... Transhumanist POV? Any reason we should retain them? I'm 90% sure that toenails contribute nothing to a human being. I once lost a big toenail completely...
Push for open access to research http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6404429.stm Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at a fundamental shift in...
... _________ More is less! Freedom is slavery! I think they'll find that their target audience for this propaganda are not the usual mindless proles. Dirk ...
The Tech Museum Awards is currently seeking nominations for innovators from around the world who are using technology to benefit humanity. The Tech Awards is...
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events The Scientist Who Loved Me 7 March 2007, 19:00 - 20:30 Lie detectors, surveillance and Bond girls... Join Richard Wiseman...
I would perhaps be more worried about how to defend against biological warfare, as biotech seems to obay moore's law too, and a small group of loonys with...
... _________ Probably the only practical thing we could do against something like that is stockpile a few month of food and stay indoors, having contact with...
Mmm, yes I had noticed how the number of "biotech" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistors>on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every...
Talking about Moore's Law and AI, there appears to be a kind of misunderstanding amongst laypeople concerning what this means with Human level AI. They assume...
... And we all bow down to our whale intellectual overlords, don't we? Brain size isn't intelligence, and it is not clear how much doubling it would increase...
... So if someone changes the chip in a pocket calculator, to one that runs twice as fast, then the calculator becomes twice as smart? Dirk was suggesting that...
And about time too.... _http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6423061.stm_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6423061.stm) I hope the prosecution appeals against...
... _________ "Taylor himself attended 20 demonstrations - 17 after he was arrested and was on bail." What an utter bastard - 20! Hanging too good for him etc...
The activists wore skull masks to protest at a haulage firm I found it hilarious that they were wearing skull masks when protesting against killing animals. ...
Just because they died doesn't mean that they enjoyed it. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't enjoy it if someone randomly barged in into your house while wearing a...
... ______ Probably not, but anyone barging into my house would likely have to be carried out. Dirk [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
... Dirk was suggesting that it would improved by even more than that; ... ________ Well, at the very least one might expect it to accomplish twice as much in...
My point's exactly. The activists deserved the punishment. Err... And my first remark didn't make any sense. What I meant was: Just because they didn't die...
Well I don't consider 4yrs for a non violent offence (AFAIK there was no assault) to be justified. You can kill someone and get less. It was a political crime...
I'm not saying whether four years or four months is a good punishment or not. All I'm saying is that those people were wrong and I do not support neither their...
when you say kill you mean murder right? Can you really get less than 4 years for murder, I think that's crazy! What is the punishment for a political crime? A...
on BBC today, 7-Mar-07 - _http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6425927.stm_ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6425927.stm) Paul C. [Non-text portions of...
"Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives," What? But I thought that the whole point of having robots was to make them cook,...
... Here's what I said about that last week: http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/hughes20070228/ ... James Hughes Ph.D. Executive Director, Institute for...
In a message dated 07/03/2007 18:03:53 GMT Standard Time, ameluti@... writes: I long for the day when the world governments (especially the US, as it's ...
... _____ I like the bit about the ageing population in S Korea and how every home will have a robot between 2015 and 2020. Anyhow, we won't need them here. ...
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