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Undesired side-effects of popularity among teenagers, I guess.

I personally find Searl's (and other "neural correlates of consciousness" people, such as Koch) arguments more generic and deep than all this simulation-emulation-dna-blah-blah talk. It is perfectly possible that our brain is the minimal thing that capable of self-awareness and, that is, irreducibly caused by physical nature of brain and our universe.

At least, I am sure, emulation of chemical processes is not a way to recreate mind.

And a rat poison.

[jokingly] Would be interesting to know, what Does Perelman think about the proof? At least it is not from math community, so probably it is ok to take the million...

Free should have solved the problem... Why did not :(.

You are welcome. I am history addict a bit...

Hee is another PDF: http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP/Deolalikar.pdf

See, all these monstrous old companies such as IBM and HP, they hire pure scientists such as Chaitin and this guy, and every once in awhile it pays off. I have feeling, yonger companies, with their own research departments, they are still very down to earth, and look for immediate profit from R&D.

... the return of pornodialers.

that we need a subscription to Wall Street Journal?

And that was such cosy begining, with 6502 and a garage....

This is so hilarious. And no wonder it is Taiwanese. - PRC would never let this clip to show up.

In absolute numbers economy of China is much, enormously bigger than economy of Iceland. Not per capita, however.

I think, perhaps it is true, that beauty can not be always described by formulas, at least "innovative beauty". However, to have good convenient rules of the thumb, to let less artistic people be able to quickly create something not really ugly - it is nice, is not it?

You can look at several additional metrics: - Industrial output per capity - Germany waaay in front of USA. - Amount of cars produced per capita - Japan and Germany way in front of USA. - Electronics industry is still doing very good however.

Absolutely agree. Excessive patriotism and pride is not serving the country.

Yes, but if you look at amount of industrial output per capita, you'll see that it is smaller than Germany's.

Yet it is pretty silly to say that USA is an agricultural country. That means there is a lot creativity going in the agriculture to keep it so efficient.

Even if there is innovation going on in the jet engine, there is still a lot of space for innovation in less hi-tech industry.

It is very relevant. This how one economy gets classified as service or industrial. Even if we take different approach, overall industrial output of USA per capita, it still less than Germany's.

Creativity does not appear from nowhere. Of course, it is great to foster it, yet, with loss of industrial knowledge, less and less is left to be taught to people. I do not buy fairy tales that there is abstract creativity you can teach people - there is engineering, artistic, scientific "creativities". One of important sources of creativity come from successful examples of its implementation by other people, and the more industrial you are the more way to use your creativity and get feedback from real, tangible, physical world.

And here is my answer - you want be more creative in engineering creativity increase you industry output.

May be you need more vitamins, for energy? I am serious.

You are looking at a very wrong graph. This one is correct: http://investing.curiouscatblog.net/2010/06/28/manufacturing.... Look carefully at China and Germany, and then to USA. See - QED - USA has no industry left.

There is no business case, no economic pressure for creativity. Yes, you can create, but you do not have time - for your creation nobody is gonna pay money - so there is no incentive to be creative.

Excuses?! Any engineer knows that many good ideas appear as the result of interaction with production process, but if something is designed in USA but made in China then the loopback time grows very big and you end up with making same boring stuff year after year, year after year...

Again the reason why creativity goes down - nowhere to apply it. There is no industry left in USA - the only way you can apply your creativity is by creating something, but your creations are not going to be competitive - chinese workforce cheaper, small shops you can sell through your staff all gone and replaced by targets/best buys/evilmarts and so on. Only things that are produced in USA is food and lo-tech wooden/metalwork.

Why is this important? Is this a gossip magazine?

Read the article. Feels like Republican propaganda, even though it is not. The reason why scientists cannot find jobs is the lack of industry in USA. Industry is often employer for scientists (on-site chemists, physicists and so on).

Anybody can suggests fiction authors who write in this style - sane text morphing into gibberish and probably back to sanity?

Jefferson County, Alabama - it is more than rampant I'd say. Other examples - there is a new book - Free Lunch, which talks a lot about subtle (and not very) ways local governments subsidize WalMarts, BestBuys etc.

It is very dangerous to attempt bribing cops in USA, compared to 3rd world, where it is safe and streamlined, like in grocery. Trust, I lived in 3rd world.

See, in USA it is hard to accuse some entity in corruption - there is concept of lobbying (which is legalized bribery), special interest groups, and the law, it is contrived, it is constructed the way to benefit big guys. Look, US patent laws are laugh-stock around the world, the medicines cost at least 30% more than in neighbor Canada. Medical insurance industry is one huge example of corruption in extreme scales. Bailout - another. And look at the clip again - nobody knows what BP uses, and there is no way you can learn that - gov-t does not care, because it is bought, been purchased, sold out.

USA is an odd mix of first world and third world. There is very little corruption in everyday life - police officers, fire department officers, general government workers - do not seem to take bribes (and indeed they do not). Yet, in upper levels - City Halls, State Governments,Congress = corruption is rampant, even Russia may be jealous. In USA truth belongs to those who have money. Law belongs to rich.

Once, in late 1980-s, US government tried to suppress information coming from USSR (!!) about problems caused by nuclear fallout after Chernobyl disaster, because in 50-s US made some experiments with controlled release of similar pollutant into atmosphere.

Welcome to country of freedom. You are free to not have information.

Oh, the answer is simple: Kyrgyzstan - no gas, no oil, no metals - no reason to worry. In fact the story is very complex here, and I am suspecting that was not Bakiev's deeds, but somebody else...

Kanneman said two things: - 60K is a point where bigger income won't make you happier. - GDP higher than 12(?)K Per capita/year will not make big difference on the wellbeing of citizen of the country.