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An incremental advance in carbon nano-fibre tech? Last I heard, the rate-limiting step wasn't the strength of the fibre, it was the...

Your question would be better stated in terms of. "I know that energy isn't destroyed so where have I gone wrong in my reasoning and...

Sorry, what's wrong with the Beanstalk (space elevator)? It's not happening now, but do you really think it's a dead-end? OK, what...

@PeroK , what would you choose given there was a puzzle of some sort and your life depended on getting the right answer, and you have...

And I'm not saying otherwise. I simply found your scenario for measuring its efficacy at a given task to be flawed. It simply says...

Any time you run into a paradox, your first thought should be that you have taken a wrong turn on the way there. You have started from...

Sure, boxless thinking is fun - for us amateurs. But does it get anything done except as a personal hobby? Here is a very recent...

No, I mean your litmus test only implies it is slightly better than two guys chosen randomly. Two random guys is a very low bar to set...

Indeed, it is possible to create paradoxes if we imagine things that we are not confident exist. A square circle. A red blue. A prime...

Why? I am not going to make much strides in solving the Collatz Conjecture by keeping myself innocent of the good work that's come...

@PeroK What makes you skeptical about this?

I find it impressive that an AI could come up with things like this (just one of the examples; they're all equally impressive): Seasons...

I meant the rationalization it offered. See above "Artistic Reasoning and Intent"

I wonder if Turing ever envisioned that AIs would fail the Turing Test - not because they undershot the bar - but because they overshot...