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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: kindm's on November 13, 2005, 05:08:53 pm
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see mayan calendar.
Always with the mayan calendar!!
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So the Guide is that good?
lol, I did win a 25 dollar Barnes and Noble card from a raffle the other night.
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glaven!
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maybe book 1, but there are 5 of them in the series. If you could read them in one day, I would be very impressed.
Yeah but they are not that long. I have read them so much I could def. read the series in a day just because my mind would fill in a lot of sentences allowing me to read at a faster pace and still enjoy it.
as someone who reads the Guide every year and the entire series every other year(-ish), i\'m highly impressed that you can finish all 815 pages in a day. it usually takes me about three weeks. of course, the vast majority of my reading is done on the shitter....
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lol I just like history alot. I\'m a history major, and since I\'m new here, I searched the word history. And this is what I\'ve came up with.
But if computers ever get free will, and the freedom of choosing what to do. There will be some unwanted computer babies coming out of all of this.
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If History Tends to repeat itself...
this thread will die soon and be bumped in another 2 years.
The funny thing is I saw my name as starting the thread and I have no recollection of starting it.
I guess I really was drinking when I posted this
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To add to that.....If a computer has a camera on it (it\'s eyes) and a microphone(ears) and can learn from it\'s mistakes (there are programs like chess that already do that) How long before a computer is smarter then us???
i\'ve had this conversation with my bass player before. i think a computer is already smarter than us. but when will a computer become conscious of itself? when this happens, will the human being be regarded as god by the computer? after all, we are their creator.
it depends on what you consider to be "smart." the human brain can process (i forgot the exact number) something like a million times more tasks simultaneously than the fastest current computer. subconsiously your brain is doing an ungodly (pun intended) amount of processing to make your body do everything that it does, mostly autonomically. However, computers that can been programmed to do a certain function (like chess) are "smarter" than humans at certain things because they can calculate probabilities/outcomes/mathmatical stats much faster than it would take a human to do them out on paper. these computers have the algorithms ready to go when they encounter a certain layout on the chess board.
But think of the above scenario this way. the amount of processing that needs to be done by a human just to be able to pick up a pencil, write on a paper the math, visualize the light waves that bounce back from the paper into your head so you know what you are writing, signal to every muscle in your body that simultaneously needs to move in order to write, and do all the other things that need to be processed in order to calculate the math properly, while still being consious of your surroundings and react if your friend throws something at you and and you see it coming in your peripheral vision, or if your spouse calls to you that dinner is ready and you need to respond....these are all things that a computer cannot do, and thus the reason why the human brain is still way more powerful of a tool.
im a biophysicist, for the record
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maybe book 1, but there are 5 of them in the series. If you could read them in one day, I would be very impressed.
Yeah but they are not that long. I have read them so much I could def. read the series in a day just because my mind would fill in a lot of sentences allowing me to read at a faster pace and still enjoy it.
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if i only knew 5 years ago all that i know now.
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If History Tends to repeat itself...
this thread will die soon and be bumped in another 2 years.
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To add to that.....If a computer has a camera on it (it\'s eyes) and a microphone(ears) and can learn from it\'s mistakes (there are programs like chess that already do that) How long before a computer is smarter then us???
i\'ve had this conversation with my bass player before. i think a computer is already smarter than us. but when will a computer become conscious of itself? when this happens, will the human being be regarded as god by the computer? after all, we are their creator.
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To add to that.....If a computer has a camera on it (it\'s eyes) and a microphone(ears) and can learn from it\'s mistakes (there are programs like chess that already do that) How long before a computer is smarter then us???
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maybe book 1, but there are 5 of them in the series. If you could read them in one day, I would be very impressed.
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see mayan calendar.
see psychedelic drugs
:lol:
didn\'t they have something like this in the hitchiker\'s guide to the galaxy? it\'s been a while.
I\'ve always wanted to read that book. Good read? I heard some good things about it.
ARE U SER? You can read it in like a couple hours if you can contain your laughter, if not a day or so. Go get it tomorrow.
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I see dead people
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see mayan calendar.
see psychedelic drugs
:lol:
didn\'t they have something like this in the hitchiker\'s guide to the galaxy? it\'s been a while.
I\'ve always wanted to read that book. Good read? I heard some good things about it.
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see mayan calendar.
see psychedelic drugs
:lol:
didn\'t they have something like this in the hitchiker\'s guide to the galaxy? it\'s been a while.
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see mayan calendar.
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It would be cool, nevertheless. But I don\'t think it\'s possible. The problem with that is physcology and why people do things. People take risks, they miscalculate, the bluff, they do all sorts of things that end up changing history. A computer may be able to compile percentages and numbers, but it cannot put into play the human factor--such as bravery, and risks.
People knowingly do things that they know they most certainly will fail at--and yet they do it anyways.
With a computer program, it would look at the odds and say that\'s not possible.
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:tired:
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interesting, history repeats itself all the time. If theres one thing i got out of the histories of herotidus it\'s that the same things happen over and over again every couple of generations, especially wars. World war 1 and 2 were perfect examples: man goes off to fight. Next generation feels that it hasnt had a chance to prove itself like there fathers, so they want to fight. All the death of the past 2 generations creates a backlash and the following generation has groups of people who want nothing to do with war, and even though the countries continue to go to war, there are major protests at home. Eventually, the cycle will begin again (currently in progress) and major groups will again desire to go to war and the troops will be rallied. Their stories will inspire the following generation, which will want to prove themselves as much as the previous, and a new war will be created to remedy the desire. If not, they will riot against the government, which will weaken the infastructure. This will cause a different country to see a chance to overtake them, and now they are at war with no leadership and it goes on and on and on and on. At least as far back as the trojan war, this has pretty much been western civilizations style of living. I have not done that much research on eastern history, so I can\'t comment on it.
To all these people, I say the same thing I said to the army recruters in high school: Go read \'all quiet on the western front\'.
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more along practical purposes like social engineering or foriegn relations
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ie Powerball numbers??
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would it be possible to create a computer program that took all historical outcomes in to play and render decisions based on current events. ie. tell the future ?
discuss.
and yes I have been drinking :)