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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI operated drone ‘kills’ human operator in US test |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 6:37 pm
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| How soon are you expecting to expire? I think the original "150 years off" is likely an order of magnitude off. Let's check back in a decade or so. I will concede I don't think it is likely that quantum computers will have gotten into our home by then, though. Don't they require super-cool... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI operated drone ‘kills’ human operator in US test |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 4:41 pm
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| I think the principles of a transistor based computer is a lot simpler to understand than a quantum computer, a typical computer is also very scalable. I wouldn't know. They used those things when I was a kid. Though that 1106 had a custom-built Philco display system which was based on transistors.... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI operated drone ‘kills’ human operator in US test |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 4:17 pm
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI operated drone ‘kills’ human operator in US test |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 12:52 pm
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| I think it's not going to happen in our lifetimes. The power of computers seemed to have hit a stumbling block over the last 10 years and they seem to be reaching their limit. The power of an individual computer might not be the key factor...they are networked, after all. Plus quantum computing is ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI operated drone ‘kills’ human operator in US test |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 10:56 am
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| I think it's not going to happen in our lifetimes. The power of computers seemed to have hit a stumbling block over the last 10 years and they seem to be reaching their limit. The power of an individual computer might not be the key factor...they are networked, after all. Plus quantum computing is ... |
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Forum: Television, Film, and Video Topic: TV Episodes You Have Just Watched |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 10:49 am
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| Last night I finished watching my way through all episodes of the one season Fractured Flickers [1963–1964]. The show's concept was to take snippets from old movies (mostly silent movies), stick them together, and dub in silly dialog to create absurd little short videos. Usually they did not identi... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Current TV size |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 10:28 am
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One TV: 65 inch 4K. I like to watch videos.
Usually do not need 4K but it is nice in some movies.
I think 4K would be wasted with a small screen. And even on our current screen there have been times the 4K was not as effective unless I put my glasses on. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: AI operated drone ‘kills’ human operator in US test |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 10:15 am
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| Yes. I can't think why humans aren't learning from sci-fi e.g. the Terminator films. We need Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics right now, probably with extra ones. I'm not so sure on this. The AI in I, Robot had the three laws built in. When it noticed we were harming ourselves it concluded the First Law... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Do you like going on vacations? |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 9:54 am
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In general, vacations made me uncomfortable. They were disruptions.
But when the vacations were "routine" they were OK. (E.g., visit family around Thanksgiving and Christmas or every year go to the same recurring convention.) |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: 25 Hour Limit |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 9:49 am
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Replies: 10
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| I used to work long hours. I was very unhappy much of the time. (I recently learned there was something called "High-functioning Depression" and suspect I might have had it...for most of my working life!) But I persevered and now am comfortably retired. I like being comfortably retired! It... |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Greetings from a possible aspie |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 9:45 am
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| Welcome to WP! I hope you find it worth frequent visits. I think I can sympathize with your hesitance to accept your self-diagnosis, even though it seems to make sense. That is where I was in 2019! Before 2019 I knew virtually nothing about Autism and, in my ignorance, would've dismissed any suggest... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: F.B.I. Raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2023, 1:30 pm
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goldfish21 wrote: Maybe he's preparing for an insanity defence in this and other cases? Perhaps an inanity defense? |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mailboxes Are Not Made For Storing Medications |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2023, 12:42 pm
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Yet another reason (I had not previously thought of) to not get my prescriptions mailed to me.
I had already concluded that our mailbox was too close to areas used by the public and unprotected...and therefore vulnerable to mail-theft |
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Forum: Getting to know each other Topic: Just one more new member introduction |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2023, 12:27 pm
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| Welcome to WP! I hope it satisfies at least some of your expectations of it. I'm too recently diagnosed to be able to call myself Aspergers apparently, but I'm at that end of the spectrum. I can understand your desire to be precise. Asperger's was first added to the DSM in DSM-IV in 1994 but then in... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: F.B.I. Raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate |
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Posted: 04 Jun 2023, 11:59 am
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| He is clearly a security risk. I oppose executing him for treason. ( - 1 - I believe that would complicate any attempt to reclaim any ill-gotten gains from his pockets. - 2 - He would probably enjoy the attention from the trial.) House-arrest would be too luxurious in his homes. Is there someplace... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: F.B.I. Raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate |
| Double Retired |
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Posted: 03 Jun 2023, 8:17 pm
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| ...there are so many lawyers all saying the ~same thing about the documents case: "trump's going to jail for this." I sure hope they're right! 8) I also think he belongs in prison. But I would add the caveat that he should be held in isolation with very restricted contact with other peopl... |
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