Slashdot Design Changes for Wider Appeal

Our marketing department has done extensive research over the last 3 quarters and discovered that our audience is strangely disproportionately skewed towards males. Like, 98.3% males to be precise. To correct this oversight, we have decided to subtly tweak Slashdot's design and content to widen our appeal to these less active demographics. Don't worry! We'll still continue to serve our core audience, but we hope you'll work with us as we try to find a balance that will work for all.

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Exponential AI system

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Slashdot :

I have decided that i want a sexchange. Current medical technology yeilds a very poor result. A vagina can be made from the penis, but it will likely have hair inside of it, and there is a good chance of damaging the sensitive nervs, which would make sex unpleasurable. Breasts can only get but so big, nipples would not function. There would be no reproductive capability, and bone structure cannot be modified. The body chemistry cannot be changed, hormonal problems would be likely, and interacting with society would be awkward, as things like gait and voice would still be masculine. There is no way to change neural wiring in the brain to accomidate. The end result would be a sterile woman who looks like a man. Obviously this is not an option here.

It will be most likely at the pace things are going, several hundred years before medical technology progresses to the point where sex reassignment surgery would yeild satisfactory results. It is unfortunate that i will not live long enough to benefit from more advanced technology, so i will have to create it myself.

My plan is to build an AI system which can revise and improve on its self. It would be a cognitive AI system, a truely intelligent machine. Each time it improves on it's self, by modifying it's source code, it would increase in it's intellectual capacity in an exponential manner. It would quickly surpass the level of intelligence in human beings. Being that it would be superintelligent, it could run a profitable business, to generate income, which it would use to buy materials needed to improve upon its self.

Obviously i would steer it to focus it's time on developing technology in the following fields:stocks/investment, biotechnology, nanotechnology, chemistry, medicine, electronics. Being that it gains intelligence in an exponential manner, it should be able to develop the required technologies needed to proform an exceptional sex change. Not only would i transition over to being female, i would actually be a real woman, with full reproductive capability. Any sort of mental defects would be resolved, and i would have a completely healthy new body, void of any detromental conditions. This means i could live on for ever, looking great and the only way of death would be if somebody killed me or if got into an accident of some sort.

So my question to the guests of 4chan, is your thoughts on this process. Also i would be interested in hearing any ideas you have for creating such AI and approprate hardware to run it on. Please refrain from ethical discussions, as i think it is 100% ethical to produce a machine which could solve all of humanitys health and technology problems.

thank you Slashdot for your time and support.

Make the Pinking Stop

[Buradorii]

As if it wasnt bad enough that yesterday they announced the new transit line in Chicago will be the Pink Line... now Slashdot goes pink.

I think I'm going to go hide under my bed for a while.

And no, I'm not joking about Chicago getting a Pink Line. Believe me, I wish I was.