As I recall, Asimov's 3 laws were a fundamental design feature of robot "positronic" brain, and he wrote that it would be a herculean effort to design a brain without them. This was just his way to eliminate the possibility that there were robots that would disobey the laws.
Isaac Asimov did not write those stories as a philosopher or ethicist. He was writing science fiction stories, or more precisely, detective stories thinly veneered as science fiction. In almost every story, robots were found to be (apparently) violating one of the laws, but after some clever detective work and logic, the characters found that the robots were following the laws after all.
If you follow enough links as provided by slashdotters above, you will eventually find this one on the subject of Chinese window lattice designs of the 19th century:
Does SQL count as programming? This was announced recently at DEFCON. From their home page:
"The Schemaverse is a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database. Compete against other players using raw SQL commands to command your fleet."
"the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! "
"Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. "
"Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple by the serpent."
"This OS -- and its Darwin offspring -- extensively use what are called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) "
"to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?"
Please note that "Game Theory", as a branch of mathematics, is not always about playing board or video games. Likewise, there is plenty of AI that has nothing to do with either games or game theory.
The Compleat Strategyst is an old but very good (not too mathematical) introduction to pure game theory.
I speculate wildly, but would it be even remotely possible that if a talking parrot like Alex were released into the wild, found a mate and had chicks, that then the chicks would be taught to use language just as Alex did?
Wouldn't it be cool that if you were lost in the jungle sometime, you could ask the local parrots for directions?
I call on Dr. Pepperberg to perform this next phase of the experiment in inter-species communications!
Good point. While de-orbiting Skylab they had over-estimated the effects of atmospheric friction, in addition to making a calculation error. Controllers were aiming for the Pacific Ocean, but fragments ended up landing in Australia and being recovered by residents there..
The back of this here envelope says an iPhone should fall at very roughly 1/3 the speed of a human body....
The rule of thumb for skydivers is that terminal velocity in the flat stable position is about 120 mph, reached after 9 seconds of free fall. This would put the iPhone's terminal velocity at about 40 mph, which ought to provide some perspective about the magnitude of the impact.
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America, fuck yeah! The decorations on this house puts a new spin on what Christmas is all about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=YHwa-Iq1Bx4
Linus understands what Christmas is all about. See here: http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=470
Santa as a religious figure: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gygwppOZwiM
Isaac Asimov did not write those stories as a philosopher or ethicist. He was writing science fiction stories, or more precisely, detective stories thinly veneered as science fiction. In almost every story, robots were found to be (apparently) violating one of the laws, but after some clever detective work and logic, the characters found that the robots were following the laws after all.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/320/3/0/if_you_like_zelda_2_by_dungeonboss-d4gdo3k.png
Operation Rainfall
Said video is an animation of the Falcon HTV-2 which was tested several weeks ago.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14
http://web.mit.edu/~haldane/www/icerays/
Does Type II look familiar? There is even code for you to generate your own geometric window grille.
See also this link:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u41779k5083148p7
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.452107,93.742118&hl=en&ll=40.472808,93.517685&spn=0.105121,0.165997&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=55.323926,84.990234&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=13
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40.458679,93.31314%09&hl=en&ll=40.474701,93.509531&spn=0.053604,0.132093&sll=40.458018,93.392587&sspn=0.0208,0.040426&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14
See it at: Coordinates: 3957'12"N 9419'57"E
You get to build stuff in it!
I heard that this is the nickname pilots have given it. It is what the VLA looks like to them from the air
Hey, nobody protests when we decide elections by voting machines!
I just remembered: Carnage Heart for the PS1 and 2. You had to program giant robots for combat using a graphical programming environment.
"The Schemaverse is a space-based strategy game implemented entirely within a PostgreSQL database. Compete against other players using raw SQL commands to command your fleet."
Is anyone out there playing it?
http://objectiveministries.org/creation/propaganda.html
Some choice quotes (since it is a long article):
"the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! "
"Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. "
"Consider the name of the company and its logo: an apple with a bite taken out of it. This is clearly a reference to the Fall, when Adam and Eve were tempted with an apple by the serpent."
"This OS -- and its Darwin offspring -- extensively use what are called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) "
"to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?"
We will eventually need to shift to a shorter work-week for the same relative pay... .
Good one! you had ROFL for real this time. Like any boss or corporate overlord is going to pay us the same for a shorter work week
The Compleat Strategyst is an old but very good (not too mathematical) introduction to pure game theory.
Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays is a great series of books on the mathematics of games.
For AI, see previous reco's. For my money you can't go wrong with Russel/Norvig, unless you are looking specifically for AI that plays games.
Sorry, but you're not going to be able to replicate World of Warcraft in Javascript...
Well, probably not, but there is still a lot of fun to be had. Check out this little parody.
Wouldn't it be cool that if you were lost in the jungle sometime, you could ask the local parrots for directions?
I call on Dr. Pepperberg to perform this next phase of the experiment in inter-species communications!
http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Relativity-Hideo-Nitta/dp/1593272723/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1314635810&sr=8-1
He He, good quote. Neil deGrasse Tyson explained the Pluto story very well in this Nova episode: http://video.pbs.org/video/1425502261/
Oh wait, you meant... never mind. Still... maybe the end has not yet been written...
Good point. While de-orbiting Skylab they had over-estimated the effects of atmospheric friction, in addition to making a calculation error. Controllers were aiming for the Pacific Ocean, but fragments ended up landing in Australia and being recovered by residents there..
The back of this here envelope says an iPhone should fall at very roughly 1/3 the speed of a human body. ...
The rule of thumb for skydivers is that terminal velocity in the flat stable position is about 120 mph, reached after 9 seconds of free fall. This would put the iPhone's terminal velocity at about 40 mph, which ought to provide some perspective about the magnitude of the impact.