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Commented on I, Singularity...
I never noticed that the mind/body dichotonomy was so dominating in the discussions regarding the topic of singularity. Looking back I think I just assumed that the concept of uploading would include the full simulation of every single cell and...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
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anonemouse @ 140 "Because Arthur C. Clarke and Asimov are out of print and impossible to find. " WRONG There were "classic-SF" reprints available at the British Library exhibition I mentioned elsewhere.; Google Amazon, or something. It just ain't so ..... Charlie @ 144 Let's not forget the supression of Suttee, whilst we are at it. (?) Dirk Bruere @ 150 Not so sure. Ive read and re-read "Hitler & Stalin, Parallel Lives" (by the late Alan Bullock) several times, and there was a LOT more in common between those tyrants. Mao, of course was attempting to emulate the "first...
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brucecohenpdx commented on
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I think the notion of the unique individual is more about a commonly held myth than about the way societies actually function. A good part of the reason for those myths (we could call them "the zeitgeist", or "the accepted wisdom" if you prefer) is that the cost of constantly re-inventing the mechanisms of government is very high, and often too high, on top of the cost of non- or extra-legal succession, for the new government to get things running again before someone else decides to grab the levers. So we have the "divine right of kings", coupled with some...
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Moderator Alan commented on
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Greg occasionally types 'a href+' instead of 'a href='. The result looks like a link, but isn't. You should find it works now....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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Er, no. The NIF is nothing to do with generating commercial electricity and everything to do with keeping the US nuclear weapons stockpile viable -- which is where AWE (the Atomic Weapons Establishment) comes into the picture. NIF runs a single fusion pellet through its beam line every couple of months. Each pellet costs around $0.25M. It produces a tenth as much output energy as the input to the lasers. To make a viable reactor, they'd need each pellet to cost around 25 cents, be running them through at once per second, and produce 2 orders of magnitude more energy....
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Charlie Stross commented on
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You are wrong. (However, it's not for me to tell you precisely how I know you're wrong.)...
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