Your post implies that any government is a corrupt government, and thus any government must suppress critical thinking to continue existance. I have significant misgivings with this outlook, and I'd like to discuss them in a thread where it isn't off-topic. Drop me a line.
By designing the new system to be robust in the face of corruption, we can ensure that those in power never have an incentive to become corrupt.
E-mail me.
You seem to be implying that those who justify their music and software piracy but condemn this company are hypocrites. But even your straw-hat parody of that viewpoint would not be hypocritical in condemning the folks behind Limbo of the Lost. The reason: it was made by a corporation, and the piracy was used to make that corporation money. Thence the puppet considers vilification for anything (including copyright violation) to be quite justifiable!
That said, nobody I know holds the bizarre grab-bag of views you present here anyway, not the two-recompensed-profits-make-a-recompensed-profit argument in paragraph 2, not the conflation of copyright and EULA in paragraph 3, and certainly not the increasingly incoherent and self-contradictory rant at the end. Your attempt to hoist the Slashdot groupthink zeitgeist on its own petard have failed. Go home and eat a sandwich.
Then, once you're done listening to them, force yourself to go and fact-check everything they said on the show. True skepticism is skeptical even of other skeptics.
The key point that you are missing: any real skeptic should apply the same degree of skepticism to his entrenched beliefs that he applies to incoming ones.
*Looks up at religious flamewar that immediately follows parent.*
Wow. You're good at that.
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I've discovered something: claiming in a post that the post will be downmodded due to groupthink is a surefire way to keep it from being downmodded. It seems you've discovered this as well.
I cannot prove that I have consciousness; a computer could probably simulate my failure at witty reparté on Slashdot with ease. But I do have consciousness.
I put it to you that when people talk about "actual" versus "simulated" intelligence, this is what they mean. And it certainly matters to the one who is experiencing it!
That's... not what I meant. I was using "overlay network as a means of transition to a new system" as a metaphor. Just as we move from X protocol to Y protocol, ought we to move from A political system to B political system.
But, er, nice post anyway!
It's things like this that convince me of the need to go the route of IPv6, build some kind of overlay network and slowly deprecate the governmental systems that exist officially... they're slowly approaching an absurd and unmaintainable end state.
Then again, we'd need to find a system that wouldn't end up in the same place first. Bah.:/
Note to all - Slashdot doesn't handle Unicode correctly. If you want to avoid getting these aTM apostrophes in your posts, copy and paste into Notepad first.
P.S. When Rich tells the story he always implies that it was because the guys running the turnstile were too busy looking at his girlfriend's boobs to look in her purse. Take that however you want.
My adviser back at University, Rich Maddox, used to tell a story from his youth, when he was dating a girl who (apparently for religious reasons? I don't remember exactly) always carried a large knife in her purse. So anyway, they were going to Disneyland with a couple of friends, and as they went through the entry turnstile they stopped Rich and asked to check his backpack for weapons and so forth. And they found a pocket knife there, and told him he couldn't bring it into the park because it was dangerous. That's when Rich called over to his girlfriend who was already inside, and said "Honey, do you still have that knife with you?" And she pulled it out of her purse and said "Yeah, why do you ask?"
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Your post implies that any government is a corrupt government, and thus any government must suppress critical thinking to continue existance. I have significant misgivings with this outlook, and I'd like to discuss them in a thread where it isn't off-topic. Drop me a line.
So we learn from our mistakes and try again. Yeah, it's not ideal, but it's the best we can do.
By designing the new system to be robust in the face of corruption, we can ensure that those in power never have an incentive to become corrupt. E-mail me.
You seem to be implying that those who justify their music and software piracy but condemn this company are hypocrites. But even your straw-hat parody of that viewpoint would not be hypocritical in condemning the folks behind Limbo of the Lost. The reason: it was made by a corporation, and the piracy was used to make that corporation money. Thence the puppet considers vilification for anything (including copyright violation) to be quite justifiable! That said, nobody I know holds the bizarre grab-bag of views you present here anyway, not the two-recompensed-profits-make-a-recompensed-profit argument in paragraph 2, not the conflation of copyright and EULA in paragraph 3, and certainly not the increasingly incoherent and self-contradictory rant at the end. Your attempt to hoist the Slashdot groupthink zeitgeist on its own petard have failed. Go home and eat a sandwich.
Then, once you're done listening to them, force yourself to go and fact-check everything they said on the show. True skepticism is skeptical even of other skeptics.
Shilling for OSG like this makes OSG look bad. Try to keep your adverts on-topic, thanks kindly. :)
But then how will the kids ever learn to be skeptical of bad science?
The key point that you are missing: any real skeptic should apply the same degree of skepticism to his entrenched beliefs that he applies to incoming ones.
*Looks up at religious flamewar that immediately follows parent.*
Wow. You're good at that.
I've discovered something: claiming in a post that the post will be downmodded due to groupthink is a surefire way to keep it from being downmodded. It seems you've discovered this as well.
There's more than one kind of nerd, and more than one thing that matters.
Try to pass it. I dare you.
Hint: You'll need to get 3/4 of the states to agree with you. And 2/3 of the Senate. And 2/3 of the House.
Hint: I don't think they will.
Hint: I don't think most regular people will either.
I cannot prove that I have consciousness; a computer could probably simulate my failure at witty reparté on Slashdot with ease. But I do have consciousness.
I put it to you that when people talk about "actual" versus "simulated" intelligence, this is what they mean. And it certainly matters to the one who is experiencing it!
Browser Wars: the Editor Wars of the 21st century.
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I'm pretty sure he's gonna have to recuse himself now. _
That's... not what I meant. I was using "overlay network as a means of transition to a new system" as a metaphor. Just as we move from X protocol to Y protocol, ought we to move from A political system to B political system. But, er, nice post anyway!
It's things like this that convince me of the need to go the route of IPv6, build some kind of overlay network and slowly deprecate the governmental systems that exist officially... they're slowly approaching an absurd and unmaintainable end state.
:/
Then again, we'd need to find a system that wouldn't end up in the same place first. Bah.
And as I always respond, you should look up what happened to Princess Leia's star system after she said that.
Note to all - Slashdot doesn't handle Unicode correctly. If you want to avoid getting these aTM apostrophes in your posts, copy and paste into Notepad first.
Doctor? Is that you?
You call that "funny"?
P.S. When Rich tells the story he always implies that it was because the guys running the turnstile were too busy looking at his girlfriend's boobs to look in her purse. Take that however you want.
My adviser back at University, Rich Maddox, used to tell a story from his youth, when he was dating a girl who (apparently for religious reasons? I don't remember exactly) always carried a large knife in her purse. So anyway, they were going to Disneyland with a couple of friends, and as they went through the entry turnstile they stopped Rich and asked to check his backpack for weapons and so forth. And they found a pocket knife there, and told him he couldn't bring it into the park because it was dangerous. That's when Rich called over to his girlfriend who was already inside, and said "Honey, do you still have that knife with you?" And she pulled it out of her purse and said "Yeah, why do you ask?"