See, the nice thing about the c4 hat is that it turns all your neurons to vapor in a fraction of an instant, certainly faster than your brain can form a cohesive thought. Ideally (and I’m not sure if the c4 hat qualifies) the best method would destroy all your neurons faster than a signal could be conducted from one…

I think people frequently confuse gruesomeness with inhumane-ness. Lethal injections clearly aren’t necessarily that humane, they just have more of an appearance of civility or peace for the people watching.

They’re probably not going to be ridiculously ugly, but they probably won’t be George Clooney good-looking or Amal smart. Regression to the mean and all.

This was amazing, but it would be even better if you posted it to a completely unrelated article.

This is off-topic, but a judge just halted the immigration ban nationwide.

A judge just halted the immigration ban nationwide.

A judge just halted Trump’s travel ban nationwide.

A judge just halted Trump’s travel ban nationwide.

Maybe if the Apprentice ratings get bad enough, Trump will be willing to swap with Schwarzenegger.

Or the girls pay attention to their performance in class and thus fewer of them are willing to identify themselves as “really, really smart” because they’ve realistically appraised their smartness versus that of their classmates, whereas the boys are either more clueless or see the question as a veiled insult…

Did nobody tell him about the mirror? Or could he just not wait for the shutter noise?

“It’s a helluva trick that’s been attempted back in 2009 and 2011 at the X-Games but hasn’t ever been landed before like this.”

Where’s Li’l Sebastian’s erection?

See, I don’t necessarily mind Hawking poking his nose into AI stuff, because he’s talking about an AI that has human or super-human level cognition, and there is nobody with expertise in that to which to defer. All anybody, including researchers, can really say about human-level AI is that there are no laws of physics…

Filmmakers have turned to CG because it looks better in many cases than practical effects, and allows scenes that would be simply impossible with practical effects. If you want to fly a plane into the White House or have a photorealistic alien with a mobile, expressive face, CG done right will give you a better end…

It sounds like a Stand Alone Complex, from Ghost in the Shell.

Allies threatening to “sever all ties” wouldn’t have made a difference. He basically campaigned on severing all ties. He’s America’s version of Brexit, which was a direct referendum on severing ties that won.

Because if you ban them, then some other neo-Nazi party will pop up and do the same stuff. That’s why banning speech and/or political parties is dumb. Racist/fascist/whatever sentiments arise in populations pretty organically when the economic and social conditions are right for them, and then find a figurehead in…

It’s apropos, given that the books are full of not-so-subtle imagery of erotic lactation.

The same argument would apply to conceiving the natural way, given that many fertilized eggs fail to implant or miscarry later. I think the religious argument would be that God accepts the “loss of life” as a consequence of continuing the species, but doesn’t accept it as a consequence of recreation.