Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean in which I babble about non-astronomy stuff, because everyone needs a hobby
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These things are not the same as these other things
Today, a couple of similar-ish pieces from Pscyhe I think I can get away with combining into a single post. The first one is very simple, d...
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This is nice video which attempts to solve why the world is sometimes such a crappy place and obvious solutions don't get implemented. I...
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"To claim that you are being discriminated against because you have lost your right to discriminate against others shows a gross lack o...
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Three rules for any article on AI : 1) AI does not yet have the the same kind of understanding as human intelligence. 2) There is no guar...
did you ever play the computer game Captain Blood where you attempt to communicate with aliens using an icon based language?
ReplyDeleteKadir beneath Mo Moteh.
ReplyDeleteCaptain Blood was a nice concept, but flawed execution.
ReplyDeleteAlas, I missed that one.
ReplyDeleteThat's why theory -> observation and not proof. You keep testing things even if you think they're really true.
ReplyDeleteOccam's Razor is useful, but there's no compunction on the Universe to be simple.