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No, the implication of the post to which you were responding is not that restriction is inherently good, but rather that restriction is not inherently bad.

The GPL is not ouroboros. Restricting the freedom to restrict is not at all comparable to the PATRIOT Act. It is more akin to the Bill of Rights, or other such laws preventing cert…

How do laws against gay marriage not restrict freedom?

I think it would be helpful to be clearer as to why you disagree with the analogy rather than simply calling it stupid. If I had to guess, I would suspect that your real issue is t…

Really, the only thing the GPL restricts is your ability to restrict. (Incidentally, this is comparable to restricting the freedom to enslave; it is a restriction on restriction.) …

Yeah, I'm not talking about morality at all here. Our technological prowess, resulting from the application of our intelligence, has enabled us to wipe out entire species.

> How can we say that by the time we have such wondrous machines that we as a species will not have found ways to move ourselves forward to a place on equal footing with whatever w…

I see a lot of very opinionated dissent to even discussing the ideas presented in this article. Let me try to paraphrase in a way that hopefully levels the playing ground and maybe…

Sort of. 'Bad' here is of course an extremely subjective term. And it may not be the case that the machines do not understand the longer-term consequences of their actions; they co…

1. Machine intelligence, traditionally called artificial intelligence, which surpasses human intelligence. 2. Your category (b) is generally the primary concern in these types of d…

It has been my experience that the more a particular person attempts to understand and control machine intelligence, the more she grows to fear it and its potential.

How do we ensure a proper association between the samples taken and the person in question, in particular as described in the case from the article, especially without some sort of…

I am not entirely sure what you are saying here, but the way I have always understood it is: data is knowledge; the ability to apply knowledge is intelligence. Netflix has a consid…

No, I think "the messed up part about the whole situation" is the inexcusable harrassment she is subjected to.

Oh, man, those sounds! Brings back a lot of memories. Speaking of which, forget how the original port "looked", listen to the amazing things DINTAR816 is doing with his roms.

Just out of curiosity, have you tried StumpWM? It was also created by Shawn Betts; the idea was essentially to rewrite ratpoison in lisp.