As a Singularitan, I recognize that super-AI may turn out to be impossible. After all, we don't have a theory that proves it possible yet. However, in the case that it is possible, the creation of the super-AI will be the single most important event in our observable universe. Thus it is worthwhile to spend some effort in getting it right.

Yeah, TFA seems like propaganda related to the current season of 24, where American military drones are hacked by terrorists.

Reminds me of Emacs; a decent operating system. All it lacks is a good text editor.

What could ever replace the durability of magnetic tape? Duct tape, maybe.

I've used C++ since 1997.

Don't care much for the STL. Its syntax is nice, and I don't mind the size overhead much, but the compilation time is noticeably increased the more templates you use.

C++11 has a bunch of syntax improvements, like "auto" and inline class member initialization. I think I'll use it for most of my future programs.

As we have seen, keeping any amount of money at an exchange's account is a recipe for disaster. They can still be used, but only if you take care to move your money out of it as soon as possible.

You are also not using AdBlock. :}

Me too, though I usually install SeaMonkey and/or FileZilla first, just so I can download Total Commander properly.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pip... http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...

I wish I had more mod-up points.

I've spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocaine powder. :)

Neural networks aren't exactly new...

Probably, yes. But it will be hard to make sure it's done right.

I envision a distributed hash table, where URLs are keys and comments are values. Uncensorable, pseudonymous comments for every webpage ever. Nice, eh?

Hehe. Anyway, no software means the Tesla Vampire problem wouldn't occur at all, which is a good Thing, I guess. :}