Let me arm everyone with some basic facts: This is not "spy" satellite imagery. Digital Globe is a commercial satellite imagery provider. Is everyone going to start calling Bing maps and Google maps "spy" satellite imagery? The National Reconnaissance Office only launches the (actual) spy satellites, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) "drives" them (dictates what they image). NGA is not allowed to image US soil without a "proper use memorandum" from DHS or the president's office. This is usually done for things like natural disasters in America (hurricanes, etc).
Membership in the WTO and IMF is largely irrelevant. First off, another country has to bring a case before the WTO (it won't do anything on it's own). Then the cases take years to adjudicate. Finally, if the irked country "wins" they simply win the right to impose specific, WTO-delegated, retaliatory tariffs. oh and btw/ in the overwhelming majority of cases the "winning" country doesn't even actually exercise their WTO-given right to institute the retaliatory tariffs.
Those 3-9 month-olds were also implying intention on the blocks. Regardless of shape/size/color the babies essentially assigned sentience to the blocks and always preferred the "helpful" block... which in this case was the one that helped a block (and didn't impede) to get up a small incline. One other key factor was the blocks needed to have glue-on, wobbly "eyes" or the babies would not assign intention/sentience to the blocks. So in essence it doesn't take a terribly complex robot, or adult miming, babies will assume something is sentient, has intentions, and make a value judgment even if something is a red wooden triangle with stuck-on eyes.
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It sounds like soon we will be able to put another "a computer will never be able to..." on the scrapheap.
"A computer will never be able to beat a human at Jeopardy!"
Let me arm everyone with some basic facts: This is not "spy" satellite imagery. Digital Globe is a commercial satellite imagery provider. Is everyone going to start calling Bing maps and Google maps "spy" satellite imagery? The National Reconnaissance Office only launches the (actual) spy satellites, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) "drives" them (dictates what they image). NGA is not allowed to image US soil without a "proper use memorandum" from DHS or the president's office. This is usually done for things like natural disasters in America (hurricanes, etc).
Membership in the WTO and IMF is largely irrelevant. First off, another country has to bring a case before the WTO (it won't do anything on it's own). Then the cases take years to adjudicate. Finally, if the irked country "wins" they simply win the right to impose specific, WTO-delegated, retaliatory tariffs. oh and btw/ in the overwhelming majority of cases the "winning" country doesn't even actually exercise their WTO-given right to institute the retaliatory tariffs.
Those 3-9 month-olds were also implying intention on the blocks. Regardless of shape/size/color the babies essentially assigned sentience to the blocks and always preferred the "helpful" block... which in this case was the one that helped a block (and didn't impede) to get up a small incline. One other key factor was the blocks needed to have glue-on, wobbly "eyes" or the babies would not assign intention/sentience to the blocks. So in essence it doesn't take a terribly complex robot, or adult miming, babies will assume something is sentient, has intentions, and make a value judgment even if something is a red wooden triangle with stuck-on eyes.