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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by robotresearcher on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:42PM (#13067761)
But you're cool with anonymously posting a public accusation of unprofessional behaviour without supporting evidence?

(edit: apparently people are cool with this. That's weird. I'm not claiming the parent is untrue, it's just that you shouldn't talk smack about people in public without presenting evidence if you don't use your real name.)

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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by nitrogen on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:33AM (#13068709)
if you don't use your real name

From what does the supposed requirement to use one's real name derive?

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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by kevinskii on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @12:56AM (#13068788)
It's not a requirement. It's common decency. Accusing someone of sockpuppetry is no different than calling him a liar. Doing it from behind a pseudonym without offering any evidence is irresponsible and cowardly, as it gives that person no way to defend his reputation.
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by aoeu345 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:49AM (#13069737)
No one's reputation is at stake with internet comments from anonymous posters.

The internet is protected from the forces that threaten physical forums where each voice is a real person. You cannot pay off the internet to talk nice about you, and you can't follow anon home and beat him up for speaking negatively. It sounds like Jurgen has accumulated some bad karma on the internet; this is not baseless accusation as much as it is keeping ourselves at a healthy level of skepticism regarding someone who has already lost our trust. The cowards with loud, strawman accusations are usually appropriately downvoted when their criticisms are out of place.

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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by emmelaich on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:14PM (#13068206)
To be fair that accusation is also mentioned in the article.
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by ma2rten on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @10:56PM (#13068367)
Maybe I overread it, but I didn't see it.
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by cokernel on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:38AM (#13070198)
From paragraph 7: "He has been accused of taking credit for other people’s research and even using multiple aliases on Wikipedia to make it look as if people are agreeing with his posts."
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by dekhn on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @08:30AM (#13070457)
"Has been accused". Evidence lacking.
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by cokernel on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @10:05AM (#13071286)
I do not take a position on the accusation. The purpose of the comment to which you are responding is to support emmelaich's assertion that the accusation is mentioned in the article.
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by helperAI on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @08:52PM (#13067790)
Hey Jurgen, I'm a big fan of your work
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by ericjang on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:53PM (#13068089)
Hey Jurgen, I'm a big fan of your work!
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Re:When A.I. Matures, It May Call Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘Dad’ by kevinskii on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @09:29PM (#13067972)
Clearly you're being downvoted by Teodolfo's sockpuppets.
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