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They are literally willing to mail out samples of their claimed superconducting material to labs for independent testing and verification.

Exactly how much more proof than "Here, have a super conductor we made" do you want exactly?

The only thing required is a little patience.

To play devils advocate here, Google has been an absolutely mind blowing company. They didn't do it by being Average, and perfect diversity means exactly that... Average.

Why are people so interested in screwing up something that obviously works, and works so amazingly well in pursuit of absurd ideologies?

The laws of the universe forbid steam locomotives in space, and yet we reached mars regardless. And here we are, barely even regular Inteligences.

The laws of computational complexity seem like a stronger candidate for a hard limit, but that only means that to get smarter they will require more matter to distribute comoutations across.

The battery limit proposal is just silly.

nothing for 10,000 years - however long ago they built it.

Texan

my math suggests something approximating the size of a star could achieve fusion by using only gravity for containment.

I wouldn't want to stand too close to that sucker though.

AI has alway struck me as an absurd nomenclature.

Inteligence is inteligence regardless of origin.

Might as well call us AI Accidental Inteligence.

I kinda like Engineered Inteligence.

So can mouse poop, but it's extraordinarily rare so no one really worries about it, well no one sane. Err present company excluded ;)

http://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/

It's rare enough that individual cases end up on TV.

Since people are irrational, playing, or listening to music on a Stradivarius might create a more pleasurable experience, despite sounding qualitatively equivalent.

Likewise owning one.

It wont make you sound better but it will almost certainly make peope enjoy listening to you more... You know unless they percieve you as a pretentious snot at least.

The world is a very large place with lots of room for strange things to happen in it.

The part i don't get in all this discussion is that being alone is a physical thing, but being lonely is a choice, a perception that can be changed subjectively.

If you are feeling lonely, and don't like. Stop. On the other hand if you are enjoying feeling bad, which happens more frequently than most people seem to realize, then don't complain.

DNS resolution logs...

Brilliant. I love you.

>organize

If only there were not an agency dedicated to the disruption of organized opposition.

It's incredibly simple to disrupt emerging organizations in to chaos when you have access to everyone's metadata. You don't have to assassinate anyone, you don't even have to discredit all of the important nodes, although that's a useful tool. Many of the critical nodes won't recognize themselves as such. Divert them to other interests, personal, professional, philosophical/moral or legal... And a movement sputters and scatters in to emephera instead of transitioning in to an effective force for change.

Social judo is vastly more effective than jackboots ever dream of being.

If by leadership you mean fire the instigator of the asshattery then I agree with you.

Damn man... how many people do you let drive your car?

>Also the devaluation of training would create another disincentive that would keep some people from acquiring training in the first place.

Then having that training, if anyone actually needed it, would be a highly valuable trait.

It's not actually that hard. People who prove they cannot manage their BI are required to participate in a managed BI program. The individual can chose from any/all licenced managers (or an individual/family member willing to accept the responsibility) who provide varying levels of service for a specified Percentage of your BI.

Maybe an efficiency apartment with groceries delivered for 80%. Maybe a bunk in a dorm and a meal ticket for 50%.

Even an individual who can't manage their own money can still chose a service based on their needs.

Obviously it would. You are trying to conflate having a family with living in an over priced high demand location. Try again.

The highly trained of today fear the devaluation of their training. They would like to keep their relatively advantaged position, they are the ones with something to lose.

You want to have your cake and eat it too.

Either the required training is enough of a disincentive to make the Job Undesirable... and pay high. Or it's not.

Required training is not likely to be so scarce when people can chose to train without risking starvation or surviving on 4 hours of sleep a night.

Which is the real problem most of those with "training" fear. It's devaluation when even poor people can get it without Herculean efforts.

It's a feature.