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by carapace 2y ago
> We tried that approach for the last 60 years. Have we really? I'm no expert, I'm asking. In any event, two wrongs don't make a right. The kind of vindictive punishment you advocate is itself wrong. Let's look at
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by carapace 2y ago
Even if what you're saying is true (and I grew up with dudes like you're describing) it's extremely important that those folks get due process. If we (the non-criminals) don't hold up the ideals of civilization then we
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by carapace 2y ago
I would say that the first-order Cybernetics (as exemplified IMO in Ashby's book) is all about symbolic formalism for "circular loops in causality", and that Second-Order Cybernetics is a species of mysticism (I hasten to add
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by carapace 2y ago
If you haven't already I highly recommend reading "Introduction to Cybernetics" by Ashby, it's got the nitty-gritty formalization that later "Second Generation" et. al. cybernetics drifted away from. You can ge
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by carapace 2y ago
Yeah this sort of after-the-fact character assassination is BS. People get jealous of other people's fame. One publicity photo and a little fame and you've got whole threads of folks tearing you down, "she was /just&#x
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by carapace 2y ago
"System design from provably correct constructs" by James Martin, although he doesn't properly credit Hamilton in my opinion: https://archive.org/details/systemdesignfrom00mart
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by carapace 2y ago
Of course they can picture things in their mind, that's how they see. To explain the not-joke: the things you see are not "out there" they are in your mind. Now of course the things you see through your eyes are there, but th
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by carapace 2y ago
No. Not any more. Programming should be as dull as operating a sawmill. I knew a guy, his construction company built half of Lake Tahoe back in the day. When he retired he built himself a work shop in the basement and made furniture until
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by carapace 2y ago
> And who has to build that shelter Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter https://www.habitat.org/carter-work-project > what about their freedom? I think they made good use of it. We in the USA are the wealthiest nation in the
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by carapace 2y ago
In Python: def L(): global index, tape if index: index -= 1 else: tape.insert(0, 0) def R(): global index, tape index += 1 if index >= len(tape): tape.append(0) table = {
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by carapace 2y ago
Fly. On Luna a human being can fly. You need wings and a large air-filled cave and then you can fly like a bird. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menace_from_Earth That alone would surely be worth the price of admiss
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by carapace 3y ago
It's hard to read > I was giving a lecture on genealogy and reparations in Amite, Louisiana, when I met Mae Louise Walls Miller. Mae walked in after the lecture was over, demanding to speak with me. She walked up, looked me in the e
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence by 2040(imaginingthedigitalfuture.org)
2 points by carapace 3y ago|1 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
I do understand the discussion. You don't seem to understand what explanation is. Saying "God did it" doesn't explain the origin of life. We may never have a scientific explanation for how life arose. It may be that
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by carapace 3y ago
Creationism doesn't explain anything. You don't have to take evolution on faith. You can write a computer program that demonstrates that selection among almost-but-not-quite identical entities with heritable properties generates
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by carapace 3y ago
> And what exactly is the output, other than talks and some programming learning tools for children? The papers and demos are the output. They were a research outfit, not a startup. OP claimed that Kay "never offers anything but t
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by carapace 3y ago
You are impressively wrong. He just wrapped up an incredible research program that demonstrated many concrete implementations of great computing ideas. > After 16 years of continuous research and important contributions toward its missi
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by carapace 3y ago
> Who will ensure the information is accurate? Why would we trust them (which is also a form of information). In the most general sense I think we are going to rediscover the value and necessity of honor (or descend into a dystopia not
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by carapace 3y ago
> programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his [Bernie Greenberg] office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say
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by carapace 3y ago
The lack of practical constraints on copying bits is exactly the rationale for the statement. Since the cost to copy information (once the original bit patterns have been crafted, which process is, as you point out, typically costly) is clo
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Some thoughts on memory, goals, and universal hacking(thoughtforms.life)
2 points by carapace 3y ago|0 comments
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by carapace 3y ago
People who live near orangutans say that they can talk but don't do it in front of humans because they don't want to be made to work.
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by carapace 3y ago
I hate to be negative, I do, but Shaun Overton is a fool. He's wasting an enormous amount of money, energy, and time to achieve approximately nothing when he could do so much more if he expended those resources on a non-idiotic projec
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by carapace 3y ago
I would assume that these methods, based as they are on living ecosystems (which are all about scaling: every species is capable of exponential growth), that these scale well. In any event, you might like this paper: "Ecological design
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by carapace 3y ago
This was worked out ages ago by John Todd in his work on what he calls "Living Machines" > Over the past 27 years, John Todd Ecological Design has completed projects on five continents dealing with waterborne waste streams rang
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by carapace 3y ago
So now we know why Gaia evolved humans: geological regulation of CO2 levels wasn't cutting it. She got sick of 57 million years of ice and made multicellular lifeforms to grow a better regulator.
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by carapace 3y ago
No, you need better insulation. (And maybe a rocket stove combined with a heat storage hypocaust.) https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2017/03/heat-storage-hypoc...
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by carapace 3y ago
I feel that people who are clever enough to raise this question are also clearly clever enough to answer it for themselves. Anyway, operationally speaking the difference is in how easily the matter in question can be digested by living thin
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by carapace 3y ago
If plastic pollution kills the plankton it's all over. We eat more fish than land mammals. If the plankton go, the fish go and we follow not long after. Oh yeah, edit to add, if the plankton go, the oxygen goes too, so we might see th
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by carapace 3y ago
That just puts the carbon into the air, where we do not want it. It would be better to bury it than burn it.

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