Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Tue, 24 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

On 12/23/24 6:34 AM, D wrote:

  On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

 in any useful way - but his giant rocket CAN transport
 LOTS of stuff into orbit or to the moon.

 Rockets are boring! I was space elevators and shooting magnetically accelerated loads into space!

   And PRIME terrorist targets  :-)

 This is the truth! But we'll guard those targets with lovely and spiritual
Habermassian dialogue! ;)
 

 Alas, human brains just aren't really wired for that.
 There tend to be 'trades' - and 'stability' is often
 one of them. 'Double-alpha' people, who have it all,
 are VERY VERY rare.

 I wonder if it is an urban myth that the smarter someone is, the bigger the
chance some mental problems?

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 IN MY EXPERIENCE - it's not really a myth.

In my experience, the same. Somehow it feels as if the more intelligent the person, the more unstable the system.

 BIRD brains ... there are some species that have
 spectacular IQ in their little nut-sized brains.
 The 'wiring' is a LOT better than in mammals.

 I like ravens. Very cute birds with personality!

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 Highly recommended by Woden.

Amen!

 Might be the dinos were a LOT smarter than we like
 to believe ... lack of 'tech' does not = stupid.
 Could be it took 65 million years for Socrates to
 pick up where they left off   :-)

 I vaguely remember a book from when I was a child that ended with the dinosaurs
leaving the planet on a space ship. I have one distinct image from the end of
the book when they are leaving. That's all I remember. I wonder if I made it up?

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 Um ... don't think any made it off the planet. The
 tech waste that'd be involved developing that kind
 of tech infrastructure would STILL be obvious.
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 But as I implied, 'tech' as we tend to think of it
 may not be an indicator of intelligence. Diff
 environs, diff facts, pointy stone bits and such
 may not have been much needed.

Like all those science fiction scenarios with intelligent gas clouds that we simply aren't aware of. Or intelligences that move on a glacial scale, so that we're not long lived enough to perceive their intelligence.