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To: Jamestown1630

Not that long ago people scoffed at the idea of humans flying across the Atlantic and were sure machines would never be able to arithmetic or sort things. It would be wise to avoid making negative predictions regarding the technologies of the future.


15 posted on 09/13/2019 7:42:25 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: GingisK

There have been a number of technological “advances” in firearms that went no where. It’s like centuries of perfecting them have achieved a final form that just can’t be improved. Remember Remington’s “Electronic Igniton”. I almost bought one. Remember “caseless ammo”? That one sure went nowhere. I keep wondering just what a real tech advance in firearms might even be but I guess I don’t have much imagination.


17 posted on 09/13/2019 8:03:47 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: GingisK

I’m sure there are lots of great and useful discoveries ahead. I don’t hate or fear AI itself - I find it fascinating.

But it requires a very reductionist/mechanistic concept of human consciousness to believe that an AI will ever be anything like human intelligence. I can’t squeeze myself - or dumb myself down - into that kind of concept; it frightens me that some people can and do. It also frightens me to think of some of the proposed uses to which they may put the technology.


18 posted on 09/13/2019 8:32:05 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it")
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