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Johnlenham wrote:

Buddahism is confusing. From what ive got from it so far is that if you are a buddist, you dont belive in anything and the world around you is a construction of your mind and that their version of heaven, is the now. Not the present or the future.
Its pretty intresting, only picked it up as having been over to the side of the world where it kicked off, you see alot of statues and monuments but it seemed abit odd to walk into a shop and say "Give me a book on Buddah" liek youd ask for a bible or something.

What hope for a country where people will camp out for three days to glimpse the Royal Couple? Where one store clerk refers to another as his 'colleague'?

... God save the Queen and a fascist regime ... a flabby, toothless fascism to be sure. Never go too far in any direction is the basic law on which Limey-Land is built. The Queen stabilizes the whole stinking shithouse and keeps a small elite of wealth and privilege on top ....

The English have gone soft in the outhouse. England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Inglorioulsy foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empre. You see what we owe to Washington and the Valley Forge boys for getting us out from under this den of snobbery and accent, this ladder where everyone stomps discreetly on the hands below them:

"Pardon me, old chap, but you aren't you getting just a bit ahead of yourself in rather an offensive manner?"

... The English thing worked too well and too long. They'll never get all that ballast of unearned privilege up into space. Who wants that dumped in his vicinity? They get out of a spaceship and start looking desperately for inferiors.

DRTY wrote:

fantastic so far

DRTY wrote:really interesting, and a bit scary! RE your brain thread; no need, computers will be way beyond human brains in 10-20 years O.O

magma wrote:

DRTY wrote:really interesting, and a bit scary! RE your brain thread; no need, computers will be way beyond human brains in 10-20 years O.O

I'll be intrigued to see it happen - with IBM now toying about with atoms, we're already starting to hit the physical limits of how we can store data, so the never ending exponential there does have some sort of end. I wonder if we'll hit a similar block in synthetic processing power... quantum computing sounds like it might be on the table, but it's got a lot of progress to make before people take it seriously enough to invest properly unlike every other avenue of squeezing power out of silicon from what I've read... I guess it MUST be possible if organic structures can do it. Maybe we're just waiting for the next tech revolution? A Cold War would sort this out in a few months.

I think I'll give that Kurzweil a squiz... I like this subject!

DRTY wrote:

magma wrote:

DRTY wrote:really interesting, and a bit scary! RE your brain thread; no need, computers will be way beyond human brains in 10-20 years O.O

I'll be intrigued to see it happen - with IBM now toying about with atoms, we're already starting to hit the physical limits of how we can store data, so the never ending exponential there does have some sort of end. I wonder if we'll hit a similar block in synthetic processing power... quantum computing sounds like it might be on the table, but it's got a lot of progress to make before people take it seriously enough to invest properly unlike every other avenue of squeezing power out of silicon from what I've read... I guess it MUST be possible if organic structures can do it. Maybe we're just waiting for the next tech revolution? A Cold War would sort this out in a few months.

I think I'll give that Kurzweil a squiz... I like this subject!

According to this chap there is almost no limit, the limit for a computer is the entire universe, I'm only at the very beginning (chapter 2 atm) but in first chapter he mentioned knowledge spreading (literally; physically) through all matter. (he says it a tad more eloquently than I do).

protip; get it on ebay, its pricey on amazon

magma wrote:

DRTY wrote:

magma wrote:

DRTY wrote:really interesting, and a bit scary! RE your brain thread; no need, computers will be way beyond human brains in 10-20 years O.O

I'll be intrigued to see it happen - with IBM now toying about with atoms, we're already starting to hit the physical limits of how we can store data, so the never ending exponential there does have some sort of end. I wonder if we'll hit a similar block in synthetic processing power... quantum computing sounds like it might be on the table, but it's got a lot of progress to make before people take it seriously enough to invest properly unlike every other avenue of squeezing power out of silicon from what I've read... I guess it MUST be possible if organic structures can do it. Maybe we're just waiting for the next tech revolution? A Cold War would sort this out in a few months.

I think I'll give that Kurzweil a squiz... I like this subject!

According to this chap there is almost no limit, the limit for a computer is the entire universe, I'm only at the very beginning (chapter 2 atm) but in first chapter he mentioned knowledge spreading (literally; physically) through all matter. (he says it a tad more eloquently than I do).

protip; get it on ebay, its pricey on amazon

Now this is worth big ups.

Big ups.

Laszlo wrote:

Johnlenham wrote:
Buddahism is confusing. From what ive got from it so far is that if you are a buddist, you dont belive in anything and the world around you is a construction of your mind and that their version of heaven, is the now. Not the present or the future.
Its pretty intresting, only picked it up as having been over to the side of the world where it kicked off, you see alot of statues and monuments but it seemed abit odd to walk into a shop and say "Give me a book on Buddah" liek youd ask for a bible or something.

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