My living room IS my bed room.

Not everyone here has the luxury to live in multi-room apartments!

And you don't even need to unwrap it. Of course only as long as you do not encapsulate, that is.

What keeps your robot from realizing that your food bill cuts into his electricity bill and he would be better off without you?

Communism can work. As soon as people prefer working to being rich.

After having been a inner city dweller who did odd jobs and worked manual labour, scraping by for ten years before eventually braking into this software development geek I can state that I much prefer the job I do now and earn far more doing it than I ever did before. You generally only have to put up with perhaps 6 months to a year of crap after you break into working in IT. Certainly once you get 2 years solid commercial experience under your belt and a decent reference or two on your linkedin profile covering those 2 years you are never going to have to worry about learning less than minimum wage unless you make a real mess of something.

After getting 2 years experience working for the companies mentioned in this article you are going to be in a far stronger position in the workplace than me with my 10 years now in IT working for small businesses. That means you are certainly on far more than minimum wage or can be if you put your mind to it.

You can be damn sure that most of the people on those buses are in a much better position in the world than the people outside them.

Sure the CEO is in a far better position but do not even try and kid yourself that some young developer or IT geek is in anywhere near the same shit position as someone trying to scrape out a living working in McDonalds or trying to make a living as an artist.

Oh, and anyone working 60-80 hours a week as a software developer chooses to simple as that. I have never been coerced into working such long hours as a regular thing although there has been the odd situation where I have done 20 - 30 hours straight when we had a major IT failure (most recently some moron accidentally unprovisioned a SAN and everything had to be rebuilt from backups, i also got all the time back as extra leave)

Good point. :D

Agreed about the environazis. It's one thing not to shit in your own pool (that's just common sense); it's another to decree that there shall never be shit anywhere, even if harms nothing or is perhaps even beneficial. It's like the ARs -- they don't love animals; they hate people.

I don't see that even the most vigorous strip mining could do much to change the lunar landscape, especially as visible at this distance -- I mean, what's one more crater, or even a hundred more craters, among the tens (hundreds?) of thousands already there? Light pollution might be more of a visual issue. So as was pointed out, do your thing on the far side instead. And plant that radio telescope there, for sure.

Then again... perhaps someday there'll be a "great Darsh face hanging over the garden wall". ;)

Someone already did, I'd say...

What's the big difference between not having a job in Detroit and not having a job in San Francisco? Probably that you can afford the rent in Detroit, considering that everyone's fleeing...

Making content free will probably not be a good idea. But it would still beat the current situation.

But either extreme is bad. We have to get back to an IP law that follows the idea behind them: To give people an incentive to create and to create a balance between those that create and those that want to enjoy that creation.

Right now, the IP law fails in every of these aspects. It does not promote creation, since it allows an author to milk his success forever. Not only that, but also his heirs to do just the same. And please don't come with the "but a true artist will create even if he is rich already" argument. The same argument can be fielded for abolishing IP laws altogether.

Look at the bright side. It means that the economy is not as bad off as it could be, at least 90% of businesses out there still provide goods&services instead of trying to IP troll.

Well, pretty much any stories I know that deal with the "three laws" stress their shortcomings, be it how the AI(s) find loopholes to abuse or how the laws keep robots from doing what those laws should make them do.

I'd say logically.

When is IP important to you, as a business? If you hold patents and if you're heavily invested in R&D, and copyright is something that you care about strongly if you're creating content, be it music, movies or software. Else, at best, it's uninteresting to you. At worst, it is a headache to you since you always have to watch out whether or not something trivial you do steps on someone' patent toes.

What I am arguing is that these systems are good in their one single field and unable to learn anything outside of them. If you want to call that intelligence, so be it, but we're still a far cry from an AI that can actually pose a threat to the point where its "morality" starts to come into play.

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