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Rise of the Machines Not So Farfetched? (Fox video - Bill Hemmer interviews Ray Kurzweil)
FoxNews.com ^ | 2/25/2011

Posted on 02/26/2011 2:04:24 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies

Bill Hemmer interviews Ray Kurzweil about his new documentary.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fox; hemmer; kurzweil; robot

1 posted on 02/26/2011 2:04:30 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

People who worry about the “rise of the machines” (something unprecedented in history) need to worry much more about the rise of people USING the machines (fascism and dictatorship—something MOST of history is made up of....).

When I see a camera on every stoplight (as I see in Virginia, for example) I’m not so concerned of some master computer messing with me, as I am a fascist Obama nanny-state, doing it all for “my own good” thoroughly in (evil, arrogant, amoral) human control.


2 posted on 02/26/2011 2:15:36 PM PST by AnalogReigns
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

My computer would hit it.


3 posted on 02/26/2011 2:24:58 PM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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To: Lazamataz

“My computer would hit it.”

LOL!


4 posted on 02/26/2011 2:28:17 PM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Lazamataz
My computer would hit it.

Do you mean the singularity?

5 posted on 02/26/2011 2:28:57 PM PST by Sawdring
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Hopefully Ray can finally explain to Bill how the tides work.


6 posted on 02/26/2011 2:32:03 PM PST by montag813
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To: AnalogReigns
I worry about a dictator with an army of machines that wont resist orders to shot protesters, like real soldiers would.
7 posted on 02/26/2011 2:49:51 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Carter 2.0 The Epic Fail Edition)
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To: Lazamataz

My computer got a viral STD after getting an e-mail from Laz! Relax, unless you are the new WH social computer who’s openly Fortran you can’t get this viral STD.


8 posted on 02/26/2011 3:28:16 PM PST by STD (Love Your God, Love Your Neighbor!)
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To: AnalogReigns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5beTy9SnkU


9 posted on 02/26/2011 3:57:38 PM PST by Krankor (And he's oh, so good, And he's oh, so fine, And he's oh, so healthy, In his body and his mind)
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To: Lazamataz
Your computer? Right.

Now imagine an electrical charge to the nucleus accumbens and this is the image that appears next to that tickling sensation caused by something like cocaine (without the ridiculously short half life of cocaine)...


10 posted on 02/26/2011 4:29:54 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies ('And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' Yeats)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

What we should be concerned with is these idiots we have now will have access and control of these machines


11 posted on 02/26/2011 4:32:49 PM PST by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
If my computer had hit it, you wouldn't have posted that at .325 width, you would have posted that at 325 width.

Like this:

So my computer did hit it.

12 posted on 02/26/2011 5:10:00 PM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

13 posted on 02/27/2011 6:04:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (Scott Walker: Please FIRE.... then APPOINT... then VOTE.)
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