Recent content by .Scott

The same way parents do. They just speak the feeding words when they feed. The talk in the background. Toddlers have have used cryptophasia to speak with each other. Generally up until school begins. It's a big problem, but certainly not an insurmountable one. Are you asking how they will...

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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. I have already answered this at least three times. Look up that cryptophasia link. This isn't theory, this is what happens. The plan would be to have audio...

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 this: cryptophasia If people can hear others, they will talk. If they can only see others, they will sign. Videos will be available. I'm wondering if you have...

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 cuddle/feeding/poop-cleaning/exercise/talking machine until it is ready for peers. And it would not be AI! Your premise is that the journey can be made with 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 is smart, you must be referring to something which I would not include in the Ark solution. As far as "unknown perils", if they happen en route, the AAS will...

Every component of that proposed ark is an attackable technology. None of it requires "new Physics". Medical researchers are already experimenting with artificial wombs and ectogenesis. Harlow's research started in the 1950's and '60's. In contrast, there are no experimental devices that have...

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 address matters like "how long must the colony persist in order to meet the mission objective?" and "assuming that the mission has met its objective, will that...

I'm still in. A forum is a forum. We can still post citations. We can still justify estimations. And the discussion will still reflect on the decisions any culture (alien of human) would have to consider before investing in interstellar expeditions.

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 highlighted, I take it that any kind of autopilot (whether employing a computer or not) would fall under "AI". A lot of what you seem to be putting under the...

Attempting to raise kids without language (or even without full language immersion) will result in cryptophasia. With or without moral guidance, kids will socialize and form their own rules. Some of us as youngsters (Yours Truly included) would happily hang out for untold hours in the...

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. But I ask again, are you a parent? I doubt that you are. Especially as kids reach their teens, they form their own society - allowing only measured influence...

Are you a parent? Kids are like malfunctioning missiles. If parents are strategic, they can influence the trajectory. But lacking that, they will launch and follow a trajectory wholly of their own creation. Unlike most kids, these will be in a very contained, controllable, pre-planned, and...

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 with that parenting plan and facilities until you get it close enough. The machines do not need to pretend to be anything other than what they are. The kids...

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 software development. It is not. It is a potential economy that can be very useful in situations where test cases are abundant and the consequences of bad...