I was responding to the hypothetical scenario, not bringing it up. Specifically Cat Eyes attitude to mistaken guilt.

And since I can't let these discussions go, even when I know I'll be dead tired at work tomorrow, I feel compelled to add that the field of brute forcing AI behavior from classic algorithms has indeed been aiming high and failing spectacularly since the 50s. And also very true, it is due to combinatorial explosions.…

It's worth noting a few things here too.

Neural networks are pure logic machines. They run on Turing machines. And no, they do not need constant feedback from humans. I've written neural networks. They are not difficult things. I wrote my bachelor's thesis on the pros and cons of classic versus biologically inspired optimization algorithms. If you want, I'd…

I'm sorry, but your descriptions of what a Turing machine is and isn't are... kind of off.

There's always the possibility in doing this that you could name the wrong guy, but I still think the benefit to outing these jerks outweighs the potential risk of naming the wrong guy every once in awhile.

I'm not sure why you consider computers running neural nets to be something other than complicated logic machines, nor do I see what it is you attribute to human brains that would disqualify them from being fancy calculators.

Is this supposed to be about Hank Pym though? Isn't that the new Ant-Man in the picture up top, the SHIELD guy who stole the suit?

I've only read Atlas Shrugged and half of Fountainhead, and it's been a while, but I never got the impression that Rand was arguing that selfishness was instinctive or natural in an evolutionary sense. Rather the exact opposite, that it was the only logical behavior for a rational, active entity.

This is terrific

It worked! He knew it would work! The room was full of Miss Mos, plural. Eight of her, if he wasn't mistaken. And green too. Huh.

'Am I the only one seeing this?'

- Conan. What is best in life?

Or James Cameron could just have been there because they needed a celebrity with a submarine that they could also make fun of

I was just about to ask that. When something as generic as "Government Professional" and "Skilled Tradesperson" makes the top 15, but programmers or IT Workers don't, then... you kind of start to wonder who they were asking.

They got the steam down at least. Punk, not so much.

If Keith Veronese had tried to make any and told you it didn't work, would that be more true than reporting the findings of people who did try to make any and found quite conclusively that it didn't work, as he does in this article?

Well... I don't mean to sound rude, but yeah, if you handwave away the mindbogglingly vast distances involved in space travel, and the consequences that our current understanding of physical reality brings when traversing them, and add to that the assertion that people will just want to line up and fling rocks at each…

Going to be pretty hard to figure out the implications of rampant causality abuse vis-a-vis warfare when FTL is commonplace. Even compensating for near c speeds should make space warfare practically indistinguishable from current.

How so? There's a lot of self-critical and self-conscious stuff in his comics aside from the depressive bits but I've never noticed anything that would make me say he's mentally ill