Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!
Realistically, that would get annoying pretty fast and I’d soon learn to hate any song I chose. So I’d pick 4′33″, which is four minutes and 33 seconds of silence.
But otherwise I’d pick “One Bad Tank”, from the video game Left4Dead2. It’s the song that plays when the boss enemy enters a particular map.
For some reason fungal mycelial networks and tardigrades were all the rage in pop sci and internet memes circa 2015. The writers just hopped on the bandwagon when they were deciding how their non-warp propulsion plot point would work.
Man it sure is crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide.
It’s pretty much as clean going into the pipe as it is coming out. Water pipes are kept pressurized so that any cracks or breaks push water out instead of letting contaminants in.
My mom’s early 90’s minivan. I think it was a Voyager.
Me over here in my Spaceballs shirt.
I bet they have good weed, though.
“Privacy” in the modern sense is less about protecting you from personal embarrassment or financial loss, and more about protecting society from the dangers of mass data collection.
Historical examples of mass datasets that were misused:
In none of these examples were the data collected for the evil purposes it was eventually used for. In some cases, the evil purposes were completely forbidden by the rules governing the data, but they were used anyway.
Information is a form of knowledge. Knowledge is power. And power in the wrong hands is dangerous.
When in doubt, shut up.
Surprised the article didn’t point out that the “Tim” axis is also pointing in the wrong direction.
The economic bubble being created between the AI and hardware companies is going to pop and take out huge swathes of the broader economy, a la mortgages in 2008.
Relevant Robot Chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf5BkEhJ5fI
Not all species reproduce sexually. Not all sexual reproduction involves pairs.
I got a contact sugar high just from clicking that link.
The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.
otherwise we would just switch it off
If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.
A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?
Now wait a second. I don’t think Quark ever sold shoddy merchandise. Overpriced? Sure! Stolen? Probably! Contraband? Absolutely! But low quality merchandise doesn’t breed customer loyalty. It doesn’t generate repeat business.
Remember the 57th rule of acquisition: Good customers are as rare as latinum. Treasure them.
The true captain will give up the chair rather than see it cut in half.
I prefer Babylon 9: The Next Iteration.