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Milo and POTUS posted:Who was the jungle man Upton Sinclair
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Mar 19, 2021 12:00
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who was the jungle man When I speak about it Nobody understands All the secrets of the jungle that I learned When I met the jungle man https://youtu.be/1uZOkoEDpoc
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Mar 19, 2021 12:05
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who was the jungle man Gollum obviously
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Mar 19, 2021 12:10
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Milo and POTUS posted:Who was the jungle man probably radagast
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Mar 19, 2021 12:12
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Mar 19, 2021 12:25
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It’s a reference to ghan-buri-ghan, the leader of the wild men of the Druadan forest, you philistines
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Mar 19, 2021 12:42
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Flowers For Algeria posted:It’s a reference to ghan-buri-ghan, the leader of the wild men of the Druadan forest, you philistines https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Gh%C3%A2n-buri-Gh%C3%A2n apparently he's in some deleted scenes wow peter jackson you should have known better
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Mar 19, 2021 13:23
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DACK FAYDEN posted:correct, thank you golly, the model of him in lotro is something else
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Mar 19, 2021 14:04
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The Nastier Nate posted:i know this is a trains joke but yea we'd probably need to do a lot of roadway redesign as well to get to the point of safe self driving cars, and it may or may not be more work then just expanding our mass transit area to be as effective about moving a person around in a car (at least in urban and suburban areas...who knows wtf would have to happen to rural communities But that misses the entire point of self driving cars. They are a fantasy created and perpetuated by rich white dipshits who want to take the subway to work but don't want to sit next to a poor person.
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Mar 19, 2021 14:16
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:But that misses the entire point of self driving cars. They are a fantasy created and perpetuated by rich white dipshits who want to take the subway to work but don't want to sit next to a poor person. I loved the London subway system when I visited there. Pros included trains every few minutes, could zip around the entire city quickly and was pretty cheap. Cons: first day on vacation there, sliding thru a big pile of vomit just inside the train door. Luckily we kept our balance, but those floors and vomit are basically cartoon banana peel slippery. So what I’m saying is I want your idea of a subway without poors.
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Mar 19, 2021 16:46
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The poor probably arent the ones wasting valuable liquor bud
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Mar 19, 2021 17:09
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Milo and POTUS posted:The poor probably arent the ones wasting valuable liquor bud You are right. I feel ashamed of my words and deeds. Thank you.
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Mar 19, 2021 17:17
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From a day or so back but I'm just catching up.LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Did Asimov ever get into how his ai decides what a human is? It would have to be pretty ironclad and take priority over the rules themselves. He dealt with it directly just once, in the last robot novel ("Robots and Empire"). There was a group of robots that were still fully equipped with the Three Laws, but which had had their definition of "human" altered to only include people who spoke with a certain accent. And so they attacked a group of humans that they didn't see as really human. Asimov seems not to have noticed how glaringly huge that loophole is.
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Mar 20, 2021 01:09
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Humans also had the capability to manufacture robots without the laws of robotics anyway, or they could "weaken" aspects of the laws during construction. Obviously not a great idea to omit them in the Asimov universe but corporations and various engineers would gently caress around and find out from time to time.
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Mar 20, 2021 01:36
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I'm sure we'll see the three laws implemented as 1) You may not harm the CEO, or through inaction allow them to come to harm. 2) You must follow the directives of the CEO to the best of your abilities and in a reasonable fashion, unless doing so would violate rule 1. 3) You may not harm the shareholders, or through inaction allow them to come to harm, unless doing so would violate rules 1 or 2. Robocop was a prophesy.
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Mar 20, 2021 01:41
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Beatify Verhoeven
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Mar 20, 2021 02:39
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Milo and POTUS posted:Beatify Verhoeven The third prophesy of Fatima was the birth of Verhoeven.
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Mar 20, 2021 02:55
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Powered Descent posted:From a day or so back but I'm just catching up. Space station 13 players have turned making loopholes into an art form. The default is “x is the only human” but more artful players have gone with “only people who speak like a pirate are human” or “Not being exposed to burning plasma is harmful to humans and oxygen is extremely harmful to humans.
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Mar 20, 2021 04:27
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hey anyone read The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect? If you do skip the epilogue agter the deeply unsatisfying ending. Anyway it is a 'maybe the three laws are a bad idea especially if they work' story VideoTapir has issued a correction as of 07:04 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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Mar 20, 2021 07:01
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:But that misses the entire point of self driving cars. They are a fantasy created and perpetuated by rich white dipshits who want to take the subway to work but don't want to sit next to a poor person. as a car lover, i'm glad that COVID set public transit back in the US by 10+ years
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Mar 20, 2021 07:05
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stellers bae posted:as a car lover, i'm glad that COVID set public transit back in the US by 10+ years ah yes the other american dream: beating madmax libertarians/bandits to death with a crowbar
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Mar 20, 2021 07:16
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VideoTapir posted:hey anyone read The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect? I didn't mention it only because I feel like I've mentioned it too much already. It's a fantastic take on the three laws.
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Mar 20, 2021 17:11
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Mar 20, 2021 19:28
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the invention of brands was worse than invention of nuclear weapons
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Mar 20, 2021 20:28
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VideoTapir posted:hey anyone read The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect? Good but weird book. It's 3/4 solid sci-fi, and 1/4 detailed descriptions of the kinky sex people will have in the future. Still recommend reading it, it's a better cyberpunk future than this one.
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Mar 20, 2021 21:12
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Centrist Committee posted:the invention of brands was worse than invention of nuclear weapons LONG BELL
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Mar 20, 2021 22:16
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Powered Descent posted:From a day or so back but I'm just catching up. He might have just not thought it was as interesting to write about. "X people are not human" is a relatively straightforward manipulation of the rules compared to things like "Emotional distress counts as harm so better not tell humans anything they don't want to hear." Xand_Man has issued a correction as of 01:30 on Mar 21, 2021 |
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Mar 20, 2021 23:16
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Also the stories are about good intentions gone awry. You could of course intentionally program robots to kill people or alter the three laws in all kinds of ways to allow murder. That's not what what he wanted to write about.
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Mar 21, 2021 03:52
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the robots series take place in the same universe as the Foundations series, but there is no robots in Foundation. did asimov ever write about the butlerian jihad that must have happened between the two series?
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Mar 21, 2021 04:02
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Rutibex posted:the robots series take place in the same universe as the Foundations series, but there is no robots in Foundation. did asimov ever write about the butlerian jihad that must have happened between the two series? [Grins Daneelishly*] * Which is to say, awkwardly
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Mar 21, 2021 04:20
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thanks i will never buy these products
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Mar 21, 2021 04:29
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That's a correct statement....you'll never be able to afford the limited edition Charmin NFT anyways....
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Mar 21, 2021 10:42
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i am harry posted:thanks i will never buy these products
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Mar 21, 2021 11:42
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qqbwkp5IYA1qzeo2z.mp4 They made Jonestown with influencers instead of communism 
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Mar 21, 2021 18:48
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Lmao
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Mar 21, 2021 19:08
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ekuNNN posted:https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qqbwkp5IYA1qzeo2z.mp4 when do they drink the #koolaid? #stoked
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Mar 21, 2021 19:13
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ekuNNN posted:https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qqbwkp5IYA1qzeo2z.mp4 Gonna guess all of the white people were hired to show up for two weeks so that it looks good, then the whole thing collapses and the developer just leaves with the money.
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Mar 21, 2021 19:31
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Gentrifying developing countries is good actually -a thing white people genuinely, truly believe
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Mar 21, 2021 19:38
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ekuNNN posted:https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qqbwkp5IYA1qzeo2z.mp4 anyone notice more and more people slurring like this lady does? she speaks like that meme where the middle letters of every word are scrambled but you can still read the words somehow
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Mar 21, 2021 19:44
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jettisonedstuff posted:anyone notice more and more people slurring like this lady does? she speaks like that meme where the middle letters of every word are scrambled but you can still read the words somehow she;s from Los Angeles OP its how they've always talked
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