Topic: Artificial life

Interesting article. I especially like these two quotes from it (they're even from the same person ).

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We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict.

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But them getting out and taking over, never in our imagination could this happen.

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/20/artificial.life.ap/index.html

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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

they're both right imo :P

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We're talking about a technology that could change our world in pretty fundamental ways -- in fact, in ways that are impossible to predict.

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Sounds incredibly irresponsible to me...

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Blaise said:

Sounds incredibly irresponsible to me...

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There is also no way imho that we can make any significant discovery without taking riks, so so be it I say

So you haven't seen Terminator then?







(Edited by Blaise on 08-22-2007 13:10)

Do you really feel concerned? I am not sure what I think about this myself, and there are always going to be mischievous people out there threatening the whole thing, but I think that if we have one chance to ever beat cancer, for example, I want to see it happening.

I thought Dubya was an example of artificial life that hasn't quite been perfected.

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