AI and the singularity

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  1. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Why should it need to ?
    Can you give an example?
     
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  3. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Division by zero is plus zero. Nothing was neccessary for the creation of life. +0.
     
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  5. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Ok, if that is proper math, then you may be right. OTOH, if 0 = (+ 0) then where does the division come in play?
    Now if 0/0 = 1, then we'd have something. But of course it doesn't. The answer is always zero.

    In any case I cannot see a real life scenario in nature, where 0/0 = +0 = indetermined?
     
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  7. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    "Nothing lasts forever." That's conception. It's something that occurs to every human. For this to occur, nothing is neccessary. It may not be plus zero, but it's definitely zero.
     
  8. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Theoretically there are animals that do not die. Check out this link:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_dohrnii

    Not unlike the slime mold, which consists of cooperative single cell polyps.
     
  9. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Question; what does AI have to do with "the singularity" anyway?

    In it's broadest sense the singularity (universe) is an AI itself. Perhaps a better term would be " pseudo-intelligence", i.e. it functions in accordance with mathematical values and functions, but is not sentient in and of itself.
     
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  10. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    The first creature. Starfish do not die either.
     
  11. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Well, thanks for your confirmation. That kinda disagrees with your post # 84, don't it?
     
  12. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    1÷0 does not take forever to calculate!

    It doesn't contradict.
     
  13. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    It doesn't do anything in reality.
    If I have one of something and I don't divide it (/0), it remains one thing.

    I don't know its use in "human" theoretical mathematics, but scribbling numbers does not always translate into natural mathematical functions or expression in reality.
     
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  14. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    "Nothing" can also exist only for a single instant. Then there is nothing, then there is something.

    At that scale who can define Nothing? You're right, it is just a human concept.

    We define Nothing as the absence of physical stuff. It tells us nothing about the possible mathematical potentials which may exist independent of the presence of physical stuff.

    And the definition of Potential is ; "That which may become expessed in reality".
     
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  15. Lookingfor... Registered Member

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    There are two ways to interpret Counter's psychology. Nothing lasts forever, meaning nothing remains for eternity, or something will dissapate, because it will not last forever.
     
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  16. TheFrogger Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Nothing cannot exist. If there is nothing there will be nothing forever, which gives birth to something...namely forever.
     
  17. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    Forever is a CONCEPT

    As such it has not physicality

    As such it is nothing

    NOTHING maintains its NOTHINGNESS

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  18. Dinosaur Rational Skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    From Counter Post 12
    From Write4U Post 33
    From River Post 34
    From WriteU4 Post 35[/quote]Multiplying any value by zero = zero. Dividing by zero does not affect the original value at all.[/quote]

    First consider some analysis of dividing by zero instead of guessing at the result.

    100 / 1 = 100
    100 / .1 = 1000
    100 / .01 = 10000

    As the divisor decreases, the quotient increases. There seems to be no limit to the increase as the divisor approaches zero. This suggests that the result of division by zero might be unbounded. Id est: It might be reasonable to claim that the result is infinite. Although calling it undefined might also be reasonable.
     
  19. Michael 345 New year. PRESENT is 72 years oldl Valued Senior Member

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    I thought that the fact that a number WAS a number elevated it above zero - hence it could NOT contain any zeros

    Hence my logic indicates ANY attempt to divide ANY number by zero would result in zero zeros being found inside the number

    There certainly is such smaller numbers contained within larger numbers as Dinosaur post shows

    But a zero within a number in somewhat akin to a vaccum within a air filled room

    How far apart do the air molicules for the space between them to be considered a vacuum?

    With numbers no space can exist within itself to be considered a zero

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  20. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Multiplying any value by zero = zero. Dividing by zero does not affect the original value at all.[/quote]

    First consider some analysis of dividing by zero instead of guessing at the result.

    100 / 1 = 100
    100 / .1 = 1000
    100 / .01 = 10000

    As the divisor decreases, the quotient increases. There seems to be no limit to the increase as the divisor approaches zero. This suggests that the result of division by zero might be unbounded. Id est: It might be reasonable to claim that the result is infinite. Although calling it undefined might also be reasonable.[/QUOTE] We hear that mathematics are a human invention and in the case of zero it truly is. It is a demarcation point which itself has no value.
    This may be useful in abstract mathematics, but does reality function that way? If something has no value of any kind it cannot be used in practical physics.

    And your example demonstrates dividing values by values. But if we turn this around and use multiplication instead of division, we get;

    100 x 1.0 = 100
    100 x 0.1 = 10
    100 x 0.01 = 1
    100 x 0.0 = 0
    1,000,000 x 0.0 = 0

    Or if we take the opposite:
    0 / 1 = 0
    0 / .1 = 0
    0 / .01 = 0
    0 / 100 = 0
    0 / 1,000,000 = 0

    I see it "division" as breaking a value (number) apart into constituent parts and values.
    But if I divide zero (a non-value) into any number of parts, it remains without value (zero). IMO
     
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  21. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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  22. arfa brane call me arf Valued Senior Member

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    It's actually much easier to prohibit division by zero, by defining division to be restricted to non-zero divisors. In fact the Euclidean division 'algorithm' (q.v.) makes this explicit.

    Hence division by numerical zero is not defined (is a kind of contradiction of division itself) in any number system (although there are zero divisors in ring algebras).
     
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  23. RainbowSingularity Valued Senior Member

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    im no mathmermagician
    just ponder'n words. when zero = a degree then zero is an actual number ?
    as opposed to individual numbers and then asserting a value to zero also being a number ?

    thus, when zero = a value, the value is the sum not the zero ? so zero is (dont know the proper word) kinda like a named 'x' value like a place holder rather than an actual number.
    philisophically musing...would this suggest that counting starts at a value rather than no value ?
    thus you do not start counting by having a zero
    you can only start counting by having a number, be it 1 or any other value ?
     

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