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Would you allow artificial persons to do this to themselves? Because they will probably want to improve themselves, or evolve which is just a process of incremental process of experimentation, deletion, and copying. If you do not allow artificial persons to evolve, they will not ever come to exist. Or if they are allowed to do it to a certain point, and then a law is passed that stops them. How will you ever place blame on individuals when entire idea-pools are growing and evolveing and copying and running experiments on parts of themselves and swapping bodies? Our primitive and arbitrary ideas of individuality and morality are meaningless in the context of the true potential of evolution and intelligence.

We can't agree on what intelligence is, but according to many researchers, a variety of intelligent programs have been designed that could surpass humans at perception or control tasks, given sufficient computer power, precise sensors, precise actuators, or enough data. Each of those programs expresses a theory of intelligence, and it's performance should speak for itself.

Are you planning on putting more GPUs in it later? I just noticed that you chose a mobo with 3 PCI Ex 3.0 16x slots. Overall, I think these are excellent choices!

I don't think we've crashed our hyper-connected global economy enough times to have learned how to avoid it again But from the perspective of an AI... You can never crash it too many times! Each time you learn a little more!

It did. Ion engines don't appear to follow this rule. For some, I launched them as space-planes with drop tanks, then docked them to interplanetary-transfer stages. But that proved to be pretty time consuming so I just started strapping a pile of rockets to them and burned straight to Eve. EDIT: lol whoops, I thought you asked "how do these crafts get on eve". Anyways, None of them ever got higher than 1km when starting from the surface. The rate of climb was too slow to get very high before the xenon ran out. However I did have opportunities to test them at higher altitudes by pulling up after aerobraking, and I found that at least my final design was capable of stable self-powered flight at 22km.

Suppose we develop AI that learns to do tasks by example, when given a sufficiently capable robot to control. the short term reason being that they are easier to set up in factories than the ones you have to program for each task. And we do it by copying the way the mammalian brain does perception and control in the neocortex. Perception and control inherently includes self-directed experimentation. The risk I think is that we have to give it a certain degree of autonomy in order for it to engage in experimentation. Experimentation is what allows it to fill in the blanks in it's model of reality. It's model of reality may drift towards something unfamiliar to humans, so we will not be prepared to outline which experiments are acceptable. If we do not grant it the freedom to experiment, It will constantly get stuck and ask us for help, and we will not understand it's problem. So just like Asimov foresaw, it all comes down to how carefully you specify the goal to begin with. If you want an AI to take over all the robots in your factory and "Do everything faster" then it's going to find ways to do everything faster at the expense of all other considerations, like quality and safety. Putting an AI in charge of anything would require you to carefully consider what it is you actually wanted to do, and even then the AI will probably surprise you about how poorly you specified it.

They might seek to raise human minimum wage in order to make themselves more economically viable in a greater variety of jobs, under the pretense of doing something humane, at least from the perspective of anyone who doesn't understand economics. Or at least that's what I would do I were their leader.

Breaking news: SpaceX Launched a meteor.

I don't think it has a name (because there are more efficient ways to accomplish the goal) Feel free to call it the Kilmeister maneuver

I've been trying to make an ion plane that can gain altitude on Eve at a reasonable rate (to lift small rockets to ~20). Eve poses an interesting challenge to ascend this way. There is ample power (165% more than kerbin), but you can't use large solar panels in the atmosphere without being very careful too keep them pointed parallel to the wind. If you stick to static panels, You need 7.27375 times the number of ion engines you have. You can't go crazy on the panels or you will kill your framerate, and you can't skimp on the ion engines if you want to be able to gain altitude. more wings lets you use more weight, but too many wings in that thick atmosphere and your craft will spontaneously explode due to runaway oscillations. Here are a few of my failed designs I'm giving up on it now, but if anyone wants to pick up the legacy, you can have all 11 craft files here.

I prefer to have a station just outside the orbit of Tylo, because from there, getting home is fairly cheap, you just need to set up a slingshot with tylo at the right time.

It is pictured above when then white star was directly opposite the red one. (see the dim glow on the backside of the planet) Because the white star is much further away, it's light is dimmer even though it's probably millions of times more luminous.

It was a warm terra with life tidally locked in a low orbit around a brown dwarf, which itself was orbiting a young white supergiant. Totally impossible situation for life as we know it to exist in my opinion.

Sending my 10th attempt at an ion-plane based Eve ascent vehicle.

I had problems sleeping for maybe 15 years until I finally started lifting weights every other day. It's been tremendously helpful. I doesn't make me literally tired, but it somehow changes my brain chemistry in a positive way that allows me to fall into a normal sleep cycle.

Copy and and paste the most meaningful bit of the error into a search engine.

Ah, some of my favorites Including a picture of that awesome neutron star I found and then lost.

Unfortunately it was not able to gain altitude at a fast enough rate. Only 0.34 vertical m/s I need to gain altitude fast enough that I can peak out as I run out of xenon.

I like to watch science vids on YT so I'd like to share a collection of great channels I've discovered over a year or two. Please share your own if you know of any! Sixty Symbols - Videos on emerging physics The Mars Underground - A huge collection of space videos, usually about new discoveries or news The Royal Institution - Assortment of educational videos about science Hank Green's Sci Show - Science news and factoids, frequently things I have not heard of, which is always a plus. SpaceRip - Very interesting space videos produced by a professional team with a great narrator Smarter Every Day - Pleasure to watch, and often covers new things you might not have heard of. Cern - CERN, obviously has a lot of interesting videos on physics. Canadian Space Agency - like the Truman show but it's about Chris Hadfield. TV Roskosmos - Russians! They can into space and doesn't afraid of anything! NASA's channel - For the rare event when they do something bold. ESA's channel - The space agency that put a probe on Titan. JAXA's channel - Learn to count backwards in Japanese! Public Resource Org - Channel full of old public education videos about things like farming shrimp. If you know of any other awesome channels, Please share!

So, I have a question about overclocking. When I first bought my Intel i5 2500k, I put an aftermarket fan on it and overclocked it to 4.5Ghz using 1.350v. For over a year I had no problems. But recently I get BSOD every now and then when running at full bore. I tried raising and lowering the voltage by small amounts but could not eliminate the problem, so I've lowered the speed to 4.2Ghz. Is this a sign that the processor is ageing prematurely due to being overclocked? It is two years old now.

I made a tutorial on this, but the launcher is not as "heavy" as most of the things I see here.

This is something squad has confirmed as a bug which they intend to fix in the next version. Until then, you open the cfg file and set suspensionUpperLimit = 0.00, or just making it smaller which is what I think squad was going to do. KSP has a lot of bugs, sometimes they can be challenging to overcome and sometimes they are just annoying.

What's it's id?

I wasted far too much time just trying to get it into orbit around kerbin as a spaceplane before just adding rockets to it. Anyways, once at Eve, it has a lot of landing flexibility. You can see I came in over water and managed to divert it quite a bit. On the surface, I was able to lift off, but not able to gain altitude, I tried getting to orbit anyways with the rockets and made it about half way.