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...human function will be to make sure that the voting closes on Friday the 19th of April," he added. "We haven't yet set the hour at which voting will close. That will depend on how long it will take the computer to tally the votes...
However, the Crimson cannot depend on such error-filled play in future games, as Cornell and Princeton should both provide a little better defense than that which the Crimson saw against New Hampshire...
...optional. A half-century after World War II, the U.S. remains the dominant power in the Pacific, and to the degree that it tries to maintain influence there, it will inevitably knock up against China's rising importance. The peace and prosperity of the world in the next century depend in many ways on what Beijing does. How should the U.S. handle it? There are essentially two prescriptions: a policy called comprehensive engagement, and one that goes under the old cold-war name, containment...
These two "hard" questions about consciousness--the extraness question and the water-into-wine question--don't depend on artificial intelligence. They could occur (and have occurred) to people who simply take the mind-as-machine idea seriously and ponder its implications. But the actual construction of a robot like Cog, or of a pandemonium machine, makes the hard questions more vivid. Materialist dismissals of the mind-body problem may seem forceful on paper, but, says McGinn, "you start to see the limits of a concept once it gets realized." With AI, the tenets of strict materialism are being realized...
...Petitions depend upon how a question is worded," he said. "This [petition] has not been thought through. That's the problem...