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The future of AI?
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RE: The future of AI?
(March 28, 2016 at 1:29 pm)JuliaL Wrote: The fact that we don't see this all around is evidence that technological civilizations don't survive long enough for it to happen.

Not necessarily. They may just have not found us yet (or decided we were not worth investigating or worse yet, dangerous), after all, just our galaxy alone is really huge and then the number of galaxies in our cosmos makes our milky way tiny by comparison.
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#42
RE: The future of AI?
(March 28, 2016 at 3:04 pm)IATIA Wrote:
(March 28, 2016 at 1:29 pm)JuliaL Wrote: The fact that we don't see this all around is evidence that technological civilizations don't survive long enough for it to happen.

Not necessarily. They may just have not found us yet (or decided we were not worth investigating or worse yet, dangerous), after all, just our galaxy alone is really huge and then the number of galaxies in our cosmos makes our milky way tiny by comparison.

Yeah... we haven't started broadcasting radio before 80 years ago. Even if there are millions of high level civilizations in the milkyway, I don't see how they would find us.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
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#43
RE: The future of AI?
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? Huh
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#44
RE: The future of AI?
My own take is that although life may be relatively common, technological civilizations are vanishingly rare. Evolution is without any goals, so evolution leading to tech capable intelligence may be entirely coincidental. It only happened on earth once and only after over 4.5 billion years of evolution. And Earth has a number of 'evolution accelerators' that may be rarer than life itself. I'm thinking of our huge moon, periodic asteroid impacts and gas giant. One less or one more large asteroid impact and we wouldn't be here.

It would not surprise me if we are the only technological civilization in our galaxy.
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You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers

Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders

Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
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Atheism is a non-prophet organization join today. 


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