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Comment Re: A human Algorithm? (Score 1) 192

Why just focus on those, or any specific dates?

Because if we go far enough back, everyone was an animal.

But Humanity arguably evolved, and many things considered Ok once are not anymore.

So let's compare the US to the gist of modern-age civilization, essentially enlightenment-level headspace.

And no Saudi Arabia isn't modern age enlightenment-level civilization, and was never considered as such.

Comment Re: A human Algorithm? (Score 1) 192

What if there's a soul?

Think: cargo cult. Even if the pacific folks ever figured out how a real raduo worked, and how a real runway is built, and a real.flight tower... even if they had built all that -- there still wouldn't be any planes landing, simply because the the US army didn't send any.

What if imitating the brain is like cargo cult? Something still missing?

Comment Re: A human Algorithm? (Score 1) 192

Well, let's start with the realization that there's no indication whatsoever that the human brain is limited to deterministic bebavior, while Turing machines are.

You could introduce random elements. But then you'd have something that cargo-cult-like imitates a human brain, not that is (truly like) a human brain.

Comment Re: Hmm (Score 4, Insightful) 192

We don't need more productivity. As there was still some of the globe left to go and colonize we could use the extra productivity to occupy new markets, but now?... that everything is occupied? What need is there for the extra productivity?

But what we can do is the same productivity with fewer humans.

Questions remains: now that survival is tied to having an 40 h/week job, what do we do with with all those we don't need.

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