treekiller

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   by treekiller 12y ago

   Author seems confused as to the naming of chemical elements. Just because the Russians might use different names for elements doesn't mean they have discovered chemically unique elements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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   by treekiller 12y ago

   so is this article about drugs, presumably a complex molecule involving many elements, or actual new chemical elements?
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   by treekiller 13y ago

   Hes not saying that the mind can't be replicated. Hes just suggesting that the approach is wrong, that many of the claims routinely made by AI are not supported by empirical observation. For example, that the neuron is a unit of the
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   by treekiller 13y ago

   It could call itself multi-level marketing and be golden. You just need to resell something tangible, like TF2 hats.
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   by treekiller 13y ago

   Math is so usefull in separating the wheat from the chaff though.
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   by treekiller 13y ago

   All this arguing about blacklisting ex-NSA/US intelligence misses the point. Ex-NSA will just lie about being NSA. A system of shunning will be pointless, or worse. Then it becomes a witch hunt. You have to start shunning based on
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   by treekiller 13y ago

   "That would still allow the NSA to subvert, compromise, or weaken proprietary Chinese or Russian military encryption standards" But would it? How would you distinguish? Why wouldn't they just use whatever is known to be off-