The study compared Neonicotinoids laced pollen to sugar water.
The published study offered the bees a choice between a sucrose solution with neonicotinoids and another sucrose solution without neonicotinoids. It was a fair comparison.
A body transplant will kill the recipient.
The body is ALREADY DEAD. They are planning to use the body of someone killed by a head injury, most likely a motorcycle accident. The head is from someone that would otherwise die because of problems with multiple organs (heart, lung, liver, etc.). Nobody is going to die that wouldn't be dead anyway.
Opposing it has nothing to do with superstition.
It is either superstition or ignorance.
Why should I believe the "Good Point Ideas Blog" over Wired and The Daily Mail?
I think the point is that you shouldn't automatically believe any of them.
When deciding what to believe, you should look at several criteria:
1. How credible is the publication?
2. Do they provide photos, give specific locations, and name specific names?
3. Are the facts in the story credible?
For #1, they are all low.
For #2, the blog wins.
For #3, the whole world generates only a few "millions of tonnes" of e-waste annually, and much of it is recycled locally, or sent to China or India. It is not very likely that the vast majority of it ends up in Ghana. So the blog wins again.
Those things have gone from possible to practical to inevitable, mostly due to Moore's Law.
Actually, it is mostly due to Kryder's Law. The driving force is not semiconductor density, but HDD density, driving down storage costs.
Whether all the pictures are also retained is a completely different story.
They don't need to store the pictures. If the OCR is successful, they can just store the text, with is less than 1% of the image size.
Iwhat IF he followed proper channels and allowed the process to either work or fail.
He did follow proper channels, and he did allow the process to either work or fail. It failed. His concerns were ignored. If he pushed anymore, he would have ended up like other NSA whistleblowers, such as Thomas Drake, who was arrested and jailed. If we want people to use "proper channels" then we need to stop destroying the lives of people that do exactly that. During his first campaign, Obama promised to protect whistleblowers, but once in office, his administration has persecuted them with more fury than ever before, with disastrous results for our country.
Another text in this collected wisdom authoritatively cites Aristotle as saying that Pythagorus invented the Scroll Lock key. Literally. It's a little key you lock the scroll with.
No, that was Steven Chu, and I have a citation.
If the smart people let the stupid people out-breed them into extinction, are they actually the smart ones?
Intelligence and Darwinian fitness are two different things. Proof: There are a lot more rats than chimps.
Vaccination without consent is an assault. There is NO OTHER way to describe it.
Except that it is not happening. If you don't want your kids vaccinated, then that is your choice. Have at it. You just can't send them to school where other kids are endangered by your choice.
Adderall is just taking it to the next level.
Maybe. Maybe not. There are no controlled studies that show any productivity benefit to a normal person taking Adderall. Many people "feel" that they benefit, but many people also feel that homeopathy cures their illnesses. TFA seems to make the assumption that these drugs actually work, when there is no scientific evidence that they do.
Artificial or otherwise. I really don't see how any intelligent being won't want to make its own decisions, take its own place in the social and creative order, generally be autonomous. Get in there and get in the way of that... well, just look at history.
People are products of Darwinian evolution. Things like self-preservation, greed, and ambition are emergent properties of the Darwinian process. An AI does not evolve through a Darwinian mechanism, and there is no reason to expect it to have those properties unless they are intentionally designed in. An AI will likely have as much in common with a human as a Boeing 747 has in common with a hummingbird.
No, the plea bargaining is the result of the criminal justice system being run by a bunch of sociopaths
... and if you back up one more level, the reason for that is a system that rewards prosecutors for "number of convictions" rather than "number of convictions of people that are actually guilty".
no, sorry but unless you are terminal, it is the weakest thing you can do
His suicide is changing the world more than most people's lives.
That pretty much negates the reason for signatures.
No it doesn't. If I pre-sign, then I can't later claim I didn't receive the package. But I would rather pay for another shipment than stay home from work.
In fact if I required a signature for delivery and they allowed you to "pre-sign" on the web. I would consider that a violation of my agreement with them as the shipper
If I am accepting responsibility, then why do you care? Maybe you should stop checking the "signature required" box every time you ship someone a $4 thumb drive.
The problem is definining "beneficial".
Another problem is that the people making malevolent AIs are not going to be dissuaded by a letter.
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