The only purpose of a neuron is to interface, so it IS the same thing.

"We don't know how" yet we have made artificial ones that interface correctly with real ones. There's some kind of logic error in there. I think it's a "No True Scotsman" sort of thing.

Who cares what's in the black box if you can perfectly replicate its outputs? That's like saying we didn't actually crack the Enigma code, when we actually knew everything the Nazis were saying to each other.

We don't know how a steel rod works either. You seem to want us to map out every atom of the thing over time to make sure that we know what is going on when we can bypass all the busywork with a little observation.

Stop being so stupid.

We don't know EXACTLY how birds work either. The knowledge we have is enough (for example, to build flying machines much better than birds), though. Saying we know NOTHING about them is just fucking stupid.

"That is pure hope as well as circular."

No, it isn't. Humans learn how to learn as babies.

And failing to differentiate between programming and machine learning automatically makes your opinion on AI completely invalid. That's like having someone who doesn't know the difference between a standard and an automatic giving you car advice. Extremely basic stuff that even normies should know.

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.

The same articles show up over and over. The first states that computers are about to do consciousness. The second states that consciousness is a mere illusion for humans, whose actions are truly run from deterministic unconscious processes. In both articles, there is some hero scientist, with the article most often based on that scientist's press release.

There is never a popular press article about how computers may never do consciousness, at least by any current definition of "computer," nor an article about how there are things human consciousness can do which no deterministic process can more than imperfectly mimic. Both of these positions are viable, and embraced by experts in various fields. By all current evidence, they may prove right. But it doesn't make for a hero story to write about someone who argues for these positions. "Discovering" that consciousness either essentially does nothing or that some computer advance is just about to do consciousness (or both!) is a "great" story. Editors like it. The public is impressed by the "brilliant" "counter-intuitive" revelation.

"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.

While always causing a heated debate, Asians generally score higher on average than Americans on IQ tests (Among white Americans, the average IQ, as of a decade or so ago, was 103. Among Asian-Americans, it was 106). I would argue that Asians aren't by in large more intelligent, but that they eat better and get more exercise.

See the recent study: The new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function.

Since 3 out of 4 Americans are overweight, what we are probably seeing in these IQ tests are diet and lifestyle in action on the national level.

And yes, I too agree that IQ tests aren't all they are cracked up to be. However, go to a Chinese buffet and look at the thin people in the restaurant. They usually work there. All the Americans are large, with plates piled up to the ceiling full of food.