Phrogz - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Silly (Score 1) 482

by Phrogz on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @10:33PM (#29374531) Attached to: Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence

What defines HUMAN$? Redefine the variable, the law is still satisfied. We hoomanz do it with brainwashing and conditioning. They're not humans, they're gooks. They don't even believe like we do. It's fine to kill them. Heathens anyway, right? But I'd like to think the robot might be able to work it even more subtly, subverting the law.

Or perhaps the robot will take the laws very seriously, to ill effect.

Comment What was their intention again? (Score 1) 268

by Phrogz on Monday April 13, 2009 @09:20AM (#27555527) Attached to: Grad Student Project Uses Wikis To Stash Data, Miffs Admins

FTA:

"About: ... We use the term graffiti for our work since we are storing data in a way that non-network participants may regard as unsightly or unwanted vandalism. ..."

"Update: ... It was never our intention to maliciously deface sites, ..."

I don't blame them for changing their tune once they came under fire, but I'm surprised that they have both statements on the page at once. Or am I somehow seeing a contradiction where none exists?

C# In-Depth 499

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 01, 2008 @09:25AM from the does-he-mention-that-it's-evil dept.

Bergkamp10 from ComputerWorld writes "Microsoft's leader of C# development, writer of the Turbo Pascal system, and lead architect on the Delphi language, Anders Hejlsberg, reveals all there is to know on the history, inspiration, uses and future direction of one of computer programming's most widely used languages — C#. Hejlsberg also offers some insight into the upcoming version of C# (C#4) and the new language F#, as well as what lies ahead in the world of functional programming."

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