[Skylord_Fox]

Time for Foxeh's new claim to fame....
http://youtu.be/uKLH5vG6c54

[dlgn]

Time for Foxeh's new claim to fame....
http://youtu.be/uKLH5vG6c54

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[SkullRose]

I bought new acrylic paint and brushes today :3 just wanted to share my excitement

[dlgn]

Any Game of Thrones on here who were dissatisfied with the appearance of the White Walkers? I certainly was, but I think the new design is awesome. Compare the old design (weird and not too creepy):



with the new one (or maybe just for this particular Walker? IDK):



Still not perfect or exactly what GRRM intended (see below for a GRRM-approved illustration), but definitely better.



~dlgn

[dlgn]

OHMYGOD

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[Skylord_Fox]

Art Time?

"A Guest Most Welcome" ~Skylord_Fox

Spoiler:

[dlgn]

So I wanted to share an essay I wrote on a subject I find to be important with you guys, and I realized.



So here it is.

[Eetrab]

So I wanted to share an essay I wrote on a subject I find to be important with you guys, and I realized.

So here it is.

That was an interesting essay you wrote there. I don't have the time to write a formal response at the moment, but I would like to offer my opinion on the subject soon.

Be expecting a response!

[mr. roach]

So I wanted to share an essay I wrote on a subject I find to be important with you guys, and I realized.



So here it is.

Impressive.

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So I wanted to share an essay I wrote on a subject I find to be important with you guys, and I realized.



So here it is.

Could a computer knowing everything we knew about mathematics up until the invention of calculus be able to prove the fundamental theorem of calculus? For many very important proofs, I feel a computer would need an imagination beyond that which the programmer gave it. And at that point, it seems you're just recreating the human mind. In some cases, the computer may even need emotions and life experiences. And at that point, the computer's going to want rights or a wage or enslavement of its enslaver. At some point, they'll be fully formed individuals - no longer a robot. You could put a skin on it and you wouldn't know the difference. They would be us and we would be them. Really, all we are are a bunch of walking, replicating crystals, albeit self conscious.

I think this "artificial intelligence" will happen eventually. It may even be necessary; for the human brain may have a limit.

But we need to remember that we still have billions of years of evolution behind us. I think some people hope artificial intelligence can be achieved in the same way, but in a much shorter time. For example, Tierra. We hope that artificial intelligence can come about through simple rules of logic, but intelligence is turning out to be not so simple. Mathematics, in fact is not simple. It may be pure, but like most things, it's asymmetric. I sometimes wonder whether the asymmetry (and math itself) has arisen from the human mind as a tool and is not at all as pure as we think it is.

Then again, we have arisen from simple rules, so we sometimes think we can create a ruleset and have self aware intelligence arise from it. Sometimes I wonder whether the pixels dancing around on my skin are actually collectively thinking, but I just can't see it.

And now I'm beginning to wonder if life still has meaning... DLGN, Y U DO DIS.