What the fuck, just hire a good software engineer and they'll learn COBOL fine, exactly how they learned every other language they know, and then they'll maintain the code for you. It's so weird how people treat is like ancient magic as if people can't just learn it. The ACTUAL problem is multi-billion dollar corporations don't want to spend a single dime on a dedicated COBOL maintainer's salary because that would be less money for stock buybacks.

"Yes, there really is no other place to test it. Also, it can't be completed without an allowance of at least three, maybe four margaritas per research scientist per day. It's what the science demands."

and make sure it doesn't make mistakes. It pays minimum wage.

Instead of fighting against it we should be welcoming it by rapidly restructuring our society to be ready for an abundance economy. When we have real robot butlers/slaves that do everything a human can do, but better and cheaper, the concept of manual labor has ended. We need to start preparing for that today, not after the bread riots start.

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Make it happen, ASAP. Spend all AI money on this and nothing else. This is what AI is for.

There's no way that plan can go wrong. Do it right now.

Big ball's is going to give it a quick ocular pat-down and then it's straight into production.

They could simply just lie. They could say, "oh, those drones? Those are doing super boring weather surveys, nothing much more to say." Even a bad lie would satisfy 90% of the population, and the remaining 10% you can call crackpots. To say NOTHING is way, way more suspicious and makes even the people who usually accept a lie and go back to bed wake up and wonder what's happening. It's almost as if they WANT people to be worked up about it.

OR the wavefunction collapsed completely in line with the Copenhagen interpretation. Excellent! We've now got solid proof that our various interpretations of quantum physics are indeed varied and interpretations. Good work, gentlemen.

> if our immune systems can't see them, they shouldn't be able to compromise us anyway.

This is insanely wrong. They could very easily produce deadly toxins, like many bacteria do. Those toxins don't necessarily require any particular chirality to be extremely deadly.

If a cell, i.e. a system designed by blind evolution, can build an entire brand-new body essentially from scratch, then human technology can eventually do the same or better. There's nothing magic about how your body grew on its own. There's going to be nothing magic about how we eventually learn to repair the damage of age and rejuvenate health. It's all going to come once we've invented machines small enough and smart enough to do it. We just have to survive long enough and invest enough research and eventually death (from old age) will become an ancient myth.

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We already knew the reason: the reason is money.

"You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means." ... is a line from one of the most beloved movies of all time, a movie which would NEVER be made today because it's not a blockbuster so nobody would greenlight it. Movies, as an entertainment medium, are dying and nearly dead. In twenty years, there won't be anymore quotable quotes from beloved movies. There will be no more beloved movies at all. The silver screen has tarnished to a black void.