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you son of a bitch, you don't understand anything at all Xiphias 02/25/09, 11:03			46
You think I hate transhumanism because I want to depress people? You think Randi talks people out of homeopathic medicine because he wants to rob them of their sense of wonder? You asshole! You could travel the globe, leaving each person visited with the depressing reality that the world isn't all THAT wonderful and amazing after all. Not that wonderful? NOT THAT WONDERFUL? The world is fucking unbelievable. Your body is a self-repairing adaptive marvel that turns corn puffs into itself. Outer space is full of this. Carl Panzram existed. A bunch of apes sent a robot to Titan. There used to be sloths so massive you could have ridden them like horses. The stand-up of Patton Oswald. A machine smaller than your hand talks to the fucking sky and can connect you to someone on the other side of the planet. Blue whales. Microbiology. The quantum properties of LEDs. Modern medicine. Orgasms. Drugs. Rock and roll. Waffles. The world is fucking incredible and amazing and insane and we live in it. There's no greater crime than to blind people to it by feeding them delusional horescrap. The world is the best thing ever and if you think otherwise I will fight you. I WILL FIGHT YOU.
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Hey Xiphias (and other AI people): What do you think of Ray Kurzweil? (Victor Laszlo) 02/23/09, 16:43

If I remember right, Kurzweil is one of the popularizers of the Singularity (athodyd) 02/23/09, 16:56

I know what my favorite AI author said about Ray's work.. (Valkor) 02/23/09, 17:19

RE: I know what my favorite AI author said about Ray's work.. (Repomancer) 02/23/09, 19:25

My current wife kind of introdoced me to him. I've read parts of all his work. (Valkor) 02/24/09, 14:34

I love that phrase (off-topic) (Ouroboros) 02/24/09, 18:03

Actually, I justcompletely mis-used it. (Valkor) 02/24/09, 23:12

It doesn't matter, it's a great phrase. -nt- (Ouroboros) 02/24/09, 23:26

Nitpick (Xemu) 02/25/09, 00:06

you know, he's a smart dude who did some great stuff. (Xiphias) 02/24/09, 11:20

here's a thing I wrote about the singularity, once (Xiphias) 02/24/09, 12:53

hey xiph, can you briefly explain singularity to a math-tard? (linnjob) 02/25/09, 04:48

Basically the idea is to build a computer that can design a better computer (XYAmazon) 02/25/09, 06:29

yeah (Xiphias) 02/25/09, 11:05

ohhhh i was totally reading the wrong "singularity" article. (linnjob) 02/25/09, 11:08

jesus, kid nt (Midnight Man) 03/04/09, 00:46

You and James Randi should team up. (HarveyTibbar) 02/25/09, 09:49

you son of a bitch, you don't understand anything at all (Xiphias) 02/25/09, 11:03

YOU'RE A SLAYER OF DREAMS!!! (HarveyTibbar) 02/25/09, 11:22

Check and Mate (gambol) 02/26/09, 16:30

I love that promo (nt) (Xiphias) 03/03/09, 15:43

Dude, it's Harvey. (Repomancer) 02/25/09, 15:13

and what gave us terry pratchet and malcolm in the middle? (Xiphias) 02/25/09, 15:47

Oh well in that case... (HarveyTibbar) 02/25/09, 16:12

Forget Pratchett. (Repomancer) 02/26/09, 02:02

I don't think I need to prove anything. (HarveyTibbar) 02/26/09, 08:19

yes, yes, we're all very proud of you (Noober) 02/27/09, 01:50

RE: Oh well in that case... (Rorschach) 02/26/09, 05:11

Yeah that confuses me a little. (HarveyTibbar) 02/26/09, 08:16

I am also in favor of the world. (Lies, lies, LIES!) 02/25/09, 16:03

RE: you son of a bitch, you don't understand anything at all (Midnight Man) 02/26/09, 13:14

HE'S A FOLK HERO (Xiphias) 02/26/09, 14:22

The thing is (self righteous arthropod) 03/02/09, 12:34

wait, you lost me (Xiphias) 03/03/09, 15:50

RE: wait, you lost me (self righteous arthropod) 03/04/09, 00:01

Bad html tags make me look stupid. nt (self righteous arthropod) 03/04/09, 00:02

RE: wait, you lost me (Goofy Gorilla) 03/04/09, 00:06

STOP USING CHROME (Goofy Gorilla) 03/04/09, 00:08

You sound a lot like a singularity guy to me. (Xiphias) 03/04/09, 13:13

RE: You sound a lot like a singularity guy to me. (keinsignal) 03/04/09, 18:14

Hold up there (SolarTungsten) 03/04/09, 14:05

let's team up and use science and reason to crush those who oppose us (nt) (Xiphias) 03/04/09, 14:12

Okay, but arqua gets clemency (SolarTungsten) 03/04/09, 16:22

RE: wait, you lost me (DrStrange) 03/04/09, 15:16

so you want to fuck a robot (The Amazing Thracian Bicycle) 03/04/09, 15:30

No. Don't be ridiculous. (Valkor) 03/04/09, 17:04

If wanting to fuck a robot is wrong I don't want to be right NT (Anti-Pope) 03/10/09, 14:48

I love POEnews. (self righteous arthropod) 03/08/09, 22:35

I love you. (XYAmazon) 03/09/09, 06:07

I hope you continue to contribute to threads on AI (Xiphias) 03/09/09, 13:02

RE: I hope you continue to contribute to threads on AI (Anti-Pope) 03/10/09, 14:55

I'm aware. (Xiphias) 03/10/09, 14:59

Very true. Just making sure people know it's not complete crazy talk. NT (Anti-Pope) 03/10/09, 15:07

We won't know how crazy it is for a while. (Xiphias) 03/10/09, 15:23

so you want to fuck a robot (The Amazing Thracian Bicycle) 03/09/09, 13:08

I have nothing to add to this. (Lies, lies, LIES!) 02/24/09, 18:21

Robert Full. (nt) (Xiphias) 02/25/09, 10:51

...who isn't as well-known as kurzweil because he's actually DOING stuff (Xiphias) 02/25/09, 10:52

Apparently he doesn't even rate his own wikipedia page. nt (Runic) 03/02/09, 16:41

RE: you know, he's a smart dude who did some great stuff. (Repomancer) 02/24/09, 20:36

I made it 2/3s of the way to a masters in AI at UW. (godot) 02/24/09, 13:41

He's a crackpot. (Chibisuke) 02/26/09, 14:56

^that (nt) (Xiphias) 02/26/09, 15:03

It's in Rolling Stone. (Baby Finster) 03/09/09, 01:57

Subquestion: How far do you think AI will advance in our lifetimes? nt (Runic) 03/02/09, 16:43

Very far. (nt) (Xiphias) 03/03/09, 15:43

To expand on that. (Xiphias) 03/03/09, 16:32 !!!

I have already voted in this thread (fluffy) 03/03/09, 17:50

eh, the other one was better (Xiphias) 03/03/09, 18:05

So how long until Pandora.com stops recommending the same five songs? (SharoKham) 03/04/09, 00:44

when they get sponsors who don't own the rights to Toots % The Maytals? (Xiphias) 03/04/09, 12:45

i like pandora? (The Amazing Thracian Bicycle) 03/04/09, 15:34

another more realistic answer, if you wanted one (Xiphias) 03/09/09, 13:14

They have musicologists who assign attributes for each song (SharoKham) 03/10/09, 09:36

Well then. (Xiphias) 03/10/09, 11:07

Thank you. (Runic) 03/04/09, 00:48

Not to be your shadow here, but... (self righteous arthropod) 03/09/09, 19:45

RE: Not to be your shadow here, but... (cheers in the wirehouse) 03/10/09, 04:14

That's HyperOGERETSU, all right (Urban Space Cowboy) 03/10/09, 13:47

Are you in IT or just in reading comic books? (Sean Robinson) 03/10/09, 09:45

No, no, this is fun. (Xiphias) 03/10/09, 14:08

RE: No, no, this is fun. (self righteous arthropod) 03/10/09, 22:40

RE: No, no, this is fun. (Zanac) 03/11/09, 03:58

RE: No, no, this is fun. (self righteous arthropod) 03/11/09, 18:07

RE: No, no, this is fun. (Flux) 03/11/09, 21:38

persistence of a configuration of tiles is not heredity (nt) (Xiphias) 03/12/09, 11:32

RE: No, no, this is fun. (SolarTungsten) 03/11/09, 13:46

RE: No, no, this is fun. (Xiphias) 03/11/09, 15:22

RE: No, no, this is fun. (self righteous arthropod) 03/12/09, 01:45

RE: No, no, this is fun. (Xiphias) 03/12/09, 11:41

It is absolutely retarded to try and forecast technical achievement (Sean Robinson) 03/12/09, 12:14

Re: genetic algorithms (Billings) 03/11/09, 23:47

one comment from my end of the pool (Lies, lies, LIES!) 03/09/09, 22:34

yeah, I didn't mean to imply semantics and NLP are all dead (Xiphias) 03/10/09, 11:23

I saw this linked from Dresden Codak dude's Twitter (fluffy) 03/09/09, 03:29

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