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WCDT 2071-75 (Dec. 5-9, 2011)
CrowFairy:
It's a little depressing that nobody has yet to insert the nice, healthy medium of the discussion in the comic. People should be amazed at the very thing that Marigold implies isn't interesting: They have these robots, and they could easily take over, and they haven't. That's a miracle. It's not something where we should wonder when they will, and we shouldn't just throw it away as if it were as natural as anything else. This is something on a completely different level than anything else mankind has managed, and the only two ideas presented are paranoia and apathy. I feel like Hanners will need to step in next, or things will just continue to go south in this conversation.
JohnTheWysard:
--- Quote from: BoDJangles on 05 Dec 2011, 04:59 ---I'd say the big one is freedom of movement? The ability to fly implies that people from formerly isolated communities and nations will suddenly be able to interact and intermix freely, because journeys that used to take weeks, months, or years can now be completed in days.
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I was visiting my great-aunt Muriel in 1995, a few months before her death. She was born in Shanghai in 1896. She recounted how her father had showed her a newspaper - delivered by steamship, two months after its publication - with big headlines about a couple of guys named Wright and their aeroplane.
She paused, looked thoughtful, and said "And I've also watched men walk on the Moon."
We just get so damned blasé at times...
Is it cold in here?:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Dec 2011, 16:55 ---Is the question whether AIs should be given rights, or whether or not the rights are really ours to give, and not simply theirs to take, just as we do?
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People who believe in social contract theory would say that both parties would have to agree before even the most basic rights could be enforced.
SomeCanadianWeirdo:
--- Quote from: cesariojpn on 05 Dec 2011, 17:42 ---
--- Quote from: SomeCanadianWeirdo on 05 Dec 2011, 06:11 ---Seems to me Wil dresses the same way sometimes. White shirt with a bowtie.
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I have friends who's clothing arrangement is basic. One dresses entirely with a black T-Shirt and black Jeans. Very rarely does he dress up in something else.
I also have a friend who used to have 14 pieces of clothing (7 shirts, 7 pants) for the entire week. THATS it. Then he had to move to a much colder climate..... :lol:
And one friend only dressed up in white panties. of course, that was a part of the D/s relationship she had with someone.....
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I've sometimes thought about going the 3 or 4 pairs of pants, 3 or 4 t shirts route as far as clothing goes. Then there are the people trying the 100 item challenge, where you try to pare down your personal items to 100 or less, although there's some flexibility of what might count as an item ie your CD collection might be considered one item.
cesariojpn:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 05 Dec 2011, 19:33 ---NPR gave it 3:54, and that was without all the basic edumacation on lightyears...
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Who cares about NPR aside from "Car Talk" and "A Prairie Home Companion?"
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