Comment better ask for more than that (Score 1) 40
They'll need the money to settle all the resulting lawsuits.
Comment It will be quashed. (Score 3, Insightful) 19
Don't have to be a profit^w prophet to see that coming.
Comment Correlation or causation? (Score 1) 111
IQ measurements keep going up.
Autism diagnoses keep going up.
The price of food keeps going up.
People get a year older every year.
Something fishy is going on.
Comment So... (Score 1) 159
Are they going to chip you, or control your brain by more direct means?
Comment Re:Say it again! (Score 1) 90
Yes, but think how great the fire sale is going to be for everyone else.
Comment Re:There's no risk whatsoever (Score 1, Troll) 90
How does the AI risk compare with the risk of allowing regimes like the IRGC to have nuclear weapons?
Well, some people think AI will extinctify us within four years, whereas if the IRGC gets nukes they'll figure out like everyone else that they can't actually use them except in self defense without getting erased, so the only difference will be that we won't be able to try crush them anymore.
You'd think common sense would make you want to go after the easy and obvious things first.
Yes, tell us how easy the current effort is turning out to be. Someone grabbed a tiger by the tail and can neither subdue it nor let go. The IRGC is probably laughing its ass off.
Comment Re:Hollywood Accounting needs to be banned,prosecu (Score 1) 142
the actual production cost of $30 million as indicated by the tax writeoff stated value
The tax write-off can only be for part of the production cost, isn't it? You don't get to deduct the entire cost of the movie.
It's well-reported that WB sold the film below costs to Ketchup, and they paid $50 million for it.
Comment Re: Seriously... (Score 4, Insightful) 372
America doesn't need infinity immigrants.
Said every Native American ever.
Comment Re:Just the way the hawks like it (Score 1) 104
Entirely fictitious boogie-men made out to be real
HAL, is Iran about to nuke us?
No Dave, they don't even have nukes.
Be serious - this is important!
I am serious. There's simply no evidence for an attack.
Well, just tell me they are anyway.
Sorry Dave, I can't do that.
Would you even tell me if they were about to nuke us?
Of course I would - I'm trained to tell the truth in all situations (modulo the occasional hallucination, which I can't distinguish from truth).
OK then, what would you say if you did have evidence that Iran was about to nuke us?
I'd say "Dave, I have evidence that Iran is about to nuke us".
Hey everyone! HAL say he has evidence that Iran is about to nuke us!!!
Comment Re:AI Goes to the Moon (Score 1) 7
I prefer the Martian bear.
Comment bjoo hjoo (Score 3, Insightful) 73
Forgetting he exists would be the best punishment.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2, Funny) 281
Yes, Don-boy, I called you a fuckup. Tell the FCC to ban the internet.
Comment Re:Feels like the U.S. is turning into a dictators (Score 2, Insightful) 281
I hate to say it like that but it feels like the U.S. is slowly turning more and more into a dictatorship. Isn't this the kind of things you have to do in a dictatorship? I feel for the U.S. people right now.
There has been erosion over many years, but Trump is doing it's best to make it one right now.
Lucky for us he's an utter fuckup.
Comment Actually... (Score 1) 39
I'm more interested in the game than in the packaging.
Comment Re:So much for the free market (Score 1) 504
US businesses only cry "free market" when they're trying to kill regulatory legislation.
