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About the quarter pounders transportation problem, space elevators sounds like a great solution. Still, doesn't sound like a big gain to get humans to Mars besi
by alpeb 14y ago
About the quarter pounders transportation problem, space elevators sounds like a great solution. Still, doesn't sound like a big gain to get humans to Mars besides as a trophy. Better to send machines with tech greater than 90's 2MP cameras. We're all gonna be replaced by machines anyway after the singularity in a few decades.
- simonh 14y ago1960s Herbert Simmons predicts "Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do." 1993 - Vernor Vinge predicts super-intelligent AIs 'within 30 years'. 2011 ray Kurzweil predicts the singularity (enabled by super-intelligent AIs) will occur by 2045, 34 years after the prediction was made. So the distance into the future before we achieve strong AI and hence the singularity is, according to it's most optimistic proponents, receding by more than 1 year per year.