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December 27, 2005
Hackers Are Weird.
So, like, there's this guy. In a room. And he likes to read. And we want to control his mind. And...
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The weirdest part about them, in my opinion, is that fact that they would overpay for a piece of monkey crap from Microsoft. I suppose I can understand the need/want to hack the thing to run what you want to. Case in point, a friend of a friend has programmed his PS2 to run off a 120GB harddrive that has all his games stored on it to reduce load times to nothing.
Ok, fun, I guess. But all I want from my gaming system is something that plays the best games, the best possible graphics, and does so without f'ing up, something my PS2 has given me for quite a few years. All this is why I am waiting patiently for Sony...
Posted by: Adrock | Dec 27, 2005 4:51:35 PM
That analogy is what happens when I get four hours of sleep the night before. A little more shuteye and I could've come up with something pleasantly lyrical.
Posted by: tom | Dec 27, 2005 4:57:04 PM
Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot. :P
Posted by: tatere | Dec 27, 2005 5:50:40 PM
mankind's quest to conquer the unknown; search for the truth; pursue nature's and technology's secrets for the benefit of us all; master......
Posted by: JimPortandOR | Dec 27, 2005 6:48:09 PM
pwnd!
Posted by: Fr33d0m | Dec 27, 2005 9:41:53 PM
The analogy superficially resembles John Searle's Chinese Room argument, which raises problems for the idea that computers have minds.
Searle's example involves a guy who doesn't know Chinese sitting in a room, receiving one set of Chinese characters, looking up the appropriate Chinese response in a giant rulebook, writing this response, and handing it back. The point is that a system might be able to perform calculations that give the right outputs to the right inputs, but since it doesn't have a certain kind of understanding, it doesn't have a mind.
Posted by: Neil the Ethical Werewolf | Dec 27, 2005 10:03:57 PM
