quahaug

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by quahaug 13y ago
Fucking rad.
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by quahaug 13y ago
Yeah, wired runs lots of stories about stuff that quite simply never happens. I used to keep a lot of back issues of wired, which I saved because I thought they had some cool stories. Surprisingly, many are packed with examples of very obvi
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by quahaug 13y ago
This isn't a matter of choice for me, from what I gather. It's already obvious to me that very powerful faceless people, somewhere out there, have decided that this WILL happen, one way or another, and the dismal tide will creep
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by quahaug 13y ago
Yeah, ban cars because cars bad. No people drive cars. People no can think good. People not designed for fast car speed. The car think better for people. Then never bad things happen and all people will be controlled by good cars that think
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by quahaug 13y ago
That's just a replay attack. The consciousness is still bound to the cells. No new, unique information is generated without the presence of the cells. The term "uploaded" is being subjected to special semantics in this case.
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by quahaug 13y ago
I have a different mental model of the nature of the signal. I don't imagine that it was transmitted as a focused beam attenuated by an aperture. My thinking is that it was a sphere shaped pulse generated by an apparatus like a broadca
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by quahaug 13y ago
But with what motive? If you were to create a single high-energy pulse, deliberately, and willfully apply a degree of entropy to scramble the signal, why?
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by quahaug 13y ago
You can't upload consciousness. At best, all you can upload is a representation of personality and memories.
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by quahaug 13y ago
Well, at the very least, if it seems to be a diliberate signal originating from an organized intelligence AND anomalous, then it might be useful to consider the intersection of those two characteristics. Where do we see intelligence and a
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by quahaug 13y ago
Consider that a specific communications channel for a civilization/culture-specific technology were being jammed, as part of a hostile operation.
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by quahaug 13y ago
Scientists say that if the signal came from extraterrestrials, they are likely to be an extremely advanced civilization, as the signal would have required a 2.2-gigawatt transmitter, vastly more powerful than any on Earth.
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by quahaug 13y ago
This is ridiculous. It's like something out of Smokey and The Bandit, or The Dukes of Hazard, or maybe Super Troopers. (meow)
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by quahaug 13y ago
Actually, this crops up as a legal/insurance concern for larger valuable companies every so often, where company policy must stipulate in writing that critical numbers and/or groups of employees should not fly on the same airplane
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by quahaug 13y ago
Especially considering that human beings can, very easily, become totally divorced from healthy, " normal " human values. It's not enough to merely keep humans in the picture, but to keep healthy, undamaged humans in the pict
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by quahaug 13y ago
...yeah, sure, let me just call my buddy who used to be a mechanic for Tupolev.
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by quahaug 13y ago
Every single troubleshooting tip is of greater urgency than the last!
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by quahaug 13y ago
Given Facebook's predilection for collaborating with the NSA, perhaps this is a government program to civilianize the image of drones. The military industrial complex really needs someone from the commercial sector to step up and rinse