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작성자: ZUON
2/15/2014 8:18:24 PM
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If humans were immortal...
[quote]Ray Kurzweil, a world-renowned scientist and author of The Singularity is Near, thinks the world as we know it will be unrecognizable in 20 years.
One of the changes he thinks are possible: Scientists may finally crack immortality.
"I and many other scientists now believe that in around 20 years we will have the means to reprogramme our bodies' stone-age software so we can halt, then reverse, aging," he writes in The Sun. "Then nanotechnology will let us live for ever. Ultimately, nanobots will replace blood cells and do their work thousands of times more effectively."
Kurzweil, whose fans include Bill Gates adn Bill Clinton, makes a number of other substantial claims, such as humans being able to replace all failing organs with artificial ones. He says we'll be able to scuba dive for hours without oxygen, and write entire books within minutes thanks to advanced nanotechnology.[/quote]
What are your thoughts?
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1 답변The advent of things like this, along with AI's, and even mechanized body parts and prosthetics leaves me sad. We're not ready for such things, and although in most cases there a good intentions behind them, there's hundreds of thousands of asshats waiting in the shadows. When we learn to break free of our self inflicted violence, stupidity, and greed, then we should have stuff like this. But is it stands now all this would achieve would be giving more power to those with power, allowing them to abuse it, like they already do.
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8 답변Yeah... no. Definitely not going to happen in 20 years. He's being a little optimistic. Where's our flying cars we were supposed to have in 2000?
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1 답변작성자: Vicex 2/16/2014 11:48:16 PM
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Immortality is the only real way that humans can become a space faring species, many people say "I don't want to live forever" or "We don't have the outsources to do that with the growing population" as far as I am concerned these people are missing the point.
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8 답변Being ageless is not immortality. You can still die, and machines have malfunctions all the time. The Nanobots would likely draw power from our own electric current, or we would need to "plug in" when we sleep. Machines, even small ones will have wear and tear, and will require regular repairs and check ups. And there may come a point where our bodies age faster than the nanobots can repair. Also you're antibodies might not like having these "invaders" present in your body. You will either have to completely replace the immune system, or fool it somehow. No machine is perfect, for it is made by imperfect beings, Nanobots will also cause deaths.
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작성자: feltrockni 2/16/2014 10:28:03 AMA lot o f people are pointing out that this wouldn't be true immortality, since the body would eventually break down just like a car. Eventually people just can't afford to keep fixing them. Though this thought process is flawed in itself. We're not hard wired to keep our transportation running. We ARE hard wired to survive at all costs, which includes repairing our bodies. The more likely alternative is my idea for a machine "judge" which presides over a sudo-afterlife. In this system, the judge would analyze the events of your life, your personality, what choices you've made, what benefits you've given to mankind; it would then determine if you led a productive or detrimental life for society and if the former, it would create an ai imprinted with your mind/memories/etc. This mind would then be uploaded to "The network" a virtual reality world where you can continue to live forever as a computer program. Your relatives could even visit you through a vr interface. Those who drastically changed the world for the better could even contribute via remote robot bodies, allowing them to continue their scientific research, for example. So essentially, it's like religion. Only there is no arguing if any of it exists or not. And there's no "grampa is up there watching over you". Instead it's "grampa made it onto the network. We'll visit him tomorrow and you'll feel better."
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1 답변I doubt that there really is such a thing as truly being immortal but if that comes up in the next 20 years then I'll be very glad to sign up for it.
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1 답변It will take quite a few more years to achieve sheerly because poor people will have a harder time trying to even afford any of that. Especially in 3rd world countries and places like America.
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2 답변작성자: DemonicChronic 2/15/2014 10:40:25 PMSounds optimistically farfetched but I'm not going to rule out the possibility. It also sounds highly weaponizeable, and would probably be used in that endeavor before any other.
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5 답변Listen here guys, I understand I am the most awesome person on the flood but sending me messages asking for sex? That's a little too far, I expected better etiquette from the flood. I mean seriously if you cannot control your urges please take it out on someone else not me. I have no sexuality and am not attracted to any of you. Your dreams of sexual relations of me will never come true. Thank you for reading, hope this cleared things up a little.
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