The difference is that a space based internet is useful. Underwater cities and jetpacks, no so much.

Probably the biggest difference between 1990s and now, is the *amazing* progress with transceivers. The SNR ratio and gain, noise rejection and everything is just incredible. Just the bitstream on modern USB is plain godlike compared to what we could do back then. This makes the whole system far more viable.

Oh and legal reasons. Buying bandwidth, getting right of ways for cable etc is not just cheap, it is total cartel central in just about every country out there.

You claim Turing complete, with nothing more than an assertion. There are physical process that are *not* Turing complete. You don't need magic to make it uncomputable. Now either put up or shut up.

Oh my personal project is a vacuum energy machine that runs on water. I can't cite anything or show you anything because it is my own personal project.

Yea right.

So you claim you know what is needed... Well lets see the citations. Because people working in the field here don't know what is needed for "strong ai" or even how to define strong ai properly.

What? My masters was in Astrophysics. It was widely speculated that planets are common. But size distribution/distance from parent and all that was a bit of an unknown. We don't believe we (the solar system) is special.

I believe this is also the time value of money. Liquidity is also an important consideration.

More useful metals like platinum and copper are also ideas. But storage volume can get you on the cheaper stuff.

Don't kid yourself. It never did. Just read some of the BS reports during WWII, and then check what we now believe to be true.

Then you go through Greece into Turkey to where ever you want to go. It is not that difficult to travel in and out of a the EU without passports.It is just inconvenient.

Yes, we make tools to improve out effective abilities, that then can be used to make better tools......

You don't need magic to make it near impossible to replicate or duplicate. One big issue is what parts of the physics are needed. We don't know. Everything else is speculation. Of course *simulation* of self, and agency seems quite possible without even requiring strong AI. And if you can't distinguish between "true self" and simulated self? Should you? Yes i know its an old argument. But so many people seem to think this is a new thing.

However the main argument seems to be this "singularity" bullshit. Do you even need strong AI for self improvement? Does a genetic algorithm plugged into a replicator thingy count?

But really it is a storm in a tea cup, we have much bigger fish to fry right now.

You do know that we can't really model much in the way of nervous systems, like complicated things like brains, at all right. As in we don't know how brains, even small ones work properly yet. And no, even the fruitfly one cuts corners. Lots of em it turns out. Are they important corners? well in *this* case we suspect not. Not the same as in higher organisms.

No they didn't. Where the hell does this shit come from. all the computers in the world would start to get close to a rat brain complexity... Start to, not actually there. If we even had a complete model of a rat brain, which we don't.

Not even orders of magnitude close i am afraid. Only a nematode has been done with anything like the fidelity of the real thing.

We had all this hype about AI being around the corner decades ago. Now it is re branded as strong AI. Trust me, it is not nearly as close as they claim. I have a few friends in the blue brain project and other in AI fields. Strong AI is no closer today than decades ago. We have no idea how to make it. People guess, but guessing doesn't work.