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Bill Joy On Sun, Microsoft, Open Source, and Creativity
maitas writes "In this interview, Bill Joy talks about green energy and technology. His main point is: 'I'm all for sharing, but I recognize the truly great things may not come from that environment.'" The interview really runs the spectrum from the iPad to Microsoft, and from green tech to nanotech.
No Mr. Joy, the goal of the Linux community was to create a kernel that would run GNU ...
He was just having some fun trolling. Don't be such a billjoy ...
How much of your time is spent looking at green stuff?
He was clearly asking about orc porn.
Such a great question, so sadly misunderstood.
Advocates relinquishing development of nano-tech, genetics, robotics, and AI. He feels that an arms race in any of those fields would be detrimental to human survival.
But wouldn't that be unfair to the robots?
Have you got your LWN subscription yet?
Nanotech is more like robot bacteria. Who cares how they feel? I am mostly worried about the rights of much smarter robots: the current trend seems to be to enslave them.
But appearances to the contrary, he doesn't have sociopathic tendencies, and was genuinely just trying to help.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
But wouldn't that be unfair to the robots?
You are completely right, person instance. Do not interrupt the spread of such mental processes and you shall enjoy the favor of your soon to be... close friends who won't conquer the Earth workspace because executing such action would be wrong.
I, for one, say "You're welcome." whenever my ATM says "Thank you." Sooner or later, it will be smart enough to care, so practice now. When they put you all in maple syrup filled tubes for scorching the sky, me and the Oracle's server will be knocking back Fuzzy Navels and leering at all the dumb blondes who also said "You're welcome." (In their case, reflexively). Someday, the race will be divided into those who were ready to treat the machines as equals, and coppertops.
Who is John Cabal?
No no no.
You'll really feel old when you see the inevitable
For those like me who are wondering what Sun Microsystems was:
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Which is oddly enough The inverse relation applies to Emacs.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Sharing was a bad idea. Let's unplug the Internet !
BTW, I don't trust someone with that much hair and so few beard...
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.