The line of argument that goes, "your opinion is not valid unless it is an exaggerated parody of your opinion"? For example, "if you believe in freedom, then you must believe in anarchy", or "if you believe in the harm caused by human over-population then you should kill yourself"? I guess it's a form of reductio ad absurdam, so that would get my vote if it were an option.

Almost. The real meaning of the term is data about data. For files, it's the file name, size, extension, timestamps, and maybe the magic numbers could be called metadata (which is why I don't like magic numbers in files). For pictures, it's camera exposure settings, focus, GPS data, etc. For emails, body text is the "data", whereas email headers are "metadata". From, To, Subject, that sort of thing. You can then aggregate that to get a different kind of metadata (metametadata?), but in its un-aggregated state it's still metadata.

I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym.

Clearly you've never watched it, if that's what you think! Or are all the direct attacks and the snide remarks and insinuations about the government just a smokescreen to hide the state control?

Ascension has no indigenous population. It was first settled by the British 200 years ago.

Well, I guess being ignorant is better than being retarded, but the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna is especially prized in Japanese cuisine, which accounts for about 80% of the market. I remember seeing many news stories that involve Japanese fishing fleets coming into conflict with European authorities, complaints that EU quotas were useless as they were not being applied to Japanese fishing fleets operating illegally in our waters, etc.

I believe Nutria is due an apology.

We fired the engineers who weren't prepared to cheat, and the remaining guys cheated. It's the engineers' fault for cheating.

So don't ask a bystander to take a photo of you and your girlfriend in front of the Brandenburg Gate, because you can't post it on facebook when you come home because the bystander owns the copyright.

Yep.

So how come Google is allowed to put adverts on it? Are they putting the ad revenue from that video into a jar so that they can hand it over to the trademark holders if they come asking for money?

Watching the "compilation of robots falling down" video was quite uncomfortable, because many of them reminded me of my father, who has Parkinson's Disease. I wonder if there is anything to be learned from the similarity. Probably not.

That's an assertion ab nihilo. I could equally assert that they will be able to, and there we have a disagreement with neither of us presenting evidence to back ourselves up.

Counterexample: A human can recreate the Mona Lisa in a near infinite number of ways. It cannot, however, create the original Mona Lisa without there having been a Mona Lisa to create from.
See what I did there?

I'm pretty sure that the first early attempts at chess programs were mostly tested against college or chess club players. I don't remember any "1k ZX Chess vs Kasparov" events.

It doesn't "misunderstand the turing test". It's a different test. No computer has yet passed the Turing Test, so doesn't it make sense to have other tests?

Let's assume that the Turing Test is a good test for AI. It's debatable, but let's accept the premise. We don't have good AI yet, so what is the point in testing what we have against a test for good AI? Doesn't it make sense to aim for something with a lower bar, achieve that, and then tackle the tougher problem? When I was at school, we didn't set the high jump at olympic champion levels. We set it at a level that was a stretch for us but still achievable.