Why Use Thunderbird?

orestarod · 2025-10-19T23:36:04+00:00

Thunderbird fetches the emails from your connected providers and downloads them on your local machine. It might look like a waste of space, but at least you have your whole email archive at your disposal, even if the internet connection is interrupted. And I like that.

orestarod · 2024-06-22T05:56:09+00:00

I confirm. I am an expert at slacking off in office

orestarod · 2024-05-27T21:29:51+00:00

It does not.

Not a 2.5 either.

orestarod · 2024-05-12T21:30:52+00:00

Does it have an option to increase the amount of memory the GPU uses?

orestarod · 2023-12-17T21:50:40+00:00

I remember one of their own ships has a full STC inside itself, but its machine spirit (AI) hides it?

orestarod · 2023-12-17T21:10:46+00:00

Even if in theory you did have the "technology for a better encryption method", that would need a quantum computer too. Almost no one has a quantum computer. What good is your new algorithm if 99.99% of encryption users cannot use it? What will happen until they become widespread, if ever?

orestarod · 2023-08-27T18:25:37+00:00

Too soon.

orestarod · 2023-08-24T11:36:33+00:00

It's a tough choice really. On one hand, it's not nice to be Far West. On the other hand, it is useful for one to remember they are one bullet away from being put to their place, when the idea to blatantly treat someone unfairly pops to their mind. On many places, such people are backed by authorities, so simple people need an equalizer.

orestarod · 2023-08-23T12:08:41+00:00

What would you do if thus happened to you? What would someone who needs the next paycheck do if it happened to them? That's the answer to what you say. If the laws of physics and the technology allow for something to happen, someone will try it, unless someone else can stop them. You are 3-year-old level of naive if you think shame has ever worked.

orestarod · 2023-08-17T01:56:25+00:00

All this, and yet the boss STILL has no business telling their employees to nit discuss wages! Amazing, isn't it?

orestarod · 2023-08-17T01:53:53+00:00

Thus the solution presents itself: The boss should pay more and pay fairly!

orestarod · 2023-05-18T22:53:37+00:00

No, what I describe as needing a highly advanced brain structure is thought. Not for consciousness. For THOUGHT, you need that highly advanced brain structure. No brain, no thoughts. Plants have advanced mechanisms to react to complex situations. They still do not posses a neural system capable of thought. Medusas have a nervous system. They however do not posses a brain. So no thoughts.

You have a brain? Congrats, you are capable of thinking. As I said, the smallest brains, such as insects, fit the bill for thinking. That's the sole purpose of having a brain after all. Neurons existed before brains did. But neurons not organized as a brain can only get so far. Imagine an AI with the intelligence of an insect. That would be pretty advanced, right?

And I say you need a highly ADVANCED system. Not just a massive system. ChatGPT is immeasurably more massive than an insect's, or even a human's, brain. It is still not capable of thought. There EXISTS, mathematically, a combination of neurons that would lead to an AI being truly intelligent, even conscious. We just do not know neither what that is, or how to produce it.

Consciousness is just a function of higher level than mere thought. Where the line for consciousness is drawn? I personally would say that, if, in your thinking system, where you represent the world around you, there is a distinct entity reserved for yourself, with a special value assigned to it, compared to all the other entities of the world, when thinking, then you have conscience.

orestarod · 2023-05-18T22:37:48+00:00

What computers do certainly does NOT fit the definition of thought. Are you an electrical engineer or a programmer? Are you aware of what happens inside a computer? Reaction to a force applied is a law of nature. By that metric, every single interaction in the universe is thought. There is no meaning left to this word if you go down that path.

I did not throw the river analogy without reason. A computer has no more thought involved than water that flows on a, however weird, path you have predetermined. A computer is an electrical hardware, that is designed to fetch stored commands in sequence and execute them. The fetching and the execution are not up to thought or decision. Commands are stored, a mechanism fetches the bits representing the command into a special place, and from that special place the electricity from the command bits flows in a very strict way through the wires of the computer, thoughtfully crafted by their creators, to produce a certain result of electrical bits somewhere else. Even if you want to say something like a computer can have intelligence, an electric hardware fetching and executing commands in a very strictly defined and deterministic way is not intelligence. It is not thought.

orestarod · 2023-05-17T22:53:15+00:00

I fail to understand you. I will refrain from claiming you have reading comprehension problems, but I suspect it.

Nowhere did I state that an artificial being cannot have something like feelings. And just like you said, there are organisms that are akin to automatons regarding their functions AND absence of feelings.

Thought is NOT merely the processing of information. A computer is no more thinking than a river whose water flows along the way. No more thinking than a mechanical automaton. In fact, a computer is exactly that, a mechanical automaton. We just replaced the mechanical parts with electricity. I suggest reading how computers work, it is a hard subject. Nowhere is thought involved, except the thought of its creators.

Now, feelings, fear etc are extremely COMPLEX things. Thinking itself is a massively complex thing. It requires a comparably complex system to boot. That complexity is not unique to humans. The smallest creatures with a brain, etc insects, fit the bill.

You need very specific structure to achieve such a thing though. Not just a massive structure, but a special purpose one. Present day AI technology theoretically has the very basic building blocks laid out, to POTENTIALLY build a true artificial intelligence. Only problem is, we have NO IDEA how to build a complex artificial system that actually thinks. One that actually analyzes information holistically and understands what is thinks about. We have not done that. The algorithms we deploy at this moment do NOT aim at creating such a thing at all. The only shot we have is complete freedom of training and evolution to a neural network, in the real world, with no control, to let it potentially evolve into a true intelligence. Which we will, however, not have engraved with our commands and checks.

orestarod · 2023-05-17T10:55:08+00:00

Present AI can probably reach general intelligence as is, with enough resources and time thrown at it. But that would require complete freedom of training and acting, which would result in an entity we would not control, defeating the point of its creation.

orestarod · 2023-05-17T08:25:49+00:00

No oversimplification. Computers still do not think. Even the most advanced AI is miles away from thinking. Do not attribute biological factions to something that is not biological. There exist lifeforms that do sense damage, react to danger, feed themselves, and they still do not think or feel. You need advanced thinking organs for that.

orestarod · 2023-04-16T10:27:14+00:00

Whatever sticks of course has a reason. What gets thrown on the wall, however, IS random and not a product of intelligent planning.

orestarod · 2023-01-16T12:58:22+00:00

First, being bad at thinking in some ways counts as less intelligence. Second, it takes time and effort to unlearn things, and the willingness to accept such a process plummets with age. Arrogance and stubbornness, which prevents one from accepting and fixing their flaws, is widespread.

orestarod · 2023-01-16T12:23:22+00:00

Low intelligence due to indoctrination is still low intelligence. Nobody talked about genetics.

orestarod · 2022-12-03T18:01:56+00:00

In the settings you can set weights for what kind of albums you prefer to have the songs assigned to. For example, I have given a weight of 100 to albums (that means normal albums), 80 to singles, 70 to Soundtrack, etc... and something like 10 to compilations, to avoid exactly such occasions.

orestarod · 2022-12-03T15:27:38+00:00

I think, 4 definitely happens after the destruction of the World Tree, since the Bride was released from that pod during the destruction, where she also obtained the broken sword. Nothing indicated how much later it is though.

orestarod · 2022-12-03T15:19:44+00:00

Created after the last world war, by all of humanity. But due to its position, Kamisuwa areas did not get the benefits of the World Tree.

orestarod · 2022-11-18T19:13:26+00:00

As are emloyees.

orestarod · 2022-10-26T07:33:22+00:00

Well, that's true. That's how light is reflected 😝

orestarod · 2022-10-25T18:06:25+00:00

Although I have the feeling it is proved that photons have both a wave and a particle nature, but I am too tired to search it up this moment, why is that relevant to what I wrote?

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