I'm with you there. I never even click on a sift link if I can tell beforehand that it's TYT. It's not the subject matter, it's the asinine delivery. I'll give them another chance if I ever have a lobotomy.
>> ^bcglorf:

Even a great story like this just can't overcome how much the TYT guy grates on my nerves. Am I alone in this?

Almost felt bad for downvoting but then.. =]
>> ^joedirt:

Maybe if Hugh Laurie had a lobotomy and had split personality disorder with Fred.
Worst video on the sift at the moment.

Maybe if Hugh Laurie had a lobotomy and had split personality disorder with Fred.

Worst video on the sift at the moment.

*terrible
man i love top gear and this is like a lobotomy. i didnt think i loved tv so much and i'm in usa

Not yet. My budget calls for a lobotomy first, then the iPad.

The IOC needs a lobotomy. This has nothing to do with the technical integrity of the sport, and thus the IOC can go fuck itself. That said, I'm not sure the way the team celebrated was exactly classy or sportsmanlike, but that's no an issue for the IOC; the team should be able to celebrate however they like.

I'm completely baffled at how anyone could make that comment, yet we've all seen clips of the same thing ("no terrorist attacks on Bush's watch") being said by others. And what is even worse is what PHJF said, they don't seem to ever get immediately called on it by the interviewer. That shouldn't even be physically possible... It should be like an unconscious reaction:

Lobotomy patient: "There were no terrorist attacks on the USA during Bush's pres--"
Interviewer: "9/11"

Wharrgarble.

Almonildo:
So here's where it gets muddy. Let's take your scenario of the entirely computerized brain, instead, this time, it's a COPY of an existing person's brain, rather than the end result of a sequential replacement of our unfortunate subject.
Would it be a crime, murder, to disconnect the power from that computer, or to destroy it?
I don't see it the same way, either - to assume the computer simulation would possess awareness. I don't know that would be a given. Possible - but not a given. (And I admittedly lean toward "doubtful".)
Taken further - a computer that simulates an "uninitiated" brain. Would it "develop" awareness? Would it behave differently if given the same sensory inputs? And how would we know? (Currently, we couldn't.)

The problem I have is that it doesn't make sense for it all to be correlated physically. Each individual cell fires or doesn't. An impulse is propagated or it isn't. The co-location of function ends at the macro level of "in the brain" or "in this area of the brain". Beyond that, the physical behavior of the brain is dispersed into individual cells. Awareness is obviously a product of many simultaneous stimuli which are never physically co-incident.

Here's another one: You propose that you can tell you're aware, but you cannot be sure of those around you. They act like they're aware, but it's impossible (so far, anyway) to say for certain. I can see two ways of looking at this.
One is to presume awareness because, as you say, you see no reason not to. To me that's like saying, "I have a 1'x1' black box with a white stripe. It contains duck trousers. Other black boxes must contain duck trousers because they also have white stripes."
Another way is to say that it suggests intuitively that awareness is distinct from behavior. We can't be certain anyone else is "aware" because the physical existence by itself isn't proof enough.

Another avenue that I might want to investigate further is lobotomies. Is it possible a lobotomized patient has been stripped of their awareness? I don't know enough about it to formulate a informed opinion on the subject. (In fact, the previous question might be terribly offensive to the lobotomized!)

So when they choose people to put on Fox news, is it immediately obvious who is suitable material or do you have to show your lobotomy scars to be chosen?

I think the majority of Foxies must have had frontal lobotomies as they clearly forget how much in bed they were with W.

>> ^rougy:
^ But did you factor in the cost of a frontal lobotomy?

If you get it done in the same southern U.S. state, it won't cost ya any more than a sharp screwdriver and a bottle of Jack.

^ But did you factor in the cost of a frontal lobotomy?

dude if that last little teaser scene with the shark leaping out of the water to snack on some 757 didnt make you shit your pants with excitement then you are one of two things: A lobotomy patient or a nerd (but like, the lame kind. Not like Val Kilmer Real Genius: wicked awesome nerd. More like Anthony Michael Hall in almost every movie he's been in.......with the possible exception of Weird Science: stupid dumbface nerd)

>> ^ElJardinero:
>> ^jonny:
I'm feeling inspired to improve on this prank. Anyone have knowledge of pyrotechnics? I want to create a slow burning flare that doesn't look like a road flare. I'm thinking magnesium strips, but I guess I'll have to experiment.

Cattle mutilation and human lobotomy.

Ok - that's a bit more out of the box than I had in mind.

>> ^jonny:
I'm feeling inspired to improve on this prank. Anyone have knowledge of pyrotechnics? I want to create a slow burning flare that doesn't look like a road flare. I'm thinking magnesium strips, but I guess I'll have to experiment.


Cattle mutilation and human lobotomy.

GO!