dwibby - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Give me a break (Score 1) 346

by dwibby on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @09:31AM (#23915789) Attached to: Cutting-Edge AI Projects?

Why is it that the first application that I can think of for such project developed by DARPA is that to use it against the citizens?

Like it or lump it, you are in this boat with everyone else. If AI is solved, it will be used for good and evil. If your country does not use it for evil (extremely doubtful), somebody else's country will. Better yours than theirs. What I mean is that true AI will be an extremely powerful thing; if any country other than yours gets an early monopoly on AI, you can bet they are going to use it to kick your country's ass. I don't think you'd like that very much.

<strangelove>There must not be a AI Gap!</strangelove>

Why the LHC Won't Destroy the World 508

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday June 23, 2008 @09:33AM from the that'll-ruin-your-day dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Most people are aware of the recent articles contending that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN might destroy the world. While most scientists have no such concerns, a recent preprint released to arxiv systematically dismantles the notion. The gist of the argument is this: Everything that will be created at the LHC is already being created by cosmic rays. If a black hole created by the LHC is interactive enough to destroy the world within the lifetime of the sun, similar black holes are already being created by cosmic rays. Such black holes would be stopped by dense cosmic objects (neutron stars and white dwarfs). A black hole stopped in one of these objects would eventually absorb it. We see sufficiently old neutron stars in the sky, thus any black hole that could be created at the LHC, even if it is stable, would have no effect on the earth on any meaningful timescale."

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