> I don't believe humans aren't limited by the same issues that machines have. Halting problem comes to mind, nothing shows that humans aren't bound by it too. Math has started, quite a while ago, to show that we…
Complexity is easy. Just wait long enough. It's consciousness that's harder to contemplate.
And here's to many more!
At some point you have to rely on "givens". You can't go turtles all the way down.
Which is poorly equipped, hungry and depressed. But that's not the point. The point is the potentially very high civilian casualties.
These days, whenever I hear the word "socialism", I automatically stop listening and move across the room to start a different discussion. It's on the same list with "flat earth", "autism-causing vaccines" and so forth.…
In a case like this, it's pretty hard to differentiate between the official propaganda and what people really think. Even when they confess utter sincerity, you should always ask yourself just how big of a percentage of…
Having grown in Eastern Europe (I was a freshman in college when the wave of revolutions swept over that part of the world), I'm not quite comfortable with that approach. Sure, you can topple the regime, Iraq-style. But…
Yup. You need a nearly-infinite number of primaries to cover exactly 100% of the human eye's gamut.
Well, the modern society is less like the savanna, which was the environment that shaped men throughout the evolutionary history of our species, and more like the cave, which was the environment that shaped women. Less…
I'm pretty sure they use (perhaps a custom version of) x264 to encode video.
"That highly depends on what the 200lb is made of." Well, he did say "jacked", so it's safe to assume it's not 200 lb of fat. BTW, I went pretty close to that, while staying at a relatively low 12% BFP (body fat…
Right. If you develop for Windows, then Windows is a pretty good platform.
People who actually need Windows for some business-related reason can still get a licensed copy, they just need approval from higher ranks now. So, "ban" - not so much. More like "strongly discouraged unless there's a…
Compared to regex, by definition, nothing can be uglier.
The only reason I'm still a Comcast customer is because there's no other broadband alternative in my area. No, 128 kbps is not broadband. So, I'm stuck.
"There's also a variant called antagonistic pleiotropy, where you have genes that have a beneficial effect early in life having a negative effect in old age." That makes a lot of sense. Passing on the genes seems to…
You will live in a perpetual state of cultural shock. You can't possibly be useful to the society in that situation.
"evolutionary neglect" I agree. That's the only mechanism that seems to have the power to explain aging, other than magic or the Invisible Hand of the Creator (but the latter two have a huge assortment of other issues).
"Hypothetical populations that didn't age and die would have killed themselves off due to lack of food." Starvation is not the only way living creatures can die. Just up the aggression a little, for example, and the…
If it's an imperfect mechanism, then look back at the huge chain linking you to the first living creature: adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / ... How come that chain hasn't…
IIRC, either Kurzweil or de Grey said exactly the same thing.
"I think there's a reason complicated life evolved so that it would age. The standard reason given is that eventually errors in replication accumulate and cancer results. I.e. we age to avoid cancer. But that is a…
I don't think there's any debate on the fact that, given enough time, research will eventually figure out how to stop and reverse the changes brought by aging. The debate is - whether this can be done soon, as opposed…
I agree. They wrote a new OS and uploaded it into existing hardware. Still a great feat, but not quite 100% "artificial life" yet.
> I don't believe humans aren't limited by the same issues that machines have. Halting problem comes to mind, nothing shows that humans aren't bound by it too. Math has started, quite a while ago, to show that we…
Complexity is easy. Just wait long enough. It's consciousness that's harder to contemplate.
And here's to many more!
At some point you have to rely on "givens". You can't go turtles all the way down.
Which is poorly equipped, hungry and depressed. But that's not the point. The point is the potentially very high civilian casualties.
These days, whenever I hear the word "socialism", I automatically stop listening and move across the room to start a different discussion. It's on the same list with "flat earth", "autism-causing vaccines" and so forth.…
In a case like this, it's pretty hard to differentiate between the official propaganda and what people really think. Even when they confess utter sincerity, you should always ask yourself just how big of a percentage of…
Having grown in Eastern Europe (I was a freshman in college when the wave of revolutions swept over that part of the world), I'm not quite comfortable with that approach. Sure, you can topple the regime, Iraq-style. But…
Yup. You need a nearly-infinite number of primaries to cover exactly 100% of the human eye's gamut.
Well, the modern society is less like the savanna, which was the environment that shaped men throughout the evolutionary history of our species, and more like the cave, which was the environment that shaped women. Less…
I'm pretty sure they use (perhaps a custom version of) x264 to encode video.
"That highly depends on what the 200lb is made of." Well, he did say "jacked", so it's safe to assume it's not 200 lb of fat. BTW, I went pretty close to that, while staying at a relatively low 12% BFP (body fat…
Right. If you develop for Windows, then Windows is a pretty good platform.
People who actually need Windows for some business-related reason can still get a licensed copy, they just need approval from higher ranks now. So, "ban" - not so much. More like "strongly discouraged unless there's a…
Compared to regex, by definition, nothing can be uglier.
The only reason I'm still a Comcast customer is because there's no other broadband alternative in my area. No, 128 kbps is not broadband. So, I'm stuck.
"There's also a variant called antagonistic pleiotropy, where you have genes that have a beneficial effect early in life having a negative effect in old age." That makes a lot of sense. Passing on the genes seems to…
You will live in a perpetual state of cultural shock. You can't possibly be useful to the society in that situation.
"evolutionary neglect" I agree. That's the only mechanism that seems to have the power to explain aging, other than magic or the Invisible Hand of the Creator (but the latter two have a huge assortment of other issues).
"Hypothetical populations that didn't age and die would have killed themselves off due to lack of food." Starvation is not the only way living creatures can die. Just up the aggression a little, for example, and the…
If it's an imperfect mechanism, then look back at the huge chain linking you to the first living creature: adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / sperm & egg / adult body / ... How come that chain hasn't…
IIRC, either Kurzweil or de Grey said exactly the same thing.
"I think there's a reason complicated life evolved so that it would age. The standard reason given is that eventually errors in replication accumulate and cancer results. I.e. we age to avoid cancer. But that is a…
I don't think there's any debate on the fact that, given enough time, research will eventually figure out how to stop and reverse the changes brought by aging. The debate is - whether this can be done soon, as opposed…
I agree. They wrote a new OS and uploaded it into existing hardware. Still a great feat, but not quite 100% "artificial life" yet.