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by elemenohpee 15y ago
> We are, however, more than bodies that breed genes. We have developed into something that goes beyond the substrate from which we came and we owe it to ourselves to some day outgrow the need for that substrate completely. I'm not sure
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
The species over the individual "narrative" exists because it is a fact of evolution. Life is a pattern of self-replication, and it is at the level of the gene that natural selection works to make this pattern more robust. The whole conce
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
How about "people"?
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
Is this why Reddit is down?
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
Then what does "real time" mean in this context?
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
I'm specifically talking about general AI. I don't think we're any closer to that than when the problem was first posed. Although I'm willing to change my mind if you make a good argument for it.
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
The lack of AI progress in the last 30 years is not a good sign. You're also ignoring things like the materials that have come out of studying the pads on geckos' feet.
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
> Given the long life we think DVDs by mail will have... Yes, shipping pieces of plastic around is the way of the future.
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
I'm about as far from an expert as you can get, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable can shed some light on this: "A classical computer seems to need time exponential in n to predict precisely the behavior of a general quantum mechanical
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by elemenohpee 15y ago
Selective permissions sounds like a bad idea to me. I can just see users thinking, "Why does my music player need access to my call state?" Disallow. Waaaah, why does my music not stop when a call comes in? 1 star. For the most part, deve
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by elemenohpee 17y ago
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01hr_eNJaIcrijj1JY2UqLGA==... Help me out!
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by elemenohpee 17y ago
Yeah I thought the article was a little misleading on that point. They made it seem like the human input was improving the OCR algorithms.
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by elemenohpee 17y ago
yep: http://chemistry.about.com/cs/howthingswork/f/eyecolor.htm )
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by elemenohpee 18y ago
I don't think the idea that the universe is finely tuned for life(not necessarily life as we know it) is that unreasonable. I dislike the idea of a creator for the obvious reason that you run into an infinite regression. What created the