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Who determines whether "it does what it was requested to do"? Or thinking a few more levels removed from the scripting itself, if it's asked to build an application, how can it be known whether it actually did as requested?

Who asks the questions? Can we ever get to the point where the question can basically be asked by anyone and an acceptable response come back? Or perhaps follow up questions for clarification? And then who determines the acceptability of the output? Could an AI ever become good enough to...

How is good output distinguished from bad?

Those all seem to demonstrate a specific underlying political lean of the 'author', eh?

Just the title?

Well, critical thinking is a learned skill. It's not quite the same as cleverness (which can be acquired or born-with and being born clever can make becoming a good critical thinker easier just like being born with genes for height, etc. can make becoming a good athlete easier but it's not a...

There was no definition of 'stupid' given in the video. Hard to really comment.

Nuke codes?

There is no singular of mathematics because mathematics isn't plural...

I think that was the point of an earlier post: mathematics is not plural. BE treats it like delicatessen (delicatessen/deli/delicatessens/delis). But that seems to come from a confusion on the meaning of the S (it doesn't denote plurality - at least not in PDE -, but, as you allude to, merely...

If we used the full word, we'd also add the E, M, A, T, I, and C. What is your point?

Is that really the argument? Or is the argument more "it really doesn't hurt anybody else so why care?"

I guess I was mostly going with the assumption, based on the posts of his I've read, that @Isaac believes in souls. Maybe he doesn't, in which case, as you've noted, it's something of a non-point.

Then what role plays the soul?

Following on Pat's response, I've not been a member here as long as some but I had actually observed most folks here (at least the politically vocal) to be libertarian. I've put that up to the nature of MS Office and VBA. These tend to be tools you have to figure out on your own, meaning the...

Guess: the query underlying the report references that field OR a control on the report references the field. And the field doesn't exist. ABE: And there is no click or double-click event. OP just means opening the report from the nav pane.

It seems the world's going to hell faster than I can leave it and the latest evil is the proliferation of wireless-only keyboard models. I have a wireless keyboard for controlling the PC hooked to my entertainment TV. But I don't need that to be anything special since it's just for occasional...

But she left you with more cats than she started with. Isn't that like borrowing a car and bringing it back with more gas than it had when you took it?

Air you can practically swim through!

Well that's not too bad, then. Should be easy to keep comfortable absent health conditions or anything like that.