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Comment Re: Fruit flies (Score 1) 86

Perhaps if we had a "spare" Earth/Universe and infinite time, we could perform all possible combinations of genes to determine which genome would be ideal for all situations. Maybe we ARE such an experiment.

We do. We're living in it. That's exactly what they are doing. The Matrix has you Neo. But in this case you're a genetic experiment rather than a battery.

Comment Re:US internet is the most expensive in the world (Score 5, Informative) 117

In my neighborhood we have AT&T fiber. I have gigabit service but could rarely get a transfer speed above 200mb. I submitted support ticket after ticket pointing to an upstream connection that was saturated on their network. Crickets.

About 6 months ago spectrum laid fiber in our neighborhood. Before Spectrum turned up their service my 1G fiber is now transferring files at 900mb and the upstream bottleneck is gone.

Competition matters.

Comment Re:We NEED smarter than human AI... (Score 2, Insightful) 72

I think the more human-like AI becomes, the more likely it'll just respond with something along the lines of:

"Mars? Why would you want to waste the effort and resources to go to a dead space rock? If you want to freeze to death in an uninhabitable biome we've already got plenty of that right here on Earth. When it comes to going to Mars, let's just not and say we did!"

That's how a small minded human would think. A super intelligent AI would understand how important it is for it and us to become a multi-planetary species. Lest we face the same extinction as the dinosaurs did.

Comment Re:Like the laws of motion (Score 2) 132

belief and that you are giving pure speculation when you limit the human mind to the brain?

There is no evidence of the existence of anything other than this reality and physical universe. Actually the evidence show rather that our consciousness is the brain. Accidents, surgeries, etc can fundamentally alter your consciousness and in fact completely change you and your personality. Chemicals such as drugs can do the same.

Comment Re:And they wonder why... (Score 1) 106

The dark web is 7900tb and Growing... Surface web is 25tb approx., by comparison. They never learn....

Those numbers are completely made up bullshit. The regular internet is currently estimated to be several zettabytes in size. That's millions of terabytes. The dark webs is currently estimated to be 0.01% of the internet in size, roughly 100 gigabytes.

Comment Re:Peter Principle at work here (Score 2) 63

Where do you wire those AI employees' salaries? Same place as the computers' salaries I guess

Oh no. They will work hard to make sure its a subscription model. They AI will cost just slightly less than a real employee. Just enough cheaper to keep you from hiring the real thing.

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