As everything's gone sciency the last few days, here's an ethical situation:
Imagine someone creates a machine that (at least appears) to be as intelligent as a human. It thinks in much the same way as me or you, and you could have a conversation with it across the Internet and you'd never...
At least, until we GM them to be invincible. But then the middle-class Daily Mail readers would all be like "Ohnoes Frankenfoods!" and the government would ban them.
Stupid reactionary antisciencers.
-Angry Lawyer
Several thousand years of cross-breeding makes them pretty high tech in my mind. But ignoring the food aspect, we'd still all die, stripped of high technology. There'd be no vaccinations, or medicines.
-Angry Lawyer
I was once, but it's pretty much been stamped out of me by a series of crap girlfriends who ended up taking advantage of me.
I'm pretty bitter about it, especially because it also destroyed my ability to do poetry, and therefore by extension song lyrics. And I need to write lyrics or I'll be...