I was thinking of making some louvers for my car, which mysteriously had all four missing when I got it. Buy one, scan it, and make the other three with the printer. Should be the perfect application, and would save me about $75, assuming the plastic costs nearly nothing.

"no one knows how they work."

Shut up. We sure as hell DO KNOW how neurons work. We've even built artificial ones. https://hacked.com/swedish-sci...

mbeckman fails to grasp the core concept behind machine learning and AI. They aren't programming a computer to do things, they are programming a computer to learn things (or at a more advanced level, are programming a computer to learn how to learn things).

He dismisses the whole concept like it is some kind of mechanical turk, but it is real, and it is getting better every day.

Jesus, read a fucking book. Short of that, read a fucking wiki page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

And I NEVER said the US had anyone's best interest's at heart other than their own, but that is beside the point. They moved away from government control, and the direct result was that people stopped starving. This is very, very fucking simple. The more state control their is, the more impoverished the people, PERIOD. If state intervention "worked" as you claimed, then there would have been no need for reforms, because Spain would have been a magical paradise where the dictator commanded the tides and economic growth was shat out by flying unicorns on command. But that wasn't the case, and never has been, there, or anywhere else with a massive state control apparatus.

You dumbassed statists are simply too stupid to understand the concept of a spectrum, so you can't make any kind of reasonable assessment of any situation, which is why every time you are put in charge, you destroy everything, leaving nothing but crumbling monuments to your own ineptitude.

Left wing governments do exactly the same thing, so the distinction is meaningless.

There is only freedom and oppression. Both left and right fall under the umbrella of oppression.

"1) Falangism (fascism, the Spanish version), as well as nationalcatolicism were not abandoned by Franco till his death in 1975."

You can say that, but it's wrong. The US intervened and forced free market refoms starting in the 60's. Franco was forced to comply or be killed. This is what you call a "quasi-coup".

The CIA is/was very, very persuasive when it came to such things.

The Spanish Miracle didn't happen until after the free market reforms were imposed. If you can't even get basic facts straight, I would suggest you crawl back into your hole, you idiot goon.

Following the path of the US (democracy and economic freedom), and following the path the the CIA forced on other countries (shut up and do what we say or die), are two very different things.

Awww, did I insult your favorite method of mass murder? I'm so sowwyyy :((((((((((((

Literally die, please.

I think the successes of that era were probably due to the abandonment of fascism for the free market you hate so much rather than the other way around, commiefriend.

It was EXACTLY in the 60's when there was a quasi-coup that forced Franco to adopt economic liberalization.

Fact is, their continued intervention in the market only held them back, and is a large part of the reason why Spain is a basket case today. Had they taken the path of freedom, they would have advanced as Germany and Britain did.

"I'm lazy, so I'm just going to throw my money at someone at random rather than taking an evening to read up on how to be an effective giver"

Ok.

http://www.effectivealtruism.o...

You keep using that phrase "day one". I do not think it means what you think it means.

I never said we would have AGI robots on "day one". I said that by the time with have robots with AGI, they will be able to repair themselves without continuing support from the manufacturer.

We have shared AI resources RIGHT NOW, including a massive skill repository on Youtube that some AI's are already using to learn tool use.

There are already numerous databases of shared resources dedicated to AI, to say nothing of Youtube how-to videos and text based instructions, which they can read a few million times faster than a human.

And yes, that does assume that it has both mobility and dexterity. Why on earth would you have an AI robot that didn't have those things? So it can look at you and have deep thoughts? You can do that with a computer and a webcam.

Yes, it is. The context in which it was used IS FAIR USE, PERIOD.

Yes it does, when it isn't lazy nor bound by bias and social convention, and has direct access to the knowledge and experiences of every robot and AI ever made. You teach one AI how to solder a circuit board, that knowledge gets put into a common repository, and suddenly they ALL know how.

Saying that a strong AI controlled robot can't do something because a human can't is like saying that a computer can't do huge numbers of calculations in a second because a pigeon can't.

No, that's stupid, and you are stupid. Just stop posting.