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What's got energy expenditure to do with logic? Isn't what you talk about Bayesian Inference?

> while one scrambles up a nearby tree

I'm not sure that is just a nervous reflex or the result of the logic implication "If that's a Tiger and I stay then I will die". Even if the thought becomes hardwired, it would have to have been logically evaluated before it became subconscious. To react and be afraid, the danger must be recognized and categorized, "If the grass twitches then something moved it", etc. etc. Going down that argument, small life forms would be able of some small amount of logic reasoning, too. As long as those grow bulks of neurons, I don't see why that should be wrong.

> just look at your first sentence

What are you trying to say?

People have an OK grasp of formal logic, that is the formalism. It's learned at an early age, it's prerequisite for deductive (or inductive?) learning actually. Most might lack the cognitive ability to exercise those formalism in an abstract synthesis into long formulas.

> to arrive at their preferred judgment first

> then ... to justify their rulings

Well, unless justification and judgment aren't pretty much synonym, that's a contradiction? The subconscious decision met by such a judge should be guided by an organic sound understanding of justice. The verbalization of this kind of emotion should only bring up the true reasons of thought, maybe polished and cut short. At least, that would be my lame excuse.

the emergency line is the stressor I ment.

I don't even get it and so may the downvoters

apparently, for some, many even, this puts them under some stress and pressure, socially and organisatoric.

Extrapolated from their numbers, in 2045 it will be an unbelievable 16 billion, 2 bookings a night per human. All that vacationing will lead to vacation fornication and generate the increase in population needed to sustain the growth. What a keen business model.

That's probably why they have John Carmack on board. Half Life was a mod to his Quake 2. They had a friendly, cooperative relation so far, so I wouldn't worry.

> There's only one App store on iOS vs Android.

maybe I misunderstand but Adroid is targeted by many app shops.

It reminds me all too much of genetic programming, but I know the latter almost only by name.

On a datacenter the size of the middle of nowhere.

> imagine trying to reverse engineer a modern CPU vs merely designing one

I can't really imagine the latter to begin with.

> why not the converse

In that regard, the term superhuman-AI is used.