See, what people fail to see is this requires not only Strong AI but also a programmed Malicious intent.
People keep assuming that if we build a robot that can emulate some of our thought, it will emulate our motives also
Since we program it, it will only emulate the motives we give it. Emulating motives that are abstract enough to eventually lead back to our demise are quite complex
so because they are intolerant that gives everyone else the right to be intolerant too?
I'm not arguing their worth as much as pointing out hypocrisy.
And I have no problem with that. But I do have a problem with you shoving it down my throat, as most people here want to do.
Just as you have a problem with me swearing you'll go to hell if you don't join me.
Yeah, everyone here, it seems, really has something against being accepting people's differences.
Maybe that's where the whole idea of beating people's operating systems over each other comes in...
I guess they have every right to feel this way with all the world problems directly connected to Religions.
Honestly it's my opinion that it's not a connection between religion and terrorism, it's a connection between education and terrorism.
And before you say: "But there's a connection between religion and education" I think it's inappropriate to call all "religious nut-jobs" uneducated. While I may be a "religious nut-job" I feel like I've chosen my religion not because I don't know any better, but because I believe.
Let me be the first in this group to quote Shepard Book:
"I don't care what you believe in, just believe in it."
Is "tolerance" so hard? You must be taking a lesson from those fundamentalists that like to beat you over the head with their book. I guess beating them back makes you feel better.
In Electronics, I was greatly inspired when I created an autonomous Remote Control car.
It was mostly fun because it went really fast.
I'm sure that Electronics projects require more then just simple training, but destruction isn't the only fun project.
In general, with the projects suggested so far I could see them not quite fiting what PShardlow is looking for:
things that are relevant to today's physics problems but could feasibly be completed by a pair of first-year undergraduates in 72 man hours.
The easy solution for interesting is always Classical Physics, but for something more "relevant" lasers might be fun...
The main thing that turned me away from projects were the long write ups, the sitting and waiting for data, experiments that take longer to set up then run. It might just be me, but I feel like if you avoid these, and let them choose a topic, then they might enjoy it more.
good point.
I have a few passwords. I always use my insecure one on forums, games, quick registration stuff.
And my more complex one for my bank account, etc.
The interesting thing is that number codes are the most common, instead of random words. or even the Username. Did Phpbb prevent the password from matching the username? That would be interesting to know.
Sure there's people that can take his place in advising him, but the more everyone knows about everything, the better decisions we can make in everything, especially things that have a direct impact on society.
It's irrelevant! Praising Obama for using technology is no different than something like praising him because he likes rock music.
You're right, of course, if Rock music permiated the culture, and knowing about it directly impacted an individual's capability to use it.
Technology has an amazing impact on all of us. It deeply pains me to see people com into an IT office and get down on their knees and beg me to help them with their computer because they basically have no idea how to operate this piece of silicon.
So you had me until you decided to say that knowledge of technology was worthless.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
