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    Thread: The purpose of human life is probably to create "Artificial General Intelligence"
Post: RE: The purpose of human life is probably to creat...
(January 31, 2018 at 10:42 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Hey op, Great post, are you into programming by any chance? ;) ETA; I'm always the last to these things, I hate you all. Not much of a coder these day...
 uncool Religion 45 8903 February 1, 2018 at 1:59 am
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 10:32 pm)polymath257 Wrote: No, I am saying there is a simpler description of what is going on that is more accurate and not as subject to the hype. The simple description is t...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 11:09 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 10:00 pm)Succubus Wrote: Fuck off. Daft cunt. In the future, please try to add novel (relevant) contributions to discussions.
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 10:02 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 9:33 pm)Succubus Wrote: (January 31, 2018 at 8:08 pm)uncool Wrote: No, I showed your point to be irrelevant. Recall that my initial words were that the AGI (which is not yet h...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 9:45 pm
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 31, 2018 at 9:22 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The relevance is that if it was indeed not a hard coded query response, then it can hardly be considered controversial on Amazon's part.I still don't...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 31, 2018 at 9:43 pm
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 31, 2018 at 8:32 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: You should read our rules. Nothing prevents anyone from using insulting language. This isn't a theist forum. Considering all of the context surroun...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 31, 2018 at 8:44 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 7:03 pm)Succubus Wrote: Thank you for emphasizing my point. No, I showed your point to be irrelevant. Recall that my initial words were that the AGI (which is not yet here) will...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 8:08 pm
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 31, 2018 at 1:29 am)SteelCurtain Wrote: Yeah that's the same. This just shows that you don't have the first inkling of how machine learning works. Asking a wifi enabled device if it's "co...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 31, 2018 at 7:56 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 4:51 pm)polymath257 Wrote: One again, using entropy for this model is just silly. You have an N value of 10,296 and a p value that is somewhere between 0 and 10296. The computed...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 5:07 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 4:11 pm)polymath257 Wrote: What you quoted *doesn't* give the threshold for determining the matrix B, which replaces values below the threshold by 0 and above by 1 (which is, in...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 4:29 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: RE: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared t...
(January 31, 2018 at 10:55 am)polymath257 Wrote: OK, I looked at the original article (in arxiv.org) and there is even less there than I expected. MANY basic problems in this article. First, there ...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 2:40 pm
    Thread: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to unconscious states in the human brain
Post: Consciousness causes higher entropy compared to un...
Note: This may be observed as a continuation of my earlier thread (regarding entropy maximization and human purpose). Anyway, here's another newish article by another author: Scientists Show Human Co...
 uncool General Science 40 6107 January 31, 2018 at 4:10 am
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 29, 2018 at 10:26 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: The idea that a multibillion dollar company that does the vast, overwhelming majority of their business in majority Christian nations would have som...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 31, 2018 at 1:16 am
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 29, 2018 at 9:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: I don’t really care. Don't be so drab, we probably ought to care about the bs some of our homosapiens are absorbing, such as religion. Life reasonably ha...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 29, 2018 at 10:16 pm
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 29, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Shell B Wrote: I just asked her. She said, "People have their own views on religion." Fake news. Could have been faked, but we ought to remember that Amazon could hav...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 29, 2018 at 9:12 pm
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: RE: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fi...
(January 28, 2018 at 11:24 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: That second one is clearly fake as fuck. The first one is edited to hell. Try again. It was likely not a hoax. "Crowder: No, My Amazon Alexa Vide...
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 29, 2018 at 3:16 pm
    Thread: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictional?
Post: Amazon Alexa said Jesus/God is fake/made up/fictio...
[Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iir7qV0Iv8E] [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmb7Mo5Ds3o] What are you guys thinking about the above?
 uncool Religion 33 5535 January 28, 2018 at 4:28 pm
    Thread: Another argument for God.
Post: RE: Another argument for God.
(January 20, 2018 at 5:03 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: 1. The brain is very complex. 2. Humans throughout history have not understood the brain. 3. If the brain is the source of morality and goodness,  th...
 uncool Religion 52 9301 January 24, 2018 at 3:28 pm
    Thread: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
Post: RE: World's first robot citizen an atheist?
(January 14, 2018 at 5:19 pm)Luckie Wrote: Yep. Her name is Sophia and she has world citizenship in Saudi Arabia. She's been to the UN, and this may not be news to you but it is to me! I have been w...
 uncool Atheism 63 19027 January 18, 2018 at 3:32 pm
    Thread: The purpose of human life is probably to create "Artificial General Intelligence"
Post: RE: The purpose of human life is probably to creat...
(January 14, 2018 at 3:12 pm)Fireball Wrote: (January 14, 2018 at 2:11 pm)uncool Wrote: How does PGJ relate to the OP? He's hot on the Singularity and all kinds of advanced intelligence. And he th...
 uncool Religion 45 8903 January 14, 2018 at 5:06 pm