Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
It seems to me Olympia is a simple table lookup for the input, the argument he uses to place it in the oracle camp seems invalid to me, he posits that he is able to construct a lookup table that contains the result of the halting problem... and because such table is a lookup table, all lookup

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 16 June 2014 22:44, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: Liz, have you Kiwis no sense of shame? http://news.yahoo.com/zealand-may-kick-start-race-mine-ocean-floor-211229873--finance.html;_ylt=AwrBJR66KJ5Taz0APtTQtDMD Ah, Kiwis,weak link, in the global

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:27:48PM -0700, meekerdb wrote: What is baffling to me is that photosynthesis in algae relies on absorption in the red and blue part of the spectrum, but reflects the big green part in between?? Why didn't it evolve another pigment to capture that in order to live

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
Changing Olympia to a machine that computed non-Turing-Computable functions would be a trivial matter: one would need to change only the value stored in the oracle, not the computational activity Olympia performs. In contrast, no Turing Machine could be so trivially upgraded: no amount of

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
Mind you anyone who uses The Cyberiad for his names (or indeed The Sandman for that matter) is OK with me. On 18 June 2014 20:40, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Changing Olympia to a machine that computed non-Turing-Computable functions would be a trivial matter: one would need to change only

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
I suppose the Sun's spectral characteristics might have changed a bit since chlorophyll evolved - though I wouldn't think *that* much. However, I agree with Brent - I would think that any plant that evolved the ability to absorb green light (not to mention infra red and all the other EM radiation

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-18 Thread Russell Standish
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:06:00PM +1200, LizR wrote: I suppose the Sun's spectral characteristics might have changed a bit since chlorophyll evolved - though I wouldn't think *that* much. However, I agree with Brent - I would think that any plant that evolved the ability to absorb green light

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread Quentin Anciaux
2014-06-18 10:40 GMT+02:00 LizR lizj...@gmail.com: Changing Olympia to a machine that computed non-Turing-Computable functions would be a trivial matter: one would need to change only the value stored in the oracle, not the computational activity Olympia performs. In contrast, no Turing

Re: Tegmark's new book

2014-06-18 Thread ronaldheld
*arXiv:1406.4348* http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4348 [*pdf* http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.4348] Title: Our Mathematical Universe? Authors: *Jeremy Butterfield* http://arxiv.org/find/physics/1/au:+Butterfield_J/0/1/0/all/0/1 Comments: 17 pages, no figures, *this http URL*

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Kim Jones kimjo...@ozemail.com.au wrote: On 17 Jun 2014, at 10:02 pm, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: What makes a human intelligent is CREATIVITY and that is by now well understood and no, machines (the human constructed ones) cannot do that

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
True. Notice please that the elites are not exploring and funding fixes as you or I would. They will be forced to with the Antarctica process. At this moment the big threats seem to be resource depletion and climate change. If we can face up to them and tackle them, we'll be better prepared

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
N! Its probably benighn as the environment around black smokers, is volcanic, and biology adapted mightily to heat, acidity, low oxygen. It appears this proposal has been rejected by the Environmental Protection Agency. -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote : I read the first 3 steps, Bruno made blunders in step 3; a proof is built on the foundations of previous steps therefor it would be idiotic to keep reading a proof, any proof, after a mistake has been found. That's fair

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
More important the mere Oracle Machinery are O-regions, which were conjectured about 14 years ago bt Gauriga and Vilenkin. http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0102010.pdf -Original Message- From: LizR lizj...@gmail.com To: everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wed, Jun 18,

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-18 Thread jross
My point is that the logic behind Einstein's special and general relativity theories is faulty. Time does not slow down when you go fast and is not affected by gravity. Clock speeds may be effected but not time. Time passes at the same rate everywhere in our Universe. Light travels through

Re: Tegmark's new book

2014-06-18 Thread Richard Ruquist
Nothing about only 37 bits of information available for computation in the human brain in Butterfield's paper. Richard On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:57 AM, ronaldheld ronaldh...@gmail.com wrote: *arXiv:1406.4348* http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4348 [*pdf* http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.4348] Title: Our

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: OK fine, but can you find the exact solutions to differential equations better than Mathematica? I don't think so. Not me personally, but the professional mathematicians studying DEs definitely. Bullshit.

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-18 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:01 AM, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Time does not slow down when you go fast and is not affected by gravity. Clock speeds may be effected but not time. OK fine, but if it's not time then we're going to need a new word to describe whatever it is that clocks

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 4:20 PM, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:55 PM, Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au wrote: OK fine, but can you find the exact solutions to differential equations better than Mathematica? I don't think so. Not me personally,

Re: Does 'free will' stem from brain noise?

2014-06-18 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Among computet administrators, there is an old say : Jesus saves. But only Buddah perform incremental backups El 12/06/2014 03:23, LizR lizj...@gmail.com escribió: In Lisp, god can define himself. On 12 June 2014 13:08, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread ghibbsa
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:36:36 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, ghi...@gmail.com javascript: wrote: sorry about the shitfaced first response. Drunk. No problem. The thing is John, in humans being intelligent and being conscious, always show up

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread ghibbsa
it looks like I sent it by accident while still writing. I'll come to this later with the rest, cheer. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:02:45 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:36:36 PM UTC+1, John Clark wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, ghi...@gmail.com

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 11:01 AM, Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com wrote: most people can't juggle 5 balls. A few people can, but nobody thinks they are creative because of it. I think you'd have to admit that all else being equal juggling is more creative than not juggling, at least a

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 17 Jun 2014, at 19:51, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Thanks. It looks interesting. K is amazing by itself. It is löbian in the sense that the theorems of K are closed for the Löb rule: if K proves []A - A,

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 16 Jun 2014, at 19:57, John Clark wrote: On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: If free will just means will then why stick on the free ? Because we believe that free does not add anything, Except bafflegab. Only because you quote an half

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:46, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 9:13 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Free-will or will are high level cognitive ability of machine having enough introspective ability. But not to much! :-) Indeed :-) Bruno Brent -- You received this message because you are

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 13 Jun 2014, at 21:53, meekerdb wrote: On 6/13/2014 9:23 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 13 Jun 2014, at 01:00, meekerdb wrote: On 6/12/2014 6:33 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: Actually Grim and another guy studied version of Gödel and Löb theorem in fuzzy logic (meaning that they

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 00:41, LizR wrote: On 18 June 2014 04:23, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 5:55 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote: Other that the fact than your use of personal pronouns was inexcusably sloppy and inconsistent for a good logician, I have long

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 15:26, John Clark wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote : I read the first 3 steps, Bruno made blunders in step 3; a proof is built on the foundations of previous steps therefor it would be idiotic to keep reading a proof, any proof,

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 02:19, chris peck wrote: That is logically impossible from the first person point of view. You describe the 3p view only. Nice straw man! Whats practically impossible is for one point of view to simultaneously accomodate the experience of both surviving and dieing.

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Jun 2014, at 04:13, LizR wrote: [That paper] (my head) Well, mine too. (even without paper). Other comments more later, Bruno -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-18 Thread Platonist Guitar Cowboy
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: On 17 Jun 2014, at 19:51, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Thanks. It looks interesting. K is amazing by itself. It is löbian in the sense that

Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-18 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: Russell Standish li...@hpcoders.com.au To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 12:31 AM Subject: Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes

Re: O-machines

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
As far as I can see the only connection here is the fact they both used the letter O. O-regions are interesting of course but don't appear to be relevant to the current discussion? On the subject of O-machines, in the case of Olympia I believe this is a TM with access to a trace from another TM.

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 02:01, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: My point is that the logic behind Einstein's special and general relativity theories is faulty. In what way is it faulty? SR is based on the principle that all non-accelerating observers will see the same laws of physics. GR is based on

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 02:47, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 10:01 AM, jr...@trexenterprises.com wrote: Time does not slow down when you go fast and is not affected by gravity. Clock speeds may be effected but not time. OK fine, but if it's not time then we're

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 01:26, John Clark johnkcl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 6:41 PM, LizR lizj...@gmail.com wrote : I read the first 3 steps, Bruno made blunders in step 3; a proof is built on the foundations of previous steps therefor it would be idiotic to keep reading a

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
PS I must say I find step 3 an odd place to attempt to refute comp. Presumably you've accepted the original assumptions and the first two steps. Most people either disagree with the original assumption(s), or go for the MGA (i.e. the reversal - the argument that we don't need a physical universe).

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 01:21, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: True. Notice please that the elites are not exploring and funding fixes as you or I would. They will be forced to with the Antarctica process. I wouldn't have been fulminating about the elites not

Re: Rats! I should have done that, not this!

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 01:25, spudboy100 via Everything List everything-list@googlegroups.com wrote: N! Its probably benighn as the environment around black smokers, is volcanic, and biology adapted mightily to heat, acidity, low oxygen. The proposal I saw involved dredging up iron sands,

Re: Quantum Logic as Classical Logic

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 06:52, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: Quantum logic usually designates the logical structure associated to the lattice of the subspaces of an (infinite dimensional) Hilbert space, where lives the atomic physical states (the rays, or unit vectors, the so called pure

Re: Context effects reveal quantum probabilities in surveys

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 06:28, Bruno Marchal marc...@ulb.ac.be wrote: It just hard to interview the machine on GR and compare. I read a SF novel in which life was created from lots of mini black holes (Raft I think). Maybe you can build a Turing machine using just GR. -- You received this message

Re: Does 'free will' stem from brain noise?

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
On 19 June 2014 03:30, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com wrote: Among computet administrators, there is an old say : Jesus saves. But only Buddah perform incremental backups That made me LOL. Wasn't the other one Jesus saves, but Pele scores on the rebound (or insert name of

Re: Films I think people on this forum might like

2014-06-18 Thread LizR
This is why when someone asks me what I will be doing over the holidays I am tempted to reply that I will be going away, not going away, crowned Empress of the Universe, killed in a car crash, spontaneously combusting, being kidnapped by aliens, having a conversion experience, and many other

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:19:20 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:03:48 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: it looks like I sent it by accident while still writing. I'll come to this later with the rest, cheer. On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:02:45 PM

Re: Turing test passed? Another sucker born every minute

2014-06-18 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:55:18 AM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:19:20 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 6:03:48 PM UTC+1, ghi...@gmail.com wrote: it looks like I sent it by accident while still writing. I'll come to this

Re: Selecting your future branch

2014-06-18 Thread ghibbsa
On Thursday, June 19, 2014 1:00:03 AM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: PS I must say I fin3 an odd place to attempt to refute comp. Presumably you've accepted the original assumptions and the first two steps. Most people either disagree with the original assumption(s), or go for the MGA (i.e. the

Re: TRONNIES - SPACE

2014-06-18 Thread ghibbsa
On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 11:54:17 PM UTC+1, Liz R wrote: On 19 June 2014 02:01, jr...@trexenterprises.com javascript: wrote: My point is that the logic behind Einstein's special and general relativity theories is faulty. In what way is it faulty? SR is based on the principle that

RE: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae (cryptophytes specifically)]

2014-06-18 Thread 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 3:45 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Solar power's bright future [ may be brighter thanks to us aping the quantum trickery of certain algae