No, they really wouldn't. IQ stops being a reliable indicator of intelligence once you reach the intelligence level Google needs. Past about 120 IQ tells you more about the test than the person.
A machine is only going to demand human rights if some mentally perverted retard programs one to demand rights.
Black people are only going to demand human rights if some mentally perverted retard teaches one to demand rights.
They have been calling computers "thinking machines" since a pocket calculator took a three story building to house back in the forties. But they don't think, never will think.
Man will never build heavier-than-air flying machines.
We don't even know what thought is. Sure, we can simulate thought - you can simulate anything. But your flight simulator won't take you to London, and you won't die when you've been shot in a counterstrike game. There is no radiation released in a simulation of an atom blast, and no structural damage even to the building that houses it, let alone destruction of a city.
Prove to me that humans think and don't just simulate thought and then you can talk about computers simulating thought.
Thought is not binary, it's analog, as everything in nature is. It is electrochemical, not electronic. If you kick your robot, the only thing that will hurt is your foot.
Sound isn't binary, it's analog. But we can make a binary representation of sound and you can't tell the difference if the hardware is good enough.
If you think a computer will ever think, you know little or nothing about how computers work, how the mind works, or either.
If you think a computer will never think, you know little to nothing about thought.
Have none of you read Dune? "Thinking machines" were outlawed because evil men used them to enslave other men, which is exactly what this nonsense will lead to.
I thought thinking machines were banned in Dune so that melange would be absolutely necessary the way oil is today.
TFA's author is a fucking lawyer!
blah blah blah ad hominem blah blah blah.
WTF does a lawyer know about computers or animal brains?
Go ask Lawrence Lessig, lawyer who founded the EFF.
Actually, before Internet piracy it relied on physical limitations. Same with the RIAA. They're only hawking copyright now because physical limitations have been lifted.
"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."-Zack de la Rocha
It's been copied-and-pasted millions of times all the way down to the mistake with the angle bracket. Before the invasion of what I call the "new Slashdot" it would have rightfully been modded down to -1.
Actually, Billie Joe Armstrong woke up on USENET when AOL decided to drop Usenet support. There was even a Slashdot article about it. But I'm too lazy to look for it.
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And then when the computers killed everybody, there was nobody to be pissed for me, because all nonrobots were dead.
No, they really wouldn't. IQ stops being a reliable indicator of intelligence once you reach the intelligence level Google needs. Past about 120 IQ tells you more about the test than the person.
It does.
"You know they murdered Xbot
and tried to blame it on roboslam
He turned the power to the ro-bots
And then came the shots!"
-Zack de la Robot, 2092
I drink a whole lot of milk and I'm not fat. What gives?
We weren't bred to be serial murderers. (Although some people may disagree on that point)
Actually, before Internet piracy it relied on physical limitations. Same with the RIAA. They're only hawking copyright now because physical limitations have been lifted.
No, but according to Paul Graham real wealth is.
"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve."-Zack de la Rocha
And Windows is only free if your time, your money, and your freedom are worthless.
If you used Windows 2000 instead of 95 you would have a ton of cement.
Wait, why are you trying to get the guitarist of Guns n Roses running on Linux?
But if there's arsenic in the water, a little is all you'll have to live.
Because you don't have to give $200 of your profit to Microsoft.
Sellajacent from sella meaning chair and iaceo meaning throw.
The FSF doesn't have a parent organization. You're confusing them with your anti-slash, whose parent organization is NAMBLA.
For those like me who have heard of the Wikipedia, but are not sure who or what they are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
That's because Microsoft peaked around Windows 2000. Linux just continually gets better.
Two words: stock prices.
It's been copied-and-pasted millions of times all the way down to the mistake with the angle bracket. Before the invasion of what I call the "new Slashdot" it would have rightfully been modded down to -1.
I don't think Pope Benedict has anything to do with Microsoft either.
Call me when Google has a 85+% monopoly.
Actually, Billie Joe Armstrong woke up on USENET when AOL decided to drop Usenet support. There was even a Slashdot article about it. But I'm too lazy to look for it.
Seriously, that's pretty much all you can say about this.