I wouldn't say that excessive gaming is a personality deficiency. Gaming is no worse than what many "normal" people do every day as part of their real lives.
Humans are machines, extraordinarily complex machines. Supposedly, humans are controlled by their chemicals and have similar motivations, but that doesn't explain why other people have been similarly perplexed by my behavior and I've been perplexed by other humans' behavior for almost all my 23 years of life. I mean, why would presumably intelligent and discerning adults want to be around each other that much? Lust may be useful, though, for controlling robots, if implemented and used properly. Let's make the bots work for sex! I wonder who will make the first robot sexually transmitted virus.
...a job is a job. It's better than not having one.
Really? Spend your life working for other people for mediocre pay so that you can eat, get old, and die... How is that better than starving to death and dying now?
There is nothing noble about the relation between teachers and students. Schools exist so that students can learn and earn a grade. All teachers do is attempt to accomplish the purpose of schools. Similarly, students have two major goals: learning and earning a grade.
Learning is good and useful, and a high grade is nice to look at (which is partly why I worked hard for good grades), but it is possible to cheat your way through school for a good grade and still learn the material sooner or later. If students can learn more effectively without teachers or schools as they exist now and still gain everything required, then so much the better.
Not all girls are like that! When I was little, I played with construction tools and toy swords, and I never had any interest at all in taking care of babies, dolls, trucks, or anything else, and I still don't. I'm also more antisocial than most guys I know.
...is to put convicted felons to work supporting law-abiding citizens. As a reward for obeying the law, the honest folk can enjoy nice long vacations in a new kind of Club Fed, where they'll have safety, food, clothing, shelter, solitude if they want it, and freedom to learn, to play video games, or to do nothing at all.
I had exercised regularly throughout school so that I could be stronger and more flexible now.
I had gotten into tai chi chuan earlier, which would have made me more confident and relaxed.
I had developed better visual habits while reading, watching TV, and using the computer so that my eyes wouldn't be so bad.
I also wish someone had told me that college students and working adults are just as weird and different from me, if not more so, than the kids at my high school. Then I would have appreciated my high school classmates a bit more and not had unreasonable expectations of college and society.
Teaching good values to kids does not ensure that they will take care of you or even share any of your values. If they don't like your values, they won't accept them. I also believe it's wrong to raise children with the expectation that they'll care for you when they're older. Why should someone be forced to live with your genes and then be expected to take care of you?
I like working at home exactly because I don't want to be around people. I live and work alone, and I don't even leave any instant messaging programs on. Of course, it's rather expensive to live alone, and I'm very unproductive -- I spend most of my time surfing sites like Slashdot, reading news, or repeatedly searching on Google. As much as I like money, I'd rather use it up than be productive or have to be around people.
I get stressed out whenever I have a job that requires working for an employer or other boss, being around people for long periods of time, or stepping outside my home. I also find the biggest obstacle to getting things done is the fact that I don't want to get anything done.
The best option would probably be body part enhancements. Prosthetics may not be self-healing or as versatile as natural body parts, but if there were a way to make the natural parts super-strong and tough (i.e. increased resistance to temperature and impact) without completely replacing them, I would gladly volunteer.
No, the correct response would be:
"I always intended Bittorrent to be used for legal purposes, but I am very happy that people have found ways to use Bittorrent to defy the law."
Of course, that's not the best answer for avoiding lawsuits and other conflicts, but I like it.
No employer deserves loyalty, no matter how nice the boss or company, or how fun the work. Working for someone is torture. I'm really surprised that people haven't voluntarily starved themselves or stopped having children in order to stop the continuation of this barbaric practice.
The other possibility is that it was a stupid, stupid person who wasn't really thinking about the consequences of what they were doing at the time and there was no premeditated intent to cause a plane to crash.
If I had been the one with the laser, it would not have occurred to me that a laser could be that powerful over such a large distance unless the plane was already very close to the ground.
I might let him off with just vasectomy and giving up rights to be a legal guardian (parent/teacher) for anybody from now on
Why would you reward him? By the way, I'm also a big supporter of Darwinism. I don't think anyone should be allowed to reproduce, especially not people who want to reproduce.
All my software projects fail for one very obvious reason: I'm lazy. I spend the first year of a 2-week software project doing other things like reading Slashdot. Of course the project is bound to fail because I'm not going to start it until a year after it was supposed to be done. I'm self-employed and have very little other experience, so I can't say about team projects.
I learned French and Spanish in school. I never have a chance to speak them because I hardly ever speak to anyone. However, I don't regret spending my brain cells because I'm good at learning languages. In fact, I probably did better at languages than at other subjects that are actually more practical to me.
Google first contacted me after I participated in the Google Code Jam on Topcoder. I'm not sure why they did because I failed to get past even the first round. It may have been because my resume looks impressive. I got past the phone interview, but I turned them down at the time because I was working on a startup. Recently, they contacted me again to interview for a job not in their main office. This time I did not get past the phone interview. If I had continued with Google the first time, I doubt that I would have gotten the job in the end because I am very bad at the kind of puzzles they like. I've also interviewed twice (unsuccessfully) at Microsoft's headquarters for summer internships, and though I did solve the puzzles, they took me a long time.
I'm not sure why people care whether enhanced persons can be considered human. IMO, being humans is overrated. Humans are just intelligent animals who do weird animal things like plop out more humans. Enhanced beings will be better than humans, or at least that should be the ultimate goal of enhancement. I would love to be enhanced, and if I were, I would not want to be considered human.
I've never destroyed a computer or any accessories, but I have destroyed more than one pen and thrown down my desk phone and my cheap old cell phone. My cell phone wasn't damaged, but some parts of my desk phone fell off. It still works, though. I wouldn't attack something as large or expensive as my computer.
10 minute break? How can you even get started without it???
Caffeine sometimes makes me sleepy, and sometimes it has no effect, so how can I get started with it? I can't stand the taste, either, unless I dump in tons of sugar and cream.
I think AI should be granted the same rights as humans if it has at least comparable intelligence to humans in all areas. But I'm still a human, and i doubt if I could pass the Turing test. Anyway, I don't see the point of developing lots of truly intelligent robots. It's better to focus on robots who will just get the job done and on improving the human species.
There is a double standard, but as a woman, I have to say that guys' looks are very important to me. From the many couples I've seen, looks are probably more important to me than girls' looks are to many guys. I value my solitude too much to settle for anything less than the best. The way most people look makes me wonder why anyone would bother to date at all.
Even if the elite ends up based on hereditary lines, I think it will still be a better system than the current one, which will sooner or later become obsolete and result in mass poverty as robots become capable of more and more tasks. I'm not sure why anyone wants to breed or contribute when both require significant levels of effort and possibly pain with little reward other than continuing a never-ending cycle that could have and maybe should have ended long ago.
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I wouldn't say that excessive gaming is a personality deficiency. Gaming is no worse than what many "normal" people do every day as part of their real lives.
Humans are machines, extraordinarily complex machines. Supposedly, humans are controlled by their chemicals and have similar motivations, but that doesn't explain why other people have been similarly perplexed by my behavior and I've been perplexed by other humans' behavior for almost all my 23 years of life. I mean, why would presumably intelligent and discerning adults want to be around each other that much ? Lust may be useful, though, for controlling robots, if implemented and used properly. Let's make the bots work for sex! I wonder who will make the first robot sexually transmitted virus.
Really? Spend your life working for other people for mediocre pay so that you can eat, get old, and die... How is that better than starving to death and dying now?
Learning is good and useful, and a high grade is nice to look at (which is partly why I worked hard for good grades), but it is possible to cheat your way through school for a good grade and still learn the material sooner or later. If students can learn more effectively without teachers or schools as they exist now and still gain everything required, then so much the better.
Not all girls are like that! When I was little, I played with construction tools and toy swords, and I never had any interest at all in taking care of babies, dolls, trucks, or anything else, and I still don't. I'm also more antisocial than most guys I know.
...is to put convicted felons to work supporting law-abiding citizens. As a reward for obeying the law, the honest folk can enjoy nice long vacations in a new kind of Club Fed, where they'll have safety, food, clothing, shelter, solitude if they want it, and freedom to learn, to play video games, or to do nothing at all.
I also wish someone had told me that college students and working adults are just as weird and different from me, if not more so, than the kids at my high school. Then I would have appreciated my high school classmates a bit more and not had unreasonable expectations of college and society.
Teaching good values to kids does not ensure that they will take care of you or even share any of your values. If they don't like your values, they won't accept them. I also believe it's wrong to raise children with the expectation that they'll care for you when they're older. Why should someone be forced to live with your genes and then be expected to take care of you?
I like working at home exactly because I don't want to be around people. I live and work alone, and I don't even leave any instant messaging programs on. Of course, it's rather expensive to live alone, and I'm very unproductive -- I spend most of my time surfing sites like Slashdot, reading news, or repeatedly searching on Google. As much as I like money, I'd rather use it up than be productive or have to be around people.
I get stressed out whenever I have a job that requires working for an employer or other boss, being around people for long periods of time, or stepping outside my home. I also find the biggest obstacle to getting things done is the fact that I don't want to get anything done.
The best option would probably be body part enhancements. Prosthetics may not be self-healing or as versatile as natural body parts, but if there were a way to make the natural parts super-strong and tough (i.e. increased resistance to temperature and impact) without completely replacing them, I would gladly volunteer.
"I always intended Bittorrent to be used for legal purposes, but I am very happy that people have found ways to use Bittorrent to defy the law."
Of course, that's not the best answer for avoiding lawsuits and other conflicts, but I like it.
No employer deserves loyalty, no matter how nice the boss or company, or how fun the work. Working for someone is torture. I'm really surprised that people haven't voluntarily starved themselves or stopped having children in order to stop the continuation of this barbaric practice.
The other possibility is that it was a stupid, stupid person who wasn't really thinking about the consequences of what they were doing at the time and there was no premeditated intent to cause a plane to crash. If I had been the one with the laser, it would not have occurred to me that a laser could be that powerful over such a large distance unless the plane was already very close to the ground.
Why would you reward him? By the way, I'm also a big supporter of Darwinism. I don't think anyone should be allowed to reproduce, especially not people who want to reproduce.
All my software projects fail for one very obvious reason: I'm lazy. I spend the first year of a 2-week software project doing other things like reading Slashdot. Of course the project is bound to fail because I'm not going to start it until a year after it was supposed to be done. I'm self-employed and have very little other experience, so I can't say about team projects.
I learned French and Spanish in school. I never have a chance to speak them because I hardly ever speak to anyone. However, I don't regret spending my brain cells because I'm good at learning languages. In fact, I probably did better at languages than at other subjects that are actually more practical to me.
Google first contacted me after I participated in the Google Code Jam on Topcoder. I'm not sure why they did because I failed to get past even the first round. It may have been because my resume looks impressive. I got past the phone interview, but I turned them down at the time because I was working on a startup. Recently, they contacted me again to interview for a job not in their main office. This time I did not get past the phone interview. If I had continued with Google the first time, I doubt that I would have gotten the job in the end because I am very bad at the kind of puzzles they like. I've also interviewed twice (unsuccessfully) at Microsoft's headquarters for summer internships, and though I did solve the puzzles, they took me a long time.
I'm not sure why people care whether enhanced persons can be considered human. IMO, being humans is overrated. Humans are just intelligent animals who do weird animal things like plop out more humans. Enhanced beings will be better than humans, or at least that should be the ultimate goal of enhancement. I would love to be enhanced, and if I were, I would not want to be considered human.
I've never destroyed a computer or any accessories, but I have destroyed more than one pen and thrown down my desk phone and my cheap old cell phone. My cell phone wasn't damaged, but some parts of my desk phone fell off. It still works, though. I wouldn't attack something as large or expensive as my computer.
This means I'll actually be getting up at the beginning of a calendar day.
Caffeine sometimes makes me sleepy, and sometimes it has no effect, so how can I get started with it? I can't stand the taste, either, unless I dump in tons of sugar and cream.
I think AI should be granted the same rights as humans if it has at least comparable intelligence to humans in all areas. But I'm still a human, and i doubt if I could pass the Turing test. Anyway, I don't see the point of developing lots of truly intelligent robots. It's better to focus on robots who will just get the job done and on improving the human species.
There is a double standard, but as a woman, I have to say that guys' looks are very important to me. From the many couples I've seen, looks are probably more important to me than girls' looks are to many guys. I value my solitude too much to settle for anything less than the best. The way most people look makes me wonder why anyone would bother to date at all.
And I'm not a man, though I may be honest. ;-)