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| Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/1/13 at 11:46 pm)
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Pretty incredible on what could be.
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TigerTatorTots 
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:04 am to OMLandshark)
I love this shit
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Carson123987
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:09 am to OMLandshark)
i waste so much time on those ted videos. blomkamp's a smart guy
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BOSCEAUX
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:36 am to OMLandshark)
Sounds like he believes any civilization that can make it "un-nuked" through it's infancy that the end game is eventually becoming The Borg.
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dandug001
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:37 am to OMLandshark)
So he is saying that the machines take over in 2040. Great. Hope I am around to see that. I'll be in my 70's. Should start seeing a terminator soon. Gotta find John Connor before it is too late.
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BOSCEAUX
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:41 am to dandug001)
He actually is saying that civilizations frick over themselves back to the stoneage before fully becoming type 1.
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:42 am to dandug001)
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Gotta find John Connor before it is too late.
frick John... I'm finding Sarah. The TV one is is Game of Thrones now so I'll start looking there first.
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OMLandshark
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:49 am to BOSCEAUX)
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Sounds like he believes any civilization that can make it "un-nuked" through it's infancy that the end game is eventually becoming The Borg.
Basically, yes. But the Borg was still merely a Type II Civilization.
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:50 am to OMLandshark)
EMP on wall street will send this nation into chaos soon enough
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OMLandshark
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:51 am to dandug001)
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So he is saying that the machines take over in 2040. Great. Hope I am around to see that. I'll be in my 70's. Should start seeing a terminator soon. Gotta find John Connor before it is too late.
Its possible, but I'd say its unlikely. More likely we will evolve as a species into homosuperior. As he puts it, it will want to spread itself into the very fabric of the world and the universe itself, and thus we'll become infinitely more intelligent by doing that.
Plus he's not saying that machines are going to kill us, just fricking over our own resources or nuking each other into an oblivion would do it.
This post was edited on 2/2 at 12:53 am
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:52 am to yurintroubl)
lost me on the Eu and NAFTA
the EU almost crumbled last summer and nafta is a farse
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OMLandshark
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:53 am to ninthward)
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lost me on the Eu and NAFTA
the EU almost crumbled last summer and nafta is a farse
It would shock me if they didn't try it again though.
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 12:53 am to OMLandshark)
Thanks for posting this.
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 1:00 am to BOSCEAUX)
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He actually is saying that civilizations frick over themselves back to the stoneage before fully becoming type 1.
A more optimistic hypothesis is that there's some discovery we're unable to comprehend that takes civilizations in an entirely different direction, one that we're not able to identify from our astronomical observations.
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 1:04 am to OMLandshark)
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Basically, yes. But the Borg was still merely a Type II Civilization.
Is there an example of a type 3 civilization in Sci-Fi? The Ancients from Stargate maybe or The Q?
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 1:08 am to OMLandshark)
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so humans will die unless they embrace communism
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 4:35 am to OMLandshark)
The video talks about, in layman's terms, turning the galaxy, then the universe, into a massive computer. Since anything outside the immediate vicinity can't communicate in real time, this wouldn't accomplish anything-unless we mastered faster than light communication. And if we can overcome the laws of physics, we're not constrained by anything so trivial as limits on the size of integrated circuits.
Maybe we don't see evidence of other civilizations because they've figured out interdimensional travel or some such.
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 6:03 am to BOSCEAUX)
Wouldn't the Empire be considered type IIi. I believe I've heard Michio state this.
Kurzweil also claims that we will not be able to tell the difference between computer and human:
"The machines will convince us that they are human, they'll embody human form, claim to be human, and we'll believe them"
My belief is as long as the transition isn't forced on civilization, the jump from 0 to 1 can be achieved without us wiping out humanity
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ItNeverRains
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 6:09 am to Jim Rockford)
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Maybe we don't see evidence of other civilizations because they've figured out interdimensional travel or some such.
Very possible, a type III or greater will have mastered this. I've heard Michio state, "to a type 2-3 civilization we are ants. Have you ever stopped traveling down the highway when you see an ant pile and say hello."
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Lookin4Par
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| re: Inspiring and Terrifying Video about the Future (Posted on 2/2/13 at 6:28 am to OMLandshark)
After reading the Singularity i'm uncertain if we would even be able recognize a type 3 civilization. The singularity suggests that the computers will move endlessly throughout the universe devouring planets, stars, black holes, ect; until the universe is one single intelligence. Imagine having 1 hyper-intelligent computer with the sole intention of self replication and improvement. Now grow that concept exponentially and boom........
SINGULARITY = trillions of self replicating super computers that seek to improve on their already impressive computational genius.
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