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I 'liked' your last 2 posts, they contained a lot of 'reasonable' points. I also credit @"180 Proof"'s summary of your 'complaints' as 'stop picking o...
March 01, 2023 at 11:58
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I asked chatGBT to write me a song about 'what's emergent in humans.' Here's what I got: Verse 1: We are more than just the sum of our parts Our minds...
February 28, 2023 at 20:27
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Hah! I just checked again to see if I could set up an account and I was successful! :grin: They SAID they would send me an email when space was availa...
February 28, 2023 at 19:58
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Interesting, what cable did you use for the transfer? If it was a simple twisted wire pair telephone cable then you would have needed to modulate a di...
February 28, 2023 at 19:47
Many black folks would probably agree with you and I suspect just as many would not, and do care. I was not solely referring to black people, but to a...
February 28, 2023 at 19:23
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Nah, you forget, @Jamal would hold the dosh! Sounds fair to me! No, I will not offer a candidate AGI/ASI system that I am not convinced is self-aware....
February 28, 2023 at 18:29
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Sounds good. I always enjoyed teaching the network topologies of LAN's and WAN's. We used to use some old BBC Micro's and we built a small client/serv...
February 28, 2023 at 18:13
I use black as well, mainly, if I am trying to point someone out in a group of people who are not black. I don't know, if that IS problematic. Perhaps...
February 28, 2023 at 17:59
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Ok, I should have figured that!
February 28, 2023 at 17:28
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You can be the judge! I trust you (well, for £50 anyway). If you are not satisfied that the candidate system is self-aware and I am dead, then the cas...
February 28, 2023 at 17:00
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If I could offer you a replacement pinky for the one you have, with the following properties: 1. Aesthetically identical to the pinky you have. 2. Fun...
February 28, 2023 at 16:31
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I'm not so sure, perhaps 'orga' components will be as vital to the successful development of interstellar space, as any pure 'mecha.' I tried to emplo...
February 28, 2023 at 16:20
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:up: Looks like it's been fixed :clap: :rofl: I imagine you will sleep like an innocent child tonight, it's ok, you don't have to thank me. :blush: ht...
February 28, 2023 at 16:09
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Interesting, What op systems did you work on? I did some sub-routine work on syntax analysers and contextual analysers etc, using Pascal (HLL) into a ...
February 28, 2023 at 16:01
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Aw diddum's! do our issue's keep you awake at night? https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p06w4xcj.jpg
February 28, 2023 at 15:39
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Just based on my recent exchange with Alkis and our posts at: https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/13868/emergent/p26#:~:text=the%20human%20brain...
February 28, 2023 at 13:49
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Absafragginlootly! Perhaps yer just a tough dude Alkis, No fears my dears! :up: By the way, when you type @universness, don't use the @ on your keyboa...
February 28, 2023 at 13:44
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I will send £50 to @"Jamal", you do the same. As soon as an AGI/ASI gets created and convinces YOU that it is self-aware and conscious then @"Jamal" w...
February 28, 2023 at 13:38
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I really liked this response by Victor Toth on Quora to the question: To which degree can quantum mechanics be truly understood (Thinking about what R...
February 28, 2023 at 13:29
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Ah! Ok, I get your meaning now. Surely an ASI will send probes to places like Alpha Centauri and Barnards star. They are only a few light years away. ...
February 28, 2023 at 13:21
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Just a small TPF tech point ucarr. Have you noticed that your 'number of posts' variable seems to be stuck on 561! I noticed that it had not moved pas...
February 28, 2023 at 13:17
I am happy to go with, humans are not coloured, we are all 'shades.' Black and white themselves, are not colours, they are shades. We are also ALL MON...
February 28, 2023 at 13:00
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:lol: You continue to demonstrate you wordsmith skills! I googled 'intrastellar' and the only useful sentence I got was: Is the word intrastellar comm...
February 28, 2023 at 12:53
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No problem Alkis. I enjoy the challenge of the differences in our viewpoints, as I have always found you an honest interlocuter and those are not so e...
February 28, 2023 at 12:47
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Your own choice of link seems to define the term quite well: From that site, we have: What is artificial superintelligence (ASI)? Artificial superinte...
February 28, 2023 at 12:31
That's the only white people I have ever encountered (albino's). This is also the opinion of commander Shran in Star Trek Enterprise. :grin: https://y...
February 27, 2023 at 19:56
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I am a retired Computer Scientist who taught the subject for 30+ years Alkis. I am not exactly an AI neophyte.
February 27, 2023 at 19:46
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No, ASI is proposed, based on the current advances in AI and by an observed pace of advancement, indicated by such as Moore's law. A book contains kno...
February 27, 2023 at 19:38
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A future ASI maybe as comparable with the intellect of Anne Sullivan as you or I are comparable with the intellect of a chimpanzee. You are attempting...
February 27, 2023 at 18:59
https://youtu.be/zAWn4FO1MOw
February 27, 2023 at 16:02
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Yes, I do think long commutes are a waste of resources. I quite liked most of the imagery you invoked in: But, I didn't like the suggestion that in yo...
February 27, 2023 at 15:38
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Via population education, a better means of production, distribution and exchange, perhaps we can make the deserts bloom, build environmental friendly...
February 27, 2023 at 15:21
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You are merely trying to suggest a scenario which YOU think CURRENT automated systems could not deal with. I will leave such issues to the experts in ...
February 27, 2023 at 14:56
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A great clip. I had not watched this one, and I liked the 4 strands mentioned and the proposed connectivity between them. Last night, I watched this a...
February 27, 2023 at 13:34
You are welcome! It's bizarre to me that @"Gnomon" actually thinks we are doing him a favour, by encouraging him to explain more about his motivations...
February 27, 2023 at 12:48
Nae problem bruv! Your icon is still very cool looking, and I still envy your title of maths 'prof.'
February 27, 2023 at 12:32
I will take the liberty of repeating them here, to help remind @"Gnomon", that he should try to answer them and I confirm, that he does not need to pr...
February 26, 2023 at 14:08
I think you cut my quote, incompletely: instead of: I was not comparing our knowledge of Computing Science, I was suggesting my love of Computing Scie...
February 26, 2023 at 13:55
You are welcome to your speculations.
February 26, 2023 at 13:38
Yeah, brain chemistry is easily impacted. At least you have not lost your 'love' of maths. Absolute fluency in any language, is very hard to achieve, ...
February 25, 2023 at 16:03
Yeah, I've watched that lecture twice. It's great for reducing your model of the universal fundamentals from the baryons (protons, neutrons, electrons...
February 25, 2023 at 14:23
You might find: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUANTUM PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE Interesting: From that site, we have: The most fundamental entities of matte...
February 25, 2023 at 14:10
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:lol: Fair enough, I don't know how to be anything else. Perhaps I need to consult a quantum physicist on determinism Vs quantum fluctuations.
February 25, 2023 at 13:09
I could not agree with you more sir!!
February 25, 2023 at 13:05
The first sentence from the site 'All about philosophy,' describes deism as: Deism is the belief in a supreme being, who remains unknowable and untouc...
February 25, 2023 at 13:03
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I agree with your suggestion that 'functionality' can be miniaturised but I have not really thought about how miniature something could be, but still ...
February 25, 2023 at 12:30
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I don't understand why you would ask such a question? Perhaps those who train guide dogs for the blind, for example, could explain it to you better th...
February 25, 2023 at 11:13
I think your issue here is that you see your issues in terms of getting pegged or being in holes. My aim has always been at your 'reasoning,' not your...
February 24, 2023 at 15:05
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Yeah I remember some of our early exchanges, and my labelling of you as a doomster. I think I was wrong in that accusation ...... but ...... sometimes...
February 24, 2023 at 12:37
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Yes, I know. I know, that's why I typed and
February 24, 2023 at 11:51