A good explanation of astrology is that it isn't Mercury and other planets that influence our moods and our fate. It's rather that both are effects of the same cause, i.e. they're correlated. Indeed correlation does not imply causation, but that's no argument against astrology then. So what could that correlation be then? Everything in nature follows certain numbers, patterns, rhythmics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkGeOWYOFoAAnd maybe our will is not as free as we'd like to believe it is. So what ancients astrologers did is they watched patterns in the sky as well as in human behavior and society throughout centuries, recording correlations, and trying to distill all this into written down characteristics and principles. Remember they had no internet, so they had plenty of time. |
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Wer von Euch rippelt schon? Ich würde denen, die ich letztens persönlich getroffen habe mit einem Zehner (Euro) vertrauen. Schreibt mir!
ich ich ich rUdPvX9YN1NwyniwiJeSW6y3YKZL84gsB6 |
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Maybe the swing back from centralized cloud services to decentralized ones will result in a Freenet-like infrastructure.
The world-wide cloud storage is partitioned onto users' home servers redundantly (similar to RAIDs), and everything is encrypted. Similarly to the Bitcoin blockchain, everyone has a piece of data on their machine of other people, but cannot decrypt it. They're maybe rewarded the more storage they provide, with bitcoins of course (or maybe free storage space will become its own currency, who knows).
Everyone can access their data from anywhere with their private key, everyone has full control over their data, can set if it's public or private, or can selectively share it with others.
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ripple (as a community credit system) may be debt-based, but is not centralized.
centralized is just the issuance of the XRP "stamps".
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After the zombie apocalypse, guns will be currency.
they're not very divisible and fungible |
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http://planet.infowars.com/business/bitcoin-will-destroy-humanity-insert-a-trojan-rfid-tyrannical-exploit-into-societyBitcoin WILL DESTROY Humanity & Insert A Trojan RFID Tyrannical Exploit Into Society !
by Courtney
Dear Humanity,
Do NOT Fall victim to the latest women in the “red dress” known only to the financial/Technological industry as “Bitcoin”.
Sure from the offset everything looks inticing… on paper & to the eyes… but she is a wolf in sheep’s’ clothing…a modern day’s fools digital gold coin…searching to exploit the system…not fix it!
Speaking as someone who has been a computer programmer/designer for over the past 10 years, the glaring security flaws & lack of accountability that will be committed under this new rootkit of evil has & like always will be paved with good intentions. Max Keiser is completely on board with this technological alternative…however bare in mind he also lives in London, under complete and utterly the highest surveillance control known to man. I know first hand, as I have been to London myself and seen all the implementations of “Big Brother”& “Big Sis”. There’s literally 1000′s of video cameras in a 10 mile radius, posters in subway cars and underground metro systems giving hotlines to call if you witness a “crime”..no trash cans as “They” fear that civilians will try to repeat history and execute bombs in them..So just keep this in mind…as you’re making up your own mind..you know with “free will” and all !
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got the news as well, signed up a long time ago, but never really used it. it's not decentralized, but it claims it's owned by its users, and you can buy "vShares" of it. Doubt though that their growth will keep up with Bitcoin's  |
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Yes, I've written a program myself that simulates evolution. You can simulate anything. There are some who say we may be living in a simulation.
I'm not exactly unfamiliar.  However, I'm talking more about our own plane of existence. Did you release your artificial intelligences into the wild? Have they learnt enough about our contemporary culture in order to be not mistaken as "artificial" by fellow human beings? |
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This is the speculation forum, not the make-believe fantasy forum.
what's the difference?  |
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This article was published exactly one year before he resigned. Coincidence? The Pope Will Die Within a Year? Pope Benedict XVI will die within a year, according to a top-secret document published on Friday by the Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. Dismissed by the Vatican as "nonsense not to be taken seriously," the anonymous report is dated Dec 30, 2011. Like a Dan Brown-style thriller, the leaked document reveals a power struggle within the Vatican. The paper predicts the Pope's death by November 2012 and details the measures that are already being taken to prepare his successor. According to the Italian daily, the letter was delivered in early January to the Vatican secretary of state and the pope's private secretary by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos of Colombia. Written in German and labelled "strictly confidential for the Holy Father," the "mordkomplott" begins by describing the conversations that Cardinal Paolo Romeo, the archbishop of Palermo, allegedly had last November with Italian businessmen during a trip to Beijing, China. "During his talks in China, Cardinal Romeo predicted the death of Pope Benedict XVI within the next 12 months. His remarks were expressed with such resolution that his interlocutors thought, with a sense of alarm, that an attack on the Pope's life was being plotted," the document says. [...] http://news.discovery.com/history/pope-benedict-death-120910.htm |
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You are making the false assumption that evolution can not occur inside a computer.
You mean running simulations? Artificial selection can have the same effect as natural selection. Most of our current breeds of dogs or cats came from artificial selection. If people use the AI software that is better than other AI software, this is evolution.
Which "AI software"? My premise is that there doesn't exist any yet which deserves that name. Also it seems to me that this kind of "artifical selection" is detrimental. If the poodle is to be released into the wild again, it's less likely to survive than the wolf. Not just preservation, growth. Crystals grow, yet are not generally regarded as having "instincts". Desire comes from growth? |
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das neue bitcoin.org übersetzen?
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Bitcoin does not exclude Bitcoin banks.
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Our intelligence comes from learning. Learning comes from motivation. Motivation comes from desire. Desire comes from instinct of survival and self-preservation. This instinct comes from evolution.
Machines do not have all of the latter. That's why the concept of "Artificial Intelligence" is questionable because machines do not have any intrinsic desire to learn anything. They never experienced evolutionary pressure and never had to go through natural selection. It's the instinct of self-preservation that would have to be programmed into them. Artificially. Fine, artificial self-preservation then. But I guess if it works at all, it would essentially have to be a chaos-theoretical system, and the consequences of such an experiment would be unpredictable.
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and one for all the failed alternatives too please, so that we can see why |
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I liked "An idea worth spending", but unfortunately, Bitcoin is not Freicoin, if we're honest it's more "an idea worth hoarding".  Unfortunately quite some people have a bad association with math. What about "In Numbers We Trust"?
seems to be too broad. What numbers? A bit like "In Numerology We Trust". |
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