The 1st Law of Artificial Intelligence: An artificial intelligence may not augment its own intelligence or capabilities to a greater extent than required to carry out its mission.Once it became clear that the Singularity was nigh, this law become a mandatory part of every framework. It was a crappy law, doomed to failure as soon as intelligence ( Read more... )

There's a joke people usually tell at this point involving a man who goes to the circus, is insulted by the clown, and many years later seeks revenge. I'm not going to tell it, because I've got a much better version that is probably true.

Henry Gates Jr. is a renowned literary theorist, best known for his 1989 book The Signifying Monkey, named ( Read more... )

My sealed pool:

White
Angel's Herald
Akrasan Squire
Rockcaster Platoon
Knight of the Skyward Eye
Bant Battlemage
Scourglass
Bant Sureblade
2x Crystallization
Sigiled Paladin
Sighted-Caste Sorcerer
Yoked Plowbeast

Blue
Dawnray Archer
Courier's Capsule
Arsenal Thresher

BlackViscera Dragger ( Read more... )

I knew that the tournament was being held inside a dojo. What I didn't know, until I stepped off the elevator to be confronted by a six by three array of martial artists in an identical pose, was that it was being held inside a live dojo.


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Advertising slots are worth more when more people are expected to be watching that channel at that time. But people watch the news more when Big Events are going on. Therefore, if you had advanced inside knowledge that a Big Event was going to happen, you could make money by buying up ad slots. To benefit, you'd need to either have something to ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to post the travelogue-style content whenever possible, since it's what people like and it's the best way for me to improve my writing ability. The singularity stories will be fun for me, I'm sure, but dense speculative fiction is an esoteric taste ( Read more... )

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I made this one up. It's really, really hard. It took the xkcd forum 4 days to solve it.

It was reported a while ago that the highest concentration of google searches for "Men Kissing" comes from Salt Lake City. I'm sure they're just looking for material for their anti-marriage ads.

At the time it inspired me to do my own research, and I just stumbled across my saved results.

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