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I've played, and marvelled at, the $10 20Q game, and wondered how they created something so smart and so cheap. Turns out the answer was time - based on a learn
by JacobAldridge 18y ago
I've played, and marvelled at, the $10 20Q game, and wondered how they created something so smart and so cheap. Turns out the answer was time - based on a learning program that's been running since 1988.
And time, too, is what gives life intelligence, through Darwinian processes of advantage. If the dinosaurs hadn't been 'wiped out', how would their intelligence have developed? If the Roman Empire hadn't collapsed and been replaced by a fundamentalist religion, would man have had heavier-than-air flight in the 8th century instead of the 20th?
- donaq 18y agoHmm. Why was this downvoted?
- ivankirigin 18y agoDon't ask questions like that.
- asdflkj 18y agoPerhaps it would have been the 25th instead of the 20th. The Western European civilization has been a miraculous and unprecedented thing, and the Church was one of the main ingredients. It's impossible to say how things would have turned out without it, but the average historical outcome for a people of collapsed civilization seems to have been rather grim.