@freakazoid I don't think that was @thomasfuchs 's central question.

@td ci avevo pensato, magari domani provo.
Devo farmi prestare un pc per fare la chiavetta.

@stefano_zan Hai già provato un ramtest? Parte con una chiavetta USB bootable?

@evan I'm willing to discard "machine", but for me the central question is: can we construct something that works sufficiently like the brain that it can replace humans in complex tasks?

The human brain is the most complex structure in the known universe. It is the product of 4 billion years of evolution, the last couple million of which happened in the context of groups that were hunting big game and killing one another. In a multiverse (see anthropic principle) where that process only needed to produce "us" once.

We can't even simulate a brain. To think we can construct something with similar functionality despite that requires believing most of that complexity is incidental or can be produced through some relatively simple optimization procedure. Both of which are huge leaps unjustified by any evidence. All we've managed to show is that humans have a strong tendency to anthropomorphize, which of course we already knew.

@thomasfuchs

@td ha funzionato per mesi con la nuova RAM. Prima con W10 e da settembre con Debian. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@stefano_zan Hai già provato a resettare la configurazione del BIOS e tornare alla vecchia RAM?

Bon. Mi è morto il notebook. ☠️

Ci ho lavorato stamattina; poi l'ho spento.
Oggi non riparte più. Si ferma al BIOS. Ho provato a cambiare alcuni parametri, ma non tiene le modifiche.
Il computer NON HA una batteria CMOS 🤨 quindi non posso neanche pensare che si sia scaricata.

Lo avevo da poco "pompato": disco SSD e RAM raddoppiata. Per di più ci avevo appena messo Debian al posto di W10. 😭

@freakazoid @thomasfuchs yeah, the first word, 'machine', is enough. Brains are grown, not made (yet).