I'd consider it if I had enough stuff to keep me occupied up there. At the least, a decent internet connection.

Although, it'd be kind of problematic trying to register on websites.

"Country: Eh.. United State of Mars?"
"Continent: Shit I don't know, should have paid better attention at the briefing."

What laws would I have to adhere to?

Could I legally pirate software?

And would it be illegal for people to download from my Mars server?

Would I be the king of Mars?

I watched The Watchmen. I thought it was pretty good, actually. The montage during the opening credits was brilliant.

I watched you watch The Watchmen. It was more entertaining than watching The Watchmen.

Still don't get it? Why would we even allow it to evolve? These machines will ultimately be created and controlled by us, it would be almost trivial for us to control their evolution and decision making processes. Why would we do the "let the AIs build smarter versions of themselves"-thing to begin with? Why would not just let them design smarter versions and then build them ourselves after we put in the limitations we decide they need?

Because we don't have a choice. If we decide to build a new AI based on the instructions of the "old" AI with an IQ of say, 500, there's no way we could be sure we could control it or know exactly how its decision making process works. I think it's a little naive and optimistic to think we could control something several times smarter than us, even if we keep it caged.

I think rhere are a number of key differences in drive. AI motivation will unlikely work in the same way as ours (or we're doomed from the start). But once they're smarter than us, we will have them design even smarter versions, and once they reach IQs of over 400, there's no way we could possibly hope to imagine what goes on inside their brains. We could be manipulated as easily as ants.

But I still think that if we're given enough time on this planet, super intelligent and fully autonomous AI is inevitable. It excites me more than it scares me.

Still, as a Christian, I don't believe we'll ever get that far. And maybe we shouldn't, either.

I never really understood this kind of fear of 'artificial intelligence'. I mean, yes we have all seen HAL9000 and Skynet in the movies, but what I never understood about those (aside from why they thought it was a good idea to put both systems in full control of mission critical stuff) was that they were supposed to be even remotely human-like. Even if we do create artificial intelligence it'll be *nothing* like human intelligence. First off all there is no reason to make a computer that might decide it does not want to do whatever it is you ask it do. Secondly this hypothetical AI would interact with and perceive the world in a completely different way from humans. I don't think there is any reason at all to fear the AI.

You must have misread me. I'm not afraid of AI. Given enough time we'll make an AI that's way smarter than us, and it'll likely be able to govern us much better and fairer than we can govern ourselves. Or it will annihilate us completely, without any real way for us to defend ourselves.

FTFY. In time, even jobs involving focused application of creativity will be replaced. No job is safe from AI in the end.

And I am seriously asking myself if I am in the right field. $15 billion for a privacy violation? Damn.

Not a privacy violation, billions of privacy violations.

Eventually all jobs will be done by computers. It's just a matter of time. We will either live in a currency-less society (a la star trek) or all of the currency will be controlled and held by those in charge of the computers.

I'm very happy this law passed over here. What does annoy me some is that the major telcos are now having large marketing campaigns about how they decided to no longer charge for these plans out of the goodness of their hearts. But I guess that's inevitable.

Carrying out chips could be very useful, but it's also very scary and dangerous. What if we're forced by law to have these things inserted? We could be tracked and monitored continuously in the name of safety from terrorism. Though part of me knows chipping is inevitable: It is too powerful to resist for governments and large corporations.

" . . . and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." -- Revelation 13:15-17

I always use Pronouncable passwords myself. They're easy to remember but still not brute forcible.

So why not tell them to stop doing that rather than trying to sue them out of existence?

FTFA:

They weren't sued out of existence, just asked to pay the license fee and stop using trademarked items.

I was going to mention boo.com! The store where you could match and view clothes in full 3d. They poured so many tens of millions of dollars into it before it burst, but it was cool to look at while it was still online.

Here in Holland you can show full frontal nudity on magazine covers, but not on children's eye level or lower if it's erotic. If it's non-erotic you can place it anywhere you want (including daytime commercials).

You might get a percentage off the first year, up to 50% if you're lucky. Or you get a gadget or something similar, but otherwise the subscription cost is only marginally below store cost.