RichVR
10642
Thanks for the clarification folks.
chef kiss
Very nicely done, good sir.
Thrag
10645
The GOP looks at your pitiful first amendment lawsuit and prepares second amendment solutions.
Sometimes Republican lawmakers make me think of the speech in Alien by Ash’s severed head. “I admire its purity. A survivor. Unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.”
I can’t lie to you about your chances, but you have my sympathies.
:(
-Tom
Sharpe
10649
As an aside that exchange reminds me that in addition to fantastic direction, camera work, acting, etc., the original Alien had truly outstanding writing. Arguably one of the best written, if not THE best written, sci-fi movie of all time.
It’s such a grotesque thing for that character to say: you have my sympathies. He’s a “goddamn robot”! He doesn’t have feelings! How can he have sympathies?
It’s very much in the same vein as “thoughts and prayers” offered by people who have no intellectual integrity and no moral compass.
-Tom
Sharpe
10651
Turing Test. Chinese Room. Blindsight by Peter Watts.
RichVR
10653
This is the way. Talk about amazing writing.
Sharpe
10654
Here’s a thought: if code can evolve sentience, one of the likeliest candidates is the code for a QT3 thread that digresses so far it wanders the earth in search of enlightenment and gains self awareness.
Eh, I’m going with the original Back to the Future.
Timex
10657
What happens if an AI drills small holes in a computer monitor?
It escapes into the real world, like a reverse-TRON.
A podcast in which Charlie describes how he and George Will decided that the conservative movement was a lie, with a thin intellectual layer covering a base built of unpleasantness.
