What happens if you run a VM inside a VM? Would an AGI know it was inside a VM inside another VM?

People who make cheese adverts can just stop.  We're buying cheese.  We're never going to stop buying cheese.

Boru

New Zealand has a population of five million.  There are 45 million kangaroos in the world.  This means that if they ever decide to invade, each of us would have to fight about nine kangaroos.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure we're up to it.

Boru

(August 29, 2019 at 8:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: New Zealand has a population of five million.  There are 45 million kangaroos in the world.  This means that if they ever decide to invade, each of us would have to fight about nine kangaroos.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure we're up to it.

Boru

But what if kangaroos invade NZ?

Is the NZDF up to fighting that many kangaroos?

(August 29, 2019 at 9:13 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(August 29, 2019 at 8:59 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: New Zealand has a population of five million.  There are 45 million kangaroos in the world.  This means that if they ever decide to invade, each of us would have to fight about nine kangaroos.

Quite frankly, I'm not sure we're up to it.

Boru

But what if kangaroos invade NZ?

Is the NZDF up to fighting that many kangaroos?

Only if someone starts a rumor that the 'roos are there to take all the doughnuts.

Boru

(August 29, 2019 at 9:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 29, 2019 at 9:13 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: But what if kangaroos invade NZ?

Is the NZDF up to fighting that many kangaroos?

Only if someone starts a rumor that the 'roos are there to take all the doughnuts.

Boru

I thought that was cops?

(August 29, 2019 at 9:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote:

(August 29, 2019 at 9:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Only if someone starts a rumor that the 'roos are there to take all the doughnuts.

Boru

I thought that was cops?

Sorry, I read your post as 'NZPF'.  My badski.

Boru

(August 29, 2019 at 9:20 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:

(August 29, 2019 at 9:17 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: I thought that was cops?

Sorry, I read your post as 'NZPF'.  My badski.

Boru

Well, a little while ago I did a tour of Ohakea.

It was interesting.

Crashed a plane on the simulator, destroying a section of Bulls, but I don’t think anyone would miss it...

...I didn’t.

I recently bought a copy of Ezra Pound’s The Cantos and ended up on a bit of an Ezra Pound kick, and decided to see if there were any recordings of his voice. Sometimes, they can be what you expect, like Hemingway or Roald Dahl, And sometimes you get surprises, like finding out that Cormac McCarthy has a higher voice than one might have guessed, or finding out William Vollman seems to have an obsession with the word “um”. But listening to Ezra Pound really threw me for a loop. See if you can notice anything odd:





Yep. He sounds like an old Scottish parson from a particularly out of the way kirk. Thing is, he lived in several places, from his birthplace in Idaho, to his early career in London, to Italy, where he spent most of his life after 1924 (except for the 13 years he spent in a Washington loony bin). Scotland was not among them. And if you don’t believe me about this, listen to this recording of one of his
more dog-whistley Cantos and tell me with a straight face you couldn’t imagine a minister in a Scottish kirk saying something very similar:

(August 29, 2019 at 8:39 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: People who make cheese adverts can just stop.  We're buying cheese.  We're never going to stop buying cheese.

Boru

That and toilet paper.  Pretty sure sales will still be fine if we don't see ads.