Recent content by 256bits

My Flat Earth lameness did indeed go flat.

What a dumb AI. Phoooy. The orange route is driving from LA to NY, and hopping on a boat to France. Everyone knows that airplanes fly, and to do so they go up and they come back down. The 'dumb' route is the airplane flying. It's like the same as if you could throw a ball from LA to Paris...

I passed by the YouTube topic when it randomly came up in my exploration, of why early movies had the actors with high contrasting makeup. This is surely part of the explanation. Just a short read said that the film/camera could not see their faces.

I was using the corporation as a black box in real life terms, an analogy of not knowing what is inside, perhaps comparing it to the Chinese room. in fact, in some instances it is very difficult to find out who is in charge of a company, especially numbered companies and those of not bricks and...

Is it a virus that can make it's own proteins; or a cell that lacks ability to metabolize. Newly discovered 2024 Specific Characteristics of Sukunaarchaeum Mirabile • Smallest Archaeal Genome: This microorganism has about 283,000 base pairs. This is far smaller than typical archaea. Such...

Nevertheless, a corporation has rights, whatever it is called. Corporate personhood is legalese implying characteristics of some sort of sentient behavior, In fact, corporate rights can come in conflict with the rights of the human individual. If sentient AI's do ever come about, and are...

Should a corporation be considered as being alive with intelligence? Is the corporation an organism? Within the human world, corporations have an identity, a lifetime, can pro-create, have death, agency, decision making structure ( management ), emotions. Corporations have been given legal...

Is that a variation of the Turing Halt problem? Is that what the authors are attempting to discuss, ie that the universe cannot be run on a finite Turing machine? since some mathematical algorithms are not computable. You may be correct that their interpretation is self-referencing and perhaps...

I suppose risk assessment of some order is required. similar to parachutes for airplanes.

I bet this part of early 1900's was not covered in class. Rise of the Automatons

Once found out, the item becomes not the item it once was. High value paintings have been presented as being the real thing, until a fatal flaw expose it as a fake. There is a test being done on the item to expose or deny. The argument for AGI is that, can any testing be done to find out.

This once again is holding absolutist principles, which in itself is not incorrect, just a viewpoint regarding human interactions. Why I say it is absolutist is the following: Is the thief who gets caught and suffers the consequences, and having suffered the consequences, now a better person...

One can be immersed in the simulation ( be it interacting on PF or playing Call of Duty ) so that it becomes real-ish to some extent. For PF, there is some inference made as if one is interacting one on one face to face. Since PD has guardrails, behavior can be similar to physical interaction...

And cows always think the grass is greener in the udder side if the fence. How do we know cows are Christians? .

Never say never. I thought we would never locate planets orbiting other stars. I thought we would never see a Disney Snow White film flop. I thought we would never witness western world chaos. I thought we would never see someone so dumb as to build a substandard submersible to see the Titanic...