It actually may be the case. This type of cancer is not very common and is strongly correlated with risk factors like tobaco, alco etc use, but also exposure to some ugly things like HPV etc.
this is a joke right? You assume that the progress is happening at the same pace everywhere and brings benefits the same way everybody which is not the case. how are you going to stop immigration is also interesting. It never worked except for extreme use of violence - NK is a good example because nobody wants to go there - problem indeed solved.
I understand that you are joking right? In case not - the problem of skynet is not that it is conscious which it will for long not be but that its control structure fails in some bad way. Some years ago automatic anti-aircraft gun malfunctioned and instead of shooting drones or whatever started shooting all in vicinity killing number of people. IT continued to do so till amo ran out. It did not gained (evil) consciousness or even one of a baby with a gun it just malfunctioned. The other problem is not mutiny but conscious and evil (from perspective of killed people) operators. We may have too many people in the society/economy but this is not a new problem and was resolved before. Not always in a peaceful and gentle way.
A polish author and, I am more and more convinced, a visionary and philosopher Sanislaw Lem was writing about this. I say he was a visionary because besides his robot stories he wrote number of things that either materialized or seem to be materializing right now - in military or elsewhere.
On fun side there was a revolution of washing machines which from autonomous washing machines evolved into sex toys and modern slaves till they actually asked for laws and rights.
On more serious one of his books or essays pretending to be a novel was: Golem XIV. I have not read anything like that before and hardly anything like that afterward. Closest to that was River of Gods by Ian McDonald - well written but somewhat obscuring the main point. It seems to me that if we are really smart enough to produce self-improving and self-conscious entity then it will rather improve itself out of our reality and we will suffer mostly because nobody will be there to help us maintain our complex infrastructure or it will melt because of the steps needed for this super-intelligence to self-improve. This is not really the problem as I see it. I see the coming to this point as a problem - how we will deal with the reality of being able to support everybody and actuality of having to do so - even in a socialist state like Germany the government forces jobless below social minimum if they cannot find a job thus decreasing job costs to the global level. At some point such society will collapse and then turn into something else. That is not bad in itself but such changes are usually violent and associated with piles of bodies. Let us hope we manage it somehow.
I am not afraid of super-intelligent AI. I am afraid of assholes in corporations and governments ready to kick my ass if they see fit. I am also afraid that such changes leaves majority people to suffer. There does not seem to be much in terms of what I can do against that only hope that we will not follow the worst road.
anything US gov does now is said to be wrong/fascist/illegal/etc? That borders on stupidity to the point that one could have thought this could be a NSA attempt to disqualify/. as a valid forum to discuss issues. To me attacking sites like the one of new your times or banks etc is illegal activity. Sometimes it may be justified but that is rare.
summaries do not point to the source anymore? Usually one must click few times to get there only to find out that summary was inaccurate.
is/. following general media which rarely uses deep analysis and shows restraint which leads to hysterical and inaccurate reporting? It looks almost like the (more or less autistic) brains of/. see a small irregularity and out of it make a rule: "US spied on others so spying on US cannot be persecuted". What sort of HS is this?
Quite frankly it makes less and less sense to take part in discussions as voice of reason all too often cannot be heard because of the noise of hysterical and mostly not thought trough posts? I admit I am not much better but maybe some constraint were in place. It does not really help if anything is announced as a slippery slope towards a fascists state etc. The summary is also not so good his time and could have been stopped because it is just incorrect (in using the word terrorist etc) and that makes a difference.
this is silly as fck. Last time Russia pulled the number like this then there were few Chinese units that were annihilated (along smaller number of US ones( and the only one person that benefited from all the slaughtering was Kim the Greatest. I doubt if any of the three countries would go for the same trick again. You never know of course. Still I wonder what you think would be the Russian motivation to retaliate against US in case tomahawks destroy some Syrian army barracks and presidential palace or two. Not that they had any scruples offering lives of their soldiers but what would be their motivation? And Chinese?
I think for US the main problems is choice of target for the missiles that does not affect civilians too much and has some meaning for the lunatics in power in Syria - I mean Assad has probably enough palaces and lives in bunkers judging on the footage from meetings with the chosen ones broadcast by Syrian TV so palaces are of limited use as target. Maybe the military but WMD depots are dangerous as hell because of collateral damage that does not show nicely on the TV not to mention some munition that is not destroyed may get recycled by militants there.
This is probably not the calculation they are doing. We do not know who triggered use of WMD in the first place - maybe these were Russians trying to see if their defense systems in Syria are up for the task or an accident (unlikely in all these places though), whoever did use WMD we may be better off if we (the West) at least try to show our muscle around. This will not fix anything in Syria and most likely than not leaves WMD capability intact or only slightly affected. So the the only positive effect we may achieve is a bit of caution on the side of Syria next time they think of using WMD and the same globally when some adversary thinks US is weak and out of breath as this is more dangerous than actual risk of Russia or China actually committing their military to attack on US.
Nothing much you may think but I doubt if more can be achieved and if more is really desired.
give parent more mod points - this is just about what I would have expected from forum at least in part dedicated to technology - giving information in concise form.
My thoughts exactly. It seems to me that US System has many flaws - no system is perfect but here the system is bad by principle - especially in drug cases. But even in normal criminal case not associated with drugs you may come to be offered confession for limited sentence or face a chance of losing the trial and getting much worse sentence because you were fighting it - how this has anything to do with justice I am not sure. Of course purpose of such solutions is not justice but efficiency i.e. making people motivated to settle down to save money for the state i.e. tax payer. This is not working properly because public prosecutors need convictions not justice. That is more efficient for them and their office. But what do I know - I am just a commie from an old continent....
I think Syria is already torn to pieces. Not sure what Obama is searching there besides that - chance for success in any meaningful meaning of the word are NULL so what is he trying to achieve? It reminds me a documentary about Kim's war - Stalin must have a had a great time ever since he motivated this lunatic Kim Ill-Sung to attack the South. I mean US fighting Chinese - It could not possible be betterr than this. So now we have US bombing the hell out of some war torn country - what for? I guess to see pictures of dead women and children killed by US military. It does not matter if it is true or false after all anything can be made true or false and if need be dead women and children can be produced at will any time.
The radioactive waste needs to be removed from the ruins. This for the spent fuel tanks is extremely dangerous operation in itself.
The radioactive waste needs to be processed in this case into salt solution. This is possible but nor really done yet ever. I understand this is rather 'small' problem especially comparing with the first one.
MSR is in itself as dangerous as anything else. We thought we knew it all and then during decommissioning there were surprises. It is also interesting to think about what happens when molten salt escapes.
Fix these and you get to become next emperor of Japan (and owner of TEPCO).
I think in US it is not the unions that can help. These are incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats that are charge with tasks that overwhelm them. The problem is elsewhere me thinks. The general attitude seems to be confrontation with workers organizing themselves being seen as communists or mob or both.
I am really at a loss as to why of late any news coming from US is about corruption, stupidity, oppression, showing people that are arrogant, badly educated or the opposite but then smart enough to reap off anybody else and this all comes always in a mix with 'we are the best' pride usually. Come to think of it the only things US of A is good at seem to be sending carrier groups all over the place and punishing people for silly things.
I am pretty sure there is more to it than that - maybe it is the pond between us that is allowing only the ugly noise to come over.
If you read Dilbert you would have known that these seriously looking machines to detect explosives etc are just boxes with a lamp blinking more or less randomly.
you mean that TSA and other BHA (black helicopter agencies) did this to divert attention from their actions and discredit the opposition movement on/. ?
Sometimes our rights, that we all simply assume are there, need to be fought for. Of course it would be better if this was not necessary. The way humanity is, it is necessary however in irregular intervals. The more or less peaceful people get sucked into a situation where they have to postpone their holidays in a warm place, skip the evening in front of the telly and maybe even risk their lives and those of their loved ones so that these rights and freedoms that we all enjoy are kept.
I think Jefferson was right on that when he said something about the tree of liberty and what it needs from time to time. I surely hope we are not there yet when it needs watering with blood but secret courts and secret laws surely are a sign we are no far away.
Not giving a shit in this case is quite rational actually. Because of mechanics of the game and size of the country (which influence the mechanics of the game significantly) you have system that alienates its citizens.
It is really a hilarious situation when for instance: majority of the population had personal drugs experience and yet DEA exists happily putting people in jail for nothing and has more power than ever - I am sure if US of A were a person we could find some long Latin words in DMS describing its condition(s). Yet this mentally ill person has access to WMD and in times of hyperactivity tramples other nations with its army.
What I wondered already when first photos of bloody tanks showed up is this: limited space, unstable tectonic and they build tanks for thousands of tons of contaminated water without even hope that they:
find a method of disposal/cleanup of this watery mess
stop the need to have the tanks in the first place
As it is right now they have limited capacity AND seemingly unstoppable source of contaminated water.
On top of that it seems not only tanks leak water but all three reactors do too. At least 'Russians' at Chernobyl managed the concrete sarcofag somehow. I guess it has to be replaced soon anyway as this was an emergency solution rather than a long lasting one but at least they did something meaningful. TEPCO seems neither to know how to stop the leaks in reactors, nor how to stop the need to cool them in this way i.e. by throwing water at it and hoping to catch it below.
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It actually may be the case. This type of cancer is not very common and is strongly correlated with risk factors like tobaco, alco etc use, but also exposure to some ugly things like HPV etc.
if the real society is an example then only the users with 5digit ids will be allowed to post and if that will be too many then 4digits.
this is a joke right? You assume that the progress is happening at the same pace everywhere and brings benefits the same way everybody which is not the case. how are you going to stop immigration is also interesting. It never worked except for extreme use of violence - NK is a good example because nobody wants to go there - problem indeed solved.
I understand that you are joking right? In case not - the problem of skynet is not that it is conscious which it will for long not be but that its control structure fails in some bad way. Some years ago automatic anti-aircraft gun malfunctioned and instead of shooting drones or whatever started shooting all in vicinity killing number of people. IT continued to do so till amo ran out. It did not gained (evil) consciousness or even one of a baby with a gun it just malfunctioned. The other problem is not mutiny but conscious and evil (from perspective of killed people) operators. We may have too many people in the society/economy but this is not a new problem and was resolved before. Not always in a peaceful and gentle way.
I suppose we start with goatse bots....
A polish author and, I am more and more convinced, a visionary and philosopher Sanislaw Lem was writing about this. I say he was a visionary because besides his robot stories he wrote number of things that either materialized or seem to be materializing right now - in military or elsewhere.
On fun side there was a revolution of washing machines which from autonomous washing machines evolved into sex toys and modern slaves till they actually asked for laws and rights.
On more serious one of his books or essays pretending to be a novel was: Golem XIV. I have not read anything like that before and hardly anything like that afterward. Closest to that was River of Gods by Ian McDonald - well written but somewhat obscuring the main point. It seems to me that if we are really smart enough to produce self-improving and self-conscious entity then it will rather improve itself out of our reality and we will suffer mostly because nobody will be there to help us maintain our complex infrastructure or it will melt because of the steps needed for this super-intelligence to self-improve. This is not really the problem as I see it. I see the coming to this point as a problem - how we will deal with the reality of being able to support everybody and actuality of having to do so - even in a socialist state like Germany the government forces jobless below social minimum if they cannot find a job thus decreasing job costs to the global level. At some point such society will collapse and then turn into something else. That is not bad in itself but such changes are usually violent and associated with piles of bodies. Let us hope we manage it somehow.
I am not afraid of super-intelligent AI. I am afraid of assholes in corporations and governments ready to kick my ass if they see fit. I am also afraid that such changes leaves majority people to suffer. There does not seem to be much in terms of what I can do against that only hope that we will not follow the worst road.
this aggression will not stand, man!
Quite frankly it makes less and less sense to take part in discussions as voice of reason all too often cannot be heard because of the noise of hysterical and mostly not thought trough posts? I admit I am not much better but maybe some constraint were in place. It does not really help if anything is announced as a slippery slope towards a fascists state etc. The summary is also not so good his time and could have been stopped because it is just incorrect (in using the word terrorist etc) and that makes a difference.
I think for US the main problems is choice of target for the missiles that does not affect civilians too much and has some meaning for the lunatics in power in Syria - I mean Assad has probably enough palaces and lives in bunkers judging on the footage from meetings with the chosen ones broadcast by Syrian TV so palaces are of limited use as target. Maybe the military but WMD depots are dangerous as hell because of collateral damage that does not show nicely on the TV not to mention some munition that is not destroyed may get recycled by militants there.
This is probably not the calculation they are doing.
We do not know who triggered use of WMD in the first place - maybe these were Russians trying to see if their defense systems in Syria are up for the task or an accident (unlikely in all these places though), whoever did use WMD we may be better off if we (the West) at least try to show our muscle around. This will not fix anything in Syria and most likely than not leaves WMD capability intact or only slightly affected. So the the only positive effect we may achieve is a bit of caution on the side of Syria next time they think of using WMD and the same globally when some adversary thinks US is weak and out of breath as this is more dangerous than actual risk of Russia or China actually committing their military to attack on US.
Nothing much you may think but I doubt if more can be achieved and if more is really desired.
It was a good one was it not? It is indeed a rarity to have one working so nicely.
give parent more mod points - this is just about what I would have expected from forum at least in part dedicated to technology - giving information in concise form.
I think Obama should bomb them evil intrawebs. After all bombers are all tanked and ready so why not?
My thoughts exactly. It seems to me that US System has many flaws - no system is perfect but here the system is bad by principle - especially in drug cases. But even in normal criminal case not associated with drugs you may come to be offered confession for limited sentence or face a chance of losing the trial and getting much worse sentence because you were fighting it - how this has anything to do with justice I am not sure. Of course purpose of such solutions is not justice but efficiency i.e. making people motivated to settle down to save money for the state i.e. tax payer. This is not working properly because public prosecutors need convictions not justice. That is more efficient for them and their office. But what do I know - I am just a commie from an old continent....
I think Syria is already torn to pieces. Not sure what Obama is searching there besides that - chance for success in any meaningful meaning of the word are NULL so what is he trying to achieve? It reminds me a documentary about Kim's war - Stalin must have a had a great time ever since he motivated this lunatic Kim Ill-Sung to attack the South. I mean US fighting Chinese - It could not possible be betterr than this. So now we have US bombing the hell out of some war torn country - what for? I guess to see pictures of dead women and children killed by US military. It does not matter if it is true or false after all anything can be made true or false and if need be dead women and children can be produced at will any time.
I think you are forgetting the hookers and the white powder. These things are expensive in quality that is required.
Three things.:
Fix these and you get to become next emperor of Japan (and owner of TEPCO).
I think in US it is not the unions that can help. These are incompetent, corrupt bureaucrats that are charge with tasks that overwhelm them. The problem is elsewhere me thinks. The general attitude seems to be confrontation with workers organizing themselves being seen as communists or mob or both.
I am really at a loss as to why of late any news coming from US is about corruption, stupidity, oppression, showing people that are arrogant, badly educated or the opposite but then smart enough to reap off anybody else and this all comes always in a mix with 'we are the best' pride usually. Come to think of it the only things US of A is good at seem to be sending carrier groups all over the place and punishing people for silly things.
I am pretty sure there is more to it than that - maybe it is the pond between us that is allowing only the ugly noise to come over.
If you read Dilbert you would have known that these seriously looking machines to detect explosives etc are just boxes with a lamp blinking more or less randomly.
These days I may even believe in that too.
I think you can expect DEA agents visiting you shortly.
but but but maybe they did not have clean water anywhere near?
Sometimes our rights, that we all simply assume are there, need to be fought for. Of course it would be better if this was not necessary. The way humanity is, it is necessary however in irregular intervals. The more or less peaceful people get sucked into a situation where they have to postpone their holidays in a warm place, skip the evening in front of the telly and maybe even risk their lives and those of their loved ones so that these rights and freedoms that we all enjoy are kept.
I think Jefferson was right on that when he said something about the tree of liberty and what it needs from time to time. I surely hope we are not there yet when it needs watering with blood but secret courts and secret laws surely are a sign we are no far away.
It is really a hilarious situation when for instance: majority of the population had personal drugs experience and yet DEA exists happily putting people in jail for nothing and has more power than ever - I am sure if US of A were a person we could find some long Latin words in DMS describing its condition(s). Yet this mentally ill person has access to WMD and in times of hyperactivity tramples other nations with its army.
As it is right now they have limited capacity AND seemingly unstoppable source of contaminated water. On top of that it seems not only tanks leak water but all three reactors do too. At least 'Russians' at Chernobyl managed the concrete sarcofag somehow. I guess it has to be replaced soon anyway as this was an emergency solution rather than a long lasting one but at least they did something meaningful. TEPCO seems neither to know how to stop the leaks in reactors, nor how to stop the need to cool them in this way i.e. by throwing water at it and hoping to catch it below.