Those people and their spiritual children are still with us.

Osama bin laden doll that turns into a Darth Maul.

I suspect this is a backlash against Muslims as much as it is an embracing of best practices.

Let's face it. If you're a guy chatting with a woman, you don't want to find out she's really a dude.

Yeah, I don't remember the exact speed, I think it was 1/10th light speed, which makes the travel time small compared to time before a colony spawns new colonies. Assuming habitable planets are dense, that is.

One calculation I saw was that if a single space faring race spread out ward slower than the speed of light, only to nearby stars, with a 200 year growth period for new colonies before they started new colonies, that species would colonize every habitable planet in the galaxy in 1 Billion years. So your idea doesn't really solve the problem.

We weren't always so successful. I'm guessing the problem with intelligence is a long childhood with a necessary period of making a lot of bonehead mistakes, because each generation has to learn everything over again.

Now if you manage that, try expressing it outside of a language so it can be evaluated. Now imagine building computer to be "artificially" "intellegent" without a language. Even if there was some form that was not based in language (by the way, not just talking human language), how would you test that? How would that computer be "correct" or "mistaken"?

Stanislaw Lem's Solaris is an imaginative take on a similar problem.

Ask a human which seven letter word is the hardest to read? What kind of fruit have they seen the most? The algorithmic solution to problems that at one point were clearly in the domain of intelligence is starting to become a pattern. Yeah, each solution on it's own is extremely limited, but human intelligence is starting to seem limited, too.

The trend feels like science versus religion. By the 19th century, science had made huge strides in explaining how the universe works, but there was a huge, overwhelming issue that made God still dominant as an idea. The vast, beautiful, complex and and endlessly varied sea of life was inexplicable. Then Darwin came along with an idea that was dead simple, and all of a sudden there was nothing left. God receded back to before the beginning of time.

Some one compared the current versions of the Turing test to a hypothetical flying competition in the days of Da Vinci. To make things simple, the prize goes to the machine that gets the furthest off the ground. Some joker wins the competition with a pair of springs tied to his feet (Eliza). The next year, all the entries are bigger, better springs.

Look at Ukraine now and one year ago. Who is who's bitch again?

Snowden has already helped. All of the fascists who think the spying is ok and that Snowden should be hanged used to be telling us there was no way the NSA spying could be as bad as we thought.

+5 insightful for this garbage. I love slashdot. The guy sees the same sickness in his culture that showed up in the Santa Barbara murderer and he's calling it out. The reaction here, ultra defensive, delusions of being personally attacked, and all of it moderated to the limit, speak volumes about Slashdot, and not in a good way.

RTFA. There is nothing in the article attacking anyone on Slashdot. It's not calling every nerd a rapist, a misogynist, or a killer. It's saying wake up and starting thinking about other people for a change.

Mod parent up.

The point is, don't rape. If you aren't a rapist, *you're already not doing what you're supposed to not do*. Not everything is about you. Nobody accused you of anything. You are being delusional.

What does it say about you that you read that into the article?