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Not necessarily disagreeing with your main point, but "killed millions of people" is an order of magnitude wrong. More like around 200,000. My point is not that the deaths from those bombs wasn't appalling, it's that exaggerating doesn't help your cause.
And now, Moskva delenda est.
Iceland has the Þingvellir valley, which is an above-sea continuation of the rift valley down the middle of the Mid-Atlantic ridge. It includes the Silfra, which is underwater (fresh water) at the lowest part of the valley. The Great Crack in Hawai'i is of course not such a major rift, but it is the same idea: upwelling magma raises the ground, creating a crack like in a loaf of raising bread.
The Great Rift in Idaho is another volcanic rift valley, which (IIUC) passes through Craters of the Moon National Monument (where the Apollo astronauts trained).
Nuts, I was going to post that FORTRAN (IV) was my first programming language, but that was in 1969. So you have me beat!
True about the media, but I don't know what that has to do with the original post in this part of the thread, which was about Jaynes' "hypothesizing essentially Bronze age peoples did not have conscious thought."
"The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone. Run by the Long Now Foundation, the project aims to create a survey and near-permanent archive of 1,500 languages that can enable comparative linguistic research and education and might help recover or revitalize lost languages in the future." --from the Wikipedia description of the Rosetta Project:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Project
There are plenty of illiterate people (and unwritten languages) in the world today, and they're quite self-aware. So even on this re-reading, Jaynes is wrong.
For the record, I agree entirely with you.
I'll add that as a retired person myself, I have found things to do with my time that seem (reasonably) useful. At the moment that includes writing a computer program, substitute teaching at the high school level, and occasionally writing a sci-fi novel. How much of that the average person could or would do if they had no employment in the post-scarcity world, I don't know---and for that matter, most (maybe all) of these would be replaced by AI. The point: what are people going to do to make their lives seem worthwhile? Which will add to the social upheaval and unrest you rightly predict.
I was replying to your original post, which said nothing about mathematics. Rather it was about
knowledge: "There is no such thing as knowledge that has never even been written down a single time by anyone or anything." And there's no evidence one way or the other about pre-writing math knowledge.
And of course Chinese is not written alphabetically, although I'm not clear what your point is about "full alphabets." (Technically, Arabic is not written with an alphabet either, but rather with an abjad--and the Arabs invented algebra. Similarly for most other languages written with Arabic script. But I won't argue that point, which I admit is rather esoteric.)
So you're saying there was no knowledge before the invention of writing?
Bizarrely, there is a conversation on exactly this idea of unwritten ideas going on here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50002650Here are the particular comments having to do with this (I don't know how to link to an individual post in the discussion...maybe somebody can write that down for me :):
A: There is a vast amount of mathematical knowledge that hasn’t even been written down, much less formalized.
B: There is no such thing as knowledge that has never even been written down a single time by anyone or anything. Those are simply called ideas...
"Without junior engineers how will there be senior software engineers in the future?" If I were an AI fan, my answer would be this: By that time, AI will have improved enough that it can replace senior software engineers as well.
Disclaimer: I am not a fan of AI, and I am currently writing software without any help from AI, as I prefer.
If the "channels" were radio frequencies, I can see why. I believe the DIP switch in my fan and controller selected a sort of identifier code. If a radioed command did not contain the right identifier, the fan ignored it.
I was never a Smalltalk programmer ((although I did once debug a fairly simple Smalltalk module by looking at the printout of the code). But I did work for awhile in an OOPL built on top of Smalltalk. That project died because it was too slow, but also because the Smalltalk vendor the project used went out of business, leaving an
incompatible and
expensive Smalltalk as the only one left standing. (At least that's what I was told.)
Today the project is written in C++, which had the advantages of being free and fast (and as far as I can tell, incomprehensible and prone to crashing).
I bet the controller and the fan have a DIP switch for preventing this interference. See my post below (search for "poltergeist".)
When I read the headline, I thought the article was about fans (and the attached lights) that mysteriously turn themselves on without the owner doing anything.
This happened to us, and the people we bought the house from had actually bought (but not installed) a new controller. Turned out the problem wasn't the controller at all. Rather, all the houses on the street had been built at the same time by the same company, and most (maybe all) had ceiling fans that came with a remote. Inside the remote and inside the fan was a DIP-switch consisting of four switches, each switch labeled with a 0 and a 1 depending on which way you pushed it. And all probably came from the factory with a 0000 setting.
You guessed it: while ordinarily the controller had a limited range, sometimes (windows open? controller pointed in a certain direction? I don't know) one neighbor's controller would activate someone else's fan. The solution was of course simple: set the DIP switch in our fan and controller to some other setting, like 0101. Since I did that, the poltergeist has been unable to operate our ceiling fans.
> I didn't see any defense for neckties
I've told my wife I'll wear one to my funeral.
I was on a DDG back in the early 1970s, the USS Goldsborough (DDG-20).
Oh wait, you mean Duck...
Are you saying they're going to shed some robots? I hope they have enough left after that.
I came here to say this, but you ninja'd me. To repeat what you're saying, the title is wrong on two counts:
1) The research is not about the origin of life, it's about the origin of (one type of) cell structure. (Whether other eukaryote structure originated in the same way as chloroplasts did is unknown, although probably true.)
2) The research is about something that happened during the Mesozoic, not the original origin of chloroplasts back in the Pre-Cambrian. Whether the two events happened the same way is unclear (although plausibly true).
Dependencies: ...wayland-client...
Nuts, I'm on xfce, and don't intend to switch over until it's necessary.
Why is Wayland necessary for this?
What's clickbaity about it? Breaking codes and using that to process intercepts (or other encrypted text) is the definition of cryptanalysis.
Your calculation only makes sense if every one of those 8.5B humans is suffering from hunger and homelessness. Somewhere around 1 in 1000 people are homeless (
https://worldmetrics.org/global-homelessness-statistics/), and 1 in 12 or so has experienced "hunger" some time in the past year (
https://www.fao.org/hunger/en/). Obviously the numbers depend on how you define "homelessness" and "hunger", but in any case this multiplies the $ that could be used to help individuals by those factors. Between $1000 (hunger) and $115,000 (homelessness) may not sound like a lot, but when your yearly income is around $1000, it can mean a lot.
Driving on the freeway is easy. Driving in city streets is harder, and parallel parking...well, let's just say that the Martians haven't learned that yet.
A possible answer to your second question is that satellites (of sufficient size/ brightness) could be mistaken for UAPs. But that may not be what this website is suggesting.
Minitrue is here, and it works for Hegseth over at Minipax.
Q: How much of that memory requirement is due to Co-Pilot?