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The problem is that no one knows how fast technology in a certain area will develop. Extrapolating from the past is not possible...

It's a rightward moving wave for ##v > 0##. At ##t =0##, the wave takes the form of ##y = f(x)##. Choose a function ##f##. Something...

Maybe the Moon would make a good penal colony, like Britannia's Botany Bay, or Van Diemens Land in Australia, or France's Devil's Island...

The poll question could be a trick question and actually be about radical expansion of the human lifespan. :wink:

This is where we were before 1976: By that logic we should be on Mars by now.

What do you mean? We'll suffocate if we fly too high! Anyway, I voted no. Mars is nigh on impossible. The moon is possible, but...

I agree with this.

Unless you are proposing some supernatural or divine component, then it's all just atoms and molecules following the dumb rules of...

I'm missing your point here. You think that there is some unknown component in the brain?

Hmmm. I would think that any subject bound by a set of rules would be a fine candidate for AI. The sociological and philosophical stuff...

:welcome: There are often threads on AI here. In fact, here's the latest...

But brain neurons change, form new connections, die, etc in response to outside stimuli. The artificial neurons don't really change even...

I'm always confused by the argument that says, "they are just machines, they can't be intelligent/conscious." Your brain is a...

Danger is not an exclusive characteristic.

It feels old. Howsomever, my mind does keep writing checks my body can't cash!