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Comment Re:This is the plot for "The Blob", isn't it? (Score 1, Insightful) 39

What kind of baloney pansy shit is the phrase "Just Because You Can, Doesn't Mean You Should" ?? There are many useful things that can be done with it .. everything from studying how cells work to a platform for protein production. Just because you lack the IQ to see the value in something doesn't mean it has no value. We need science to advance. We need the attitude: "every experiment you can do is worth doing" (unless you know it will fuck shit up) .. forget the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" weak ass mentality. Nothing would ever get done with such an attitude.

Comment Foccused ultrasound but yes. (Score 1) 37

microwave labotomy ... We just put the machine against your head here for a bit and those bad urges go away, all better.

Another poster mentioned that it's actually focussed ultrasound.

Still sounds like breaking a piece of a system by stirring the brain with a knife (lobotomy) or burning it out with heat (cauterization), electricity (electroshock) or mechanical shock (blow to the head) - just carefully focused without (substantial) damage to other parts of the brain or its casing.

Ultrasonic destruction of a piece of the brain's reward/punishment/desire/avoidance mechanism rather than persistent unwanted fat.

Comment Re:Human brain (Score 3, Interesting) 111

Yeah but the computer is running millions of move simulations, but a grandmaster is doing 1 millionth of that computation and still playing well. If we restricted the computer to only do a few thousand evaluations per second it would fail miserably. Same thing with self-driving a car. A human can learn with 20 hours of driving school, meanwhile the FSD training models need tens of billions of miles driven in simulation and all kinds of scenarios reasoned through for it.

We're missing some fundamental thing(s) when it comes to computation. I have no idea what it is -- we only know that there's a way to do it but we don't know how. Somebody, or AI itself will figure it out soon (like within a century, maybe even a decade or two).

Comment Human brain (Score 1) 111

Reminder of what I read in a magazine some decades ago, that the human brain utilizes just 25 to 50 watts and uses electric and chemical impulses while immersed in conductive fluid. When playing chess, a grandmaster can evaluate at best about 6 moves per second while a computer evaluates millions .. yet the computer is only two or three times better than a human.

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