Skepticism
Skepchick Quickies, 10.5
- Did early humans start walking for sex? (From Steve.)
- A robot has taught itself to smile, frown, and make other human facial expressions. (From Lauren.)
- Scientists develop nasal spray that improves memory. (From Dave.)
- The grand unified theory of Superman’s powers.
The robot teaching itself to make human expressions is amazing… but it looks like Phyllis Diller wearing a mustache.
And thus the notion that girls prefer assholes over nice guys is disproved by evolutionary science.
And I reposted the last two to facebook… the line about “a whiff of common sense” was too good not to.
And now, I have to open the library. Damn library.
I’m not sure how I feel about a robot being trained to fake human emotions. It has an air of sociopathy to it.
Einstein robot kind of scares me.
I can understand the nasal spray improving memory. I had a bit of sinusitis last week and I had a hard time concentrating. I only felt better when my sinuses drained all of that goo they were holding.
It may have looked like grey matter, but I can assure you it’s not… (read aloud to yourself)
@MiddleMan: Entirely TMI.
That robot looks like Einstein in drag, this is exactly why robots will never “rise up to destroy us all”
@magicdude20: That and the costs of developing a robot that is capable of considering rising up and taking over out weights the cost of just making an intelligent machine.
@Steve: This emotion-faking becomes even worse if the robot doesn’t know when it is ovulating.
So we learned to stand up for sex even though a lot of it is done on your knees.
@Gabrielbrawley: Doesn’t the begging come before sex?
@James Fox: I was thinking about the woman on her knees.