I've been pondering a thought experiment recently. Imagine an advanced robot equipped with cutting-edge AI. It's designed to create a digital replica of a human, matching their kinematics, voice, and facial expressions perfectly. In extensive testing, the robot made identical decisions and reactions as the human in all 1000 trials. So, is the human truly copied? And if the human passes away, what does that make the robot?

Score: 6, Required Reading

The main objective of Empires is to obtain commodities at ultra-low price, manufacture, sell and become rich in this process. I wonder what buying anything with a higher price is going to achieve. Maybe we'll see in our lives people living in huts and riding horses again? Living in the UK was the poorest part of my life, I feel sad to see it becoming even poorer.

But pays at same level as plumbers and jail officers. and Engineer is a very broad term in the UK, the guy who fixes the elevator is an engineer, the guy who model and design a rocket control law straight to embedded is also an engineer. I left the UK because the salary couldn't afford a family of 4. Being an engineer in the UK was the poorest part of my life as a whole, except as an intern maybe.

I thought the mistery was solved some time ago... Someone recorded the sound and people were able to detect a certain species of cricket at Cuba. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...

And things are now much more hypocrite. Since new generations won't be aware of slave/master, this sort of relationship can be indulged again with new names and different protocols. And it's much more easier to be racist without the confrontation... just ignore the existence, select only the favorites to positions that matter and create innocuous "affirmative action" roles with fancy names.

If they have a databank with all chinese male DNA, can they engineer a genetic targeted virus to kill those who don't have a specific genetic signature?

This is a false dichotomy. Everybody in most of western world enjoys the free market, but free doesn't mean unregulated or in anarchy.

Capitalism requires a free market: all agents have access to full information without meddling and then voting with your wallet will work fine.

But the amazon case is a clear conflict of interests: they control a marketplace and started to compete with others sellers at this marketplace. The information disponibility is assymetric, both from buyers as for sellers. This requires intervention from a higher regulation organization, since this is an unfair practice that damages the free market ( a fair one with correct information for all parts, not free as kill and get killed without consequences).

The towers are not mine... why should I care? Let the owners and insurance run after the criminals. Btw, after they have 5G working the interest will be on making me buy new hardware and pay through the nose for it. I'm bit tired of all this new cutting edge bullshit that requires putting a large sum of money for small increments of tech that breaks after 6 months.

All old people I know are greedy MF, every opportunity they have to exploit they do. Now that there is a disease to finish them, everybody is concerned about their health, except them! And now all young people will be unemployed and so on. I wonder also if this disease alert was put on steroids due to oil prices war. You know, economy going down, oil use going down, I can see a correlation but didn't figure all the details.

Considering it's a metallic oxide, shouldn't it be called a ceramic? Some ceramics can be superconductors and etc...

Not all humans have all the brain parts working at 100% efficiency...
From those who have the neural physiology working properly, most of them don't have proper education...
Of proper education, it goes beyond science and other crafts... maybe philosophy and some other traits like wisdom?
and even when you have all the conditions in place, there is no guarantee the subject is prepared to answer the "why"... it depends on many conditions and sometimes sheer luck.

So far as my understanding goes, this deep learning is a glorified automatized system identification, classification and some convolutions+LQG in line... hard to see how this will acquire some sentience.

Although I agree in general with this point of view, I think one of the concerns is:

Is it? Maybe there was something of value there that should have been saved? Or some meaningful connection about people that should make sense after centuries when studying some social circles? Who knows (or is entitled) for it?

But again, the fight against information rot is a fight against thermodynamic's 2nd law, and we all know it is deemed to lose.

I have to caption mostly because when the TV is loud enough to clearly listen what is being said, something will happen on screen: usually a door will knock, a scream, explosion here and there, police car. Or the music will become really dramatic (and loud). Of course this is incompatible with the fact that toddlers may be sleeping or I should be aware of their noises.
If the TV is set to a reasonable volume level, then the actors seems to be speaking behind a door. It could be solved with headphones, but sometimes it's better to just turn on the caption.
Further, some movies the dialog uses a specific accent or slang and for non-native speakers parts of the story goes missing.

I just wish the color of the subtitles were VERY easy to change (white is standard, but yellow always works!).

Print a small 140 Km/h sign
stick it in front of camera
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