Aren't those transactions reversible? And doesn't Neteller now allow you to sell bitcoins directly? Less risky than selling here and risk being scammed.

^ He seems to be leaking.

I used to have a thing for Lisa Kudrow in Friends. Just don't ask me why.

That, or dead. Maybe AI's will take over the world once they are developed enough and there are no humans around. Or some other extintion scenario will happen. The future can be a dangerous place.

That's a very hard thing to prove. And even if people somehow manage to remember or know incidents from the past they wouldn't normally know, that knowledge could still be obtained through other means.

I think the OP created this thread to talk about the book he mentioned, not to get recommendations.

I have an interest in the subject, and it just so happens that I've finished the book I was reading today, so I'll give that one a try. Thanks for posting this.

I guess it's true an AI could pose an existential threat to humanity, not only because it might see us as a threat, but also because it might not even share human values at all. However, I don't know how he plans for those regulations to come about, or even be effectively implemented. I mean, I think we can all agree that if an AI can be created, someone is going to create it sooner or later. Probably the military is going to do it first, considering the benefits it could potentially bring to them, but the resources to do so will eventually be at the disposal of a lot more people as technology improves and access to it increases. Or, who knows, maybe it will be created accidentally like in ghost in the shell.

But I do agree with him on the rest: once someone creates it, there will likely be no way to control it.

I think he meant 2013. I'm not sure we will see bitcoin at over $1000 this year, but I believe we're going up a fair bit, with all the good news that have been piling up. So maybe $600, $800 a coin this year?

Depending on where you are from, you might already be paying for music you don't listen to. Some countries have a private copying levy on recordable mediums (cds, dvds, pens, hard drives, etc) which goes to copyright bodies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy


I don't believe that's much harder to crack (once you know it's there), and though amusing, it's a stupid way of dealing with the issue. You already have millions of people copying software, and if you think that's a problem, you should look into why they are doing it, and address their concerns, not try to keep the status quo at any cost.

Did you mean: I like to feed live dinosaurs?

I would go back a couple hundred years and use my knowledge to rule the wo... I mean, improve society.