So what?

Whether you believe the alarmists like Al Gore telling every one you need to live in a card board box, for the sake of his elitist friends and pay all of your income in carbon taxes, or the outright liars who claim Humans have zero affects on climate change:

One thing is for certain, postulation about whether or not it is actually a bad thing to have the earth warmer or colder isn't something either side seems to acknowledge because obviously the earth during the last 250,000 years of human existence has been way hotter and way colder than it is now.

Further more, I am more worried about plans to INTENTIONALLY overload the biosphere with idots thinking a complex multi billion year old planetary biosphere is as simplistic as what they create in the lab and draw conclusions on.

I mean crazy bat shit conclusions like spraying the atmosphere with aerosols or sucking the CO2 out of the atmosphere on purpose.

THAT is what scares me, not global warming or cooling or whatever you believe.

and because global conditions do not represent regional conditions?

That is equally insane.

Yeah, introduce foreign proteins and compounds into food crops and then wonder why dozens of birds, honey bees and other animals are on huge declines.

I got an idea, put Monsanto and all these other GMO "I wanna rule the worlds food production" companies and make THEM PAY to restore the honey bees, birds and other species they destroy through pollution of destructive genetic engineering of our biosphere.

The majority of the NSA budget does not come from the GAO/Congress.

We are way beyond that point by decades. Most of the money comes from Blackmail, Industrial Espionage and drug operations.
(One of the reasons for the seemingly senseless and harsh drug laws is these people really hate competition.)

The NSA and CIA are rogue criminal operations and should be torn down until we repair our governmental authorities with respect to the constitution.

We no longer live in a constitutional republic and are fast approaching the end game.

Winning!

On the other hand, when government and fascist corporatist attiudes prevail in society, only the elite qualify for immediate MRI exams.

"Oh, Mr. Bankster, you said you have a slight pain last week? Lets do a complete work up and MRI."

The rest of you are having an "its all in your head", take an aspirin, come back when the bill is much cheaper to put you in the ground than give you a MRI.

Having government institutions with control over something as private as a cell phone is not a good idea.

This idea that government will make you safe, as long as you have no rights seems to be on the menu of the times we live in.

It will end up serving the same ole dish:

Death, misery and more chaos.

Bye bye Human Race, was really nice knowing you, don't forget to write about it in the fossil record.

and explain to them what happened during the time you "lost" two years of records once and see what happens.

Lawlessness, Usurpers and Destroyers.

If there is any justice in this Universe the IRS and its minions will be utterly destroyed, hopefully before they destroy EVERYTHING.

Impossible!

If we do not allow this corrupt science to continue, it will bring down all of science everywhere!

It is simply too big to fail!

Much more likely is we are unique.

Trillions of species have evolved and only one developed intelligence.

It may not be a question of time, but one of very very bad odds.

The other issue is, intelligence doesn't seem to fit anywhere on the Darwin side of things. I mean, few species have intelligence, and the most successful species so far I would say hands down is the dino's, and they were awful at it.

What is even more frightening: Read the news lately?

It would seem a group of bankers are hell bent on thinking they can treat Russia and China like Libya, Egypt, Mali, Iraq.

Nuclear War anyone?

Oh yeah, this is just shocking.

Obviously, the patriot act, banker looting and lawlessness of executive authority and lawlessness in general is now going to be fixed.

What a steaming pile of BS.

Singularity is the promise of eternal life.

I seem to remember a story or two in a nice garden setting how that all turned out.

(i.e. Not very well.)

Oh I don't think so.

If we want to play definitions Artificial Intelligence is just that, sort of like a Sugar substitute including using it for cooking etc.. It works the exact same way as sugar on the human sensory systems exactly like Sugar, but it isn't.

In a similar way to Sugar, Machine Intelligence would stimulate the nerve centers of the brain like real sugar, however, operates totally differently, and on an entirely different level than either Sugar, or its artificial equivalent.

Same thing with machine intelligence the approach is vastly different.

Sort of like our educational system.

Tons of PhD's who know lots of stuff it would seem as they were at the top of their classes to memorize and take exams.

Sadly when you employ a bunch of them to write an operating system for a tough real world problem, they fail.

But, seem to do just fine as long as they are at a University.

I think the best example I can think of is Microsoft's veritable army of PhD's it employed to kill POSIX Unix architecture on the worlds exchanges. The idea was to deploy Windows on all of the exchanges and replace the UNIX systems they were using.

It not only failed, but cost the exchange in London and New York about 100 times the cost of the project.

Just for those of you who do now know the difference:

AI is a field of research to develop a silicone brain that mimics the way the human brain works. Most of the excitement for that field went out the window in the early 1990's with all of the Japanese robotic mania.

After the field failed to produce, people had a rethink about intelligence.

Now, we have the new field of Machine Intelligence, which doesn't try to mimic the human brain, but tries to take advantage of what machines are good at: Computational Accuracy, Storage, and lightening fast speed.

So when you are discussing Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Intelligence realize the two fields are very much seperate.

As for the Turing test, I don't think it passed, because the experiment hasn't been repeated by enough researchers to form an opinion of wether or not the consensus is it did pass, and we can stop doing Turing tests.