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Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 6:25 am
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https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-haw...-ai-planet
Quote:"I am sure that during this century people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression," he writes.
"Laws will probably be passed against genetic engineering with humans. But some people won't be able to resist the temptation to improve human characteristics, such as size of memory, resistance to disease, and length of life."
The elites who receive this kind of genetic augmentation – which Hawking dubs "superhumans" – may emerge onto a collision course with natural humans, the professor suggests, and the contest could be one that comes to define the very future custodianship of the planet.
"Once such superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems with the unimproved humans, who won't be able to compete," he suggests.
Sorry Steve, but Star Trek beat you to it:
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 6:54 am
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Hawkings was an astro-physicist. But because of all the admiration he garnered for his work it seems to have gone to his head. I know he talked utter shite about Artificial Intelligence. I'm not going to bother listening to him about genetic engineering.
In my last job I spent 6 months processing genetic data looking for patterns. I was being shown the ropes in Bioinformatics. But even then I wouldn't feel comfortable making such predictions. Or possibly because I now have an idea of the complexity involved.
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 7:34 am
Not this shit again.
Star Trek didn't invent shit. It was a FUCKING TV SHOW, not a lab.
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 8:30 am
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(October 15, 2018 at 6:25 am)alpha male Wrote: https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-haw...-ai-planet
Quote:"I am sure that during this century people will discover how to modify both intelligence and instincts such as aggression," he writes.
"Laws will probably be passed against genetic engineering with humans. But some people won't be able to resist the temptation to improve human characteristics, such as size of memory, resistance to disease, and length of life."
The elites who receive this kind of genetic augmentation – which Hawking dubs "superhumans" – may emerge onto a collision course with natural humans, the professor suggests, and the contest could be one that comes to define the very future custodianship of the planet.
"Once such superhumans appear, there are going to be significant political problems with the unimproved humans, who won't be able to compete," he suggests.
Sorry Steve, but Star Trek beat you to it:
Did Hawking also predict Shatner's mastery of the art of overacting?
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 4:56 pm
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You get it guys! Because Hawking (but in this topic he is re-named Hawkings because after all beta fail is dumb as shit) said something that is obviously from Star Trek he was being silly and if Hawking was silly (read: wrong) then he must have been silly about everything including universe that is billions of years old and evolution of life, thus fairy tale stories that beta fail takes for granted must be right!
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 5:12 pm
(October 15, 2018 at 7:34 am)Brian37 Wrote: Not this shit again.
Star Trek didn't invent shit. It was a FUCKING TV SHOW, not a lab.
But it did inspire shit.
Shit we have today exists because inventors credited getting the ideas from Star Trek.
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 5:32 pm
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(October 15, 2018 at 5:12 pm)Aliza Wrote: (October 15, 2018 at 7:34 am)Brian37 Wrote: Not this shit again.
Star Trek didn't invent shit. It was a FUCKING TV SHOW, not a lab.
But it did inspire shit.
Shit we have today exists because inventors credited getting the ideas from Star Trek.
Too right. Cell phones, tablet computers, automatic pocket doors, 3D printing, remote medical sensing, etc.
This isn't to say that these things never would have come about without ST, but the inspiration factor is not rationally deniable.
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 5:35 pm
(October 15, 2018 at 4:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: You get it guys! Because Hawking (but in this topic he is re-named Hawkings because after all beta fail is dumb as shit) said something that is obviously from Star Trek he was being silly and if Hawking was silly (read: wrong) then he must have been silly about everything including universe that is billions of years old and evolution of life, thus fairy tale stories that beta fail takes for granted must be right! Beta Fail apparently has confused scientists for his make believe prophet cultists
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 5:39 pm
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(October 15, 2018 at 6:54 am)Mathilda Wrote: Hawkings was an astro-physicist. But because of all the admiration he garnered for his work it seems to have gone to his head. I know he talked utter shite about Artificial Intelligence. I'm not going to bother listening to him about genetic engineering.
In my last job I spent 6 months processing genetic data looking for patterns. I was being shown the ropes in Bioinformatics. But even then I wouldn't feel comfortable making such predictions. Or possibly because I now have an idea of the complexity involved.
Complexity may be a major hurdle to achieving safe, consistent, predicatable results. It may also be a major hurdle to making the process affordable and accessible.
It is not necessarily a nearly as serious a hurdle to achieving some significant but opportunistic results by those who are willing to gamble their own or other people’s health and safety in a processed too expensive to apply to but a few.
I think Hawkin is right. It is th second category we should fear.
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RE: Hawkings: Khan is real!
October 15, 2018 at 7:14 pm
(October 15, 2018 at 4:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: You get it guys! Because Hawking (but in this topic he is re-named Hawkings because after all beta fail is dumb as shit) said something that is obviously from Star Trek he was being silly and if Hawking was silly (read: wrong) then he must have been silly about everything including universe that is billions of years old and evolution of life, thus fairy tale stories that beta fail takes for granted must be right!
LMAO - dude, I'm just joking around. Want me to send you a quarter so you can buy a sense of humor?
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