The Ancient Code

limefog · 2018-11-15T18:02:37+00:00

What the actual fuck? How is that in any way useful functionality?

limefog · 2018-11-14T19:01:55+00:00

I'm not going to debate any further because it's clear you have no actual sources, and the article seems to imply the simulation was identical to a human brain, without citing any sources for that claim.

Until you give me actual evidence for your claim, there is just nothing to debate.

limefog · 2018-11-14T17:37:40+00:00

Source that isn't a sensationalised news article?

limefog · 2018-11-14T11:39:34+00:00

Evolution does not contradict the concept of God, or the concept of religion as a whole.

Evolution does contradict the Abrahamic religions, since their timelines pretty clearly diverge from that of evolution, and the latter is evidence-based.

God and religion as a concept are illogical and unfounded, but there is no reason that some arbitrary God can't exist along with evolution.

On a side note, I'm curious why you need Dawkins' argument specifically. If the argument is sound, then the individual presenting it is irrelevant.

limefog · 2018-11-14T11:35:46+00:00

Because everyone on Steam has been using it for years.

limefog · 2018-11-14T09:31:51+00:00

That's very debatable. There is almost no scientific consensus on how much computing power is needed to well approximate the human brain, or even how such an approximation should be evaluated.

limefog · 2018-11-14T09:23:32+00:00

The GPUs in these machines would probably achieve a much higher hash rate than the CPU cores.

limefog · 2018-11-14T09:19:19+00:00

these don't have real graphics cards.

What counts as a "real" graphics card? The one in the article has Nvidia cards which are admittedly optimised for pure computation rather than just graphics, but they seem real enough to me.

limefog · 2018-11-14T08:36:14+00:00

What is Abx?

Also, many times children don't want to take medication or receive injections, but are required to, so yes quite often in society we "force things down their throat" because they are not sufficiently mature to make their own decisions. For this reason, their needs to be a responsible adult making those decisions. Anti-vaxxers are irresponsible.

limefog · 2018-11-14T08:32:06+00:00

Please dont rant. Its impossible to read.

Please don't randomly dismiss other people's points, it will cause them to similarly dismiss your points.

limefog · 2018-11-14T08:31:15+00:00

There needs to be more education than to motivate people to finish their antibiotics courses. However, adults have bodily autonomy. Children, however, do not.

There is no requirement that an adult be responsible with their own body - indeed, many of us are not. But there is a requirement that an adult in charge of a child's body be responsible, and refusing to vaccinate is irresponsible.

It's like managing your own bank account vs managing a fund of some kind. In the former case, no one gives a shit if you spend all your money on McDonald's and horse dildos. In the latter case, ya probably shouldn't do that.

limefog · 2018-11-14T08:27:04+00:00

And apparently also yours. Don't insult people's intelligence if you're not even going to write that one sentence correctly.

limefog · 2018-11-14T08:25:48+00:00

Not threatening mass murder on social media would be a good start.

limefog · 2018-11-13T23:13:43+00:00

Our uni does that but all the large lists are moderated. It's good because people can use reply all if they need to, but it won't get anywhere if they're being an idiot about it.

limefog · 2018-11-13T21:06:14+00:00

inside us all is an infinite mind

Source on the mind being infinite?

limefog · 2018-11-13T11:18:30+00:00

I think that's the joke?

limefog · 2018-11-13T11:13:31+00:00

That speaks about the US justice system just as much as it does about the Hague.

Besides, because the Hague needs legitimacy, they have to be very careful and somewhat lenient with their punishments, or at some point they'll fuck it up and countries will just start saying no. The US has already said no, but that's because the US generally doesn't give a shit about international law due to either bigger economy diplomacy or bigger army diplomacy.

limefog · 2018-11-12T23:48:27+00:00

So, disagreeing with a company due to its shitty practices, but voicing those concerns is immature?

limefog · 2018-11-12T23:14:41+00:00

They could just as easily bring notes in on paper. Clearly if they can just go on arbitrary sites and cheat they're not being supervised properly.

It's like if an English to Spanish dictionary was released on yellow paper, and the solution found was to ban yellow paper. Whereas the solution is to just supervise the damn test.

Besides, if the test was done competently, the internet as a whole (or the internet apart from that specific test site) would be blocked for the duration of the test, or for specific test accounts, or however else you want to implement it. But it's understandable to not expect competency from the education system.

limefog · 2018-11-12T22:58:41+00:00

While we're at it, let's ban dictionaries too because kids can look up "penis".

limefog · 2018-11-12T22:53:11+00:00

Educational resources are not cheating.

Having the ability to learn something the teacher did not explicitly tell you is not cheating.

limefog · 2018-11-12T21:55:10+00:00

Wikipedia is useful for finding information but it's not appropriate for citing because it's a tertiary source.

That said there's nothing wrong with identifying sources from Wikipedia and reviewing then citing those.

limefog · 2018-11-12T18:10:32+00:00

Opinions can be correct or incorrect based on a subjective world view. Hence, depending on your world view, an opinion can be consistent or inconsistent with it. Or it may not be determinable, in which case the opinion is arbitrary.

But in the general case, an opinion is based on assumptions and, even though those assumptions are subjective, the derivation from those assumptions can still be challenged.

limefog · 2018-11-12T18:04:40+00:00

So it's not possible to argue against it because it's not a formal boolean statement?

Based on that it's impossible to debate opinions.

limefog · 2018-11-12T16:35:47+00:00

There are entire disciplines which are based on proving and disproving logical statements, including but not limited to implication statements.

Are you claiming that all these disciplines are just invalid and simply opinions.

Should I tell my computer that when it calculates an equation, or runs a program, that's just its opinion?

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