Comment Confiscated electronics (Score 3, Interesting) 141
What happens to all confiscated electronics and do you have any suggestions on how to lower your chances of getting your devices targeted by TSA?
What happens to all confiscated electronics and do you have any suggestions on how to lower your chances of getting your devices targeted by TSA?
My understanding that higher levels of mortality are not significant.
For example, A is at 0.001% risk and B is at 0.019% risk. Nether are likely to die, but increase in level is significant. This is just one of the games scientists play to get published.
>>>Don't put anything on the internet that you don't want Facebook, Google, the NSA, and every one else looking at.
This is a very good advice that I followed to the letter when I killed my sister and buried her body in my backyard so I could collect insurance money.
-Bill from KY, Carlisle County
Likely as a Robotic Overlord.
Fundamental principle of any intelligent life form is that it will compete for resources within its ecosystem. It is conceivable that we don't understand something about the nature of our galaxy, but to our best knowledge everything is finite, even in Very Large but Finite universe.
Therefore any "hard to explain" places would have its own ecosystem constrained by finite resources. At this point two possibilities remain - newcomer to already occupied ecosystem (likely), breakthrough into the new territory creating a new niche (unlikely). In the first case existing ecosystem will be leveraged to full extent (converted into computronium) to help establish a foothold in the new niche, in the second case "pulling up the ladder" to protect the new niche, because what would stop the humanity from re-loading from backups to create second round and new competition for recently departed?
In ether case humanity is toasted. There is just no good outcomes in emergence/singularity cases where it is not human or human-based minds that are doing emergence/singularity.
I think humanity's best chance is to create human-like AIs, and have them carry our legacy. Currently, this AI field does not approach things this way. We are not focusing on "what makes our minds human", instead "what makes it more efficient at task X". As such, AIs will be alien beings, nothing like us (and are naturally efficient at fighting and sending spam) and completely devoid of ethics, compassion, creativity and all other aspects that we typically associate with humanity.
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