RE: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-16 Thread chris peck
>> It makes even more mysterious your resistance to UDA Well The Prestige is a film about obsession and the lengths people go to meet them. Its not about the UDA. It does contain a teleport machine in it and the naughty magician keeps duplicating himself and killing off one of the duplicates.

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:29:42AM -0400, John Clark wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Kim Jones wrote: > > > > > What makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well > > understood and no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that > > yet. > > > > The definit

Re: Democracy

2014-06-16 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:40:52PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: > On 6/16/2014 2:02 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >E.g.: stone the women piously, chop off hands piously, etc. > >Major branches, like Shia and Sunni? the jihadists? > >The problem is they have no "pope" with authority since 500AD. > > The best t

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Sunday, June 15, 2014 6:55:42 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:41 PM, > wrote: > > > So, in that paragraph I was summing up that: >> >> In making your argument that the current problem of intelligence was >> equal between computers and humans: >> > > I'm saying c

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
War is surely a drain, but often the lack of covalent violence often costs hugely in the number of lives lost and yes, suffering. Simply look at the policies of the last 2 American chieftains. One was bad, the newer one, awful. Simply cast your eyes to the goings of in Syria, and now Iraq. View

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, June 16, 2014 3:29:43 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Kim Jones > wrote: > > >> > What makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well >> understood and no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that >> yet. >> > > The de

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, June 16, 2014 7:18:14 AM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > On Monday, June 16, 2014 5:49:55 AM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: > >> >> >> On Sunday, June 15, 2014 6:55:42 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:41 PM, wrote: >>> >>> > So, in that parag

Re: Democracy

2014-06-16 Thread meekerdb
On 6/16/2014 2:02 PM, John Mikes wrote: E.g.: stone the women piously, chop off hands piously, etc. Major branches, like Shia and Sunni? the jihadists? The problem is they have no "pope" with authority since 500AD. The best thing about the pope is that he has no battalions. The US-dwelling Mus

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread LizR
On 17 June 2014 07:57, wrote: > I don't know about Einstein's 13 tensor equations and their exact results. > You should at least know that that is how a physical theory works. > I just don't believe space can be curved. Why not? It just needs a higher dimension. Actually there are interpret

Re: "Rats! I should have done that, not this!"

2014-06-16 Thread LizR
On 16 June 2014 22:44, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Liz, have you Kiwis no sense of shame? > > > http://news.yahoo.com/zealand-may-kick-start-race-mine-ocean-floor-211229873--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBJR66KJ5Taz0APtTQtDMD > > Ah, Kiwis,weak link, in the g

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-16 Thread LizR
On 17 June 2014 05:57, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > That machine does not know in advance its future state, and that is what > I meant. > > So a Turing Machine has free will. > Specifically, it does in Bruno's sense, since I assume a TM can "kno

Re: Democracy

2014-06-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:34 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 6/15/2014 3:25 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:32 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >> Telmo: >> >> I am a multilinguist (similar to you I suppose) and consider the word >> 'democracy' as the rule "Cratos" of "DEMOS". the t

Re: Democracy

2014-06-16 Thread John Mikes
E.g.: stone the women piously, chop off hands piously, etc. Major branches, like Shia and Sunni? the jihadists? The problem is they have no "pope" with authority since 500AD. The US-dwelling Muslims refrain of declarations that would have defamed them, nevertheless "pious" honor killings are on. As

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread jross
I don't know about Einstein's 13 tensor equations and their exact results. I just don't believe space can be curved. And I do believe Coulomb fields can be curved. Our Universe is not a mathematical structure; it is a combination of atoms and molecules and light and other things that can be expla

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, June 16, 2014 7:53:07 PM UTC+1, spudb...@aol.com wrote: > > 1. 9-11 in the US answered all questions regarding the Islamists as fair > as I am concerned. > > 2. The applied standard for patriotism is doing actions that help the US > survive long enough until the genuine AI is achi

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread meekerdb
On 6/16/2014 8:52 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Comp *has* a notion of primitive matter (the sum on all computations below the subst level, or []p & <>t with p sigma_1), but it is defined as "observable by a universal machine". And is this not the same as the defintion I gave as the physical is w

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 00:03, LizR wrote: On 16 June 2014 08:16, meekerdb wrote: On 6/14/2014 11:42 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2014 01:54, wrote: I have not attempted to correlate my theory with the thinking of Plato and Aristotle. I would be happy to discuss this with you (my cell phone

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
1. 9-11 in the US answered all questions regarding the Islamists as fair as I am concerned. 2. The applied standard for patriotism is doing actions that help the US survive long enough until the genuine AI is achieved, or Jesus returns, as the Christians desire. Until then, we need to seek t

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jun 2014, at 23:49, John Mikes wrote: How much was a "day" before Creation? and: wht happened "7 days" before creation? who gave birth? Very good question. Comp is lucky for not being asked to answer this, as the outer god can be limited to the sigma_1 arithmetical truth, and it is n

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Richard, I do know the history of the Bush regime, and all that. To be consistent, my point again is that the comies, liberals, and so forth were against Hitler because he railed against the 'Bolshevism' of Comrade Stalin. When Stalin and Dolf did the pact of steel, they were best buds to the p

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 15 Jun 2014, at 22:16, meekerdb wrote: On 6/14/2014 11:42 PM, LizR wrote: On 15 June 2014 01:54, wrote: I have not attempted to correlate my theory with the thinking of Plato and Aristotle. I would be happy to discuss this with you (my cell phone number is 858-353-0997) or to consider

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread ghibbsa
On Monday, June 16, 2014 1:49:08 AM UTC+great feat saying that one is anti-war, when they claimed is merely, anti-American military. This is clear today, it was clear three decades ago, when "anti-war" protesters, protested only against Pershing missiles in west Europe, and then years befor

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 15:54, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: I have not attempted to correlate my theory with the thinking of Plato and Aristotle. I would be happy to discuss this with you (my cell phone number is 858-353-0997) or to consider your specific thoughts as to how my theory relat

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-16 Thread John Clark
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >If free will just means will then why stick on the "free" ? >> > > > Because we believe that "free" does not add anything, > Except bafflegab. > except some emphasis on the needed existence of some degree of freedom. > And here we go again

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 15:38, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: My model provides an explanation of everything including gravity which I understand is not explained by QM. QM does not explain logically why electrons do not blow themselves apart. I don't believe in quantum weirdness. There is a

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 05:32, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 5:45 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 June 2014 12:26, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 4:48 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 June 2014 10:01, meekerdb wrote: Consequently, neither computation, nor the epistemological states it emulates, are dispensable (i.e. f

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread Richard Ruquist
Hitler supporters, at least the ones that actually gave financial support, were mainly rich conservatives like Prescott Bush. Richard On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:05 PM, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > China 89 was a different idea, because they were prag

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 02:26, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 4:48 PM, LizR wrote: On 14 June 2014 10:01, meekerdb wrote: Consequently, neither computation, nor the epistemological states it emulates, are dispensable (i.e. fully reducible) in this schema. It's not clear what "emulates" means. I t

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 01:46, LizR wrote: On 14 June 2014 10:01, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 2:22 PM, David Nyman wrote: Moreover, it is not straightforwardly reducible to the underlying arithmetical entities and relations, because the selective principle in question *depends" on complex, computa

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 01:43, LizR wrote: On 14 June 2014 10:01, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 2:22 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 13 June 2014 20:44, meekerdb wrote: under physicalism, in accounting for the origin of matter (which is basic). This makes it coherent, at least in principle, to ask for an

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Hold on a secI will youtube link... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIEq305SizA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aJPF5HJ9Is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DON-aM2tze4 -Original Message- From: Kim Jones To: everything-list Sent: Mon, Jun 16, 2014 7:15 am Subject: Re: Turing te

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
China 89 was a different idea, because they were pragmatists and not ideologues. They were true pacifists, however unreasonable that is. What brings stability between China and everyone else, is the capability for other nations to leverage things that China doesn't want to do without. The anti-

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Jun 2014, at 00:01, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 2:22 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 13 June 2014 20:44, meekerdb wrote: under physicalism, in accounting for the origin of matter (which is basic). This makes it coherent, at least in principle, to ask for an exhaustive physical accounting

Re: Pluto bounces back!

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I absolutely agree! But my point was that these folks are not "true pacifists" by merely anti-Americans calling themselves pacifists. These types genuflect to M-L ideology as a parishioner does in Church on Sundays. It's like a religion (ideology) because they're faith-based. You'd have figured

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 23:22, David Nyman wrote: On 13 June 2014 20:44, meekerdb wrote: under physicalism, in accounting for the origin of matter (which is basic). This makes it coherent, at least in principle, to ask for an exhaustive physical accounting of any given state of affairs. In the

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
I thought I have commented this, but my computer claims I did not. Anyway, i make precisions. On 13 Jun 2014, at 17:07, David Nyman wrote: On 13 June 2014 01:27, meekerdb wrote: But although we may speculate that consciousness and physical events both depend on computation (perhaps only in

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-16 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 04:52, meekerdb wrote: On 6/12/2014 7:03 PM, David Nyman wrote: On 13 June 2014 02:42, meekerdb wrote: Simply because you can give something you call a "basic accounting" of a painting by specifying the placement of pigments on a canvas doesn't preclude also describing

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 9:37 PM, Kim Jones wrote: > > What makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well > understood and no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that > yet. > The definition of creativity is not constant, it is whatever computers can't do YET. Bef

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread Pierz
On Sunday, June 15, 2014 11:44:24 PM UTC+10, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 15 Jun 2014, at 03:34, Pierz wrote: > > > > On Saturday, June 14, 2014 11:52:02 AM UTC+10, Liz R wrote: >> >> On 13 June 2014 23:35, Russell Standish wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 01:44:25AM -0700, Pierz wrote: >>

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread Kim Jones
> On 16 Jun 2014, at 8:42 pm, spudboy100 via Everything List > wrote: > > Besides Di Bono, there's the dude Bruce Bueno Di Mesquito, who's supposed to > be the great predictor. > Link? Clip? Interesting K -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "

Re: "Rats! I should have done that, not this!"

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Liz, have you Kiwis no sense of shame? http://news.yahoo.com/zealand-may-kick-start-race-mine-ocean-floor-211229873--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBJR66KJ5Taz0APtTQtDMD Ah, Kiwis,weak link, in the global chain of world socialism and environmentaly correct thinking! -Original Message- From:

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-16 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Besides Di Bono, there's the dude Bruce Bueno Di Mesquito, who's supposed to be the great predictor. -Original Message- From: Kim Jones To: everything-list Sent: Sun, Jun 15, 2014 9:37 pm Subject: Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute On 16 Jun 2014, at 1:1