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Hard to imagine a different outcome unless secularism alters our trajectory enough to avoid the existential dangers.

I don’t really know. The Greeks were constantly experimenting with new political and social ideas (sometimes out of necessity sometimes for pure interest). That included increasing rights for the average citizen and constant ideas…[Read more]

Unseen…they can seriously disrupt our lives. But they cannot overtake us at the moment.

XKCD has a pretty funny article regarding what would happen if suddenly all of our technology suddenly became intelligent and could communicate with one another. The result is very little. Big machines are bolted to the ground. Cars could drive over a few people but they’d run out of gas/electricity and some speed traps would contain them.…[Read more]

I sort of do the same thing Pope. I read the wikipedia articles on obscure languages (there are thousands of them so it’s unlikely I will run out). As I had taken a couple classes on linguistics I know the bare basics about phonology and grammar and language families. So it is “MILDLY” interesting as you say. If it is completely unengaging it…[Read more]

She explains that her battery is good for a 173 years.

That will be quite the orgy then.

What if robots had enough AI to develop wants, needs, pride, and fear of death? What if they could be better at sex than any human on top of being more physically attractive?

Then those robots would just spend all day having sex with one another until their batteries ran out. Doesn’t sound very sustainable.

They become Buddhist hippies preying on children in Thailand, or they become men’s rights activists or “proud boys” or they become flat-Earthers or they join ISIS or they blow up a Mosque or hopefully they see the light and reform their ways (LMAO).

If it were properly and thoroughly demonstrated that one race was more intelligent than another then of course it would create a lot of serious problem (a clear justification for stupid racism) but it ought not to be censored. Having said that, it absolutely has NOT been demonstrated. Most testing has been biased towards the kind of intelligence…[Read more]

Pope…do you have tits?

Because our brain is processing different stimuli and thoughts from different moments all at different moments there isn’t one clear “now” in your brain but a fuzzy fog of “now” that covers multiple miliseconds from the past until “now” making it a hazy “consciousness” of “the present”. As Reg pointed out, the planck time is extremely short…[Read more]