bumbledraven

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by bumbledraven 19y ago
You are suggesting that there may be some aspect of humans which (a) can be observed by another un-augmented human over a low-bandwidth TTY and (b) can never -- at any point in the future -- be simulated by a computer, no matter how compl
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
[Consciousness] is human. If one or more aspects of being human aren't computable, then it's plausible that computers will never pass the Turing test. You seem to be saying that a computer would have to actually be human or be conscio
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
I have never heard of any such thing, and neither has Google. I suspect you are very confused. Can you give an example of an "undefinable formal system" and say (1) how it satisfies the definition of "formal system" and (2) the sense in whi
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
What does consciousness have to do with it? Eventually there will be machines that are capable of passing the Turing test or something similar. The singularity is what happens next. ``To the question, "Will there ever be a computer as smart
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
It would be very hard to argue that the singularity won't arrive eventually, provided humans survive long enough. It's just the date that's tough to predict. Sure, computing power has been growing exponentially, but as they say, "past perfo
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
They intense and worthwhile. I did my first one back in high school. http://novemberfive.blogspot.com/2007/11/ten-days-story-of-m...
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Ten Days: The Story of My Meditation Retreat(novemberfive.blogspot.com)
7 points by bumbledraven 19y ago|2 comments
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
He's got a point, but Peter Naur said it better in Programming as Theory Building . http://www.zafar.se/bkz/Articles/NaurProgrammingTheory
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
The author is misinformed in many ways. To pick an easy example, he says that "the relationship between objects is built into the objects", and as an example cites, "An invoice knows as part of its structure , who the customer is. That p
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
I don't think so. This comment by Peter on the original article summed it up well: "What gets PG's goat, it seems, is that relatively privileged, smart, hard-working kids should want to participate in this awful existence known as 'the 9 to
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
http://appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/uploads/whatisai.pdf A Positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry I started reading this and was amazed. It's written for organizations but it rings true when read as applying to an individual
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
Free 10-day Buddhist meditation retreats, incl. room & board, at one of the many Vipassana Meditation Centers world-wide ( http://www.dhamma.org ). Very old-school; the real deal. The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt ( http://www.amazon.com/ex
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
I'll probably use H&R Block's Tango http://hrblock.com/tango next year.
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by bumbledraven 19y ago
Spot the grammatical error: "By 7:30 p.m., hunger pangs had taken hold. Someone ordered Chinese food. A security guard lay out a buffet spread."