December 2011
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jephjacques: UN Hearing On AI Rights →
jephjacques:
The subject of this debate is whether AIs are “people-” whether they possess the same degree of personhood as humans, and whether that entitles them to the same rights.
You have heard all the arguments for and against the consciousness, intelligence, free will, and cognition of artificial…
In which Jeph Jacques expands the soft-scifi aspects of the Questionable Content...
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“At Xmas, the average UK household purchases enough food to build a small fort....”
– @Betfairpoker
“You see that sadness in her eyes? I put it there.”
– @Betfairpoker
Inception
Inception \In*cep”tion, n. [L. inceptio, fr. incipere to begin; pref. in- in + capere to take. See {Capable}.]
1. Beginning; commencement; initiation. —Bacon.
Marked with vivacity of inception, apathy of progress, and prematureness of decay. —Rawle.
2. Reception; a taking in. [R.] —Poe.
[1913 Webster]
Putting something inside a...
“Health and safety is concerned with the proportionate management of real risks...”
– Judith Hackitt, the chair of the Health & Safety Executive, is just as fed up with “It’s a health & safety issue” as we are.
After all, it never stopped the Grand Old Duke of York
HSE hits back over Wimbledon ‘health and safety’ claim
“On this occasion it’s the monumental fuss about gay marriage in Scotland. Now...”
– Susan Calman – Comedian, Actress and Writer » All I want for Christmas – are the same rights as you.
Read the fairytale.
“This year saw Duke Nukem Forever released, and Textmate 2 hit Alpha. Fuck, the...”
– @kianryan
Flavorwire » Fascinating Photos of Gamers vs.... →
A clergyman once bought a mattress
And a stand for to use as a hatrest.
It would solve quite the plight,
where to put it at night
as the Bishop then said to the actress
“Gay people are born into and belong to every society in the world. They are all...”
– Hillary Clinton (via secretsormysteries)
Being gay is not a western invention.
Excuse me, just going to go and write this in every language in thousand mile high letters on the fucking moon
(via apiphile)
The intersection of Pandas and Politics
duckbunny: today I have learned a good fact
penny: what is it?
duckbunny: Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs
Simon Cowell
From Simon’s twitter stream:
And on the subject of movies, why haven’t they made Anchorman 2? It’s the funniest film I have ever seen.
And that’s… the whole thing, I think. It explains everything I find annoying about him. First, he’s enamoured of an over-rated under-funny embarrassment-humour-focused work of extreme dross (You are, of couse, entitled to your...
“Those push-up bras don’t work. Bought one for my girlfriend, and she can...”
– @Pundamentalism