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[quote]This whole "thinks like a human" thing is quite complicated. The brain microstructure has a lot of hardwired circuitry that we still don't understand and that affects how we think. So even if we can design A.I systems that adapt to data feeds it doesn't mean they are thinking like humans.[/quote] I would say it does qualitatively
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By open source you mean public disclosure? There's no source code in writing. I wouldn't do it unless I was already rich and I wouldn't recommend it either. If you mean a collaborative writers group, I'm already doing that.
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[quote]I mean, the day they can create a computer powerful enough to emulate the human brain.[/quote] That depends on how you qualify emulating it. A current computer could run a program that essentially thinks like a human. It's a question of resolution/time.
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In Canada there is a statistical report called Canadian Occupational Projection System. If you can find something like that for where you are it will help.
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[quote]We're not equally smart, rich, handsome, pretty. We do not want children to the same amount. Yet we are expected to produce the same number of children. Moreoever, the poorest among us actually produce more children .[/quote] That is not true. The rich have the highest fertility rate.
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[quote]It would explain why their space ships always crash.[/quote] I lol'd.
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[quote]That is, they maximize the utility they gain from the stuff they buy, constrained by the budgets they have.[/quote] I don't really understand the CS jargon. I designed a function that does this for the game I'm making. It took a few days to work out the instruction set. What I realized during this process is that the way real people do
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I wouldn't have thought that bank robbery is so profitable in this era.
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I did the IAT for Weight and got Your data suggest a strong automatic preference for Thin People compared to Fat People. That puts me with 25% of others that have done the test. That one is not surprising for me...
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Catchy headline, right? I thought so. According to this article there is a tendency for white male geeks to overestimate their own "rationality". It links to Project Implicit , a study of implicit attitudes. What is an attitude? An attitude is your evaluation of some concept (person, place, thing, or idea). An explicit attitude is the kind