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What's the different between that and plain old structured programming subroutines?

Although I don't think this is some sort of conspiracy, HN front-page is curated content, ranking is not only based on votes.

> Watson got bored of beating grand masters at chess and started refusing to play

That's when you reboot it, if that doesn't fix it good old persuasive maintenance techniques can also come into play

It is not a given that any AGI would be a treat. There are plenty of Natural General Intelligences, and I don't fear monkeys taking over the world, or creating faster, better, stronger monkeys any day soon

Aí winters happened because of the hype and that people ultimately realize AGI (not even talking about the Singularity) is not as easily achievable as hyped. So interest dies.

Debt possibly. I personally knew a few people that would spend money they don't have just to show off IRL before social media was a thing, and I can see doing it to a larger audience being much more efficient.

And that's how we went back to book burning, again.

If you're referring to the mission of impressing the girlfriend, success doesn't seem likely.

That's like saying having to pay for any product is extortion, just because it's something you want but don't want the consequences of that, in that case paying for it.

Natural monopolies are like that. Artificial ones are either Govenrment enterprises or Government enforced taking what was initially natural one and making it into law, and tend to overstay their welcome because of that.

Monopolies are good as long as they can be gone in the flip of a hat if people decide so.

Exactly and they have the perfect excuse:

"Well when talking about deleting we mean we do the exact same thing the file system does to a file, it flags it, but doesn't actually erase it's content. Acting like a filesystem delete operation is what people expect when using that word"

You accept that when you join.

Exactly. Another example is applications "phoning home" (desltop applications sending information back to the server) that not that much ago was considered a serious abuse. And people on forums would lambast you when you asked how to implement something like that. Now it's called telemetry and is the norm.

It's the problem with that kind of speech, it's impersonal and dehumanizing.

Let's say it like it is: facebook betrays users expectations giving their data to other businesses.

Same for hacking: some people invaded system such and such and took private information.

It doesn't matter if it was a breach, a floodgate, a window, what matters is what happened, and what happened is that player X did Y. Let's just state that first and foremost.