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40% of Adults Play Games
Gamasutra reports on an AP Poll stating that some 40% of American adults play games. From the article: "The poll also yielded plenty of other results worth ruminating on - 45 percent of gamers play over the Internet, and those who do are notably more 'hardcore' than those who do not. Forty-two percent of online gamers spent four hours or more per week playing games, but only 26% of offline gamers did similarly. The AP/AOL survey also revealed that, of those who play online games, almost one in five said they had formed real-life friendships or relationships with those they play with online, showing the use of gaming as a social activity, even when playing remotely against others."
The Associated Press? The same lunkheads that were pushing Mac FUD less than a week ago about Mac Viruses? The tech group at that pile of generic newpaper filler has to be worse than the Register UK.
Mmmmmmmeh!
Here's some more headlines from the AP, Macs have windows - just like Windows! Atari - they're back - and they're in France!! Microsoft announces Longhorn! Sony PS2 winning customers - can the PS3 be far behind? E3 - what's THAT all about?
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 Slashdot, 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.
It leaves the question, what are the other 60% doing with their time?
Possible options:
reproducing
drinking
watching TV
reading
sleeping
dancing
commuting
feeding children
working
recouperating
making lists.
Oh You POS
Women specialize in the mind games.
How many of us have been trapped by the question:
"Do I look fat in this dress?" or "Do these jeans make my butt look big?"
Logic dictates you answer a question honestly, she is asking for your opinion. But experience teaches us not to answer honestly.
The women are training us to lie to them.
"Tempt not a desperate man" - Willy S.