The only way we would know if AI were benevolent or evil is if we knew what it thought and what it could control physically, and as it doesn't exist, nobody, not even the intellectual elite, has a clue. Or am I wrong?

The octave is included in the scale, hence octatonic.

Not like produced porn, but haven't you been watching Isis beheadings? Does filmed death not count as snuff?

It does not sweep horrid acts under the carpet; it encourages their production.

My main concern is that someone will see that as their ticket to fame and start making the videos for public distribution. This has happened already, all I needed to see was one film on goofball.com 15 years ago where a soldier's throat was cut on film in Chechnya. Their cause gets views and exposure, and that is not a Good Thing.

Yes, yes, freedom of the press, I support it, but the media are also supposed to exercise some amount of discretion. I don't watch death videos, and I'd rather that public media choose not to publish them.

I think the more correct answer is the magnetic north pole using a compass for determining your direction. Nobody said the turns had to be 90 degrees.

In my view the compelling reason for Uber and Lyft is that you can view the rating of your driver and have some confidence that the driver will be professional and courteous prior to ordering the service. You have no such luck at the airport taxi stand, sometimes you get the worst driver who adds miles while talking on the phone.

The current turmoils between government and 'ride sharing' shall pass, government will get their taxes and the taxi system will either adapt or fade away.

Starting from your good estimate, 2.5 kW is about about two or three hair dryers of heat concentrated at a small unit volume (not sure of the area, but the mirror won't be that deep). Depending on the thermal conductivity of the mirror and the materials behind it, it is likely that that surface will get hot enough to oxidize and then the absorption will be greater than 5%, which will then get hotter and lead to failure.

I can't help but think there are many types of people on this survey, some will be rigid, others will always be dynamic. I personally listen almost exclusively to alternative rock stations, and while I like my favorites, I quickly tire of the repeat playlist on your Morning Zoo.

But most importantly, I follow the 5/10/85 rule. 5% of music is timeless brilliance, 10% is listenable yet disposable, and 85% is crap. Those percentages vary by genre.

My workplace treats women very well. This comment is more geared towards the 70's-90's. I knew a few women in a tech company I worked for that were subjected to pressures they shouldn't have been.

In January, there was pressure from some activist investors for Yahoo! and AOL to merge. http://www.usatoday.com/story/...

I guess not so much anymore.

That is nuts. I had high speed internet in Oklahoma 15 years ago, you'd think the home of Microsoft would have good connectivity.

I'm not going to flame, but I'm curious why you would think someone stupid for it. I still use gmail for the simple reasons that it always had more free storage than I needed, and now I'm stuck with it because it's been my personal address for almost 10 years. That doesn't make someone a moron (and yes, I'm aware of what they do with it, I put nothing of real value there that wasn't there over five years ago).

My hotmail account would have been it, except a short-sighted MS exec deleted a bunch of e-mails without telling me, losing me forever.

Not at all, men have been the mules of our society. My point is that things will change, not that men have had it easy. and I see the intricacies (men have always gone to battle and got maimed, for instance).

I'll check out your reference.

You're making interesting points. I'm not saying it's fair play, but it is what is happening.

It drives me nuts that in the eyes of extremists all men are assumed to be a potential child molesters if they were to hug a child that's not their own, we are all assumed potential rapists, and we are all evil oppressors of women.

What got us this way is that some very few men were, and now all of us are paying the price for it.

Re your second point. What I wonder is how much of it is related to parenting. Are the parents of the disinterested young men letting the games babysit for them instead of them interacting with them? I know kids are stubborn, but if you take away the game and force them to play, they will eventually do it. Parents need to show them the media stories are exaggerated, life is not inherently stacked against them, and that having meaningful relationships is healthy.

A lot of what you mentioned in your last paragraph is spot on, and I worry about that. I'd love for my girls to have a career and family too, my wife and I started in our mid-30s and while I don't think either of us settled, waiting could have led us to do so. The problems now and in the future will be different than what they were then, hopefully they won't be getting fondled at work for a chance at a promotion.

I'm not an SJW, but I know that you are an AC.