[Maark Abbott]

EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

Well and good, Jensen, but there's trouble over at one of our factories and I need you to go check it out.

[Mezla PigDog]

Friday. Works out. Best moment of the week or is that waking up on Saturday morning.....?

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

Two tickets for Springsteen bought for myself and Dad!

[Silencer]

Mezla PigDog, on 26 February 2016 - 07:58 AM, said:

Andorion, on 26 February 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

Briar King, on 26 February 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:

I preferred Go Bots! I still have some of those toys and TMNT figures up in attic.

Did anybody watch a show called Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad? It was about this group of friends, and they entered the internet by playing a guitar where they turned into giant robots to fight computer viruses that looked like Godzilla. Fight as in literally fight, with lasers and swords and stuff.

The concept sounds so insane now, but 6 year old me thought it was so cool

Erm no. I was 10 when the www was invented so cyber stuff most certainly did not feature in my childhood viewing. Thundercats was the pinnacle of childrens entertainment in my book.

I think a lot of the "Gen whatever" and "millenial" type distinctions are pretty arbitrary these days, and are often Western-/American-centric as it doesn't take into account that some countries (even Western ones) were not exactly at the same rate of adoption of technology as the frontrunners.

Case in point, in NZ even though I was born in the early 90s, I didn't have internet at home until after I was 10, or a mobile phone until I could buy one myself. That isn't true of every 90s NZ kid, of course. But what is true of NZ 90s kids is that Transformers was still on TV, as were things like the Mighty Ducks and Go Bots, and so on.

People just like to draw lines in the sand, and it's really not that practical. What's even less practical, is typecasting people based on when they were born. Doing it by generation perhaps has slightly more merit due to, you know, actual cultural factors, but it's still almost as silly as doing it by birth month or star sign. When you start doing it across countries like the world all moved at the same pace at the points is just...ugh.

[Gredfallan Ale]

EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

Yeah, it's amazing, it truly is.

It makes you wonder where the possibilities end and what we are willing to do.

For now, we're mainly tweaking the input side of things; we are basically hacking the sensory system to do something it doesn't normally do, in this case routing visual information through the tactile system by using a device that "converts" visual information to tactile information. However, on the perceptual side of things, we're stuck with what we've got for now. I wonder if we'll ever be able to extend our cognitive system by adding a totally new perceptual modality, one that is as intertwined and distributed as the others, but is not just a slight modification of a current perceptual system. I can't image what it would be like to experience such a modality, but how do you explain "vision" to someone who has never experienced it or how do you tell someone who's deaf what it's like to listen to Bach's inventions? What's it like to have a dominant perceptual modality for echolocation or magnetism?

Now, "perception" isn't just an isolated process in the brain, a separated box that you might connect or disconnect, but it's actually the result of a large distributed and intertwined network which you can arbitrarily extend to include almost the whole brain, so it won't be as easy as connecting a new modal box to a couple of "connectors" in the brain, but rather a modification that modifies a huge part of the current cognitive system. That means I can't really imagine how it would work, but, hey, I'm no genius and it's fun to philosophize about what it's like to be something you're not (like a bat ), even from a monistic perspective.

[Solidsnape]

Bloody hell, I'd forrgotten all about Doug.
It was shite anyway.
But Thundercats? Now there was a cartoon


No TV and lots of Music make SS a happy chap.
With the exception of my marvel movie collection, which I've waited FAR too long to catch up on, never watched a screen on over 2 weeks.
Awesome.
Also, News?
What's that?
Cypher was right, Ignorance is bliss!!

[Andorion]

Silencer, on 27 February 2016 - 10:07 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 26 February 2016 - 07:58 AM, said:

Andorion, on 26 February 2016 - 05:19 AM, said:

Briar King, on 26 February 2016 - 05:13 AM, said:

I preferred Go Bots! I still have some of those toys and TMNT figures up in attic.

Did anybody watch a show called Super Human Samurai Cyber Squad? It was about this group of friends, and they entered the internet by playing a guitar where they turned into giant robots to fight computer viruses that looked like Godzilla. Fight as in literally fight, with lasers and swords and stuff.

The concept sounds so insane now, but 6 year old me thought it was so cool

Erm no. I was 10 when the www was invented so cyber stuff most certainly did not feature in my childhood viewing. Thundercats was the pinnacle of childrens entertainment in my book.

I think a lot of the "Gen whatever" and "millenial" type distinctions are pretty arbitrary these days, and are often Western-/American-centric as it doesn't take into account that some countries (even Western ones) were not exactly at the same rate of adoption of technology as the frontrunners.

Case in point, in NZ even though I was born in the early 90s, I didn't have internet at home until after I was 10, or a mobile phone until I could buy one myself. That isn't true of every 90s NZ kid, of course. But what is true of NZ 90s kids is that Transformers was still on TV, as were things like the Mighty Ducks and Go Bots, and so on.

People just like to draw lines in the sand, and it's really not that practical. What's even less practical, is typecasting people based on when they were born. Doing it by generation perhaps has slightly more merit due to, you know, actual cultural factors, but it's still almost as silly as doing it by birth month or star sign. When you start doing it across countries like the world all moved at the same pace at the points is just...ugh.

We got dial up at home in 2005, broadband in 2007. I used my first mobile phone in 2006 and first smart phone in 2013. I don't think tech should be a defining phenomenon, its more of a mentality thing. Like how fast somebody adapts to the internet.

[EmperorMagus]

Maark, on 26 February 2016 - 08:12 AM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

Well and good, Jensen, but there's trouble over at one of our factories and I need you to go check it out.

I admit I have no idea what you're referencing, but sure?

Gredfallan Ale, on 27 February 2016 - 10:41 AM, said:

EmperorMagus, on 26 February 2016 - 07:26 AM, said:

TIL that science has made people see through their skin.
their fucking skin.
the augments we see in books like Blindsight/Revelation Space may not be that far away.

TVSS

Yeah, it's amazing, it truly is.

It makes you wonder where the possibilities end and what we are willing to do.

For now, we're mainly tweaking the input side of things; we are basically hacking the sensory system to do something it doesn't normally do, in this case routing visual information through the tactile system by using a device that "converts" visual information to tactile information. However, on the perceptual side of things, we're stuck with what we've got for now. I wonder if we'll ever be able to extend our cognitive system by adding a totally new perceptual modality, one that is as intertwined and distributed as the others, but is not just a slight modification of a current perceptual system. I can't image what it would be like to experience such a modality, but how do you explain "vision" to someone who has never experienced it or how do you tell someone who's deaf what it's like to listen to Bach's inventions? What's it like to have a dominant perceptual modality for echolocation or magnetism?

Now, "perception" isn't just an isolated process in the brain, a separated box that you might connect or disconnect, but it's actually the result of a large distributed and intertwined network which you can arbitrarily extend to include almost the whole brain, so it won't be as easy as connecting a new modal box to a couple of "connectors" in the brain, but rather a modification that modifies a huge part of the current cognitive system. That means I can't really imagine how it would work, but, hey, I'm no genius and it's fun to philosophize about what it's like to be something you're not (like a bat ), even from a monistic perspective.

I'm actually studying a subject called "Cognitive Systems" right now, and the amount of similar shit that is being done in this field is ridiculous. It's like real world Blindsight on steroids.

Google docs/slides is what's making me happy right now. Google services are becoming so much better than MS it's retarded they are free.

[Morgoth]

There's a guy in the malazan facebook group that seems to have had a complete meltdown because Jon (Brood) announced that any sharing of torrent files, or otherwise promoting piracy of the books would result in a permanent ban. It's hillarious.

[Anomander]

That guy is out to lunch. He's not subtle about wanting to takeover the group at all.

[Tsundoku]

Is Brood experiencing the first challenge to his authority?

I say cut this upstart's heart out and eat it to gain his power. Which has the added benefit of delivering a stern object lesson to others who may think they sense weakness.

Good source of iron too, apparently.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 03 March 2016 - 10:08 AM

[King Lear]

Goddammit now I have to look at the facebook page.

[King Lear]

King Lear, on 03 March 2016 - 10:13 AM, said:

Goddammit now I have to look at the facebook page.

Okay no this is definitely making me happy

[worry]

It's rad as hell, is what it is.

[Tsundoku]

This:

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[Traveller]

Kashmiri Lamb in the slow cooker. Smells great already.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 03 March 2016 - 11:00 AM

[Maark Abbott]

Morgoth, on 02 March 2016 - 01:14 PM, said:

There's a guy in the malazan facebook group that seems to have had a complete meltdown because Jon (Abneggy) announced that any sharing of torrent files, or otherwise promoting piracy of the books would result in a permanent ban. It's hillarious.

Fixed that for ya...

[Maark Abbott]

Anyway I can't see what he's posting because he blocked me already.

[Tiste Simeon]

Yeah that dude is a bellend. Funny, but still...

[Andorion]

Had a look. That is exactly the type of thing that keeps me off FB.