Comment Re:NOT a Chinese released panorama (Score 5, Informative) 125
Well, in fact one of the commenters in this article linked to a set of much nicer pictures
were strongly at variance with well-established beliefs
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Isn't that how most, if not all, scientific discoveries are made?
Your brain is a machine. It can be understood, decompiled, analyzed, improved and reimplemented
None of that achieves consciousness. I don't believe in souls, but I do believe in consciousness. Can it be said that consciousness is a form of singularity? The point is, to achieve consciousness you will need "calculations" of a different order than anything we have now.
Life's a bitch, then you rejuvenate and do it all over again
Come on man, get off it now. I don' t understand this attitude that makes developers responsible for the fact that malicious or evil people spread vriuses, deface web sites, hack servers etc. What the fuck? By accruing pressure on developers for more secure software, we are completey ignoring the root problem. Worse, we actually encourage it, give it a certain validity.
It's not the developers that are bad,there's a bunch of people out there making the internet look like it's constantly under siege - which it is, as far as I can see. The real problem is that our society is sick, for only a sick society would permit, even encourage such things. Than's what we need to address, now.
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
