Pfft, Pluto's doing fine, it's got a whole category named after it now! All it needs is a leaked sex tape and it'll be the Verne Troyer of the Milky Way.
Ditto. My Ericsson K800i has pretty decent sound quality, but I recently picked up a Philips bluetooth headset (SHB6101 I think) and it's crystal-clear; the improvement in clarity is easily noticeable.
...so even the President was saying shit and fuck and so on, without anybody's feeling threatened or taking offense. It was perfectly OK. He called the Space Fuck a Space Fuck and so did everybody else...
On the other hand Bush has been making inroads in that direction...
Isn't it obvious? This feature isn't for the driver to distract themselves, it's for your moms to lure you out of their basements and keep you distracted while they drive you to the countryside, boot you out of the car at the edge of the woods, and leave you to your own devices in a cloud of exhaust and smoking rubber. Your final Twitter message will be "Mom? Mom? I fell out, Wh&*(%#@*&($ ###NO CARRIER"
You've touched on two very important (and largely marketing-obscured) points there:
1) Soy has issues. There's the phytoestrogen problem and a few other compounds in it that simply aren't good for humans (although it's an awesome rotation crop for renitrifying soil). This is a problem with with straight beans and tofu (not sure about soy milk), but fermented soy products, namely miso, tempeh and natto, are AFAIK safe and healthy. Miso is hell tasty and easy to prepare. Tempeh takes some getting used to but I like it in strongly flavoured stews and such. Natto is fucking nasty IMO but if you happen to like it then more power to you.
2) Apologies in advance for yelling on the internet but YOU DON'T HAVE TO FINISH EVERYTHING ON YOUR PLATE! That guilt trip your mother put on you about starving Ethiopian kids was well-intentioned but utterly misguided and the start of a bad habit for a lot of people. If you're capable of recognising when you actually have enough food in you instead of hoovering everything in front of you until it's all gone, then your weight will be much, much easier to keep in check.
I assume the author meant equilateral/regular pentagons, but that's really not hard to specify. I don't think I've ever seen/. this unanimous in its proclamation of TFA suckitude.
I'm with you on pretty much every principle you've outlined here, I just think that the achievement of AI with humanlike or superhuman intellectual capacity is going to happen significantly (if not infinitely) earlier than the creation of AI with a capacity for, and aversion to, suffering/mortality, which seems to be a fairly standard cause and benchmark for rights as we define them.
Of course, we're going to run into arguments over thresholds and benchmarks for what constitutes 'real' self-preservation instincts and autonomous desires - do civilian NPCs in GTA IV demonstrate enough desire for life when they run away from gunfire that it's wrong to shoot them? How about enough that it's wrong to turn off your Xbox? Would it be different if the AI for those NPCs was created by another AI, or evolved from a simpler AI? I'm using an absurd example, sure, but the point stands: it's really, really easy to program a computer to say "please don't kill me, I want to live," so when do we know that it means it?
I had to trot this rant out any number of times explaining to friends why I'd spent so much on my wallet. Its predecessor cost less than a tenth of that and lasted me a good eight years, but it had died, been resurrected with duct tape, the duct tape had started dying for the second time, and three years' searching on two continents had failed to unearth a satisfactory replacement. Then, wandering around Sydney's Chinatown one evening I found a ridiculously awesome handmade one-off chrome and stingray leather monstrosity and it was love at first sight.
Then I saw the price tag: AU$350. I nearly cried.
I agonised over it for a week, wrote whinging blog posts asking for advice (which ranged from "Don't do it! You're a fucking idiot," to "Do it! You're a fucking idiot," real helpful), and finally came to the conclusion that I have to carry, hold, use and look at this thing every single day of my life, and if it lasts as long as my previous wallet, that's about 10c a day for that experience to be an absolute pleasure. Factor in the satisfaction of a successful conclusion to an increasingly frustrating years-long quest and it starts sounding totally worth it.
Actually, I think it's going to last even longer than the last one, stingray leather appears to be nigh on fucking indestructible.
When you boil it down, humans are just collection carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen (and some other trace elements). I guess that's why you're not meant to boil humans.
I suspect you may have read one too many Arthur C Clarke short stories - artifical intelligence and artificial emotion are far from mutually inclusive by default. However, I agree with you to the extent that humans should maintain some level of compassion/respect even for inanimate objects, if only because we need the practice.
There is hope though, check out Wired's R is for Robot for some interesting insights into human/machine interaction.
Fuck, replied to wrong comment, please ignore previous! What I was going to say to you was that I stongly suspect we'll look back on the Singularity as the end of pre-humans, not humans. It's scary, but I'm looking forward to it.
I suspect you may have read one too many Arthur C Clarke short stories - artifical intelligence and artificial emotion are far from mutually inclusive by default. However, I agree with you to the extent that humans should maintain some level of compassion/respect even for inanimate objects, if only because we need the practice.
There is hope though, check out R is for Robot for some interesting insights into human/machine interaction.
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You're your own mother? Wow. Also, ouch.
Come on dude, I've already got a "your mom" joke out of this. You're not even trying!
hell, it won't even MAKE it to the proving phase where you bang it...
That's what SHE said!
Your mom, I mean. But she was wrong. Zing!
Only if you want to start talking about hard drive capacity in Megaschits.
"that -1 should have been a 0. Sorry."
I get the feeling quantum computers are going to have to say that a lot.
Pfft, Pluto's doing fine, it's got a whole category named after it now! All it needs is a leaked sex tape and it'll be the Verne Troyer of the Milky Way.
Ditto. My Ericsson K800i has pretty decent sound quality, but I recently picked up a Philips bluetooth headset (SHB6101 I think) and it's crystal-clear; the improvement in clarity is easily noticeable.
That is one of the things I love in Kurt Vonnegut's The Big Space Fuck:
...so even the President was saying shit and fuck and so on, without anybody's feeling threatened or taking offense. It was perfectly OK. He called the Space Fuck a Space Fuck and so did everybody else...
On the other hand Bush has been making inroads in that direction...
Isn't it obvious? This feature isn't for the driver to distract themselves, it's for your moms to lure you out of their basements and keep you distracted while they drive you to the countryside, boot you out of the car at the edge of the woods, and leave you to your own devices in a cloud of exhaust and smoking rubber. Your final Twitter message will be "Mom? Mom? I fell out, Wh&*(%#@*&($ ###NO CARRIER"
You've touched on two very important (and largely marketing-obscured) points there:
1) Soy has issues. There's the phytoestrogen problem and a few other compounds in it that simply aren't good for humans (although it's an awesome rotation crop for renitrifying soil). This is a problem with with straight beans and tofu (not sure about soy milk), but fermented soy products, namely miso, tempeh and natto, are AFAIK safe and healthy. Miso is hell tasty and easy to prepare. Tempeh takes some getting used to but I like it in strongly flavoured stews and such. Natto is fucking nasty IMO but if you happen to like it then more power to you.
2) Apologies in advance for yelling on the internet but YOU DON'T HAVE TO FINISH EVERYTHING ON YOUR PLATE! That guilt trip your mother put on you about starving Ethiopian kids was well-intentioned but utterly misguided and the start of a bad habit for a lot of people. If you're capable of recognising when you actually have enough food in you instead of hoovering everything in front of you until it's all gone, then your weight will be much, much easier to keep in check.
For those that haven't seen it, Portion Size: Then and Now is a bit of an eye-opener.
-1 misquote
Or to quote the ornament the Enron traders made for Jeff Skilling, "Ask why, asshole."
I assume the author meant equilateral/regular pentagons, but that's really not hard to specify. I don't think I've ever seen /. this unanimous in its proclamation of TFA suckitude.
That's how I play eraser too! MS Paint just isn't the same without a decent gaming mouse. It must suck on Xbox...
Don't stress, your penetration metrics might still be enough for old people in Korea.
Blood? pfft. I've got some DNA for 'em right here.
Dude, wtf? Everyone knows you should be using violet. And don't forget your CODENAME TURQUOISE CD Tray Masking Kit
and Brilliant Pebbles...
I'm with you on pretty much every principle you've outlined here, I just think that the achievement of AI with humanlike or superhuman intellectual capacity is going to happen significantly (if not infinitely) earlier than the creation of AI with a capacity for, and aversion to, suffering/mortality, which seems to be a fairly standard cause and benchmark for rights as we define them.
Of course, we're going to run into arguments over thresholds and benchmarks for what constitutes 'real' self-preservation instincts and autonomous desires - do civilian NPCs in GTA IV demonstrate enough desire for life when they run away from gunfire that it's wrong to shoot them? How about enough that it's wrong to turn off your Xbox? Would it be different if the AI for those NPCs was created by another AI, or evolved from a simpler AI? I'm using an absurd example, sure, but the point stands: it's really, really easy to program a computer to say "please don't kill me, I want to live," so when do we know that it means it?
I had to trot this rant out any number of times explaining to friends why I'd spent so much on my wallet. Its predecessor cost less than a tenth of that and lasted me a good eight years, but it had died, been resurrected with duct tape, the duct tape had started dying for the second time, and three years' searching on two continents had failed to unearth a satisfactory replacement. Then, wandering around Sydney's Chinatown one evening I found a ridiculously awesome handmade one-off chrome and stingray leather monstrosity and it was love at first sight.
Then I saw the price tag: AU$350. I nearly cried.
I agonised over it for a week, wrote whinging blog posts asking for advice (which ranged from "Don't do it! You're a fucking idiot," to "Do it! You're a fucking idiot," real helpful), and finally came to the conclusion that I have to carry, hold, use and look at this thing every single day of my life, and if it lasts as long as my previous wallet, that's about 10c a day for that experience to be an absolute pleasure. Factor in the satisfaction of a successful conclusion to an increasingly frustrating years-long quest and it starts sounding totally worth it.
Actually, I think it's going to last even longer than the last one, stingray leather appears to be nigh on fucking indestructible.
One of the guys in my circus group had this, not fun at all. Congrats on the successful recovery.
I suspect you may have read one too many Arthur C Clarke short stories - artifical intelligence and artificial emotion are far from mutually inclusive by default. However, I agree with you to the extent that humans should maintain some level of compassion/respect even for inanimate objects, if only because we need the practice.
There is hope though, check out Wired's R is for Robot for some interesting insights into human/machine interaction.
Fuck, replied to wrong comment, please ignore previous! What I was going to say to you was that I stongly suspect we'll look back on the Singularity as the end of pre-humans, not humans. It's scary, but I'm looking forward to it.
I suspect you may have read one too many Arthur C Clarke short stories - artifical intelligence and artificial emotion are far from mutually inclusive by default. However, I agree with you to the extent that humans should maintain some level of compassion/respect even for inanimate objects, if only because we need the practice.
There is hope though, check out R is for Robot for some interesting insights into human/machine interaction.
I know why we can't set the ocean on fire, it's too wet! We'll have to wait until Summer.