Posted on 10/25/2007 11:09:01 PM PDT by prisoner6
The human race will one day split into two separate species, an attractive, intelligent ruling elite and an underclass of dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures, according to a top scientist.
100,000 years into the future, sexual selection will mean that two distinct breeds of human will have developed.
The alarming prediction comes from evolutionary theorist Oliver Curry from the London School of Economics, who says that the human race will have reached its physical peak by the year 3000.
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prisoner6
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lol...
Waxman... What a charlatan!
Don’t be silly.
By the time the Global Warming wing of the liberal movement is done with us, there won’t be any technology allowed.
Evolution will hold sway again as we fight over resource limits we are prevented from using technology to circumvent.
It happened at Walmart about 10 years ago.
“In fact, the world will change uncalculably within 50 years, or as soon as someone creates a human equivalent AI.”
So, what is artificial intelligence? How will we know when we have it? I spent 1985-1995 studying this, thinking it would be the next big thing. I finally realized 1) we don’t understand human intelligence; 2) we don’t know how to program for intelligence 3) we don’t understand self-awareness; 4) we don’t know how to program for self awareness.
Generally, intelligence and self awareness are what we think of when we say “AI”. We’ve made great progress on the hardware side, very little on the software side.
Check out the newsgroup comp.ai.philosophy. I read it steadily for a year in the 90’s until I realized the arguments were repeating with no progress. I still check it out from time to time and the arguements haven’t changed—is human intelligence solely due to the brain or is there a non-material component? Can a digital computer emulate the human brain? Is intelligence an algorithm or not?
I have no faith we will achieve human or super human AI in the next 50 years.
It is so very easy to make statements like this. Then the MSM etc. give the statement credibility by printing it in an article.
I hear ya. It seems that the Seattle area just can’t seem to get it collective crap together when it comes to sports (sigh).
Oh, well. I still have my Gators (struggling though they may be).
Wow, good ones!!!
Barf!!
Ahhhh! It's good to be the king...
As long as there is alcohol and beer goggles, this will never happen.
No it won’t. There are too many attractive, intelligent women who let themselves be impregnated by dim-witted, ugly goblin-like creatures.
First you have to clean them. Not an easy task.
Waxman.........belongs in a wax museum, not congress
Reminds me of the TWILIGHT ZONE episode "To Serve Man."
This idiot should have bothered to read the book before proclaiming to know what it was about.
The Eloi were small, pudgy weak and dull creatures, just like cattle. Because that's what they were, the food source for the Morlocks. The Morlocks were not "destined to work to keep them happy" any more that a rancher is today with cows.
larry and his posse, which includes me, know which group we will belong to and it isn’t the short stumpy one
why i am not a prostitute
Wow, HG Wells and London School of Economic...sounds like a Fabian Socialists wet dream.
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