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It isn’t enough to take decent girls from their homes and shut them up in this prison to learn beastly opera all day.  Now you have to bring a bird along to do it as well.

At first we figured we could let the Market Predictor pick the best quality messages out of the large mass of drivel. Just show the user the messages that the Market Predictor uses to predict the future of the markets. As it turned out, this worked pretty badly. The problem was, if there were 100 messages saying “Microsoft sucks” on a given day, this may be predictive of market movements, but the messages still don’t make interesting reading.

As one investor said at the time, “Will the software work? Well, that depends…. What does ‘work’ mean? I’m sure it will do something interesting.”

“I’ve been dating my girlfriend for almost 3 years now and would never cheat on her,” explains Gregorianchant1 in a post on the subreddit TIFU (“Today I Fucked Up”).

[16] programmed Herbert to wander around office areas, go into people’s offices and steal empty soda cans from their desks. He demonstrated obstacle avoidance and wall following, real-time recognition of soda-can-like objects, and a set of 15 behaviors [15] which drove the arm to physically search for a soda can in front of the robot, locate it, and pick it up.

Let us designate it by some quite unideological letter (if we can, for letters are more coloured than numbers), say N.

Elliott stated that “because man is subject to rhythmical procedure, calculations having to do with his activities can be projected far into the future with a justification and certainty heretofore unattainable.”

Who says that the “real/authentic” Earth experience is actually contextual at all for anyone?

I had the realization that Access Consciousness could possibly be holding an energy/judgement/position/wrongness/belief about Humans vs. Humanoids.

Von Neumann’s talents as a host were based on his drinks, which were strong, his repertoire of off-color limericks, which was massive, and his social ease, which was consummate.