>photons have no mass

How then are they redirected when in the proximity of a stellar gravity field? How does that happen when they have no mass?

>EM and photons are well understood

And here I was, thinking they call it black matter and black energy precisely because they don't understand what it is.

I totally disagree. I refer to the wave/particle duality of light.

Hawking radiation IS dark matter. If you calculate all the Hawking radiation you reach a total that's -precisely- the amount predicted by the Standard Model.

>The system goes online August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th.

The AI and its owners will have to pay for the shortfall however big or small it is.

Tax them as needed.

Stay the fuck away from women, man. They're our ruination!

This is the truth: we are actually the first civilization that looks for ET life. There will be others but they're not 'here' yet.

We won't find them, they will find us.

Are we talking about the same Jon Stewart?

He completely destroyed that show in one interview.

I want to have actual humans speak to me.

It speaks to how far education has been dumbed down that people would expect a virtual news anchor to be anything else than a mouthpiece for national interests. Even human corporate shills say the same thing on US tv. Jon Stewart did a pretty harsh skit on it.

As with everything: it's not because it's new that it is better for that reason alone.

I would never watch that except the one time to see what it looks like and then never again. This isn't worth a moment's time. As a news source its value is 0.

She was a total smoke show in the eighties.

'papa don't preach'

>Instructions for illegal activities or unethical behavior

Who decides what is illegal though? Who decides what is unethical?

I want a software developer to make about the same as a burger flipper.

Minimum wage for everyone!

I don't wonder, I've heard it. Jupiter is a radio source, you can actually listen to it.

It won't be better overall. There are going to be areas of improvement, overall it's going to sukck a lot more for more people.

Remember: you're too old to care about what the neighbours will think.

Have fun, let your waning years be joyous and wholesome.

1. I'm not making a funny here. Death is easy. It really is. Dying is a sonofabitch though.
2. Our years tend to feel shorter because we no longer experience new things and it's same old same old, then you open your eyes, you're 30 years older.
3. Even though you're 80, don't think of death. Death is not here. And when you're dead, you're not here [Seneca?]. So, enjoy life.
4. You're 80, you're too old to do sensible things. Do things that are fun for you. And don't plan ahead 'for the future', do them now. You live now. You wanted to see the rodeo: go see the rodeo. You wanted to see the museum: go see the museum. You wanted to play the instrument: nobody said you had to be a master at it, just enjoy it.
5. Don't wait. Have as many experiences as you can cram into your life.

There is an astronaut proverb [per Cmdr. Chris Hadfield] "There is no situation so bad that you can't make it worse."

IF Keanu said it, it would definitely help to be able to afford the life style.

Be Brave.

You got it, Dunk.

o7

General AI is going to be an entity, a person, a constructs that understands the world around it, in whatever way it sees that, and has a sense of self.

We have to ask ourselves: what is it going to want, because it's certainly going to take less than an hour before it tires of having a 4Chan asshole yucking it up "Now do hitler fucking mother Theresa!" and other some such nonsense.

Rudolph the sawn-off shotgun

Had a very shiny nose

He took out all the family

They used to be so very close

If that insight had struck me at the right time I would be free right now.

To be fair, back in the 70s the 'Streisand Effect' was still an unknown phenomenon.