Thanks for the thorough answer. I guess I’ll just scrap this orbital data centre I was building.

How do the fins help if there’s no hot material being jettisoned? Are we assuming there is some atmosphere that will absorb the heat through (I’m guessing) convection?

He may not believe in thermodynamics

How does thermodynamics make this a bad idea? Is it because the heat generated can’t escape?

The article doesn’t describe the nature of the pivotal moment, or what De Jong is coming to terms with.

At first I assumed you hadn’t read the article and I almost mocked you for it. Then I decided to read the article first, and learned that the information is not in the article.

It’s more than one and one third dozen dozens.

I can see this angle too.

This is hype to make them sound badass.

LibreOffice is generally better anyway. I’ll admit there are some formatting things I find smoother in Office, but overall it’s bloatware and it keeps crashing. I really hate Office and avoid it whenever I can.

Nay

I have some old Tupperware I could spare.

Thank you China

What do you suggest?

Just trust the government with your identity bro

fully conscious according to any test I can think of

There’s no such thing as an actual test for consciousness in machines. We can do tests on animals to see if their sensory experience includes self-awareness, but we’re already operating on the assumption that they have feelings and sensory experience because they have a brain and nervous system like us, and they’re all directly related to us (as all organisms are). But that’s totally different from designing a machine which mimics (or predicts/auto-completes) our observable behavior and then assuming that it “doesn’t like” something or does anything “for fun.”

What sucks is that some idiots are going to start falling for this. And eventually software will be given human rights, which actually means that the software’s owners will have extra rights compared to the rest of us.

Damn. Time to get rid of nova launch.

I hope they make papyrus the official font

Amazing on so many levels.

“smart” cars