DISQUS

Doing a Spiderman movie in which he wears a black suit that doesn't turn out to try and eat his brains would be a slap in the face to every nerd that has ever walked the earth.

*and* their cars are rock-fucking-solid. My 1990 Toyota Camry is pushing 190,000 miles and still running beautifully.

I did some more in-depth searching on that:

So far http://evm2003.sourceforge.net/ is the only one I know of that is completely 'free as in *' (and in python omg)

http://www.votehere.com/ is a commercial venture that has opened their source... kinda. there is reference code available for inspection, and they have apparently made their code available to auditors, but there are parts that remain secret, mostly the heavy-crypto... which is concerning. i haven't taken an in-depth look at the provided source yet (http://www.votehere.com/downloads.php). will let you know if there are any interesting omissions.

I was specifically referring to the prisms of silicon it builds during its awakening. The portable google-in-a-box described in the article reminds me of those nondescript slabs. Each contains a massive amount of computing power, augmenting the already unthinkable abilities of its host. They network together as peers, performing independent computations, yet their emergent whole becomes much more capable than the sum of its part, shifting phase into a new type of system entirely.

For real? _For real_ for real? I can't wait for San Francisco to be it's own country. Bill O'Reilly for president!

"In a universal organization and clarification of knowledge and ideas... in the evocation, that is, of what I have here called a World Brain... in that and in that alone, it is maintained, is there any clear hope of a really Competent Receiver for world affairs... We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself."

Adjunct to your discussion is the assumption that there is some way of verifying that 'superproducers' do in fact exist, or have impacts that are in some way quantifiably 'productive.' Nassim Taleb believes that the relationship between pay and the ability to measure performance is in fact inverse.