...and let it solve the problem. It can send tiny self-replicating nano robots to mars (and the rest of the solar system) and terraform those ugly, hostile lumps of rock and ice and gas to our heart's content. No need to send soft, squishy, inefficient bags of meat across several AUs when you can use a sturdy swarm of several trillion nanos to do the job.

And while they are at it they can clean up Earth too.

Just make sure we survive the singularity and won't turn into grey goo!

Good read on the topic of ASI:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-1.html

What will Tom, Bert & William do now? Will they be deported as garden decoration? Poor stone trolls...

by Capers Jones.

Provides empirical evidence _why_ we need to write good code.

Here's an interview with the fella I just stumbled across yesterday:

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1824791

I had the same thought but I guess multigrid is limited to specific matrices while the new algorithm seems to be more generic. Not sure though, my last contact with multigrid lies 14 years ago (when algebraic multigrid was a hot topic in science).

I don't need smart traffic lights. My MINI turns off its engine all by itself...

Replace "Health Benefits" with "Nutritional Benefits" and it's ok. You certainly won't starve eating non-organic food. And you'll get pretty much the same level of basic nutritional elements (vitamins etc.).

But you will get more pesticide contamination, more genetically modified food, more additives and a few other nasty bits and pieces. And you will create more impact on the environment.

And keep in mind that this was a meta-study, just looking at existing publications. Their selection criteria pretty much guaranteed the domination of conventional food studies carried out by the industry.

No need to expand anything. People just need to eat less meat. There's a conversion factor of around 8 to 15 converting plant-based food into any kind of meat. You loose around 90% of your nutrional energy by that conversion. We could easily feed the world if the industrial nations wouldn't insist on their daily hamburgers and steaks.