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Hawking: Killer robots and crippling cyber attacks: How the world is going to end
Nick Mcdermott ^
| 9-12-2013
| Nick McDermott
Posted on 09/12/2013 5:12:15 PM PDT by Dysart
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To: Dysart
What? Did they just see the Terminator movie? This took some of Britain’s greatest minds to come up with? I have to ask, have they ever heard the words Science Fiction?
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:26:05 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: Dysart
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:26:24 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Dysart
Well, color me a bit skeptical. It was a scientific consensus from precisely this sort of community that the U.S. and the Soviet Union would destroy the world in a nuclear holocaust. I believe Douglas Hofstadter, who I otherwise love to read, calculated it at no less than 85%. Perhaps we got lucky. Perhaps his model was full of crap.
Nevertheless, the most likely source of our world ending is something we don't see coming. Something so unlikely we can't possibly foresee it, something so drastic it will require a fundamental rethinking of everything we know. The Mariners winning a World Series, for example.
To: mosaicwolf
The world will end when the ego stops projecting it. It is all an illusion. Get used to it. Ask only that the ego be undone.What you may be saying in jest, is actually true ... and if you meant it, then you are quite spiritually advanced.
How do you like me so far?
You probably know darned well that simply doesn't matter. :)
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:41:36 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: mosaicwolf; RoosterRedux; Darksheare
yeah huh as the wave function collapses on strange aeons shore
“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.”
awww wth ima going with killbots too
To: Slings and Arrows
To: Dysart
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:47:40 PM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: Billthedrill
The Mariners winning a World Series, for example. I was with you nodding my head affirmatively until that little nugget. The Mariners...world champs...not only unexpected it's thoroughly imponderable. And probably too absurd and indeed woeful for even Hawkings to envision.
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:49:05 PM PDT
by
Dysart
(Being nuts has its advantages...and the machete doesn't hurt, either.)
To: Dysart
Regardless the eventual scenario, and assuming I’m still alive by then, I just wanna take some of the bastards out before they get me.
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:54:50 PM PDT
by
tomkat
To: Dysart
Killer robots - Terminator T1000s ?
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posted on
09/12/2013 6:54:51 PM PDT
by
The Sons of Liberty
(Muzzie killing muzzie what's the downside and who am I to stop them ?)
To: Jet Jaguar
My pleasure. Mind-blowing, isn’t it?
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posted on
09/12/2013 7:00:20 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: GraceG; Zionist Conspirator; CtBigPat
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posted on
09/12/2013 7:27:50 PM PDT
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KC_Lion
(Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
To: Slings and Arrows
To: chiller
I don’t think this is the ideal time to live. I loved the 1950s, growing up, but maybe that was just youthful exuberance and anticipation of what may come. So maybe the future holds good as well as bad for the human race. If, as some predict, we colonize throughout space, our chances of ultimate survival are vastly increased.
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
09/12/2013 8:05:21 PM PDT
by
GraceG
To: Dysart
I bet he forget about his recent rental of Terminator.
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posted on
09/12/2013 8:06:35 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: Dysart
Gray Goo is not on the list? Bah, the article is simply not credible without Gray Goo.
To: Dysart
Hawking: Killer robots and crippling cyber attacks: How the world is going to end None of the above.
Some time in the future the sun will expand. That will be the end of the world.
Everything else is pure imagination or egotism.
Despite what Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote, we are not the world.
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posted on
09/12/2013 9:05:41 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
09/12/2013 9:17:58 PM PDT
by
CtBigPat
(Free Republic - The grown-ups table of the internet.)
To: Dysart
A year or so ago he said global warming would kill us all. What a spaz.
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posted on
09/13/2013 4:31:27 AM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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