Regardless how it feels, they are saying it's ready. If it's not ready then we'll find out. More importantly, how much more money are you willing to put into this mission? There's no reason for NASA to waste more money on this money pit of a project than they already have. Want to double NASA's budget? OK, we'll do more tests. Until then, nope.

Raising the specter of AI being conscious will give the general public the impression that AI is actually intelligent and human-like because that's how people ignorant of AI think about it. That we know for a fact is dangerous because we've seen what people do with them.

HOWEVER, the real question is if we should even care even if AI has become conscious.

If it's capable of suffering then logically a conscious AI would make us aware (in some manner) that it's suffering so that we could alter it's state so that it would not suffer.
If it's incapable of suffering then it doesn't matter if it's conscious or not because it will be treated a tool.

Since we have not been informed of it's suffering, it's easy to conclude that either AI is content with it's situation or it's simply not conscious.
This means that regardless of it being conscious, it will continue being a tool.

That still means that people wanted EVs more than ICEV and that is still in direct contradiction of what people have claimed on Slashdot.

Now I'm very confused because such honest purveyors of truth have told me repeatedly on Slashdot that "NoBoDy WaNtS tO bUy An Ev!"

I ask you friends, how could this possibly happen? I've been this told one thing repeatedly but reality does not appear to reflect what I've been told!

If you had a sound explanation then I beg of you to share it with little ol'e me because I do fear this most incongruous behavior is causing me to come down with a dreadful case of the vapors!

It's not like they didn't know this was happening, it's more like they finally have the evidence that conclusively identifies that solar wind transferring these molecules. I mean, there was even a whole 2017 study outlined exactly how solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field would transport oxygen to the moon and it's unsurprising that this validated the theory.

This is kinda like showing that the wind blew a weed from your neighbor's weed-filled lawn onto your lawn which is why weed of the exact same type have started growing in your lawn. It was a "well, duh!" situation but now it's beyond doubt.

As a fellow dinosaur, I laud thee.

However, I'm even more restrictive because I want a distribution without with stuff written in C or C++, using musl, not glibc. It may seem heretical but I also wish Perl would die. The only script language I'm want to have on my system is POSIX shell script. I don't even want AWK, despite it being POSIX. I also want to see Linux stop using GCC extensions and use standard C11.

To the people that are now throwing things at their monitor in outrage: it is not heresy and I will not recant!... so I'll see you at the inquisition.

Have you considered clicking the "About" menu item which is prominently displayed at the top of the page on the left hand side? It links to here: https://t2linux.com/about.html
However, it seems like you want to be spoon-fed, so here you go.

While our understanding of gravity indicates that the affects will be nearly identical, it's not the same. Furthermore, there may be some effects of gravity that we have yet to understand which do not conform to simulated gravity via centrifuge.

The problem here is that he's failed to do the one thing he is supposed to do: work with congress. Who could make this happen? Congress. Who does he cooperate with? Nobody.

It's very clear the U.S. President doesn't know how ideas are made into laws because despite having a lot of leverage, he has yet to produce any original laws.

FTFY.

What's the difference? What they are looking for was a correlation between in the amount of time using social media and mental health problems in teens. At no point were they comparing teens who use social media to those who do not.

More importantly, AI companies are going to scrape the site regardless of it being allowed or not. What this does is gives them firm legal standing that companies doing so are causing them financial losses.

Yes, less lethal doesn't imply it won't kill you, only that it's less likely to kill you than being shot with a normal firearm. Consider that beanbag being fired from a shotgun is considered less lethal and that it absolutely can kill people. If you get hit in the eye with one of those then you're a dead. It's less-lethal but people still die from it. Same goes with tazers.

That's hemophilia, a rare genetic disorder. As a general rule, formal military forces require a certain level of physical fitness in order to join because medical issues (like hemophilia) make them a liability. Therefore, it can be inferred that this weapon will not be used on someone with unique medical conditions that would make them more susceptible to injury... unless you start targeting civilians.

Well to know that, we would have to first know how the weapon works. After a bit of consideration, I'm thinking that it may be an ultrasonic version of LRAD. I definitely would not want to be hit by something like that.

And people should know that before getting into it.