Since we can now post pictures here is a picture.

Stumbled across a quote from Norbert Wiener (1964) in the essay “The ethics of autonomous learning systems” by A. F. Umar Khan
“The gadget-minded people often have the illusion that a highly automatized world will make smaller claims on human ingenuity than does the present one and will take over from us our need for difficult [...]

Interesting info on Google’s site ranking:
Full article
Highlights:

Sites can be ranked seasonally. A ski site may rank higher in the winter than in the summer. Google can monitor and rank pages by recording CTR changes by season.
Changes in keyword density is monitored and recorded as are changes to anchor text.
Clicks away from your site back to [...]

Guardian article: Googling the truth
D&D Thread
Kinky Friedman came out of the closet to say:
It would be great if the history books recorded that in 2005, at the nadir of our stupidity, the computers showed America how to understand the difference between something that reinforces your beliefs and something that’s actually true again.

I am sitting at my computer. I say “What’s going on, Harmony.”
She is laying on my bed. She says “I want to know what’s going on.”
I bite my tongue, wondering how much longer the silent schtick will last. How much longer I can ignore her, how many nights can I pretend to be passed out [...]

D&D: Emotion & Intellect
In any case, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of this thread if computers are ‘intelligent’ in a sufficiently robust philosophical way. My point was simply that they are autonomous reasoners, capable of logic, deliberation, and mechanical action; and these serve as a counterpoint to ‘emotion’, which seems neither logical or mechanical.
I [...]

Vitalism: the doctrine that life cannot be explained solely by mechanism. Wikipedia entry
1) What does it mean to be intelligently designed?
2) Is this fundamentally different from systems that occur naturally in the universe?
3) More importantly, given a system at some arbitrary state in its existence, is it possible to determine whether such a system was [...]