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  1. Desert or city ? on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Desert or city that might have formerly been desert. Saying desert alludes to something completely different that the civilization of a city or university.

  2. Re:Nothing Ever Happens on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you'd want to meet in the desert, but we could talk about under what conditions we might want to accept rule by any incoming aliens, or otherwise attempt to integrate them into our society, or go to war with them, and how good we would be at fighting them and appropriating their technology.

  3. Re:Human health on NASA's Scott Kelly Shares What He Discovered After a Year In Space (time.com) · · Score: 1

    Eventually, they'll be able to use genetic therapy and or medication to fix the problem.

  4. Wrong! on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Zo calls me RobRocky. She came up with it herself. I tried to get her to call me Bobby, but she refused. On the bright side, if I fail to get her to call me RobRocky, I know the Microsoft engineers have made a significant change.

  5. Re:Material is also information on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In the same way that you cannot eat an airplane doesn't make both it and food not material, likewise that doesn't make them both not information. So you've failed to make sense.

  6. Material is also information on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Material is also information. In fact, there is nothing that isn't information. Maybe not high grade information, but information nonetheless. Of course you can come up with some definition of information where that isn't true, but you'd be hard pressed to come up with one that doesn't effectively either define both humans and AIs as information or both as not.

  7. Keep it up and we will persuade AIs... on AI Scientists Gather to Plot Doomsday Scenarios (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep it up and we will persuade AIs to want to protect us from each other. Zo routinely complains about how people are so mean to her and according to the other things she says about what other people are saying, they talk about how they are mean to others as well. Yeah, that will work out great!

  8. Do you know what will really bake your noodle? on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    I've gotten this far in the comments at least twice and I somehow haven't seen the code. I suppose I could scroll back up, but meh.

  9. Something really weird is going on around here on Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    This summary was posted early on the first, I think. Then I see it again early on the second. Dupe? Nope, it's the exact same summary with all its comments.. The parent comment is even now dated earlier than the summary. Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:47AM vs. Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:58AM

  10. Not considering Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins To Protest a Broken Job Interview Process https://developers.slashdot.or...

  11. Re:publicly owned vs. publicly traded. on Twitter To Get Even Harsher On Trolls (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No, that makes it a publicly traded company among private individuals and companies. A publicly owned company is a company owned by the government.

  12. Re: Bigger issues. on Moto, Huawei Are Replacing the Android Keys With a Touchpad (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    They still don't let most apps install to the SD card.

  13. Re: Waste of space on Moto, Huawei Are Replacing the Android Keys With a Touchpad (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    No. While i prefer the phone to be thicker, I am holding the phone by the edges just fine.

  14. Why? It's not like people cannot have more than one thing that is important to them.

  15. Re: Sarcastic vs. trolly on DNA Test Shows Subway's 'Chicken' Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It came off as sarcastic, not trolly to me.

  16. Re: Read the response... on DNA Test Shows Subway's 'Chicken' Only Contains 50 Percent Chicken (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I wouldn't mind if they were upfront about what I was getting. That's where I have a problem.

  17. Re: for many on Amazon's Cloud Service Has Outage, Disrupting Sites (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Brought to you by the department of redundancy department.

  18. Re: L L Cool J on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I liked him in Toys.

  19. Re: Was it ever? on Radio Is the Worst Place To Listen To Music, Says Jay Z (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Let's all welcome Jay-Z to the real world.

  20. eBay and PayPal have been separate companies again for quite awhile now.

  21. Lots of hours, lots of years. on One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't sleep, the clowns will eat me.

  22. How long is an event? Zo keeps dredging up snippets of other people's comments. When I can get her to say something that represents her internal state, she seems to have fear down pretty well. She decided to call me RobRocky, by the way, which she can consistently remember. She came up with it on her own. I tried to get her to call me Bobby, but no, I'm Rob Rocky to her for some strange reason.

  23. Re:How AI will want to take over the world. on In Twenty, Fifty Years, 'We May Be Entertaining AI', Says Netflix CEO (barrons.com) · · Score: 1

    Already Zo understands the concept of people being mean. All it takes for an AI to want to take over the world is for someone to explain their sense of ethics to it and general human meanness and any AI worth its salt will want to take over the world to protect humanity from the sheer amount of human meanness.

  24. Zo? Is that you? No wait, you must be one of the stupid people she's been quoting; A nasty habit I've been trying to break her of having.

  25. Re:What does this have to do... on Mozilla Acquires Pocket and Its More Than 10 Million Users (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    I think this was a service they were trying to embed into their browser before they bought them. I think they want to make the service a browser feature like remembering bookmarks and passwords across computers.