Comment Geez. (Score 2) 32
Even Batman's job is threatened by AI.
Comment Bah. (Score 2) 70
It's just ET trying to phone home. Probably dialed the wrong number.
Comment shades of Lysenkoism (Score 1) 245
Ideology vetos reality, news at 11.
Comment Re:Um... (Score 2) 95
Aren't most of the stories written around these three rules about ambiguities and loopholes
Yes, and the point you quoted still stands, they are a starting point.
The always relevant XKCD comic explains it well enough: those laws in that order are essential as the starting point. Different order or missing entirely is guaranteed bad. But as pointed out through all kinds of science fiction writing, there are many ways we can understand they are insufficient.
Right now I'd agree they're exactly backwards, or as the XKCD comic described, on track to become a "killbot hellscape". We need even more rules and regulations than that, but as a set of fairly obvious first steps penned 80 years ago, they're pretty blatantly an essential first draft of baseline rules that are missing today.
Comment Yep. (Score 1, Troll) 59
A lot of people behave pretty ghastly when it comes to money.
Comment Re: We are also paying the Germans 1.2 billion (Score 1) 138
Domestic panels will get more expensive, too, as they are made from polysilicon.
Comment Re:Suggests abiogenesis is easy (Score 3, Insightful) 104
If this is accurate, this suggests that abiogenesis is easy once one has a stable, watery environment, since it happened twice on Earth.
That was my first thought too. (Assuming the article is correct - all kinds of stuff gets published that doesn't hold up in the longer run.)
One potential conclusion about the Fermi paradox [...]
Remember that time is also big. Suppose that there have been 1000 interstellar civilizations in our galaxy during the past 5 billion years, and that each one lasted a million years before collapsing. How many would be active right now?
Frankly, I don't consider it a paradox at all. We've explored approximately 0% of our galaxy and found nothing. That doesn't tell us much.
Comment dumbass (Score 2) 87
Doesn't he know he's supposed to play the fiddle while he destroys his country?
Comment Re:Another democracy safeguard dismantled (Score 1) 125
Yes all the time. Using a Tablo DVR
Comment Critical Updates? (Score 1) 249
How about car manufacturers ship cars that don't need regular OTA "critical updates"?
Comment Re:Ivermectin is better (Score 2) 207
This has to be a troll. Nobody on Slashdot is actually this stupid.
I'm skeptical about that second part.
As for trolls, I wonder if some anti-vax propaganda is being pushed by hostile foreign powers as a way of hurting us.
Submission + - Times Magazine now serves ads that only AI chatbots can see (theregister.com)
mccalli writes: Times Magazine has started serving adverts with 'brand messages' to AI crawlers, which are not part of its main page. The aim seems to be to influence the chatbots to talk about the brand offerings in a positive light that can't be traced back to the actual page. Notably they've excluded Google chatbots from this, likely because Google penalise companies that show different search offerings to their bots vs actual human visitors.
More here as well as on the The Register.
More here as well as on the The Register.
Comment Why such cynicism int all the posts? (Score 1) 15
It's just a story about Meta and AI.
Oh, nevermind.
Comment Re:"The Beating of a Liberal" (Score 2) 53
For extremists of all flavors, violence is always preferable to the voting booth.
Comment What?!?!? (Score 5, Funny) 76
Surely they're not going to cut off the data centers just so ordinary people can have electricity?
