Fucking rad.
Yeah, wired runs lots of stories about stuff that quite simply never happens. I used to keep a lot of back issues of wired, which I saved because I thought they had some cool stories. Surprisingly, many are packed with…
This isn't a matter of choice for me, from what I gather. It's already obvious to me that very powerful faceless people, somewhere out there, have decided that this WILL happen, one way or another, and the dismal tide…
Yeah, ban cars because cars bad. No people drive cars. People no can think good. People not designed for fast car speed. The car think better for people. Then never bad things happen and all people will be controlled by…
That's just a replay attack. The consciousness is still bound to the cells. No new, unique information is generated without the presence of the cells. The term "uploaded" is being subjected to special semantics in this…
I have a different mental model of the nature of the signal. I don't imagine that it was transmitted as a focused beam attenuated by an aperture. My thinking is that it was a sphere shaped pulse generated by an…
But with what motive? If you were to create a single high-energy pulse, deliberately, and willfully apply a degree of entropy to scramble the signal, why?
You can't upload consciousness. At best, all you can upload is a representation of personality and memories.
Well, at the very least, if it seems to be a diliberate signal originating from an organized intelligence AND anomalous, then it might be useful to consider the intersection of those two characteristics. Where do we see…
Consider that a specific communications channel for a civilization/culture-specific technology were being jammed, as part of a hostile operation.
Scientists say that if the signal came from extraterrestrials, they are likely to be an extremely advanced civilization, as the signal would have required a 2.2-gigawatt transmitter, vastly more powerful than any on…
This is ridiculous. It's like something out of Smokey and The Bandit, or The Dukes of Hazard, or maybe Super Troopers. (meow)
Actually, this crops up as a legal/insurance concern for larger valuable companies every so often, where company policy must stipulate in writing that critical numbers and/or groups of employees should not fly on the…
Especially considering that human beings can, very easily, become totally divorced from healthy, "normal" human values. It's not enough to merely keep humans in the picture, but to keep healthy, undamaged humans in the…
...yeah, sure, let me just call my buddy who used to be a mechanic for Tupolev.
Every single troubleshooting tip is of greater urgency than the last!
Given Facebook's predilection for collaborating with the NSA, perhaps this is a government program to civilianize the image of drones. The military industrial complex really needs someone from the commercial sector to…
Fucking rad.
Yeah, wired runs lots of stories about stuff that quite simply never happens. I used to keep a lot of back issues of wired, which I saved because I thought they had some cool stories. Surprisingly, many are packed with…
This isn't a matter of choice for me, from what I gather. It's already obvious to me that very powerful faceless people, somewhere out there, have decided that this WILL happen, one way or another, and the dismal tide…
Yeah, ban cars because cars bad. No people drive cars. People no can think good. People not designed for fast car speed. The car think better for people. Then never bad things happen and all people will be controlled by…
That's just a replay attack. The consciousness is still bound to the cells. No new, unique information is generated without the presence of the cells. The term "uploaded" is being subjected to special semantics in this…
I have a different mental model of the nature of the signal. I don't imagine that it was transmitted as a focused beam attenuated by an aperture. My thinking is that it was a sphere shaped pulse generated by an…
But with what motive? If you were to create a single high-energy pulse, deliberately, and willfully apply a degree of entropy to scramble the signal, why?
You can't upload consciousness. At best, all you can upload is a representation of personality and memories.
Well, at the very least, if it seems to be a diliberate signal originating from an organized intelligence AND anomalous, then it might be useful to consider the intersection of those two characteristics. Where do we see…
Consider that a specific communications channel for a civilization/culture-specific technology were being jammed, as part of a hostile operation.
Scientists say that if the signal came from extraterrestrials, they are likely to be an extremely advanced civilization, as the signal would have required a 2.2-gigawatt transmitter, vastly more powerful than any on…
This is ridiculous. It's like something out of Smokey and The Bandit, or The Dukes of Hazard, or maybe Super Troopers. (meow)
Actually, this crops up as a legal/insurance concern for larger valuable companies every so often, where company policy must stipulate in writing that critical numbers and/or groups of employees should not fly on the…
Especially considering that human beings can, very easily, become totally divorced from healthy, "normal" human values. It's not enough to merely keep humans in the picture, but to keep healthy, undamaged humans in the…
...yeah, sure, let me just call my buddy who used to be a mechanic for Tupolev.
Every single troubleshooting tip is of greater urgency than the last!
Given Facebook's predilection for collaborating with the NSA, perhaps this is a government program to civilianize the image of drones. The military industrial complex really needs someone from the commercial sector to…