Benevolent worms would have to be better than malicious ones. I mean, seriously. Benevolent worms might trash someone's life's work, but in that same time it's going to save a few other people's life's work.
Japan's school systems are something you should never ever glorify. Ever. Stop doing it. They have insane teen suicide rates from their extreme high stress system. Students can face brutal peer pressure as well. Stop glorifying their system. It's bad.
From both people who do and don't use roads. Put the cost of the roads on people who want to use them. Why do you think train died? Because train customers paid for both the train tracks and the roads. Car users just paid for roads.
Ubuntu should be illegal too. Since Microsoft likes DRM and the MPAA likes DRM so the MPAA likes Microsoft and Ubuntu only exists to hack DRM. Am I getting closer?
At the level where they can do cyber-eyes, likely they could redo a flub. So I think for me it's really a price point, not a risk point. I'd spring for thermal at about $200 today.
Well, if you compare the probability of the world ending due to nuclear proliferation vs the probability of a major war between the US and Russia... Personally, I'd take the large war over the world ending. Keeping all these apocalypse weapons around makes me a bit uncomfortable personally.
I've always found "fundamentalist christians" to be more or less synonymous with "odd sect of protestant".
Here's a link backing up that fundamentalism is based in the protestant tradition (had to double check myself because I wasn't 100% sure): http://www.victorious.org/chur21.htm
Well, once again from a fundamentalist christian point of view: The chimpanzee is still that. It would look like a human, but would still act like a chimpanzee. Even if it acted like a human, the fundamentalist christian viewpoint would likely be that it still didn't have a soul. The idea that something could look and act like a human but still not have a 'soul' is one that I've heard expressed a surprising number of times.
I personally say the soul is a silly fairy-tale that people use to try to make the idea of death less scary. Ironically, I find death far less scary now that I don't believe in an afterlife.
Incomplete understanding of something doesn't indicate that it's a magical soul that and transcend our physical bodies though. I mean, my mother doesn't understand how a motherboard works, but she doesn't claim it has a soul.
I suspect the reason it's obvious to him is that there's a grand total of zero evidence showing otherwise. Just like there's a grand total of zero evidence showing that The Flying Spaghetti Monster is real. The Invisible Pink Unicorn on the other hand is the one and true queen, may her hooves never be shod. I know because I've felt her in my life.
They're trying to take your money so you can get into heaven. Remember Jesus says that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.
This is going to be a social rights issue at some point. Do super-intelligent machines have rights? What rights? The right to not be powered down? The right to not be infected with viruses? The right to marry other machines? The right to marry people?
you should be more grossed out by keeping your toothbrush within 20 ft of your toilet (as most people seem to do) since studies have shown that fecal bacteria can be sprayed up to 20 ft from the toilet each time the toilet is flushed.
THIS is why I close my toilet lid before flushing. Guests however often fail to do this. Kinda gross...
Are you telling me you've always voted for the winning candidate in a presidential race? Because if you haven't you obviously don't think that the majority is always right...
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Benevolent worms would have to be better than malicious ones. I mean, seriously. Benevolent worms might trash someone's life's work, but in that same time it's going to save a few other people's life's work.
Japan's school systems are something you should never ever glorify. Ever. Stop doing it. They have insane teen suicide rates from their extreme high stress system. Students can face brutal peer pressure as well. Stop glorifying their system. It's bad.
From both people who do and don't use roads. Put the cost of the roads on people who want to use them. Why do you think train died? Because train customers paid for both the train tracks and the roads. Car users just paid for roads.
Our qualifications for driving are way to slack. We let plenty of unqualified drivers on the road.
SETI @Home or the protein folding app IMO. And put them in your basement so the electricity helps heat your house.
Your government paid for the road you're using in the first place though...
Ubuntu should be illegal too. Since Microsoft likes DRM and the MPAA likes DRM so the MPAA likes Microsoft and Ubuntu only exists to hack DRM. Am I getting closer?
Me, I'm just waiting in this mud hut until we have star travel so I can move to a nicer place on another planet.
Interestingly, I wonder if you would have included the ethnicity of the manager if she'd been white.
That being said, I'm glad your wife called the health inspector.
My grandmother said the moon landing would never happen too..
At the level where they can do cyber-eyes, likely they could redo a flub. So I think for me it's really a price point, not a risk point. I'd spring for thermal at about $200 today.
Yeah...
I'm going to be waiting a LONG time.
Well, if you compare the probability of the world ending due to nuclear proliferation vs the probability of a major war between the US and Russia... Personally, I'd take the large war over the world ending. Keeping all these apocalypse weapons around makes me a bit uncomfortable personally.
I've always found "fundamentalist christians" to be more or less synonymous with "odd sect of protestant".
Here's a link backing up that fundamentalism is based in the protestant tradition (had to double check myself because I wasn't 100% sure): http://www.victorious.org/chur21.htm
Well, once again from a fundamentalist christian point of view: The chimpanzee is still that. It would look like a human, but would still act like a chimpanzee. Even if it acted like a human, the fundamentalist christian viewpoint would likely be that it still didn't have a soul. The idea that something could look and act like a human but still not have a 'soul' is one that I've heard expressed a surprising number of times.
I personally say the soul is a silly fairy-tale that people use to try to make the idea of death less scary. Ironically, I find death far less scary now that I don't believe in an afterlife.
I would think it'd be more a concern about if the had the same ports...
Incomplete understanding of something doesn't indicate that it's a magical soul that and transcend our physical bodies though. I mean, my mother doesn't understand how a motherboard works, but she doesn't claim it has a soul.
I suspect the reason it's obvious to him is that there's a grand total of zero evidence showing otherwise. Just like there's a grand total of zero evidence showing that The Flying Spaghetti Monster is real. The Invisible Pink Unicorn on the other hand is the one and true queen, may her hooves never be shod. I know because I've felt her in my life.
I could see up chilling out in 6 dimensional space without the ability to perceive all of the dimensions. But I don't think that's what you meant...
Well, if humans have one as believed by fundamentalist christians it's a basic property of the soul that it's exclusive to humans.
They're trying to take your money so you can get into heaven. Remember Jesus says that it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven.
This is going to be a social rights issue at some point. Do super-intelligent machines have rights? What rights? The right to not be powered down? The right to not be infected with viruses? The right to marry other machines? The right to marry people?
you should be more grossed out by keeping your toothbrush within 20 ft of your toilet (as most people seem to do) since studies have shown that fecal bacteria can be sprayed up to 20 ft from the toilet each time the toilet is flushed.
THIS is why I close my toilet lid before flushing. Guests however often fail to do this. Kinda gross...
Are you telling me you've always voted for the winning candidate in a presidential race? Because if you haven't you obviously don't think that the majority is always right...
That's why we entered the war with Japan. The US didn't initially declare war with the Germans, only the Japanese.
Could it spell gobbledegook?