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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...

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It doesn't need to be "right around the corner" and it certainly doesn't need to include AI. I gave you a budget of "decades" to fiddle...

No. It would be Engineering, not "magical AI". And I think "magical AI" belies a notion that AI is somehow a more advanced version of...

A couple of comments: First, you presume an infinite universe but you call out "observable universe" - which may not be infinite...

One key phrase is "technology that we already know" - which is not the same as "technology that has already been developed". There's...

You're presuming there wasn't another start this morning only to be eaten for lunch.

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