Random Thoughts Thread

**drone** · 10-26-2016, 20:32

Originally Posted by Hooahguy

Is a promotion without a pay raise (or any pay at all) really still a promotion?

Depends. Can you order more people around?

**Hooahguy** · 10-27-2016, 03:09

Originally Posted by drone

Depends. Can you order more people around?

Yes, I will be working on a pilot program being the liaison between the parent organization and local groups. And somehow Im still an unpaid intern.

**Montmorency** · 10-27-2016, 11:37

What I haven't seen until you came along were people who seem to think it's inherently impossibe.

I did no such thing. I claimed (in another thread probably a year or two ago) that changing our expectations of our current approach is necessary, since it amounts to trying to reverse-engineer a spaceship by sending monkeys with typewriters to crawl over it. We have to re-orient our investigation of principles to abandon these sorts of assumptions on intelligence and consciousness, which is where the theory I referenced, being a theory on the structure and nature of human consciousness, come in.

A quotable way to put my position here is just that you can't devise an artificial intelligence worth writing science fiction of before you you have devised the human intelligence. And the underlying notion there is that doing so would bring significant changes to our societies, even beyond the musings of AI science fiction. That would be the point of singularity.

**Fragony** · 10-28-2016, 14:45

Gawd I hate microwaves. It's the only way to have warm food right now as I closed of all gas, heating and cooking is goig to be all electric from now on. That is awesome but ffs they keep cancelling the day to be installing it and I already payed. A microwave has nothing to offer to me I like cooking, not warming up. I want nice ingredients. I want to do it all myself.