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What do you think about Eugenics?
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RE: What do you think about Eugenics?
June 12, 2015 at 11:19 am
(June 11, 2015 at 9:50 pm)IATIA Wrote:
(June 11, 2015 at 7:35 am)comet Wrote: Hopefully we make AI first and evolve using that path. 

Can anybody say "HAL" or "SkyNet" or "Cylon"?   Diablo

It is not merely a worry in fiction.  Some of the smartest people in the world are seriously concerned about it.  See:

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30290540

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-...est-minds/

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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What do you think about Eugenics?

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What do you think about Eugenics? - by Twisted - May 29, 2015 at 12:52 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by abaris - May 29, 2015 at 1:00 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Dystopia - May 29, 2015 at 1:23 pm
What do you think about Eugenics? - by KUSA - May 29, 2015 at 1:27 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Aroura - May 29, 2015 at 1:35 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Aroura - May 29, 2015 at 2:11 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by AFTT47 - May 29, 2015 at 1:40 pm
What do you think about Eugenics? - by KUSA - May 29, 2015 at 1:40 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by AFTT47 - May 29, 2015 at 1:51 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Aroura - May 29, 2015 at 2:02 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Nope - May 30, 2015 at 8:04 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Mudhammam - May 30, 2015 at 8:32 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Aroura - May 30, 2015 at 12:30 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Pyrrho - May 30, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by vorlon13 - May 29, 2015 at 2:05 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Alex K - May 29, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Dystopia - May 30, 2015 at 11:03 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Mudhammam - May 30, 2015 at 11:48 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Pyrrho - May 30, 2015 at 12:10 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by IATIA - May 30, 2015 at 1:03 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by dyresand - June 7, 2015 at 11:40 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by comet - June 11, 2015 at 7:35 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by IATIA - June 11, 2015 at 9:50 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Pyrrho - June 12, 2015 at 11:19 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by IATIA - June 13, 2015 at 8:38 am
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by paulpablo - June 18, 2015 at 10:27 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by IATIA - June 18, 2015 at 8:42 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by IATIA - June 18, 2015 at 9:03 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Pyrrho - June 18, 2015 at 9:10 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by IATIA - June 19, 2015 at 6:52 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by paulpablo - June 18, 2015 at 11:06 pm
RE: What do you think about Eugenics? - by Dystopia - June 19, 2015 at 3:22 am

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