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by dejb 17y ago
The Turing tester would need to be deliberately testing to see if the other party was a bot for the test to be convincing. This is the 'standard interpretation' of the Turing test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#The_standard_inter
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by dejb 17y ago
To pass the Turing test AI would most likely need to be a lot more intelligent than humans. Being able to convincingly emulate something is harder than merely running your own 'native operating system'.
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> There are actually a lot of people arguing that animal life is equivalent to human life. The reference you've provided doesn't really speak to the absolute or relative number of who hold this view. They certainly exist but I'd say the
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by dejb 17y ago
> if in vitro meat does deliver on its promises of lower-cost, more sanitary meat, you're probably just trading less animal suffering for more human suffering: You could argue this for any technological development. So the reduction of
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by dejb 17y ago
The distinction between meat and non-meat would likely fade if that was the case. Of course you'd probably be able to control both the nutritional and taste characteristics of the food produced which would be a big benefit as well. .
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by dejb 17y ago
Actually for a lot of people who chose not to eat meat the pain inflicted on animals is a significant part of the problem. I don't think there are too many people who are arguing that an animal life is the direct equivalent to a human life.
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by dejb 17y ago
Applying the words 'scientifically false' to any unproven proposition is ridiculous. Under that criteria most statements made by people would be 'scientifically false'. What point would there be in saying that? When a statement is made in
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by dejb 17y ago
There are some great points here but I'm not entirely sold on the 'Right Brain Optimistic' , 'Left Brain Pessimistic' part. I'd say the Right Brain is often great early warning mechanism for a lot of people (i.e. that gut feeling that somet
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by dejb 17y ago
'There are studies that swing either way' <> 'scientifically false' That is my whole point.
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One study such as this does not offer conclusive evidence. If you actually read all the way through the article you linked to you would see that there are numerous problems with the headline interpretations. One example 'The appendix of the
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by dejb 17y ago
Yes some evidence please. The most recent paper that supposedly 'debunked' the differences in nutrients actually did show some differences but the authors chose to describe them as negligible. The study certainly did not seem comprehensive
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by dejb 17y ago
I agree opportunity cost is important but you don't really have the option of not 'spending' your time anyway. So you need to evaluate the different ways you could spend that time otherwise you will just waste it. Maybe you'd want to give a
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by dejb 17y ago
You probably should add some more vegetables by the sounds of it.
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I'll bet they do but they can only detect the most obvious cases. It would be possible for website to sell links that even a human couldn't identify as sold, so there are limits to what their algorithms could achieve.
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by dejb 17y ago
OK here's an argument for why you could be right. Whatever it is that distinguishes consciousness for what computers can possible do is also the thing that makes you realise that computers can't be conscious. If you could logically write th
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by dejb 17y ago
When you have things of value that can be sold or exchanged you will allways have a market. If some authority tries to ban the exchange then it will be a 'black' market. The harder Google tries to enforce their policies the more it will dri
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by dejb 17y ago
> 3gs for best experience Yes cause the only the 3gs (amongst iPhones) has a compass. So that isn't really relevant to the discussion of what the iPhone introduced to the world. Other phones had a compass (and GPS for that matter) a lot
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by dejb 17y ago
> There are many of us who prefer the command line, though. I prefer it too. But I never realised how much work setting up the LAMP stack could be. I must admit I was trying to set it up with php4 for a legacy system so that probable ma
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by dejb 17y ago
It might be more marketing and product related in your case. Also when people get to the $400 level they probably want to know that there is someone they can call you can physically access the server 24/7. It isn't clear that this is the ca
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by dejb 17y ago
> What wasn't okay was that you ignored his entire point for the sake of stating your beliefs. I replied to his iPhone related points first. Both of them. > not the original post, mind you, but the follow-up. When I posted the follo
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by dejb 17y ago
Why is it OK for someone to randomly bring their preference for bacon into the conversation but it is not OK for me to mention my preference against it? I actually thought my initial comment was pretty innocuous. The voting response to it a
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by dejb 17y ago
Seems like some people don't like being reminded of the truth. Every time you mention bacon it brings up images of animals being forced to spend their lives in cruel and squalid conditions. But it is better than the cognitive dissonance tha
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by dejb 17y ago
Lacking Flash in a browser or on a phone at all could be regarded as a shortcoming as well. A PPC phone could run flash from before the iPhone existed. > is not 240x320 half the resolution of 480x320? Is not 16bit color space not as dee
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by dejb 17y ago
I can only count one. Can you point the others out?
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by dejb 17y ago
So the iPhone was so great because it was so popular? Isn't that a bit self referential? Actually the stylus is pretty powerful. I'm considering getting one for my new Magic. Apart from being able to hand write it is quicker to type as well
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by dejb 17y ago
1-8 these apply to the US only. 9. Mobile devices were phones first and last, not usable handheld computers Pocketpc and Palm phones were fully fledged handheld computers for years before. If you don't believe me check the list of apps at
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by dejb 17y ago
Looks like this would work well for lot's mobile devices. Thanks.
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by dejb 17y ago
1. Sponsorships 2. Direct advertising 3. Adsense 1 + 2 are sometimes blurred 2 + 3 are sometimes reversed ...as the other guy said your own numbers don't add up. And furthermore they are out of order. ...and we try not to just break even
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In the long run this will be revolutionary for society. The benefits of being able to observe videos of ones self in sport are well recognised and they should carry over to ordinary life as well. 'Know thyself' could finally be possible (as
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by dejb 17y ago
I think Apple has a set of philosophies that makes it better suited to be a niche player. Didn't Jobs once say something about not being interested in price conscious users? Allowing non-app store programs would be a technically easy move t

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