Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 10:15 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is >> likely to last longer >> > > Maybe, but I note that smarter than average humans seem to ha

Re: Pigeons offend Islam

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 7:30 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 6/9/2015 2:01 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 09 Jun 2015, at 04:08, meekerdb wrote: > > This is stupid on so many levels, even on the most basic factual one: > You can't see the genitals of a pigeon. They're covered by feathers. You > h

Re: super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
t, even though there are apparently 100 trillion of them compared to 7 billion humans. Telmo. > > Terren > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Telmo Menezes > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> Something I have been thinking about. I start with two assumptions: >&

super intelligence and self-sampling

2015-06-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi everyone, Something I have been thinking about. I start with two assumptions: - Super-intelligence is more resilient than human intelligence, so it is likely to last longer (e.g. it is more likely to be able to anticipate existencial threats and prepare accordingly; it is more likely to spread

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 16 May 2015, at 15:47, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Kellett > wrote: > >> Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >>> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:50 AM,

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Kellett >> So you think that Darwinian evolution produced intelligent >> zombies, >> and then computat

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-17 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Kellett >> So you think that Darwinian evolution produced intelligent zombies, >> and then computationalism infused consciousness? >> >> No. What I am saying is that consciousness is not a plausible target for >> gradual evolution for the follow

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 2:48 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Kellett < >> bhkell...@optusnet.com.au <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Telmo Menezes wrote: >>

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Bruce Kellett < >> bhkell...@optusnet.com.au <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >>

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Telmo Menezes wrote: > > >> >> On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Bruce Kellett > <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> meekerdb wrote: >> >> On 5/15/2015 10:29

Re: What does the MGA accomplish?

2015-05-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > meekerdb wrote: > >> On 5/15/2015 10:29 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: >> >>> >>> The AI that I envisage will probably be based on a learning program of >>> some sort, that will have to learn in much the same way as an infant human >>> learns. I d

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
even." I hope Lomborg does. He might just have > with this unseen WSJ article. I will send a site link which will show the > full article. > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > > -Original Message- > From: Telmo Menezes > To: everything-list > Sent: Fri, May 1

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 11:27 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 5/15/2015 2:38 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR wrote: > >> On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >>> >>>> Clouds, especially

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
ng it works, sans fee). > > > http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-honor-of-being-mugged-by-climate-censors-1431558936 > > Sent from AOL Mobile Mail > > > -Original Message- > From: Telmo Menezes > To: everything-list > Sent: Fri, May 15, 2015 07:52 AM > Subject:

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 12:21 PM, LizR wrote: > On 15 May 2015 at 21:38, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR wrote: >> >>> On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> Clouds,

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-15 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 3:07 AM, LizR wrote: > On 13 May 2015 at 21:30, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> >>> Clouds, especially high clouds have some effect. They reflect visible >>> bands back to space and they also absorb and reemit IR. Low clouds tend to >&

Re: Occulus (was Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 4:20 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 5/12/2015 7:02 PM, LizR wrote: > >> Brent, that link doesn't work for me - did you miss something off the end? >> > > Oops! Shoulda been: > > > http://www.polygon.com/features/2015/4/13/8371781/homesick-is-a-fantasy-walkabout-in-a-scary-lonel

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > Clouds, especially high clouds have some effect. They reflect visible > bands back to space and they also absorb and reemit IR. Low clouds tend to > increase heat load because they reflect in the day, but they insulate day > and night. It's not magic, it's just calculation. > Of course, I

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > > With climate change and cures for cancer you need statistics, because > there are no such laws in these fields. There is no equation where you can > plug-in a CO2 concentration and get a correct prediction on global > temperature change. > > > There's a law where you can plug in atmospheri

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > I disagree. I think this criticisms comes from a misinterpretation of what > the p-value means. The p-value estimates the probability of seeing results > at least as helpful to the hypothesis as the ones found, assuming the null > hypothesis. A high p-value is informative because it tells us

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 11:55 PM, LizR wrote: > I believe satellites and weather stations give a lot of samples of > atmospheric temperature (and other properties, I assume). > Yes, I am not questioning these readings. I believe that 2010 was warmer than any year in the previous century, etc. W

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:47 PM, LizR wrote: > So all these hottest years on record we keep getting are made up? > > Just curious. > > > ​ > Admittedly this is from 2010, maybe the trend has reversed in last 5 years? > How long is the record? What is the p-value for the hypothesis of this being

Entanglement Between Photons that have Never Coexisted

2015-05-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
"In the scenario we present here, measuring the last photon affects the physical description of the first photon in the past, before it has even been measured. Thus, the ”spooky action” is steering the system’s past". http://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.4191v1.pdf -- You received this message because you

Re: quadratic voting

2015-05-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 06 May 2015, at 08:41, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > > 2015-05-06 3:51 GMT+02:00 meekerdb : > >> On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 5 May 2015 at 11:12, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> Where does the money go once it's bought votes?

Re: quadratic voting

2015-05-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2015-05-06 3:51 GMT+02:00 meekerdb : > >> On 5/5/2015 5:34 PM, LizR wrote: >> >> On 5 May 2015 at 11:12, meekerdb wrote: >> >>> Where does the money go once it's bought votes? >>> >>> >>> It's redistributed. So after the Koch b

Re: Translation in the Fourth Spatial Dimension

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Dennis Ochei wrot > What are the terms for it? We have up/down left/right forward/backward > ??/?? ? > I don't think there's a name for that, but here's a nice game in 4D: http://miegakure.com/ They project 4D to 3D and let you switch between which 3 dim

Re: quadratic voting

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 1:12 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 5/4/2015 2:54 PM, LizR wrote: > > On 5 May 2015 at 00:12, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, LizR wrote: >> >>> Yes, very. I haven't read the paper yet but I hope when the

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 04 May 2015, at 10:23, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR wrote: > >> On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >>> >>> Of course believing i

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:59 PM, PGC wrote: > > > On Monday, May 4, 2015 at 4:03:50 PM UTC+2, telmo_menezes wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Alberto G. Corona >> wrote: >> >>> Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even mean? If, for example, gh

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
conference is going to be in my city in the end of July. I am not sure I will be able to attend, but if I can I will try to ask Ben in person. Telmo. > > Mitch > > > -Original Message- > From: Telmo Menezes > To: everything-list > Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 9:08 am >

Re: quadratic voting

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > Interesting idea: >> http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/ >> > > I see it's claimed to be "more efficient" and I can certainly see that. It > will allow the Koch brothers to directly buy the laws they want without > having to buy Congressmen. > That is better, no? It means that their mon

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even >> mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that >> current scientific theories are incomplete or wrong. >> > > So what? > No problem, my

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
nal world -- although it won't get you a nobel prize or even any sort of recognition. > > > > -Original Message- > From: Telmo Menezes > To: everything-list > Sent: Mon, May 4, 2015 4:19 am > Subject: Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism! >

Re: quadratic voting

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
fluence policy, the more wealth equality you get. The author proposes a mathematical proof that such a system would stabilize on an equal distribution of political power. Of course, there are many real world details that could make this idea fail miserably, but it's fun to think about. >

quadratic voting

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
Interesting idea: http://ericposner.com/quadratic-voting/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To pos

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:08 PM, LizR wrote: > On 4 May 2015 at 06:45, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> >> Of course believing in the supernatural is absurd -- what does that even >> mean? If, for example, ghosts were real, then this would just mean that >> current scie

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
dden Pattern, which I had downloaded, a couple of months ago. Any data or > opinion on Goetzel's view on all this? > Have you seen this? http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.de/2015/03/paranormal-phenomena-nonlocal-mind-and.html Telmo. > > Mitch > > > -Original Me

Re: Michael Shermer becomes sceptical about scepticism!

2015-05-03 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi spudboy, I follow Ben Goetzel and have some of the books he recommends on the topic on my to-read list. I remain agnostic on this stuff, and just try to consider the simplest explanation, even if it's boring. In the case of this story, this sounds a lot like the event was staged by some nice p

Re: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-04-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > Ok, but you could equally say that all the universe does is attain the >> state of heat death, or that all a person does is end up dead. You are >> choosing to ignore the intermediate steps as unimportant, because you know >> the ultimate outcome. >> > > My point is that the intermediate steps

Re: God

2015-04-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > If you think that blacks did ok under slavery, and didn't perish hugely, > you must be living in fantasy land. I am about as rightwing as one can get > on this mailing list. But I am not fibbing in order to cleanse the facts of > human history. While, I am at it, The Spaniards and Portuguese

Re: The dovetailer disassembled

2015-04-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:34 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> >> Bruce seems to ignore the (mind-body) problem, and to miss that the UDA >> just helps to make that problem more precise, in the frame of >> computationalism, and to make it more amenable to more rigorous treatmen

Re: crime and duplication machines

2015-04-26 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:48 PM, PGC wrote: > > > On Friday, April 24, 2015 at 5:55:46 PM UTC+2, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> >> >> On 24 Apr 2015, at 02:30, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, LizR wrote: >> >

Re: crime and duplication machines

2015-04-26 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > On 24 Apr 2015, at 02:30, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, LizR wrote: > >> You should both go to jail, on the basis that both copies of you had the >> same consciousnes

Re: crime and duplication machines

2015-04-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 1:19 AM, LizR wrote: > You should both go to jail, on the basis that both copies of you had the > same consciousness as the person who committed the murder, and therefore > you are both equally responsible (leaving aside considerations of free will > etc) > I agree. I wou

Re: Where are they?

2015-04-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > The amazing thing is how what would happen in 100 trillion years may > preoccupy so seriously to some people that would induce to suicide. > Boltzman committed suicide in part because his own theories of > termodinamical dead of the uni

crime and duplication machines

2015-04-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
My suspicion is that "personal identity" is a human concept that is evolved mainly to enforce social norms, and that it only works until technologies like duplication machines or mind uploading are created. To illustrate this, I propose a dilemma: Let's assume I murder someone and then get scanned

Re: Step 3 - one step beyond?

2015-04-23 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Bruce Kellett > <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> Dennis Ochei wrote: >> >> One must revise the everyday

Re: Step 3 - one step beyond?

2015-04-20 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Dennis Ochei wrote: > >> One must revise the everyday concept of personal identity because it >> isn't even coherent. It's like youre getting mad at him for explaining >> combustion without reference to phlogiston. He can't use the everyday

Re: Food for thought

2015-04-19 Thread Telmo Menezes
18, 2015 at 1:24 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < > everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: >> everything-list@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Telmo Menezes >> *Sen

Re: Food for thought

2015-04-18 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > > > Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is now > creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created from > the dawn of humans through the current century. It has been estimated that > by 2020, the size of the world’s digital universe will be clo

Re: Food for thought

2015-04-18 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 6:36 AM, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/17/2015 11:56 AM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote: > > > Current global growth estimates are that every two days, the world is > now creating as much new digital information as all the data ever created > from the dawn of hum

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Bruce Kellett > <mailto:bhkell...@optusnet.com.au>> wrote: >> >> LizR wrote: >> >> On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, J

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 2:53 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > LizR wrote: > >> On 15 April 2015 at 10:15, John Clark > johnkcl...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Yes but I'm confused, I though you were the one arguing that Bruno >> had discovered something new under the sun, a new sort of >> uncertain

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-16 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > My problem with any view based on entropy is that entropy doesn't appear to be fundamental to physics; it is the statistically likely result when objects are put in a certain configuration and allowed to evolve randomly. >>> >> There is, however, an interesting parallel to be mad

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-14 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:44 AM, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 , Telmo Menezes wrote: > > >> >I have this crazy idea to remove the supposed ambiguity: ask a specific >> Telmo if his prediction was correct or not. >> > > If Telmo were logic

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-14 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Liz, > Ok. I have an idea about that, it is probably not original. Tell me what >> you think: >> The universe was not created. All possible states just exist. The moment >> of the big bang is one of the many possible states. What we call the past >> is a sequence of steps in the state graph th

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:16 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/13/2015 7:39 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Comp does not specify a substitution level. Maybe it's the brain, maybe > the whole body or the entire planet. The duplication machines assume the > body, but then this re

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
;>> everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> *From:* everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto: >>>>>> everything-list@goo

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> On 13 Apr 2015, at 05:31, Bruce Kellett wrote: >> >> The philosophical literature is full of extended discussions on this, >>> and it is widely understood that ideas such as brain transplants and >>> duplicating ma

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Bruce Kellett wrote: > John Clark wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes > te...@telmomenezes.com>> wrote: >> > >And now that I have answered you question I repeat my question >> that you dodged: Who

Re: Mathematical Self-Reproduction

2015-04-13 Thread Telmo Menezes
> > Thanks Telmo. I have looked only to the 1/3 video. > I am shocked myself by my accent, and I have discovered that I do oral > "typos" now ... > I hate listening to my own voice recorded, I believe that's very common. I think it's easy to understand and gives you character. I have worked with m

Mathematical Self-Reproduction

2015-04-12 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi everyone, Mysteriously, I came across the videos of a very recent talk by Bruno entitled "Mathematical Self-Reproduction". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATl86jBfwqI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76iuXcVOAuc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5etar0vQYnI Bruno, hope you don't mind me postin

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-11 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:43 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > >> >>And now that I have answered you question I repeat my question that you >>> dodged: Who is traveling through time in a forward direction, Mr. John >>

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:42 AM, LizR wrote: > Brent: > > Communism is not a terrible idea - it works fine for families. A lot of >> political problems come from trying to extend ethics that evolved for >> families and small tribes to nation states of millions of unrelated people. >> >> Thanks Br

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:40 AM, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 Telmo Menezes te...@telmomenezes.com > > wrote: > > >> >> Who is traveling through time in a forward direction, Mr. John Clark >>> or Mr. John Clark The Helsinki Man? >>> >

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-09 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:10 AM, LizR wrote: > On 8 April 2015 at 01:43, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> >>>> >>>> > You left out "traveling through time in a forward direction". >>>> >>> >>> Who is traveling through tim

Re: America: Bankrupt & Living on Borrowed Time

2015-04-08 Thread Telmo Menezes
Thanks Brent! On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:20 AM, meekerdb wrote: > For Telmo. > > Brent > > > Forwarded Message > > > Thomas Jefferson is credited with the following sage advice, *“The central > bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the > Principle

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-07 Thread Telmo Menezes
hey are travelling through time in a forward direction? > > >> > many worlds or duplicating machines you have to specify which "Telmo >> Menezes" or which "you" in the exact same way. >> > > No it is not exactly the same way. With copying machines Jo

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:45 PM, meekerdb wrote: > > > It was a totalitarian government, like within a single corporation. > Nothing at all like Marx imagined. Where Marx's idea has been realized is > in the Amana colonies in the US and the kibbutz in Israel. So why didn't > they devolve into to

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-06 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 11:04 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > If you take the MWI seriously, then you are open to the possibility that >> you are constantly being duplicated >> > > If the MWI is true then it's

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-05 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 4/4/2015 6:19 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Hi John > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 10:10 PM, John Mikes wrote: > >> TELMO: >> I did not expect from you to point to the 2 centuries old obsolete and >>

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-04-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 6:42 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > "I" is a single entity travelling through time in the forward direction. >> > > If matter copying machines exist there would be nothing "single" about it, > Mr. I can split numerous times

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-04 Thread Telmo Menezes
aged by technological advance. One of the realities about the current economic crises that few are willing to admit: there simply are no longer jobs for everyone. I think the best idea that we have so far is the universal flat salary. Best, Telmo. > > > > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:04 AM,

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-03 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:19 AM, LizR wrote: > On 2 April 2015 at 15:18, John Clark wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 LizR wrote: >> >> >>> >> In practice Communism was evil but in theory it was just stupid > Almost as stupid as capitalism, >>> >> >> The defining characteristic of stupid

mysterious radio signal

2015-04-03 Thread Telmo Menezes
"Fast Radios Bursts (FRBs) show large dispersion measures (DMs), suggesting an extragalactic location. We analyze the DMs of the 11 known FRBs in detail and identify steps as integer multiples of half the lowest DM found, 187.5cm−3 pc, so that DMs occur in groups centered at 375, 562, 750, 937, 112

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-02 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:13 AM, LizR wrote: > On 2 April 2015 at 19:40, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:19 AM, LizR wrote: >> >>> On 1 April 2015 at 20:50, Telmo Menezes wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR w

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:19 AM, LizR wrote: > On 1 April 2015 at 20:50, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR wrote: >> >>> I hope that isn't an April Fool! >>> >>> Well, this isn't rocket scien

Re: Geenralised game playing

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Liz, Yes, this is quite exciting, more so than Watson or Deep Blue because it tries to be more generic. The latest wave of excitement seems to come from Google's Deep Mind. Here's a paper about it, with some videos you can see even without paying: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n754

Re: Are all terrorrists Muslim? Not even close!

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 1:40 AM, LizR wrote: > I hope that isn't an April Fool! > > Well, this isn't rocket science... > > In 2013, it was more likely Americans would be killed by a toddler than a >> terrorist. In that year, three Americans were killed in the Boston Marathon >> bombing, while todd

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:09 AM, LizR wrote: > As mentioned in another thread, the media have (as it were) blown the > Islamic threat up out of all proportion. Climate change is a FAR greater > threat to civilisation than ISIS will ever be. > That is true. It is also true that ISIS was essentiall

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-04-01 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2015-03-31 12:11 GMT+02:00 Telmo Menezes : > >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Quentin Anciaux >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> 2015-03-31 10:37 GMT+02:00 Telmo

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Liz, You may be right. I am surely not going to debate that there are a lot of people who were lucky enough to have been born in optimal conditions and feel superior to people who were just less lucky. For this reason, they will support ideas that are just self-serving rationalizations. The pr

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2015-03-31 10:37 GMT+02:00 Telmo Menezes : > >> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Russell Standish >> wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 07:04:10AM -0400, spudboy100 via Everything List

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-31 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:23 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 07:04:10AM -0400, spudboy100 via Everything List > wrote: > > Well, its not the new jihadists I blame, but the (yes) leftist > academics, politicians, and news thugs, that have long, empowered, and made > excuses f

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-30 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:35 AM, Kim Jones wrote: > > > > On 30 Mar 2015, at 11:19 am, LizR wrote: > > On 30 March 2015 at 08:39, meekerdb wrote: > >> On 3/29/2015 3:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: >> >> Please! "Hunter Gatherers" - "warriors

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-30 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 2:04 AM, LizR wrote: > On 28 March 2015 at 23:12, Telmo Menezes wrote: > >> The characteristics of a gender have been evolved by millions of years of >> selection, and women preferences play a role in this selection process. >> >> Not ju

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-30 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy < multiplecit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 11:57 PM, John Clark wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 Quentin Anciaux wrote: >> >>> > Ok... Well now everybody can see you as you really are, >>> >> And I'm perfectly satisf

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:39 PM, meekerdb wrote: > On 3/29/2015 3:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Please! "Hunter Gatherers" - "warriors" is a boys' club term for it. >> > > I can accept that the term "warrior" glorifies something nasty,

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-29 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 1:33 AM, Kim Jones wrote: > > > On 28 Mar 2015, at 9:12 pm, Telmo Menezes wrote: > > Hi Kim, > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Kim Jones > wrote: > >> On 26 Mar 2015, at 2:21 pm, LizR wrote: >> >> http://www.raqqa-sl.com/

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > 2015-03-28 19:04 GMT+01:00 Telmo Menezes : > >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:01 PM, John Clark wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou wrote:

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 6:01 PM, John Clark wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > > > Is anyone else worried that the list is descending to a low place? >> > > It's interesting, Quentin The Horse Fucker has been calling me "Liar > Clark" about every other day since Dece

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:40 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > You are saying that step 3 is trivial, so you admit that it is correct >> > > No. The first 2 steps are trivialities dressed up in pompous language, but > in

Re: Something from nothing -- my attempt of derivation of a UTM.

2015-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Mindey I. wrote: > Hi Everyone, > Hi Mindey, welcome. > > so, my background: http://mindey.com/42 -- I always wanted to know its > origin precisely. > > The understanding of the origin of Universe(=Everything, Multiverse, > and our Life experience included) wa

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:41 AM, LizR wrote: > Sadly, it's quite clear that Mr Clark has no wish to engage with the > argument being presented. It's fair to say that on this subject, at least, > rather than attempt to understand the point being made, he's resorted to > insults and dismissive "cle

Re: Life in the Islamic State for women

2015-03-28 Thread Telmo Menezes
Hi Kim, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Kim Jones wrote: > On 26 Mar 2015, at 2:21 pm, LizR wrote: > > http://www.raqqa-sl.com/en/?p=857 > > > So most of these women are Brits? WTF! Makes your blood run cold. People > are turning into zombies left right and centre. There is absolutely nothing

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-27 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:01 PM, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > > I don't think anyone claims that the duplicating machines are an analogy >> for the MWI. >> > Quentin The Horse Fucker claims EXACTLY that and even calls me

Re: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness

2015-03-25 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 9:15 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 Quentin Anciaux wrote: > > > John is inconsistent... he asserts that theory for duplication machines, >> and so say that he can never say anything about his future expectations >> because he is no more... but somehow he c

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-25 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:33 PM, John Clark wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > >> Generally when Watson was wrong he knew he was probably wrong. I find >>> that significant. >>> >> >> > I find that significant

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-25 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 3:15 AM, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > >> it will be more than human. >>> >> >> >I'm not sure what that means. >> > > It means that a future machine can perform any task in a way

Re: Turing Test (was: Michael Graziano's theory of consciousness)

2015-03-24 Thread Telmo Menezes
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 6:23 PM, John Clark wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 Telmo Menezes wrote: > > >> >> And anyway the really important thing isn't if you can detect if the >>> thing you're talking to is a human but if you can detect if the th

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