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Missed this one last year. Fascinating story, probably in part dependent on Japanese culture? The idea that a robot could be repaired forever, but only as long as the system that birthed it chooses to.

Maybe not as bad as I thought?

This counter point to the other article fits my understanding much better, which is that reforms weren't the problem and that the sickness is uniquely Republican.

An interesting hypothesis. I wonder if confuses causation with correlation? My concern is that repealing a lot of those reforms would make things worse. Also it completely ignores the nativist component of Trump's appeal.

This gets a 🙄 from me. AI has been the branding for the unsolved problems for a long time. Deep learning has some great performance, but it doesn't represent a human theory of mind and it requires a lot of tuning.

Good points, except for the bit about the watchlist.

Good stuff. I think it misses linking climate change to jobs, but hey... I hope this all ends up in the party platform while Trump is busy being a dumpster fire.

Some good stuff in here. I hope Photos analysis syncs by the final version.

Sounds like they're doing this right, but without an audit we can't be sure.

I just don't understand the fear, or the response to the fear. Modern society is statistically safe, and guns make it less so.

Plunder is the right word. How was he not held responsible for any of this?

So many details!

This is such a good way of thinking about modern conservatives — they deny the truth of interconnectedness, especially when it comes to environmental threats, and ignore all the less tangible benefits they receive.

Not sure how to interpret this. I don't think I have the experience, even having gone to Swat.

I love dialect quizzes. Also the Internet replacing the bicycle for accomplishing this task would be Steve Jobs approved.

I think this emphasizes the point that Sanders' interest in left revolution ignored or rejected all the progress we made under Obama.

Pretty impressive that this can work, though unrealistic that a computer would be tricked into decrypting for an hour.

I have broken the designers rule and owned a t-shirt with the biohazard symbol on it.

I like the NASA legibility guidelines. I'm surprised the Clearview signage doesn't make more of a difference.

Some good points about how we teach language, from a British perspective.

Creepy. Good twist on the Asimov style.

Whoa. I've heard this health angle for years... And had no idea it was mostly industry research.

Yup.

The economy stinks for a lot of people. The recovery has been uneven at best.

I know it's about The Other but why do people feel this is okay and good thinking?

I think I need to read this book.

New collision detected back in December during the first LIGO run. Science!

Amazing. Not certain, of course, but a lot of data gives some interesting results.

Woohoo! Still probably heading for The Supremes...