I’m guessing you’ve never had a Trent in your life. Obviously, he’s exaggerated, but I’ve had a couple of minor-league versions of him in my life. they’re sad and pathetic and funny-not-funny delusional, but they’re dangerous because they’re unpredictable. He might make a hair doll of you from your hairbrush he stole …

Mona is irrelevant.

23&Me had an interesting blog posting about how people often seem to think they have native American ancestry but it often turns out to be that they share ancestry with African American slaves; occasionally, multiracial slaves would escape, move to another town, and tell people they were part native American.

Most companies create a single group that is France+Germany. The samples from those countries would be combined to create a Germanic/Gaulish kind of reference group. There’s certainly historical precedent for that. But why not instead make a Germany+Poland group? Should Estonia be merged with Russia, or should Baltic…

I am OK with them selling the data. With the way things are, any and all data is not sacred anymore. It can be hacked, sold, deleted, lost or just thrown away, as it is truly dependent on the humans interacting with it.

Huh? The article is literally the opposite of fear-mongering. They even mention the opt-in part numerous times. 

Actually I’m not surprised. I thought it was Maeve who exercised free will first, because of the emotional connection to her “daughter”. It was her emotional connection that caused her act of free will, once she was reminded of it by the mother and daughter on the train. Her emotions allowed her to reject her…

Your second point is why Maeve did it first. Dolores shot Ford in the head exactly when he planned for it. That was not free will, it was programming. The same with the other robots attacking. In this scenario, Maeve is the first one to gain sentience, and she is also the ONLY one, so far.