable from the original. The system being emulated doesn't have any special powers to distinguish, so it will never know it is emulated.
This is not about a turing test, it's more about the fact that a hydrogen atom cannot be distinguished from another hydrogen atom. And furthermore, it cannot be distinguished from a perfect simulation of a hydrogen atom. The turing test is about human intelligence in particular, and says nothing about the implementation.
You haven't described any of the properties of this spirit. The tooth fairy has a definition, but that doesn't mean that it actually exists.
Also, all Christianity says about human existence is that people have souls. It doesn't describe their properties, except to imply that they are made out of the same stuff they make airplane black boxes out of. i.e. they are indestructable.
Shouldn't there be some kind of penalty for posting a comment containing solid and correct facts to Slashdot? This sort of thing could destroy the Internet as we know it!
Interesting. So, exactly what are the thoughts of a person in the moment just after they are dead?
And what are the properties of this soul? What are its mass, volume, smell, texture, etc? What color is it? If it's just encoded information, then please tell me this: what is the difference between two bits on my hard drive, from the perspective of the bits?
1) What is this "essence?" I think you just made it up just now. What makes you hypothesize an "essence"? Describe its properties please.
2) Religion doesn't explain anything any better than random descriptions do. What religion can describe consciousness properly, in a testable way that will allow us to change it, or create more or less of it? Or upload it? No religion does that.
But would that really transfer 'you' - your consciousness, and the perception of self? Or would it just be an emulation that thinks it's you?
I think it would be you. Think of it this way: if the emulation is good enough so that no observer can distinguish between the original and the emulation, then that person has been transferred.
There's no reason to believe that the person being emulated is any more qualified an observer than anyone else. If it's good enough to fool outside observers, it's good enough to fool the person being emulated.
The game was purchased with the intent of it providing many hours of entertainment. The Diablo bot is being written with the purpose of providing many hours of entertainment.
I don't mean watching the stupid thing play, I mean writing the bot. It's fun to code, you know.
If I'm playing an mp3 and browsing with Mozilla, Mozilla will lock up on me anytime I hit a flash page.
That's because flash wants to use the sound card too. How the hell do I fix that problem? I solved it by disabling flash, but that's not quite a perfect solution.
An alien religion would be completely irrelevant. There's no distinction in believing one superstition, or a different superstition. This type of invasion would be the biggest mountain made out of a molehill, ever.
Up until just now, I hadn't thought of the possibility of adding arms and legs, in addition to the ones I already have, but this is exactly what I need to not only keep up with the Jones', but to completely surpass those bastards.
There's more to the story. The real dog Biff used to bark at the mailman, and that's how Heidi knew when she got mail (snail mail). So what do you call the program that issues a notification that you have e-mail? Of course, you call it biff. That's biff's job, after all.
And that's the best part? A felony is too severe. I don't like spammers at all, but it's not justice if the punishment doesn't fit the crime./. had an article the other day about crackers getting penalties that were harsher than real-world crimes, such as robbery or assault. Is this just another example of irrational punishments attached to cyber-crime?
Furthermore, a falling cable would take a long time to fall. It might be possible to design a pyro system that could cut the cable into chunks that wouldn't cause much of a problem. Also, a cable break would send the part above the break flying out into Earth or Solar orbit. Only the part below the break would need to be chunked by pyros to avoid a problem. And a lot of that would be high in the atmosphere and would burn up on reentry. It's not an unsolvable problem.
Before Sept. 11th, Ashcroft was readying his offensive against porn. That was all derailed for a while though. Now that Ashcroft's attention is drifting from terrorism, he might just go after porn after all.
Pornographers and head shops are great targets for him, because they look good politically, and they are a lot easier to track down than terrorists.
How old is your e-mail address? I've had my domain for a year, and I probably get 15-20 spams a day. My older e-mail addresses can get up to 50 spams a day, but nothing as bad as your spam problem.
It's probably not a true story anyway, so it was probably said about quite a few libraries. The point was that people destroyed knowlege for the sake of superstition many times in our past, and will do the same many times in our future.
I just finished a good rant about the damn site on my web page. Go read it. Copy it if you want, put it all over. Let's get the anti-raging cow thing going.
Now that gives me a great idea. Everyone who has a web page, make a link to goatse.cx with the link text "Raging Cow" or else put the actual photo on your site with the text Raging Cow in the image tag and in some text around it.
We'll overflow google with links to goatse.cx. Every time someone searches on Raging Cow, they'll get what their stupid ass deserves.
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I don't know anything about guns or hunting, but would someone buy one of these rifles to hunt deer with?
It's not a turing test, and it's specified not to be. It's the idea that a perfect emulation is indistinguishable from the original. The system being emulated doesn't have any special powers to distinguish, so it will never know it is emulated.
This is not about a turing test, it's more about the fact that a hydrogen atom cannot be distinguished from another hydrogen atom. And furthermore, it cannot be distinguished from a perfect simulation of a hydrogen atom. The turing test is about human intelligence in particular, and says nothing about the implementation.
Goodwill Computerworks has great stuff. No website though.
You haven't described any of the properties of this spirit. The tooth fairy has a definition, but that doesn't mean that it actually exists.
Also, all Christianity says about human existence is that people have souls. It doesn't describe their properties, except to imply that they are made out of the same stuff they make airplane black boxes out of. i.e. they are indestructable.
Shouldn't there be some kind of penalty for posting a comment containing solid and correct facts to Slashdot? This sort of thing could destroy the Internet as we know it!
the person being killed: The original.
Interesting. So, exactly what are the thoughts of a person in the moment just after they are dead?
And what are the properties of this soul? What are its mass, volume, smell, texture, etc? What color is it? If it's just encoded information, then please tell me this: what is the difference between two bits on my hard drive, from the perspective of the bits?
So many people, so little common sense.
1) What is this "essence?" I think you just made it up just now. What makes you hypothesize an "essence"? Describe its properties please.
2) Religion doesn't explain anything any better than random descriptions do. What religion can describe consciousness properly, in a testable way that will allow us to change it, or create more or less of it? Or upload it? No religion does that.
But would that really transfer 'you' - your consciousness, and the perception of self? Or would it just be an emulation that thinks it's you?
I think it would be you. Think of it this way: if the emulation is good enough so that no observer can distinguish between the original and the emulation, then that person has been transferred.
There's no reason to believe that the person being emulated is any more qualified an observer than anyone else. If it's good enough to fool outside observers, it's good enough to fool the person being emulated.
Hippocampii is not the plural of hippocampus.
and
Hippopotamii is not the plural of hippopotamus.
Just want to head that one off at the pass.
The game was purchased with the intent of it providing many hours of entertainment. The Diablo bot is being written with the purpose of providing many hours of entertainment.
I don't mean watching the stupid thing play, I mean writing the bot. It's fun to code, you know.
How about this one:
If I'm playing an mp3 and browsing with Mozilla, Mozilla will lock up on me anytime I hit a flash page.
That's because flash wants to use the sound card too. How the hell do I fix that problem? I solved it by disabling flash, but that's not quite a perfect solution.
An alien religion would be completely irrelevant. There's no distinction in believing one superstition, or a different superstition. This type of invasion would be the biggest mountain made out of a molehill, ever.
Up until just now, I hadn't thought of the possibility of adding arms and legs, in addition to the ones I already have, but this is exactly what I need to not only keep up with the Jones', but to completely surpass those bastards.
They'd write this:
"Nuclaer bombs' on thier weigh"
And we'd all be complaining about spelling errors when the big one hits.
There's more to the story. The real dog Biff used to bark at the mailman, and that's how Heidi knew when she got mail (snail mail). So what do you call the program that issues a notification that you have e-mail? Of course, you call it biff. That's biff's job, after all.
And that's the best part? A felony is too severe. I don't like spammers at all, but it's not justice if the punishment doesn't fit the crime. /. had an article the other day about crackers getting penalties that were harsher than real-world crimes, such as robbery or assault. Is this just another example of irrational punishments attached to cyber-crime?
Yes, LISP has a nice clean design too. Glad you brought it up.
Couldn't do any better than to choose the MIPS instruction set. I looked at it years ago and was impressed with its clean design.
Furthermore, a falling cable would take a long time to fall. It might be possible to design a pyro system that could cut the cable into chunks that wouldn't cause much of a problem. Also, a cable break would send the part above the break flying out into Earth or Solar orbit. Only the part below the break would need to be chunked by pyros to avoid a problem. And a lot of that would be high in the atmosphere and would burn up on reentry. It's not an unsolvable problem.
Before Sept. 11th, Ashcroft was readying his offensive against porn. That was all derailed for a while though. Now that Ashcroft's attention is drifting from terrorism, he might just go after porn after all.
Pornographers and head shops are great targets for him, because they look good politically, and they are a lot easier to track down than terrorists.
How old is your e-mail address? I've had my domain for a year, and I probably get 15-20 spams a day. My older e-mail addresses can get up to 50 spams a day, but nothing as bad as your spam problem.
Have to mention that Hormel deserves praise for their mature and understanding way they handled the use of the word 'spam'.
It's probably not a true story anyway, so it was probably said about quite a few libraries. The point was that people destroyed knowlege for the sake of superstition many times in our past, and will do the same many times in our future.
I just finished a good rant about the damn site on my web page. Go read it. Copy it if you want, put it all over. Let's get the anti-raging cow thing going.
Now that gives me a great idea. Everyone who has a web page, make a link to goatse.cx with the link text "Raging Cow" or else put the actual photo on your site with the text Raging Cow in the image tag and in some text around it.
We'll overflow google with links to goatse.cx. Every time someone searches on Raging Cow, they'll get what their stupid ass deserves.