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Or even better, "you can build a man a fire and he's warm for the night; but if you set a man on fire he is warm for life".

Okie dokie that is some decent ball park figures to work with, it is indeed a small quantity. thanks.

I'm starting with a litre of distilled water with a dissolved oxygen content of zero ppm, and I wish to raise the ppm of the dissolved O2 to 10ppm or 10mg/L using a 6% solution of H2O2. That is 10 extra molecules of oxygen in a litre! I've had no luck looking for through web based conversion...

OK what did the woman say when a steam roller ran over her cat.

This is not a joke, but it's pretty lame so it goes here... I was just mulling over that a pound of feathers is heavier than a pound of gold, but an ounce of gold is heavier than an ounce of feathers.

@nescient, sometimes you just have to sit back and marvel at the awe and majesty of it all!

I was wondering... imagine a large enclosed space sealed off in intergalactic space, filled with air at normal sea level pressure. I was further wondering with regard to a quadcopter's symmetrical x and y-axis and the fact of the thrust vector always being normal to the plane of the props, that...

Some sobering thoughts about what artificial intelligence isn't, in this well written piece for The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/06/google-palm-ai-artificial-consciousness/661329/ The fantasy of sentience through artificial intelligence is not just wrong; it’s...

Even without context this bothers me. Remind me to add it to our upcoming definition thread, as if.

What happened was that I was first trying to establish the similar yet completely different* qualities of humans, and then somehow get to an endpoint that, as far as fearing goes, we have no more to fear from AI than we do from bonobos that can play memory games on a computer screen, which...

I'm in the Deep North hinterland, and unless you're still living in the era of Bluey and Curly I fear you are misleading our American friends. I don't think The Reverend Monsignor Geoff Baron, the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, would have used 'flaming'. Although he probably wish...

AI certainly not but consciousness (notwithstanding that this entire discussion is meaningless without adequately defined terms like 'consciousness') ergo the 'hard problem', and this hard problem is as well understood (in the sense Feynman was using it) as quantum entanglement, that is not at...

Well I don't 'assert' it, but I do say, one (in this instance, me) could define it like that from a particular viewpoint of the peculiar nature of humans. Humans not only have the unique capacity of complex symbolic language, but separate to that, humans can be defined by the peculiar set of...

This 'does it make a difference' angle, is better applied to the 'are we in a simulation' nonsense. And vaguely related to 'do we have free will', on that one, I think we can say it doesn't matter because whether we do or not (we do) the entire world (even people who think we don't have free...

I'm guessing that when AI is referenced as 'thinking' I am assuming some sort of actual human equivalent, which would mean that it is aware that it is aware and therefore it is aware of what it is. Is this what people are getting to in this thread, or do they have something else in mind. Because...