Anyone who says global warming is false doesn't need to have a book written about them to know they're full of it. Also, I'll be willing to wait 20 years for nanobots to fix the environment. No point in worrying for another second about the environment.

Agreed. I'm going to have so much fun telling all the skeptics I told you so. Technology is exploding faster than anyone realizes.

Yes, I played tibia for years also (see username). It was a truly great game, because when you died you lost a ton of experience, and killing people meant taking their loot. This sounds annoying (and can be) but it adds that realistic aspect to the game which makes it feel like your work in the game is worth more. Although if I remade tibia I would do it differently now (although they've made some good changes over the years) it was still an epic game. Just for the record, I was a pking king who never lost a looting war and had a pimped house to show for it, despite being involved in several 'gang wars' (people get really emotional when they die and become bent on revenge).

Want to know why medpacks are the same in every game? Because man is more creative when it comes to destruction. Or at least men who play video games are.

I don't know a whole lot about programming, but I've already got some game ideas on the horizon, and maybe I'll contribute to some open source projects along the way. Just find something that interests you and you'll be coding in no time.

So, you can easily say that evolution applies to our species as a whole, and I say we are evolving exponentially. I also say that the process of natural selection will take its toll on us in the years to come.

Everyone keeps talking about how people won't be able to understand our own brains, and that 'since we haven't come "very far" in the past 50 years in AI, we're doomed to wait an extremely long time'.

People forget what we've already created. Targeted 'narrow' AI that can learn (currently at the basic level) and produce data that help humans draw conclusions. Conclusions that couldn't have been drawn without narrow AI applications.

I believe that when the brain scanning technology becomes advanced enough (extremely high resolution and high quality modelling of the brain), we will use narrow AI (that learns by itself how to examine the scans we've produced), and the data that AI produces will lead to our understanding of how the brain really works and how to replicate in in a machine. This subject is highly debatable at this stage in the game, but I think that even 20 years is a long time before we'll have the brain scans needed to preform in depth analysis on what makes us so smart.

Many people simply reject the idea that we'll ever be capable of producing a machine more intelligent than us. The only thing that could stop us from that is our own destruction in these years to come where civilization is so utterly fragile.

There's no sense in trying to visualize our 'relationship' with AI. By the time AI becomes strong, we will already be upgrading our brains (although it will be heavily debated, the temptation for power will overcome us.)

Therefore, it is not AI we should be worried about, but ourselves. So although there are still many potential dangers and threats surrounding strong AI, we will make ourselves equally smart and therefore avoid extinction upon the emergence of strong AI.

It's not good to stamp people as 'old' and therefore less of a person. Sure, they have decaying bodies and brains, but they've got a brain too, and it's just waiting to interface with a computer. My post was made to point out that many people who refuse to use computers (other than those who cant afford them) really should be using them, and it is purely being uninformed and close minded that keeps them from exploiting this amazing tool for just about anything you can think of. Even though I'm sure many people have figured this out already, and I may be preaching to the wrong crowd here.

Although I've already read about this concept, I'm glad to see that there is progress being made. It's been said that we can make the most efficient computer in the universe by utilizing every process inside a black hole, and it's been theorized that we can send in quantum entangled atoms, and leave the other half out of the black hole to keep the result of the computation available. This means we can utilize the power a black hole can deliver without having to enter it at all. The atoms will keep the same spin as their entangled partners and therefore we can computations and energy back out.