Oct

Exactly Why One Shouldn’t Post One’s Picture on the Internet

Posted by Catfish as humor

Definitely follow the link, there are many more of this kid. I guess the upside is he is his own brand now.

Oct

The thin line between ingenuity and winning the Darwin Awards.

Posted by Catfish as USAUSAUSA, animalz, humor, survival

The following i an amazing tale of exactly how the human mind solves problems. Torch the problem! We’ve probably had this inclination since the very first sparks landed on our monkey-man-fur and set fire. After that, we knew, that if anything fucked with us, we’d torch it. Please do follow the fire link to some very funny documentation of the heroic story of a man who defeated over 10,000 bees using an escalating barrage of fire. This is totally Beavis, and totally USA!.

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Oct

Robobridezilla?

Posted by Catfish as BS, Computerz, Tech, humor, science, sexuality, spirituality, survival

roboslut David Levy, a British A.I. researcher (and chess champ), wrote in his docturate thesis, “Intimate Relationships with Artificial Partners,” that trends in robotics and shifting attitudes on marriage are likely to result in sophisticated robots that will eventually be seen as suitable marriage partners.” The study drew from over 450 sources stemming from areas such as robotics, psychology, sexology, sociology and A.I just to name a few. Levy suggests that the same emotions that people feel for loved ones, for their pets, or even for their, “virtual pets, and even for less animal artefacts — namely computers — will be extended to the area of the robots of the future.” Levy goes as far as to suggest that we will be having sexual relationships with robots in the future as well as he says, “Love and sex with robots are inevitable extensions of our ideas, feelings and practical actions in the framework of relationships. The question is not if this will happen, but when. I am convinced that the answer is: much earlier than you think.”

I guess we had better get ready for a whole new wave of floppy disc and hard drive jokes. The whole scenario has me wondering though if my ex-girlfriend was a prototype that was recalled because they forgot to update her emoticon eproms…it really would explain so much.

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