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To: Politically Correct

I’d rather not read the whole article. It reads like Q but without the bad freeform verse.


4 posted on 05/15/2018 10:12:00 AM PDT by Artemis Webb (Maxine Waters for House Minority Leader!!)
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To: Artemis Webb

I’d rather not read the whole article. It reads like Q but without the bad freeform verse.

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Well I did read the entire article. A few interesting points but the most important point in my own opinion was totally missed by the writer.

While the writer mentions space exploration and what will happen with the vanity of scientest creating AI that will eventually enslave us, perhaps eat us, it does not mention time.

Time is where so many futurist miss the boat. They speak of godlessness without thinking. For instance: The universe was according to most scientest created with a big bang about 13-1/2 to 14 billion years ago. The sun about 4-1/2 or so billion years ago and the earth perhaps 4 billion years ago. In the last few hundred years the people of earth have progressed from knowing magnetism exists to harnessing it to subdue our world. The vast majority of that understanding and harnessing has happened in the last 50 years. Certainly there were great thinkers prior to 50 years ago and great discoveries but knowledge and understanding are moving faster than at any time in the history of mankind.

There were other earths that were born and died before ours was even even contemplated, perhaps trillions of them. In 100 years there will be advances in sciences and engineering we can’t even contemplate but I’m really talking about societies that are not 100 years ahead of us, not a thousand or a million but billions of years ahead of us.

If there was a living being with a billion year head start on us, if we met them we wouldn’t understand them except to believe that they were gods. I would think those societies managed their AI ok and got by, I have no reason to believe that we couldn’t do the same.

I am not a particularly forward thinking man but I don’t see how philosophy cannot take time into consideration when coming to an opinion that concerns our future.


9 posted on 05/15/2018 11:06:49 AM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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