> How can you imprison people who committed no crime? Ever see "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"?

Those patients were all in treatment voluntarily, except for the protagonist who thought it was a clever way to avoid a prison sentence.

Capability-based security is a step in the right direction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Most programs only need to write in one or two places or modify the exact file you hand them. Permissions and control lists can get exploited, whereas capabilities can't change reference or extend access rights beyond their intended target.

Your point about exclusives is valid, but FYI: https://store.steampowered.com...

That summary is crap. Outcast was only raycasting a 2d heightfield. No raytracing, no voxels.

No, it isn't. Here are their GDC 2018 slides: https://www.dropbox.com/s/s9tz...

They are using Unreal Engine 4 for shadow cascades, ambient occlusion, lighting, motion blur, and presumably the background scene. The SDFs are raytraced for first-hit surface intersections, soft shadows, and extra ambient occlusion. The visual giveaway is that there are no reflective surfaces.

By Peter Watts (author of Blindsight), due out this summer. There are excerpts on his blog going back a decade, some found here by character search: http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?...

Because all the big sites wanted to be OpenID providers but not to accept logins from elsewhere.

Read the rules: http://darwinawards.com/rules/...

"The existence of offspring, though potentially deleterious to the gene pool, does not disqualify a nominee."

Please don't repeat the insanity misquote. It's garbage.

> DeepMind learned to beat the best go players in the world by teaching itself through trial and error.

AlphaGo was trained on databases of historical games. It looks for moves that are similar to what a human pro would play, and then reads out sequences to score the strength of the resulting position. It did not learn by itself from scratch. Once proficient, it was played against itself to improve.

The page you linked loads and performs fine for me, but I had a similar issue recently. My Firefox install is relatively ancient, and it began taking ages to load and then incorrectly render one particular site. What ultimately fixed it was creating a new profile, switching to it to test, and then switching back to my original profile.

1) "Blindsight" by Peter Watts is the best Science Fiction book.

2) Popularity is not a measure of quality.

3) The actual best way is to build a true machine intelligence that reads every book after succeeding humanity.

I always want to read freshly opened pages at score 5/4 for full/subject comment thresholds, but if I modify the slider to see more, future pages will open at the last slider setting, not the 5/4 originally set in my preferences. Please prevent the per-page slider form changing the D2 comment threshold option, or add a mode that does this.

Star Trek TNG is science fiction because it explores the social issues of living in a future with FTL space travel, alien life, teleportation, replicators, communicators, tricorders, holograms, AI, androids, insecure computers, and so on. The science in science fiction can be fictional. More notably, Trek content routinely features scientists and engineers as main characters, with exploration and scientific and social progress as core themes.

Gamasutra did a great interview with Burger a few years ago: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/...