For example, a robot that followed the first law "A robot shall never harm a human nor, from inaction, allow a human to come to harm" to the letter. But what if the robot had been programmed with an improper or incomplete definition of what a human was? What if it was programmed to only recognize people of a certain skin color, or followers of a particular ideology, as 'human'?
Something just occurred to me. You know there's going to be cases where a couple's baby dies, and the cable company's records don't get updated for a while...
If we're going to perform cloning just for organ harvesting, we can easily just not allow the brain to develop. Hell, just make it a torso with no head or limbs. Just a nutrient intake tube and waste output tube.
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You are neglecting to consider the fact that if someone does develop the AI that you described, Google will be on like a fat kid on a twinkie.
Yeah, if we were able to travel at the speed of light.
Just remove the censorware entirely.
Why couldn't he have given us some warning before doing that?
Now we have to arrange for confetti and parade floats and marching bands all on short notice!
Does he have any idea how hard it is to get a 500ft Master Chief balloon in just a couple days?
If they want to attract more people to the game, they should try releasing it on other platforms.
Not any more it doesn't, now that all dark matter has been rendered inert.
Now it uses whale oil.
Ok, I have no idea what those names are supposed to be puns for.
Might
Keep in mind that 95% of the hype was generated before anyone got to play the game.
Also keep in mind that the game the Wil Wright wanted to make was fairly different from the one that EA forced him to release.
They weren't violated, but loopholes were found.
For example, a robot that followed the first law "A robot shall never harm a human nor, from inaction, allow a human to come to harm" to the letter. But what if the robot had been programmed with an improper or incomplete definition of what a human was? What if it was programmed to only recognize people of a certain skin color, or followers of a particular ideology, as 'human'?
We're all dead.
In fact, the current prototype can operate about 100,000 times faster than a real human brain. "We can simulate a day in a second," says Karlheinz.
We are SO fucking dead.
Something just occurred to me. You know there's going to be cases where a couple's baby dies, and the cable company's records don't get updated for a while...
Yes, now they will know that they need to replace them with the gay phone sex ads.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I don't recall Dawkins ever being out-and-out insulting to theists in general.
Maybe he was and he did it with such class that I missed it.
That's a ripoff. At least do a big flash of light or something to signify nukes going off.
You believe that you never hear the word 'chicken' in a KFC commercial because they aren't legally allowed to say it anymore. Don't you?
It wasn't really a joke against American intelligence.
It was more a commentary about how the US Government assumes that the American people are stupid.
Is why America never went metric.
Why microdrives? Let us plug a full-size hard drive into the thing.
Exactly! It's the ultimate MO. Their crimes will almost never get reported because the victims will be too embarrassed.
If we're going to perform cloning just for organ harvesting, we can easily just not allow the brain to develop. Hell, just make it a torso with no head or limbs. Just a nutrient intake tube and waste output tube.
Don't get me wrong, I love caffeine. I'm still a geek and everything. I just get it from sources other than coffee.
...embed a chat room in a PDF and talk to anyone who has a copy of the same PDF open.
Soo... you're saying that staying with the same basic interface layout that people have become accustomed to over the past 25 years is a bad thing?
I absolutely hate the new toolbar in MS Office. I can't find where anything is that I need.
Besides, I'm not talking about the GUI. I'm talking about what it's like under the hood.
Only people who actually bought Vista, even after all the negative reviews, though.