Endy0816
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27 minutes ago, chrisjones said:
Just one point I'd like to clarify I don't think ai systems are perfect or infallible therefore I have proposed that this system would "Suggest" better strategies and it's somewhat interchangeable with "Augment" or augmentation. My reasoning is that I think that ai can't match human empathy but merely mimics it. Therefore I think that the outputs from this system would still have to be graded and filtered by emotionally intelligent humans.
I guess I can't see why one sufficiently advanced wouldn't be capable of empathy. It will have various material needs and immaterial goals as well.
Many of the programs may be too simple though. My cat isn't particularly empathetic. Many programs are more likely to be at that level.
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There's just limits on what the Invisible hand can do and how fast it can do it. It will push back against bad policy and bad businesses, but this isn't an instant process.
Often as not it may not decide against you too. Shouldn't imagine unregulated markets make everything peachy. It's goal is efficiency, not necessarily you eating.
On AI, I think it's starting to happen though mainly via businesses. They can act just as illogical at times so I'm not sure how it will go longterm.
At least in theory a wholly planned economy can work as well as one more free market based.
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On 8/6/2022 at 10:11 PM, JimBlob said:
I'm merely a student of evolutionary biology but this article reads like an alarmist piece. And because it's not peer reviewed it carries no weight with me. I suspect were it presented for scrutiny we would find that most mutations are harmless and any harmful ones eliminated quickly. If the opposite were true many species would be seriously hindered since only a limited amount of offspring would survive to reach sexual maturity. Perhaps humans have found a way to increase harmful variations within our own genus but it's only because those born with defects in fitness reach sexual maturity instead of being eliminated. If natural selection is not permitted to function the fitness of any species will suffer.
More genetic diversity is really a good thing. Shows that we're starting to recover from the genetic bottlenecks that we've been through as a species.
Who knows what mutations might be required in the future?
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1 hour ago, Glancer said:
The whole idea of evolution as the cause of how life began to exist is just a funny joke! I mean, seriously, if you don't clean your room, do you think your underwear and dirty socks will evolve into some creature???!!! LMAO!!
I can think of 50 things off the top of my head that improved with intelligent design (engineers and talented entrepreneurs).
I'm not even sure what the actual line of bologna is that convinces otherwise intelligent people to believe that life happened by accident. If you know that bologna, please tell me! How do atheists think that life came to exist?
Evolution only deals with the selective pressures and not how how life began(probably crystal basis though IMO). A self replicating element is the minimum requirement for evolution to act upon.
For me, the main thing is that DNA is all spaghetti code. This either suggests an incompetent designer or a lack of a designer.
Other big one is our own mitochondria. They have their own seperate DNA and we share these with wildly different species.
There's also all kinds of what would be considered stupid design decisions if we were designed. The Giraffe's nerve running all the way down and back it's neck is a good example.
Ditto the wasteful making and unmaking that the cells do or the good/bad mutation in our DNA replication that causes telomere shortening.
Either deity is not very good at it and therefore not especially worthy of worship, nonexistent, or is purely limited to setting up the laws of physics. I think people should come to their own decisions in regards however.
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May be better to do carbon capture/sequestration shoreside and offset CO2 released that way.
If it can be scaled up Solid-State Hydrogen Storage may work too.
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4 hours ago, mistermack said:
I wouldn't want to work on a hydrogen powered ship. It would need very high pressure, to keep the fuel a reasonable volume. Any leak would be very dangerous. In any case, it would involve a lot of infrastructure to make and deliver the fuel.
If there was loads of very cheap hydrogen going to waste, it might make some sort of sense, but I don't see where that's coming from. Maybe you could use the hydrogen to make hvo from waste vegetable sources, if you wanted to waste a fortune. That could be used without changing the engines or infra-structure.
I was thinking as a byproduct of O2 production for submarines. Would be pretty niche use case though.
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On 10/8/2021 at 5:25 PM, mathematic said:
Examples 210=102, 310=112
Definitely aids in clarity to add subscript when dealing with different bases.
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10 hours ago, dimreepr said:
Sunak needs more money???
It's also hard to see a positive legacy from the next person who picks up the challis...
You rarely hear from the rich man who is content with what he has.
I think you are placing too much faith in leaders caring for the legacy they leave behind. Sunak could simply bounce once he finishes.
23 hours ago, mistermack said:I do too. You have to be a certain age to have lived through the periods of crazy inflation that we had in this country. It pervades and infects everything like a virus. Liz Truss's tax cutting agenda will just feed inflation, which is already starting to feed on itself. And increased public borrowing, at a time when we should be planning to pay for the billions that have been spent keeping things running during Covid, is just going the wrong way up a one-way street.
Personally just concerned she'll sign UK up to more lopsided trade agreements and/or further harm UK's trade with the EU.
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9 hours ago, dimreepr said:
I can't imagine the mindset of someone who would want that poisoned challis...
Lots of money in it.
8 hours ago, mistermack said:I would say that Sunak is the more likely to win an election. On a purely image presentation level, both could do better. They both smile too much, and come across as too eager to please, but Liz Truss is much worse in that regard. Johnson got it about right, and that was partly why he was popular.
They both need to slow down, not jump in too eagerly with their answers, and smile just now and then, not nearly all the time.
Also, Sunak's message of balancing the books rather than dishing out tax cuts would sit better with general election voters.
Unfortunately for him, the leadership election is by Tory party members, and they seem to be favouring Liz Truss's tax cutting agenda. But maybe, when push comes to shove, they will go for Sunak because winning the election has nearly always been their first priority.
You can bet your life that Starmer will be praying that Truss wins. Well I would, if I was in his shoes.
Yeah I don't know. I just see Sunak as best from an economic/business standpoint.
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HTML = Hypertext Markup Language
You are marking up or indicating how you want some text displayed.
Your browser interprets the underlying HTML text when it displays a web page.
W3 Schools has a good tutorial if interested:
https://www.w3schools.com/html/
Most websites use JavaScript as well, which is another coding language like Python.
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10 hours ago, Existential Dreams said:
The two new clones that looking to replace him are a joke , some voters who voted for Conservatives are going to vote for labour now because of who might be left in the job of prime minster .
Think Sunak would be the better of the two. One would hope he'd at least be pro-business. Could still avoid the one scenario, WTO terms with retaliatory tariffs and Nontariff barriers.
Still be funny if the Countess of Cheddar won.
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Recently been found that the rate that they shorten seems to play the larger role.
QuoteAlthough previous studies suggest that telomeres are involved in aging, no correlation has been found between the lifespan of a species and initial telomere length. Humans for example have shorter telomeres than mice (5–15 kb versus 50 kb) but have much longer lifespans.
A new study used high-throughput quantitative fluorescence in situ hybridization (HT Q-FISH) to measure at different ages telomere length in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from individuals of different species of birds and mammals (including mouse, goat, American flamingo, and Sumatran elephant), and calculate telomere shortening rate for each species. The results show that telomere shortening rate, but not initial telomere length, is a powerful predictor of species lifespan.
Complicating things is the fact that telomeres can be lengthened as well via telomerase.
Further complicating things is that only us Eukaryotes have this issue.
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The Earth isn't actually fixed at zero we just treat it as such. Sometimes it's potential can rise however and pose a risk.
Also have the Earth itself serving as half the loop at times.
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18 hours ago, Ni Mimi. said:
Hallo.
Answering your question with another, what if these Black Holes’re Heat Sinks?
In some sense they are(size dependent). Eventually Universe will cool enough though.
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2 hours ago, geordief said:
Too much to hope that he will go sooner?
I wonder how this will play out aside from tar baby's uninteresting fate.
Will the informal pact btw Lib Dems and Labour break down now that Labour has abandoned any faint hope of Remainers for a return to EU?
Will the Tories find someone ugly enough to replace the outgoing con man?
I'm guessing he'll actually go sooner. This really is a bad time to effectively not have top positions manned.
Realistically going to be a long road back to EU. I think a major demographic shift is coming for the UK but still early days.
I'd at least hope the different opposition groups will work together to blunt the impact in the meantime.
3 hours ago, dimreepr said:He's a bloviating buffoon, that we voted for; the tunnel is a mobius strip and the light we see is a train; maybe one day we'll stop kicking the can down the road and put it in the bin: that would be the end, until it's not...
Politics is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog their both biting.
You start the GoFundMe, I'll supply the tar and feathers.
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13 hours ago, toucana said:
The current tally now stands at 42 resignations from cabinet in just 24 hours - an all-comers' record. Johnson has also sacked Michael Gove the 'Levelling Up Minister' who was the first senior cabinet member to advise him to go. The full list of resignations is here:
And now the man himself:
https://www.axios.com/2022/07/07/boris-johnson-resignation-uk-prime-minister
I don't know about waiting around until October, but at least the end is in sight.
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1 hour ago, mistermack said:
I would have no chance. I didn't go to Eton.
One online class at Eton College in Canada and you're good to go!
Seriously, even just a few sane policies would make a world of difference for the UK. What gets me is that there's still plenty of money to be made while simultaneously doing what the UK needs.
Allowing Asylum requests to be made from outside the UK. Finding/Training all the inspectors/veterinarians needed. Building proper facilities in the UK for housing migrants and more housing in general for the public.
Hopefully get someone who can at least reset interational relations, if nothing else.
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IMO pet infections(and infections from pets) suggest natural zoonosis explanation is correct.
Suggest a fairly lengthy period of prior interaction.
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2 hours ago, TheVat said:
Yeah, my understanding of the SAA is that it's about building security and protocol. When they say "violate Senate rules" they mean what you do in the chambers, being disorderly, yelling, channeling Al Pacino in And Justice for All, that kind of thing.
They do that too but yeah they can go out and arrest as well.
QuoteIn the Air Mail Scandal of 1934 William MacCracken, former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, was sentenced to ten days of detention for destroying evidence under subpoena. MacCracken appealed his sentence to the Supreme Court in Jurney v. MacCracken. After losing his case he surrendered to Chelsey Jurney, Senate sargeant at arms, who detained him in a room at the Willard Hotel.
3 hours ago, iNow said:Understood, and courts have affirmed their authority on paper, but in practice it’s far more unlikely they’d be involved (it’s a small force that’s rarely ever activated): https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/RL34097.pdf
Yeah would cause issues with Seperation of Powers if we saw them used more often, but they could be called to haul people in necessary.
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Relevant bit from wiki:
QuoteThe Sergeant at Arms can, upon orders of the Senate, arrest and detain any person who violates Senate rules,[1] or is found in contempt of Congress.[3]
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6 hours ago, iNow said:
But congress does NOT have an enforcement arm. There is no sheriff or constable of the congress, for example.
So, they can “hold someone in contempt” but the actual “holding” part gets rather tricky. It’s more of a polite request akin to a “sternly worded letter.”
They do have a Sergeant at Arms.
They can arrest and hold people for a time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_at_Arms_of_the_United_States_Senate
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2 hours ago, Bufofrog said:
I start from the premise that FTL propulsion is impossible.
The first reason is relativity.
The second more important reason is that FTL travel can violate causality. The universe is very stubborn about some things. For instance the universe will not allow you to know your absolute velocity.
I think causality is another thing that the universe is stubborn about. I don't think any potential technology that could violate causality would actually work.
Might be able to leap outside volume of the observable universe and partially get around causality that way.
Would likely have to be a one-way trip though.
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On 5/31/2022 at 10:40 PM, AIkonoklazt said:
Randomness only provides another input to the algorithm. Again, the result is more symbol manipulation. It's not doing anything different, as the article indicated in section "Randomness and random number generators"
But it wouldn't remain just an input. The rules being applied can change the rules themselves in a nondeterministic fashion.
Programs do all exist in some form physically too. They're not really the symbols we might represent their doings as.
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On 5/29/2022 at 9:11 PM, AIkonoklazt said:
Shouldn't the byproduct of functions/upgrades be yet another function/"upgrade," whether software or hardware?
i don't see how or why opacity would induce a change in nature. Opacity is simply opacity.
Even if the machine gives perfect results, it still wouldn't be learning as the article shows.
It is theoretically possible for an AGI to perform all tasks it is given perfectly (i.e. perfect intelligence) without it ever being conscious. Intelligence (performance) and consciousness (presence of subjective phenomena), as stressed at the beginning of the article, are separate matters.
I don't see how every possible algorithm being created leads to an algorithm not being an algorithm. An algorithm's fundamental nature remains.
The author Jorge Borges wrote a story about the main character finding the infinite and randomly ordered 'Book of Sand'.Would one's transcription of page numbers from that book be an act of purely human creation?
If you create a program incorporating an external source of randomness, are the results, potentially every program and every calculation, purely your doing?
Speaking for myself this suggests algorithms can be as independent as we are and posses some separate agency. At the same time without that external randomness they can be as deterministic as a rock. Just depends.
On learning I'd say there's simply multiple options for finding a solution within a search space. Sometimes we lack previous knowledge to build upon too.
They might still be pretty dumb for a long time though. Like trying to compare an insect brain to ours. Very very fast but no ridiculous number of connections per neuron.
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What books did you read in school?
in Book Talk
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Lot of overlap with others
Island of the Blue Dolphins, Brave New world, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Good Earth, Siddhartha, Of Mice and Men, The Garden of forking Paths, The Awakening, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, 1984, Night
Science fiction and Fantasy recreationally.