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One Eyed King
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Posted - 2015.01.26 23:31:00 -
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Spademan wrote:One Eyed King wrote:Spademan wrote:Feh, Conventional warfare is a far greater threat than nuclear will ever be. The scale of destruction for nuclear warfare given the time it would take far exceeds anything conventional warfare could accomplish. Not to mention the nuclear fallout. I'm not convinced it'll happen is what I'm saying. The nations that have them are too scared to use it, and everyone else is pressuring them to disarm them. Standard bombs and bullets? They'll level a forest and dry up a river just as well, albeit with a bit more effort.
It may, it may not, but if it should happen, or something similar (massive asteroid etc.), technology will be an afterthought for some time, at least in its current form.
Thunderbolt. verb and noun.
"James thunderbolted in his pants."
"I lit a bag of thunderbolt on fire on CCP's doorway"
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Clone D
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Posted - 2015.01.27 09:24:00 -
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The European Space Agency is searching for exoplanets using a Satellite named Gaia.
In the future we may build von neuman probes to quickly map out our own galaxy and discover habitable zones.
We may build interstellar spacecraft allowing our species to permeate the galaxy.
In the meantime, we are deciphering the human brain and working toward artificial general intelligence, machines that can learn and develop cognitively. We are engineering bionics and gradually merging with technology.
None of these technologies, nor the hard work that produces them, come from video games.
In star trek, there is a proposal that people will entertain themselves using a holodeck. However the holodeck is not a substitute for reality. People do not spend their lives in the holodeck. They use it as a temporary supplement to enhance life, and then they return to their societal roles. In this way, they achieve balance and work actually gets done.
In Fahrenheit 451, people of the future take drugs to avoid pain and live in their own personal experience rooms, similar to the holodeck. The book poses the conundrum of whether it is best to escape or embrace reality.
From a standpoint of stable strategy, if everyone choses escapism all of the time, then we won't make progress. A balance between escapism and progress is essential, if we are going to improve our lives.
For instance, what if we were to develop nanotechnology that allowed us to voluntarily disable/enable pain receptors (nociceptors) in our bodies? Or what about technologies that allowed us to accelerate cognition and expand the bandwidth of our conscious thought?
Besides, who's to say that our reality is not a simulation observed by external intelligent lifeforms as we would observe an ant farm. Maybe we already are a video game. |
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