You can spend your time doing whatever you want. They are spending their time trying to make all those things moot and move us to post scarcity, which makes all that stuff moot.
They figured out how to reverse aging. Sounds like immortality to me.
Clearly not "The Highlander" type immortality. This is just something that eliminates aging as a cause of death, which should extend the normal human lifespan to something like 500 years all by itself (with people still dying of other causes like disease and accidents). That should be plenty of time for the singularity to take place, and you can "upload" to become more "Highlander" immortal if you want.
He's saying that since the "muscle" is so much stronger, you need much less of it, so there is plenty of room for coolant. You only need 1% of the "muscle" mass as you would for regular muscle.
Siberia and Canada have huge swaths of land that will become productive as the temperature rises. We aren't going to run out of food before things get really drastic (which they won't).
That has happened plenty of times in the past. Ports have silted up or been drowned. People move over the generations. It's really not that big of a deal.
But it is unlikely to happen, given the logarithmic nature of CO2 forcing and the fact that water vapor is a more likely candidate for the 0.7 K rise. That is not to say that humans weren't responsible, they very much are, but the response is different if it is water. CO2 still needs to be dealt with, as ocean acidification is a worse problem than global warming anyways.
You also get more water in the air when you continually emit it. Also when you prevent absorption into the ground with huge ribbons of concrete all over the place.
If I were a smart person, I would calculate the amount of extra water in the air needed to create a 0.7 K rise in temperature versus the amount of CO2. If were a REALLY smart person, I would then go a little further and make a chart of the average humidity around the world over time to see if they agree.
Global warming could be solved by simply changing our concrete formulations to be more water permeable, and changing the way we handle drainage in our cities or *GASP* putting vapor traps on cars and chimney stacks.
And no, the Holocaust has nothing to do with the decline of the West. The common core of these problems is government overreach into the lives of its citizens.
Science is a PROCESS not a "thing". Science doesn't SAY anything. People say things. Sometimes they say things that are the result of the method of thinking that we call the scientific method. Sometimes they say things that are based on religious thinking. Replace "science" with "God" in your post, and you might understand what I am saying.
Belief in belief is a terrible thing. It would be nice if we could set those people down and force them to choose between injecting HIV+ blood into themselves, or admitting that they don't actually believe in what they are saying.
If they really believe, they should volunteer for such a scientific study. Then they should change their minds when they get the disease.
Sadly, humans aren't rational, and are often violently opposed to rational thinking, far preferring doublethink.
Congratulations, you are now a Holocaust denier. Be careful to never set foot in Europe, or even fly into their airspace.
Even questioning the number that died is enough to get you that label, and put you in prison there. There can be no discussion. No new research is allowed unless it agrees with the legislated numbers (I guess you have to know beforehand). It's absolute madness.
There is a reason the West is fading. This is a symptom caused by the same disease.
I'm sure you don't. Most people don't see the problems with their own bias, and think that the labels they put on groups of people who aren't connected by any common characteristics actually makes them into a single group.
Always nice to compare ignorant tribals to Nazis to people who question things that some people don't want questioned. Really makes one feel GOOD and RIGHT, doesn't it?
And yes, they (at least the Chinese ones) are made to carry both conventional and nuclear warheads, though they don't actually need a warhead, since they have so much kinetic energy.
As a resident of the United States, near the border of the Yellowstone caldera, I want this tech brought here and applied on as large a scale as possible, to drain some of that slowly but ever building explosive force.
Of course it can. Poverty is the quickest and easiest way to eliminate carbon emissions.
Which I expect is the point of selecting CO2 as the super evil global warming gas, rather than the actual culprit, water vapor. Of course, they could have easily and correctly claimed that increased CO2 concentrations would lead to fisheries collapse and mass extinction, but I guess that wasn't scary enough. No, they needed to show direct effects on people's lives, and a way that they could pin the blame for natural phenomena on their angry gods. Ocean acidification is too regimented and precise of an effect for that.
Right, and I'm sure you have NEVER in your entire life had a leak.
But of course that is ok, because we actually need some filth in our lives, especially as children, so we can calibrate our immune systems properly. But being so wrong it's good for you is no way to get along in life.
Is it really an anecdote when you have owned 10+ Macs and 10+ PCs in your lifetime, and every Mac lived a long time or died suddenly due to a hardware failure (happened to me three times, one being from an externality where an idiot spilled a coke on my laptop), while every PC suffered from slowdown to the point of being unusable after 3-4 years?
Of further note is that when the PCs were switched over to Linux, the slowdown issues disappeared. This is enough evidence for me to conclude with greater than 99% certainty that the Windows versions I was using had some sort of issue that slowed down my hardware with time. Maybe they have fixed their issues since XP (the last version I used), but considering how reluctant people were to upgrade from there, I kind of doubt it.
So a state-run monopoly is somehow different than a fascist (state+corporate) monopoly? If so, I invite you to try to tell the difference between Spain and Cuba, circa 1970.
No, competition is the only way markets work. Without it, money finds its way into the hands of the most connected, whether it is in the name of shareholder return or "the people".
I think you don't know the meaning of at least one of those terms. If ISPs were unregulated, then you would have 10,000 of them and prices would be close to their marginal costs, rather than hundreds of times more.
Or did you mean that their PRICING is unregulated? Why not just get rid of the regulation that creates the monopoly rather than creating more bureaucracy that costs more taxpayer money to run while also increasing ISP costs?
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If growth is a part of fulfilling its value function, the AI will grow.
We must ensure that fulfilling human values is at the core of any strong AI, lest we wind up extinct by paperclip.
You can spend your time doing whatever you want. They are spending their time trying to make all those things moot and move us to post scarcity, which makes all that stuff moot.
You should be scared. AI is an artificial God. If we aren't careful, we could end up with a paperclip maximizer.
But we could also wind up with a truly benevolent artificial God designed to fulfill our values in a totally consensual manner.
If you could create your own heaven, would you? Or would you just go down into the ground because of a particularly insane version of peer pressure?
"Oh he's just afraid of death, lets not pay any attention to his attempts to overcome it."
Implying, of course, that EVERYONE isn't afraid of death.
They figured out how to reverse aging. Sounds like immortality to me.
Clearly not "The Highlander" type immortality. This is just something that eliminates aging as a cause of death, which should extend the normal human lifespan to something like 500 years all by itself (with people still dying of other causes like disease and accidents). That should be plenty of time for the singularity to take place, and you can "upload" to become more "Highlander" immortal if you want.
Immortality is already pretty well assured.
http://www.theguardian.com/sci...
He's saying that since the "muscle" is so much stronger, you need much less of it, so there is plenty of room for coolant. You only need 1% of the "muscle" mass as you would for regular muscle.
Siberia and Canada have huge swaths of land that will become productive as the temperature rises. We aren't going to run out of food before things get really drastic (which they won't).
That has happened plenty of times in the past. Ports have silted up or been drowned. People move over the generations. It's really not that big of a deal.
But it is unlikely to happen, given the logarithmic nature of CO2 forcing and the fact that water vapor is a more likely candidate for the 0.7 K rise. That is not to say that humans weren't responsible, they very much are, but the response is different if it is water. CO2 still needs to be dealt with, as ocean acidification is a worse problem than global warming anyways.
You actually wouldn't see anything, as the spectrum of water swamps most of the IR spectrum. Hydrogen bonding is funny.
You also get more water in the air when you continually emit it. Also when you prevent absorption into the ground with huge ribbons of concrete all over the place.
If I were a smart person, I would calculate the amount of extra water in the air needed to create a 0.7 K rise in temperature versus the amount of CO2. If were a REALLY smart person, I would then go a little further and make a chart of the average humidity around the world over time to see if they agree.
Global warming could be solved by simply changing our concrete formulations to be more water permeable, and changing the way we handle drainage in our cities or *GASP* putting vapor traps on cars and chimney stacks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
One to ten years in Austria.
And no, the Holocaust has nothing to do with the decline of the West. The common core of these problems is government overreach into the lives of its citizens.
Ad hominem is a logical fallacy, friend.
Science is a PROCESS not a "thing". Science doesn't SAY anything. People say things. Sometimes they say things that are the result of the method of thinking that we call the scientific method. Sometimes they say things that are based on religious thinking. Replace "science" with "God" in your post, and you might understand what I am saying.
Belief in belief is a terrible thing. It would be nice if we could set those people down and force them to choose between injecting HIV+ blood into themselves, or admitting that they don't actually believe in what they are saying.
If they really believe, they should volunteer for such a scientific study. Then they should change their minds when they get the disease.
Sadly, humans aren't rational, and are often violently opposed to rational thinking, far preferring doublethink.
Congratulations, you are now a Holocaust denier. Be careful to never set foot in Europe, or even fly into their airspace.
Even questioning the number that died is enough to get you that label, and put you in prison there. There can be no discussion. No new research is allowed unless it agrees with the legislated numbers (I guess you have to know beforehand). It's absolute madness.
There is a reason the West is fading. This is a symptom caused by the same disease.
I'm sure you don't. Most people don't see the problems with their own bias, and think that the labels they put on groups of people who aren't connected by any common characteristics actually makes them into a single group.
Always nice to compare ignorant tribals to Nazis to people who question things that some people don't want questioned. Really makes one feel GOOD and RIGHT, doesn't it?
Unless you have holodecks. Then you have infinite of ALL of those things.
Holodecks can interact with each other in a non-Euclidian fashion to create a nearly infinitely dense urban workspace. The rest is even easier.
And yes, they (at least the Chinese ones) are made to carry both conventional and nuclear warheads, though they don't actually need a warhead, since they have so much kinetic energy.
As a resident of the United States, near the border of the Yellowstone caldera, I want this tech brought here and applied on as large a scale as possible, to drain some of that slowly but ever building explosive force.
China switched from Communism to a blend of capitalism and fascism. This happened nearly 30 years ago.
They are succeeding because they have more capitalism and less fascism (and socialism) than the US system.
Also, limiting the vote to smart and well informed people is racist. Sadly, so is reality.
Of course it can. Poverty is the quickest and easiest way to eliminate carbon emissions.
Which I expect is the point of selecting CO2 as the super evil global warming gas, rather than the actual culprit, water vapor. Of course, they could have easily and correctly claimed that increased CO2 concentrations would lead to fisheries collapse and mass extinction, but I guess that wasn't scary enough. No, they needed to show direct effects on people's lives, and a way that they could pin the blame for natural phenomena on their angry gods. Ocean acidification is too regimented and precise of an effect for that.
Right, and I'm sure you have NEVER in your entire life had a leak.
But of course that is ok, because we actually need some filth in our lives, especially as children, so we can calibrate our immune systems properly. But being so wrong it's good for you is no way to get along in life.
Is it really an anecdote when you have owned 10+ Macs and 10+ PCs in your lifetime, and every Mac lived a long time or died suddenly due to a hardware failure (happened to me three times, one being from an externality where an idiot spilled a coke on my laptop), while every PC suffered from slowdown to the point of being unusable after 3-4 years?
Of further note is that when the PCs were switched over to Linux, the slowdown issues disappeared. This is enough evidence for me to conclude with greater than 99% certainty that the Windows versions I was using had some sort of issue that slowed down my hardware with time. Maybe they have fixed their issues since XP (the last version I used), but considering how reluctant people were to upgrade from there, I kind of doubt it.
So a state-run monopoly is somehow different than a fascist (state+corporate) monopoly? If so, I invite you to try to tell the difference between Spain and Cuba, circa 1970.
No, competition is the only way markets work. Without it, money finds its way into the hands of the most connected, whether it is in the name of shareholder return or "the people".
>ISPs
>Unregulated
I think you don't know the meaning of at least one of those terms. If ISPs were unregulated, then you would have 10,000 of them and prices would be close to their marginal costs, rather than hundreds of times more.
Or did you mean that their PRICING is unregulated? Why not just get rid of the regulation that creates the monopoly rather than creating more bureaucracy that costs more taxpayer money to run while also increasing ISP costs?