Comment This might work, but... (Score 2) 55
This might work, but there's one problem. In order to start it up, you have to successfully plug in to all those USB sockets on the first try.
This might work, but there's one problem. In order to start it up, you have to successfully plug in to all those USB sockets on the first try.
for that matter, if you had the single shot vaccine as a kid, you should go in for a second shot (it's now done as two).
As an over 50 who had a bad case of chickenpox as a child, they gave me the two shot sequence a year or so ago.
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My youngest brother got it at pre-school. Some of the mothers up the street wanted to send their kids to play so as to catch it (this was the late 70s). He basically had some spots and had to stay home.
It spread to may sister, who was first grade or so. Her case wasn't as mild, but was still basically a two week vacation.
She gave it to my 7th grade brother and 9th grade me. And *those* were another story.
My mother told me to stop complaining, because I could have it as bad as he did.
And the next day I was worse than him, and not by just a little!
She took my temperature at 105F, and somehow managed to get me to the bathtub despite my delirium and being much larger. [it doesn't take long for that tempt to do brain damage].
And after that, it was sit in the big living room chair, and try to find a position that didn't rub, and stay all day without moving.
It was reasonably consistent back then that the older the child, the worse the case.
And without knowing that a vaccine was around the corner, childhood chickenpox was about the only protection against adult shingles (and oh so far from perfect!)--thus the mothers wanting to send kids to catch it!
>DOJ Complaints never go this far-afield.
Really?
IBM was sued for "predatory advancement of technology" or something similar, for coming out with a triple disk drive before competitors had matched the capacity of a single.
Brown Shoe (a manufacturer) was sued to block the merger with Kinney's (a retailer), which had 5% and 1% of their respective markets (or do I have that backwards). The DoJ argument was that this would let them sell a product of comparable quality at a lower price.
The list of such things goes on, but those are my two favorites.
It wasn't Microsoft that killed beOS, but hubris.
They thought they had apple over the barrel, and stuck to a price so high that apple was able to acquire a Jobs with a free operating system attached for the same price.
be just didn't think that apple had any other alternative. oops.
That left them needing to try to sell for PC hardware, and there weren't all that many folks for whom it's preemptive multitasking was a golden arrow.
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The red book for Apple ][, or it didn't happen . . .
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actually, people being too lazy to take an hour out of their day to recycle their waste is about the same as people being too lazy to take 10 minutes to look into the most basic facts of an issue before they voice an opinion is to blame
people are lazy and problems shared among all people means nobody or anything specific is "at fault"
Silly me for thinking the mag stripe had a unique 128-bit number on it, tied to your stay dates and room number.
What Summer intern came up with a design where possession of the card's information would permit entry after you've checked out?
There's the kind of smart that gets you a tech job. Then there's the kind of smart that knows better than to go balls deep financing a Bay Area home and a luxury car. There's the kind of smart that knows the cops can crash your party any time. I know I've got it, but I kind of wish I'd had the 3rd kind of smart that pounds just a little while longer; but that brings us to yet another kind of smart: The kind of smart that goes in to work the day after your doctor says your blood pressure is high, and makes you think about how all the money isn't worth it if job stress kills you before 50.
Games are fun. Put $5 million in prize money on the line, and games are business. From a certain PoV, hacking the game just for fun reclaims the purpose of gaming.
There's no problem with control if you don't give it too much power.
The not-very-subtle issue is that regardless of the limits put on hardware, the people using the hardware may not be subject to effective limits. Which is how we got Putin, Hitler, Trump, Pol Pot, McCarthy, McConnell, Stalin, Mao, etc.
People have a disturbing habit of taking up crazy and harmful ideas regardless of the source. All an AI really has to do is source the ideas. There will be people who will be delighted to take it from there.
Major Pain would like a word.
The point is, that there is no sound scientific basis for claiming "it is all just known Physics" at this time
Since everything, literally everything, we think we understand today has fallen squarely into "100% just known physics", yes, we can have pretty high confidence that the things we learn tomorrow will do the same. I do agree it is (vaguely, hand-wavingly, extremely low-order probability) possible we might need some new physics, but given the physical constraints of our fleshy machinery, (a) it seems really, really unlikely and (b) without discovering a mechanism that requires same, there's little point in claiming that is the case.
At various points in time we didn't understand X, but later on, we did understand X, and every time that threshold is crossed, the answer has been "100% known physics." To say that because we don't understand Y yet means "might not be known physics" seems to slyly imply that it might not be physics at all, which our experience with reality does not support. Just in case you were leaning that way.
While it would be magnificently interesting to find something that does not fall into that classification, no one has done that yet, and there's no particular reason to expect anyone to, either. Because it has never happened.
We don't know how the brain works or what consciousness even is. Until we figure those out there will not be any real progress towards strong AI
It's worth noting that some developments come from somewhat randomly throwing things at the wall to see if they stick. Often, those doing the throwing are just as surprised as the rest of us when something does stick.
Consider: To have a machine (a robot, more or less) formed as human arm throw a baseball well, the usual approach takes some really heavy math. We, on the other hand, do it without understanding that math at all. There are a lot of folks working on various approaches to what we can loosely call "computational intelligence", and it is possible (not saying likely, just possible) that this will result in an intelligence.
After all, that's how nature did it. Multiple times. In multiple ways. Without knowing how intelligence worked.
That human brain is the product of millions of years and way more Watts of energy input, coupled with the threat of knowing it'd be killed if it didn't perform adequately.
GPUs don't even know they're going to be obsolete. The first chip that can fear may have an advantage.
Hackers of the world, unite!