tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post5091300527723968756..comments2024-03-29T05:00:41.967-05:00Comments on driftglass: David Brooks Welcomes Our New, Robot Overlordsdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-34652875192949112122013-12-12T15:46:27.998-06:002013-12-12T15:46:27.998-06:00It won't be so bad if Kelly Freas is designing...It won't be so bad if Kelly Freas is designing the robots. Probably have the three laws built in. Just don't let Jack Williamson near them Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-60686521144468529252013-12-12T10:41:14.220-06:002013-12-12T10:41:14.220-06:00Mr. Brooks on Suicide of course brings to mind the...Mr. Brooks on Suicide of course brings to mind the classic Monty Python line (delivered by Graham Chapman,) "After all, a murderer is just an extroverted suicide." Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04075842809644056330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-15821935633911492632013-12-12T09:35:04.713-06:002013-12-12T09:35:04.713-06:00Seem Brooks watches a few TED talks over the weeke...Seem Brooks watches a few TED talks over the weekend and puts together his own simplified understanding of those talks into two columns for nytimes.CMhttp://www.google.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-5896931273152979062013-12-12T09:11:02.944-06:002013-12-12T09:11:02.944-06:00"And, as our friend Nietzsche observed, he wh..."And, as our friend Nietzsche observed, he who has a why to live for can withstand any how."<br /><br />He also said,<br />"It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night."<br /><br />Leo Tolstoy said,<br />"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." <br /><br /> SamSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14090091053587304722013-12-12T03:13:37.920-06:002013-12-12T03:13:37.920-06:00Dear. God. Words. Fail. His column is evil. Just e...Dear. God. Words. Fail. His column is evil. Just evil.Kathleennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1522235186499042202013-12-11T22:56:31.687-06:002013-12-11T22:56:31.687-06:00"Computer-driven data analysis"? That re..."Computer-driven data analysis"? That reads like he's about to tell them damn kids to get off his lawn and then rant about how them fancy calculatin' boxes is fixin' to take over.Striderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14891568020027487586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-53776757569000439042013-12-11T22:55:27.453-06:002013-12-11T22:55:27.453-06:00Awww Geez.
And here I thought the real problem is...Awww Geez.<br /><br />And here I thought the real problem is that our Robot Overloards (or, at the very least, their lackeys) are holding, if not Christmas itself, then the cherubbie/teletubbyish Papa himself hostage inside a small, tight advent calendar-type prison cell-like enclosure.<br /><br />Or some such <a href="http://pacificgazette.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-advent-jukeday-10.html" rel="nofollow">thing.</a><br /><br />.RossKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677239332112652522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-57894498303935142212013-12-11T22:21:17.654-06:002013-12-11T22:21:17.654-06:00How about changing diapers? We gonna have machines...How about changing diapers? We gonna have machines do that? Feeding children? By now, any liberal with a brain and an actual grasp on what human survival and health requires should see the patriarchal capitalist structure of the evangel of "intelligent machines" doing all that is meaningful and anything shy being worthless. The gospel of economic rentiers is bullshit.wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.com