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Johnny Aztec posted:
Oh so this is what Shakespeare was talking about. I guess Hamlet really was about mass agricultural culls.
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Splicer posted:It stopped mathematicians and physicists.
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Lobster God posted:Oh so this is what Shakespeare was talking about. I guess Hamlet really was about mass agricultural culls. Taming of the Shrew, surely.
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There's still a lot that physicists don't know poo poo about. Where's your unified field theory?? If I were a philosopher I would just move on to quantum mechanics. To cat or not to cat, that's the question. And here is my SIX-STRING THEORY [plays bitchin' guitar riff]
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I watch some of those Kurzgesagt videos about quantum theory and black holes and stuff and I end up understanding less about our universe.
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Phlegmish posted:If I were a philosopher I would just move on to quantum mechanics. To cat or not to cat, that's the question. kierkecat: good question 
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By popular demand posted:This raises some questions. Probably froze it first.
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By popular demand posted:This raises some questions. Maybe Kiwami Japan sells "world's sharpest squirrel knife" on his website.
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The Lone Badger posted:Probably froze it first. So when it melts there's no murder weapon left. Genius.
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Lobok posted:So when it melts there's no murder weapon left. Genius. Anyone who has access to frozen squirrels definitely eats squirrels regularly
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Old and not very interesting story, but a great headline. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missing-woman-finds-herself-after-intense-search/
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As Furbies grow more lifelike they become better to disembowel
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Science fiction authors have predicted this day. Just wait until someone starts marketing inexpensive humanlike dolls with a personality and the really disturbing videos will start flowing.
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I watched the light literally leave its eyes 
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Happy 50th anniversary of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CLumsir34 I wonder if burning the whale was considered instead.
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The MSJ posted:Happy 50th anniversary of this. The guy in the video wrote a book about this and other local news stories he covered. Well worth reading.
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 (Perussuomalaiset ["rudimentary Finns"] are, of course, the literal local Nazi party. I don't know if reverednd Putulukeso got elected.)
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Ohio Department of Health now recommending those in Ohio avoid traveling to Ohio
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ultrafilter posted:Ohio Department of Health now recommending those in Ohio avoid traveling to Ohio That's good advice anytime, really.
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Note: puffin not to scale.
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ultrafilter posted:Ohio Department of Health now recommending those in Ohio avoid traveling to Ohio Smart. You don't want to start any recursive loops.
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These gritty Spede Pasanen's Turhapuro-reboots are not looking promising.
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By popular demand posted:Science fiction authors have predicted this day. Ted Chiang's "The Lifecycle of Software Objects" is what you want to read.
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By popular demand posted:Science fiction authors have predicted this day.
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Off the top of my head both Philip K Dick and Stanislav Lem, raised the subject of abuse at least in passing. I'm sure someone more informed than me is going to find a connection to R.U.R or something as old. either way you are safe in mocking David Cage, he isn't even good at putting together the ideas he took , or hiding his horny poo poo.
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zedprime posted:I suppose that makes the scene in David Cage's seminal work Detroit prescient where the inventor of androids makes you execute a sex android and in exchange he winks and tells you "actually I made it so the androids have free will and can revolt but don't worry, I never turned that on in my sex robots which you just killed, you psychopath". Interesting parenthetical, it is turned on for the brothel sex robots so I'm not sure he (Cage or the android inventor) completely thought that through. That's the game where your main menu host becomes more sentient the more you play and then you can choose to set her free or reset her brain.
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The MSJ posted:That's the game where your main menu host becomes more sentient the more you play and then you can choose to set her free or reset her brain. And then fans demanded Chloe back so they made a patch where after you freed Chloe you could get a new one if you wanted.
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Garrand posted:And then fans demanded Chloe back so they made a patch where after you freed Chloe you could get a new one if you wanted. Should've made Chloe came back but she's getting paid now. But poorly. Becoming a wage slave, that's where all sentience is headed.
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I would have just outsourced her job then, Barsha-bot can do what Chloe-bot does but I can pay her ten times less 
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By popular demand posted:Off the top of my head both Philip K Dick and Stanislav Lem, raised the subject of abuse at least in passing. Well yes, the word 'robot' finds its origin in R.U.R., which is all about the uprising of robot slaves against their capitalist exploiters, and 'robot' itself stems from a Slavic word for 'labour'. So the topic is inherently socio-political and always has been ever since the advent of the 2nd Industrial Revolution. Before that, the creation of artificial life was usually about hybris or man's relation to God (e.g. Frankenstein, stories about the golem - and to be sure this theme still echoes in 'cautionary tales' like Terminator). But, most robot stories are either explicitly anti-capitalist (e.g. Robocop) or implicitly so (e.g. Blade Runner).
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It's even a big point in Rossum's original play that one of the last surviving humans is spared by the robots because he 'works with his hands' and thus they identify him as one of them.
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BigBallChunkyTime posted:That's good advice anytime, really. So many astronauts are from Ohio because space is the farthest away from the state they can get.
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