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Just saying hi to everyone :) I hope to learn a lot here :) I look forward to meeting new people!

I usually call it the "Coriolis Effect", although wiki uses "Coriolis Force" as the title. I think its best to be able to see it both...

The same way parents do. They just speak the feeding words when they feed. The talk in the background. Toddlers have have used...

No problem here. If you offended me, my skin was too thick to notice.

That's what testing is for. The engines on the spacecraft can fail as well. You're presuming that people are more stupid than animals...

It won't be as good as a human caregiver. It might make lethal mistakes. They will learn to play with each other. I already posted...

That's just a problem in mechanics. If the baby has made it to term in the artificial womb, transitioning to "birth" means life in a...

AI won't do it. Engineers will. And I am getting less and less clear about how you use that term. AI is not "smart". If you think it...

Every component of that proposed ark is an attackable technology. None of it requires "new Physics". Medical researchers are already...

In order for it to be a project, it has to have objectives. If all we are looking to do is to establish a colony, then we still have to...

I'm still in. A forum is a forum. We can still post citations. We can still justify estimations. And the discussion will still...

OK. So you are using the term "AI" to mean machines doing anything that you would normally expect to be done manually. From what you...

Attempting to raise kids without language (or even without full language immersion) will result in cryptophasia. With or without moral...

First of all, I am not putting anything in AI. I never said AI was needed - and the example I gave was only an incidental use of AI...

Are you a parent? Kids are like malfunctioning missiles. If parents are strategic, they can influence the trajectory. But lacking...