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General Discussion / Re: Minimum Wage
« on: February 24, 2013, 09:31:01 pm »
Quote from: Andrew425 on February 24, 2013, 06:02:38 pm
Do you think humans are smart enough to make a machine smarter than us?

Also I'm banking on biological advancements to keep us as smart as AIs

The logic doesn't hold except in the most superficial sense. We can make a computer that plays chess better than any human, something that was once help up as the holy Grail that proved machines would never be smarter than humans. The same argument could be applied to vision: "Do you think humans see well enough to make a machine the sees better than us?".

Also, there's the idea of bootstrapping design. Consider the human embryo, its has zero "intelligence" yet self-generates into a highly-intelligent human. "Intelligence" wasn't coded into it's DNA, that was merely a sequence of bits which just happens to code to intelligence.

In a similar fashion, we should one day have enough CPU power to "brute force" test many different AI designs - an AI program written to purely evaluate the intelligence of other AIs (the testing AI is not required to possess intelligence, in the same sense that an IQ test is not an intelligent artifact), and a genetic algorithm which mutates and evolves other AIs.

Any AI or digital computer program can be encoded as a number: it's just a search-space problem, then. Brute-force search through the set of integers would yield every theoretically possible computer program (including all possible AIs). No intelligence required for this operation. All programming and design activities are just procedures to reduce the search-space.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 24, 2013, 04:26:22 am »
Sadly my above quoted text was taken verbatim from the original Japanese-Only version :/ so it can't even be called a dub or anything.

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General Discussion / Re: Minimum Wage
« on: February 23, 2013, 06:01:23 pm »
Quote from: Andrew425 on February 23, 2013, 12:57:02 pm
Automating isn't going to take away fast food jobs. Not for the foreseeable future.

And it shouldn't take aware manufacturing jobs. All it should do is increase productivity.

That robot burger maker which makes 360+ personalized burgers an hour, is already headed for production, so I would say it's at least the medium-term forseeaable future. They're already getting rid of most of the cashiers at the supermarkets here in Australia with automated service machines, try telling people before that started that you'd be scanning your own groceries in a few years and they would have laughed at you.

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The most expensive part of that flimsy burger from your local fast food joint isn't what you put in your mouth; it's the human hands that put it together. But this robotic burger-maker that preps, grills, and assembles your Royale with Cheese—automatically—may soon replace human line cooks altogether while saving the fast food industry billions.

Built by San Francisco-based Momentum Machines, this robotic burger maker is designed to do the work of three full-time kitchen staff. The current alpha version of the machine grinds, stamps, and grills patties (made to order), then cuts and layers lettuce, onions, pickles, and tomatoes before slapping everything on a bun and wrapping it to go. The only human labor involved is that needed to take the customer's money and hand over the completed burger.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 23, 2013, 06:20:38 am »
Embarrassing anime moments (both the anime, and the moment): below the opening credits' series logo of Aika: Zero:

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IN 2016 A.D. THE GROBAL DISASTER OCCURRED AND THE LAND MORE THAN 10% OF THE WHOLE EARTH SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA

BUT SALVAGER COME UP INSTEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ENTERPRISES TO PULL UP THE HERITAGE WHICH HAS BEEN LYING IN THE WATER.

If they'd used Google Translate, they'd probably have been better off.

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General Discussion / Re: Minimum Wage
« on: February 22, 2013, 07:45:07 pm »
There are some big gripes with USA's SS, like if you die before turning 65, you get zero back (unlike Australia's Superannuation, in which you can nominate another person as the beneficiary of your personal savings).

Also, the American SS tax is only on the first $110,000 of your income, so poorer people and minorities pay more SS taxes, yet they don't tend to live as long, so wealthier / whiter individuals both pay less into the system, and get more mandatory benefits.

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General Discussion / Re: Minimum Wage
« on: February 22, 2013, 09:32:09 am »
Quote from: Max White on February 21, 2013, 08:04:12 pm
Does the US have different minimum wages per age bracket? For example, the minimum wage for somebody under sixteen in Australia is $5.87.
For anybody twenty or over it is $15.59, and there are several brackets in between those two figures.

Could somebody over the age of twenty be working for less than $10 an hour?

Don't forget apprenticeships, those allow Australian employers to get noobs cheaper than the nominal minimum wage, and the apprentice gets a nationally accredited qualification (there are formal classes provided free for the apprentices) + experience.

Most of the noted problems associated with raising minimum wage can be solved by creating special programs to encourage employers to train people, in exchange for leeway with wages.

Quote from: MetalSlimeHunt on February 21, 2013, 08:25:57 pm
Quote from: Max White on February 21, 2013, 08:20:49 pm
Under 16s have the least need for it. The assumption is that they either have parents paying for their food and shelter, or they are already on some sort of benifit scheme. That $5 an hour goes towards buying nerf guns and candy.
Max, there are lots of families in the US where the non-adult children work to support the family with their money.

so basically you're saying you're peasants over there? That's completely unheard of in Australia.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 22, 2013, 08:48:23 am »
@Furtuka: logging in with your facebook account to view the content implies the content is hosted outside facebook, but uses facebook as verification, making that specific WTF? invalid (the idea of explicit 13+ content being WTF? still stands though).

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 21, 2013, 11:29:26 pm »
Now and Then, Here and There (Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku) - the character was very much not "ok" with being transported to another dimension.

idk if The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya counts, since
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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General Discussion / Re: [Tomoko~] Because I'm not popular, Ill have an emotion thread (Happy Thread)
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:58:12 am »
Quote from: MagmaMcFry on February 18, 2013, 10:48:07 pm
Quote from: Greiger on February 18, 2013, 10:31:53 pm
Just programmed a full game in C++ in 2 hours.  Woo!

Ok...so full game translates to one of those little text based rpg 1v1 fighters where you try to kill the other guy with a predetermined set of skills...

But still full game.  I even gave it fluff.  It's cataclysm themed, yer fighting a turret armed with a smg, a grenade launcher, and a lazer cannon, with a Savage 111F with a grenade launcher attachment and a railgun.  Here's hoping for bonus points for customizing it around the instructions.

Huh, I didn't know it was even possible to get something done in C++ in only 2 hours. Although that might be just me, preferring other languages for small programs.

Of course it's possible to get something done in C++ in a couple of hours. He did make it text-based after all. Only takes 5 seconds to write "hello world" in C++. Most of the lost time for newbies, I'd put down to not knowing the syntax properly. Once you're over the learning curve, it's not necessarily slow to make stuff.

The main advantage speed-wise is for interpreted/scripting languages, since you don't have to hit a button labelled "compile". Time actually writing code isn't very different between languages. (but remember the compile-time error checking in C++ is far more advanced than a scripting language, so interpreted languages may end up with far more uncaught bugs).

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General Discussion / Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« on: February 19, 2013, 12:18:27 am »
Quote from: lorb on February 18, 2013, 11:35:16 pm
Unfortunately not everyone can or wants to climb over the paywall the nytimes has put in place. (Although imho it definitely is the best newspaper around and I can recommend subscribing it.)

They're still highly corporate and biased in favor of "American (corporate) Interests". e.g. their total lack of coverage of Latin American trade blocs like UNASUR and CELAC (US corporate media as a whole seems to have a permanent news blackout on any positive developments from South America which the USA doesn't dominate, but will cover anything negative, no matter how petty and irrelevant).

e.g:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Latin_American_and_Caribbean_States

Potentially the biggest economic/political event in the hemisphere, yet not a SINGLE searchable reference to this in nytimes online. (google "nytimes celac". The closest nytimes comes to mentioning this is "Celiac disease")

The same with the Union  of South American Nations(UNASUR), but "slightly" better. This political/economic union of the entirety of South America (including an overarching parliament, military alliance etc and working on a single currency), seems to have been mentioned exactly once in nytimes.

One relevant detail, is that Venezuela was a key player in setting up these (and other regional alliances), which, if the American public were to become aware of, would undermine the rhetoric about Venezuela being politically isolated in South America (in fact, that's projection/propaganda, as it is US allies such as Colombia and the coup leaders in Honduras who are politically isolated).

basically, if they can't keep you informed on actually important affairs in your hemisphere, they're nothing but a rag (if a slightly more liberal rag than NY post). Googling "bbc celac" or "bbc unasur" gives plenty of relevant hits, for comparison. Fuck american media, watch the BBC, they actually give better news about what's happening in America's backyard. BBC aren't perfect but they're a darn sight less blinkered than any American press (except many PBS / NPR)

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General Discussion / Re: FearfulJesuit's American Politics Megathread Two: Election Boogaloo
« on: February 18, 2013, 08:59:06 pm »
What baffles me is Joe Arpaio who is supposedly this tough-on-crime dude if you like jaywalk or something seems to have a soft spot for paedophiles, rapists and wife-beaters.

C'mon if you're going to be tough on crime, actually arrest the wrong-doers, not trump up charges against people for having the wrong skin color.

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General Discussion / Re: I like anime, do you like anime?
« on: February 18, 2013, 08:26:26 pm »
Think I got some good watchin' ahead, I started Mushishi just now, looks pretty awesome, and have the series Shiki & Monster to follow that.

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General Discussion / Re: Megafio das Politicas Americanas de FearfulJesuit Dois: Boogaloo de Eleição
« on: February 18, 2013, 12:46:12 am »
Quote from: greatorder on February 17, 2013, 09:35:22 pm
Quote from: MaximumZero on February 17, 2013, 09:32:53 pm
...isn't this the 'murrican politics thread?

I don't know if many of you missed this, but 'murricans speak English.
I thought 'Murricans spoke 'Murrican?

'Murricanese

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: February 16, 2013, 11:03:56 pm »
Considering Notepad is basically identical to the Windows 3.x notepad (but rebuilt for bigger memory models) it's more like 25 years old.

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General Discussion / Re: FearfulJesuit's American Politics Megathread Two: Election Boogaloo
« on: February 16, 2013, 06:06:21 pm »
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Panther slogans and iconography spread. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two American medalists, gave the black power salute during the playing of the American national anthem. The International Olympic Committee banned them from the Olympic Games for life.

Black Power Salute get's you blacklisted for life. I'd call that a pretty clear case of a symbol from the 60's / 70's activist movement being more or less illegal. Mind you this is just the first thing i googled, so there well may be more stuff.

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