Journal Captain Splendid's Journal: Can a fetus pass a Turing test? 15
I ask not because I think granting inalienable rights to a chickpea embedded in a uterine wall is silly, but because we've obviously been oppressing our computers with standards that are far too onerous.
Particularly as geeks, we should be ashamed of such bigotry. So I call upon all of you to liberate your machines and demand an even playing field.
You know it's the right thing to do.
Particularly as geeks, we should be ashamed of such bigotry. So I call upon all of you to liberate your machines and demand an even playing field.
You know it's the right thing to do.
Depends on the Turing Test (Score:2)
Not the classical one, but the other one based on Godel's Incompleteness Theorem- from that standpoint any cell with more than 64 genes can outperform just about any CPU I've heard of yet. So much so that Toshiba is still working on RNA-based memory cores (though they haven't had much progress yet).
It's just that for the fetus, 100% of computing power is dedicated to replication for the first few stages- if you wrote different software for it, you could get all sorts of interesting things out of undifferen
Blastomeres sure can't (Score:1)
So you can forget about stem cells then.
(note I work on Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and Lipids - all of which are impacted by today's decision - which means we can stop using Canadian and European stem cell lines and their cDNA)
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Any bets on how many people who wept and gnashed their teeth about stem cell research will more than happily reap the benefits of said research without a second thought? If W was paralyzed five years from now, and by then we were able to restore function using stem cells, you can bet your ass he would happily line up to get his stem cell injection.
I'm just glad research labs can now combine everything together, instead of having things separated in an asinine way to qualify for government funding.
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Exactly. What really gets me is this whole wasted eight years just meant we had to take up to a year longer to get the research through other sources, and then get the permissions, when all it ever meant was added costs and added time that just got in the way of science.
The people who whine the most about stem cells and abortions are actually the people who end up using them the most, in practice.
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Great comments by real scientists on that thread, even if Pudge continues to declare the sky is Zebra-striped ...
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I loved how he pulled the "Federal funding of scientific research is unconstitutional" card. I'll have to be sure to remind him of that if he bitches about funding for one of his pet issues being cut such as Pentagon weapons programs.
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It's hardly worth it. Facts only strengthen the resolve of the ideologue. He's like watching the fly trying to get through the window.
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Great comments by real scientists on that thread...
Are you referring to Pudge or RailGunner?
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That's merely a clonk on the head. mktable is murder.
Red Rum! Red Rum! Red Rum! (Score:1)
That's merely a clonk on the head. mktable is murder.
Give me a fucking hammer and I'll show you murder! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Touring (Score:2)
Babies can't pass Turing tests, either. I'm reminded of a Monty Python skit where researchers are giving IQ tests to non-native speakers and some animal, and the animal beats the foreigners.