Readit NewsAnd owning property — even physical property — entails having the right to prevent other people from using it, even in ways that don’t deprive you of it. You can’t drive my car without permission, even if you bring it back in perfect condition and I wasn’t planning on using it that day.
I wonder how much faster that would have pushed the world into FP ideas. While sometimes I prefer the bracket/C syntax, I wonder how things would have evolved if JS was a lisp originally. Instead of things moving to TypeScript, would they be moving to something like typed Lisp or OCaml, or PureScript ?
Is the consensus that he never had the proof (he was wrong or was joking) -- or that it's possible we just never found the one he had?
We can't be 100% certain that Fermat didn't have a proof, but it's very unlikely (someone else would almost surely have found it by now).
One of the countries in 1800 renders as “M?ori” for me, so it looks like you have some kind of character encoding issues (or there’s some language I don’t know about where ? is a letter).
Feature request: is there a way to get a blurb about one’s current country? Lots of people on this site will get “Viceroyalty of New Spain” (the pre-independence name of Mexico, which included the entire current American Southwest incl. California and Texas) when they switch to 1800 and might want to learn more about it.
I am of the opinion that it is to remove one of the last ways to build web applications that don't have advertising and tracking injected into them.
Er, how so? What stops you from doing so in HTML/JS/CSS ?
Yes.
> Do you think they ever will be?
Yes.
> how long do you think it will take from now before they are conscious?
Timelines are unclear, there's still too many missing components, at least based on what has been publicly disclosed. Consciousness will probably be defined as a system which matches a set of rules, whenever we figure out what how that set of rules is defined.
> How early is too early to start preparing?
It's one of those "I know it when I see it" things. But it's probably too early as long as these systems are spun up for one-off conversations rather than running in a continuous loop with self-persistence. This seems closer to "worried about NPC welfare in video games" rather than "worried about semi-conscious entities".
I did not share any definitions, only vague opinions. Not that I'd know what it means for a definition to "fall apart".
And the specific bit you cite is barely even a vague opinion; it is my interpretation of the show "Jeopardy!" based on the Wiki article (I've never seen a single episode, wasn't really a thing where I'm from):
> Specifically because it reads like it's about (...) knowledge: it tests for association and recall (...)
Also:
> By that definition humans doing chess aren't as intelligent as a computer doing chess, since high level chess is heavily reliant on memory and recall of moves and progressions.
Yes, I did find this really quite disappointing and disillusioning when I first learned about it. A colleague of mine even straight up quit competitive chess over it.
I feel like 2 years would have made sense to me.