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Discussion in 'Human Science' started by Dilbert, Oct 20, 2005.

  1. Roman Banned Banned

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    You don't think it's at all cultural that we prefer cooked meat? It's what we're raised on. We're also told that raw meat, outside of very specific circumstances, is gross and dangerous.

    Do you eat bugs? People eat bugs and they enjoy them, but there are many people who find this concept absolutely nauseating.
     
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  3. Dilbert Registered Senior Member

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    My model for how humans behave seems to be surprisingly accurate in all possible situations. It also covers actual Intelligence, unlike other “AI”. Creating something out of nothing, basically it is an inventor. How successful it would be though I cannot say, it acts logical (based on knowledge and rules), and Einstein said that not everything can be solved with logic.

    The real problem with the AI industry is that too many morons are working in it, it seems somehow that all believe that they are the Einstein in the AI field, yet they all end up saying “Why we have not successfully created Artificial Intelligence is due to the fact that we do not have a good definition of what Intelligence is.”
    I would just call that a poor excuse for ignorance
     
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  5. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    Perhaps some of their fellow cave dwellers saw that others around them were dying off after they ate contaminated old beef so they started to cook it.
     
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  7. Dilbert Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, that is a part of the simulation. Many will adapt due to the deaths of others, although they would need a reason, some logic for comming up with the idea of cooking the meat. tablariddim suggestion provides me with a solution that i can work with, a solution that does not involve randomness, despite that trial and error would have solved it, i am confident of this, i am still not satisfied with using trial and error in my AI, i want it to be structured, it should not just guess, it should have a darn good reason for comming up with a wild suggestion as cooking the meat actually is.
     
  8. tablariddim forexU2 Valued Senior Member

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    Great! that means you could bung us a few quid after you've made your millions

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  9. Light Registered Senior Member

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    Sure, it's cultural, Roman - but it's also more than that. Though you may doubt it until you really try it, cooking certainly will improve the FLAVOR of many meats.

    Grab a steak and eat it while it's completely raw. It will taste much better when cooked. Even more to the point, get a chunk of raw pork (yes, I know it can be dangerous) and compare the taste of that to a well-prepared pork roast. The same can be said of many others (mutton, fowl, and more). It also makes the meat MUCH more tender because it breaks down the connective tissue which can be very tough!

    There are many seafoods which are very good raw and also equally good cooked, just different. Here's another example - try eating squid raw. It's really tough and stringy, yet many people (including myself) enjoy nice, tender calamari. <Yum>

    Yes, I've tried a wide variety of insects (grasshoppers, ants, locust, grubs, fat termites, etc.) and they are all OK but I wouldn't go out of my way to get them.
     

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