Such an AI will be among many, each tuned to argue for someone's pet belief system. There probably will be complicated dynamics involving the popularities of various worldviews, retroactive evaluations of different "embryonic" AI configurations based on the belief systems they produce, trust in the intellectual honesty and/or ethical rectitude of different AI developers, greed and power mongering, whatever ethics might be inherent in human instinct, moral and ethical fashion, and the public majority who don't care to think much about it.

He's already indistinguishable from a chatbot. Zing!
(I'm actually kidding.)

AI simply isn't there yet. Wait 20 years (TM) and then we'll see. (I'm only half joking.)

Nitpick: If it's exponential, it will double in another 40 years. If it's linear, productivity was 0 in 1930.

We still have too little data to guess whether our planetary system is special. Transits and Doppler wobbles are being detected in only a small fraction of the stars we observe. One reason is time: it takes an a few orbits to establish a pattern. So it's only natural that most of the systems we've found have been compact. They're they low-hanging fruit. It will take a bit longer to get a good statistical understanding of the proportion of less compact systems.

It's not just *an* interpretation. You claim it's *the* interpretation, as in, other interpretations are wrong and yours is right. What evidence do you have to back this up?

A story's effect does not prove its intent. Take Ed Wood's _Plan 9 from Outer Space_ for example. People laugh at his serious effort.

What actual evidence do you have that, "The message of Abraham and Isaac is about learning that sometimes what you feel is right emotionally is actually wrong, and sometimes what feels wrong emotionally is right"?

The law should say that the trademark holder must either defend the trademark *or* proactively grant license to use it when it looks like someone might be in violation. IANAL but it seems like the law binds your hands if you hold a trademark. Either you act like a douchebag or lose it.

They *felt* sharper? So what? Sometimes I *feel* like a dragon with a nine-foot penis. Doesn't mean I *am* one.

I'm so sick of this bullshit I could just scream.

I have one question: Will the sequel also be monotonously brown?

Between Fallout 3, New Vegas, the caves in Oblivion, and Borderlands, I've had just about all the grey and brown I can stand.

The test set represented 18000 users. The probability of flipping 18000 coins and getting 65.9% heads or more is 8.1e-405.

Light has momentum, not mass.

Beside that, special relativity has been corroborated again and again, tachyons are shown to be unstable due to their imaginary mass component, and physics as we know it simply doesn't hold up well in the presence of closed spacelike paths.

This isn't to say FTL travel is impossible. *Maybe* some way exists that gets around these huge obstacles, but when they say there's no known way it could work, it's not for lack of imagination.

Ah, okay. Right. So then I guess different waveforms represent different superpositions? What is the basis? The only one I can imagine is complex exponentials, but the closest thing those have to a "location" is phase, so I don't see how they could exhibit a propagation velocity. Maybe I'm just going to have to read a book about this.