Ahh no don't smoke currently actually. I do remember mentioning that after popping back in from lurker status once. I miss it some of the time but my relationship with it was never exactly healthy. I might go back to try a toke or too at some point. Main reason I quit was I had some... lol...
That depends on your definition of stupid. For example suppose you tell an AI to maximize the output of food production for the human race. Further you give it all the tools to do so globally. So that it has control of all farm equipment, all land allocation, all distribution etc. The AI can...
It's not good or bad. I think we are a long way from being able to do that because if we could realistically simulate a person in VR (matrix) to the point where you couldn't tell the difference then we have actually solved the problem of creating artificial consciousness. IMHO the Turing test...
Agreed we need to plan for this with something like UBI. Because it's coming and fast. Like said above a HUGE number of jobs are within reach of automation. From menial up to things like surgeons. And you can't really fault either the companies or the people for wanting it it's cheaper, more...
As soon as self driving cars start entering the market they will take over very quickly. It doesn't matter IMHO that people will push back. A lot of people me included love driving. But accident and fatality rates are going to drop like a stone as soon as they start becoming common. Insurance...
How does Star Craft compare to Dota 2? As Yakk mentioned Google already has an AI that beats the best at that game and that's not a really simple game.
That's actually an interesting example. Machine learning is used for self driving cars currently but they don't make any of those kinds of decisions. However once self driving cars prove themselves able to handle just about any normal situation, they are close now, then it makes sense that...
Ohh you mean how would an AI recognise a correct yet still stupid solution?! Yes that's kind of at the heart of what I'm saying we need to be careful of. Because we don't know how AIs work entirely we don't understand entirely how they reach the solutions they find. So we are left with our own...
Let me be clear I'm not talking about general purpose human consciousness level AI. It's hard to know if we will ever get there. However the pase of recent AI development from things like Alpha Go and many many other applications of neural networks is... I have to admit a little unsettling to...
Let's face it there are only 2 police sketches in all of existence, white and anonymous looking, and guilty.
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That's a joke btw. I don't mean black people ARE guilty. But that it doesn't mater if they are innocent. They are going to be found guilty. Sadly.
Never. Got into two accidents when learning to drive my father's car years back. I had some blame involved in both but others did too. First one I did not look carefully enough when pulling out of a parking space and a guy who was speeding took off the front bumper of the car. Second time I was...
Canada should be set to introduce legislation for recreational legalization across all of Canada in July of next year. Right now it's legal medically and many places like here in Vancouver the local police have not policed for most possession or use. We have had about 100 dispensaries running in...
While I agree with you. I prefer to not use substances that require that level of emergency preparedness. OR if I do need it then I take it as a sign that I may not be mature enough yet to take them at those kind of doses.
Lol of course they do. Honest just not going to smoke on a business trip. Well business and party trip I guess. Still I prefer to keep an air of professionalism. Even if no one has to know. So much free alcohol is provided at this thing that lots of people get just totally shit faced night after...
<puts on nerd glasses, scrunches up nose> technically I'm in Quebec City on a business trip right now. Not smoking here. Don't know the tolerance of this city well enough. </puts on nerd glasses, scrunches up nose>
Indeed. The problem with edibles is that they are like taking a random flight to a random destination anywhere in the world. You don't know when the flight takes off, you don't know how long the flight is, you don't know how high the flight takes you, you don't know when to expect the flight to...
I don't know that much about bio chemistry. But isn't the solubility of THC and the other cannabinoids in fat explain why detectable traces of cannabis remains in the body for a month or so after you last use? And similarly why water soluble drugs like some prescriptions exit your system...
One last thing also is that we have to examine what we mean by successful. Not everyone strives for the same things in life. You may view the person who works at McDonald's their entire life as a total loser. While the Billionaire is highly "successful". But at the end of the day if the...
Here's another logical blunder I feel that some here are not realising they are making when it comes to weed. Many are willing to concede that weed is a lot less harmful than alcohol. But given how alcohol has been not only fully legal but highly advertised and promoted by our culture we all...
Many years back I was invited over for dinner at my cousin's place. At the the she was dating an extreme successful startup founder. During the course of the dinner they asked if I wanted to smoke some weed, at the time I had never done so so I declined. They had even grown a small crop in their...
I think people still don't realize how much of the drug war "reefer madness" anti marijuana campaign propaganda they have internalized. I'm not at all saying it's a harmless drug. But it's difficult not to pick up on whatever the societal narrative is about almost anything and not take it on as...
That's just fucking retarded. The only jobs that do drugs tests here are ones where public safety may be of concern. For example if you operate heavy machinery, work in law enforcement, etc. I've never heard of drug tests for anything else. Indeed I haven't really even heard of drug tests period...
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