This is just an amazing thing... amazing...
He wants to give children a sense of what things are like in the long term... he agrees that very much of the worlds problems are due to too much short term thinking, and that this toy will help him teach what the consequences of a civilizations actions will come out to in the long run...
Oh how the future motivates me... go here and check out some of the talks from the Singularity Institute
I can't even begin to describe what this guy has done! ...
I can't wait to see the next 10 years... who can remember their lives when they were 8 (more specifically 1990, :D when I was 8)... Seriously think about it? my life was very far from digital...
This is a great Idea... and he hit the nail on the head when he talked about training. Useful inteligence test information.
... That would be really cool, if we could figure out how to do it for everything...
I have the same hope the Numenta people have....
Supongo que todos vimos esa pelicula... :p Solo me hace pensar en las porquerias si tuviera tiempo libre... Yo quisiera estar en el futuro. en uno de los planetas de Asimov, se que las cosas seran tan diferentes, pero iguales a la vez, que quiero ver esa dinamica, quiero ver las nuevas fases de la vida.
La vida como yo la defino; la lucha contra la segunda ley de termodinamica. El otro dia vi una persona deshabilitada, y estuve pensando sobre el algoritmo genetico, el volumen de data que manejan nuestras celulas y la magia a la que aun ni llegamos en un 0.001 porciento, pero con la idea, de como sera cuando si lleguemos... Habra que poder manejar esa data y copiarla sin error. Pero como especie debemos seguir evolucionando. y siempre sera necesario el error, porque es la unica fuente de inovacion (segun entiendo yo la creatividad, y la inovacion). Pero lo veo sucediendo a lo largo de la vida del individuo. Seguiremos mutando, pero a gusto y evaluaremos y corregiremos inpromptu. y de vez en cuando habran siegos y mangos entre nosotros; pero estaran experimientando, y podran restaurar su vista, y sus miembros si asi lo decidieran.
Y habran escuelas de pensamiento, filosofias del ser. Y habra 42. No se que haremos con el 42 y la entropia. Me asus explicar que nunca hemos visto vida extra-terrestre con esos 2 problemas.
Cosmic Variance has this post in their blog:
OO are Ordinary Observers, and BB's are Boltzman Brains...
Along the same lines as given enough time 1000 monkeys can rewrite Shakespeare; given enough time, Quantum Mechanics can recreate Intelligent Observers...
If and after the Universe dies out via heat-death expansion (no more stars, and such), in astronomically distinct time scales. the universe will be dominated by these BB's as OO's will die out.
WTF!!!Don Page says, WTF too, and that these conclusions must mean the universe is 'decaying'...
All this reminds me of a short story by Asimov, (one sent to me by Ruben) The Last Question
And some of you may know my very personal and informal stance regarding the second law of thermodynamics....
Also I believe I once told Luis Jose about the 1000 monkey's problem, and its miss use. One must first demonstrate that the odds truely and unequivocally Increase through time. One can't just simply jump the gun. For example, monkeys probably won't have an appropriate lifespan and they most very likely die off before they ever finish hamlet.
In any case, I digress. And I contradict my own denial of the second law of thermodynamics. Still... I now understand Asimov's own point of view... And as ever I am awed by his foresight.
