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A.I. as "God"

Started by 666, February 06, 2013, 04:02:42 AM

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666

"experiments of Duncan MacDougal in 1907, where he "weighed the soul" by measuring the weight of people just before and after they died. His results determined the soul weighs approximately 21 grams."

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 08, 2013, 02:15:17 AM
To be honest, no. I'll add him to my queue.

Let me know what you think... I actually haven't been this taken by a sci-fi writer for many years, and I'm a total sci-fi geek.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


Pergamos

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on February 06, 2013, 05:03:56 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on February 06, 2013, 05:02:55 PM
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, MACGREGOR MATHERS?

The reference has escaped me, so I shall sit here stewing my Holy Juices™.

Crowley's mentor, who he later got in big fights with.

P3nT4gR4m

I read "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition" awhile back. Had a great description of how a brain might be digitised - by replacing one neuron at a time with an electronic/nanotech version. Very - ship of Theseus.

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LMNO

I think Elizer talks about that somewhere in his LessWrong sequences.  If I can find it, I'll link.

LMNO

Ok, it's more as a part of a discussion on whether conciousness is "separate" from the atoms in the brain, but it's still a cool sequence.


http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences#Zombies_Sequence

Faust

Quote from: 666 on February 06, 2013, 04:02:42 AM
What do you think?   :fnord:

What I think?
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Elder Iptuous

I was reading about the 'neuron by neuron replacement' argument somewhere and the author was discussing the complexity of the various kinds of neurons.  (he was a neurologist of some flavor...now that i think about it, it may have been a TED talk)  one point that was being made was that our models of neuronal behavior are not complete.  AI proponents usually talk about neurons as if they are as simple as the neural network code that they deal with, when, in reality, they are waaay more complex.

Also.... nanobots  :lol:
nanotech is currently good for making stuff with interesting materials properties.  that's about it.  making dynamic structures at that scale is much ....stickier.... than originally hoped for.  i base this on the handful of articles that i've read on the state of that particular art, and from knowing the guy that heads the NanoFab center at my alma mater.  he's made a career out of making grandiose claims that get funding, and then get nowhere slowly.  from what i've seen, that's par for the course in nanotech, because it just sounds so compelling...

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Elder Iptuous on February 08, 2013, 02:48:48 PM
I was reading about the 'neuron by neuron replacement' argument somewhere and the author was discussing the complexity of the various kinds of neurons.  (he was a neurologist of some flavor...now that i think about it, it may have been a TED talk)  one point that was being made was that our models of neuronal behavior are not complete.  AI proponents usually talk about neurons as if they are as simple as the neural network code that they deal with, when, in reality, they are waaay more complex.

Also.... nanobots  :lol:
nanotech is currently good for making stuff with interesting materials properties.  that's about it.  making dynamic structures at that scale is much ....stickier.... than originally hoped for.  i base this on the handful of articles that i've read on the state of that particular art, and from knowing the guy that heads the NanoFab center at my alma mater.  he's made a career out of making grandiose claims that get funding, and then get nowhere slowly.  from what i've seen, that's par for the course in nanotech, because it just sounds so compelling...

We know next to nothing about the brain at this point in time. Neuroscience is roughly in the place chemistry was 200 years ago. That's what makes it so exciting; the opportunity to get in on the first generation of a new field of science is not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, it's a once-in-five-lifetimes opportunity. Although, I am anticipating that several more new fields of science will emerge in the next century.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


The Good Reverend Roger

I know a little bit about the brain...Let me rephrase that:  I have a partial owner's manual.  One item in that owner's manual is this:

"If it's functioning okay, don't throw chemicals all over it."

Another section:

"If it's responding sluggishly, get some exercise...ie, GO OUTSIDE.





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- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

GO OUTSIDE is some of the best advice on earth. When suffering from almost anything not of a clearly viral or bacterial cause, I always recommend GO OUTSIDE as the first line of treatment.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


LMNO

You'll enjoy this when you get home:


Mesozoic Mister Nigel

"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."


[redacted]

My dad joked once that GOD stood for Game Operations Designer

666

Quote from: ExitApparatus on April 03, 2013, 05:13:28 AM
My dad joked once that GOD stood for Game Operations Designer


<3......

This is exactly what i'm talking about...

And only a.i. would be able to do such a thing.