If they did not defend their trademark for ten years then a good case could be made in court that they abandoned it and therefore it should be in the public domain.

"But you cannot say they will "never" exist."

I never said AI isn't possible. I said it isn't possible on von Neuman machines (like the PC you're using now). Your PC can no more function as a living mind than it can function as a living heart even though you could simulate both to an arbitrary degree of precision. Minds and pumps are real objective features of…

I think you need to build an artificial mind out of a concept from pseudoscience first. Do that before worrying about the morality of machines.

"Searle didn't "prove" anything"

"It's really tricky to figure out exactly how much information you actually need in order to answer a question or perform a task."

We don't need laws for something that cannot happen and we certainly don't need laws against fictional machines using fictional science. Um.... you *do* know that positronic brains do not and never will exist right? Computers will not now or ever "wake up". They will simply give their users greater and greater power.…

The strong AI hypothesis has been proven false by John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment. The argument is ironclad and conclusively refutes strong AI. Therefore the doomsday scenario cannot occur. I suppose what can happen is that more powerful computers can have a disruptive effect on society but computers are…

The reason they can't make a decent fantasy movie, or hardly any other for that matter, is because Hollywood movies are not a single artistic vision. They are written by committee, film by committee, produced and edited by committee.

It is clearly The Silence.

Technically Mr. Sin wasn't a dummy. He had an augmented pig's brain inside him and he liked to stab people because he resented being turned into a monster by Li H'sen Chang.

PEANUT IS NOT RACIST!!!! Because he's purple not black stupid libtards!!

Just search Daily Motion for "The Desolation of Smaug". There is a French show that has the clip.

Blink still scares the crap out of me.

How about faster-than-light travel really is *not* possible and the distances really are so vast they are virtually insurmountable?

Well since we will do nothing about global warming it is unlikely there will even be much of human culture 100 years from now. Left unchecked global warming will reduce the human population to around 2 billion and most people will be living near the poles because the rest of the planet will be unihabitable. Most…

Lawrence Krauss begs to differ.

Nothing.

Thank GOD, an intelligent comment!!!

I don't think I've seen 95% of internet comentors agree on anything at all.