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Comment Re:Ah! (Score 1) 354

Computers already experience the world through mice, touchpads, touchscreens, cameras, etc...
Humans use sensory apparatus to experience the world why would it be any different for a computer?

The original claim was that you can just speed up the computer and have it experience a lifetime in a minute. If it experiences the world through a webcam, that is going to be a lifetime spent looking at some guy's face looking left and right every other year.

What kind of insight is that computer supposed to gain from that?

Comment Innovation? (Score 0) 124

I look at that, and I see nothing but copying things others have done better before. What is the point of this? Just being a cheaper version of the same thing we already have? Why would anybody care?

Say what you want about Microsoft and Windows 8, but at least they actually tried building something on their own, instead of directly copying what was popular.

Comment Re:Funded by Koch brothers and Getty family ... (Score 1) 355

It can also be explained by aubergines and the Fairies at the Bottom of your Garden.

You have no idea what the words "can explain" mean in a scientific context. What you just said is just plain wrong.

The Sun is the most reasonable explanation.

Except that this very study, which was done with actual data by people who actually know things, clearly says it isn't.

You just believe that because you want to, not because there is any evidence for it.

Comment Re:Huh? (Score 0) 246

They couldn't delete a vanishingly tiny fraction of the infringing files they hosted.

The whole thing is a complete non-issue, which is being pumped up by Dotcom because he knows the internet will eat this stuff up no matter how dishonest it is.

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