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working the psych ward is REALLY unpleasant and i'd be all underslept n shit
nope
Psych wards are pretty awful.
i tea bagged (with most tea bags) my extraction sites and they closed pretty quickly. the tannic acid helped them clot
Oh yeah, make sure to keep them clean though. Don't want dry sockets. That shit is painful I hear.
That would be dumb. You don't create them willy nilly for free.
People create sentient beings willy nilly for free all the time.
Well, free in a sense.
As opposed to a scheduling impossibility or a lack of availability.
And I'm out! See you guys later.
yeah, I got my syringe for tomorrow. everything i've read says to give it 24 hours, pending no further bleeding, to clot. then, wash my mouth out with salt water and then hit the sites with the syringe to get rid food particles.
i am so damn hungry and there's a fruit smoothie sitting right in front of me
i must eat it...
"Years ago, when we started building the AX androids, we made them to be automatons... mindless robots. But, some of them gained self-awareness. We could never predict which ones, or when. Sometimes, they could integrate their new knowledge of self into their programming. Others could not, they became erratic, even dangerous.
We couldn't stop it from occurring. We almost terminated the AX project. But some of the early self-aware units -- your elders, you might say -- convinced us not to. We had created a new species, and to snuff out that species in its infancy would be... like genocide.
So we work with the AXs who had gained sapience peacefully, and we are learning to replicate the specific combination of factors that lead to synthetic self-awareness. To build more like you."
"Is my purpose to help you with your research?"
"If you want. You have the freedom to find your own purpose.
Welcome to the world."
is that a problem in the US too?
it's not even that dangerous
it's the eating disorder ward at children's hospital
so it's a bunch of anorexic teenage girls and stuff
hardly a threat
it's just really depressing! some of them self-injure so they have to be kept restrained to their beds and it's just an incredibly unpleasant situation
I like it better the way it is... in a way, the video is the prequel to your script Feral.
Feral your science fiction is wussy sissy science fiction without any conflict or guns.
It's a problem everywhere else!
bahahaah bailing on a healthcare conversation!
wooooooo *flees*
I like the geth. They actually seem like a much more realistic idea of what a sapient AI would be like.
i have never had that problem
i mean it can be inconvenient to go to a clinic but there are tons of them
and my doctor takes same-day appointments only so you can get one whenever you want if you call at 9 a.m.
it's a little tough to find a doctor I think, if you don't already have one?
the main problem with canada's healthcare, imo, is that it is kind of half-assed and doesn't cover a lot of important stuff. i mean, if you're going to socialize healthcare, do it right.
it depends on how the brain would be built - is it a recreation of a complete human brain, perhaps modeled from a specific brain (in which case it probably would have emotions pretty quickly) or is it a brain in a sort of infancy/tabula rasa mode, initially, that is based more on development over time
That's because you realized the joy of real science.
Yes.
I love the way (ME2 spoilers... no ME3)
If it's made by humans, it's going to be human-like, right?
I have Blue Cross PPO.
I needed to find a new primary care physician. I had to call around to different offices. After about 5 phone calls, I found one who was accepting new patients, assuming that I wanted to wait 10 weeks for an appointment.
On the 6th call, I was able to find a doctor who could see me in three weeks.
This is, IMO, typical.
Is it possible for an imperfect creation to be made by a perfect creator?
Discuss.
so the US is pretty bad for finding doctors as well
i think there's just a doctor shortage in general because being a doctor is pretty difficult and expensive, and the ideal ratio of doctors to patients is probably like 1 to 5, in some magical dream world.
@Honk
late reply but:
http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/simcity_2000_special_edition
this is just the DOS special edition + DOSBOX but it's nice they do all the setup for you on windows.
which one? i found the young Speaker to be a pretty big asshole.
This is great, thank you!
1 in 5 is astronomical. Most countries have a per-capita physician ratio around 3-5 doctors per 1,000 population.
Computers aren't human-like. They're very inhuman machines that we use to build abstractions and metaphors on top of so we can more easily interact with them. You could create a human-like AI but you could just as easily, maybe more easily, create something that doesn't think like a human but is nonetheless intelligent.
Are you referring to the Apple-Bandai Pippin?
Right. But I guess I just don't imagine us being able to recreate a human brain before being able to create a sapient mind from scratch. Not necessarily because it's not possible, but just because as our ability to model a human brain increases so will our theoretical understanding of how the mind is formed. There are much less complex brains than ours which can still be considered sapient, so I imagine we will have the raw hardware capability to make our own less complex sapient mind from scratch before we will have the capability of copying a full brain. This is barring, of course, the possibility that the functioning of the brain is somehow too complex for us to reverse engineer, but I'm personally not counting on it. Or rather, I'm personally counting on that not being the case.
I love theory to discuss and to do in short papers. Long ones take a lot more what seems like bsing. Even if it isn't 100% bsing I could probably prove my point with 5-7 pages easily with good cites and historical evidence.
Also I would say some of the forecasting, demographic work and patterning you do in poli sci is real science. But working with human populations at a mass level always has a pretty high error rate.
Also the fact that forecasting is kind of like psychohistory touches a big dork button for me.
I have opinions about that.
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The actual ratio should be like 1 per every 100 or so people. 1 to 5 would be over kill. Disease common as it is doesn't require a ratio like that. Actually even 1 to every 500 people would probably be fine in most developed countries with proper vaccination and nutrition.
The big problem right now isn't the lack of doctors but the lack of general practitioners. Also the loan burden means there will be even less generalist when there needs to be a lot more.