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This post is, as usual for lukeprog, intensely awesome and almost ludicrously well-cited. Thank you! I will be linking this to friends.
I'm somewhat uncertain about that picture at the top, though. It's very very cool, but it may not be somber enough for this subject matter; maybe an astronomy photo would be better. Or maybe the reverse is needed, and the best choice would be a somewhat silly picture of a superhero, as referenced in the opening paragraph.
I'm now inordinately curious what the picture at the top was.
It was the image at the top of this quite good post that I ran across coincidentally:
http://facingthesingularity.com/2011/from-skepticism-to-technical-rationality/
Though, the image in that header seems to have been ran through some Photoshop filters; the original image from the OP was color and didn't have any sketch lines, if I recall right.
I found the original image on Tineye ; it appears to be a piece of Mass Effect fan art (the Citadel station in the background is a dead giveaway). One of the originals can be seen on DeviantArt. I am somewhat saddened that the image appears to have been used without attribution, however.
The Superman is no longer human. If he is who "prevents us" from robots, it's not our battle anymore. In that case we already depend on a good will of a nonhuman agent. Hope, he's friendly!
Some spacey landscape, as I recall.
Any artists wanna draw Eliezer Yudkowsky or Nick Bostrom in a superhero costume?
Great artists steal http://www.superman-wallpapers.com/bulkupload/wallpapers/Superman%20Vs/superman-vs-robot.jpg
Changed. Let them complain.
Another thing you won't be able to do once SOPA/PIPA passes.
From what I've read (admittedly not enough), it seems like SOPA only affects non-US-based websites, and only if they are explicitly devoted to hosting pirated content. Places like foreign torrenting sites would be blocked, but LessWrong and YouTube and Wikipedia would be perfectly safe. Correct me if I'm wrong.
It's still a crappy law for making censorship that much easier. And I like to torrent.
No. Some provisions apply only to websites outside US jurisdiction (whatever that is supposed to mean), but the process below applies also to LW, YouTube, Wikipedia, and friends -- from here:
Ah, yes, that is very vague and exploitable. Especially: