He advertises through ABC his view that advertising isn't morally justifiable.

And - "He blogs at The Philosopher's Beard." - (a link) which also reads very much like an advertisement to me.

FTA - "The solution to both requires legal recognition of the property rights of human beings over our attention."

Here we have his crux. More government to prevent what he doesn't care for.

"Your reply sounds angry." No it doesn't.

Not even close.

Nawh. Just go to a skateboarding park sometime. The world is full of things that will kill/maim you if you're incompetent. I have known two people who reached under the shell of a running lawnmower to lift it over a curb. One would thing that one would be obvious, eh?

Where can I get these Uncanny Valley Effect apples? I'd like to try some.

Or perhaps a more realistic version is just a very much longer time frame.

"... off the shoulder of Orion" is just a metaphor and could easily be interpreted as a visual reference. "TannhÃuser Gate" is entirely fictitious. Neither really allude to interstellar travel.

Yeah, this is actually what killed the movie for me. The idea that this one guy developed (and implemented) all these disparate and astonishingly complicated algorithms and hard/softwares.

That and the sense I got throughout that he was really directing the bot because he was a weird, voyeristic creep.

argumentum ad absurdum

Indeed. I've seen those terms applied to opposite sides of many a disagreement.

If I want to do piece work, whether web sites or chauffeuring someone around, it's none of her friggin' business.

If you're referring to the age of seven, he is exactly right. It's dependent upon the brain's development. Stimulating the mind is a different matter than teaching critical thinking.

No you don't, you just believe you do. No one actually does. You spend a lot of posts assuming authority.

As *I* have a daughter who currently teaches robotics in middle school, I can safely say you're biasing you own post. You're arguing from an assumed authority, so I can as well.

Parents who at the same christmas complain if the daughter plays to much on the new computer express a bias.

Anecdote pulled out of posterior invagination.

Television programming where the only computer affiliate is a dorky guy who might be brilliant at computers but is awkward at anything else expresses a bias.

As opposed to the shows that have computer geeks being a woman (47 listed, not including Arrow, Flash or Supernatural)?

Yes, you can argue by purposely not including information showing the opposite.