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What, specifically, are you referring to? "[S]cientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it" sounds pretty accurate - sure,
by dgritsko 9y ago
What, specifically, are you referring to? "[S]cientific advancement eventually happens if the laws of physics do not prevent it" sounds pretty accurate - sure, we might get stuck in a local maxima for a bit, but there's no reason to think that progress towards the things Sam is talking about will stop in any meaningful way over the long term.
- paganel 9y ago> but there's no reason to think that progress towards the things Sam is talking about will stop in any meaningful way over the long term. You could have said the same about the philosophical stone, which people thought that was possible to "discover" back in the late 1700s, or about us, humans, physically reaching other solar systems and especially other galaxies, which some people thought possible for a while after WW2. It's a belief similar to how some religions started, definitely similar to the early Christians' belief that the second coming was only a decade or two away.
- dgritsko 9y agoTrue, but there's a lot of things being talked about in this blog post (e.g. superhuman AI, genetic enhancement, and brain-machine interfaces). These are all different things, and I was genuinely curious as to what the OP found to be "a little out there".
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