The money is going to charitable causes.
So what if it's growing, it's still funding good causes.

Make another contract.
"I will work on project X, you will pay me X, changes will be released under that OSS license"

Also, there is nothing stopping you from going, see which developers you value, and paying them.

no cognitive ability whatsoever?
I'm not sure what you mean here, AI is an attempt to develop cognitive ability.

There are theories that humans are generally unable to make conscious decisions either, and we just rationalize them afterwards. I'd have to agree there there is some merit to this theory. Particularly if on what people like and don't like. It's rarely an articulated decision.

Really, without a clear and agreed definition of what is ethical this is meaningless.

There are people who think ethical behaviour is unethical, and unethical behaviour is ethical.

Until we get agreement on what is ethical, this type of pledge is meaningless.

I think it's completely ethical to use AI to identify whoever rings my front door, others think this is unethical.
Some people think using AI to find mineral and resource deposits is ethical, some think this is ethical.

Killer robots are an AI ethics nightmare, they can be both far more ethical, and far less ethical than current weapons.

Actually if you're in a different situation, you can have a different value.
If 2 people look at the same stock, but they have different time horizons, risk tolerances, costs of capital, discount rates etc it they could end up with different valuations.

Whats right for me, might not be right for you.

There are valid reasons for options.
But if someone wants "free money" by taking advantage of someone elses bad strategy, more power to them. Squeezing inefficiencies out of the market is a good thing for most investors.

My strategy is much simpler, buy a profitable and/or growing company, that will pay me money. Just make sure you pay a fair price.

Uh isn't that what we pay them for?

They should be debating all of it.

Companies that don't discuss and debate their strategies end up missing out. Many great companies have failed or at least suffered greatly from failure to reconsider their business assumptions.

Calm reasoned thought?
That's a silly idea.

I've been watching the media for a long time (see userid#), and the current swarm of ignorance and arrogance (a terrifying combination) has really taken hold in popular culture and a large amount of the tech industry.

If "green energy" takes 10x as much labour, it should cost 10x as much.

This is a BIG problem, unless they see Green energy as some sort of fancy make work project for society.
The Matrix was not about how it is a good idea to use Humans as a power source.

2,000 years may seem like a long time, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to the age of the earth. Even if we limit it to the timespan while mammels have populated the earth 2,000 years barely scratches the surface. It seemsblike such a small and arbitrary number that it makes me suspicious.

I'm somewhere in the middle on this.

>Do you believe rehabilitation is impossible or do you want revenge?

I don't believe that someone who commits mass murder can be rehabilitated, no. It isn't about revenge; it's about public safety.

Someone once pointed out that hoping a rapist gets raped in prison isn't a victory for his victim(s), because it somehow gives him what he had coming to him, but it's actually a victory for rape and violence. I wish I could remember who said that, because they are right. The score doesn't go Rapist: 1 World: 1. It goes Rape: 2.

What this man did is unspeakable, and he absolutely deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison. If he needs to be kept away from other prisoners as a safety issue, there are ways to do that without keeping him in solitary confinement, which has been shown conclusively to be profoundly cruel and harmful.

Putting him in solitary confinement, as a punitive measure, is not a victory for the good people in the world. It's a victory for inhumane treatment of human beings. This ruling is, in my opinion, very good and very strong for human rights, *precisely* because it was brought by such a despicable and horrible person. It affirms that all of us have basic human rights, even the absolute worst of us on this planet.

This is precisely why I lost all interest in Oculus the instant I heard that it had been acquired by Facebook.

Yes, AC, that's _exactly_ what you would do. This is in beta, where you choose a prime sub-section of your market to run tests with. That is literally part of the definition of beta testing.

With Windows running only 27% of the Internet's web servers*, calling it "severely limit[ing]" is more than a little hyperbolic.

* source: http://news.netcraft.com/archi...

Actually we DO have equations for all the physics that relate to it.
They teach the basics in a course called "statics", then when they start moving they call it "dynamics".
Then you get into solid mechanics/Mechanics of Deformable solids (think steel as a sponge).

Then there is of course FEA, which is just an application of MODS, and really just a massive mess/"system" of equations.