a brilliant moron in any area outside of that which can be easily mathematically defined (e.g. Aesthetics, spirituality, philosophy, emotions, politics).
These guys are used for their technical expertise in getting certain things done, but their handlers depend on their total inability to adequately evaluate situations that don't lend themselves to formal systems reasoning. I'd bet, if I had to bet, that these guys were pretty high up on several Asperger's syndrome indices. Actually that may be a better predictor for terrorism than an engineering degree.
So where would an alien civilization of virtualized intelligences able to manipulate huge amounts of power fall on the deity scale? Where would such a civilization fall if it were 2 sigmas above the mean in the direction of getting there before us average civilizations? A civilization like that, perhaps a billion years advance, might fall into the diety camp. A civilization/entity that managed to survive the creation and destruction of universes might too.
Well, that's silly. If an atheist is wrong, there's still infinite possibilities beyond the quaint "burn in hell, judgment day" thing. It could also be a Tibetan style Loka, intermediate hells and heavens ala Buddhism and Islam, nothing at all, cycling back through your life with no memory of having lived before, a different form of awareness without physicality, or an eternity watching TV game shows.
Reality, we should know by now, is full of surprises.
Look, all it would take to make the RIAA copyrights to work is a police state where all communications were monitored for illegal entertainment viewing, all book checkouts and purchases tracked, and all "illegal glancing" at commercial broadcasts fined. We'll just start to have to dedicate a large part of every nations resources to this in order to save profits for media companies, preferably out of tax dollars.
Creating THE FIRST sentient machine is a hard task. After intelligence becomes easily scalable, the next generation of AIs is a breeze.
Fixed that for you.
Look for astronomic size artifacts, not just radio
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There are a fair number of things that might give away the presence of intelligence. Strange symmetries in star formations. Decelerating objects. Geometric objects other than spheres, and so on. I suspect a search for those might be much more fruitful than simply listening to radio on a specific frequency.
Bonus Question: Would not many of today's digital signals have registered as simple noise to a scientist in the 1920s?
Not that the government cares. They just want him stopped, even if it makes that same government look like a bunch of two-bit, incompetent, ham-fisted bunglers from a cheap spy novel who couldn't solve the problem more intelligently.
Perhaps next they'll accuse him of child porn, or drug trafficing, or witchcraft.
Herpes, while not fatal, is more than "annoying". It's a lifelong infection. Good luck finding potential mates with that. Who needs luck when you have the internet? http://www.afterh.com/
FYI, there's a difference between being amoral or sociopathic, which I'm not, to thinking there's an unchanging, eternal set of behavioral rules "out there" in the world - the thinking of a 4-year old child who believes in an all powerful, all wise big daddy.
Certainly they couldn't be self-replicating memes, more interested in their own survival than that of their human hosts, sorta like money, countries, various -isms, and some really good cake recipes.
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But it would benefit the open source community immensely so you just *go* BSA. Prosecute away. OpenOffice needed that boost. Linux too.
The best way to rob a bank is to own one.
a brilliant moron in any area outside of that which can be easily mathematically defined (e.g. Aesthetics, spirituality, philosophy, emotions, politics).
These guys are used for their technical expertise in getting certain things done, but their handlers depend on their total inability to adequately evaluate situations that don't lend themselves to formal systems reasoning. I'd bet, if I had to bet, that these guys were pretty high up on several Asperger's syndrome indices. Actually that may be a better predictor for terrorism than an engineering degree.
You just need a better model that lies more appropriately.
and I didn't even tell it to. Is this evidence of an autonomous intelligence? If so, could you tell my boss so he doen't think I'm just a dumbass?
So where would an alien civilization of virtualized intelligences able to manipulate huge amounts of power fall on the deity scale? Where would such a civilization fall if it were 2 sigmas above the mean in the direction of getting there before us average civilizations? A civilization like that, perhaps a billion years advance, might fall into the diety camp. A civilization/entity that managed to survive the creation and destruction of universes might too.
Well, that's silly. If an atheist is wrong, there's still infinite possibilities beyond the quaint "burn in hell, judgment day" thing. It could also be a Tibetan style Loka, intermediate hells and heavens ala Buddhism and Islam, nothing at all, cycling back through your life with no memory of having lived before, a different form of awareness without physicality, or an eternity watching TV game shows.
Reality, we should know by now, is full of surprises.
Hint. Don't stand on your head wearing it when the sun's out.
taken one step further.
I use those old metal CD cases you buy at Wal-Mart. Much neater and you can hide them in odd places.
Look, all it would take to make the RIAA copyrights to work is a police state where all communications were monitored for illegal entertainment viewing, all book checkouts and purchases tracked, and all "illegal glancing" at commercial broadcasts fined. We'll just start to have to dedicate a large part of every nations resources to this in order to save profits for media companies, preferably out of tax dollars.
Don't think so.
Dang! OK, you got me there.
Seriously. This has been happening since Bush and probably before. Did someone just wake up and notice?
Creating THE FIRST sentient machine is a hard task. After intelligence becomes easily scalable, the next generation of AIs is a breeze.
Fixed that for you.
There are a fair number of things that might give away the presence of intelligence. Strange symmetries in star formations. Decelerating objects. Geometric objects other than spheres, and so on. I suspect a search for those might be much more fruitful than simply listening to radio on a specific frequency.
Bonus Question: Would not many of today's digital signals have registered as simple noise to a scientist in the 1920s?
Not that the government cares. They just want him stopped, even if it makes that same government look like a bunch of two-bit, incompetent, ham-fisted bunglers from a cheap spy novel who couldn't solve the problem more intelligently.
Perhaps next they'll accuse him of child porn, or drug trafficing, or witchcraft.
Herpes, while not fatal, is more than "annoying". It's a lifelong infection. Good luck finding potential mates with that.
Who needs luck when you have the internet? http://www.afterh.com/
Guess that one went just a bit over your head.
FYI, there's a difference between being amoral or sociopathic, which I'm not, to thinking there's an unchanging, eternal set of behavioral rules "out there" in the world - the thinking of a 4-year old child who believes in an all powerful, all wise big daddy.
Yes, I was around in the 50s, 60s and 70s, but mystically dissapeared from 1981 to 1989. :)
Look, herpes was around, but since I was in the SF bay area at the time, I experienced its arrival as happening at the same time as HIV.
Tell me again what ethics is, outside of being just another set of memes bred to allow the hosts to survive better in groups?
Certainly they couldn't be self-replicating memes, more interested in their own survival than that of their human hosts, sorta like money, countries, various -isms, and some really good cake recipes.
Um. Aids is fatal. Herpes is annoying. There's just a *little* difference. (Sorry this is a repeat comment - Mod me down if you must).
Um. Aids is fatal. Herpes is annoying. For some of us, it's not even that. There's just a *little* difference.
And the daily show.
As long as it doesn't happen on a bicycle. *That* would be wrong.