Re: Satellites show sea level rise is accelerating

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 8:36 AM, wrote: ​> ​https://www.mercurynews.com/ 2018/02/12/satellites-show- sea-level-rise-is- accelerating/ Compare with John Clark's claim of rise of one inch per decade. AG OK​ lets compare, it says what we now for sure is that has

Re: Positive AI

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 5:49 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: On 1/25/2018 4:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > A brain, if this is confirmed, is a consciousness filter. It makes us > less conscious, and even less intelligent, but more efficacious

Re: Positive AI

On 1/22/2018 4:58 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Sleep probably serves multiple and also orthogonal functions in animals. I agree as well, that on some levels it is a deep mystery. It is death training, perhaps, also. Didn't we just discuss a paper showing that one is

Re: Positive AI

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:00 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: On 1/22/2018 4:58 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Sleep probably serves multiple and also orthogonal functions in animals. I agree as well, that on some levels it is a

Re: Positive AI

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:04 PM, Brent Meeker wrote: On 1/16/2018 11:54 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Brent Meeker

Re: Massive ‘anomaly’ lurks beneath ice in Antarctica

It's my understanding that the real kicker was that (it is hypothesized as an effect of the massive global warming) that the oceanic circulation shut down and the oceans became largely anoxic and as  result began producing copious amounts of hydrogen sulfide (made by anaerobic microorganisms)

Re: Massive ‘anomaly’ lurks beneath ice in Antarctica

If the impactor was big enough the shockwave it generated could have hammered right through earth's core focusing its energy on the oppisite side of the planet e.g. Siberia triggering the subsequent unimaginably massive episode of volcanism. (possibly a latent rising bubble of hot mantle

Re: AI

t's pretty damn explanatory, (or don't).  -Original Message- From: 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 12:54 pm Subject: Re: AI The science of anthr

Re: AI

ience vehemently, and go ape shit when others do not obey. Again, anthropology.  Sent from AOL Mobile Mail -Original Message- From: 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, J

Re: AI

file tries. I'm not a betting man, but... -Original Message- From: 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 1:55 am Subject: Re: AI No worries, not interested in

Re: AI

- From: 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, Jun 20, 2017 12:33 am Subject: Re: AI Cupcake... Life... is not some kind of team spectator sport. As I said before descending down into your

Re: AI

we're belligerent, we win, again.   -Original Message- From: 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jun 19, 2017 11:33 pm Subject: Re: AI Hold it right there, cupcake,

Re: AI

Now assuming this passes as plausible, who do you think will win? Will your team be able to successfully suppress the narod,  the lumpen proletariat, whom your team wants to eliminate? Consider this a purely academic thought experiment.  -Original Message- From: 'cdemorse...@yaho

Re: AI

@spudboy IMO, you listen to way too much talk radio there cupcake. In order to get a firmer grip on reality may I kindly suggest that you widen the circle of places you habitually go to get your (opinion) news.I left this thread a few responses back, and skimming through your semi-literate

Re: “Could a Quantum Computer Have Subjective Experience?”

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Kim Jones wrote: > Jun 2017, at 12:15 pm, Bruce Kellett wrote: > > That sounds remarkably like the "many minds" interpretation of quantum > mechanics. This is

Re: AI

Apparently it seems, spudboy is channeling the nutrition feee highly processed soundbite sized chunks of invective that passes for strategic analysis on talk radio. The reduction of the Art of public discourse to the language and intellect of the digital gutter (if such a word as intellect can

Re: What are atheists for?

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 9:13 AM, John Clark wrote: On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: ​​>> ​When 99% of the human species observe the ASCII ​sequence G-O-D  they have a clear mental picture of what that sequence represents,

Re: What are atheists for?

0:22 am, 'cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List <everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: Couldn't an athiest instead be open to, for example, a mathematical foundation from which that which we perceive as being matter emerges? Sure - but then they wouldn't need to identify with atheis

Re: What are atheists for?

And... drum role...That is your belief... is it not? Atheists do not necessarily believe in a fundamental realness of matter, though many do. Can you show me any dogma which is univesally believed in by athiests that - on faith -- asserts the hypothesis of some fundamental material foundation

Re: musings on time

   -- Original message-- From: Bruno Marchal Date: Mon, 7/25/2016 7:31 AM On 25 Jul 2016, at 01:45, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:Hey it’s been a while… been following some discussions from time to time, lurking I guess….without further ado this is

Re: Re: Do they or don't they exist? Is anyone familiar with this paper?

And what of the singularity theorized as the initial state of the Big Bang?-- Original message-- From:LizRDate:Wed, 9/24/2014 5:21 PMTo:everything-list@googlegroups.com;Subject:Re: Do they or don't they exist? Is anyone familiar with this paper?This appears to be saying

Re: Re: American Intelligence

-- Original message-- From:spudboy100 via Everything List Date:Fri, 7/4/2014 1:27 PMTo:everything-list@googlegroups.com;Subject:Re: American IntelligenceIts a real threat, and its something that you don't wish to hear about. The flow of power in the US,

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 1:01 AM On 24 Apr 2014, at 19:18, 'Chris de Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List wrote: From: everything-list

Re: anyone super-geek here?

I looked at it a while back and of the various open source cloud initiatives it looks like the one best positioned to succeed also because it is heavily backed by Rackspace -- a large hosting, col-location service based out of Texas.  My advice though, whatever cloud solution you go with would

RE: The Evolutionary Tree of Religion

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes http://infinitemachine.tumblr.com/image/83867790181 A nice weekend to everyone! Nice graph; that gives a refreshing perspective on religion. as a human evolution of cultural

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

Morsella cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List wrote: At some level, there is only that, which is personally experienced... each has to know God on their own, by their own way, in their own heart. No one can - beyond, perhaps pointing out the way to some extent -- teach or lead anyone down

RE: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 9:26 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Interesting Google tech talk on QM On 23 Apr 2014, at 13:08, LizR wrote: On 23

RE: Interesting Google tech talk on QM

...@yahoo.com cdemorse...@yahoo.com' via Everything List wrote: Do someone know the estimate of the age of the universe at the time of Mark Twain? Einstein though it was infinite, and I thought that many physicists (including believer in Big Bang(s)) don't exclude that. Didn't most people still

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

-Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Understood, but China is not pursuing a policy of eliminating AGW, but reducing smog in its cities. Its not a kumbaya moment now for anything nowbin

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Yes they're trying to reduce smog but that should still have that effect to some extent (reducing AGW). But yes, clean green energy is needed - maybe nuclear reactors (Russia is doing a

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

...@yahoo.com' via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: -Original Message- From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of spudboy...@aol.com Understood, but China is not pursuing a policy of eliminating AGW, but reducing smog

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal On 21 Apr 2014, at 01:39, Chris de Morsella wrote: From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of meekerdb On 4/19/2014 9:01

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 1:37 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate. On 21 Apr 2014, at 02:03, Chris de Morsella

RE: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate.

From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Telmo Menezes Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:38 AM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: cannabis, cancer and mechanism, and climate. On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:52 AM,