The scammer saturation on this forum is good enough.  You absolutely need scammers to show people who not to deal with.  Some people are going to lose money, and it's going to hurt, and they will learn from the mistake and others who witness it happen will learn from that person's mistake.  It locks in who to trust, and who not to trust.  Thus, trust is formed, and locks out the scammers.  If nobody on this forum scammed, it would be INCREDIBLY easy for a potential scammer to get away with it.  And it has happened.  And people attempt to scam that way, and are unsuccessful.

Good point   Metal machines, organic machines, it's the same difference: a complex system of individual parts which come together to make one identifiable whole.  We're made from the matter and energy of the universe, and so will A.I. come from this same matter.

If we designed an organic brain from the base up, would it still be A.I.?

So when's the party? 

YouTube commenters are stupid as hell.  I don't normally say "X group of people are stupid," but YouTube is the magical exception.  Some videos just attract stupid people like flies.  But I assume it's the same crowd you see around FB, who love the site, even as it sucks them dry for ad revenue.

Go, little coins, go!

Ah, I think I found the ultimate ZH commenter quote!


There you have it.  Irrefutable logic.  If you can't touch it, smell it, or hide it, it is invalid.  Much like outer space, neurons and math.  Well, you can hide your math, but it's probably not a good thing...

Not sure if this counts, but DefCad is a project aimed at uncensoring the 3D printer, from medical equipment to weaponry, which other file sites refuse to keep.

Anyhow, really cool list!  I'll have to check all of these out soon.

Argh!  Nothing agitates me more than errors in text.

I mean, you'd figure they'd look over what they wrote.  I always do, even when I'm just posting on the forum.  Makes you look like you really know stuff when you really don't.

BLAST OFF

Just call it a tax and it's legal

You would have to program the machine to have basic desire.  But I think, before A.I. ever becomes a thing, we need to first fully understand how our own minds function.  We're still working on that bit.

What kind of desires would a machine have?  Depends on how advanced you expect the A.I. to be.  If you're aiming for a machine which can fully emulate a human, from needs and wants, emotion, limited thinking power (on top of the processes for everything else), you'll need to allow the machine complete freedom to do as it wants, and make it so inefficient that it will require food three times a day, lots of water, and sleep--else it's only pretending by doing these things.  The desire ceases to be genuine if it's programmed to act this way.  If, on the other hand, you're only aiming to create a machine intelligent enough to perform tasks from being fed verbal instruction, then you don't have to worry about any of that previously mentioned.  A machine with enough progress to be able to see, hear, and react on both, inside a physical body, or just as software, is very much in our reach.  Once we've accomplished this feat, it's only a matter of time until we want to give the machine thoughts and emotion.  AFAIC, a machine which can invent is the last stop in mirroring human kind.  A machine that is aware it is a machine without prior programming to let it know that.

The higher the post count, the more successful scams they've witnessed   Doesn't make them stupid.  Just makes them untrusting.  They're un-doing what the chargeback did, which is, allowed them to trust anyone anywhere with their money, knowing they could get it back if they had to.  Makes people lazy with their money.  Now they're a lot smarter about who they hand their cash to, and aren't going to take kindly to the new guy who really really wants a loan quick (or, the amount of time it takes to not think about where your money is going.)

At least you'll know you'll brush your teeth for at least a few minutes trying to read it all

Darn Anarchists.  Just as bad as those darn Atheists.  Always gotta go around shouting your hoo-haw and your fiddley-fud.

That's not the only tax they're pushing either.  In April, they're supposed to be taxing people for having spare bedrooms.  If you don't have the required amount of people in your home to fit your rooms, you'll get taxed pretty heavily. 

However, if you live in a mansion, rest assured that you are completely exempt from this tax.  Phew!  Close one, right?  Wouldn't want those millionaires to pay for hundreds of empty rooms.

Here's the article if anyone's missed it.

But really, 9.9% tax for having money.  I wonder how long the public will stand for this?  Doesn't even matter where that money is going, this is legalized theft.

Wrong again.  I'm Satoshi.

I dunno...  I'm the very definition of introvert, and even I've had good experiences with picking up ladies   I mean, they've all hit on me first, but that's beside the point.  The general rule of thumb when trying to get dates is this:  Be honest, and treat the one you've got your eye on like they're people.  Works every time.

Aw, who needs TV anymore, now that we have the Internet.  Anything you can find on TV, you can now find on the magical Internets.

Another WIP of the album art.  Open for more work

Pthh.  The price is going to be a trillion per BTC by 2020.  No way in hell I'm letting my .004 BTC go.

So it does computations...backwards