AndyW

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• Commented on Pushing it back
  Late to the party, but this reminded me of a Kurzgesagt video on this very subject (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRvv0QdruMQ). It's very pop-science, but vetted by specialists, and they do provide links to the academic papers the video is based on. The bottom...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Every time I see "AI" I think of sloths. It's far more relevant, since at this point it's mainly a marketing term....
• Commented on Make Up a Guy
  The issue is the same one as was raised in Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon - only there is was instancing of the same personality into multiple bodies (sleeves). As soon as you start copying people into a sentient substrate...
• Commented on WTF
  In relation to the original topic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64140571 New York approves composting of human bodies (BBC) First Thought: "Yay! Resyk!" (dates me somewhat) Second Thought: "Actually, that's a nice idea. Being able to to plant a tree in soil derived from...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  But Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson was born in New York - so is a perfectly acceptable candidate. :p...
• Commented on London Bridge
  Prior to the dead bengal tiger being hurled onto the table Truss was already talking about restarting fracking and pulling out of the ECHR (it being championed in the UK by that arch commie Winston Churchill). With any luck the...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Sajid Javid's latest claim is that a prayer meeting inspired him to resign (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62113401), which is an obvious pitch to the Jam & Jerusalem brigade within the cult although it does beg the question as to whether he has any...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  [i]Average age was close to 70 before the influx of ex-UKIP/BNP/BXP entryists in 2017-19, and they're foaming lunatic xenophobes.[/i] Just to back up Charlie in regard to the Tory Party membership demographic, lest people think that average age close to...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  is wanting a better crowd the same as wanting them to riot tho? It is when you know they are armed and tell them to go to the Capitol....
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  Bang on Martin - there was a whole social history rabbit hole behind that outrage even then. This was the era of Mary Whitehouse after all. Proof that you don't need the internet to start outrage one-upmanship (although it does...
• Commented on Books I will not write: BIGGLES!!
  (Finally Moveable type accepts my email address!) Regarding "Spirit of the Age" - yes, it looks creepy now, but remember it was written in 1971 (and recorded a few years later) when the age of consent/majority/etc was in a state...