ThomasBombadil

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   by ThomasBombadil 11y ago

   I disagree. Less important, and no more important than a public library filled with books. It'd be a shame if it burned down, but the books are not the humans that wrote them. Those are long gone.
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   by ThomasBombadil 11y ago

   Well, yeah, but those rules will only be unique and useful for probably 5 or 10 dolphins. The rest of dolphin kind won't have any innate concept of the vocabulary they've developed. Grammar, syntax, vocabulary, implicit context, m
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   by ThomasBombadil 11y ago

   I want to say that they might've had a language at some point, but the damage whaling and fishing industries have wrought on them, might've had an effect on dolphins the same way more than a quarter century of no formalized school
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   by ThomasBombadil 11y ago

   So, if the distributed hardware infrastructure cluster supporting 10,000 EC2 mini compute instances is packed with 1,000,000 emulations of humans, how important are the physical data centers that encompass all their backups, master copies a
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   by ThomasBombadil 11y ago

   Consider the idea that this is a vector into the idea of machines being possibly equally important, or considered even more important than living humans, based on their capacity to accurately represent the continued presence of deceased hum