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Duplex
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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 15:14
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Doing by daily quick scan of the BBC news site I came across this:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7248875.stm

Personaly I think It's a load of rubbish but what do you think?

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Daniel TGC
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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 15:20
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Depends which human you use to define human level intelligence I suppose I know a few people I wouldn't trust to fix things in my body. :-p
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Van B
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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 15:23
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Hardly a new concept, this started ever since they developed MEMS technology, scientists believe that because a tiny component like a gear system or motor can be incorporated into microchips, that we'll have tiny robots doing our internal bidding.

The company I work for is the UK's leading MEMS manufacturer, and this stuff is so sensitive and slow to develop that I'll bet you 1 kidney that there will be no nanobots in you by 2030 . That article is an excuse to use that tired old bit of clipart and for some dusty old fart to expunge his unrealistic theory.


less is more, but if less is more how you keeping score?
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Posted: 19th Feb 2008 16:17
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Either that or he's simply making the claims so he can get funding on for his theories

Quote: "National Academy of Engineering: What do you predict for the next 20 years Mr Kurzweil?
Mr Kurzweil: The use of nanobots to increase intelligence and to put me in charge of several million dollars worth of funding by this time next year."


... not actually a quote

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Just imagine if they had some sort of programming bugs and turned everyone into mindless zombies instead of make them smarter.

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FoxDIE all over.


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Duplex
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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 09:05
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Quote: "Just imagine if they had some sort of programming bugs and turned everyone into mindless zombies instead of make them smarter."


Agghh. All the newbies will be making games with that now!

This sorta reminded me about the time when my brother ate my MicroSD card.

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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 10:09
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Just make sure they aren't programmed by Microsoft.

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Duplex
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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 11:01
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Lol. I can see it now. You go up to a door to open it and the machines make you think: Are you sure you want to open this? several times.

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Windows suggests: Destroy central nervous system to free up room.

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I think this is cool idea.. And with some extra dev it could make something really intresting.. Tough it MUST be really safe and tested correctly!


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Posted: 20th Feb 2008 15:19
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Quote: "Windows suggests: Destroy central nervous system to free up room."


Funny, but you forgot....... "Allow or Deny?"

Best.

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Duplex
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... Several Times.

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ORLY?[b][/b]

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That is the most least thought out and highly impracticle idea ever!

And people worry about cloning... Jesus, robots CONTROLING people? I can smell dictarship, enslavement, etc. Already!

That's just... NO.

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I agree with n008. Amazingly!

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Quote: "Just make sure they aren't programmed by Microsoft."

Quote: "Funny, but you forgot....... "Allow or Deny?""

Quote: "... Several Times."


Funniest thing I read today

Thanks for that lol.

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Quote: "I agree with n008. Amazingly!"


Amazingly?

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I think it's the first times I ever agreed with one of your posts

Everything I ever see posted by you is generally inflammatory

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I agree with Agent Dick. Amazingly!

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Jerk!

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Quote: "Everything I ever see posted by you is generally inflammatory"


: -> (



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Duplex
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Posted: 21st Feb 2008 09:36
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Quote: "And people worry about cloning... Jesus, robots CONTROLING people? I can smell dictarship, enslavement, etc. Already!"


They do not say they that they would control us. Just make us smarter. A bit like when you were little and you wished that you just put on a hat each day and it feeds you knowledge. But yeah. I can imagine some evil scientist dude goes mad and trys to control peoples minds to do what he wants.

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Quote: "They do not say they that they would control us."

Well they're not exactly going to tell us are they.

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Duplex
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Posted: 21st Feb 2008 09:51
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Good point.

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And what about hackers.... and tracking? If we had chips in our heads, how long do you think it would be before the government was tracking our movements? How long before hackers were gaining access to those chips? Talk about putting ideas in someone's head! What if they pushed elevator music to us all day? Huh?

Certainly a whole new can of worms here.

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Quote: "They do not say they that they would control us. Just make us smarter. A bit like when you were little and you wished that you just put on a hat each day and it feeds you knowledge. But yeah. I can imagine some evil scientist dude goes mad and trys to control peoples minds to do what he wants."


Well anything that can manipulate human body functions, especially nervous functions, it just waiting to be mind control.

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Quote: "A bit like when you were little and you wished that you just put on a hat each day and it feeds you knowledge."

I didn't wish that. I had enough knowledge. I wished for sporting ability. (And it wasn't a hat)

Which brings me on to: If they can make us cleverer, could they make us strong/faster/quicker too?

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Duplex
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Quote: "I wished for sporting ability."


I still do.

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To stop your beloved pus from going on a massive rant, he has decided to bullet point his argument:
1) This would effectively make us robots. We would be classed as artificial-sentient beings. I don't wanna be a robot. I wanna be a ballet dancer! (oops. Did I say that out loud?)
2) Government would start tracking us.
3) We'd be stripped of our identities. It is a person's impurities that makes him who he is. By artifically making everyone intelligent, mentally perfect beings, our identities would be compromised.
4) Jokes aside, we would be exposed to mental and physical manipulation. They could literally tell us to kill each other. And what's all this about dynamic virtual reality? It's delusional. We'd be living in a make believe society. I may have misinterpreted this bit, but if I didn't...
Besides, isn't that what daydreaming's for?
5) I don't want to share my capilleries with a bunch of strangers! They'll be in the fridge before you know it.
6) Thankfully this is all a pipe dream anyway.

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Posted: 24th Feb 2008 00:00 Edited at: 24th Feb 2008 00:01
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Quote: "Jokes aside, we would be exposed to mental and physical manipulation. They could literally tell us to kill each other. And what's all this about dynamic virtual reality? It's delusional. We'd be living in a make believe society. I may have misinterpreted this bit, but if I didn't...
Besides, isn't that what daydreaming's for?"


Yahtzee from fullyramblomatic called it. The day we can convincingly boink in a virtual world, the human race is dead.


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