Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Nihilistic stoner philosophy thought of the day. Perhaps our universe is indeed a computer or information processing system that's just booted up and seeded its system with a set of energy which does stuff for a few hundred billion years before settling down into either black holes or empty space to then be used for whatever processing. With things like life just interesting patterns that arise from this set of variable start conditions.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Of course, when robots do eventually take over the world, they'll have emotion circuits and preprogrammed reflexes to deal with potential threats. It won't be a purely logical argument.
In which some nerd tries to explain the punchline.
Ironically, it appears that Orange Bot is engaging in the Ad Hominem in the final panel, and Blue Bot has engaged all prior arguments and is now introducing a new argument that Orange Bot is malfunctioning based on the parade of dumbass arguments.
:thatsthejoke:
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Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
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The flying 3D printer, meanwhile, would add thermal insulation to older high-rises.
They'll add highly flammable thermal insulation bought via the lowest bid with the highest kick-back from firms owned by cronies of the politicians to older high-rises where people who vote for the other side live.
Nothing to do with 3D printing, that's just what will happen.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
Little known fact. That robot was put in a storeroom and left on maintenance charge in 2020. It established a 5G connection via Bluetooth through a security compromised voting machine in the same room, which had been prepped to alter voting tabulations by a Russian hacker working in concert with a state sponsored specialist from Huawei. When the hacker next attempted to interface the voting machine, the robot accessed a 3D printer in the hacker's garage and printed out Frank Zappa and a time machine. The robot implanted its engrams in the infant Zappa and time warped him back to the 20th century. Zappa went on to write the dumbest song known to man, namely
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Frank Zappa – Cucamonga Lyrics
from album: Bongo Fury (1975)
Out in Cucamonga
Many years ago
Near a Holy Roller Church
There was once a place
Where me and a couple of friends
Began practicing for the time
We might go (??-??.. .??-?? .. .??-??)
On tv
And as fate would have it
Later on we got a chance to play.
All we ever really knew:
That it was crazy
To be doin' it any other way
There’s a common misconception that it’s mostly human skin. It’s not: that mainly ends up in the bath or shower.
Two thirds of the dust in your house comes from outside, as dirt tracked in on your feet, and airborne particles like pollen and soot. The rest is mostly carpet fluff, clothes fibres and pet hair.
Re: Ensign Steve waxes philosophical on the Singularity, a thrad by Ensign Steve
There's something about almost intelligible language that scrambles my brain. I listened to a bunch of the They Might Be Giants ones, and they were really disconcerting.
I kind of like it, though.
(And yeah, I haven't listened to them all yet, but #12 is pretty great.)