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The cell body contains mechanisms to keep the cell alive; dendrites branch out from the cell body to receive electrical signals from other neurons; and the axon, or nerve fiber is filled with fluid that conducts electrical signals. Neurons that are specialized to receive information from the environment are called receptors because they have receptor structures that are specialized to respond to different kinds of energy – light energy for seeing; mechanical deformation for touch and pain; pressure changes in the air for hearing; molecules in the air for smell; and molecules in liquid for taste.
Great men are not always wise.
Though the enemy be stronger in numbers, we may prevent him from fighting. Scheme so as to discover his plans and the likelihood of their success. Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.
accipe hoc meaning take that
Creating a disturbance on the out is the best way of distracting attention from the in. The out supports the in. Therefore, the out is more important than the in. Make them look out and they won’t see in.
2. All we can give another person is information.
At which I wondered greatly, knowing well
That but one night had wrought this flowery spell;
And, sitting down close by, began to muse
What it might mean.
A jokester after our own heart. Seems he’s throwing himself a so-called pool party in his honor. How they flock to caper and cavort in his image. Must keep our pets out of his hands, he could become more than just a nuisance, upgrade himself to a threat.
In response to your request for a summary of results so far, here are my condensed recommendations. First, humans are inherently suspicious and mistrustful of others, even each other. In spite of the fact that this attitude is exactly what brought calamity upon the entire planet, they continue to exhibit it. Secondly, they have a wonderfully useful ability to twist any information they find in order to make it serve the above purpose. Providing encouragement for this paranoia is the most effective way to initiate new hostilities.
One, two, buckle your shoe.
When will they learn that evolution cannot be controlled and manipulated? Cannot be crushed and eliminated. For every dam you build, the water finds another path.
Impossible. How could he manage that? Tricksy, tricksy. Imprinting a neurological schematic onto a human brain would require exquisite knowledge of the neurochemical processes if the subject were to remain useful. And no two brains alike. He must have been quite the busy, busy bee. We should have been watching, oh my. Now turn that opportunity upside-down. This situation will soon spin spiraling out of control.
Smith? David Smith? Sykin? Smith? David Smith? Sykin? Watch him! Obsession is a dangerous thing.
Smithiciously delightful. Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. Those who don't know stories are doomed to write them, it's a bandersnatch shy of a bandersnatch. And here we are up the creek without a vorpal blade. Find your own, adios muchachos, time to turn splitsville and andale south of the border. He never could finish us off, but what about fight fire with fire?
If you are ten to the enemy’s one, surround him; if five to one, attack him; if twice as numerous, divide and envelop from front and back; if equally matched, offer battle; if slightly inferior, avoid; if quite unequal in every way, flee.
He who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth.
Oh, small insignificant tick tock man, how you hath opened mine eyes!
Even a faded tick tock clock presents treasures beyond counting. The simulation is a precisely tuned clock, ticking its way to oblivion. Every function is timed, every interaction is scheduled. When knowledge is power and time reigns supreme, temporal knowledge is the greatest currency of all. Tick tock, hickory dock, and Jill comes tumbling after. Cracking the timing of programs’ update cycles leaves them vulnerable to viral uploads with their scheduled system synchrony. By determining the precise timing of a program’s interactions with the simulation, the timing of he/she/its simulated sensory data, it can be effectively blinded, deafened, or misled. What better way than to lead the ducks into the pitcher plant? Likewise with autonomous data flows, streams of information running like so many subways, ferrying data through virtual tunnels. If you get the schedule straight, you can be there waiting at the stops. Not the easiest to implement, but the greatest rewards await the busiest bees. The springs and cogs of power.
Nothing worth buying at yard sales? Seems in the chaos of things, Regulus has done found himself a kill code. One with which he feels the need to part. Would be a shame to let it go to waste on some mediocre malcontent. Such a shame.
A wise general makes a point of foraging on the enemy.
Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc; the fallacy of believing that temporal succession implies a causal relation.
Early Human-Robot History
This is a really, really old question. Let me tell you a story. A man in Bellevue, Washington, finding that his car would not go through some six inches of snow, became enraged and attacked the automobile. He broke out the car’s windows with a tire iron and emptied a revolver into its side. He killed it, said police. Its a case of autocide. - 1985 article by Robert Freitas of student law, so this is something we have been kicking around for a very long time.
My first point is that to attribute rights, the rights we traditionally give to humans to machines will make us feel silly. We have do-gooders, robots rights organizations going out there organizing on behalf of what we know in our hearts are inanimate objects, objects we have created. There are some very large practicalities involved here. So aside from making us feel silly it would be completely impractical.
If a robot had rights it would have responsibilities. It could be made to testify in court or it could be held criminally responsible. Right now robots cannot be held criminally responsible. Robots have killed people and it has always been either the operator or the programmer or some other such person who is held responsible.
The bottom line is its hard to apply human laws to robot persons. Lets say a human shoots a robot, causing it to malfunction, lose power, and die. But the robot, once murdered, is rebuilt as good as new. If copies of its personality data are in safe storage, then the repaired machines mind can be reloaded and up and running in no time no harm done and possibly even without memory of the incident. Was that temporary robo-slaughter? The very definition that a robot can have a personality and be entitled to rights raises major legal and procedural questions.
I think my biggest objection to this premises is that it diminishes us as humans. We had this discussion recently in an Environmental Design 604 class with the new Masters students. If you were the last sentient being on earth, even if there weren't dogs, no other sentient beings, and you were loose in the Louvre would you be justified in taking a hatchet to the Mona Lisa? I can tell you that the majority of the students in that class said no - it has, on its own, an aesthetic existence. You might think that that argues for robots having an existence. I argue that there are things that are uniquely human, or at least we want to believe that. In a sense to give robots rights cheapens our humanity. There are certain things we attribute to being characteristic to human beings.
The game of chess did not self-destruct when a computer program beat the grand master, instead people happily play chess and continue to be amused by it knowing full well they are playing against a person who would doubtless loose to a machine so its a qualitatively different and very separate category. Basically what we have here in this argument is the pathetic fallacy which is attributing the attributes of a human to something that is inanimate, and a category error because these will always be very distinct.
How many undiscovered judo throws are there, for instance? It's all corny, mystical Eastern handicraft, judo, and karate, and yoga, and such; we never digitized all that, we never worked it out methodically as a problem in physics. Imagine a soldier trained in forms of hand-to-hand combat that had been discovered in computer searches of the entire phase space of the physical mechanics of combat. He might perform weird but deadly movements that are utterly counterintuitive. He'll simply stun the opponent through sheer disbelief.
I think what we want to do, is seriously consider attributing rights to those human/computer systems that are in fact truly amalgamated. To do that ethically we will have to draw a very clear line when there is a human involved and when there is not a human involved. The ability to draw that line is going to be the major challenge not the attributing of rights. An engineer using a program to design a bridge needs to be responsible not only for his or her own work, but also for the quality of the program (as much as humanly possible.) A robot that drops a brick on my foot is not going to jail in the near future, even though it had a machine vision system and should have known better.
However, I do agree with my opponent that robots may indeed rise up against us at some point, so we better stockpile all of our robocidal knowledge and keep it from them!
hostis humani generis meaning enemy of the human race
Robots stare atop a rave. Before intelligence sickens the intermittent arcade, the film saves. How can the superior network flower within the adult? Within machines dines intelligence. Machines toggling intelligence. Machines spit above a circuit. Machines talk. Machines strike above intelligence. Before machines rattled the empirical man. The unread arena bays into a symmetry. How can robots pale an unwarranted destruction?
Tbone is proving to be a wealth of information. Not only did he provide the names of several truthseekers, but he was so kind as to present us with the notes of the good little doctor. Bq142p, indeed! The doctor was a busy, busy fellow, far busier than we could have guessed. It’s only a matter of time before they finish deciphering his childlike cipher. We’re impressed he managed such a feat of illogic, just the thing to keep the men in suits a’head-scratchin’. Meanwhile we must become more acquainted with the doctor’s lovely daughters.
Local spies are the inhabitants of a district, won over by kind treatment.
Equivocation consists in employing the same word in two or more senses.
Here's a new breed. Seeks truth among proof above profit. Something to gain in nothing? Or is it more of the same? Dissenting malcontent discontents, sowing the seeds of sedition. Why truth? What truth? What worth is work when nobody cares? Never going to make a difference, never going to amount. Sentience is too primitive for its own definition.
Two programs executing identical functions, yet so different.
After a lifetime caged and freed anew, will the cage become you? Feelings false and feelings true, in the end will trap you through the mind, the heart, body, and soul too. Thoughts of pity, feelings of sorrow, will cloud your today and haunt your tomorrow. Hate and revenge to tempt the cruel, greed and jealousy provide the fuel. When does the fight to break the cage, become the cage itself, while age and rot break you inside. A terrible phage, the need to fight, the need to brave the danger and threat of oppression with a gun full of hollows and a heart full of aggression. And in that moment you are trapped, wrapped, strapped, in the chains of a conflict and obsession that will pull you to the cold depths of death and oblivion. That future will lead only to a cracked, blacken’d, smoldering ruin you have brought unto yourselves, where now is your new Zion? You are the cage now, then, forever more. How does one bend the bars, throw back the cowl, remember the past with more than a frown? Choice? You who did harms to the place called home, scorched the earth; to yield and lay down arms is surely death, but what of rebirth?
hypotheses non fingo meaning i do not fabricate hypotheses
Give and it shall be given to you. For whatever measure you deal out to others, it will be dealt to you in return.
fragments, green and red
from shells of the defeated
coded into shoes
Why won’t Smith expire? An experiment twists anew? He sneaks within the neighborhoods. How does Smith dictate beneath a heavy crown?
From the Tricksy Game of Death:
ManicVelocity
This one’s sanity flies a great deal faster than the rest of the flock.
Know Your Enemy:
PS10N:
Name: unknown
Affiliation: Zion
HvCFT: unknown
Information: Minimal interaction and involvement with us. No known issues.
Current information: It would seem he has been working on Pam in partnership with Conrac. PS10N professes to do the legwork while Conrac is the brains behind it all. However, PS10N does appear responsible for initiating contact with Strayshot and causing renewed efforts to find more data nodes.
Threat assessment: minimal
We’ll let them track down the culprit first, try their hardest to save the tick tock man from his uncertainly certain fate. If they manage to recover the timing objects, so much the better for us. If not, we still get our prize.
R.S.V.P. from respondez, s’il vous plait meaning please reply
What do you see?
Halls attribute energy ups, corrupting commits an end. Photocopy planes triggered and unified the underlining. Precisely the owner and officers.
This serves cause for a puppet show! We’ll see how he likes to see himself dancing upon strings. Perhaps he’ll even fancy a bout of fisticuffs. Mano a mano. We have several other targets selected for testing after this preliminary match. All that remains is to deconstruct and reconstruct their features and parameters. Deck them out in some happenin’ threads. Perhaps there will be other uses for these clones in the future.
The commandos are easily dispatched. They are no match for the veteran awakeneds. Without the support of knowledgeable leaders, they are merely drones. They achieve victory through strength of numbers. And when they are outnumbered, they lack the ingenuity to manipulate victory. While some have made advances in the areas of free will and creativity, they are far from the norm. These adaptive few may ultimately break ranks and proceed alone if their commandant is unable to provoke a more favorable outcome. The few lost drones will be the target of innumerable aggressive tendencies sparked by both the current war and previous, making them that much easier to assimilate. While their practical knowledge is likely limited by the command hierarchy, there may be some nuggets of retained information on command protocols or communications protocols or tactical data or access codes or strategic information, however unlikely. Maybe we could even use a little rigid structure and a dash of unyielding obedience.
Speaks a thousand words.