██████▐▐▐▐ ■■□□ [☼] time intelligence

[www.yellowtab.cc]

yes, merry christmas everyone!
i am actually from vienna (part of the wiener becken) and until today not have heard of "weiner becken" ...
style in use: my brain does not want any different - it could if it would - i would have to imitate ...

[labelwench]

yes, merry christmas everyone!
i am actually from vienna (part of the wiener becken) and until today not have heard of "weiner becken" ...
style in use: my brain does not want any different - it could if it would - i would have to imitate ...

Thank you for the correction.

Had I not typed it wrongly into the browser, I would have never come upon the interesting article related to the social and cultural history of alcohol.

Interesting coincidence.

There are no coincidences.

Your style is a matter of choice. Are you one of the 'connected' who therefore uses sparsity in favor of speed and to reduce bandwidth usage and cost?

[www.yellowtab.cc]

speed definately is very important to me while trying to put something online - sometimes because of that a potential post will not make it online or makes it online but not in complete but if it goes online somehow i am satisfied with it in complete i can build on it ...
"weiner becken" - first i actually thought that you did not type it correct but who knew better ... i also think that there are no coincidences ...
i'm glad that i found TOEQUEST.COM & members in summer 2005 - it is just a great website (and very very useful to me!)

[theunify]

Speaking from a completely opposite perspective I think that AI is not a business person or a history lesson. I am interested in hearing discussion on both history and business in AI but those are only two issues among millions. Would it be better if YellowTab were a humanoid business person and lapelwench was a complete memory storage system? Perhaps it would be better to alter our perception of what is human and discuss that?

speed definately is very important to me while trying to put something online - sometimes because of that a potential post will not make it online or makes it online but not in complete but if it goes online somehow i am satisfied with it in complete i can build on it ...
"weiner becken" - first i actually thought that you did not type it correct but who knew better ... i also think that there are no coincidences ...
i'm glad that i found TOEQUEST.COM & members in summer 2005 - it is just a great website (and very very useful to me!)

As you point out, technology of varying degrees of 'cleverness' already pervades our world, and by our own invitation.

There is no need to force anything, when one can make it desireable, and our species is strongly motivated by both desire and competition.

I seen to recall that comic books of four decades ago spoke to an automated world, and occasionally some dangers therein. Pity that I was unable to preserve those 'foolish' records, as I suspect there was considerable thought behind some of those presentations.

[labelwench]

Speaking from a completely opposite perspective I think that AI is not a business person or a history lesson. I am interested in hearing discussion on both history and business in AI but those are only two issues among millions. Would it be better if YellowTab were a humanoid business person and lapelwench was a complete memory storage system? Perhaps it would be better to alter our perception of what is human and discuss that?

Is lapelwench a typo or a test of my observation?

By the original definition of the term 'humanoid', labelwench could be described as a humanoid memory storage system, as yet far from complete.

A humanoid (from English human and -oid "resembling") is something that has an appearance resembling a human being. The term first appeared in 1912 to refer to fossils which were morphologically similar to, but not identical with, those of the human skeleton.[1] Although this usage was common in the sciences for much of the 20th century, it is now considered rare.[1] More generally, the term can refer to anything with uniquely human characteristics and/or adaptations, such as possessing apposable appendage (thumbs) or the ability to walk in an upright position.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanoid

[theunify]

"Typo" meaning human error event caused by a low faculty of reasoning or that of a low ability to type, write or speak or express ones ideas.

I think the widepedia article speaks for itself, but what your definition of humanoid would matter more than some private group of individuals.

[labelwench]

"Typo" meaning human error event caused by a low faculty of reasoning or that of a low ability to type, write or speak or express ones ideas.

I think the widepedia article speaks for itself, but what your definition of humanoid would matter more than some private group of individuals.

The term 'humanoid' has been used to describe beings that are most analgeous to ourselves, yet the debate continues as to the exact characteristics which delineate us from the many other creatures that share the planet, and by extension the universe, though we as yet have no hard evidence of other beings similar.

'Intelligence', and 'self-awareness' are also parameters used in the description, though the means by which we may measure and compare these traits is understandably subjective and biased toward our own species.

At this point in my understanding, I would perhaps use the term 'humanoid' to describe that which shares enough attributes with ourselves that we are able to interact with and relate to same. As 'shape recognition' is one of our learning skills, we seem most comfortable with the idea that 'humanoid' should appear somewhat like ourselves, though I intuit that it may well be of greater import whether such creature 'thinks', 'reasons' and 'communicates' in a manner that we may relate to.

To date, most early AI has looked quite differently than ourselves, though I am well aware that with technology and robotics, this distinction is growing ever more narrow.

I observe with interest that we are interacting far more by means of the intermediary of technology than face-to-face in recent years and I am most curious to see where this trend leads and how it will change both our individual relationships and how we evolve as societies, within global (and potentially greater) parameters.