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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/11/honda.robot.ap/index.html I though this could be put either in the philosophy or business section. If the mods wish to move it then so be it. So currently the technology exists where robots are able to clean pools, vacuume houses, serve drinks, and...

How come we haven't bred dogs to be superintelligent? Is there a principled limit on how smart dogs could be bred to be? Think of how smart the product of twenty or thirty years of intensive breeding would be.

:D Hey, I'm a registered Republican and I want to be the first to say that I resemble that remark.

I'm a stupid dumbass! :mad: No, this isn't me crying out for attention, it's the set-up for this thread. In the 'Evolution Major' thread, there was this statement: I'm here to say that the same person can be mocked for both. I'm the one who thinks I'm the dumbass. I know exactly what...

If the technological march doesn't stop, (which it may), at some point, machines will have to become as smart as us, won't they?

eg most appear to believe that most Christians are militant fundies. This does not exactly display brilliant powers of deduction (or even a casual grasp of reality).

I've read the gospels off and on since my childhood, and Jesus just never impressed me as very intelligent. He suffers in comparison with ancient poets, philosophers, statesmen and historians, whose surviving writings often reveal shrewd insights into the human condition, derived from...

Link Here Oh Livermore, Livermore, Livermore. You took taxpayer money, that probably came from more than just your city taxes and spent it on a big beautiful mural for your library. Unfortunately, the artist you chose clearly has responsibility problems or a distorted perception of, shall we...

Story Too rich for my blood! More here.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,114373,00.html ...full article How sh!tty!!

A certain popular talk show host(ess) and her show donated a large number of pc's to a school which only had a couple of old bangers. I think that's brilliant, except they bought them a bunch of top-of-the-line gateway pc's with 17 in flat screens... I've often thought that it would be a better...

Ex-Rivals Dole, Clinton Debate Iraq I have to agree. Whatever you think of the war in Iraq, the US leaving now would be completely irresponsible and cowardly. And there's a bit of humor at the bottom of the page:

just another reason I'm glad I dont live there...if its taken them this long to figure that out.......sad

One of the fundamental christian tenets is that God is three things: Omnipotent, which means all-powerful Omnicient, which means all-knowing Omnibenevolent, which means all-good My question is, how can God be these things, and still allow all the suffering in the world to exist? A christian...

I was reading a small article on Ars-Technica about RFID tags and how they can be used to tell your washing machine how to wash a garment or what settings your microwave should be set on to cook food when I realized that isn't necessarily a useful feature. As an example, here at work I have a...