Comment Re:The Text (Score 1) 727
What do you think this is, wikipedia?[citation needed]
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"What do you think this is, Wikipedia?" was referenced in an episode of Family Guy, when Stewie BUSH SUCK RETRADS HAHAHAH
What do you think this is, wikipedia?[citation needed]
Cultural References
"What do you think this is, Wikipedia?" was referenced in an episode of Family Guy, when Stewie BUSH SUCK RETRADS HAHAHAH
I think this is going to play havoc on people's understanding of the internet. Most people already think IE is the internet, but at least they knew that google was a thing on the internet. Now Google is going to be another internet that looks like a sort of three-colored button, next to the old internet that looks like a blue "e", and on both you can have Google, but you can't have the blue e on the Google internet.
Expect some calls from confused family members, people.
This also means that various software updates need to be installed when the machine boots, which makes a boot time of 15 minutes seem quite realistic (these corporate software management systems are usually horrible pieces of crap).
That depends on where the nondeterminism comes from. If it arises from a chaotic process, then the system (if not the exact behavior) can be modeled in a computer. Computers can approximate this kind of non-determinism very well. (Strictly speaking it's deterministic, but given some non-zero measuring error it becomes non-deterministic).
If the non-determinism stems from some quantum process, and this is truly the key to intelligence then there may be some trouble (I think this is Penrose's thesis), but I really seriously doubt that this is the case. Neurons by themselves are pretty simple machines. It's the fact that there's 20 billion of them that makes AI a difficult question.
The emergence of intelligence from a large interconnected network of simple machines is the problem. I can't imagine that the whole system is chaotic, but small bits of it may be, to provide some kind of randomness to the brain. Considering how easy it is to write a random number generator on a deterministic computer, I doubt this will be a big part of the problem either.
Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should.