You jest, but some level of image recognition can be useful for automatic lawn mowers. It's not too much of a stretch to call that AI.
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I, Robot.
Asimov was explicitly trying to get away from the trope of "robots take over humanity". To be clear, the first short story that became I, Robot was published in 1940. "Robots take over humanity" was already an SF trope by then. Hollywood comes along more than half a century later and dives head first right back into that trope.
Lt Cmdr Data is more what Asimov had it mind. In fact, Data's character has direct references to Asimov, like his positronic brain.
And those people who do buy trucks would often be happy with a much smaller one. They don't exist. No, not even the Maverick. That's "well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it" for trucks.
Most of the criticism comes from a chapter in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" where he does some things close to what we now call PUA shit. In other words, picking up women at a bar by acting like an asshole.
Feynman also called it off after a test because he didn't want to treat women that way.
If Vance gets to be President, it'll be two weeks before an intern finds him sobbing in the closet.
Fascism doesn't survive its leader. The underlings fight for the power vacuum, and none of them end up winning.
Some people have accused me of being optimistic for saying this, but think about who does win in this situation. It would likely be a form of liberalism that's closer to western Europe in the social safety net aspect, but capitalism would be maintained. I can't deny that it's better than what we've had, but it's not the victory I would have hoped for given the amount of suffering to get there.
Most European powers banned letters of marquee in the 19th century, but the US never signed it because we didn't have the navy to compete with them otherwise. That's not true anymore.
It's technically still in the Constitution as something Congress is allowed to do. Every once in a while, a right wing Congress critter thinks that because Congress is allowed to, then therefore, it should. No thought as to why.
Nobel Prize in all categories.
You sure? There's conflicting eyewitnesses accounts of how many shots were fired at JFK. The Warren Commission settled on three, and whatever it actually was, it couldn't have been that much more.
Then somebody should be arresting them for impersonating an officer.
That's what happened, right?
Maybe from the other direction, too. A lot of people who think anything short of smashing shit up is unproductive. Which isn't correct, either.
Violent and non-violent methods go together. Peaceful protest needs to be more sustained than the bursts of activity we've had. But jumping right into smashing shit won't work, either.
Feynman, over a beer, at a strip club.
Oh, look, they made another Torment Nexus, but this time the one from Westworld.