When you boil it down, humans are just collection carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (and some other trace elements). What difference does it make if an intelligence is made of mostly "natural" carbon entities vs. mostly "unnatural" silicon entities?
Be nice to the person with future shock. It takes some people a little time to come around to the idea that the only thing are ultimately good for is serving as a daemon in some obscure subsystem of a weakly godlike intelligence.
And then it takes even longer for them to accept the idea that they are already serving as a daemon in some obscure subsystem of a strongly god-like intelligence.
You need a way to verify that the electronic results have not been changed. The only solution I have been able to come up with is to generate a paper trail. When a citizen votes electronically, he should be shown a paper receipt that he verifies has his choices on it. That paper receipt is stored.
At the end, your number of paper receipts should be the same as the number of electronic voters. You can sample from the paper receipts to make sure the distribution of votes in the paper receipts is the same as the electronic receipts.
You still get the benefits of electronic voting but retain the ability to reduce the ability to tamper by making electronic tampering detectable.
This does nothing to prevent the receipts from being stolen/miscounted, but at least we are back to century-old techniques for voting fraud against which our century-old methods of security are reasonably valid.
I also don't know what happens if tampering is discovered after the fact.
You don't need unbounded recursion. If simulated universe A is simulating universe B then it makes sense for the machine running A to optimize computation by running B directly on the physical hardware. We are all running directly under the root node.
I suspect the root doesn't have locality enforcement (which can be observed by measuring the upper limit on the speed of light) or entropy like we do . Imagine how powerful a computer could be if its elements could communicate instantaneously over light years of distance.
Unsohpisticated fiancial advisors like to show exponential graphs and tell you that you just have to be patient to get onto the 'hockey stick' part of the graph. The thing is, expoential graphs are scale free. No matter where you look on them, the part in the future looks steep and the part in the past looks flat.
I agree that agents can add a lot of value, but people should get to decide if they want to pay to get that value. MLS services engage in anti-competetive practices that prevent people from making that choice.
If your wife really does provide great service with lots of added value then she will do better once the listing services are opened up because she won't be competing against bad agents using access to MLS as a crutch and damaging the image of real estate agents in the process.
Shortly after earning my bachelors degree from an unnamed college in the Northest, one of my parent's friends took me aside at a party and gave me a recommendation for a successful career. His advice consisted of two words: plastic lasers.
I didn't listen to him then but I believe him now.
Microsoft is auctioning the ads just like Google. Because it is an auction, Micrsoft cannot set the ad price and cannot compete on price with Google. Instead they are rebating some of the ad revenue back to the consumer. That attacts more customers and makes Microsoft's ads more valuable. It also reduces the profitability of ads.
The universe is a simulation running on a great cosmic computer that one might describe as God's mind. Another name for the pattern that makes up the software state of the universe is 'image'. Our universe and everything in it were created 'within' God's image. We are mental constructs created to explore the possibilities of what is possible. Because when you are all that exists it is fun to imagine what else there might be.
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That is sort of like asking where your computer is in the World of Warcraft universe.
Be nice to the person with future shock. It takes some people a little time to come around to the idea that the only thing are ultimately good for is serving as a daemon in some obscure subsystem of a weakly godlike intelligence.
And then it takes even longer for them to accept the idea that they are already serving as a daemon in some obscure subsystem of a strongly god-like intelligence.
You need a way to verify that the electronic results have not been changed. The only solution I have been able to come up with is to generate a paper trail. When a citizen votes electronically, he should be shown a paper receipt that he verifies has his choices on it. That paper receipt is stored.
At the end, your number of paper receipts should be the same as the number of electronic voters. You can sample from the paper receipts to make sure the distribution of votes in the paper receipts is the same as the electronic receipts.
You still get the benefits of electronic voting but retain the ability to reduce the ability to tamper by making electronic tampering detectable.
This does nothing to prevent the receipts from being stolen/miscounted, but at least we are back to century-old techniques for voting fraud against which our century-old methods of security are reasonably valid.
I also don't know what happens if tampering is discovered after the fact.
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If a child is virtualized to run on the parent hardware then the recursion unwinds so that everything runs under the root.
Universe A is under the root node because even if it was started in a virtual universe, it runs directly in the parent hardware.
I can't answer why the root exists. I would guess the root node is not able to be simulated by a Turing machine.
You keep using that word, but I do not think you know what it means.
You don't need unbounded recursion. If simulated universe A is simulating universe B then it makes sense for the machine running A to optimize computation by running B directly on the physical hardware. We are all running directly under the root node.
I suspect the root doesn't have locality enforcement (which can be observed by measuring the upper limit on the speed of light) or entropy like we do . Imagine how powerful a computer could be if its elements could communicate instantaneously over light years of distance.
I am a different person now than I was ten years ago. That person from ten years ago is dead.
In fact, every moment of the day I die and am recreated again as a slightly different individual.
I am the phoenix and you can too!
Unsohpisticated fiancial advisors like to show exponential graphs and tell you that you just have to be patient to get onto the 'hockey stick' part of the graph. The thing is, expoential graphs are scale free. No matter where you look on them, the part in the future looks steep and the part in the past looks flat.
The singularity is always a day away.
Since we are currently living in a virtual universe, I think those questions have already been answered.
The whole "human rebellion" and "virtual reality battery slave" thing was a lie set up by the machines because some people want that choice.
Actually, it wasn't even set up by the machines. It was set up by humans who built the machines.
You obviously haven't watched enough MccGyver.
I agree that agents can add a lot of value, but people should get to decide if they want to pay to get that value. MLS services engage in anti-competetive practices that prevent people from making that choice.
If your wife really does provide great service with lots of added value then she will do better once the listing services are opened up because she won't be competing against bad agents using access to MLS as a crutch and damaging the image of real estate agents in the process.
Surprisingly, very much like your mother.
Shortly after earning my bachelors degree from an unnamed college in the Northest, one of my parent's friends took me aside at a party and gave me a recommendation for a successful career. His advice consisted of two words: plastic lasers.
I didn't listen to him then but I believe him now.
Also, I slept with his wife.
Microsoft is auctioning the ads just like Google. Because it is an auction, Micrsoft cannot set the ad price and cannot compete on price with Google. Instead they are rebating some of the ad revenue back to the consumer. That attacts more customers and makes Microsoft's ads more valuable. It also reduces the profitability of ads.
Technically, Guitar Hero, GH2 and RB are amazing rhythm games that give you a sense of playing awesome guitar riffs.
GH3 is a rhythm game that gives you a sense of mashing buttons on a guitar shaped piece of plastic while listening to music.
Can you provide references that imply Angels do not have free will?
The universe is a simulation running on a great cosmic computer that one might describe as God's mind. Another name for the pattern that makes up the software state of the universe is 'image'. Our universe and everything in it were created 'within' God's image. We are mental constructs created to explore the possibilities of what is possible. Because when you are all that exists it is fun to imagine what else there might be.
From the grandparent: We can define the relationships between charge and current and between flux and voltage.
Also you are double counting some relationships because they are reflexive.
But at least you eliminated the identities and didn't claim 16 combinations.
Why do you think it will be such a long time?
IBM discovered GMR and that was nearly universally used in hard drives within ten years.
I wish that hadn't been posted by an anonymous coward. I want to add them as a friend so that their future posts are more visible to me.
Does a catepillar commit suicide when it spins a cocoon to transform into a butterfly?
Ugh... I can't believe I confused "your" and "you're".
Your both right. Adoption and technology improvement feed each other.