I accept your point - that there is a limit to what we can glean from existing data. (Unfortunately, I will not watch your video out of ego: I trust you to speak your own mind and in turn trust your capability to understand mine.)

Well hotdamn.

Uh... what?

Meh.

Almost - you are just barely missing my point: yes, making 'tools' or 'convincing humans to make them' IS a moot point, but not for the strange, circular reasoning you have posited.

I don't know - I kind of thought Q's bundle was deliberate - he's obviously super smug, has en ego, but he's is arguably the youngest on the team with absolutely zero experience in field (at least, I thought that was made clear in Skyfall).

"Raw data acquisition" is the exact same as "giving the ASI data" - when talking about an assumed artificially-aware system. Either that or you need to be more clear on the exact process you refer.

Like some artisan-cheeses, downed with some PDX-themed martinis, some lightly-braised goat described as Grecian, while impressing the crowd with that impression of Liam Neeson?

Organizations both blatantly religious and not have already done just that - merely by processing the pure power of time and unequivocal understanding of the human mind (something it will take a century or more to artificially program a system to do) -

If it's built anything remotely related to the way in which we perceive and process information (spoiler: it will) then anything and everything will be information.

A thought that should put a hole in the "converting artificially-aware systems" right quick:

His page is still live, by the way. I will not link to it, but it is definitely still up - not suspended.

Totally. Came to this conclusion a few years ago.

This, I believe, unfortunately.

It's also apparently about allowing oneself to indulge in fallacies, which seemingly, one would think you would be against.

Ugh - Magnolia.

We can have a "Which came first" argument later. Since we are referring to inspiration being a sort of middle-ground between 'art' and science, I think we can both safely agree that Wei was in fact inspired by a work of art - the only thing I set out to prove.

Right you are!

YES! There was much rejoicing/frustration that night.

It's worth a shot! I played every single one of those with someone else, which can be both a supremely frustrating and supremely awesome/rewarding experience all at the same time.